Emulation

GameStone's Emulator Recommendations

All Emulator links listed in this section are Microsoft Windows based emulators and have been tested with Windows 10 64bit, if you have an older or newer OS they may or may not work, some have 32bit and 64bit versions so make sure you download the correct version for your operating system, while 32bit works fine on a 64bit system, 64bit programs don't work on 32bit systems.

Some of the emulator links also contain other OS releases, ie.. Apple Mac, BeOS, Linux, Wii etc... I've not tested any of these as I don't have access to any of these systems.

There are many other emulators available for the various systems but these are the only ones I've tested and the Gradius related games play fine on these.

If more than one emulator is listed for each system then the top listed one is the one to test first.

Arcade - アーケード （ＡＣ）

https://www.mamedev.org/ - MAME 0.244 - 25/05/2022 - Windows Console Version Tested.

https://www.advancemame.it/ - - AdvanceMAME v3.9 - 08/09/2018 - Graphical front end for MAME.

Local Hosting - Sparcade v2.33b - 22/12/1999 - DOS Only Emulator by Dave Spicer - Will only run in DOS and maybe DOSBOX

https://raine.1emulation.com/ - Raine 0.93.5a - 24/06/2022 - MAME alternative

Nintendo PlayChoice 10 - プレイチョス１０ （Ｐ１０） ニンテンドー

https://mamedev.org/ - MAME 0.244 - 25/05/2022 - Windows Console Version Tested.

Sega Saturn - サターン （ＳＳ） セガ

https://yabause.org/ - Yabause 0.9.15 - 24/08/2016 - 32bit or 64bit.

Sony PlayStation - プレイステーション （ＰＳ） ソニー

No Link - pSX emulator v1.13 - Simple and best PlayStation emulator - 27/08/2007

https://www.epsxe.com/ - ePSXe 2.0.5 - 24/06/2016

Sony PlayStation 2 - プレイステーション２ （ＰＳ２） ソニー

https://www.pcsx2.net/ - PCSX2 1.6.0 - 07/05/2020

Nintendo Famicom - フアミコン （ＦＣ） ニンテンドー

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

Nintendo Super Famicom - スーパーフアミコン （ＳＦＣ） ニンテンドー

http://www.snes9x.com - Snes9x-1.53-win32 - 25/04/2011

Nintendo Wii - （ＷＩＩ） ニンテンドー

http://www.dolphin-emulator.com - Dolphin 4.0 - 2013 - (Updated often).

NEC PC Engine - ＰＣエンジン （ＰＣＥ） ＮＥＣ

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

Sharp X68000 - Ｘ６８０００ーＸ６８０３０ （Ｘ６８０００） Ｓｈａｒｐ

https://mijet.eludevisibility.org/XM6%20Pro-68k/XM6%20Pro-68k.html - XM6 - Best X68000 Emulator - 30/05/2022

https://web.archive.org/web/20041028050133/http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Sunnyvale/1779/ - WinX68kHighSpeed v0.95 (English Version) - 06/03/2004

WinX68k Boot Roms

Windows PC - ＷＩＮ （ＷＩＮ） マイクロソフト

Try it on your Windows PC first, if not try DOSBox

https://www.dosbox.com/ - Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 - v 0.74-3DOSBox

Nintendo Game Boy - ガームボーイ （ＧＢ） ニンテンドー

https://mgba.io/ - mGBA - v0.10.1 - 10/01/2023

Nintendo Game Boy Advance - ガームボーイ　アドバンス （ＧＢＡ） ニンテンドー

https://mgba.io/ - mGBA - v0.10.1 - 10/01/2023

i-mode - ｉモード （ＩＭＯ） ＮＴＴドコモ

NO LINK - KEmulator Lite Version Ver 0.9.8 - 05/12/2008 - No longer available on the main site.

MSX - ＭＳＸ （ＭＳＸ） マイクロソフト

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

Commodore CBM 64 - ＣＢＭ　Ｃ６４ （Ｃ６４） Ｃｏｍｍｏｄｏｒｅ

https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/ - VICE 3.6.1 - 24/01/2022

Amstrad CPC 464/6128 - Ａｍｓｔｒａｄ　（ＣＰＣ）

http://www.winape.net/ - WinAPE32 2.0 Beta 2 - 06/01/2016

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - ＺＸＳｐｅｃｔｒｕｍ （ＺＸＳ） Ｓｉｎｃｌａｉｒ

Local Hosting - zx32 version 2.00.04.04 (beta) - 04/04/2000 (hosted here as the original site no longer exists).

Sharp X-1 - Ｘ１ （Ｘ１） Ｓｈａｒｐ

http://www.retropc.net/yui/xmil.html - X Millennium Ver 0.26d (Japanese) - 14/11/2000

NEC PC8801 - ＰＣ８８ー５ＩＮＣＨ （ＰＣ８８-５ＩＮＣＨ） ＮＥＣ

http://retropc.net/pi/ - XM8 1.70 (Japanese) - 23/01/2018 - eXellent Multi-platform emulator type 8 - 'XM8' based on ePC-8801MA

NEC PC9801 - ＰＣ９８ー５ＩＮＣＨ （ＰＣ９８-５ＩＮＣＨ） ＮＥＣ

https://www.yui.ne.jp/np2/ - Neko Project II Ver 0.86 (Japanese) - 06/03/2016