List of video game console emulators

Not to be confused with List of computer system emulators.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

The following is a list of notable video game console emulators .

Arcade

• Visual Pinball

Atari

Atari 2600

• Stella

Nintendo

See also: NES Classic Edition, Super NES Classic Edition, Virtual Console, and Nintendo Classics

Home consoles

Nintendo Entertainment System

• FCEUX
• NESticle
• Nestopia

Super NES

• Snes9x
• ZSNES
• Higan ^[1]

Nintendo 64

• Mupen64Plus ^[2]
• Project64
• Project Unreality
• UltraHLE

GameCube/Wii

• Dolphin

Wii U

• Cemu

Handhelds

Game Boy

• Wzonka-Lad

Game Boy Advance

• VisualBoyAdvance (Also supports Game Boy and Game Boy Color)
  • VisualBoyAdvance-M

Nintendo 3DS

• Citra

Hybrid

Nintendo Switch

See also: Nintendo Switch emulation

• Yuzu
• Ryujinx

SNK

Neo Geo CD

• NeoCD

Sony

Home consoles

See also: PlayStation Classic

PlayStation

• bleem!
• bleemcast!
• Connectix Virtual Game Station
• ePSXe
• PCSX-Reloaded

PlayStation 2

• PCSX2

PlayStation 3

• RPCS3

PlayStation 4

• ShadPS4

(A website promoting a supposed PS4 emulator, "PCSX4", is a scam. ^[3] )

Handhelds

PlayStation Portable

• PPSSPP

Frontends

• RetroArch
• Delta

Multi-system emulators

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

See also

• Video games portal

• Emulator
• List of computer system emulators
• List of emulators
• Video game console emulator

References

1. "Higan-emu/Higan". GitHub .
2. "Mupen64Plus". mupen64plus. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
3. Fenlon, Wes (15 January 2019). "PS4 emulators on PC don't work yet, so don't get scammed by a fake". PC Gamer . Archived from the original on 19 September 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2020.