1.seedds / nxnative
Switch games running natively on iPhone, iPad and Mac: an NSP folder becomes an unsigned IPA (NSO rewriter, Horizon HLE host, NVN→Metal)
+4,093 stars
from 7,782 · score 8.32
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56 repositories by Attention Score · Oct 28, 2026 – Nov 3, 2026 (UTC)
+3,210 stars
from 0 · score 8.07
3.mamesj / pokemon-fulldex
Pokémon Fulldex: the DS games (Black 2, White 2, Black, White, SoulSilver, HeartGold, Platinum) and GBA games (Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen, Ultra Violet) in widescreen at 60 fps on PC, Mac, Steam Deck, Android, iPhone and Nintendo Switch. One game list, RetroAchievements. Bring your own ROMs.
- homebrew
- nds
- nintendo-switch
- pokemon
- widescreen
- linux
- +13 more
+742 stars
from 18 · score 6.61
4.shirai91 / nx2android
A compatibility layer for porting Switch games to Android, one game at a time
+669 stars
from 62 · score 6.51
5.mikroverk / esp32sim
Open-source ESP32 emulator. Run real firmware locally or in your browser — no hardware, no cloud, no subscription.
+336 stars
from 696 · score 5.82
6.Villagers654 / Venture
A Meta Quest emulator for PC VR. Play the Quest games you own on Windows and Linux.
+273 stars
from 0 · score 5.61
7.Leviidev / Husk
Run Android on iOS. Natively or Emulated.
+242 stars
from 2,774 · score 5.49
8.TabStationToo / TabStationToo
TabStationToo - PS2 emulation in the browser: PCSX2 compiled to WebAssembly.
- browser
- emscripten
- emulator
- pcsx2
- ps2-emulator
- webassembly
+149 stars
from 2 · score 5.01
9.utmapp / UTM
Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
+107 stars
from 36,569 · score 4.68
10.ShadyHero / Eden-NS2Archived
please refer to https://github.com/0x2593/Eden-NS2 for updates and detailed instructions
+105 stars
from 0 · score 4.66
11.shadps4-emu / shadPS4
PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD written in C++
+104 stars
from 33,941 · score 4.65
12.RPCS3 / rpcs3
PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger
+98 stars
from 20,223 · score 4.60
13.playportdev / playport
Playport runs Windows games, 64-bit and now 32-bit, on a stock, non-jailbroken iPhone. Install a game from your library onto the phone, pick up a controller and press Play. The game runs on the phone's own CPU and GPU: no PC, no cloud, no stream.
+97 stars
from 653 · score 4.58
14.JulioCacko / The-Order-1886_pc
Native PC compatibility project for The Order: 1886 (PS4, CUSA00076). Windows launcher, Vulkan graphics. In development: 3D cinematics observed; gameplay validation ongoing. Uses your own dump; no game files included. | Projeto para PC em desenvolvimento; usa seu próprio dump.
- cpp
- emulation
- game-compatibility
- ps4
- python
- shadps4
- +3 more
+86 stars
from 108 · score 4.47
15.uxazu / AEmulator
Android emulator that emulates older Android firmware versions.
+83 stars
from 477 · score 4.43
16.Jetsku / KytyPS5
Experimental KytyPS5 U59 with merged shader and renderer fixes; complete sanitized main history and Windows releases.
+77 stars
from 490 · score 4.36
17.Brandon04Gonzalez / p5r-android
Persona 5 Royal for Android: a native port that runs your own dump (the APK holds no game code or data)
+72 stars
from 69 · score 4.29
18.lidor30 / pokedaisy
A Game Boy, Game Boy Color and GBA player for Android handhelds with two screens or one, with a live companion for Pokémon games and ROM hacks.
+68 stars
from 412 · score 4.23
19.chenxiao07 / KytyPS5
PlayStation 5 emulator for Windows, Linux and MacOS
+65 stars
from 314 · score 4.19
20.snuri00 / ps2-web-recomp
PS2 games in the browser: static recompilation to WebAssembly with a native runtime
+63 stars
from 1,321 · score 4.16
21.linuxkid473 / maclator
Run arm64 macOS apps on Intel Macs: a reverse-Rosetta emulator (interpreter + x86-64 JIT + AOT cache) with a Metal bridge to the host GPU
+57 stars
from 354 · score 4.06
22.YahiaAngelo / vphone-linux
Run vphone-cli's virtual iPhone (iOS on Apple's vresearch101 platform) on Linux with QEMU, reims-vgpu and metal2vulkan
+56 stars
from 104 · score 4.04
23.hrydgard / ppsspp
A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS, written in C++. Want to contribute? Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/5NJB6dD or just send pull requests / issues.
- ppsspp
- emulators
- psp
+52 stars
from 14,767 · score 3.97
24.PCSX2 / pcsx2
PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator
+51 stars
from 15,933 · score 3.95
+50 stars
from 1,576 · score 3.93
26.ruffle-rs / ruffle
A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
- swf
- flash
- rust
- emulator
- reimplementation
- hacktoberfest
+42 stars
from 18,760 · score 3.76
27.qemu / qemu
Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are disabled. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
+41 stars
from 13,941 · score 3.74
28.cemu-project / Cemu
Cemu - Wii U emulator
+41 stars
from 10,043 · score 3.74
29.Vita3K / Vita3K
Experimental PlayStation Vita emulator
+41 stars
from 5,895 · score 3.74
30.dolphin-emu / dolphin
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
+35 stars
from 15,727 · score 3.58
31.stenzek / duckstation
Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64/RV64
+34 stars
from 10,903 · score 3.56
+33 stars
from 13,657 · score 3.53
33.ovsky / compound
Open source emulator for the Nintedo Switch 1 and 2. Highly work in progress
+31 stars
from 79 · score 3.47
34.copy / v86
x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser
+26 stars
from 23,634 · score 3.30
+26 stars
from 20,636 · score 3.30
36.fspecii / LinPad
LinPad — Linux for iPad. A real Linux desktop on the iPad: native windowed desktop with tiling and workspaces, real Linux apps (Firefox, VS Code, Thunar, VLC) as native windows, ARM64 JIT, GPU via Venus/Metal, keyboard + trackpad + touch.
+24 stars
from 269 · score 3.22
37.mgba-emu / mgba
mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator
- mgba
- gameboy-emulator
- gameboy-advance-emulator
- gba
- gameboy-advance
- gameboy-color-emulator
- +6 more
+23 stars
from 7,533 · score 3.18
38.microlift / rosemary
Compatibility layer and high level emulator hybrid for running macOS applications across operating systems and architectures
- compatibility-layer
- macos
- macos-compatibility
- high-level-emulation
- rust-emulator
- rosetta
- +1 more
+23 stars
from 313 · score 3.18
39.axylpup / shadPS4
inFAMOUS Second Son on PC: a shadPS4 build tuned for one game - high FPS, DLSS, mouse aiming. Bring your own game.
- dlss
- emulator
- infamous
- infamous-second-son
- ps4-emulator
- shadps4
- +2 more
+19 stars
from 238 · score 3.00
+18 stars
from 5,162 · score 2.94
+17 stars
from 10,677 · score 2.89
42.nikita36078 / J2ME-Loader
A J2ME emulator for Android.
+16 stars
from 2,719 · score 2.83
43.hffgzktbcc-blip / ounce-core
Rust runtime for open-source Switch homebrew on macOS Apple Silicon, Linux and Windows. Every claim is backed by a real program's frame.
+14 stars
from 197 · score 2.71
44.xemu-project / xemu
Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
+12 stars
from 4,218 · score 2.56
45.felixrieseberg / windows95
Windows 95 in an app. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
+11 stars
from 24,280 · score 2.48
46.flyinghead / flycast
Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2 and Atomiswave emulator
+8 stars
from 2,628 · score 2.20
47.OpenEmu / OpenEmu
🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
- openemu
- objective-c
- macos
- emulation
- emulator
- retrogaming
+7 stars
from 17,855 · score 2.08
48.Baekalfen / PyBoy
Game Boy emulator written in Python
+6 stars
from 5,231 · score 1.95
+5 stars
from 423 · score 1.79
50.TASEmulators / BizHawk
BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.
+4 stars
from 2,808 · score 1.61
51.TarbleFR / RewindBox
RewindBox 0.0.10 — independent iPhone/iPad emulation frontend forked from NeoStation, with embedded Libretro, MeloNX (Switch), Dolphin, ARMSX2 and RPCS3, HD textures, cheats and customizable controls.
+4 stars
from 212 · score 1.61
52.TASEmulators / desmume
DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator
+3 stars
from 3,674 · score 1.39
53.LIJI32 / SameBoy
Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in C
+2 stars
from 2,234 · score 1.10
+1 stars
from 5,662 · score 0.69
55.Humpheh / goboy
Multi-platform Nintendo Game Boy Color emulator written in Go
+1 stars
from 2,637 · score 0.69
56.bsnes-emu / bsnes
bsnes is a Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator focused on performance, features, and ease of use.
+1 stars
from 2,009 · score 0.69