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jeffpar/pcjs
The original IBM PC and other machine emulations in JavaScript
- Updated
- 2026-03-18
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2020-03-01
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 41 open
1,166
stars
- Forks
- 178
- Commits
- 2,200 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
aappleby/metroboy
A repository of gate-level simulators and tools for the original Game Boy.
Stack
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2025-02-23
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2019-04-21
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- Unknown
- Issues
- 4 open
1,164
stars
- Forks
- 36
- Commits
- 4,168 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
drhelius/Gearboy
Game Boy / Game Boy Color / Super Game Boy emulator, debugger and embedded MCP server for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch.
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-06-09
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2012-07-19
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 8 open
1,156
stars
- Forks
- 155
- Commits
- 2,136 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
WinDurango/WinDurango
The world's first Xbox One compatibility layer for Windows.
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-06-10
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2026-01-24
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 5 open
1,156
stars
- Forks
- 55
- Commits
- 199 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
trekawek/coffee-gb
Gameboy emulator in Java and Kotlin.
AI dev
- Updated
- 2026-02-17
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2016-12-31
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- MIT
- Issues
- 16 open
1,150
stars
- Forks
- 84
- Commits
- 426 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
schellingb/dosbox-pure
DOSBox Pure is a new fork of DOSBox built for RetroArch/Libretro aiming for simplicity and ease of use.
- Updated
- 2026-06-07
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2020-12-21
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Issues
- 266 open
1,146
stars
- Forks
- 96
- Commits
- 777 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
0xNikilite/oboromi
a proof-of-concept project for a possible Nintendo Switch 2 emulator.
- Updated
- 2026-04-13
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2025-06-09
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 1 open
1,134
stars
- Forks
- 44
- Commits
- 257 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
skmp/reicast-emulator
Reicast was a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast emulator
Archived
- Updated
- 2025-09-29
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2013-12-19
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 244 open
1,132
stars
- Forks
- 349
- Commits
- 4,015 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
TomHarte/CLK
A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum, Tandy CoCo and Thomson MO5/6.
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-06-06
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2015-07-16
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- MIT
- Issues
- 86 open
1,122
stars
- Forks
- 63
- Commits
- 14,804 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
Hydr8gon/NooDS
A (hopefully!) speedy DS emulator
- Updated
- 2025-11-13
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2019-05-25
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 97 open
1,104
stars
- Forks
- 61
- Commits
- 574 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
gopher64/gopher64
Highly compatible N64 emulator
- Updated
- 2026-06-11
- Lists
- 2 list mentions
- First commit
- 2023-10-04
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 6 open
1,094
stars
- Forks
- 29
- Commits
- 1,028 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
Ilya114/Box64Droid
Running x86_64 applications on Android
Stack
- Updated
- 2026-05-15
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2023-03-27
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- Disabled
1,079
stars
- Forks
- 88
- Commits
- 999 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
BluestormDNA/ProjectPSX
Experimental C# Playstation Emulator
- Updated
- 2026-03-22
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2019-01-20
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- MIT
- Issues
- 0 open
1,075
stars
- Forks
- 88
- Commits
- 429 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
Trixarian/NetherSX2-classic
Continuation of NetherSX2 based on AetherSX2 3668
Stack
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-05-30
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2023-10-21
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- Unlicense
- Issues
- 98 open
1,040
stars
- Forks
- 33
- Commits
- 120 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
skyfloogle/red-viper
A Virtual Boy emulator for the 3DS
Stack
- Updated
- 2026-06-10
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2014-11-18
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- Unknown
- Issues
- 16 open
1,029
stars
- Forks
- 29
- Commits
- 1,277 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
Rosalie241/RMG
Rosalie's Mupen GUI
- Updated
- 2026-02-24
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2020-09-12
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 124 open
1,022
stars
- Forks
- 89
- Commits
- 1,830 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
pound-emu/pound
Open source emulator for the Nintedo Switch 1 and 2. Highly work in progress
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-06-10
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2025-06-06
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 0 open
975
stars
- Forks
- 45
- Commits
- 72 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
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- 0 0.0%
grumpycoders/pcsx-redux
The PCSX-Redux project is a collection of tools, research, hardware design, and libraries aiming at development and reverse engineering on the PlayStation 1. The core product itself, PCSX-Redux, is yet another fork of the Playstation emulator, PCSX.
AI dev
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-06-04
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2018-12-12
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Issues
- 159 open
942
stars
- Forks
- 143
- Commits
- 7,093 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
vpinball/vpinball
Visual Pinball
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-06-11
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2010-03-11
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 427 open
930
stars
- Forks
- 138
- Commits
- 9,752 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX
An enhanced port of Genesis Plus - accurate & portable Sega 8/16 bit emulator
Stack
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2007-08-09
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 27 open
919
stars
- Forks
- 257
- Commits
- 1,761 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
jsdf/pce
Emulates Mac Plus, PC, & Atari ST in the browser using WebAssembly
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2022-06-23
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2003-04-15
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Issues
- 22 open
916
stars
- Forks
- 152
- Commits
- 1,714 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
AppleWin/AppleWin
Apple II emulator for Windows
- Updated
- 2026-06-06
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2006-02-17
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Issues
- 364 open
910
stars
- Forks
- 198
- Commits
- 2,793 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
0ldsk00l/nestopia
Cross-platform Nestopia emulator core with a GUI
- Updated
- 2026-04-26
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2012-09-02
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Issues
- 25 open
903
stars
- Forks
- 179
- Commits
- 1,231 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
RareDevs/Rare
Rare is an open source alternative for Epic Games Launcher, using Legendary.
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-06-10
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2021-02-10
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 39 open
902
stars
- Forks
- 37
- Commits
- 2,918 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
emmercm/igir
🕹 A zero-setup ROM collection manager that sorts, filters, extracts or archives, patches, and reports on collections of any size on any OS.
Stack
GitHub topics
- Updated
- 2026-06-11
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2022-07-05
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 33 open
849
stars
- Forks
- 42
- Commits
- 1,871 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
n64dev/cen64
Cycle-Accurate Nintendo 64 Emulator
- Updated
- 2025-10-26
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2014-03-08
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Issues
- 64 open
838
stars
- Forks
- 78
- Commits
- 956 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
dbalsom/martypc
An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust.
- Updated
- 2026-05-21
- Lists
- 2 list mentions
- First commit
- 2022-05-23
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Issues
- 23 open
835
stars
- Forks
- 40
- Commits
- 1,578 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
nspire-emus/firebird
Multi-platform emulator of TI Nspire calculators
- Updated
- 2026-01-24
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2014-04-25
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Issues
- 88 open
835
stars
- Forks
- 100
- Commits
- 1,259 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
YuriSizuku/OnscripterYuri
An enhancement ONScripter project porting to many platforms, especially web.
- Updated
- 2026-05-13
- Lists
- 1 list mention
- First commit
- 2023-02-07
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Issues
- 14 open
- Forks
- 50
- Commits
- 162 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
koute/pinky
An NES emulator written in Rust
- Updated
- 2023-11-27
- Lists
- 2 list mentions
- First commit
- 2016-10-23
- History
- 1 history point
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Issues
- 11 open
803
stars
- Forks
- 54
- Commits
- 82 commits
- Star growth, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%
- Commit velocity, last 7 days
- 0 0.0%