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Emulators, Source Ports, Engines, and Console Tools for GNU/Linux

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I am not listing Steam games. Long live SDL!

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Title

Description

Interface Type

BasiliskII
68xxx-based Macintosh emulator
Emulator
B-EM
BBC Microcomputer emulator
Emulator
Brandy
BBC BASIC V+ interpreter
Emulator/Interpreter
Citra
Nintendo 3DS emulator
Emulator
ColEm
Portable ColecoVision and Coleco Adam emulator
Emulator
Cube
A landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine
GUI Game and Engine
Cube 2: Sauerbraten
A free multiplayer & singleplayer first person shooter, the successor of the Cube FPS
GUI Game and Engine
DeSmuME
Nintendo DS emulator
Emulator
Dolphin Emulator
Nintendo GameCube and Wii emulator
Emulator
DOSBox
An x86/DOS emulator with sound/graphics
Emulator
DOSBox-X
It's like DOSBox but with a menu at the top and other extra stuff; you can use it to install W98
Emulator
DuckStation
A 64-bit PS1/PSX emulator with amazing graphics enhancement capabilities; however, BIOS is required; use PCSXR for 32-bit systems
Emulator
EDuke32
Duke Nukem 3D engine and editor; requires original files such as "DUKE3D.GRP"
Source Port
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.
Emulator front-end/games manager
FBZX
ZX Spectrum emulator
Emulator
Fceux
Nintendo Entertainment System emulator
Emulator
fMSX
An MSX, MSX 2, and MSX 2+ emulator
Emulator
frotz
Frotz is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games
Emulator; Command-line
GemRB
Engine to play Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment if you have the game data
Source Port
GZDoom
A family of enhanced ports of the Doom engine for running on modern operating systems
Source Port
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
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
Emulator
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
Emulator front-end
Mupen64Plus
Nintendo 64 emulator; I recommend grabbing "Mupen64Plus-Qt" as a GUI front-end
Emulator; Command-line
Nestopia
Nintendo Entertainment System emulator
Emulator
OpenMW
An open-source, open-world RPG game engine that supports playing Morrowind
Engine
PCem
IBM PC emulator for older systems (8088 to Super Socket 7); click here for GLaBIOS
Emulator
PCSX2
PlayStation 2 emulator; click here for the older 1.4 version; PS2 bios files - Download and use at own risk
Emulator
PCSXR
Sony PlayStation 1 emulator; PS1 bios files - Download and use at own risk; though, PCSXR may not need them for most games
Emulator
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
Emulator
QuakeSpasm
Engine to play the first Quake and its mission packs
Source Port
Redream
SEGA Dreamcast emulator; Dreamcast bios files - Download and use at own risk; however, if using Redream, you probably wont need them
Emulator with games management
Ren'Py
Games lists: https://games.renpy.org/ and https://itch.io/games/tag-renpy
Engine
RetroArch
A frontend for emulators, game engines and media players; you can manually grab thumbnails for playlisted games here
Emulator front-end/games manager
SDLTRS
A Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator
Emulator
SheepShaver
PowerPC Apple Macintosh (7.5.2 through 9.0.4) emulator
Emulator
SNES9x
Super Nintendo emulator
Emulator
Stella
Atari 2600 emulator
Emulator
ti99sim
A TI-99/4a emulator
Emulator
VICE
Commodore emulation
Emulator
VisualBoy Advance - M
Game Boy Advance emulator; also known as "VBAM"
Emulator
Xemu
An emulator for the original Xbox based on QEMU; some extra files will be needed; archive.org is your friend
Emulator
ZSNES
Super Nintendo emulator
Emulator

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

  • BeebEm - BBC Micro Model B emulator for the PS2
  • Big-LuaPlayer - Lua scripting engine for Playstation Portable
  • binmerge - use this tool to create a single BIN and CUE file before using the cue2pops tool for PS1 games
  • BlackRhino Linux - A GNU/Linux distribution for the PS2
  • Bochs - PS2 version of Bochs, a program that runs x86 operating systems like QEMU or VirtualBox but much lighter
  • cue2pops - convert PS1 bin/cue files to a POPStarter-firendly (.vcd) format for soft-modded PS2 consoles
  • Dr. Mario - PS2 version of Dr. Mario made with Lua; may be useful for creating your own games
  • Enceladus - create Lua games for PS2
  • 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
  • LuaPlayerPS3 v5.3.2 - player Lua scripted games on the PS3; click here for a "Doki Doki Literature Club" game example
  • myPS2 - a nice-looking file-manager, image-viewer, and music player for the PS2 with an easy-to-edit skin
  • OpenPS2Loader - use this to update the OPL program on your Free McBoot memory card
  • PS2 Intro Loader - have your own custom load screen when booting the PS2, including an AVI video
  • PS2Linux - "An easy way to install Linux OS in PlayStation 2"; grab it for the Linux 2.6.35.4 mipsel PS2 modules
  • PS2MaMe - MaMe (play arcade games) for the PS2
  • psx2vcd - convert bin/cue PS1 files to VCD; see script comments for requirements
  • RetroArch - RetroArch is available for various game consoles, including PlayStation variants
  • SuperTux - a PlayStation 2 port of SuperTux
  • uLaunchELF 4.43a - a PS2 program you can use to format hard drives up to 2TB in size if Winhiip is not an option or if only "28-bit" is showing for formatting

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