List of video game console emulators

Not to be confused with List of computer system emulators.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

The following is a list of notable video game console emulators.

Arcade

• Visual Pinball

Atari

Atari 2600

• Stella

Nintendo

See also: NES Classic Edition, Super NES Classic Edition, and Virtual Console

Home consoles

Nintendo Entertainment System

• FCEUX
• NESticle
• Nestopia

Super NES

• Snes9x
• ZSNES
• Higan^[1]

Nintendo 64

• Mupen64Plus^[2]
• Project64
• Project Unreality
• UltraHLE

GameCube/Wii

• Dolphin

Wii U

• Cemu

Handhelds

Game Boy

• Wzonka-Lad

Game Boy Advance

• VisualBoyAdvance (Also supports Game Boy and Game Boy Color)
  • VisualBoyAdvance-M

Nintendo 3DS

• Citra

Hybrid

Nintendo Switch

See also: Nintendo Switch emulation

• Yuzu
• Ryujinx

SNK

Neo Geo CD

• NeoCD

Sony

Home consoles

See also: PlayStation Classic

PlayStation

• bleem!
• bleemcast!
• Connectix Virtual Game Station
• ePSXe
• PCSX-Reloaded

PlayStation 2

• PCSX2

PlayStation 3

• RPCS3

PlayStation 4

As of 2024^[update], PlayStation 4 emulators remain experimental.^[3] A website promoting a supposed PS4 emulator, "PCSX4", is a scam.^[4]

• ShadPS4

Handhelds

PlayStation Portable

• PPSSPP

PlayStation Vita

• Vita3K

Frontends

• RetroArch

Multi-system emulators

Multi-system emulators are capable of emulating the functionality of multiple systems.

• higan
• MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)
• Mednafen
• MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), formerly a stand-alone application and now part of MAME
• OpenEmu

See also

• Video games portal

• Emulator
• List of computer system emulators
• List of emulators
• Video game console emulator

References

1. "Higan-emu/Higan". GitHub.
2. https://mupen64plus.org/ ^{[bare URL]}
3. "PS4 emulator makes incredible early progress with 3D games running". Dexerto. 2 January 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
4. Fenlon, Wes (15 January 2019). "PS4 emulators on PC don't work yet, so don't get scammed by a fake". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on 19 September 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2020.