Top 15 Retropie Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

RetroPie allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi or PC into a retro-gaming machine. It builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects to enable you to play your favourite Arcade, home-console, and classic PC games with the minimum set-up. For power users it also provides a large variety of configuration tools to customise the system as you want.

RetroPie sits on top of a full OS, you can install it on an existing Raspbian, or start with the RetroPie image and add additional software later. It's up to you.

1. SSF

SSF SSF is a Sega Saturn emulator for Windows systems using DirectX 9.0c or higher. The current version claims near-complete implementation of the Saturn hardware, and can also emulate the Saturn-based Sega Titan Video arcade hardware.......

2. 1964

1964 1964 is a Nintendo 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows, written in C and released as free software. It is one of the oldest and most popular N64 emulators, supporting many commercial N64 games. With the right plugins, you can play almost any Nintendo64 game on your PC. The name consists......

3. PCSX-Reloaded

PCSX-Reloaded PCSX-Reloaded is a PlayStation Emulator based on PCSX-df 1.9, with support for Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X as well as many bugfixes and improvements.Note: This project is affiliated with neither PCSX nor PCSX-df project and should be considered as an separate derived work,......

4. pSX

pSX PSX is an emulator of the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware. It is Windows and Linux compatible. The original game CDs can be used to play the games. ISO files are also supported. Graphics quality may be dependent on the power of the hardware.......

5. Jnes

Jnes Jnes is a NES emulator for win32 platforms that uses DirectX for its hardware interface. Its emulation capabilities include graphics, sound, input devices, and emulating quite a few memory mapping boards found in most USA games and a few popular japanese ones. Jnes boasts a fairly intuitive user interface that......

6. John GBC

John GBC John GBC is GB/GBC emulator for android 2.3+.This app does not work without your own game files.Please try John GBC lite before purchasing.John GBC can take over John GBC Lite data.Features- Original GBC engine- High quality rendering- Very fast- Search game files in SDCard & Internal Storage- Virtual On-screen keypad-......

7. Emuparadise

Emuparadise Emuparadise is one of the largest retro gaming sites on the net. With over 5 million users a month, roms, isos, games, video game tv-shows/music and more!......

8. The Way

The Way The Way is a 2D puzzle platformer game inspired by classic titles like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.Game Features:Immersing sci-fi story Mind-bending puzzles Unique alien planet to explore Retro style rich with animations Inspired by Éric Chahi's masterpieces......

9. Space Shooter

Space Shooter Space Shooter is a remake of the classic space shooter using Python and Pygame .......

10. PCSX2

PCSX2 PCSX2 is a PlayStation 2 emulator for Windows, Linux & Mac, started by the same team that brought you PCSX (a Sony PlayStation 1 emulator).......

11. Mupen64Plus

Mupen64Plus Mupen64Plus is a plugin-based N64 emulator for Linux which is capable of accurately playing many games. Included are four MIPS R4300 CPU emulators, with dynamic recompilers for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit amd64 systems, and necessary plugins for audio, graphical rendering (RDP), signal co-processor (RSP), and input. There are 3 OpenGL......

12. XQEMU

XQEMU XQEMU is a open source, cross-platform emulator for the original Xbox (and Sega Chihiro). It is currently in very early stages of development. XQEMU is built on-top of QEMU.......

13. DopeROMS

DopeROMS Roms and Emulators for Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Playstation, NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, MAME, Sega......

14. BeMAME

BeMAME BeMAME is a BeOS native version of MAME which is one of the most popular emulators ever. It supports a few thousand classic arcade games, including the famous Neo Geo games! Built-in userfriendly GUI.......

15. Snes9X Direct3D

Snes9X Direct3D This is a derivative of Snes9x which switches the its display code from DirectDraw to Direct3D9.The advantages are an optional bi-linear filter and no problems with Aero on Vista. One disadvantage: the menu doesn't work in fullscreen without flickering, so it's disabled for now (ESC now exits fullscreen).......