RetroArch

Name: RetroArch
Rating: 4.3 (1805 reviews)
Author: Libretro

By: Libretro Game

A frontend for emulators

Overview

Version:

1.22.2

Last updated: 2025-11-18

Ranking

#46,530 ▼ 1,070

Overall

Features & Capabilities

RetroArch is a free, ad-free, open source, and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators, game engines, video games, media players, and other applications. Supported systems come in the form of libretro cores. The following systems are supported through various cores:

2048
Acorn - BBC Micro
Amstrad - CPC/GX4000
Anarch
Arcade
Arduboy
Atari - 2600
Atari - 5200
Atari - 7800
Atari - Jaguar
Atari - Lynx
Bandai - WonderSwan/Color
Cave Story
Coleco - ColecoVision
Commodore - Amiga
Commodore - C128
Commodore - C64
Commodore - C64 SuperCPU
Commodore - CBM-II 5x0
Commodore - CBM-II 6x0/7x0
Commodore - PET
Commodore - PLUS/4
Commodore - VIC-20
Dinothawr
Doom
DOS
Fairchild ChannelF
Flashback
GCE - Vectrex
Game Music Emu
Handheld Electronic
MSX/SVI/ColecoVision/SG-1000
Mattel - Intellivision
Mega Duck / Cougar Boy
Mr.Boom
NEC - PC Engine / SuperGrafx / CD
NEC - PC-FX
NEC - PC-98
Nintendo - DS
Nintendo - Game Boy / Color
Nintendo - Game Boy Advance
Nintendo - NES / Famicom
Nintendo - Nintendo 64
Nintendo - Pokemon Mini
Nintendo - SNES / SFC
Nintendo - Virtual Boy
Palm OS
PocketCDG
Quake
Quake II
Rick Dangerous
SNK - Neo Geo AES/MVS
SNK - Neo Geo CD
SNK - Neo Geo Pocket / Color
ScummVM
Sega - MS/GG/MD/CD/32X
Sega - MS/GG/SG-1000
Sega - Saturn
Sharp - X68000
Sinclair - ZX Spectrum
Sony - PlayStation
Sony - PlayStation Portable
Texas Instruments TI-83
The 3DO Company - 3DO
Thomson - MO/TO
Vircon32
VirtualXT
WASM-4
Watara - Supervision

RetroArch supports a broad range of features, including:

Netplay
Soft patching
RetroAchievements
Save states
MFi controller support
Key remapping per core or per game
Gyro
Cheats
Custom overlays
Shaders
Fast forward and rewind
Game artwork
AI translations
Advanced latency management

RetroArch and Libretro are in no way affiliated with Nintendo. The name "Nintendo" and all associated game console names are registered trademarks of Nintendo Co., Ltd.