Video game platform emulators
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An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for.
Note For possibly more up to date selection of emulators, try checking the AUR 'emulator' keyword.
Warning Owning a high-level emulator is legal, but distribution of any type of copyrighted ROMs is illegal. Consequently, Arch Linux does not distribute this copyrighted content, including game ROMs and ripped console BIOSs. You are fully responsible for whatever usage of the emulators obtained from the official repositories or the Arch User Repository you make, as well as any legal repercussion that result. Arch Linux bears no responsibility at all.
Multi-system
- ares — Multi-system emulator by Near with experimental Nintendo 64 and PlayStation support.
- BizHawk — A multi-system emulator on .NET. Features rerecording and tools for TASing. (Mono runtime.)
- Fightcade — The best way to play your favorite retro games with or against any other player in the world.
- FinalBurn Neo — Emulator for Arcade Games & Select Consoles. Based on FinalBurn and MAME.
- https://neo-source.com/ || fbneo-git AUR
- higan — Multisystem emulator focusing on accuracy, supporting SNES, NES, GB, GBC, GBA.
- https://higan-emu.com/ [dead link 2025年08月16日—domain name not resolved] || higan-git AUR
- GNOME Games — GNOME application to browse your local video games library and to easily pick and play a game from it. It is also a frontend to libretro. Part of gnome-extra .
- MAME — Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
- mednafen — Command-line driven multisystem emulator.
- https://mednafen.github.io/ || mednafen , graphical front-end mednaffe AUR.
- RetroArch — Frontend to libretro (emulation library, using modified versions of existing emulators as plugins).
Nintendo
- Azahar — Open-source 3DS emulator project based on Citra & Lime3DS.
- https://github.com/azahar-emu/azahar || azahar AUR
- AzaharPlus — Fork of Azahar which restores some features
- https://github.com/AzaharPlus/AzaharPlus || azaharplus-appimage AUR
- bsnes — Super Nintendo emulator focusing on performance, features, and ease of use.
- https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes || bsnes-qt5 AUR HD Fork: bsnes-hd AUR
- Cemu — Wii U emulator.
- https://cemu.info/ || cemu AUR
- Citra — Nintendo 3DS emulator.
- https://citra-emulator.com/ || citra AUR
- DeSmuME — Nintendo DS emulator.
- Dolphin — Very capable GameCube and Wii emulator.
- FCEUX — NTSC and PAL 8 bit Nintendo/Famicom emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. It is accurate, compatible and actively maintained.
- GBCC — A Game Boy Color emulator written in C.
- GBE+ — DMG/GBC/GBA emulator and experimental NDS emulator.
- GearBoy — GameBoy and GameBoy Color emulator.
- gopher64 — Nintendo 64 emulator written in Rust and C.
- mandarine — Nintendo 3DS emulator - Citra fork with added features/tweaks.
- melonDS — Nintendo DS emulator.
- Mesen — Multi-system emulator (NES, SNES, Game Boy and PC Engine.)
- mGBA — A Nintendo Gameboy Advance Emulator focusing on both speed and accuracy.
- https://mgba.io/ || SDL frontend: mgba-sdl , QT5 frontend: mgba-qt
- Mupen64Plus — Highly compatible Nintendo 64 emulator with plugin system.
- https://www.mupen64plus.org/ || mupen64plus or a graphical front-end, such as rmg-git AUR, simple64 AUR, parallel-launcher AUR, m64py AUR or cutemupen AUR.
- NanoBoy Advance — Accuracy-focused Game Boy Advance emulator.
- Nestopia — Very accurate NES emulator.
- NooDS — A (hopefully!) speedy NDS emulator.
- puNES — Qt-based Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSFe Music Player.
- Ryujinx — Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator written in C#.
- https://ryujinx.app/ || ryujinx AUR
- SameBoy — An accuracy-focused Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulator.
- SkyEmu — Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advanced Emulator.
- https://skyemu.app/ || skyemu-git AUR
- Snes9x — Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.
- https://www.snes9x.com/ || snes9x , GTK frontend snes9x-gtk
- Tanuki3DS — 3DS Emulator
- Visual Boy Advance — Game Boy emulator with Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Super Game Boy support.
- https://www.visualboyadvance-m.org/ || GTK frontend vbam-wx AUR, SDL frontend vbam-sdl AUR
- ZSNES — Highly compatible Super Nintendo emulator.
Sony
- DuckStation — DuckStation is an simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStationTM console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability.
- ePSXe — Emulator for the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware.
- https://www.epsxe.com/ || epsxe AUR
- Iris — Experimental PlayStation 2 emulator
- PCSX2 — PlayStation 2 emulator.
- https://pcsx2.net/ || pcsx2 AUR
- PCSXR — Debian fork of the abandoned original PCSX PlayStation emulator.
- Play! — Experimental Playstation 2 emulator.
- https://purei.org/ || play-emu AUR
- PPSSPP — PlayStation Portable emulator.
- RPCS3 — Experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger.
- https://rpcs3.net/ || rpcs3-git AUR
- ShadPS4 — PlayStation 4 emulator.
- https://shadps4.net/ || shadps4 AUR
- Vita3K — Experimental PlayStation Vita emulator.
- https://vita3k.org/ || vita3k-bin AUR
Sega
- BlastEm — Genesis and Sega CD Emulator focused on accuracy.
- FlyCast — Sega Dreamcast Emulator.
- Gearsystem — Sega Master System / Game Gear / SG-1000 Emulator
- jgenesis — Sega Genesis / Sega CD / SNES / Master System / Game Gear Emulator
- Kega Fusion — An emulator of classic Sega consoles like Genesis/Mega Drive, Master System, Sega CD. Game Gear, 32X.
- Kronos — Hardware-accelerated Sega Saturn emulator forked from uoYabause.
- https://fcare.github.io || kronos AUR
- Yabause — A Sega Saturn emulator.
- https://yabause.org/ || yabause-qt5 AUR
- Ymir — Sega Saturn emulator.
Other consoles
- Gearcoleco — ColecoVision emulator
- Geargrafx — PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 emulator and debugger
- Stella — Atari 2600 VCS emulator.
- Supermodel — A Sega Model 3 Arcade Emulator.
- https://www.supermodel3.com/ [dead link 2025年08月16日—domain name not resolved] || supermodel-git AUR
- Virtual Jaguar — A portable Atari Jaguar emulator.
- xemu — An original Xbox emulator (fork of XQEMU).
- https://xemu.app/ || xemu AUR
- Xenia — Xenia is an experimental emulator for the Xbox 360.
- https://xenia.jp/ || xenia-git AUR
- Xenia Canary — Active fork of Xenia.
Personal computers
- 86Box — Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
- https://86box.net/ || 86box AUR
- Amiberry — Optimized Amiga emulator.
- https://amiberry.com/ || amiberry AUR
- ARAnyM — Atari Running on Any Machine.
- Atari++ — An emulator of Atari 400/800/400XL/800XL/130XE/5200.
- Atari800 — An emulator of the Atari 800/800XL/130XE/5200 with various extensions.
- Basilisk II — Open Source 68k Macintosh Emulator.
- BeebEM — BBC Micro Emulator.
- box64 — Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist.
- CaPriCe32 — An emulator of the Amstrad CPC 8bit home computer range (CPC 464, 664, 6128).
- CLK — A latency hating emulator for 8 and 16 bit platforms.
- https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK || SDL frontend: clk-sdl AUR, QT5 frontend: clk-qt AUR
- Denise — Highly accurate C64/Amiga emulator.
- DOSBox — Open-source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games.
- DOSEmu — Open-source DOS emulator.
- EasyRPG Player — RPG Maker 2000/2003 interpreter.
- fMSX — Portable MSX Emulator.
- https://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/ || fmsx AUR
- FS-UAE — Amiga Emulator.
- https://fs-uae.net/ || fs-uae , frontend: fs-uae-launcher
- Fuse-emulator — ZX Spectrum emulator.
- Hatari — An Atari ST and STE emulator.
- LinApple — Apple 2e emulator.
- Mini vMac — A miniature early Macintosh emulator.
- https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/ [dead link 2025年11月17日—SSL error] || minivmac AUR
- OpenMSX — The MSX emulator that aims for perfection.
- https://openmsx.org/ || openmsx AUR
- PCem — Emulator for various IBM PC computers and clones.
- https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ || pcem AUR
- ScummVM — Virtual machine for old school adventures.
- Vice — Versatile Commodore 8-bit Emulator.
- X Neko Project II — PC-9801 emulator.
- https://www.nonakap.org/np2/ [dead link 2025年03月15日—domain name not resolved] || xnp2 AUR
- ZEsarUX — A Zx80/Zx81/Z88, Zx Spectrum 16/48/128/+2/+2A and ZX-Uno emulator with ULAPlus support.
Fantasy computers
- Lowres-NX — Open source fantasy game console and Basic interpreter.
- microw8 — WebAssembly based fantasy console.
- Pico8 — A fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs that supports the Lua language (multiple architectures supported, but binary only).
- Pixel Vision 8 — 8-bit fantasy game console that supports the Lua language.
- TIC-80 — A GPL-licensed fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games that supports multiple languages.
- https://tic80.com/ || tic-80-git AUR