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RetroArch

What is RetroArch? RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight, and portable. It has features lacking in some emulators frontends, such as real-time rewinding and game-aware shading. What systems does it play?

  • Arcade (emulator: Final Burn Alpha / iMAME4All / MAME)
  • Atari 2600 (emulator: Stella)
  • Atari Lynx (emulator: Handy)
  • Nintendo Entertainment System (emulator: FCEUmm / NEStopia / QuickNES)
  • Super Nintendo (emulator: bSNES/Higan/ PocketSNES / SNES9x / SNES9x Next)
  • Nintendo 64 (emulator: Mupen64Plus)
  • Nintendo GameBoy / GameBoy Color (emulator: gambatte)
  • Nintendo GameBoy Advance (emulator: Mednafen GBA / Meteor / VBA-M / VBA Next)
  • Nintendo DS (emulator: DeSmuME)
  • Nintendo Virtual Boy (emulator: Mednafen VB)
  • Neo Geo Pocket Color (emulator: Mednafen NGP)
  • Sega Genesis/Mega Drive (emulator: Genesis Plus GX / Picodrive)
  • Sega Master System/Sega Game Gear (emulator: Genesis Plus GX)
  • Sega CD / Mega CD (emulator: Genesis Plus GX / Picodrive)
  • Sega 32X (emulator: Picodrive)
  • Sony PlayStation 1 (emulator: PCSX ReARMed / Mednafen PSX)
  • PC Engine / PC Engine CD (emulator: Mednafen PCE Fast)
  • WonderSwan Color / Crystal (emulator: Mednafen Wonderswan)
  • Cave Story (game engine: NX Engine)
  • Doom 1 / Doom 2 / Ultimate Doom / Final Doom (game engine: prBoom)
  • Quake (game engine: TyrQuake)
  • ScummVM (game engine) [WIP]
  • MS-DOS (emulator: DosBox) [WIP]
  • Nintendo 64 (emulator: Mupen64 on ARM) [WIP]
  • Nintendo Entertainment System (emulator: QuickNES) [WIP]
  • Sega Saturn (emulator: Yabause) [WIP] What platforms does it run on?
  • Linux (x86 and x86_64)
  • Windows (32bit/64bit)
  • Mac OSX (Intel/PowerPC)
  • Playstation 3 (PS3 SDK)
  • PlayStation Portable (PSP)
  • PlayStation Vita/TV
  • Xbox 1 (XDK)
  • Xbox 360 (XeXDK/Libxenon)
  • Gamecube
  • Wii
  • Nintendo 3DS
  • Raspberry Pi (and various other ARM hardware through Lakka)
  • OpenPandora
  • Android
  • Blackberry (10/Playbook)
  • iOS