desmume VS dolphin

Compare desmume vs dolphin and see what are their differences.

desmume

DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator (by TASEmulators)

dolphin

Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements. (by dolphin-emu)
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desmume dolphin
96 386
2,722 12,083
3.9% 4.9%
7.3 9.9
7 days ago 6 days ago
C C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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desmume

Posts with mentions or reviews of desmume. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.

dolphin

Posts with mentions or reviews of dolphin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing desmume and dolphin you can also consider the following projects:

melonDS - DS emulator, sorta

yuzu - Nintendo Switch emulator

citra - A Nintendo 3DS Emulator

Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#

OpenEmu - 🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS

Ishiiruka

Skyline - Run Nintendo Switch homebrew & games on your Android device!

Vita3K - Experimental PlayStation Vita emulator

vvctre - A Nintendo 3DS emulator with Lua scripting for Windows 7+ and Linux (the default script is vvctre folder/script.lua)