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1-60 of 1,045 projects
64,981 stars

alacritty/alacritty

A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

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Stars64,981
58,430 stars

rust-unofficial/awesome-rust

A curated list of Rust code and resources.

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Stars58,430
57,875 stars

termux/termux-app

Termux - a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages.

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Stars57,875
33,115 stars

yuzu-emu/yuzu

Nintendo Switch emulator

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Stars33,115
27,762 stars

wez/wezterm

A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

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Stars27,762
26,174 stars

Ryujinx/Ryujinx

Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#

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Stars26,174
23,276 stars

copy/v86

x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser

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Stars23,276
20,162 stars

ish-app/ish

Linux shell for iOS

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Stars20,162
19,211 stars

RPCS3/rpcs3

PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger

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Stars19,211
18,320 stars

ruffle-rs/ruffle

A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Stars18,320
17,838 stars

gnachman/iTerm2

iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

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Stars17,838
17,649 stars

OpenEmu/OpenEmu

🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS

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Stars17,649
15,557 stars

budtmo/docker-android

Android in docker solution with noVNC supported and video recording

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Stars15,557
15,280 stars

dolphin-emu/dolphin

Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.

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Stars15,280
15,161 stars

PCSX2/pcsx2

PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator

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Stars15,161
14,138 stars

hrydgard/ppsspp

A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS, written in C++. Want to contribute? Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/5NJB6dD or just send pull requests / issues.

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Stars14,138
10,441 stars

stenzek/duckstation

Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64/RV64

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Stars10,441
10,385 stars

RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup

Shell script to set up a Raspberry Pi/Odroid/PC with RetroArch emulator and various cores

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Stars10,385
9,908 stars

citra-emu/citra

A Nintendo 3DS Emulator

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Stars9,908
9,608 stars

felixse/FluentTerminal

A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies.

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Stars9,608
9,581 stars

cemu-project/Cemu

Cemu - Wii U emulator

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Stars9,581
9,561 stars

xenia-project/xenia

Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project

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Stars9,561
9,173 stars

unicorn-engine/unicorn

Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, TriCore, X86)

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Stars9,173
8,676 stars

amitshekhariitbhu/Android-Debug-Database

A library for debugging android databases and shared preferences - Make Debugging Great Again

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Stars8,676
8,627 stars

azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk

Complete Open Source and Modular solution for MMO

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Stars8,627
8,484 stars

felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry.

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Stars8,484
7,716 stars

FEX-Emu/FEX

A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux

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Stars7,716
7,197 stars

mgba-emu/mgba

mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

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Stars7,197
6,594 stars

altercation/vim-colors-solarized

precision colorscheme for the vim text editor

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Stars6,594
6,404 stars

bfirsh/jsnes

A JavaScript NES emulator.

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Stars6,404
6,345 stars

Provenance-Emu/Provenance

iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |

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Stars6,345
6,040 stars

rileytestut/Delta

Delta is an all-in-one classic video game emulator for non-jailbroken iOS devices.

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Stars6,040
6,022 stars

qilingframework/qiling

A True Instrumentable Binary Emulation Framework

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Stars6,022
5,838 stars

mininet/mininet

Emulator for rapid prototyping of Software Defined Networks

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Stars5,838
5,701 stars

gnunn1/tilix

A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3

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Stars5,701
5,653 stars

fogleman/nes

NES emulator written in Go.

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Stars5,653
5,521 stars

ptitSeb/box64

Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64, RV64 and LoongArch Linux devices

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Stars5,521
5,510 stars

Vita3K/Vita3K

Experimental PlayStation Vita emulator

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Stars5,510
5,173 stars

Baekalfen/PyBoy

Game Boy emulator written in Python

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Stars5,173
5,094 stars

amhndu/SimpleNES

An NES emulator in C++

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Stars5,094
5,080 stars

zhkl0228/unidbg

Allows you to emulate an Android native library, and an experimental iOS emulation

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Stars5,080
4,881 stars

HFO4/gameboy.live

🕹️ A basic gameboy emulator with terminal "Cloud Gaming" support

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Stars4,881
4,867 stars

melonDS-emu/melonDS

DS emulator, sorta

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Stars4,867
4,652 stars

CalebFenton/simplify

Android virtual machine and deobfuscator

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Stars4,652
4,448 stars

firebase/firebase-tools

The Firebase Command Line Tools

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Stars4,448
4,391 stars

86Box/86Box

Emulator of x86-based machines.

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Stars4,391
4,388 stars

fosslife/awesome-ricing

A curated list of awesome tools and technology to help you out with ricing on linux

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Stars4,388
4,238 stars

JonathanSalwan/Triton

Triton is a dynamic binary analysis library. Build your own program analysis tools, automate your reverse engineering, perform software verification or just emulate code.

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Stars4,238
4,093 stars

Swordfish90/Lemuroid

All in one emulator on Android!

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Stars4,093
4,012 stars

EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS

A web-based frontend for RetroArch

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Stars4,012
3,997 stars

joshdick/onedark.vim

A dark Vim/Neovim color scheme inspired by Atom's One Dark syntax theme.

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Stars3,997
3,977 stars

xemu-project/xemu

Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)

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Stars3,977
3,901 stars

cea-sec/miasm

Reverse engineering framework in Python

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Stars3,901
3,816 stars

p-e-w/finalterm

At last – a modern terminal emulator (NO LONGER MAINTAINED)

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Stars3,816
3,787 stars

ptitSeb/box86

Box86 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM Linux devices

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Stars3,787
3,770 stars

VsVim/VsVim

Vim Emulator Plugin for Visual Studio 2015+

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Stars3,770
3,730 stars

tildearrow/furnace

a multi-system chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules

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Stars3,730
3,593 stars

TASEmulators/desmume

DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator

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Stars3,593
3,356 stars

mortdeus/legacy-cc

The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr.

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Stars3,356
3,350 stars

otya128/winevdm

16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

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Stars3,350
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