mGBA is an open source emulator of the Game Boy Advance. The goals are speed and accuracy.

RetroFab is described as 'Online collection of 3D simulations of vintage electronic games that can be played in your browser' and is an game in the games category. There are more than 50 games similar to RetroFab for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best RetroFab alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other RetroFab like games are DuckStation, Lemuroid, PPSSPP and Snes9x.
mGBA is an open source emulator of the Game Boy Advance. The goals are speed and accuracy.

An experimental open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator/debugger written in C++. At this time, it only emulates a very small subset of 3DS hardware, and therefore is only useful for booting/debugging very simple homebrew demos. Citra is licensed under the GPLv2. Refer to the license.

Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating.




Ludo is an Emulator Frontend able to run retro video games. Ludo does not emulate the consoles itself, but does it through emulator plugins called libretro cores. Libretro cores are well known emulators (like Snes9x or Genesis Plus GX or PCSX) stripped from their user interface.




LaunchBox was originally built as an attractive frontend to DOSBox, but has since expanded to support both modern PC games and emulated console platforms. LaunchBox aims to be the one-stop shop for gaming on your computer, for both modern and...




Pegasus is a graphical frontend for browsing your game library (especially retro games) and launching them from one place. It's focusing on customizability, cross platform support (including embedded devices) and high performance.



Ares, which apparently replaced higan, was formerly known as bsnes. The project was renamed after becoming a multi-system emulator.

WinDS PRO contains the latest versions of the emulators for the Nintendo, Sega and Playstation consoles for PC including:


Kega Fusion is an emulator for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive, Master System, Game Gear, 32x, SegaCD/MegaCD, SVP, Pico, SG-1000, SC-3000, and SF-7000 emulator for Win9x/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Win7, Mac OSX (Intel), and Linux.





Dual-screen Android launcher designed for handhelds like AYANEO Pocket DS, Odin 2, and Retroid Dual-Screen. Currently in Alpha.



