


Mesen - Multi-system emulator (NES, SNES, Game Boy and PC Engine).GearBoy - GameBoy and GameBoy Color emulator.GBE+ - DMG/GBC/GBA emulator and experimental NDS emulator.GBCC - A Game Boy Color emulator written in C.It is accurate, compatible and actively maintained. FCEUX - NTSC and PAL 8 bit Nintendo/Famicom emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator.Dolphin - Very capable GameCube and Wii emulator.bsnes - Super Nintendo emulator focusing on performance, features, and ease of use.RetroArch - Frontend to libretro (emulation library, using modified versions of existing emulators as plugins).|| mednafen, graphical front-end mednaffe AUR. mednafen - Command-line driven multisystem emulator.MAME - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.GNOME Games - GNOME application to browse your local video games library and to easily pick and play a game from it.FinalBurn Neo - Emulator for Arcade Games & Select Consoles.Fightcade - The best way to play your favorite retro games with or against any other player in the world.higan - Multisystem emulator focusing on accuracy, supporting SNES, NES, GB, GBC, GBA.Features rerecording and tools for TASing. ares - Multi-system emulator by Near with experimental Nintendo 64 and PlayStation support.Arch Linux bears no responsibility at all. You are fully responsible for whatever usage of the emulators obtained from the official repositories or the Arch User Repository you make, as well as any legal repercussion that result. Consequently, Arch Linux does not distribute this copyrighted content, including game ROMs and ripped console BIOSs. We spoke to a legal expert from the University of Arizona for their take on the legalities or dumping, downloading, and sharing ROMs.Warning: Owning a high-level emulator is legal, but distribution of any type of copyrighted ROMs is illegal. However, since this makes it easy to share games, firmware, and other necessary files on the internet, the practice is often mired in controversy.ĭownloading ROMs for games that you do not own from the internet is piracy, as is downloading someone else's firmware or system keys dump. It's technically legal to dump files from your own console, download an emulator, and play games. But the practice of running games on non-original hardware has long been a legal grey area. A few months later a second emulator, Ryujinx, appeared.Įmulation is generally regarded as legal since no copyrighted materials are used in the creation of the software. The first Switch emulator, Yuzu, appeared in 2018, less than a year after the console's release in 2017.


Most game consoles eventually receive emulators but the Switch received its first emulators relatively early in its lifecycle.
