Video game platform emulators

An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for.

Note: For possibly more up to date selection of emulators, try checking the AUR 'emulator' keyword.

Warning: Owning a high-level emulator is legal, but distribution of any type of copyrighted ROMs is illegal. Consequently, Arch Linux does not distribute this copyrighted content, including game ROMs and ripped console BIOSs. You are fully responsible for whatever usage of the emulators obtained from the official repositories or the Arch User Repository you make, as well as any legal repercussion that result. Arch Linux bears no responsibility at all.

Multi-System

ares — Multi-system emulator by Near with experimental Nintendo 64 and PlayStation support.

https://ares-emu.net/ || ares-emu^AUR

BizHawk — A multi-system emulator on .NET. Features rerecording and tools for TASing. (Mono runtime)

https://tasvideos.org/BizHawk || bizhawk-monort^AUR

higan — Multisystem emulator focusing on accuracy, supporting SNES, NES, GB, GBC, GBA.

https://higan-emu.com/ || higan

Fightcade — The best way to play your favorite retro games with or against any other player in the world.

https://www.fightcade.com/ || fightcade2^AUR

FinalBurn Neo — Emulator for Arcade Games & Select Consoles. Based on FinalBurn and MAME.

https://neo-source.com/ || fbneo-git^AUR

MAME — Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

https://www.mamedev.org/ || mame

mednafen — Command-line driven multisystem emulator.

https://mednafen.github.io/ || mednafen, graphical front-end mednaffe^AUR.

RetroArch — Frontend to libretro (emulation library, using modified versions of existing emulators as plugins).

https://www.libretro.com/ || retroarch

Nintendo

bsnes — Super Nintendo emulator focusing on performance, features, and ease of use.

https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes || bsnes^AUR HD Fork: bsnes-hd^AUR

FCEUX — NTSC and PAL 8 bit Nintendo/Famicom emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. It is accurate, compatible and actively maintained.

https://fceux.com/ || fceux

GBCC — A Game Boy Color emulator written in C

https://github.com/philj56/GBCC || gbcc-git^AUR

puNES — Qt-based Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSFe Music Player

https://github.com/punesemu/puNES || punes^AUR (Note: Fails to run on Wayland as of 0.109. Use punes-git^AUR for working version.)

SameBoy — An accuracy-focused Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulator

https://github.com/LIJI32/SameBoy || sameboy^AUR

Sony

PCSXR — PlayStation emulator; Debian fork of the abandoned original PCSX

https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=pcsxr || pcsxr^AUR

RPCS3 — Experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger.

https://rpcs3.net/ || rpcs3-git^AUR

Sega

Other Consoles

Supermodel — A Sega Model 3 Arcade Emulator

https://www.supermodel3.com/ || supermodel-git^AUR

Personal Computers

ARAnyM — Atari Running on Any Machine

https://aranym.github.io/index.html || aranym^AUR

box64 — Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist

https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64 || box64^AUR

Hatari — An Atari ST and STE emulator.

https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/ || hatari

OpenMSX — The MSX emulator that aims for perfection.

https://openmsx.org/ || openmsx^AUR

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