Multi-system emulators

Multi-system emulators focus on emulating many different systems under one program. They can be focused on a single company's systems because of the similarity of the systems or may have systems from many different companies.

To be defined as "multi-system" an emulator has to emulate two or more distinct systems. Although, for simplicity reasons in this wiki (not just this page), the term, "multi-platform", in the OS column fields can come to mean three or more covered platforms. For the purpose of this list, Add-ons (eg. Sega CD, 32X) are not counted as a separate system.

The term 'multi-system emulator' can sometimes be confused with frontend applications. placeholder text

Emulators[edit]

Name	Latest version	Retro Achievements	Libretro Core	# of Emulated systems	License	Active	Recommended
Multi-company
MAME	git artifacts^{[N 1]} 0.271 libretro core^{[N 2]} 0.271 (akatana and ddpsdoj unlocked)^{[N 3]}	✗	✓	Thousands of electronics^[1]	GPLv2 BSD-3-Clause	✓	✓
Mednafen	1.32.1 Wii PS3 GCW Zero	✗	✓	15	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✓	✓
OpenEmu	2.4.1	✗	✗	35	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✓	✓
BizHawk	Dev builds 2.10-rc1	✓	✗	30 (excluding the libretro cores)	MIT GPL)	✓	✓
ares	git Artifacts v141	✗	✗	20	ISC (Permissive)	✓	✓
Delta	AppStore	✗	✗	6	AGPLv3 (Copyleft)	✓	~
Folium	App Store ($) 1.1.4	✗	✗	3	GPLv3 (Copyleft)	✓	~
ZEsarUX	11.0	✗	✗	22	GPLv3 (Copyleft)	✓	~
Pantheon	14.360	✗	✗	21	Proprietary	✓	~
CLK	2024-10-19	✗	✗	14	MIT (Permissive)	✓	~
WinArcadia	30.7	✓	✗	21	?	✓	~
Xpeccy	0.6.20241015	✗	✗	14	MIT (Permissive)	✓	✗
Z64K	2.0.0	✗	✗	5	Proprietary	✓	✗
DSP	0.23Final	✗	✗	More than 10	Non-commercial	✓	?
Phoenix	2.8.JAG	✗	✗	5	Proprietary	✗	✗
higan (火眼)	v110	✗	~	14	GPLv3 (Copyleft)	✗	✗^{[N 4]}
WAVE Multi-Emulator	V0.9.6	✗	✗	8 (But you can import ROMs)	CC BY-SA 2.0	✓	✗
EMU (Russian)	1.01	✗	✗	More than 50	?	✓	?
kindred	1.12 Preview Build 3	✗	✗	7	Proprietary	✓	?
Xe	2.16.2	✗	✗	18	Proprietary	✗	✗
DarcNES	9b0401/9b0313	✗	✗	8	Proprietary	✗	✗
rew.	rew12stx	✗	?	3	?	✗	?
Nintendo
Dolphin	2409 libretro core	✗^{[N 5]}	✓	3	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✓	✓
mGBA	Dev builds libretro core 0.10.2	~	✓	2	MPL 2.0 (Copyleft)	✓	✓
GBE+	1.8	✗	✗	4	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✓	~
No$GBA	3.05	✗	✗	3^{[N 6]}	Proprietary	✓	✗
Sega
Kega Fusion	3.64	✗	✗	10	Proprietary	✗	~
PicoDrive	1.93 libretro core	✗	✓	6	MAME license (Non-commercial)	✗	~
Sinclair
EightyOne (81)	1.40	✗	✓	12	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✓	✓
Retro Virtual Machine	2.1.17	✗	✗	2	Proprietary	✓	~
Commodore
VICE	3.8	✗	✓	6	GPLv2 (Copyleft)	✓	✓