Emulation

GameStone's Emulator Recommendations

All Emulator links listed in this section are Microsoft Windows based emulators and have been tested with Windows XP, if you have an older or newer OS they may or may not work. Some of the emulator links also contain other OS releases, ie.. Apple Mac, BeOS, Linux, Wii etc... I have not tested any of these as I don't use these systems. There are other emulators available for the various systems but these are the only ones I have tested and the games work fine.

If more than one emulator is listed the the top one is the best.

Arcade Arcade

http://mamedev.org/ - MAME 0.136 - Windows Console Version Tested, all roms below are merged sets

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/ - AdvanceMENU v2.5.0 - Graphical front end for MAME (Now works with Windows Vista)

http://www.sparcade.freeserve.co.uk/ - Sparcade v2.33b - DOS Emulator by Dave Spicer

http://rainemu.swishparty.co.uk/ - Raine 0.51.8 - Plays Salamander 2 and other games

Nintendo PlayChoice 10 Nintendo PlayChoice 10

http://mamedev.org/ - Mame 0.136 - Windows Console Version

Sega Saturn Sega Saturn

http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~phantasy/ssf/index.html - Ver 0.10 Beta R1 - (Japanese) - 29/08/2009 - Runs most Gradius Games play

http://satourne.consollection.com/ - Satourne 2.0 Beta 3 - (French) - 30/08/2006 - No longer updated

Sony PlayStation Sony PlayStation

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/ - pSX emulator v1.13 - Simple and best PlayStation emulator - 27/08/2007

http://www.epsxe.com/ - ePSXe 1.7.0 - 24/05/2008

http://www.pbernert.com/ - Pete's Homepage (graphics and sound plugins for ePSXe)

Sony PlayStation2 Sony PlayStation2

http://www.pcsx2.net/ - PCSX2 0.9.6 - 01/03/2009 - PCSX2 Beta 1888 - 20/09/2009 - Gradius III, IV & V are all playable

http://www.pbernert.com/ - Pete's Homepage (sound plugins for PCSX2)

Nintendo Famicom Nintendo Famicom

http://virtuanes.s1.xrea.com:8080/ - VirtuaNES 0.97 (Japanese) - 14/10/2007

Nintendo Super Famicom Nintendo Super Famicom

http://www.snes9x.com - Snes9x-1.51-win32 - 01/05/2007

Nintendo Super Famicom Nintendo Wii

http://www.dolphin-emu.com/ - Dolphin SVN Build 4460 - 24/10/2009 - Updated often

NEC PC Engine NEC PC Engine

http://www.magicengine.com - Magic Engine 1.1.3 - 26/05/2008

Sharp X68000 Sharp X68000

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Sunnyvale/1779/ - WinX68kHighSpeedv0.95 (English Version) - 06/03/2004

WinX68k Boot Roms

Windows 9x Windows PC

Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7

Nintendo Game Boy Nintendo Game Boy

http://vba.ngemu.com/ - VisualBoy Advance 1.7.2 (1.8.0 beta 3 is also available)

Nintendo Game Boy Advance Nintendo Game Boy Advance

http://vba.ngemu.com/ - VisualBoy Advance 1.7.2 (1.8.0 beta 3 is also available)

i-mode - iモード (IMO) NTTドコモ i-mode - iモード (IMO) NTTドコモ

http://lyo.blogsome.com/ - KEmulator Lite Version Ver 0.9.8 - 05/12/2008 - No longer availible on the main site but can be downloaded from this site - http://www.ipmart-forum.com/showthread.php?t=323948

MSX MSX

http://nlmsx.generation-msx.nl/ - NLMSX 0.48 - 12/06/2003 - Old but runs fast with no problems

http://www.bluemsx.com/ - blueMSX 2.8.2 - 14/08/2009

Commodore 64 Commodore 64

http://www.viceteam.org/ - winVICE 2.1 - 19/12/2008

Sinclair ZX Spectrum Sinclair ZX Spectrum

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9932/ - zx32 version 2.00.04.04 (beta) - 04/04/2000

Amstrad CPC Amstrad CPC 464/6128

http://winape.emuunlim.com/ - WinAPE32 2.0 Alpha 17 - 09/09/2008

Sharp X-1 Sharp X-1

http://www.turboz.to/ - X Millennium Ver 0.26d (Japanese) - 14/11/2000 - PC Version no longer listed on their site

NEC PC8801 NEC PC8801

http://retropc.net/cisc/m88/ - M88 Ver 2.21a (Japanese) - 11/11/2003

NEC PC8801 NEC PC9801

http://www.yui.ne.jp/np2/ - Neko Project II Ver 0.83 (Japanese) - 01/01/2008