The best emulators of 2025 (by MVG)

[ThunderBoy]

Azahar (Nintendo 3DS)
RPCS3 (Sony PlayStation 3)
Ymir (Sega Saturn)
Gopher64 (Nintendo 64)
PCSX2 (Sony PlayStation 2)
Mesen2 (Multi System)

 

[Lod 10]

O emIs the PS3 emulator worth testing? How does it work for testing games?

 

[SinAkuma]

O emIs the PS3 emulator worth testing? How does it work for testing games?

RPCS3 is a very good emulator if you have a decent pc you can play a lot of ps3 games with no problem.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Eden is fantastic. The latest Citron build seems pretty great too. Apparently the devs of both of them are collaborating now.

 

[Lod 10]

O RPCS3 é um emulador muito bom; se você tiver um PC decente, poderá jogar muitos jogos de PS3 sem problemas.

ObrigadoThanks for the tip, I'll try to play some light games since I didn't have the money to buy a PS3 back then; my only real console was the PS4.

 

[Natsuyasumi]

Never heard of Azahar, Yamir or Gopher64, are they considerably better than their more popular counterparts?

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

These emulators for Windows are excellent and they are on the right track in terms of development but my favorites are the Azahar (3DS Emulator) and PCSX2 (PS2 Emulator).

 

[jankusanagi jankusanagi]

Where are PPSSPP and Dolphin??

 

[Turbo Kid]

Where are PPSSPP and Dolphin??

I love how super refined PPSSPP is. Like I don't think it could possibly be improved on. Duckstation is great too.

 

[DanCalibur]

We may be finally getting closer to having N64 and Saturn emulation as good as the PSX

 

[Luxfin]

Internal Resolution for the N64 in Gopher64 have completely sold me. Also no longer having tolerate plugins for each game is bonus to top it off.

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

Ymir is truly the best of 2025!

 

[RestoredaftrLostv2]

-_- I feel weird saying I'm still using emulators i used i downloaded from 2007 for gaming. Epsxe still works for me. Though I would like to take a look at that gopher64 n64 emulator. There are a couple games that project64 doesn't work.

"If it still works, why change it" is my motto aka not broken don't fix it reference,

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Azahar (Nintendo 3DS)
RPCS3 (Sony PlayStation 3)
Ymir (Sega Saturn)
Gopher64 (Nintendo 64)
PCSX2 (Sony PlayStation 2)
Mesen2 (Multi System)

I approve Mesen 2.0 a lot (I hope it'll soon have the Genesis and Neogeo Pocket support and I'd be entirely settled).

I need to check Azahar and Gopher64 then.

-_- I feel weird saying I'm still using emulators i used i downloaded from 2007 for gaming. Epsxe still works for me. Though I would like to take a look at that gopher64 n64 emulator. There are a couple games that project64 doesn't work.

"If it still works, why change it" is my motto aka not broken don't fix it reference,

Honestly ePSXe is such a chore to make it run decently for me. I still managed to beat MGS on it but there were graphical glitches and honestly DuckStation is simply massively better.

It works but there's a massive difference between something "kinda working" and something working well.

 

[epichyruleswordsmen84]

I'm so happy that Saturn emulation is where it is now I remember when it would be thought of as impossible to have had it at all

 

[Pokenami's icon Pokenami Pokenami]

I'm happy to see major improvements for the Saturn and N64 emulation scene. I can't believe the systems improved so much this year.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Should there be a list of the best emulators per hardware type?

 

[NardoBoom]

-_- I feel weird saying I'm still using emulators i used i downloaded from 2007 for gaming. Epsxe still works for me. Though I would like to take a look at that gopher64 n64 emulator. There are a couple games that project64 doesn't work.

"If it still works, why change it" is my motto aka not broken don't fix it reference,

download duckstation and never use epsxe again.