Instead, it's a robust front end for other console emulators. OpenEmu to the RescueOriginally released in 2013, OpenEmu is not actually an emulator in and of itself. This time around, I wanted to touch on the Mac side, primarily because of a huge development that has changed the vintage console gaming scene for the better: OpenEmu. When researching that article, I ran into the aforementioned problem pretty often. Four years ago, I wrote a lengthy story for our sister site ExtremeTech about how to play retro video games on a modern PC. Then Windows or Mac OS updates render languishing emulators unstable or otherwise unusable.ĭon't despair, though. Other emulators fall out of favor as developers move on to different projects. Dedicated volunteer programmers develop better emulators in an effort to improve accuracy and add features.
