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gopher64/gopher64

Highly compatible N64 emulator

Stack

Rust Cargo Gradle

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #game #n64 #rust

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-10-04
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

1,230

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Forks: 42
Commits: 1,117 commits
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0xNikilite/oboromi

a proof-of-concept project for a possible Nintendo Switch 2 emulator.

Stack

Rust Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#emulator #proof-of-concept #switch2 #wip

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-09
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

1,228

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Forks: 51
Commits: 268 commits
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jeffpar/pcjs

The original IBM PC and other machine emulations in JavaScript

Stack

JavaScript Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#6502 #8080 #8088 #dos #emulator #ibm-pc

Updated: 2026-03-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-01
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 43 open

1,212

stars

Forks: 178
Commits: 2,200 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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drhelius/Gearboy

Game Boy / Game Boy Color / Super Game Boy emulator, debugger and embedded MCP server for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#bsd #emulation #emulator #game-boy #gameboy #gameboy-color-emulator

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-19
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

1,191

stars

Forks: 160
Commits: 2,360 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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simple64/simple64

Accurate N64 Emulator

Archived

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulation #n64

Updated: 2025-02-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-02
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 45 open

1,178

stars

Forks: 75
Commits: 983 commits
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aappleby/metroboy

A repository of gate-level simulators and tools for the original Game Boy.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#emulator #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #hdl #simulator #verilog

Updated: 2025-02-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 4 open

1,170

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Forks: 37
Commits: 4,168 commits
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schellingb/dosbox-pure

DOSBox Pure is a new fork of DOSBox built for RetroArch/Libretro aiming for simplicity and ease of use.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-21
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 278 open

1,170

stars

Forks: 106
Commits: 801 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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trekawek/coffee-gb

Gameboy emulator in Java and Kotlin.

AI dev

Stack

Java Android Gradle Maven

GitHub topics

#emulator #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #z80

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-31
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,168

stars

Forks: 83
Commits: 1,502 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Trixarian/NetherSX2-classic

Continuation of NetherSX2 based on AetherSX2 3668

Stack

HTML

GitHub topics

#aethersx2 #android #arm64 #emulator #nethersx2 #pcsx2

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-10-21
History: 5 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 104 open

1,148

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 121 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Hydr8gon/NooDS

A (hopefully!) speedy DS emulator

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-25
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 98 open

1,146

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 589 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#acorn-electron #amstrad-cpc #apple2 #appleii #archimedes #atari-st

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 91 open

1,139

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 14,870 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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skmp/reicast-emulator

Reicast was a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast emulator

Archived

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#aarch64 #armv7 #dreamcast #dynarec #emulator #x86

Updated: 2025-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-19
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 244 open

1,131

stars

Forks: 346
Commits: 4,015 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Rosalie241/RMG

Rosalie's Mupen GUI

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-12
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 136 open

1,097

stars

Forks: 103
Commits: 1,848 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Ilya114/Box64Droid

Running x86_64 applications on Android

Stack

Python

Updated: 2026-05-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-27
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

1,087

stars

Forks: 90
Commits: 999 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pound-emu/pound

Open source emulator for the Nintedo Switch 1 and 2. Highly work in progress

AI dev

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #homebrew #nintendo #nintendo-switch #nintendo-switch-2

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-06
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 4 open

1,087

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 197 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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BluestormDNA/ProjectPSX

Experimental C# Playstation Emulator

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#csharp #emulator #mips #net #playstation #ps1

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-20
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,078

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 429 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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skyfloogle/red-viper

A Virtual Boy emulator for the 3DS

Stack

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-18
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 21 open

1,044

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 1,295 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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vpinball/vpinball

Visual Pinball

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#pinball #pinball-simulation #visualpinball

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-03-11
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 413 open

997

stars

Forks: 155
Commits: 10,154 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#playstation-emulator

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-12
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 154 open

985

stars

Forks: 147
Commits: 7,405 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX

An enhanced port of Genesis Plus - accurate & portable Sega 8/16 bit emulator

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Swift Package Manager

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-08-09
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 25 open

947

stars

Forks: 265
Commits: 1,779 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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RareDevs/Rare

Rare is an open source alternative for Epic Games Launcher, using Legendary.

Stack

Python pip uv

GitHub topics

#epic-games #epic-games-launcher #frontend #games #legendary #linux

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-10
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 39 open

926

stars

Forks: 42
Commits: 2,972 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

0ldsk00l/nestopia

Cross-platform Nestopia emulator core with a GUI

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulator #nestopia #nintendo #nintendo-nes

Updated: 2026-04-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-02
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 21 open

924

stars

Forks: 182
Commits: 1,231 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AppleWin/AppleWin

Apple II emulator for Windows

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#6502 #appleii #emulator

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-02-17
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 366 open

922

stars

Forks: 199
Commits: 2,799 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jsdf/pce

Emulates Mac Plus, PC, & Atari ST in the browser using WebAssembly

Stack

C npm

GitHub topics

#atari-st #classic-mac-os #emscripten #emulator #ibm-pc #pce

Updated: 2022-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 23 open

916

stars

Forks: 152
Commits: 1,714 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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

TypeScript Vite npm pip

GitHub topics

#1g1r #analogue-pocket #anbernic #batocera #cmpro #emulation

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-05
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 35 open

901

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 1,999 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dbalsom/martypc

A cycle-accurate IBM PC/XT/Jr/Tandy emulator

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #ibm #rust #x86

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-05-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

897

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 1,706 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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n64dev/cen64

Cycle-Accurate Nintendo 64 Emulator

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2025-10-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-08
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 64 open

842

stars

Forks: 79
Commits: 956 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nspire-emus/firebird

Multi-platform emulator of TI Nspire calculators

Stack

C++ Android Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #arm #c #calculator #cpp #emulator

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-25
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 87 open

840

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 1,265 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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YuriSizuku/OnscripterYuri

An enhancement ONScripter project porting to many platforms, especially web.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle vcpkg

GitHub topics

#android #arm #arm64 #emscripten #galgame #game

Updated: 2026-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-07
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 16 open

840

stars

Forks: 59
Commits: 164 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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punesemu/puNES

Qt-based Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSF2/NSFe Music Player (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows)

Stack

C Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#6502 #c #c-plus-plus #clang #d3d9 #emulation

Updated: 2025-12-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-30
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 59 open

817

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 2,391 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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