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Play is an emulator of PlayStation 2 and Namco System 2X6 (as well as the System 147/148 variants) for Windows/MacOS/iOS/Android. It is currently written in C/C plus and uses a cache/instruction recompilation system to achieve better performance while emulating the CPU.

The emulator can operate a set of games. The author's goal is to achieve a level of quality that will allow anyone to play their favorite PlayStation 2 game on their PC.



Compatibility index on 2560 test games:

Nothing: 0.12%
Loadable: 3.09%
Intro: 12.77%
Ingame: 42.77%
Playable: 41.25%

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Very powerful, PPSSPP is a free and free Sony PSP emulator (for Windows, Android and others via SDL) written in C++ by Henrik Rydgard (very well known under the pseudonym of Ector, already author of the PSP emulator Potemkin and best known for Dolphin, having also worked on a number of Dreamcast emulators).



The changes are as follows:

CHD support

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CHD was originally a format for compressing hard drives from arcade games in MAME, but has become since the most popular format for storing ISOs for CD- and DVD-based video game consoles. PSP already has a different format, CSO, which can be used toilize loss-lessly compress ISOs, and as a bonus, unlike CHD, these actually work on the real hardware.

So you might ask, why support CHD? It does provide a slightly better compression ratio, but the main reason is that it’s simply asked a lot. Many people seem to familiarize with a set of tools, and since CHD works to...

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* Raine 0.96.7 [Arcade] - https://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

* BML3MK5 1.9.5 [Hitachi BML3] - http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bml3mk5/download.htm

* XRoar 1.5 [Dragon / Tandy CoCo] - http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/

* Pyboy 1.6.13 [Gameboy] - https://github.com/Baekalfen/PyBoy/releases

* DCMOTO (2024-01-24) [Thomson TO7, MO5, etc] - http://dcmoto.free.fr/

It's an easy-to-use user interface for mupen64plus (which it integrates), free and open source, it's written in C++.

– Fix updater for portable installs on windows failing to extract the zip file
– Fix Load State and View Log having the same default shortcut
– Fix not being GPL compliant by disabling the building of angrylion-rdp-plus by default (thank you @orbea and @carmiker)
– Fix installation not respecting CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR
– Fix third party projects not respecting CMAKE_C_FLAGS and CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS
– Fix not all third party projects respecting the RelWithDebInfo configuration properly
– Fix GLideN64 not installing correctly with the RelWithDebInfo configuration
– Fix mupen64plus callbacks during initialization not showing up in the log window
– Add a few GUI logging messages
– Improve view log dialog behavior with clearing the log
– Update copyright year in the about dialog (thank you @JakobDev) ...

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Created by Near (ex byuu) and continued by Luke Usher ( PolyBlast / CxBx-Reloaded ) and others, Ares is a multi-system emulator whose development began on October 14, 2004. He is a descendant of Higan and BSNES. It focuses on precision and preservation.



Ares emulates the following 33 machines:

– Atari 2600
– Famicom and Famicom Disk System
Ares emulates the following 33 machines:
– Nintendo 64/64 DD
– Atari 2600
– Famicom + Famicom Disk System
– Super Famicom + Super Game Boy
– Nintendo 64/64DD
– Game Boy + Game Boy Color
– Game Boy Advance + Game Boy Player
– SG-1000 (+ Arcade version) + SC-3000
– Master System + Game Gear
– Mega Drive + Mega 32X + Mega CD
– Nichibutsu – My Vision
– Playstation
– PC Engine + PC Engine CD + SuperGrafx
– MSX + MSX2
– ColecoVision
– Neo Geo Pocket + Neo Geo Pocket Color here ...

Panda3DS is a Nintendo 3DS emulator about the red panda, written in C++ and using the HLE.



Changes:

– More games working
– first release including Android builds
– new desktop UI (Labeled Qt below, as opposed to the original SDL frontend which is just a window)
– and more…

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* Kegs 1.34 [Apple2gs] - https://kegs.sourceforge.net/

* GroovyMAME 0.261sr002zz - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases

* Stella 6.7.1 [Atari2600] - https://github.com/stella-emu/stella/releases

* WinArcadia 30.8 / DroidArcadia 2.44 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

* SimCoupe 1.2.13 [Sam Coupe] - https://github.com/simonowen/simcoupe/releases

It is a Game Boy emulator written in Python.





The changes are as follows:

– Fix pip install for PyPy

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Crossrunner is an Apple IIGS emulator and a cross-development environment. It offers precise cycle-based emulation and a user-friendly interface.





Changelog:

v1.02

• Fixed: Ensoniq interrupt timing (Music Construction Set)
• Fixed: Incorrect keyboard modifiers when changing windows
• Fixed: C7xx firmware making C3xx firmware fail to activate Mousetext (A2Desktop)
• Fixed: Debugging in I/O space
• Fixed: CTS/DCD state when no serial cable is plugged in (AppleLink)

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An ultra-accurate emulator of Gameboy N'B/Color for Windows and MacOs also offers a debugger.



Changelog:

Version 0.16.2

This version is backwards compatible with save states from SameBoy 0.14.3 and newer, as well as save states from any BESS compliant emulator

Accuracy Improvements/Fixes

• Improvements to the “Accurate” frame blending option; SameBoy now correctly tracks the “parity” of each frame, and uses a more realistic blending ratio
• Support for bootleg ROMs that claim to have no RAM in the MBC field, but also declare a non-zero RAM size

Bug Fixes

• Removed XAudio 2.7 support and replaced it with the redistributable version of XAudio 2.9, fixing various crashes on Windows 7
• Fixed an issue with the menu graphics being glitched in the SDL frontend if SameBoy is set to display a border
• Fixed the update dialog in the Cocoa frontend displaying the changelog in the wrong font...

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* mGBA 0.10.3 [GBA] - https://mgba.io/

* Mednafen 1.32.0-UNSTABLE [Multi-system] - https://mednafen.github.io/releases/

* RomVault 3.6.4 [Rom Manager] - https://www.romvault.com/

MedGui Reborn ia a Windows Front-End/Gui for Mednafen multi-system emulator.

• Fixed do not worked rom sorter after launched a game
• Fixed broken boxart and update download on Win XP
• Ignored ssl certificate on webclient
• Set Mute Discord by default on MedClient
• Cosmetic change on Cheat Manager
• Changed qwebirc nick default user
• Added support for ps1 bios extracted from ps3 firmware
• Added Favourites to MedClient comboconsole
• Fixed empy boxart when a download attempt fails (thx Boubikos for bug report)
• Fixed Cheat Manager for pce_fast module
• Fixed netbutton behavior on textual medgui menu when you start a netplay session by medclient
• Organized and grouped in a better way the file extension on file open window
• Added "Clean entries from list" on Advanced menu
• Always enabled "Remove from list" option on Adavnced Menu
• Added text clipboard copy when...

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Gopher2600 is an Atari 2600 emulator. Although the performance is not as efficient as some other emulators, it is still suitable for playing games on a reasonably modern computer.

Changelog:

• Paddles

• User input handled more frequently meaning finer paddle control

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• Moviecart

• Improved behaviour of video/audio when the movie is rewound to the start/end of the video
  • this reflects recent changes in the real Moviecart kernel
• Automatic setting of TV specification now works
  • Format of movie cannot be detected until after movie starts

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• Television

• Setting the TV mode also changes the underlying clock speed of the console
  • PAL and SECAM run at different speeds to NTSC machines
• Added PAM-M
  • this sets the clock of the machine to PAL-M but attached to a PAL...

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RPCS3 is a multi-platform open-source Sony PlayStation3 emulator and debugger for Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD. The purpose of the project is to completely and accurately emulate PlayStation3 with the power of open-source community and reverse engineering.



Latest changes:

• Fix sceNpBasicSetPresence when data is nullptr and size is 0;
• Fix mounting of files in cellSearch;
• Fix PPU progress dialog hint;
• Fix RSX tiling when using optimized DMA views;
• cellPad LDD fixup;
• Add more debug info in serial_breathe_and_tag();
• Simplify lv2_timer_thread management;
• Fix a corner case in lv2_timer_thread abort;
• Fix sceNpManagerGetNetworkTime called before rpcn connection;

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:: Code on Github
:: RPCS3 website
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* Rom Vault 3.6.3 [Rom Manager] - https://www.romvault.com/

* RPCS3 0.0.30 [Sony PS3] - https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/releases

* Nuance 0.6.5 [Nuon] - https://github.com/andkrau/NuanceResurrection/releases

* Emulicious (2023-12-30) [Multi-system] - http://emulicious.net/news/

* Classic99 v399.065 [T.I.99/4A] - https://harmlesslion.com/software/classic99/

* ScummVM 2.8.0 - https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

* Felix 0.6.2 [Atari Lynx] - https://github.com/laoo/Felix/releases

* Altirra 4.20 [Atari] - https://virtualdub.org/altirra.html

* SDLMAME 0.261 for Ubuntu - https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/download/

* OpenEmu 2.4.1 - https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/releases

* HBMAME 0.245.15 [Arcade] - https://hbmame.1emulation.com/

* MAMEUI 0.261.2 - https://messui.1emulation.com/

* Qemu 7.2.8 [PC] - https://download.qemu.org/

* Agatemulator 1.30.2 [Agat] - https://sourceforge.net/projects/agatemulator/files

* CDI-emu 0.5.3 beta 7 [Philips CDi (trialware)] - https://www.cdiemu.org/?body=download

* Vice 3.8 [Commodore64] - https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/

* Pyboy 1.6.11 [Gameboy] - https://github.com/Baekalfen/PyBoy/releases

* Sameboy 0.16.1 [Gameboy] - https://sameboy.github.io/downloads/

* BigPEmu 1.094 [Atari Jaguar] - https://www.richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.php?content=download

* JKCEMU 0.9.8.4 [German computers] - http://www.jens-mueller.org/jkcemu/

* WinArcadia 30.72 / DroidArcadia 2.43 [s2650-related] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

* ExtraMAME 24.0 [Front-end] - https://www.wintools.net/extramame/

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* Groovymame 0.261 sr002x - https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases

* WinUAE 5.1.0 [Amiga] - https://www.winuae.net/download/

* Kegs 1.33 [Apple2gs] - https://kegs.sourceforge.net/

* Raine 0.96.4 [Arcade] - https://raine.1emulation.com/download/latest.html

* PyBoy 1.6.10 [Gameboy] - https://github.com/Baekalfen/PyBoy/releases

* Ares v134 [Multi-system] - https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases

* Pantheon 13.430 [Multi-system] - http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/Download.htm

* WinArcadia 30.71 / DroidArcadia 2.42 [s2650-based] - https://amigan.yatho.com/

* Nintaco (2023-12-08) [NES] - https://nintaco.com/news.html

* XEMU 0.7.118 [XBOX] - https://github.com/xemu-project/xemu/releases

Rosalie's Mupen GUI is a free and open-source mupen64plus front-end written in C++.

It offers a simple-to-use user interface.

Changelog:

– Fixedissue with vulkan video plugins
– Fix some error messages not being shown when there are a lot of errors
– Fix cheat dialog not allowing empty lines
– Fix forward slashes displayed in paths on windows
– Fix some timers starting before plugins are ready
– Improve video size behaviour by ensuring the video size matches the window size
– Update mupen64plus-core, GLideN64 and SDL-GameControllerDB

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Felix (contraction of "Flis lynx") is an Atari Lynx emulator whose ambition is to become a new generation and precise Lynx emulator.

Changelog:

– Many changes and improvements with respect to debugging and stability.

Known issues:
Known issues:
– Awesome golf and Scrapyard Dog hangs,
– audio/video synchronization has a defect resulting in crackling,

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Denise is an accurate c64/Amiga emulator whose project is influenced by the higan emulator design.

Changelog:

– added D3D11 driver
– openGL has bad VSYNC/VRR behavior on Windows 11 (replace it with D3D11: Options->Video->Driver)
– ported internal and external openGL shader to D3D11
– added italian translation (thanks to Luigi)
– added an option to rotate the screen (90°/180°/270°)
– added an option to force a single instance when opening another instance from frontend loader or file explorer
– fixed Amiga basic volume (louder)
– improved 1571 emulation
– added C64 cartridges: Comal-80, Silverrock, RGCD
– added a more easy way to set stereo separation (Audio -> DSP)
– added tapes to swapper (mixed disc/tape swapper)
– added option to decide if manual warping stops automatic warping until next restart
– added more options to control the screen aspect ratio
– added button/hotkey to crop the outer frame after resizing or changing « aspect...

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