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Top 23 Emulator Open-Source Projects
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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dolphin
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
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Android Debug Database
A library for debugging android databases and shared preferences - Make Debugging Great Again
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Unicorn Engine
Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, TriCore, X86)
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Provenance
iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |
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Project mention: Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-17Their C# JIT [1] generates x86_64 or ARM native code. This is why it's fast.
1: https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/tree/master/src/ARMeilleu...
Project mention: Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-30> Just imagine how much more versatile the iPad Pro would be if only you could run Linux VMs on it
After installing https://ish.app for Alpine Linux emulation on iPad, one immediately comes up with use cases, even though it's excruciatingly slow.
Hopefully Apple opens up the imminent M3 iPad Pros to run macOS and Linux VMs.
Project mention: Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-07Tangentially related: if anybody is looking for a good way to organize a library of retro emulators and games on their MacOS laptops/desktop computers then I recommend OpenEmu. It is designed from the ground up to look and feel like a Mac app.
https://openemu.org/
Project mention: Orisinal: Morning Sunshine (recovered old flash games) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-11The memories…
I often wondered what would happen to those wonderful Orisinal mini games after Flash's death, without actually checking out the site. Would Ferry Halim find the time to port them to "HTML5"? Would they just… disappear forever?
It turns out that they know run in Ruffle[1], a Rust/WASM based Flash Player emulator I've never heard of (or forgotten about). The handful of them that I have tested work flawlessly.
[1] https://ruffle.rs/
Project mention: Idk if anyone's done a one-handed hitless run of the game or anything crazy like that, and this is 100% not that (i get hit A LOT on these runs) but Im still pretty proud of this. | /r/shittydarksouls | 2023-12-10The emulator: https://rpcs3.net/ The rom: https://vimm.net/vault/24833 I forget if you need anything else but finding a video on YouTube is not very hard for rpcs3, a bit complicated, sorry I can't remember how to do it all, it's been a while.
Project mention: Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-07Dolphin ships with a bunch of keys in the source code[0]. So do almost every other emulators for any console from 6/7th gen consoles (ps3, xbox360, gamecube), see delroth's post on the matter here[1]. It's really not that simple - jurisdiction matters a lot, and also Nintendo's own priorities.
[0]: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/34527cadcce49a9a...
[1]: https://delroth.net/posts/emulation-crypto-keys-copyright-dm...
Idk what you might be doing wrong, and I'm not in the tutorial business, but I highly recommend giving the latest version of PCSX2 and a random YouTube tutorial another shot, it's gonna be a lot easier than jailbreaking your PS3. Either way good luck have fun.
Project mention: macintosh.js: A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron | /r/softwarecrafters | 2023-11-21
Xenia (Xbox 360) Emulator: https://xenia.jp/
Project mention: Unicorn – lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-03
Edit : It's being worked on by the cemu devs https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu/pull/924
Azerothcore - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King server emulation. C++
VisualBoyAdvance is outdated, while not bad you can do better than that when mGBA exists
mininet [1] can be used to emulate networks on a single computer. It is used to teach networking concepts.
1. https://github.com/mininet/mininet
Project mention: Qiling: A True Instrumentable Binary Emulation Framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-01
Project mention: Emulation of Nintendo Game Boy (DMG-01) (2016) [pdf] | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-01
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Emulator related posts
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Unicorn – lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework
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Emulation of Nintendo Game Boy (DMG-01) (2016) [pdf]
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Harbaum/Galagino: A Galaga, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Arcade Emulator
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Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says
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Nephalem's nightmare. Exploring errors in Diablo 3 server emulator code
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Sony FW900 Widescreen CRT Trinitron
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Apple Further Explains Why Game Boy Emulator iGBA Was Removed from App Store
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Emulator projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | Ryujinx | 32,327 |
| 2 | v86 | 19,159 |
| 3 | ish | 16,032 |
| 4 | OpenEmu | 15,807 |
| 5 | ruffle | 14,517 |
| 6 | rpcs3 | 14,427 |
| 7 | dolphin | 12,173 |
| 8 | pcsx2 | 10,369 |
| 9 | Android Debug Database | 8,342 |
| 10 | macintosh.js | 8,227 |
| 11 | docker-android | 8,181 |
| 12 | xenia | 7,693 |
| 13 | Unicorn Engine | 7,168 |
| 14 | Cemu | 6,414 |
| 15 | jsnes | 5,990 |
| 16 | azerothcore-wotlk | 5,896 |
| 17 | Provenance | 5,764 |
| 18 | mgba | 5,353 |
| 19 | mininet | 5,178 |
| 20 | qiling | 4,845 |
| 21 | gameboy.live | 4,637 |
| 22 | PyBoy | 4,441 |
| 23 | simplify | 4,367 |
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