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Emulator List

2010-10-24T16:15:58Z

Defo: /* Released emulators */ -Updated gpfce and snes9x4d4p entries

''These lists were last updated on 2010-10-21 to include the latest files from [http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewarea.pl?Emulators Pandora Apps], the [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,5 File Archive], and the community forums. For other software lists on the wiki, see [[Software projects]] and [[Games]].''

If different versions of an emulator were released, the listed "release date" is from the most recent one.

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==Released emulators==

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!Legend
|- style="background: #FF9090"
|Emulators with a '''red''' background have many issues and poor compatibility, or have been abandoned.
|- style="background: #FFFF90"
|Emulators with a '''yellow''' background may not work well enough for everyone or have compatibility issues.
|- style="background: #90FF90"
|Emulators with a '''green''' background work with little to no issues and have good compatibility.
|-
|The status of items without a coloured background are unknown.
|}

''If you have tried an emulator which has an uncoloured background (unknown status), please update the entry on this list (add the appropriate background colour based on the legend) to reflect the status of the emulator and a statement in the notes if you feel it is necessary.''

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|- style="background: #ececec"
! Emulated System
! Project Name
! Release Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
! Download
! Ported By
! C1
! Notes
|- style="background: #90FF90"
|Amiga 500
|[[UAE4ALL]]
|2010-09-10
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,74 Archive]
|Pickle, john4p
|[http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AuBR5X_s_5_idG92ZVQ5cEs4ZEhYTm5sSjFIcl83U2c&hl=en&gid=0 GD]
|Has extra options over the original uae4all.
|-
|Amiga 1200
|[[P-UAE]]
|2010-06-06
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/puae.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,86 Archive]
|Gnostic
|
|
|-
|Amstrad CPC
|[[Pandora-CAP32]]
|2010-06-27
|[http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/422-Pandora-CAP32-Amstrad-CPC-Emulator-for-Pandora-v1.1.0.html Download] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,115 Archive]
|zx-81
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54801-pandora-cap32-v1-1-0/ Discussion]
|-
|Arcade
|[[MAME]] v0.106
|2010-05-29
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/mame106.pnd.inf Apps]
|SteveM
|
|
|-
|Arcade
|[[MAME4All]] v2.5b7 ('''Beta''')
|2010-09-07
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,73,200 Archive]
|SteveM, Franxis (GP2X)
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/56188-mame4all-beta/ Discussion]
|-
|Atari 800/800XL/130XE/5200
|Pandora-Atari
|2010-08-04
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/atari-1.1.0.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,173 Archive]
|zx-81
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/55724-pandora-atari-atari-8001305200-emulator-for-pandora-v110/ Discussion]
|-
|Atari Lynx
|[[Handy]]
|2010-06-18
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/handy-0.5.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,87 Archive]
|SteveM
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54220-handy/ Discussion]
|- style="background: #90FF90"
|Atari ST
|[[Hatari]] 1.3.1
|2010-05-21
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/Hatari131d.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,61 Archive]
|Skeezix
|
|
|-
|Atari VCS 2600
|[[Stella]]
|2010-05-07
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/Stella312a.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,53 Archive]
|Skeezix
|
|
|-
|Atari VCS 2600
|Pandora-2600 ([[Stella]])
|2010-07-11
|[http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/public/pandora/2600/pandora-2600-v1.1.0-pnd.zip Download] [http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/2600-1.1.0.inf Apps]
|zx-81
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54934-pandora-2600-atari-2600-emulator-for-pandora-v110/ Discussion]
|-
|Atari VCS 2600
|[[Stella]] 3.2.2 ('''beta''')
|2010-10-14
|[http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~bbrink/tmp/stella_3.2.2_beta.tar.gz Download]
|Lomaxx
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/57039-stella/ Discussion]. Better sound, but PAL games don't run.
|-
|Atari VCS 7800
|Pandora-7800 v1.1.0
|2010-07-11
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,146 Archive]
|zx-81
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/55189-pandora-7800-atari-7800-emulator-for-pandora-v110/ Discussion]
|-
|Colecovision
|[[Colem]]
|2010-05-29
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/colem_alpha.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,70 Archive]
|Skeezix
|
|
|-
|Colecovision
|[[Pandora Colem]]
|2010-06-30
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/colem-1.1.0.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,129 Archive]
|zx-81
|
|
|-
|Commodore 64
|[[Vice]]
|2010-03-25
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/ViceX64.inf Apps]
|Pickle
|
|
|-
|Commodore CBM2/C128/PET/Plus4/VIC
|[[Vice]]
|2010-03-25
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/ViceMisc.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,47 Archive]
|Pickle
|
|
|-
|GPH GP2X/Wiz
|[[Ginge]]
|2010-08-16
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/ginge_pnd_r3.inf Apps]
|Notaz
|
|Not really an emulator. [http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/55980-ginge/page__view__findpost__p__913442 DO NOT run from root].
|- style="background: #90FF90"
|HP-48
|[[Pandora-X48]]
|2010-06-17
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,113,96 Archive]
|zx-81
|
|Emulates a calculator. [http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54482-x48/ Discussion]
|-
|Macintosh 68K
|Basilisk II
|2010-10-05
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=483 Download]
|dgame
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/56900-basilisk-ii-pnd-68k-macintosh-emulator/ Discussion]
|-
|Mattel Intellivision
|Jzintv
|2010-09-02
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/jzintv.inf Apps]
|WizardStan
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/56426-jzintv/ Discussion]
|-
|MSX
|[[Pandora-MSX]]
|2010-06-26
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/msx-1.1.1.inf Apps]
|zx-81
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54775-pandora-msx-v1-1-0/ Discussion]
|- style="background: #FFFF90"
|Nintendo 64
|[[Mupen64Plus]] "new build"
|2010-10-04
|[http://www.fragmentedforce.com/pandora/mupen64plus-new.pnd Download]
|Ari64, Adventus, JayFoxRox, et al.
|[http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AkBB6e4g1lGtdGxzVjhfNnpiMXVfR3FoZWRndG5iQ3c&hl=en_GB&output=html GD]
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/53683-mupen64plus/page__view__findpost__p__920214 Discussion]
|-
|Nintendo Game & Watch
|[[Game and Watch Simulators]] 0.3
|2010-07-27
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,3,169 Archive]
|Hitnrun
|
|[http://www.rangelreale.com/programming/game-watch-simulator Website]
|- style="background: #FFFF90"
|Nintendo GBA/GBC/GB
|[[VisualBoyAdvance]]
|2010-06-04
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/vba-1.7.2-0.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,84 Archive]
|SteveM
|
|Runs GBC/GB well; GBA is slow
|- style="background: #90FF90"
|Nintendo GBA
|[[gpSP]]
|2010-10-13
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,199 Archive]
|Exophase, notaz
|
|[http://gpsp-dev.blogspot.com/ Website]. Runs through [[Ginge]], only zipped ROMs.
|- style="background: #90FF90"
|Nintendo GB/GBC
|[[GnuBoy]] 1.0.3
|2010-10-13
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,207 Archive]
|Pickle, EvilDragon
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/56916-gnuboy-updated/ Discussion]
|- style="background: #90FF90"
|Nintendo GB/GBC
|[[GnGB]] ('''beta''')
|2010-10-04
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,207 Archive]
|dgame (port)
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/56886-gngb-pnd-game-boy-and-game-boy-color-emulator/ Discussion]
|- style="background: #90FF90"
|Nintendo NES
|[[GPFCE]]
|2010-10-13
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,72 Archive]
|Notaz, Pickle
|[[Compat:Emulator_Compatibility_-_NES | W]]
|Sound works if you set the rate to 44000Hz in the options. Forces a 2xsai like filter. Runs most things full speed.
|- style="background: #FFFF90"
|Nintendo NES
|[[nesemu]]
|2010-05-29
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,71 Archive]
|Pickle
|[[Compat:Emulator_Compatibility_-_NES | W]]
|[http://code.google.com/p/nesemu/ Website] Seems to only run at 40fps.
|-style="background: #90FF90"
|Nintendo SNES
|[[SNES9X4D4P]]
|2010-10-11
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,63 Archive]
|Skeezix, Sience (Dingoo)
|
|a port of Dingoo Snes9x. [http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/55378-snes9x4d4p-another-new-build-now-with-hi-res-and-new-rom-picker/page__view__findpost__p__896282 Discussion] Runs most things fullspeed, but saving/loading states may cause crashes.
|-
|Nintendo SNES
|[[PocketSNES]] ('''beta''') 0.1
|2010-08-08
|[http://www.rangelreale.com/pandora/pocketsnes_hack_0.1.pnd Download]
|Hitnrun (port)
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/55796-pocketsnes-hack/ Discussion]
|-
|Oric-1/Atmos
|[[PandOricutron]]
|2010-06-16
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/PandOricutron_108.inf Apps]
|torpor
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54260-pandoricutron-1-0-8/ Discussion]
|- style="background: #FFFF90"
|PC Engine
|[[Pandora HuGo]]
|2010-06-28
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/hugo-1.1.0.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,117 Archive]
|zx-81
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54833-hugo-pandora-v1-1-0/ Discussion]
|- style="background: #FF9090"
|PC Engine
|Hu-Go!
|2010-05-30
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,76 Archive]
|SteveM
|
|'''Outdated.''' Use other PC-Engine emulator
|-
|PDP-11
|[[SIMH PDP-11]]
|2010-05-28
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/simh-3.8.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,83 Archive]
|SteveM
|
|
|-
|Philips Odyssey 2
|[[O2EM]] 1.18-1
|2010-08-21
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,186 Archive]
|Hitnrun, Daniel Boris
|
|
|- style="background: #90FF90"
|SCUMM engine games
|[[ScummVM]] 1.2.0
|2010-10-15
|[http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scummvm/scummvm-1.2.0-openpandora.zip?download Download]
|DJWillis
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/56874-scummvm-120-preview-1-for-the-openpandora/ Discussion]. [http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/53668-scummvm-unofficial-test-111-release-for-the-openpandora/ Discussion (old)]. [http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=OpenPandora Wiki]
|- style="background: #90FF90"
|Sega Genesis, CD, 32x, Master System
|[[PicoDrive]]
|2010-09-19
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,206 Archive]
|Notaz
|
|
|-
|Sega Master System & GG
|[[Dega]] v1.16-4
|2010-08-15
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/dega-1.16-2.inf Apps] [http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,131 Archive]
|SteveM
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54914-dega/ Discussion]
|- style="background: #FFFF90"
|SNK Neo Geo
|[[GnGeo]] 0.8 Beta 1
|2010-07-09
|[http://m.peponas.free.fr/gngeo/download/gngeo_pandora_0.8_1.zip Download (v0.8_1)] [http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/gngeo-0.7-nofrontend.inf Apps (v0.7)]
|Pepone Manolis
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/55139-gngeo-0-8-beta1/ Discussion]. Some games don't run correctly
|-
|SNK Neo Geo Pocket
|[[Race]]
|2010-06-20
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/race10.inf Apps]
|Hooka
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54187-race-a-neo-geo-pocket-color-emulator Discussion]
|- style="background: #FFFF90"
|Sony Playstation
|[[PSX4Pandora]]
|2010-06-11
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/psx4pandora10b2.inf Apps]
|ZodTTD
|[http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AkBB6e4g1lGtdFVwODhsQzdlWVdrMTRKdDFXa1laZ2c&hl=en_GB&output=html GD]
|
|-
|Text adventure games
|[[Gargoyle 08-2009]]
|2010-08-23
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Game/gargoyle_20100823.inf Apps]
|gargoyle, skeezix
|
| Supports Adrift, Alan, APT, Glulx, Hugo, Level 9, Magnetic Scroll, TADS and Z-Code format games
|-
|TI-99
|Pandora-TI99 ([[TI99Sim]])
|2010-07-21
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,164 Archive]
|zx-81
|
|-
|TI-92
|[[XTiger]]
|2010-06-30
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/ti92-1.1.0.inf Apps]
|zx-81
|
|Emulates a calculator.
|-
|x86 DOS
|[[DOSBox]] v0.74
|2010-06-05
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/Dosbox.inf Apps]
|Pickle
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/53942-post-your-dosbox-successes-here/ FT]
|[http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php Non-Pandora-specific compatibility list]
|-
|x86 Sierra games
|[[FreeSCI]] 0.6.4
|2010-08-19
|[http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,20,193 Archive]]
|Hitnrun
|
|
|-
|x86 Windows 3.1
|[[WinBox]] ('''beta''')
|2010-07-04
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54985-win-3-1-via-dosbox-at-native-resolution/page__view__findpost__p__887198 Download (2 files)]
|urjaman
|
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54985-win-3-1-via-dosbox-at-native-resolution/page__view__findpost__p__887198 Discussion] {{HideableNotes|Modified DOSBox to run Windows 3.1 at Pandora's native resolution}}
|-
|ZX Spectrum
|[[Fuse]]
|2010-06-24
|[http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Emulator/fuse-0.9.0.inf Apps]
|SteveM
|
|
|}

1 "C" is short for compatibility list.
FT = Forum Topic
GD = Google Docs
W = Wiki page

==Unreleased emulators==

''This list is out of date and needs updating.''

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|- style="background: #ececec"
! Project Name
! Emulated System
! Link
! Status
! Author/Port Author
! Notes
|-
|Caprice32
|Amstrad CPC
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=48140 Link1] [http://www.caprice32.cybercube.com/ Link2]
|wip
|hdonk
|
|-
|EasyRPG
|RPG Maker 2000/2003
|[http://easyrpg.sourceforge.net/ Link1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnigHzSpZCU Link2]
|wip
|EasyRPG authors / fdelapena
|
|-
|FinalBurnAdvance
|CPS1/2/3/taito...
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06hjDLMBaf8 Link]
|
|Squidge
|
|-
|Frotz
|Z-Machine interpreter
|[http://www.cosam.org/computers/pandora/frotz-2.43.pnd Link]
|working build
|SteveM
|
|-
|NeoPop
|SNK NeoGeo Pocket
|[http://mydedibox.fr/_stuff/pandora/ Link1] [http://www.youtube.com/user/cpasjuste Link2]
|
|Cpasjuste
|
|-
|NullDC
|Sega Dreamcast
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=47065&view=findpost&p=709910 Link]
|Wip
|Zezu / drkIIraziel
|
|-
|PandaSNES
|Nintendo SNES
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=43213 Link]
|wip
|Squidge
|
|-
|Pandora-PSP
|Sony Playstation Portable
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/blog/37-pandora-psp/ Link]
|wip
|[[User:JayFoxRox|JayFoxRox]]
|
|-
|PAtari
|Atari 800
|[http://mydedibox.fr/_stuff/pandora/ Link]
|working build
|Cpasjuste
|
|-
|PSMS
|Sega Master System
|[http://mydedibox.fr/_stuff/pandora/ Link]
|working build
|Cpasjuste
|
|-
|PSnes
|Nintendo SNES
|[http://mydedibox.fr/_stuff/pandora/ Link]
|working build
|Cpasjuste
|
|-
|Temper
|NEC PC Engine
|[http://exophase.devzero.co.uk/ Link]
|wip
|Exophase
|Fullspeed emulator
|-
|Tempest
|Atari Jaguar
|[http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=43119 Link]
|
|Firefox
|Firefox is [http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54993-jaguarrrr/page__view__findpost__p__886780 no longer working on this].
|-
|XMAME
|Arcade
|[http://mydedibox.fr/_stuff/pandora/ Link]
|
|Cpasjuste
|
|}

[[Category:Emulators]]
[[Category:Software]]

Emulators

2009-10-27T22:38:45Z

Defo: /* What is needed to run emulators */ Very minor, added comma after the "However" in the second sentence

'''Emulators''' are applications which reproduce another, different computer system in software allowing the software from one machine to be run on another. Emulators are used for a wide range of purposes. For example, OS X provides emulation on x86 computers to allow old PowerPC binaries to be run. Microsoft provide an ARM PDA emulator for testing applications without having to repeatedly copy things onto a device.

One of the most popular uses for emulators however is to play video games from older (or in some exceptional circumstances, current) systems on modern hardware (generally PCs but the Pandora, GP2X, GP32 and PSP are also popular platforms for running emulators). Nintendo sells a number of official emulators through its Virtual Console service for the Wii.

== Pandora and emulators ==
One of the popular uses for the Pandora is to run emulators of old video games systems (though some old home computers and calculators are also emulated). The Pandora is suited to this task because it has a fairly standard control layout similar (or almost identical to) the layouts of the input devices of the systems it emulates. Furthermore, it has an LCD of resolution 800x480, which is large enough to accommodate most older systems without any downscaling. Of course, it is also portable meaning you can play these games whenever and wherever you want without having to carry a TV, machine and collection of cartridges.

== What is needed to run emulators ==
In most cases, emulators can simply load software and run. However, some require a dump of the BIOS ROM stored within the system itself. These dumps cannot be distributed legally without the permission of the company/individual who created them due to them being copyrighted. In some cases (such as the GBA) it may be feasible to extract a dump of the BIOS yourself if you own a GBA and the necessary equipment but for others (like the PlayStation) the only way most people can optain a BIOS dump is to illegally download it. Each system has a unique BIOS, though many older ones don't have a BIOS at all, or it is emulated along with the hardware. You should check the individual pages for each emulator to see if they need a BIOS dump to run.

An emulator is no use without software to run on it. These normally come in the form of ROM dumps (since they are extracted from the ROM chips that used to be used to distribute software) generally known as just "ROMs". A few ROMs are "homebrew", that is, free software or freeware. However, ROMs of commercial games are illegal under copyright law unless you dump them yourself (and even then you are only allowed to make use of them under very specific circumstances). ROMs for one system will not work on another system's emulator, just as you can't plug Super Nintendo cartridges into a PlayStation and run them. As such, you need ROMs for each system and an emulator for each system (though some special cases exist such as MAME which will run ROMs from multiple arcade systems).

== What the Pandora can emulate ==
The Pandora, despite its apparent low clock speed when compared to those of modern desktop PCs, is a powerful system (clock speeds cannot be reliably compared between systems). Although there is very little hardware for accelerating graphics functions, the CPU is fast enough to emulate many systems purely in software.

Most video game machines up to the 16-bit era (i.e. SNES, Mega Drive) could in theory be emulated on the Pandora, and some 32-bit consoles have the potential to be emulated with varying degrees of success. That does not mean that everything before this point will be emulated as there are hundreds of machines, some of which are virtually unknown and others which have unusual hardware which is difficult or impossible to emulate.

This means that there are literally tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of games which can be played on the Pandora if you are able to obtain the software.

== Where to download emulators ==
Most software (including emulators) for the Pandora can be obtained from the Pandora File Archive. You will find the emulator section [http://archive.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5 here].

== Emulator Compatibility ==
This wiki houses compatibility and performance lists for various emulators available on the Pandora. You can find these on the [[Emulator Compatibility]] page.

Please do add to these lists as you test more games so that others may benefit from settings you may have discovered (for some users a particular game running well is enough to justify the purchase).

== Emulator List ==
Here is a list of systems for which emulators are available on the Pandora (it may not be complete as new software is being released regularly). This doesn't take into account how complete the emulators are, merely that they exist. For performance data, look at the compatibility database. For more up-to-date information, visit the [[Projects Under Development]] page.

==== Arcade ====
[[Final Burn for Pandora]]

[[MAME4ALL]]
==== Atari Jaguar ====
[[T2K for Pandora]]
==== Nintendo SNES ====
[[PandaSNES]]
==== Sega Genesis/Megadrive====
[[PicoDrive]]
==== Sony Playstation ====
[[PSX4Pandora]]
==== Amiga ====
[[UAE4ALL]]
==== MS-DOS ====
[[DOSBox]]

For a list of announced projects, please see the list of potential emulators and development status on the GP32X forums: [http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=47518]

[[Category:Emulators]]

Emulators

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'''Emulators''' are applications which reproduce another, different computer system in software allowing the software from one machine to be run on another. Emulators are used for a wide range of purposes. For example, OS X provides emulation on x86 computers to allow old PowerPC binaries to be run. Microsoft provide an ARM PDA emulator for testing applications without having to repeatedly copy things onto a device.

One of the most popular uses for emulators however is to play video games from older (or in some exceptional circumstances, current) systems on modern hardware (generally PCs but the Pandora, GP2X, GP32 and PSP are also popular platforms for running emulators). Nintendo sells a number of official emulators through its Virtual Console service for the Wii.

== Pandora and emulators ==
One of the popular uses for the Pandora is to run emulators of old video games systems (though some old home computers and calculators are also emulated). The Pandora is suited to this task because it has a fairly standard control layout similar (or almost identical to) the layouts of the input devices of the systems it emulates. Furthermore, it has an LCD of resolution 800x480, which is large enough to accommodate most older systems without any downscaling. Of course, it is also portable meaning you can play these games whenever and wherever you want without having to carry a TV, machine and collection of cartridges.

== What is needed to run emulators ==
In most cases, emulators can simply load software and run. However some require a dump of the BIOS ROM stored within the system itself. These dumps cannot be distributed legally without the permission of the company/individual who created them due to them being copyrighted. In some cases (such as the GBA) it may be feasible to extract a dump of the BIOS yourself if you own a GBA and the necessary equipment but for others (like the PlayStation) the only way most people can optain a BIOS dump is to illegally download it. Each system has a unique BIOS, though many older ones don't have a BIOS at all, or it is emulated along with the hardware. You should check the individual pages for each emulator to see if they need a BIOS dump to run.

An emulator is no use without software to run on it. These normally come in the form of ROM dumps (since they are extracted from the ROM chips that used to be used to distribute software) generally known as just "ROMs". A few ROMs are "homebrew", that is, free software or freeware. However, ROMs of commercial games are illegal under copyright law unless you dump them yourself (and even then you are only allowed to make use of them under very specific circumstances). ROMs for one system will not work on another system's emulator, just as you can't plug Super Nintendo cartridges into a PlayStation and run them. As such, you need ROMs for each system and an emulator for each system (though some special cases exist such as MAME which will run ROMs from multiple arcade systems).

== What the Pandora can emulate ==
The Pandora, despite its apparent low clock speed when compared to those of modern desktop PCs, is a powerful system (clock speeds cannot be reliably compared between systems). Although there is very little hardware for accelerating graphics functions, the CPU is fast enough to emulate many systems purely in software.

Most video game machines up to the 16-bit era (i.e. SNES, Mega Drive) could in theory be emulated on the Pandora, and some 32-bit consoles have the potential to be emulated with varying degrees of success. That does not mean that everything before this point will be emulated as there are hundreds of machines, some of which are virtually unknown and others which have unusual hardware which is difficult or impossible to emulate.

This means that there are literally tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of games which can be played on the Pandora if you are able to obtain the software.

== Where to download emulators ==
Most software (including emulators) for the Pandora can be obtained from the Pandora File Archive. You will find the emulator section [http://archive.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5 here].

== Emulator Compatibility ==
This wiki houses compatibility and performance lists for various emulators available on the Pandora. You can find these on the [[Emulator Compatibility]] page.

Please do add to these lists as you test more games so that others may benefit from settings you may have discovered (for some users a particular game running well is enough to justify the purchase).

== Emulator List ==
Here is a list of systems for which emulators are available on the Pandora (it may not be complete as new software is being released regularly). This doesn't take into account how complete the emulators are, merely that they exist. For performance data, look at the compatibility database. For more up-to-date information, visit the [[Projects Under Development]] page.

==== Arcade ====
[[Final Burn for Pandora]]

[[MAME4ALL]]
==== Atari Jaguar ====
[[T2K for Pandora]]
==== Nintendo SNES ====
[[PandaSNES]]
==== Sega Genesis/Megadrive====
[[PicoDrive]]
==== Sony Playstation ====
[[PSX4Pandora]]
==== Amiga ====
[[UAE4ALL]]
==== MS-DOS ====
[[DOSBox]]

For a list of announced projects, please see the list of potential emulators and development status on the GP32X forums: [http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=47518]

[[Category:Emulators]]