Utilities
3.0.3 / 29-04-2026
Modern fork of x360ce built with SDL3, ViGEmBus, vJoy, Windows MIDI Services, HelixToolkit, .NET 10 WPF, and Fluent Design. Turn any input device into any virtual controller:
Gamepads, joysticks, keyboards, mice, and touchscreens — mapped to Xbox 360, DualShock 4, DirectInput, MIDI, or Keyboard+Mouse output that games treat as real hardware.
10.53 / 27-04-2026
Playnite is an open source video game library manager with support for 3rd party libraries like Steam, GOG, Origin, Battle.net and Uplay. While providing one unified interface for your games, it includes game emulation support, fullscreen mode, themes and much more.
Requires Windows 7+ and .NET Framework 4.6
0.22.4 / 22-04-2026
Ludo is a minimalist frontend launcher for most non-GL libretro cores and is written in go. It offers certain quality of life features like browsing game collections categorized by system with playlists showing in-game screenshots wrapped in a minimalist design. Also provides contextual menu which give you access to actions including quick save and quick load.
11.7 staging / 20-04-2026
WineD3D For Windows is a DirectX 1-11 to OpenGL wrapper with almost full implementation of DirectX used in Wine. Even if Windows supports DirectX natively, using WineD3D can enhance backwards compatibility with older games, especially on Windows 8+ that don't support 16-bit screen modes. Others possible values include eliminating unsupported versions of DirectX, or porting DirectX applications to OpenGL without having to rewrite the rendering code. That said, it's far from perfect...
dcd0312 / 20-04-2026
Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Ruffle runs natively on all modern operating systems as a standalone application, and on all modern browsers through the use of WebAssembly and has extensive content compatibility in ActionScript; the language that powers interactivity in games and applications made with Flash.
Users or website owners may install the web version of Ruffle and existing flash content will "just work", with no extra configuration required. It will also detect all existing Flash content and this is an entirely open source project maintained by volunteers.
1.2 / 15-04-2026
S4W is an open source nimble app that injects a pixel shader directly into the game’s render pipeline allowing to add scanlines or CRT/VHS effects on PC games, emulators, frontends in a unified way. It should work regardless if the program offer scanlines or not. It's recommended to watch this video to understanding how to set it up.
3.4.1 / 10-04-2026
EmulationStation Desktop Edition is an open source frontend application for browsing and launching games from your multi-platform game collection. It comes preconfigured for use with RetroArch and a number of other emulators. It's also fully customizable so you can expand it to launch other emulators or applications. It has several features such as minimal setup, full controller support, very customizable, Built-in scraper for downloading game info and game media, fully themeable and much more...
Utilities
RetroBat is a software distribution supplied through EmulationStation interface and is fully functional and highly customizable.