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Dillonb/n64

experimental low-level n64 emulator

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake pip

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #n64

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-06
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 7 open

185

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 2,292 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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emu-russia/pureikyubu

Nintendo GameCube Emulator (WIP)

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulator #flipper #gamecube #gekko

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-06-29
History: 5 history points
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 13 open

185

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 1,481 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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skmp/nullDC-v1

nullDC, a sega dreamcast emulator

Archived

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2023-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-05-09
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 297 open

185

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 148 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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allkern/psxe

Multi-platform Sony PlayStation emulator written in C

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #emulator #playstation

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-05-26
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

179

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 312 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rasky/r64emu

Nintendo 64 emulator (written in Rust)

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2022-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-09
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

177

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 516 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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drakewill-CRL/ROMSorter

Detect and rename ROMs and other games

Stack

C# Entity Framework .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-03-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-23
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

168

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 152 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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reswitched/CageTheUnicorn

Debugging/emulating environment for Switch code

Stack

Python pip

Updated: 2017-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-16
History: 5 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 0 open

166

stars

Forks: 21
Commits: 4 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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risolvipro/PlayGB

A Game Boy emulator for Playdate, based on Peanut-GB.

Stack

Updated: 2026-04-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-22
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

160

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 18 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pontos2024/PCSX2_ARM64

pcsx2 android

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2025-11-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-22
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 5 open

159

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 48 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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scurest/duckstation-3D-Screenshot

3D screenshots in DuckStation

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#model-ripper #playstation

Updated: 2025-02-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-09
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

158

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 6,657 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X

Mesen X is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#. This fork is meant to gather development efforts from different forks. Deprecated; see https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2/

Archived

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2023-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-10
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 47 open

156

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 3,364 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SysRay/psOff_compatibility

Playstation 4 Emulator

Stack

PowerShell

GitHub topics

#emulator #ps4

Updated: 2026-02-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-04-07
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 761 open

156

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 149 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tom-seddon/b2

BBC Micro emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#bbc-micro

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-12
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 156 open

139

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 2,444 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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JamesGriffin/CHIP-8-Emulator

A CHIP-8 emulator in C++

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2022-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-03
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 4 open

137

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 6 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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reswitched/Mephisto

Successor to CageTheUnicorn, now with performance exceeding that of maple syrup.

Stack

C++ pip

Updated: 2018-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-09-22
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

137

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 104 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ppeccin/javatari

A multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java using no libs

Stack

Java

Updated: 2022-11-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-14
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

136

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 145 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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stardot/b-em

An opensource BBC Micro emulator for Win32 and Linux

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-07
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 65 open

136

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 2,168 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TheMrIron2/DeSmuME-PSP

A Nintendo DS emulator for PlayStation Portable.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#ds #emulator #homebrew #psp

Updated: 2022-04-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-08
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

134

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 101 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Luna-Project64/Luna-Project64

Fork of Project64 with some extra features.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-18
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 10 open

133

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 6,078 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mrdanielps/r3Ddragon

A Virtual Boy emulator for the 3DS

Archived

Stack

Updated: 2024-02-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-18
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

131

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 204 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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NGEmu/NGEmu

A N-Gage emulator

Archived

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulator #ngage #ngage-emulator

Updated: 2017-12-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-14
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1 open

129

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 25 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

soywiz-archive/cspspemu

C# PSP Emulator (.NET Core 3.1)

Archived

Stack

C# Avalonia CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-sharp #dotnet-core #emulator

Updated: 2021-02-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-02
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 48 open

126

stars

Forks: 27
Commits: 720 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alexanderdickson/Chip-8-Emulator

A Chip-8 Emulator

Stack

JavaScript

GitHub topics

#chip8 #emulator

Updated: 2022-05-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-11
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

125

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 22 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hydra-emu/hydra

A multi-system emulator frontend

Archived

Stack

C++ Android Qt CMake Composer Gradle

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #multi-platform

Updated: 2024-03-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-02
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 8 open

118

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 260 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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MrZammler/iGame

iGame is a simple frontend for launching whdload games.

Stack

Updated: 2026-05-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-27
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 38 open

116

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 574 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Galladite27/ONScripter-EN

Continuation of ONScripter-EN with updated dependencies and more features and bugfixes. Also see onscripter-insani (https://github.com/insani-org/onscripter-insani), our sister project.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#nscripter #onscripter #onscripter-en

Updated: 2026-01-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-18
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 13 open

110

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 453 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

raydac/zxpoly

a multi-CPU ZX-Spectrum 128 concept platform

Stack

Java Go modules Maven

GitHub topics

#emulator #java #multi-threading #spec256 #z80-emulator #zx-poly

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-24
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 18 open

109

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 1,551 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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virtualxt/virtualxt

Portable, lightweight Turbo PC/XT emulator written in Odin.

Archived

Stack

Assembly

Updated: 2025-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-03
History: 4 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 11 open

109

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 1,557 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

BdR76/lcdgame.js

LCD game library in html5/javascript, to recreate simulations of 80s Game & Watch by Nintendo and other electronic handheld games like Tandy, Sunwing, Mini Arcade etc. Currently supports playable simulators of Donkey Kong II, Mario Bros, Highway, Sea Ranger, Tom's Adventure, Jungle Kong, Eagle n Chicken and Mario's Cement Factory, incl. online highscores lists.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#1980s-game #game #gameandwatch #nintendo

Updated: 2024-03-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-11
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

107

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 147 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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braindx/vbjin-ovr

VBjin-OVR - A Virtual Boy Emulator for the Oculus Rift

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2016-03-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-06
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 17 open

106

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 6 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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