OpenEmu 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 lacking in some emulators frontends, such as real-time rewinding and game-aware shading.

Features:

• Controller support
• Multi System Emulator
• Multiplatform
• Night mode/Dark Theme
• Gameboy emulation
• Gaming
• Modular System

VisualBoyAdvance

VisualBoyAdvance (VBA) is a free software (GNU GPL) emulator targeted for the Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo.

Lutris

Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux. It allows you to gather and manage (install, configure and launch) all your games acquired from any source, in a single interface.

Features:

• Custom Scripts
• Game launcher
• Gaming
• Multi System Emulator

Dolphin Emulator

Dolphin is a Gamecube and Wii emulator. Most games run perfectly or with minor bugs. Games are playable at HD quality. This is a remarkable feature the actual Gamecube and Wii consoles are not capable of. As an open source project everyone can commit improvements. The code is hosted on GitHub. Dolphin is actively developed and almost every day new features are added and bugs fixed as well.

Features:

• Wii Emulation
• Gamecube
• Wii Emulation

Mame

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era.

Features:

• Arcade
• Integrated Android Emulator
• Portable

Kega Fusion

Kega Fusion is an emulator for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive, Master System, Game Gear, 32x, SegaCD/MegaCD, SVP, Pico, SG-1000, SC-3000, and SF-7000 emulator for Win9x/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Win7, Mac OSX (Intel), and Linux.

higan

higan was formerly known as bsnes. The project was renamed after becoming a multi-system emulator. higan is a Nintendo multi-system emulator that began development on 2004-10-14. It currently supports the following systems: Famicom Super Famicom Game Boy Game Boy Color Game Boy Advance Nintendo DS higan also supports the following subsystems: Super Game Boy BS-X Satellaview Sufami Turbo

Features:

• Multi System Emulator
• Portable

CoolROM

CoolROM is a database and download site for emulators and ROMs of classic videogame systems such as Nintendo 64, SNES, Game Boy and more. Have you ever wanted to play old videogames on your computer? Emulators allow you to run software and games made for another system and to play games for those systems, you use ROMs. CoolROM provides more information about this gaming phenomenon as well as downloads for various emulators and ROMs.

Features:

• MariaDB
• Roms

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.

Features:

• Multi System Emulator
• Portable

GameHub

Unified library for all your games. Features GameHub allows to view, download, install, run and uninstall games from supported sources. Games GameHub supports non-native games as well as native games for Linux. It supports multiple compatibility layers for non-native games: Wine / Proton DOSBox RetroArch ScummVM It also allows to add custom emulators. GameHub supports WineWrap — a set of preconfigured wrappers for supported games.

Features:

• Import from GoG
• Import from Steam
• Multi System Emulator
• Flatpak
• Gameboy emulation
• Compatibility layers
• DOS emulation
• Full controller support
• Night mode/Dark Theme
• Proton support for linux