Open Source Emulators

DeSmuME is the most seasoned open source Nintendo DS emulator. It sports tools designed for hackers, speedrunners, youtubers, and casual gamers. Homebrew programs are supported and can even be debugged through GDB. The Windows and OSX versions are both relatively feature rich, and there is a small universe of forks and mods that add even more features for casual gaming. DeSmuME is the origin of RetroArch and OpenEmu Nintendo DS support and is used by several mobile Nintendo DS emulators, with the notable exception of DraStic. DeSmuME's source code is now hosted at https://github.com/TASVideos/desmume/ win32 autobuilds @ https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zeromus/desmume/build/artifacts

xBRZ is a high-quality image upscaling filter for creating beautiful HD representations from low-resolution images. Reference implementations for common emulators can be found in the download section: ● DOSBox ● ePSXe ● HqMAME ● ScummVM ● Snes9x ● Kega Fusion http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbrz/files/ Test the xBRZ scaler with your own images and compare against other scalers with the "Scaler Test" tool: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbrz/files/ScalerTest_1.1.zip

A Game Boy Color emulator.

A Java-based Gameboy and Gameboy Color emulator for mobile devices and PCs. If you want to play Gameboy games on your mobile phone you should try this emulator. For more information see the Wiki http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/javagb/index.php.

Portable emulator for Pokémon-Mini. Last version: 0.60 (16 June 2015) Check Wiki for platform dependencies and other information.

Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system emulator.

JStella is a Java-based Atari 2600 VCS emulator. It allows one to play old Atari 2600 games in an operating system independent manner. It also supports web page based applets. Its emulation core is based on Stella-Atari 2600 Emulator.

CuteMupen is a graphical (GUI based on Qt library) front-end for the cross-platform Mupen64Plus N64 emulator.

A Java-based Commodore 64 emulator for mobile devices and PCs. If you want to see the old C64 become alive on your mobile phone or PC then try this emulator. For more information see the Wiki pages http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/jmec64/index.php.

zBoy is a multiplatform GameBoy emulator that provides a load/save feature, can perform PCX screenshots either manually or automatically (every few seconds) and emulates an internal battery for ROMs that were designed to use one (this allows to use the internal save option provided by such games, remember highest scores, etc). zBoy supports some additionnal features, too, like intelligent saving of hi-scores for some games that aren't able to save their hi-scores table by themselves because of the lack of a battery-backed RAM on the cartridge, and improving screen's resolution output using graphic algorithms like Scale2x, Scale3x, eagle... Here you can see a comparison between graphic algorithms supported by zBoy. This is also one of the very few GameBoy emulators that provides a 2-gameboys link emulation, which makes it possible to play some games in 2-players mode on a LAN. The emulator is available for Linux, DOS and Windows (but should compile for other systems, too).

Alternative Lineage 2 Game Server written in Java.

Entex Adventure Vision emulator with debugging capabilities. Latest version: 1.0 (March 16, 2013) For now the emulator is hardcoded with Qt, in future this will be changed to make the project more portable. Short F.A.Q. ------------------ Q: Emulator can't reach 100% emulation with sound enabled! A: Fiddle with the Sound buffer size inside "Options..."

Dioscuri is an x86 computer hardware emulator written in Java. It is designed by the digital preservation community to make sure that documents and programs from the past can still be accessed in the future. Dioscuri is durable and component-based.

An updated Mac OS Classic/Carbon-specific port of FCE Ultra 0.98.13, the Nintendo Entertainment System/FamilyComputer emulator, and beyond.  This emulator is meant for older Macs, pre-OS X.

JSGB is a Nintendo GameBoy emulator. Written in JavaScript and HTML5. Integrates a debugger with breakpoints support, memory, viewer and more... You can test it here: www.codebase.es/jsgb/?v=0.02

Spyn is an Nintendo Entertainment System written entirely in Python, using Pygame for graphics / sound.

This is the official documentation of the ZSNES emulator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/zsnes/). Available formats include HTML, plain-text, and CHM. We work closely with the ZSNES developers to bring you the best emulator documentation available.

This java (version 6 or higher) program allows you to send games directly to an old apple // computer with no need for floppies, only a serial cable. No hardware modification is necessary, you only need a working serial connection. A cousin of this project can be found here: http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/ (Thanks Egan!)

jo2emLauncher stands for Java o2em launcher. It is a GUI to help people use o2em (the odyssey 2 / videopac emulator). Currently available launcher are only for windows. As jo2emLauncher is 100% java, it is able to run on a wide range of platforms. The first target is linux.

This project is meant to provide a free personal server for the World of Warcraft game. Temporary space for the weekend until SF team approves

A Nintendo NES emulator in Java.

BlackSMS is a project to build a very accurate Sega Master System's emulation core without depending on any specific plataform. This is achieved by spliting the plataform-dependable code from the core and providing it as a separated interface.

Managed C# Spectrum Emulator

CabFE is a multi-emulator frontend for MAME, Daphne and other arcade games designed specifically for arcade cabinets using minimal set of controls (typically only a joystick and a few buttons) that are common on cabinets.

The Cell framework is a scalable server framework written in C#. It's original purpose is for MMOG emulation but can be easily adapted to other areas. The project includes a proof of concept rewrite of the DAoC emulator DOL.