Top 15 MESS Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

MESS emulates portable and console gaming systems, computer platforms and calculators. The project strives for accuracy and portability and therefore is not always the fastest emulator for any one particular system.
MESS supports 231 unique systems with 738 total system variations and is constantly growing.

The license would be open source if it wasn't for the "no commercial use" clause.

1. Gelide

Gelide Gelide is a configurable frontend which let you manage any kind of emulated system (PC, console, arcade, etc) letting you to catalog and launch any game from any existing emulator under GNU/Linux.With Gelide,you can configure any emulator with command line parameters support, without the need of remember them every now......

2. Mame

Mame MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from......

3. RomStation

RomStation Simple and all in one emulation with RomStation! Features* All in oneGB, GBC, GBA, NDS, NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii, Game Gear, Master System, MegaDrive, 32X, Mega-CD, Dreamcast, Neo-Geo, PS1, PS2 and Arcade together in one program.* Fast access to gamesThe entire RomStation game library is at your disposal, as......

4. EmuCon

EmuCon EmuCon Playground EX is frontend for console emulators (videogames and handhelds). It is compatible with all versions of Windows (Windows XP up to Windows 7. Similar to Emu Loader, this project started as a hobby and a way for me to play console games with my computer, thru emulators.......

5. FB Alpha

FB Alpha FB Alpha or FBA as it is commonly known is an emulator of arcade games, that is, it takes the program code, graphics data, etc., from an original arcade game and emulates the hardware to make the game run in it's original form. As far as the game is concerned......

6. Mednafen

Mednafen Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system emulator with many advanced features. The Atari Lynx, GameBoy (Color), GameBoy Advance, NES, PC Engine (TurboGrafx 16), SuperGrafx, Neo Geo Pocket (Color), PC-FX, and WonderSwan (Color) are emulated. Mednafen has the ability to remap hotkey functions and virtual system inputs......

7. DroidEmu

DroidEmu DroidEmu is a game system to play SNES, NES, GameBoy Advanced, GameBoy/Color, SEGA GameGear, SEGA Genesis games on your Android phone. It runs thousands of games at full speed. 1.Multi emulator for android - Play SNES, NES, GBA, GBC, GameGear, Genesis games on Android phone.2.Run thousands of games at full......

8. GameBoid

GameBoid Gameboid, also known as GBAoid, is one of the best Gameboy Advance emulators you can find for Android operating systems.The project is based on sources published by original GameBoid developer, who in turn used code of gpSP2X, based on gpSP.The project is abandoned in favor of RetroArch .......

9. NESBox

NESBox Nesbox Emulator is a multiplatform emulator of video consoles. You can play your favorite NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and GameBoy Color/Advanced games on any computer working under Windows 8.1/RT/Phone or directly in the browser.It is also available as a JavaScript based version and a Adobe Flash based version.......

10. Kega Fusion

Kega Fusion Kega Fusion is an emulator for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive, Master System, Game Gear, 32x, SegaCD/MegaCD, SVP, Pico, SG-1000, SC-3000, and SF-7000 emulator for Win9x/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Win7, Mac OSX (Intel), and Linux.......

11. BGB

BGB BGB is a GameBoy emulator/debugger which runs on Windows and Wine.BGB is a Gameboy emulator, a program that lets you play Gameboy and Gameboy Color games on a pc. It does this with many features that give a good gameplay experience, such as gamepad support, high quality sound and graphics,......

12. My Boy!

My Boy! My Boy! is an emulator to run GameBoy Advance games on the broadest range of Android devices, from very low-end phones to modern tablets. It emulates nearly all aspects of the real hardware correctly.Highlights:- Fastest emulation, therefore saves your battery to the MAX.- Very high game compatibility. Run nearly all......

13. OpenEmu

OpenEmu Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating. Open Emu is based on a modular architecture, allowing for game-engine......

14. BlastEm

BlastEm BlastEm is a Sega Gensis / MD / Master System emulator for desktop platforms.FEATURES savestates integrated debugger GDB remote debugging joystick/gamepad support Mega/Sega Mouse emulation XBAND and Saturn keyboard emulation support for homebrew using the SSF2 mapper with Mega Everdrive compatible heuristics save RAM and EEPROM support Cartridge lock-on for......

15. Apollo

Apollo Apollo is a N64 emulator for Windows by Azimer. Also has a version of the HLE Audio plugin but no progress has been published in several years. In this year of idle activity in the N64 scene Azimer promises soon "something out the door".......