MESS Alternatives

MESS is described as 'Emulates portable and console gaming systems, computer platforms and calculators. The project strives for accuracy and portability and therefore is not always the fastest emulator for any one particular system' and is a Game Emulator in the games category. There are more than 50 games similar to MESS for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Web-based apps. The best MESS alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other MESS like games are Super ZSNES, Snes9x, VisualBoyAdvance and ZSNES.

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  1. KiGB icon
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    KiGB is the most accurate and free portable emulator for Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Super Gameboy for Windows, Linux and MS-DOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Corn icon
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    Corn, an emulator for Nintendo - 64 running on the Windows OS. Corn is a very fast Nintendo 64 emulator. Unfortunately it isn't very accurate and it can only run a few games.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Sixtyforce icon
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    Sixtyforce is an emulator that runs Nintendo 64 games. It does this by dynamically translating the code that a Nintendo 64 uses into something your Mac understands. Nearly every part of a Nintendo 64 has been painstakingly recreated entirely out of software to pull off such an...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. VirtuaNES icon
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    VirtuaNES is Famicom/NES emulator for Win32.

    17 VirtuaNES alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. SegaEMU icon
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    SegaEMU is a multi-console Sega Emulator. The Sega consoles that are emulated are:

    • SG-1000
    • Genesis / MegaDrive
    • SegaCD / MegaCD.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Spectral icon
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    Spectral is an experimental Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator from the 80s, which has been randomly assembled since the pandemic days. Accuracy and performance are long-term goals, but the primary focus is just having fun with this thing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. TigerSNES icon
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    The famous SNES emulator for android

    • FREE
    • Save/Load states
    • Virutal Touch Keys
    • Seamless Integrated with ROM download
    • Customize keys
    • WiiMote support
    • Save/Load states.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
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  8. Gens+ REWiND! is an Emulator with added support for real-time rewinding! Feel free to call this feature "sands of time" if you want ;)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9.  1 like

    retroDrive is Sega Genesis and Sega 32X emulator, formerly "GenSX", formerly "Vegas", this was the public's first 32x emulator ever.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. DebuGens icon
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    DebuGens is a modified version of Gens by Fuzzbuzz. It offers dumps for the ROM, RAM and YM2612 channels for debugging purposes, along with Tile Layer Pro palette creation and layer toggling options. It also allows for sprite and layer toggling which is good for getting screen...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. Gens Re-Recording, formerly known as Gens Movie Test, is a modification of the highly popular Gens emulator by Stéphane Dallongeville (also known as Stef). This modification includes slowdown, recording and playback of controller input logs, dumping of AVI files, and Lua...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. jEnesis icon
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    "jEnesis" is a Sega MegaDrive/Genesis Emulator entirely written in Java.

    Features

    Everything written completely from scratch Custom Java Motorola 68000 CPU core VDP emulation with all DMA modes Horizontal & Vertical Interrupts Support for PAL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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