1.rommapp / romm
A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted ROM manager and player.
+5,568 stars
from 8,627 · score 8.62
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2.shadps4-emu / shadPS4
PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD written in C++
+3,412 stars
from 30,601 · score 8.14
3.utmapp / UTM
Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
+2,981 stars
from 33,658 · score 8.00
4.RPCS3 / rpcs3
PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger
+1,762 stars
from 18,536 · score 7.47
5.PCSX2 / pcsx2
PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator
+1,345 stars
from 14,622 · score 7.20
6.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.
+956 stars
from 13,015 · score 6.86
7.dolphin-emu / dolphin
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
+880 stars
from 14,871 · score 6.78
8.cemu-project / Cemu
Cemu - Wii U emulator
+852 stars
from 9,222 · score 6.75
9.Vita3K / Vita3K
Experimental PlayStation Vita emulator
+770 stars
from 5,159 · score 6.65
10.kholia / OSX-KVM
Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Monterey + Ventura + Sonoma support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid spammy issues. No Mac system is required.
+695 stars
from 23,090 · score 6.55
11.OpenEmu / OpenEmu
🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
+427 stars
from 17,434 · score 6.06
12.xemu-project / xemu
Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
+421 stars
from 3,809 · score 6.05
13.flyinghead / flycast
Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2 and Atomiswave emulator
+386 stars
from 2,249 · score 5.96
14.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.
+194 stars
from 2,619 · score 5.27
15.TASEmulators / desmume
DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator
+166 stars
from 3,513 · score 5.12
16.RetroDECK / RetroDECK
RetroDECK is a powerful all-in-one retro gaming platform designed for handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck, full Linux desktops, Linux HTPC setups, and Linux-based PC consoles such as the Steam Machine.
+133 stars
from 1,173 · score 4.90
17.RetroPie / RetroPie-Setup
Shell script to set up a Raspberry Pi/Odroid/PC with RetroArch emulator and various cores
+120 stars
from 10,329 · score 4.80
18.bsnes-emu / bsnes
bsnes is a Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator focused on performance, features, and ease of use.
+99 stars
from 1,913 · score 4.61
19.gaseous-project / gaseous-server
A game ROM manager, with a built in web based emulator using multiple sources to identify and provide metadata
+81 stars
from 872 · score 4.41
20.indigo-dc / udocker
A basic user tool to execute simple docker containers in batch or interactive systems without root privileges.
+78 stars
from 1,724 · score 4.37
21.retro-esp32 / RetroESP32
Retro ESP32 is a turbo charged Odroid Go Launcher, Emulator and ROM Manager
+38 stars
from 705 · score 3.66
22.Baron-von-Riedesel / VSBHDA
Sound Blaster emulation for DOS
+38 stars
from 136 · score 3.66
23.unipacker / unipacker
Automatic and platform-independent unpacker for Windows binaries based on emulation
+35 stars
from 749 · score 3.58
24.vivisect / vivisect
No description provided by the repository host.
+13 stars
from 990 · score 2.64
25.containernet / containernet
Mininet fork adding support for container-based (e.g. Docker) emulated hosts.
+11 stars
from 457 · score 2.48
26.EmberEmu / Hexi
Header-only, lightweight C++ library for binary streaming & serialization. Network data handling made easy peasy!
+5 stars
from 284 · score 1.79
27.nmilcoff / BreachDetector
Detect root, emulation, debug mode and other security concerns in your Xamarin apps
+1 stars
from 88 · score 0.69