Rust Emulator

Open-source Rust projects categorized as Emulator

Top 23 Rust Emulator Projects

  1. ruffle

    A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

    Project mention: Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-20

    FWIW, the thing I've found as the slowest single factor on my machine, might not be the slowest on yours; I might have not noticed the real cause of slowdowns on your machine at all, and you may be the only one able to diagnose it.

    (and for the record, I'm on W10 too.)

    Also, my personal experience from optimizing https://ruffle.rs/ is that in many cases Firefox's wasm runtime can behave slightly faster than on Chrome for some reason; and performance issues are often instead caused by other APIs like the canvas.

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  3. gameboy

    Full featured Cross-platform GameBoy emulator by Rust. Forever boys!. (by mohanson)

  4. mooneye-gb

    A Game Boy research project and emulator written in Rust

  5. rvemu

    RISC-V emulator for CLI and Web written in Rust with WebAssembly. It supports xv6 and Linux (ongoing).

  6. martypc

    An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust.

    Project mention: MartyPC: An IBM PC/XT Emulator Written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-24
  7. potatis

    🥔 MOS-6502 and NES emulator in Rust (SDL/WebAssembly/Android/Embedded/Cloud)

  8. riscv-rust

    RISC-V processor emulator written in Rust+WASM

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  10. gameboy

    The Gameboy emulator that runs anywhere (Terminal, Web, Desktop) (by raphamorim)

  11. boytacean

    A GB emulator that is written in Rust 🦀!

  12. retrowin32

    windows emulator

    Project mention: Retrowin32: Windows Emulator for the Web | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-10
  13. uvm

    Fun, portable, minimalistic virtual machine.

  14. nestur

    The NES (emulator) you left outside in the rain but let dry and still kind of works

  15. plastic

    NES emulator in rust with egui and TUI (by Amjad50)

    Project mention: Plastic – A Modern NES Emulator That Works with EGUI and TUI | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-19
  16. udbserver

    Unicorn Emulator Debug Server - Written in Rust, with bindings for C, Go, Java and Python

  17. OpenGMK

    A rewrite of the GameMaker Classic engine runners with additional tooling

  18. gameroy

    A Game Boy emulator, disassembler and debugger, written in Rust

  19. dust

    A Nintendo DS emulator written in Rust for desktop devices and the web, with debugging features and a focus on accuracy (by kelpsyberry)

  20. rust64

    Commodore 64 emulator written in Rust

  21. gopher64

    N64 emulator written in Rust

  22. Mimic

    A Gameboy emulator written in Rust (by jawline)

  23. chip8-book

    An introduction to Chip-8 emulation using Rust

  24. playboy

    Playboy is a Nintendo Gameboy emulator for the Panic Playdate written in Rust! 👾

  25. tetanes

    A cross-platform NES emulator written in Rust using wgpu

  26. SaaSHub

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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).

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  • Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web

    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2025
  • ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2025
  • MartyPC: An IBM PC/XT Emulator Written in Rust

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2024
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Emulator projects in Rust? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 ruffle 16,613
2 gameboy 1,400
3 mooneye-gb 921
4 rvemu 850
5 martypc 676
6 potatis 662
7 riscv-rust 651
8 gameboy 642
9 boytacean 642
10 retrowin32 625
11 uvm 556
12 nestur 544
13 plastic 523
14 udbserver 368
15 OpenGMK 322
16 gameroy 293
17 dust 270
18 rust64 265
19 gopher64 262
20 Mimic 256
21 chip8-book 256
22 playboy 214
23 tetanes 201

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