Emulator

Open-source projects categorized as Emulator

Top 23 Emulator Open-Source Projects

  1. shadPS4

    PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++

    Project mention: PS4 Emulator for Windows,Linux,macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-20
  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  3. v86

    x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser

    Project mention: JSLinux | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-14
  4. ish

    Linux shell for iOS

    Project mention: Show HN: Lume – OS Lightweight CLI/API for macOS/Linux VMs on Apple Silicon | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-02

    You can, with ish (https://ish.app). It is a bit slow though and doesn't support the newest releases. (Well and by default it runs Alpine instead of Debian)

  5. rpcs3

    PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger

  6. 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.

  7. OpenEmu

    🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS

  8. dolphin

    Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.

    Project mention: Dolphin: Open-Source GameCube and Wii Emulator with Enhanced PC Play | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-03
  9. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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  10. pcsx2

    PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator

  11. docker-android

    Android in docker solution with noVNC supported and video recording

  12. xenia

    Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project

    Project mention: 5 lines of fortune: what program keeps under wraps | dev.to | 2024-11-25

    A quick note about Xenia Xenia is a research emulator for the Xbox 360 platform, enabling games originally developed for this console to run on modern PCs. The development community actively contributes to this open-source project. As mentioned above, I analyzed the project using the PVS-Studio static analyzer. The checked code matches the 3d30b2e commit.

  13. Android Debug Database

    A library for debugging android databases and shared preferences - Make Debugging Great Again

  14. macintosh.js

    🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry.

    Project mention: SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-18
  15. Unicorn Engine

    Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, TriCore, X86)

    Project mention: Unicorn Engine 2.1.2 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-13
  16. Cemu

    Cemu - Wii U emulator

    Project mention: Cemu VS decaf-emu - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/Cemu | 2025-01-02
  17. azerothcore-wotlk

    Complete Open Source and Modular solution for MMO

  18. jsnes

    A JavaScript NES emulator.

  19. 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 |

  20. mgba

    mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

  21. mininet

    Emulator for rapid prototyping of Software Defined Networks

  22. qiling

    A True Instrumentable Binary Emulation Framework

  23. PyBoy

    Game Boy emulator written in Python

    Project mention: Emulation of Nintendo Game Boy (DMG-01) (2016) [pdf] | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-01
  24. gameboy.live

    🕹️ A basic gameboy emulator with terminal "Cloud Gaming" support

  25. simplify

    Android virtual machine and deobfuscator

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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

# Project Stars
1 shadPS4 21,909
2 v86 20,593
3 ish 17,910
4 rpcs3 16,741
5 ruffle 16,510
6 OpenEmu 16,471
7 dolphin 13,626
8 pcsx2 12,834
9 docker-android 10,670
10 xenia 8,668
11 Android Debug Database 8,480
12 macintosh.js 8,346
13 Unicorn Engine 8,107
14 Cemu 7,985
15 azerothcore-wotlk 7,008
16 jsnes 6,201
17 Provenance 6,092
18 mgba 6,091
19 mininet 5,537
20 qiling 5,392
21 PyBoy 4,827
22 gameboy.live 4,718
23 simplify 4,487

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