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Provenance-Emu/Provenance

iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |

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Stack

C Bundler Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#atari #catalyst #emulation #emulator #game #gameboy

Updated: 2026-06-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-07
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 257 open

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Forks: 704
Commits: 9,913 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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SourMesen/Mesen2

Multi-system emulator (NES, SNES, GB, GBA, PCE, SMS/GG, WS) for Windows, Linux and macOS

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C++ Avalonia .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulator #game-gear #gameboy #gba #master-system #nes

Updated: 2026-06-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-12
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

2,411

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Forks: 302
Commits: 3,511 commits
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SourMesen/Mesen

Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#

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C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulator #famicom #nes

Updated: 2024-12-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-10
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 104 open

1,321

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Forks: 331
Commits: 2,904 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: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 56 open

806

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Forks: 46
Commits: 2,391 commits
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henrikpersson/potatis

🥔 MOS-6502 and NES emulator in Rust (SDL/WebAssembly/Android/Embedded/Cloud)

Stack

Rust Android Cargo Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#embedded-hal #emulator #jni #jni-android #mos-6502 #nes

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-09-27
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

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Forks: 11
Commits: 32 commits
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Dn-Programming-Core-Management/Dn-FamiTracker

modifications and improvements for 0CC-FamiTracker (based on j0CC-FamiTracker 0.6.3)

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#0cc-famitracker #chiptune #chiptune-tracker #famicom #famitracker #nes

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-26
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 138 open

519

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Forks: 35
Commits: 2,040 commits
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daniel5151/ANESE

Another NES Emulator - written for fun & learning - first implementation of wideNES

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#6502 #apu #assembly #cmake #cross-platform #emulation

Updated: 2022-01-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-13
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

401

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Forks: 30
Commits: 204 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pinobatch/240p-test-mini

Size-optimized ports of Artemio's 240p Test Suite to 8-bit consoles

Stack

Assembly

GitHub topics

#gameboy #nes

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-10
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 7 open

287

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Forks: 24
Commits: 621 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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SourMesen/VisualNes

Visual NES simulates the CPU & PPU of a NES at the transistor level.

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Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulation #nes #simulator

Updated: 2022-05-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-02
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 39 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fedex81/helios

A Java-based Sega Mega Drive/Genesis emulator. And other systems too.

Stack

Java Gradle

GitHub topics

#32x #colecovision #emulator #genesis #helios #java

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-18
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 1,379 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Comba92/nen-emulator

NES emulator, written in Rust. High mappers compatibility, and FDS support.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #nes #nes-emulator

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-10-27
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 147 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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