OpenEmu/OpenEmu
🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
44/100
- Activity 48
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5735
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 315
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
17726 stars · 1354 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
OpenEmu is an open-source retro video game emulator for macOS that unifies multiple emulation engine backends behind a native Cocoa front end. It organizes ROMs into a unified games library with box art and supports gamepads via a modular plugin architecture.
Use cases
- play retro console games on mac
- emulate NES SNES Genesis on macOS
- organize a retro game ROM library with box art
- use a USB or Bluetooth gamepad with an emulator
- one emulator app for many consoles
- play Game Boy and Nintendo DS games on Mac
When to choose
- you are on macOS and want a polished, native multi-console emulator
- you want automatic library organization and box art for your ROMs
- you want plug-and-play gamepad support across many systems
When to avoid
- you need emulation on Windows or Linux
- you need advanced per-core configuration or netplay that dedicated emulators offer
- you need a console not listed among its supported cores
Facets
application · maturity active
game-engine gui plugin-system gaming-tools operating-systems entertainment retro-gaming emulation game-emulator rom-library gamepad-support objective-c swift macos desktop
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu · fetched 2026-08-28 · af0b1a744b53
- homepage: https://openemu.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · c7d820298555
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| OpenEmu/OpenEmu | main | 44 |
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