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Multi-system emulators are capable of emulating the functionality of multiple systems. higan; MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) Mednafen; MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), formerly a stand-alone application and now part of MAME; OpenEmu
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]
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]
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.
PCSX is a free and open-source, video game console emulator that allows software designed to be used with the Sony PlayStation to run on personal computers. Over the years, development changed hands several times with PCSX-Reloaded (PCSXR) now being the main version. As of 2021, the emulator seems to be no longer under active development. [5]
Emulator Latest version Released Guest emulation capabilities Host Operating System License MAME (formerly MESS) 0.273 December 31, 2024: Various computers, consoles, and arcade systems Cross-platform: New BSD, GPLv2 or later SimCoupe: 1.0 May 9, 2007: SAM Coupé: Cross-platform: GPL: PSPSIM: 1.2.1 January 27, 2008: SAM Coupé: PSP: GPL ...
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]
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]