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Top 23 Emulator Open-Source Projects
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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)
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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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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 -
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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.
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Android Debug Database
A library for debugging android databases and shared preferences - Make Debugging Great Again
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Project mention: SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-18
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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: Emulation of Nintendo Game Boy (DMG-01) (2016) [pdf] | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-01
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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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Index
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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