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GNU/Linux Emulators

• BasiliskII - 68xxx-based Macintosh emulator
• B-EM - BBC Microcomputer emulator
• Brandy - BBC BASIC V+ interpreter
• Citra - Nintendo 3DS emulator
• ColEm - portable ColecoVision and Coleco Adam emulator
• DeSmuME - Nintendo DS emulator
• Dolphin Emulator - Wii/GameCube emulator
• DOSBox - Run old DOS applications
• DOSBox-X - it's like DOSBox but with a menu at the top and other extra stuff; you can use it to install W98.
• DuckStation - a 64-bit PS1/PSX emulator with amazing graphics enhancement capabilities; however, BIOS is required; use PCSXR for 32-bit systems
• 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.
• FBZX - ZX Spectrum emulator
• Fceux - Nintendo Entertainment System emulator
• fMSX - An MSX, MSX 2, and MSX 2+ 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
• 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
• 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
• Mupen64Plus - Nintendo 64 emulator
• Nestopia - Nintendo Entertainment System emulator
• PCem - IBM PC emulator for older systems (8088 to Super Socket 7); click here for GLaBIOS
• PCSXR - Sony PlayStation 1 emulator
• PS1 bios files - Download and use at own risk
• PCSX2 - PlayStation 2 emulator | Click here for the older 1.4 version.
• PS2 bios files - Download and use at own risk
• 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
• Redream - SEGA Dreamcast emulator
• Dreamcast 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
• SheepShaver - PowerPC Apple Macintosh (7.5.2 through 9.0.4) emulator
• SDLTRS - a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator
• Snes9x - Super Nintendo emulator
• Stella - Atari 2600 emulator
• ti99sim - a TI-99/4a emulator
• Xemu - an emulator for the original Xbox based on QEMU; some extra files will be needed; archive.org is your friend

• Commodore

  • VICE - Commodore emulation
  • ROMs: Download and use at own risk
  • 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

  • Extra stuff

  • LUnix Next Generation (LNG) - an operating system for the C64 and C128
  • Huge C64-related magazine archive
  • Games from ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games/
  • Games from ftp://utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/c64/Scene/
  • Software from ftp://ftp.zimmers.net/pub/cbm/c64/
  • Software from ftp://utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/c64/Tools/
• VisualBoy Advance - M - Game Boy Advance emulator
• ZSNES - Super Nintendo emulator

ROMs and bios files - Use at own risk

Game Engines, Modding, and Interpretors

• Armory - an open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration
• Blender Game Engine - Blender 2.79b and older includes the BGE
• 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
• EDuke32 (src) - Duke Nukem 3D engine and editor; requires original files such as "DUKE3D.GRP"
• Compiling from source instructions
• Fairlight - C64 tools for UNIX based systems
• Enigma+LateralGM - Easily create games with a Game Maker-like user interface and the Enigma Development Environment and export to various other systems
• Enigma-dev.org Game Examples - having trouble understanding LateralGM or the Game Maker Language (GML)? Grab some examples.
• Step by Step - 3D Tutorials - a tutorial pack of over 60 tutorials including PDF documentation explaining 3D concepts, originally from the GMC; about %60 worked directly out of the box, and the rest are working with a few slight changes.
• Game Editor - 2D game creation software
• GemRB - engine to play Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment if you have the game data
• GB Studio - easily create Game Boy or Game Boy Color games, depending on version chosen
• Godot - free and open-source game creation software
• GZDoom - a family of enhanced ports of the Doom engine for running on modern operating systems
• MegaZeux - a simple game creation system (GCS)
• OHRRPGCE - Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine
• OpenMW - an open-source open-world RPG game engine that supports playing Morrowind
• Open RPG Maker - a free and open source 2D RPG creation utility, similar to the popular RPG Maker series
• Platinum Arts Sandbox - an open source easy to use standalone 3D Game Maker and 3D Game Design program currently based on the Cube 2 engine
• Pygame - a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games
• QuakeSpasm - engine to play the first Quake and its mission packs
• Ren'Py - a visual novel engine
• Slade - it's a Doom editor
• The WADster's Guide on the World Wide Web - Unofficial DOOM specs
• DOOM Sounds Index - A list to help you figure out what sound item plays what when modding
• SMB Foundry - level editor for Super Mario Bros. 3
• Tesseract - a first-person shooter game focused on instagib deathmatch and capture-the-flag gameplay as well as cooperative in-game map editing
• Urho3D - a free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine greatly inspired by OGRE and Horde3D
• zzt++ - a game creation system, inspired by Tim Sweeney's 1991 shareware hit ZZT

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