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Emulator Latest version Released Guest emulation capabilities Host Operating System License Bochs: 2.8 March 10, 2024: x86 PC, x86-64 PC: Cross-platform: Open source
In 2005, Retro Gamer called Snes9x "the best SNES emulator available". [ 12 ] In 2021, Digital Trends noted that the emulator had broad compatibility and ran on systems with limited resources.
PCSX2 is a free and open-source emulator of the PlayStation 2 for x86 computers. It supports most PlayStation 2 video games with a high level of compatibility and functionality, and also supports a number of improvements over gameplay on a traditional PlayStation 2, such as the ability to use higher resolutions than native, anti-aliasing and texture filtering. [6]
RetroArch is a free and open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications. It is the reference implementation of the libretro API, [2] [3] designed to be fast, lightweight, portable and without dependencies. [4]
FCE Ultra was forked from FCE (Family Computer Emulator). [9] Its last full release was version 0.98.12 in August 2004, while a pre-release version 0.98.13-pre was released in September 2004 as source code only. After that, development appeared to stop and the homepage and forums for the emulator were taken down.
The first pre-release version went public on 9 December 2019 [138] with the 1.0 release following a week later. [135] Version 2.0 has been released only a month later on 9 January 2020. The 2.0 version supports physical controllers, among other new features. [139] Version 3.0 was released on the 20 June 2020. [140]
MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. [1]
In some cases, emulators allow for the application of ROM patches which update the ROM or BIOS dump to fix incompatibilities with newer platforms or change aspects of the game itself. The emulator subsequently uses the BIOS dump to mimic the hardware while the ROM dump (with any patches) is used to replicate the game software. [7]