See also: Other Emulators.

Tell us if one of the entries is wrong or if you can resolve one of the "Unknown" ones to a "Yes" or "No". If in doubt, just test it yourself.

Emulator	Windows	Linux	Mac OS X
BizHawk	Yes	No	Yes (with Mono)[5]
Dega (altered versions)	Yes	Yes	Unknown
DeSmuME	Yes	Yes (with Wine)[7]	Unknown[7]
Dolphin	Yes	Yes	Yes
FCE Ultra	Yes	Unknown	Unknown
FCEUX	Yes	Yes	Yes
FinalBurnAlpha	Yes	Yes (with Wine)	Unknown
Gens	Yes	Yes (with Wine)[6]	Unknown
Hourglass[3]	Yes	No	No
libTAS[3]	No	Yes	No
lsnes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mednafen-rr	Yes	Yes	Unknown
Mupen64-rr	Yes	Yes (with Wine)	Unknown
openMSX	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pcejin	Yes	Unknown	Unknown
PCSX	Yes	Unknown	Unknown
PSXjin	Yes	Unknown	Unknown
Snes9x[4]	Yes	Yes	Yes
VisualBoyAdvance	Yes	Yes (with Wine)	Unknown
VBjin	Yes	Unknown	Unknown
Yabause	Yes	Unknown	Unknown

Explanation:

• "Yes": The emulator compiles and runs. Limitations are given via annotations (e.g. "Yes (with Wine)") or footnotes.
• "No": The emulator does not compile or run at all (even with Wine or Mono).
• "Unknown": It is neither known whether the emulator compiles nor whether it runs at all.

• Using: Instructions on how to perform common tasks on different emulators. For more specifications, see each emulator's Source Code Repository.
• Platform resources: Contains knowledge and notes for TASing various platforms using BizHawk cores.
• Encoding Guide: Instructions on how to encode movies into high quality multimedia files suitable for easy viewing. (You do not need this for submitting movies.)

• Recent emulator updates: Recent changes to the rerecording emulators.
• Recent emulator bug reports: Recent bug reports for the rerecording emulators.
• Desired features: Lists emulator features wished by users and compares the features of different emulators.
• Development: List information about source code projects, how to compile, and how to contribute to emulator development.
• Potential emulators: List of ideas for developers. Lists non-approved open source emulators with links and status of their development.
• TASVideos Requirements: Lists emulator features required by this site.

• NES emulator accuracy tests
• Game Boy emulator accuracy tests
• SNES emulator accuracy tests
• Playstation emulator accuracy tests (Archived mirror, relevant Reddit post)

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[1]: Mednafen-rr supports all flavors of TurboGrafx/PC-Engine, including CD-ROM, as well as Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket/Color, and WonderSwan/Color. It also supports PC-FX, but only for the Linux version.

[2] The older .gz extension is no longer supported.

[3] Technically speaking, Hourglass and libTAS are not emulators. They are API translation layers between the game and the operating system.

[4] Movies using Snes9x v1.43 are not accepted unless a continuance is granted. Movies using Snes9x v1.51 or newer are accepted but the emulator is deprecated.

[5] Working cores for the Mono branch include NES, SMS/GG/SG-1000, TI-83, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, PCE. There's no support for Lua.

[6] AVI capture may be dysfunctional.

[7] Some tools may not work or look garbled (e.g. Memory viewer) and various (minor or major) bugs may occur. There are native versions, but those don't seem to have rerecording. Alternatively, a Windows virtual machine may be used (though it runs rather slow).

[8] Dolphin versions prior to 4.0-3595 are deprecated and will not be accepted in the future.