Best Emulator to Use for Every Big Console in 2024

[@luisjzuluagab4497]

0:28 Atari2600 1:18 NES 2:13 SEGA Genesis 3:03 SNES 3:53 SEGA Saturn 4:56 PlayStation 6:04 Nintendo64 6:59 DreamCast 8:16 PlayStation 2 9:16 Nintendo GameCube + Nintendo Wii 10:05 Xbox 10:49 Xbox360 11:27 PlayStation 3 12:23 Nintendo Wii U 13:08 Nintendo Switch 13:47 GameBoy + GameBoy Colour + GameBoy Advance + Game Gear 14:22 Nintendo DS 14:52 PlayStation Portable 15:25 PS Vita 15:54 Nintendo 3DS 16:18 Arcade + PlayStation4

[@nightwingnl5354]

This was one hell of a week in emulation

[@UrCasualGamer]

that it was

[@Amp1771]

What was the first game shown?

[@cannon59]

@@Amp1771die hard. Likely redream Dreamcast emulation

[@cannon59]

Comix zone needs its modern day next gen lift. Ahead of its time.

[@sonicthejetsetbeat7465]

Sure was. I mean, It is what it is. Somebody uploaded a video & broke it down to us. It all make sense now. & i honestly do see why Nintendo was so tilted. But also that video also made the emulation community relieved.

[@charalampossken6332]

Man you don't have any idea how many people you are helping or have helped. If it weren't you i wouldn't be playing call of duty finest hour or older call of duty games and many more games. Thank you very much man. I wish you all the best

[@robsherwood2909]

Dude, you are the man. I have been fooling with emulation for a few years, but mostly the older stuff. (Pre 2000). However recently I started to get into later stuff like XBox, Wii, and PS2 and beyond. I have found your videos to be indespensible. You are so knowledable. Your videos have been so easy to follow, and for a newbie like me, extremely helpful. I thank you for your all your work.

[@AmineDiva]

There are 2 new switch emulators that are called sudachi and suyu. Not to mention, there is another 3ds emulator being called lime 3ds.

[@NeoConker626]

I'm pretty sure lime just took the last available Citra build and hosting it under a different name. I'd wait for updates to a proper fork, or the release of Mikage

[@satyamSaha]

Suyu is just a fork of Yuzu and Lime is just Citra

[@bam2502]

They arent any new emulators they are just fork of the former

[@077jjj7]

But which is the best

[@starbez]

Just try ryujinx

[@davidknightx]

I've been using emulators for many years and I hate to comment "Every single thing he said I agree with", but that's what I'm saying. Even picked RetroArch for the Saturn. The man knows his stuff. Subscribed.

[@FinalStage4L]

You’re a good man for this , your videos are very helpful and straight to the point and you have opened a lot of peoples eyes to the awesomeness of emulation.

[@EmuGamesMaster]

Top stuff bro. Always great to see your videos pop up on my feed.

[@banner8086]

Very helpful for beginers who's trying to get into retro gaming. Thanks man

[@nba2kliveremastered]

I Love this channel bro! keep sharing more power!

[@cannon59]

NBA Jam SLAM DUNK! With this one bro. Really took me back with some of the clips. Long live emulation!

[@MAHIM2000]

Flycast is the better DC emulator. Trust me bro, once you get your hand on the Bios Files by sailing through the Seven Seas, Flycast is a breeze to use. Since it's open-source, you get each and every upscaling options available to you. from Texture Upscales, to Super Widescreen, you name it. Oh and it also emulates Sega Naomi arcade roms as well. And for NES, there's another emulator called Mesen. Which has texture replacement, that no other emulators offer. Using that feature, many people remastered classic NES games with 16bit Textures, and it's awesome. Love the video! Long live emulation

[@TheNawaf258]

And flycast can run any Naomi games like zombie revenge or wave runner gp even project justice can work

[@jowiel314]

I was waiting for this video. You make the best emulation content

[@Crystallums]

Great selection bro!, and I congratulate you for all this! at the same time I thank you, greetings. 💯

[@quas3728]

Bro, I love your video but for N64 emulator, I recommend RMG (Rosalie's Mupen GUI). Project 64 was the best long time ago but It's not best anymore. I believe RMG is the best. even RetroArch's Mupen core is better than Project 64. thx for your hard work btw.

[@Archangeldawn6692]

I love this channel.

[@UrCasualGamer]

Thank you

[@thataintplum]

I respect you on the video...I have Dolphin on My S23 Ultra and ePSXe...had that for 7yrs #Respect

[@agesolo6914]

This guy is such an ambassador for the emulator community. What a BOSS!!!

[@grantschubach5163]

Emulation is the way to go.

[@ThoughtFrenzy]

Awesome channel, definitely reinvigorated my love for retro gaming. Stay up bro

[@Mike_44]

What a fantastic video you made here, it's exactly what I needed. I'm a 90s teen, long time gamer and I'm just getting into the world of emulators after a long gaming hiatus. To know I can play games of all eras in a single PC and to show my kids now, absolutely blows my mind. Some of my all time favorites are Zelda: A link to the Past, Donkey Kong, Castlevania, Turok, Goldeneye, Killer Instinct, Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo series, Resident Evil2, GTA, Battlefield, The Last of Us, and so on.. lol Subscribed!

[@sabin97]

just a very small clarification. retroarch cores are not "basically" emulators, they are ACTUALLY emulators, just compiled to be used within retroarch instead of standalone. i had to compile retroarch myself, because the version i had didnt do something i wanted, so i looked up what libraries i was missing, installed them, checked the makefile and modified it as needed. i havent changed it since then. it works just as i want. i havent set up all the emulators only nes, snes, sms, genesis, gb, and some mame, as follows: nes - nestopia mame - mame2003+, mame 2010, mame 2016 because some games dont run in the most modern mame but run in older versions gameboy - sameboy snes - snes9x 2010 dreamcast - flycast sms - genesis plus gx

[@Bob_Betty]

DANG! What a great video! Thank you :) defiantly a job list of things to do for my retro fix :)

[@sburk.87]

All in all a good video. I have a little suggestion: Make some categories - like the best in the term of simplicity, accuracy and/or extra features. 👍

[@WackyJay9]

The world of emulation opened up to me all thanks to you. Thanks for continuing the fight!

[@TrexelCat]

Couple of things. One, Project 64 has a donation nag screen. Doesn't stop the functionality, but it is annoying. "Please donate to us(wait 10 seconds to hit okay to actually get to the emulator)". The second thing, PS2 has a third "emulator" you didn't mention in this video. RetroArch has a PS2 core made by PCSX2. And as you did RetroArch for the Sega Saturn, even though the core you chose was made by the same people who make a stand-alone emulator, I thought it was a bit strange to leave that out. I use EmuVR for my retro gaming(which is essentially a fancy graphics frontend for RetroArch that functions in VR). And the PCSX2 core is rather decent and plays all of the PS2 games I have access to rather well, if not perfectly. Still need a BIOS for it though.

[@benjaminmarcelocaballero1706]

What Saturn emulator was created by the same people that made Beetle Saturn? Is it SSF, because i also find strange that it was left out, SSF seems to be the most accurate Saturn emulator. He also left out simple64, which should have win if his priority is simplicity.

[@TrexelCat]

@@benjaminmarcelocaballero1706 I may have misspoke on who makes the Saturn core and standalone emulator. I don't actually play Saturn as I've never owned one. That was just the impression I got from the words used in the video that the same people who make the standalone make the core for RetroArch as well. Which is usually the case(not always).

[@benjaminmarcelocaballero1706]

@@TrexelCat my bad also. Actually, as far as i know, the SSF emulator (which was not mentioned here) is completely differente than the Retroarch ones, and at least 3 years ago was considered the best emu for Saturn, if it isn't still.

[@typeonegative24314]

Found your channel this week. thanks to you im emulating PS2 now. Very much appriciated. your videos and tutorials are very very good. keep up the great work

[@Psybeam]

Crazy that Project 64 is still alive and kicking in 2024. Such a great emulator!

[@M-City81]

Great vid. I personally like using retroarch for the old games and stand-alone emulators for the bigger games like N64, Dreamcast, PS1/2 etc.

[@weeblbob233]

Thank you for making this. There is a lot of games and consoles I could never buy now and this helps a lot bud

[@esmetakhom9259]

Wow...!!! Great video brother, i just built a gaming pc, now just time to load all the emulators, thanks brother....

[@joethebro1999]

Not gonna lie I followed this exactly and using the same emulators now. Can confirm it's spot on with what's the best to run the roms

[@madmax4522]

I love the way you explain in your Videos. When a new video drops I'll watch it regardless if I need to know more about the subject or not. Hooe you're doing well!

[@reubenfanovich540]

The work up put in to make this video I appreciate it. Stay safe.

[@TravelGeeq]

My man. Thank you for the amazing content. I'm so grateful I found your channel 🙏

[@UrCasualGamer]

No problem

[@samiRetro777]

it would be great if you listed those games Great video keep going !

[@shipsey2]

All this helps so much just getting into the emulating game now there's so much to know better list the community helps so much

[@artistlovepeace]

Great job! I love your channel and information. Nostalgia is very powerful.

[@voolandashland2914]

great video. you just sum up all of those emulators that are available out there to be choose. I started to explore this kind of stuffs back there when I was a kid. because that I cannot afford some consoles out there. Lol

[@Fadhelalmalki]

Please consider naming each segment in the video to ease the way we use the video to watch

[@nelsonr.9450]

I had the main ones, but with ur help I got the rest of them, and even found all the mednafen bios 😁

[@Morphineck]

Thanks for the video, it is a good one. A few comments that may help: Vita3k's compatibility has improved a lot for almost a year, perhaps give it another go. As for N64 emulator I think RMG is where it's at now, sad to see you didn't even list it.

[@bennydesu5807]

Just wanted to give my thanks to you, to always put effort in your videos for us and help us the best ways, literally the best tutorials videos I've followed, always clear and easy to follow with good tips and because of you I can enjoy many many games, so again, a simple but huge thank you

[@UrCasualGamer]

No problem 😊

[@supahgualtah]

Youre doin the Lords work my good man

[@inondesia1543]

this was great recap my bro. i have a pentium 2020m laptop with 2gb ram, so far i randomly tested many emulator and games, but unfortunately my laptop cant run our beloved ps2 games

[@tominator7728]

Great video! Now I have some new emulators to try!

[@user-tl4fi6oy8d]

How in the hell was your first system the NES? That was my first system and I am over 40 now. You look like you aren't a day over 20. Love your channel!

[@UrCasualGamer]

Lol well I appreciate that but I'm 36

[@Blueniter]

@@UrCasualGamer You're looking young and healthy for 36 year old. To bad Yuzu and Citra took a blow to the face.

[@UrCasualGamer]

@Blueniter yea, it's sad, but I'm sure they will reappear online under a new name.

[@Atalas5]

was Citra part of Yuzu, because I am only just now hearing about it's situation.@@Blueniter

[@SubhrakantaAcharya]

@@Atalas5 they were by the same dev

[@speedbyacura8253]

I just installed duckstation works awesome! On windows 10 i5 10th gen cpu

[@dansmith16]

That emulator is awesome. If nothing else, you can make the game run faster without toggling, so it plays slow games like the processor isn't overheating all the time. Just keep making saves every so often, as you should with every emulator.

[@FelipeLobo]

Man, what a great video and great tips. Thank you for that.

[@flyingjabe]

Could you update the description with links to all of your reccomended emus? It can be tricky to find safe download sites for them!

[@Jacksparrow-wt5ys]

Thnx for your hard work.. I'm using psp, ps1, ps2 emulaters on my phone they work just fine

[@UrCasualGamer]

No problem

[@devincurrie4145]

Great coverage. Would be great if you’ve included mention that some emulators are also supported on Android and/or iOS. I’m starting to play retro games more on Android phone that is plugged to an external display and paired with a Bluetooth gamepad controller. Very portable.

[@blaydo]

Great video, thanks so much. You're so easy to listen to!

[@mauricemason7135]

Thank you for the rundown!

[@gabrielribeiro-mills8716]

Thank you so much for the suggestions for emulation.

[@BuzzBazzJ]

Damn! Didn't know about the Dolphin Bar. Gotta Get me one of those! Thanks😁😁🤟🤟

[@crazydesigner4335]

hey bro im from india im just a kid i recently got into emulators i love the content you made

[@achrafnat7379]

Well that's some kind of nostalgia console I like the setup

[@KroMagnum4]

Excellent brother thanks as always! I started off with the Atari's a thousand years ago🤪

[@NBWDOUGHBOY]

Great video brother. Really ggod stuff.

[@blackcorp0001]

Awesome video bro ! :)

[@mariotheophanous9144]

Great video y man. However, on a windows, where can i get games from?

[@XanderSut]

That's a good question, I'm curious too

[@khalidrashdan3068]

Man , your awesome, thanks for all this great work and advice 💪🏻♥️

[@AlemannoDigitale]

Oh man, what a useful video, thank you!!!

[@Hoytehablode]

I would like to see good video, but everytime you mention the "emulators" and you put Retroarch I feel your a missing the point. For example Retroarch has a nestopia core so why use nestopia instead of using the nestopia core for retroarch? With retroarch you get SO MUCH MORE, not just the core, but the capabilitie to use vrr, shaders, frames, netplay and so much more. So I like your choices for each system, but in most cases in your list is better to use the retroarch core of the emulator, like stella, nestopia, kega fusion, snes9x (even thou bsnes is way better since is cycle accurate), great choice for saturn, duckstation is great and yes mostly better to use the stand alone, but still mednafe core has a lot of similar options. For the N64 you get 3 different cores in retroarch that are super accurate, parallel ofr example. Flycast is amazing with shaders and redream is excellent too, for ps2 no doubt pcsx2 is no contest. From here one is always better to use the standalone versions.

[@KaitouKaiju]

The retro arch cores are typically out of date compared to the standalone counterpart

[@Hoytehablode]

@@KaitouKaiju for most core is not a problem since the emulators are not even updated anymore.

[@syrus3657]

Video idea: do a tier ranking of all the emulators regardless of whats best for each console.

[@toninhopavan2]

Duckstation is a beast. It seems like you are "remastering" ps1 games by yourself or something like that

[@reza.tofani]

Hello sir i always follow your video You are best

[@UrCasualGamer]

Thank you

[@Megalocade]

I must admit 20 years I would of never entertained the thought of running emulators to play my games but these days and pcs being as powerful as they are and emulation being so good now I've gone the complete opposite direction I sold most of my collection a few years back and built a gaming pc and now I have every system and game I ever owned on there I love the way you can upscale older games especially old polygon games to run in much higher resolution and frame rates, then you have shaders which can make old Sprite based games look amazing, I do use retroarch with many cores as my main source for my systems its runs old systems very well, I only have 2 systems I run outside of retroarch and that is Yazu / Ryujinx Nintendo Switch and PCSX2, PS2 runs likes garbage in retroarch but the standalone emu is coming on leaps and bounds now especially with the nightly build version it's updated everyday with fixes and new bits, yup emulators are the way to go I love the fact i got everything in one place and done away with setting up consoles and sorting out wires its just there ready, I also play emulators using original console controller or I should say usb or wireless controllers that are faithful to the originals to get the feel like your really playing on original hardware.

[@jalipeno97]

as a sega megadrive (thats what the european genesis was called) fan myself when im not using my real system i personally like to use blastem in retroarch as its aiming to be the most accurate megadrive emulator while still being simple to use

[@wheelbarrow2803]

Will you do a build and show setting each one of these up on one machine? Maybe a multi part tutorial?

[@breybone]

Can you do one for emulation on Android phones

[@SaintKines]

I would like to play Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Shockwave for Saturn again. Something about the Saturn version of that Street Fighter was awesome.

[@MotoNORMative]

I too cut my teeth on the NES! The NES, SNES and N64 are the holy trinity of old games.

[@JSports49]

That’s crazy, had no idea that the switch could be emulated

[@deceptionz187]

Stella is my Dogs name. For that, you get a thumbs up

[@ChespinGator]

Really good video🔥, could you do commodore Amiga , not sure where to put kickstarts for retroarch32

[@Harlem-X]

Huge thumbs up and a big thank you for this informative video. Only issue I have is that I use EPSXE for my Playstation 1 games, but you mention Duck Station. I've never heard of that one before. But you said it requires a BIOS. I wish you would have mentioned where to find the best one or name it so I can give Duck Station a test run. These are things I need to know since I only go with the best and most reliable stuff when it comes to my computer. But thanx for the video either way, family.

[@steve63147]

Great List! Personally, I use Mesen-S for SNES Games.

[@NSeags]

Thank you for the mich informative content on Emulators! I have only recently gotten into emulation and your channel has helped a ton! One question though, would you recommend Simple 64 at all ?

[@jeandarkaov7171]

I'm surprised desmume still exists today. I used to play Pokémon B/W and B2/W2 with it when my DS Lite broke

[@fiestynt.]

Love This Guy

[@dandanny2036]

Gotta add that for arcade titles especially fighting games there is fightcade where you can play online with rollback netcode for most of the games There is even an autoinstaller so ther e is no need to look for roms online

[@namtech425]

Great video, being a long time emulation layer - I love your videos - would like to colab with you at some time.

[@RayElla1011]

what is the name of the game in the intro? like a royal rumble street fight style?

[@M-City81]

Dynamite Cop (Sega Dreamcast)

[@brockandroll4004]

I prefer using these emulators over Launchbox and Retroarch. Constant problems with Retroarch. Keep up the great videos. I hope this year brings us a better Mame front end.

[@max_unch]

wow this is a great job 👍🏼👏🏼

[@khoikidd]

Great video Sir, Salute

[@joaomatos9194]

Wich are the best graphic cards for emulation?Nvidia cards or Ati cards? Thanks in advance.😀

[@Macktube]

Absolutely, stellar quality Content, thank you for all your research. However, I disagree on the N64 controller, I liked that controller as a kid.😅 I like any controller with handles. I actually think Dreamcast controller is the worst.Why is it square shaped😂

[@jinkazama4858]

Nice research done...good job 👏 👌

[@nba2kliveremastered]

next content mobile android emulator.. thank you!

[@michaelquinones8663]

Great video! Thank you

[@BryanFitsimonds]

visualboy for gameboy gbc and gba is awesome and super easy to set up and use with upscaled graphics. For pcxs2 you forgot to mention the bios that are oddly hard to come by

[@boredstudent]

I like Kega Fusion and I used that emulator as early as 2005. Yeah it's a pretty old emulator but still good. zsnes is another old emulator but one of the first to run games well. I actually used to have it. Later on I switched to snes9x. I have Duckstation on my PC as well as PCSX2. Those are good emulators.

[@brittanycunningham787]

N64 was my favorite controller 😂

[@frankpatterson9682]

Sega Saturn. Guardian Heroes, is the side scrolling arcade goodness.

[@maytheforcebewithyou5923]

Sega genesis was my favourite console, i remember the first time that i played Jurassic park and ecco the dolphin

[@markula_4040]

Everything up to PS1, I just switched to RetroArch so I can have uniform setups plus it lets me resize the screen on any individual game so I can get rid of black bars on a lot of SNES games that don't fill the screen (like Final Fight that you have showing at 3:38)

[@katanamaru1]

Thanks for the list. For Nintendo DS how do you like to map the touch screen functions? On Steam Deck I'll just touch the screen, but on a monitor what are some ways you like? Do you use a mouse, the right analog stick, or have a good way to use a dual shock 4 or dual sense touch pad? I'm trying to set up the dual sense touch pad, but currently it's not that good. I can set the touch pad to function as a mouse (in Steam Input), but the sensitivity is wonky. I'm trying to get it to as close as 1:1 scale but haven't found any good info on it. Any advice would be appreciated.

[@UrCasualGamer]

On pc, I use the mouse on Android its touch screen. But I'm really only playing Pokémon games. I just don't show Nintendo exclusive games on my channel.