I love emulators. Since I was able to play Super Mario 64 on my Windows 98 PC back in 1999, I’ve had a fascination with how emulators can not only run games at various speeds but also improve others.

TL;DR: ePSXe 2.0.18, the first major update in nearly 10 years, adds native support for CHD image files, enhancing file compression and quality. The update also improves DPI awareness, audio reverb, ...

Retro gaming has gained significant momentum in 2025, capturing the attention of both longtime fans and newcomers alike. Classic consoles, once relegated to dusty shelves, are now being rediscovered, ...

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Some Android gamers are running the Xenia emulator inside GameHub or Winlator to play Xbox 360 games on their phones. Many tested games have very poor performance, although a few titles do seem to run ...

We're another step closer to getting PlayStation 3 games to run smoothly on an Android smartphone. A little-known developer has released aPS3e, a PS3 emulator that can natively run on Android, onto ...

Antonia Haynes is a Game Rant writer who resides in a small seaside town in England where she has lived her whole life. Beginning her video game writing career in 2014, and having an avid love of ...

Despite Nintendo's actions against popular emulators, the company's patent attorney and deputy general manager of Nintendo's intellectual property department, Koji Nishiura, said at the Tokyo eSports ...

Robbie has been an avid gamer for well over 20 years. During that time, he's watched countless franchises rise and fall. He's a big RPG fan but dabbles in a little bit of everything. Writing about ...

Azahar Emulator is a new Nintendo 3DS emulator that’s currently in development. Based on the now-defunct Citra, it merges Lime3DS and PabloMK7’s Citra fork. Work on the previous two emulators has ...

Any retro-loving gamer knows it’s next to impossible to legally play most titles from the past 50 years of gaming history. This is where game emulation—essentially recreations of an old console’s ...