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Emulators, Source Ports, Engines, and Console Tools

GNU/Linux

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System requirements are not specified due to the free and open-source nature of most GNU/Linux software.

All-in-Ones and Front-ends
Title	Description
ares	Emulates several older cartridge-based game consoles and PC Engine CD, Sega/MegaCD, and PlayStation
EmulationStation Desktop Edition AppImage (but heavily edited)	An x86_64 AppImage of EmulationStation Desktop Edition v1.2.6 but edited by yours truly (TheOuterLinux) to include emulators and some game engines. The LookHere.zip contains important information and includes some extra things you may need. I mainly made this just for myself, but someone out there may also find it useful. But be warned, I have zero intention of actively maintaining this.
Mednaffe	A graphical front-end to Mednafen; use this to emulator SEGA Saturn instead of Yabause; try to install with apt; Saturn bios files - Download and use at own risk
RetroArch	A frontend for emulators, game engines and media players; you can manually grab thumbnails for playlisted games here
Rosalie's Mupen GUI	An easy-to-use graphical frontend for Mupen64Plus; the closest alternatives would either be 'mupen64plus-qt' or M64Py

3DO
Title	Description
Phoenix	3DO emulator; it is in Russian, but you can replace the translation XML file with this one for English; 3DO ROM files - Download and use at own risk

Acorn and BBC Micro
Title	Description
B-EM	BBC Microcomputer emulator
Brandy	BBC BASIC V+ interpreter

Apple
Title	Description
BasiliskII	68xxx-based Macintosh emulator
SheepShaver	PowerPC Apple Macintosh (7.5.2 through 9.0.4) emulator

Arcade
Title	Description
MAME	An arcade emulator; a multi-purpose emulation framework
Supermodel	Sega Model 3 emulator

Atari
Title	Description
BigPEmu	Atari Jaguar and Jaguar CD emulator
Hatari	Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator; click here for EmuTOS, a TOS compatible operating system licensed under the GLP v2; Grab a TOS img at own risk
Stella	Atari 2600 emulator

Coleco
Title	Description
ColEm	Portable ColecoVision and Coleco Adam emulator

Commodore
Title	Description
VICE	Various Commodore machine emulation
ROMs	Vic 20 ROM Vic 64s ROM C16 ROM C64 Kernel ROM C64 Character ROM C64 Basic ROM C64 1541 ROM PET ROM CBM 4064 ROM CBM 710 ROM

DOS/PC
Title	Description
DOSBox	An x86/DOS emulator with sound/graphics
DOSBox-X	It's like DOSBox but with a menu at the top and other extra stuff; you can use it to install W98
PCem	IBM PC emulator for older systems (8088 to Super Socket 7); click here for GLaBIOS

Microsoft
Title	Description
fMSX	An MSX, MSX 2, and MSX 2+ emulator
Xemu	An emulator for the original Xbox based on QEMU; some extra files will be needed; archive.org is your friend
Xenia Canary	An Xbox 360 emulator

Nintendo
Title	Description
Azahar	Nintendo 3DS emulator
Cemu	Nintendo Wii U emulator
Citra	Nintendo 3DS emulator
Citron Neo	Nintendo Switch emulator; A stripped-down "reincarnation" of Yuzu; choose the "nopgo" AppImage if you have a computer older than ~2013
DeSmuME	Nintendo DS emulator
Dolphin Emulator	Nintendo GameCube and Wii emulator; alt AppImage link
Eden	Nintendo Switch emulator
Fceux	Nintendo Entertainment System emulator
mGBA	Game Boy Advance emulator
melonDS	Nintendo DS emulator
Mupen64Plus	Nintendo 64 emulator; I recommend grabbing "Mupen64Plus-Qt" as a GUI front-end
Nestopia	Nintendo Entertainment System emulator
PrimeHack	A fork of the Dolphin Emulator (GameCube and Wii/U) but gives the Metroid Prime Trilogy mouse and keyboard support
Ryujinx	A Nintendo Switch emulator
SNES9x	Super Nintendo emulator
ZSNES	Super Nintendo emulator; SDL-based user interface
VisualBoy Advance - M	Game Boy Advance emulator; also known as "VBAM"
Yuzu	A Nintendo Switch emulator; listed for historic reasons

Radio Shack
Title	Description
SDLTRS	A Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator

PlayStation
Title	Description
DuckStation	A 64-bit PS1/PSX emulator with amazing graphics enhancement capabilities; however, BIOS is required; use PCSXR for 32-bit systems
PCSX2	PlayStation 2 emulator; click here for the older 1.4 version; PS2 bios files - Download and use at own risk
PCSXR	Sony PlayStation 1 emulator; PS1 bios files - Download and use at own risk; though, PCSXR may not need them for most games
PPSSPP	PlayStation Portable (PSP) emulator
RPCS3	PlayStation 3 emulator
ShadPS4	PlayStation 4 emulator
Vita3K	PlayStation Vita emulator

Sega
Title	Description
Flycast	A free and open-source Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, and Atomiswave emulator
Kega Fusion	A closed-source, but free, SEGA SG1000, SC3000, SF7000, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis/Megadrive, SVP, Pico, SegaCD/MegaCD and 32X emulator; try this link if the other fails; best use is for Sega CD and Sega 32x
Redream	SEGA Dreamcast emulator; Dreamcast bios files - Download and use at own risk; however, if using Redream, you probably wont need them

Sinclair
Title	Description
FBZX	ZX Spectrum emulator

Texas Instruments
Title	Description
ti99sim	A TI-99/4a emulator

Z-Machine
Title	Description
frotz	Frotz is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games

Source-Ports
Title	Description
EDuke32	Duke Nukem 3D engine and editor; requires original files such as "DUKE3D.GRP"
GemRB	Engine to play Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment if you have the game data
GZDoom	A family of enhanced ports of the Doom engine for running on modern operating systems
OpenMW	An open-source, open-world RPG game engine that supports playing Morrowind
QuakeSpasm	Engine to play the first Quake and its mission packs; try LibreQuake if developing; it is similar to the Freedoom project but for Quake
ScummVM	A program which allows you to run certain classic graphical adventure and role-playing games, provided you already have their data files

Game Engines
Title	Description
Cube	A landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine
Cube 2: Sauerbraten	A free multiplayer & singleplayer first person shooter, the successor of the Cube FPS
OpenBOR	A royalty free, sprite-based, side-scrolling gaming engine
Ren'Py	Games lists: https://games.renpy.org/ and https://itch.io/games/tag-renpy

Game Console Tools
PlayStation Note: You will need a soft-modded PS2 for the following to work... ELF files listed in this section are for running on a PlayStation-related system binmerge - use this tool to create a single BIN and CUE file before using the cue2pops tool for PS1 games cue2pops - convert PS1 bin/cue files to a POPStarter-firendly (.vcd) format for soft-modded PS2 consoles esrtool - patches ISO backups of PS2 games to behave like a video DVD so that burned DVD discs will run iso2usbld - breaks-up PS2 ISO's larger than the 4GB file-size limit for FAT32-formatted hard drives OrbitPS2-Manager - mount your PS2 hard drive and manage games; cross-platform; uses Electron psx2vcd - convert bin/cue PS1 files to VCD; see script comments for requirements

Game Console Tools

PlayStation

Note: You will need a soft-modded PS2 for the following to work...

ELF files listed in this section are for running on a PlayStation-related system

binmerge - use this tool to create a single BIN and CUE file before using the cue2pops tool for PS1 games
cue2pops - convert PS1 bin/cue files to a POPStarter-firendly (.vcd) format for soft-modded PS2 consoles
esrtool - patches ISO backups of PS2 games to behave like a video DVD so that burned DVD discs will run
iso2usbld - breaks-up PS2 ISO's larger than the 4GB file-size limit for FAT32-formatted hard drives
OrbitPS2-Manager - mount your PS2 hard drive and manage games; cross-platform; uses Electron
psx2vcd - convert bin/cue PS1 files to VCD; see script comments for requirements

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Emulators, Source Ports, Engines, and Console Tools

All-in-Ones and Front-ends

3DO

Acorn and BBC Micro

Apple

Arcade

Atari

Coleco

Commodore

DOS/PC

Microsoft

Nintendo

Radio Shack

PlayStation

Sega

Sinclair

Texas Instruments

Z-Machine

Source-Ports

Game Engines

Game Console Tools

PlayStation

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