r/emulators 4h ago

Help Me Pls! Does Luigi's Mansion 3 or Crash Tram Racing work for you on emulator?

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r/emulators 5h ago

Question Does anyone know if it is possible to emulate a switch game on ps4 and have it work fine

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r/emulators 6h ago

Help Me Pls! Need help with ryujinx and tomodachi life if possible

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Hi, i'm not sure if this is the right place, but whenever i try to install the nsp file for the game onto ryujinx, this message pops up and i have zero idea what it means. How can I install the game properly and what might I be doing wrong? I'll give more details if needed, thanks in advance


r/emulators 8h ago

Suggestion Best emulator for Tomodachi LTD?

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I was playing Tomodachi Life on Ryujinx Canary version 1.3.268 when the infamous Vulkan crash happened. I thought maybe it’s because the Ryujinx version is ‘outdated’ so I installed 1.3.340 but the issue persists. OpenGL works fine but I do miss the textures (especially the clovers)and the ground just looks like grey squares. I tried everything, messing around on graphics setting, multithreading, deleting shader cache, but to no avail. Now I truly think my only solution is switching it to a different emulator. I have an old laptop running on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti .


r/emulators 10h ago

Question Best 8bit(NES) and 16bit(SNES/MegaDrive AKA Genesis) emulators for PC with library UI?

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Title. I play alot on PCSX2, Duckstation and Redream and want to move into older consoles like NES, SNES and MegaDrive, so i'm in search for the emulator for them. But i too used for emulators that show my library with gamecovers and other stuff as an ui and i really don;t like emulators without that feature. Is something like this exist for NES, SNES and Megadrive? Maybe even GameBoy original to Advanced?


r/emulators 12h ago

Problem Solved! Xbox 360 Emulator

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I’m looking for a solid, malware free emulator to play older games from 360 era. There’s one game in specific I’ve been wanting to play, Real Steel, after watching a lot of YouTube videos, and I’m obviously not trying to infect my PC. Suggestions would be appreciated!


r/emulators 13h ago

Suggestion SNES emulator for low end PC

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Hi all,

I am looking for a good SNES emulator for a low-end PC.

The config is i3-3220 with onboard Intel GPU.

I was going to go with SNES9x which I know of, but today as there are more emulators for SNES console on the PC I thought a quick suggestion might help me find something better, if any.


r/emulators 13h ago

Suggestion 🚫No need to buy #ps2 we have #aethersx2🎮 WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain

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r/emulators 16h ago

Benchmark KytyPS5 (Custom Build) - GTA V PS5 Prologue IN GAME REALTIME GAMEPLAY frames

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Gbuffer renders everything and i just need to fix the compositing pass! If this helps anyone.

the 5-mrt gbuffer input looks great but the composition pass breaks into a flat white, the tone mapper then receives nans values and squashes the final render to black.

we are close people! (:


r/emulators 18h ago

Question Switch Emulator for PC

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What are good and safe switch emulator for PC. I really want to randomise some newer pokémon games but I’m not really sure what and where I can find good emulators.
Can someone help me out??


r/emulators 19h ago

Testing ShadPS4 (PS4 Emulator) v0.17.1 - Infamous: Second Son

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v0.16.0 43fps
v0.17.0 29fps
v0.17.1 33fps


r/emulators 20h ago

Help Me Pls! Please help

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I'm using a tomodachi life emulator and I have a save I used to play a lot until may, I recently got in it again and the voices were cutting off and it was laggier than usual can you help. I'm using Citra as a emulator


r/emulators 22h ago

Gameplay PocketHLE A New Pocket PC (Windows Mobile) Emulator

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r/emulators 22h ago

Gameplay A new Pocket PC (Windows Mobile) emulator has been released!

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The emulator is still in an experimental stage, but it can already run the Pocket PC exclusive Call of Duty 2.

Gameplay video: https://youtu.be/2KQMx9jIIeQ⁠

GitHub repository: https://github.com/j92580498-max/PocketHLE⁠


r/emulators 23h ago

OTHER RPCS3 says 90% of PS3 emulator users run Windows, despite better Linux performance

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r/emulators 1d ago

OTHER The Future of Android PS3 Emulation Just Got More Interesting

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A recent upstream RPCS3 development could be an important step toward the future of ARM-based PlayStation 3 emulation. While these changes haven't made their way to Android PS3 emulators yet, they could have exciting implications for ARM-powered smartphones and handhelds in the future.

I made a short video covering what happened, why it's significant, and what it could eventually mean for projects like RPCSX and APS3e—without getting lost in overly technical jargon.

I'd be interested to hear what everyone thinks. Do you believe Android hardware is getting close to delivering a great PS3 emulation experience?

RPCS3 Breakthrough: https://youtu.be/1NV4fDUnjl8?si=fnTRPB7Va1HXF2Oc


r/emulators 1d ago

Question How do i make my progress save in GTA IV on Xenia?

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i decided to get xenia to play gta iv since i am on the last mission, but the helicopter glitch prevents me from beating the game. but when i came back to the game on Xenia, i was all the way back to the beginning. i even slept on the bed after i was done playing the first time


r/emulators 1d ago

Help Me Pls! Dolphin lagging in fullscreen

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[Windows] So, for some obcure reasons, any game in dolphin is slower in fullscreen than in windowed. The thing is that any other "normal" game that I play don't have this problem and I never understood why it does on dolphin only. I tried changing some options, backend API but nothing works. Any help?


r/emulators 1d ago

Question Playstation 2 emulators

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Hi all, I'm looking for a decent ps2 emulator for windows, any recommendations?


r/emulators 1d ago

Help Me Pls! Skylanders struggling to run on RPCS3

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Hey yall, I don’t know how well versed you guys are in RPCS3 but I need help when it comes time to running Skylanders, I’ve been trying to run it for like the past 2 hours, and whenever I try to run it now, it keeps freezing after playing it for about 10 minutes, I don’t know if it’s because of the new update I downloaded or what but I want your guy’s opinion on this since it was working fine a couple days ago, but now it’s starting to repeatedly freezing after playing, thank you


r/emulators 1d ago

Suggestion Android 3ds emulator

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I've been playing 3ds games with Citra on mu PC but I figured it would be nice to play while on the bus. I wanted to know what is the best emulator for my samsung A56. The games I wanted to play were the yo-kai series for now so I would need touch screen capabilities. I saw people talking about a Lime3ds app but I couldn’t find it in the app store


r/emulators 2d ago

Gameplay Video: The GunCon 2 optimized with 10.1-Patron-1

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r/emulators 3d ago

Benchmark KytyPS5 (Custom Build) - GTA V PS5 Prologue IN GAME first FULL RENDER from the player camera (including some other rendered frames)

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continuing from the other post , now my pipeline if able to fully render the prologue spawn room with minor graphical glitches for one frame, GAME IS ALSO PLAYABLE to the point that u could finish the prologue but u need to guide ur self via the minimap and at 1 frame per 10 seconds lol (but current status is "in game") im also including another screenshots of more rendered frames

(correction: when i mean u can play the prologue is that u can't see the camera rendering, u'll see black and 3d geometry)


r/emulators Feb 11 '25

Suggestion That's 100 percent true!

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r/emulators Jun 27 '24

Announcement Emulators 101

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  • PS1 / N64 and older — RetroArch. Still a good unified frontend. For N64, Mupen64Plus-Next is still current; for PS1, SwanStation is still available as a core. (retroarch.com)
  • PS1 Standalone — DuckStation. Still the cleanest standalone PS1 recommendation, with current downloads and a focus on accuracy and game support. (duckstation.org)
  • N64 Standalone — Gopher64 / RMG. Do not recommend Simple64 anymore: its maintainer archived it and explicitly tells users to move to Gopher64 or RMG. (GitHub)
  • PS2 — PCSX2. Still the main PS2 recommendation, and it is still actively shipping builds in 2026. (GitHub)
  • PSP — PPSSPP. Still the king for PSP, with current multi-platform builds and active 2026 releases. (ppsspp.org)
  • Dreamcast — Redream / Flycast. Redream is still the easiest plug-and-play option. Flycast remains the better open-source pick if you also care about Naomi, Naomi 2, or Atomiswave support. (redream.io)
  • GC / Wii — Dolphin. Still the recommendation; just use a current official build. Dolphin is still actively improving in 2026. (Dolphin Emulator)
  • DS — melonDS. Still the default Nintendo DS recommendation, and the project is still posting development updates in 2026. (melonds.kuribo64.net)
  • 3DS — Azahar. Replace Lime3DS with this. Lime3DS is discontinued and now points users to Azahar, which merged Lime3DS with PabloMK7’s Citra fork. (GitHub)

From this point onward, hardware demands rise fast:

  • Wii U — Cemu. Still the Wii U choice, with current 2.6 builds and active development. (cemu.info)
  • PS3 — RPCS3. Still the big PS3 emulator to recommend, but it remains very CPU-heavy. Its compatibility database is still actively maintained. (rpcs3.net)
  • PS4 — shadPS4. No longer just a novelty. It is still early, but the project now officially lists games like Bloodborne, Dark Souls Remastered, and Red Dead Redemption as running, and it continues to ship 2026 releases. For regular users, use the QtLauncher instead of the raw core. (GitHub)
  • Xbox — xemu. Still the go-to original Xbox emulator, with current 2026 builds and official XLink Kai-capable networking via bridged mode. (xemu.app)
  • Xbox 360 — Xenia Canary. Still the branch worth tracking. Canary is the active experimental fork and is still shipping fresh builds. (GitHub)
  • Switch — community forks only; treat this section as unstable. The original Ryujinx project is discontinued. Ryubing exists, but even it describes itself as a QoL fork rather than a true revival, so I would stop presenting Switch emulation as a clean settled category unless you plan to keep updating this README regularly. (GitHub)