EmulationStation!

Download the full name, description, box art, rating, release date, developer, publisher, genre, and number of players for every game in your library with the press of a button. assets/featurettes/full/scraping_cropped.png # Download You can download an installer below. The installer will install a pre-compiled EmulationStation executable and a set of themes. Or, you can build EmulationStation yourself! Browse on GitHub » https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/tree/unstable#building

EmulationStation alternatives

  • RetroArch

  • What is RetroArch?RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight, and portable. It has features few other emulators frontends have, such as real-time rewinding and game-aware shading.

    tags: arcade-emulation frontend game-consoles game-emulation gameboy
  • OpenEmu

  • Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating. Open Emu is based on a modular architecture, allowing for game-engine plugins, this means Open Emu can support a host of different emulation engines and back-ends while retaining a familiar OS X native front-end.

    tags: app-store-access classic-games game-emulation gameboy-advance multi-system-emulator
  • Lakka

  • Lakka is the official Linux distribution of RetroArch and the libretro ecosystem. Each game system is implemented as a libretro core, while the frontend RetroArch takes care of inputs and display.

    tags: arm game-emulation gaming-oriented linux-operating-systems operating-system
  • HyperSpin

  • HyperSpin is an animated arcade frontend for Windows for use on Home Arcade Machines. HyperSpin allows you to create custom menu systems to run most executables with that arcade look and feel. HyperSpin takes a more artwork oriented approach to creating menu's. With this tool you should be able to make interesting menu's for your games, movies etc..

    tags: arcade-games frontend mame
  • Mednafen

  • Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system emulator with many advanced features. The Atari Lynx, GameBoy (Color), GameBoy Advance, NES, PC Engine (TurboGrafx 16), SuperGrafx, Neo Geo Pocket (Color), PC-FX, and WonderSwan (Color) are emulated. Mednafen has the ability to remap hotkey functions and virtual system inputs to a keyboard, a joystick, or both simultaneously. Save states are supported, as is real-time game rewinding. Screen snapshots may be taken at the press of a button, and are saved in the popular PNG file format. »

    tags: Portable game-emulation gameboy gameboy-advance multi-system-emulator
  • recalboxOS

  • recalboxOS is a light embedded system created to run on the raspberryPi ,raspberryPI 2 and on PC x86/x64.

    tags: console emulation gba genesis mame
  • Happy Chick

  • Happy Chick emulates more than 18 systems all in one APP, some of the included emulators are FAB/MAME/MAMEPLUS,PS,PSP,FC(NES),SFC(SNES),GBA,GBC,MD,NDS,DC,NGP,WS(WSC),PCE, ONS…etc. More games will be updated in the future...

    tags: emulation
  • RetroX

  • RetroX is an Android application that will help you organize and play your own Retro Games with the less possible effort. Put your collection in your device and RetroX will take care of the rest.

    tags: game-emulation retro-gaming
  • batocera.linux

  • batocera.linux is an operating system (like Windows 10 and Mac OS) specialized in retrogamingavailable for your pc and different nano computers like the Raspberry and the Odroids.Note that you must own games you play in order to respect legality.

    tags: game-emulation linux-operating-systems multi-system-emulator retro-gaming
  • GameEx

  • GameEx is a graphical DirectX based front-end for MAME, GameBase, Daphne, PC Games, and all command line based game emulators, along with being a complete Home Theatre PC solution or plug in for Windows Media Center. It's designed to be used seamlessly with arcade controls and various arcade products and also has fully featured touchscreen and tablet support suitable to be used as a CarPC and touchscreen frontend. GameEx is available as a free or enhanced registered version. »

    tags: frontend game-emulation mame
  • RomStation

  • Simple and all in one emulation with RomStation!

    tags: emulation frontend game-emulation game-library-management gameboy-advance
  • AdvanceMenu

  • AdvanceMENU is a GNU/Linux, DOS and Windows front-end for AdvanceMAME, MAME, MESS, RAINE and any other emulator.

    tags: game-emulation frontend retro-gaming mame
  • Gelide

  • Gelide is a configurable frontend which let you manage any kind of emulated system (PC, console, arcade, etc) letting you to catalog and launch any game from any existing emulator under GNU/Linux.With Gelide,you can configure any emulator with command line parameters support, without the need of remember them every now and then.Gelide is a free project, licenced under the GNU General Public Licence it is written in C++ using the Gtkmm libraries as base.

    tags: Discontinued arcade-games emulation frontend game-emulation