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CidVonHighwind/VirtualBoyGo

VirtualBoy emulator for the oculus go

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-27
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 5 open

106

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 88 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hissorii/px68k

Portable SHARP X68000 Emulator for PSP, Android and other platforms

Stack

Updated: 2021-04-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-16
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 7 open

105

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 92 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Hydr8gon/rokuyon

An experimental N64 emulator

Stack

C++

Updated: 2026-06-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-30
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 12 open

105

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Forks: 4
Commits: 133 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dh4/mupen64plus-qt

A customizable launcher for Mupen64Plus

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator-launcher #gui #mupen64plus #n64 #qt

Updated: 2026-03-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-06
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 6 open

104

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 344 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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soywiz-archive/jspspemu

typescript psp emulator https://jspspemu.soywiz.com/

Archived

Stack

TypeScript npm

Updated: 2021-03-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-24
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 12 open

102

stars

Forks: 51
Commits: 427 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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noumidev/Nozomi

Experimental HLE Switch emulator

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#cpp17 #emulator #nintendo-switch

Updated: 2025-01-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-09-19
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 239 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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oomek/attractplus

Attract-Mode Plus

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-02
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 34 open

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 1,694 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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petschau/WinFellow

WinFellow

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2025-11-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-03-10
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 13 open

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 1,266 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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bmsuseluda/emuze

Launch your Retro Games fast and simple

Stack

TypeScript Electron React Vite Yarn

GitHub topics

#emulation #frontend #launcher #retrogaming #steamdeck

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-07
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 1,026 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Stovent/CeDImu

Experimental Philips CD-I emulator written in C++

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#cd-i #cdi #cplusplus #cpp #emulation #emulator

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-08
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 914 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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duysqubix/gobc

No description.

AI dev

Stack

Go Go modules

Updated: 2026-06-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-11
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

stars

Forks: 2
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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tzlion/hhugboy

A Game Boy (Color) emulator for Windows, based on GEST v1.1.1 by TM, with added support for unlicensed mappers, Unicode filenames, screenshots and some other stuff.

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-06-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-27
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 20 open

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 548 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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kinnay/Wii-U-Firmware-Emulator

Emulates IOSU and part of Cafe OS

Stack

C++

Updated: 2023-10-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 35 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zelurker/raine

Raine emulator

Stack

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-29
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 2,887 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

andkrau/NuanceResurrection

No description.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-14
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 13 open

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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samstyle/Xpeccy

Multiplatform emulator of retro computers

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 1,415 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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MrPurple666/AetherSX2

https://archive.org/details/aethersx2-libemucore.tar

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2023-04-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-22
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

stars

Forks: 27
Commits: 46 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

leniad/dsp-emulator

Dsp emulator

Stack

Pascal

Updated: 2025-11-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-12
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 331 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-SX

Homebrew development oriented fork of Mesen-S - a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) SNES emulator built in C++ and C#. Deprecated; see https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2/

Archived

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2023-05-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-12
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 68 open

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 1,021 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pcercuei/bloom

Bloom?

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Swift Package Manager

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-05-30
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 3 open

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 361 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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DerekTurtleRoe/N64-PD-ROMS

A repository of unofficial ROMs for the Nintendo 64

GitHub topics

#demo #demoscene #homebrew #libdragon #n64 #n64-dev

Updated: 2023-10-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-03
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 15 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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strk/gnash

The GNU SWF Player

Stack

C++

Updated: 2017-07-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-12-20
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 22,371 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gururise/DosBoxTurbo

DosBox Turbo / FreeBox for Android

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2015-10-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-13
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 4 open

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 24 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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firelight-emulator/firelight

A libretro-based emulation frontend that aims to be the easiest way to play your retro games, discover awesome mods for those games, and just have a dang good time.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake vcpkg

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-12-09
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 12 open

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 611 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

paleotronic/microm8-gui

Cross-platform (Windows / macOS / Linux) GUI for the microM8 Apple II Emulator

Stack

Pascal

Updated: 2019-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-31
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 13 open

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 93 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

liuk7071/ChonkyStation

PS1 Emulator coming soon™

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2024-11-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-16
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 235 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

schibo/1964js

Nintendo64 emulator in JavaScript

Stack

CoffeeScript Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#chrome #emulator #javacript #nintendo

Updated: 2025-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-22
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 8 open

stars

Forks: 27
Commits: 603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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SourMesen/VisualNes

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

Archived

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulation #nes #simulator

Updated: 2022-05-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-02
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 39 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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FluBBaOfWard/NitroSwan

Bandai WonderSwan (Color/Crystal) & Benesse PocketChallenge V2 emulator for the Nintendo DS(i)/3DS.

Stack

GitHub topics

#bandai-wonderswan #emulator #nintendo-ds #wonderswan

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-10-17
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 15 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 244 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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momenbasel/ConsoleMini

Turn a Mac mini into a living-room retro/PS console - beautiful big-picture launcher (Electron + React)

Stack

TypeScript Electron React Tailwind CSS Vite npm

GitHub topics

#apple-silicon #duckstation #electron #emulator #emulator-frontend #gamepad

Updated: 2026-07-18
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2026-04-22
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 14 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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