MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus.

Cemu is the first eighth generation console emulator in the world, specifically the Nintendo Wii U. The requirements are big - at least efficient Core i5 and 6 GB RAM, Nvidia graphics card or AMD with support for OpenGL 4.0 (and if possible, OpenGL 4.5), 64- Windows bit (7, 8.1 or 10). In return, we get the ability to run games smoothly even in 4K resolution (although it is better to have 1080 Ti). Also DRC (GamePad), Pro Controller and Classic Controller controllers are emulated, the keyboard and USB controllers are partially supported.

Pantheon emulates the Acorn Atom, Acorn BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 800/XE, Atari Lynx, ColecoVision, Magnavox Odyssey 2, MSX computers, and Sega Master System. The emulator will download games from various sources online.

Altirra is an 8-bit Atari emulator, thanks to which, on a computer with the Windows operating system, we will launch classic games available exclusively on Atari. The emulator has an internal core, allowing you to run selected games or programs without the need to install ROMs, the manufacturer does not recommend using this solution. He explains that the internal kernel implemented here has been written from scratch, so compatibility issues may occur. The emulator supports disk images saved in the following formats: ATR, DCM, ATX and PRO. You can also make use of Atari (.obx/.xex) executable files.

Dr.Hell updated the tandem code of one of the best SONY PLAYSTATION - XEBRA / ARBEX emulators. One of the most faithful psx1 emulators (no unnecessary spammers).

melonDS is a new emulator project. My goals for it are to do things right and fast.

Emulator Amstrad CPC that is created by Frederic Coste which is in beta phase and from which a pre-release has been launched so that people can start to test their functionalities. The basic and most interesting functions that this emulator allows are the emulation of several Amstrad models (464,664 and 6128) with the QWERTY (English) and AZERTY (French) keyboards, the possibility of using 64kb of expanded memory in the 464 and 664, Use of OpenGL and emulation of the original discs thanks to the built-in FDC.

PPSSPP can run your PSP games on your PC in full HD resolution, and play them on Android too. It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the small screen of the original PSP.

SpeedVicio released another test version of the overlay MedGUI - a very convenient interface for multiemulator Mednafen , which in itself is not very friendly to setup. Reborn version of the application is completely modified compared to the normal MedGUI.

A simple but very useful frontend for the latest version Mednafen. The latest ones because it was written with only the Sega Saturn emulation.

WinUAE is a 32-, 64-bit Windows version (XP/Vista/7/8/10) of the UAE Amiga Emulator. UAE is the collaborative effort of a number of Amiga enthusiasts to create a portable Amiga emulator under the GNU Public License.

Xpeccy is a Linux emulator for machines compatible with ZX Spectrum (primarily Russian clones) and several versions of the machine MSX1, Nintendo GameBoy / GameBoy Color and NINTENDO 8 and its Russian counterpart Dendy. Emulator requires QT library, if we want to run it under Windows, and in return the program offers a few curiosities, for which it is worth to look at it.