RetroArch is the Swiss Army knife of emulators. More specifically, it is a frontend for several emulators and even ports of video games.
It began as SSNES, a frontend for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator bsnes created by the late Near. As it grew, it gained more cores for other systems and was renamed to RetroArch in 2012.
One of the features of the frontend is shaders, allowing players to customise the look of their experience from scanlines to even CRT simulation.
In 2016, it became one of the first ever platforms to support the Vulkan API, doing so on the launch day of the API.
As well as supporting many emulators, it runs on many systems and operating systems too, from the Xbox Series X|S to even Windows 95.
List of emulated systems:
- 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
- Amstrad CPC
- Arcade Game (via MAME and FinalBurn Neo)
- Atari 2600
- Atari 5200
- Atari 7800
- Atari Falcon
- Atari Jaguar
- Atari Lynx
- Bandai WonderSwan
- ColecoVision
- Commodore 64 and 128
- Commodore Amiga
- DOS
- NEC PC-8000 series
- NEC PC-98
- NEC PCFX
- NEC TurboGrafx-16 and CD
- Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo 64
- Nintendo DS
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Game Boy and Game Boy Color
- Game Boy Advance
- GameCube
- Pokémon mini
- Virtual Boy
- Wii
- Odyssey²
- Intellivision
- MSX
- Palm OS
- Dreamcast
- Game Gear
- Sega Master System
- Sega Genesis and its addons, the Sega CD and Sega 32X
- Sega Saturn
- ZX81
- ZX Spectrum
- PlayStation
- PlayStation 2
- PlayStation Portable
- Neo Geo Pocket
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- Thomson Computers
- Vectrex
Miscellanious (ports, libraries, etc.)
- 2048
- Bomberman
- Cave Story
- CHIP-8
- Doom
- Doom³
- FFmpeg
- Flashback
- The Powder Toy
- Quake
- Tomb Raider I
