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DenSinH/DSHBA

A highly performant GBA emulator with a hardware renderer

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#emulator #gba

Updated: 2021-06-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-10-20
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 199 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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RikkiGibson/DreamPotato

An emulator for the Dreamcast VMU

Stack

C# .NET SDK npm

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-04-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 452 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-18
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 1,437 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ShadauxCat/CATSFC

Super Nintendo/Super Famicom emulator for the DSTWO

Stack

Updated: 2021-12-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-06
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 13 open

stars

Forks: 68
Commits: 356 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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whatdahopper-archive/LemonLime

A Nintendo 3DS LLE emulator written in C#

Archived

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3ds #emulation #emulator #lle #nintendo

Updated: 2019-01-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-16
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 45 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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icculus/DirkSimple

A dirt-simple Dragon's Lair player

Stack

Assembly CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#dragons-lair

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-12-03
History: 6 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 12 open

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 227 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nonakap/xnp2

Xnp2 is a port for UNIX with X11 of "Neko Project II" PC-9801 emulator.

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-05-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-16
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 5 open

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 28 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pedgarcia/fujisan

Cross-platform Atari 8-bit Emulator based on Atari800

Stack

C++ CMake npm

GitHub topics

#atari #atari800 #atari800xl #atari8bit #atart #emulator

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-07-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 342 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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wavemotion-dave/ColecoDS

ColecoDS - An Emulator for the DS/DSi. Original port by Alekmaul. Phoenix-Edition by Wavemotion with support for Colecovision, ADAM, MSX1, Sord-M5, Memotech MTX, Spectravision SVI, Hanimex Pencil II, Tatung Einstein, SG-1000/SC-3000, PV-1000, PV-2000 and the Creativision.

Stack

GitHub topics

#colecovision #emulator

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-11-09
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 715 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pcsxr/PCSX-Reloaded

This is a MIRROR of PCSX-Reloaded.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2018-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-12-16
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 5 open

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 1,697 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Ashiepaws/GB-8

A simple Chip-8 interpreter for the Nintendo Gameboy Color.

Stack

Assembly

GitHub topics

#chip8 #chip8-emulator #gameboy #gameboy-color #homebrew

Updated: 2024-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 1
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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jh10001/ONScripter-Jh

No description.

Updated: 2022-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-18
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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barteo/microemu

MicroEmu is a pure Java implementation of Java ME.

Archived

Stack

Java Maven

Updated: 2023-03-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-08-01
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 66 open

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 2,299 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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wavemotion-dave/NINTV-DS

Nintellivision - an Intellivision Emulator for the DS/DSi. High compatibility, custom overlay support, high score saving, tons of input mapping - all the quality of life improvements you need!

Stack

C++

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-09-02
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 590 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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danirod/chip8

A multiplatform CHIP-8 emulator done in SDL 2. Implements all the opcodes for CHIP and SCHIP specifications.

Stack

GitHub topics

#autoconf #autotools #c #chip8 #emulator #libcheck

Updated: 2022-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-28
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 156 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Marat-Tanalin/bsnes-mt

bsnes-based SNES emulator featuring integer (pixel-perfect) scaling, PNG screenshots, multilanguage user interface, built-in hotkeys, bug fixes, etc.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#bsnes #emulation #emulator #emulators #image-scaling #integer-scaling

Updated: 2022-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-02
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 12 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 101 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ogapee/onscripter

ONScripter

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-01-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-18
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 12 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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linuxlinks/gngeo

A NeoGeo emulator for linux

Stack

Assembly

Updated: 2023-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-07-11
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 97 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ArthurFerreira2/reinette-II-plus-dot-py

Apple II emulator in python

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#appleii #emulator #python

Updated: 2023-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-09-10
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 38 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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PSI-Rockin/CorgiDS

A dog-themed DS emulator

Stack

C++ Meson

Updated: 2018-01-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 40 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

StrikerX3/StrikeBox

StrikeBox - Original Xbox emulator

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #emulator #xbox

Updated: 2019-12-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-04
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 15 open

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 343 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Alcaro/minir

A libretro frontend focusing on a native look and a smooth out-of-the-box experience.

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2017-12-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-06
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 720 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bryanperris/cor64

N64 Emulator written in C#

Stack

C# .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#c-sharp #dotnet #dotnet-core #dotnetcore #emulation #emulator

Updated: 2024-02-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-08
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 33 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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laoo/Felix

Atari Lynx emulator

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#atari-lynx #emulator

Updated: 2025-04-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 34 open

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 728 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Jaskier/Atari800Win-PLus

Atari 8-bit emulator

Stack

Updated: 2012-02-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-08
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 16 open

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 25 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AlfonsoJLuna/chip8swemu

Multiplatform CHIP-8 and Super-CHIP emulator

Stack

Updated: 2026-04-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 84 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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emukidid/wii64-ps3

A very old proof of concept porting mupen64 (wii64) to PS3 using PSL1GHT v1

Stack

C++

Updated: 2020-05-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-22
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 46 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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LeviChen1126/melonDS-launcher

GUI launcher for the melonDS emulator.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#emulator #gui #launcher #nds

Updated: 2025-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-09-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 21 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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xdanieldzd/StoicGoose

Bandai WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color emulator written in C#

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#csharp #dotnet #emulator #wonderswan

Updated: 2026-01-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-11-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 256 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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7800-devtools/a7800

an Atari 7800 emulator

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2024-11-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-23
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 111 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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