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Play and emulate games on your linux distro.

Do you remember Nintendo64box or SNES, and so on? Well you knew perhaps windows emulators, like mame32 and so on.There are a lot emulating resources for Linux box too.There are all kinds of for these gaming consoles.Once you have the emulator installed you have to download the ROMS (games).
This video show how to install SNES emulator on your linux ubuntu distro.




Some of linux consolle emulators

• AdvanceMAME
  
  An unofficial MAME emulator with an advanced video support for helping the use with TVs, Arcade Monitors, Fixed Frequencies Monitors and also for PC Monitors.
• ZSNES ZSNES is a Super Nintendo emulator. On April 2, 2001 the ZSNES project was GPL'ed and its source released to the public. It currently runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and DOS.
  

• AdvanceMENU
  
  A GNU/Linux and DOS frontend for the AdvanceMAME, AdvanceMESS, AdvancePAC, MAME, MESS and Raine emulators with a lot of unique features.

• ckmame
  
  ckmame checks ROM sets for MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. It tells you which ROM files are missing or have a wrong checksum, and can delete unknown and unused files from the ROM sets, and rename or move ROM files.

• ColEm
  
  A portable emulator of the old ColecoVision videogame system written in C. ColEm has been successfully tested on FreeBSD, HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, and other Unix systems.

• csnes9x
  
  csnes9x is a command-line based front-end to the snes9x projects program for running SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) ROM games. It allows you to chose a directory to load the ROMs from and will display a nice menu to load up your games.

• Cxmame
  
  CXmame is a simple console based frontend for xmame, written in C using the ncurses library. It should run on all GNU/linux boxes, and hopefully other Unices

• DAPHNE
  
  DAPHNE allows you to play laserdisc arcade games such as Dragon's Lair and Space Ace on your home computer.

• DarcNES
  
  A Multi-System emulator for DOS, Linux (XWindows and SVGALib), and FreeBSD (XWindows). It is currently distributed as source code and Linux binaries only.

• Dega/SDL
  
  A Sega Master System/Game Gear emulator, ported to SDL.

• ePSXe
  
  A Playstation emulator that supports a large number of games. Plays the games right off the original disc.

• FakeNES
  
  A portable, Open Source NES emulator which is written mostly in C, using the excellent Allegro library for cross-platform capabilities.

• FCE Ultra
  
  FCE Ultra is a NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and Famicom (Family Computer) emulator for a variety of different platforms, based on Bero's FCE. Game compatibility is very high, provided you provide non-corrupt ROM/disk images.

• Gambatte
  
  Gambatte is an accuracy-focused, cross-platform Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator. It is based on hundreds of corner case hardware tests, as well as previous documentation and reverse engineering efforts. The core emulation code is separated into a library back-end (libgambatte) and front-end user interfaces. There is a GUI that uses Trolltech's Qt4 toolkit (gambatte_qt), and a simple command-line SDL front-end (gambatte_sdl).

• Generator
  
  Generator is an open source emulator designed to emulate the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive console, a popular games machine produced in the early 1990s. It is a portable program written in C and has been ported to the Amiga, Macintosh, Windows and even pocket PCs such as the iPAQ and Cassiopeia. Natively it compiles under unix for X Windows with either tcl/tk or gtk/SDL, for svgalib and even cross-compiles to DOS with djgpp/allegro.
  

• GMAMEUI
  
  GMAMEUI is a front-end program that helps you run MAME on non-Windows platforms, allowing you to run your arcade games quickly and easily.

• GnoMAME
  
  GnoMAME is a GTK+ xmame frontend with all the basic features of a X11 frontend, the idea came from the MAME32 and MameCAT. Features include: Support for a lot of xmame configuration options through xmamerc, Xmame options autoprobing, Visualization of game preview/screenshots, and Sorting, search, filtering on the games list.

• GNOME Video Arcade
  
  GNOME Video Arcade is another very simple frontend for the xmame multiple arcade machine emulator Linux fork specifically for GNOME.

• GooSNES
  
  GooSNES is a little GTK+ frontend for SNES9x. It allows users to set SNES9x options without typing a pageful of command line options at a prompt. It also allows users to select a SNES image and launch SNES9x at a click.

• gzinc
  
  A graphical GNOME frontend for the zinc arcade game emulator.

• Hu-Go!
  
  Hu-Go! is a pc engine emulator. The PC Engine is a 8-16 bits console which had quite a great success in Japan from 1986, roughly, until early 90's.

• iNES
  
  An emulator of the NES/Famicom videogame console produced by Nintendo. It allows to run old NES games on PCs, Macs.

• InfoNES
  
  A Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for x86/Linux, PS2/Linux.

• IT-MAME
  
  IT-MAME is an TCL-TK Front end for the great xmame arcade emulator.

• jzIntv
  
  An Intellivision Emulator for Linux, Unix, Windows and MacOS.

• Kemulator
  
  Kemulator is a KDE emulator frontend written in C++ using the QT/KDE toolkit and licensed under the GPL. Kemulator provides a graphical user interface (GUI) with the ability to configure an emulator without touching the command line. The main interface simply presents the user with a list of available ROMs (games) to play.

• KiGB
  
  A free portable emulator for Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Super Gameboy for Windows, Linux, MS-DOS, and Mac OS X.

• KMameleon A smart, slick, easy and simple to use XMame wrapper. It supports a vast section of options provided by the emulator, and supports X11, SDL and XGL versions.

• KMameRun
  
  KMameRun is a KDE frontend for M.A.M.E. (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator).

• KnoppiXMAME
  
  KnoppiXMAME is a bootable CD/DVD image with hardware automatic probing and configuration for playing MAME games. No games are included, but they can be added to the ISO image, as well as new versions of X-MAME, gxmame, and the Linux kernel.

• KSnes9x
  
  KSnes9x is a KDE frontend for the Snes9x emulator. It features automatic saving of options, profiles and a easy to use interface.

• KTamaga
  
  KTamaga is a free Tamagotchi emulator for X-Window systems with KDE.

• Lefromoma
  
  Lefromoma is a simple mame frontend focused on cabinets. It features fullscreen, snapshots, a roms-list, a favorites-list (alphabetical), an ignore list, and scaling of a game. All actions are performed with the enter and arrow keys.

• Legacy
  
  Legacy is an application designed to recreate the nostalgic experience of playing retro "bootable" games - early 1980's PC games which were truly "plug-n-play" in that inserting the floppy disk and rebooting the computer would start the game automatically.

• lxdream
  
  lxdream is a Dreamcast emulator for Linux-based systems. It is currently in a usable state but is still in heavy development.

• MasterGear
  
  MasterGear provides emulation of several 8-bit SEGA consoles and home computers: the old SG1000/SC3000/SF7000 family, the MasterSystem, and the portable GameGear. MasterGear is using the same Z80 emulation as fMSX and ColEm.

• Mednafen
  
  Mednafen is an OpenGL command-line driven multi-system emulator with many advanced features. It emulates the Atari Lynx, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, NES, PC Engine (TurboGrafx 16), and SuperGrafx and has the ability to remap hotkey functions and virtual system inputs to a keyboard, a joystick, or both simultaneously. Save states are supported, as is real-time game rewinding. Screen snapshots may be taken at the press of a button, and are saved in the popular PNG file format.

• Modeler
  
  Modeler is an arcade emulator currently running Sega System 32, Sega System 32 Multi and Sega Model 1 (not yet playable) games. The emulator is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.

• Mupen64
  
  A n64 emulator designed to be multi-OS. It is developed on/for Linux but a Mac version is available.

• Mupen64Plus
  
  Mupen64Plus is a plugin-based N64 emulator for Linux which is capable of accurately playing many games. Included are four MIPS R4300 CPU emulators, with dynamic recompilers for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit amd64 systems, and necessary plugins for audio, graphical rendering (RDP), signal co-processor (RSP), and input. There are 3 OpenGL video plugins included: glN64, RiceVideoLinux, and Glide64.

• NeoPop-SDL
  
  NeoPop-SDL is the SDL port of NeoPop, a portable NeoGeo Pocket emulator. It supports black&white and color games, game state saving, screenshots (BMP and PNG), sound and music, double- and triple-size both in software and hardware scaling as well as full-screen-modes, joysticks and keyboard input, and reading ROMs directly from ZIP files.

• NEStopia Linux
  
  NEStopia Linux is the port of a Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that strives for the most accurate emulation possible.

• NEStra
  
  An open-source dynamic recompiler NES emulation for Linux/x86.

• Osmose
  
  A Linux Sega Master System Emulator.

• PCSX
  
  A working Playstation emulator for Linux.

• PCSX-DF
  
  PCSX-DF is a Playstation 1 emulator based on the PCSX project.

• PCSX2
  
  PCSX2 is a PlayStation 2 emulator for Windows and Linux, started by the same team that created PCSX (a Sony PlayStation 1 emulator).

• pLauncher
  
  pLauncher is a front-end (for Linux) to launch emulators with their roms. It is written in Perl and is licensed under the GPL. The pLauncher user interface was designed with Glade and uses libglade and Gtk-Perl.

• pNES
  
  pNES is a hacked-up version of nestra 0.64. It offers two major improvements over nestra: a tile-based rendering engine, and the use of Glide to render the tiles.

• pSX
  
  pSX is an easy to use Playstation 1 emulator in binary form.

• PyXmame
  
  Pyxmame is a free application that provides a simple frontend for the xmame, developed with PyGTK. It would have to run on all GNU/Linux boxes, but it only has been tested on Debian and Ubuntu.

• Qtmame
  
  A frontend to xmame. It supports configuration of multiple video modes, and shows snapshot, cabinets, flyers, mameinfo, and history.

• QTVBA
  
  A Qt 3.x and C++-based graphical frontend to the VisualBoyAdvance Nintendo Gameboy Advance Emulator.

• Raine
  
  A very fast 680xx arcade emulator. It is totally compatible with the DOS version, and it supports ModeX, SVGAlib, X, and X+DGA for the video by using Allegro.

• RbVBA
  
  RbVBA is an interface to your Gameboy ROM collection for use with the VisualBoyAdvance emulator. Currently it supports files with the extensions of gb, gbc, gba, gz and zip. It allows the display of screenshots taken with VisualBoyAdvance and additionally box art (covers) that you can download from the Internet.

• RockNES
  
  A NES 8-bit videogame emulator.

• SDLMAME
  
  SDLMAME is meant to be a replacement for the MIA xmame but has no connection with it otherwise. It has been separately developed from base MAME, the popular Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator that supports hundreds of machine chipsets with thousands of games from back in the 70s till today.

• SDLMESS
  
  SDLMESS is a fork of MESS, the Multiple Emulator Super System, to SDL, resulting in a mostly platform independent version.

• SharpNES
  
  SharpNES is a clean-room NES emulator using SDL and GTK#.

• Simple MAME FrontEnd
  
  A frontend for the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

• SNEmul
  
  A Super NES Emulator for the PC.

• snes9express
  
  Snes9express is a graphical interface for the X11 versions of snes9x, featuring an organized layout of common snes9x options.

• Snes9x
  
  Snes9x is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator. It basically allows you to play most games designed for the SNES and Super Famicom Nintendo game systems on your PC or Workstation; which includes some real gems that were only ever released in Japan.

• Snes9x Python Launcher
  
  The Snes9x Python Launcher is a terminal/text based frontend for the Snes9x emulator. Planned features include enabling all command line switches for Snes9x and support for multiple directories. It is working, but rather buggy at the moment, crashing if anything violates the boundaries of the script.

• Sope
  
  Sope is an open-source Playstation emulator for Linux/Unix Systems. It is still in a quite early stage, but most demos now work. It uses interpretive emulation, but a dynamic recompilation core is available for the Alpha and the x86 processors.

• System16
  
  An emulator of the sega system16 arcade machines.

• TkDgen
  
  A Tcl/Tk GUI front-end for DGen, an emulator of the Genesis video game console. It displays a list of available ROMs, and it can display a game screenshot when a ROM is selected in the list.

• TkMAME
  
  A graphical front end for xmame written in Tcl/Tk.

• TrueReality
  
  An N64 emulator that is targetted primarily at UNIX-based systems.

• TTL Xmame
  
  TTL Xmame is an SDLmame GUI front end. (It was previously targeted for Xmame, but Xmame seems to be dead). The main feature of TTL Xmame is the ability to quickly hide or display any of the loaded filters at any time. The filters can be user-supplied.

• Turaco CL
  
  Turaco CL is a command-line based tool for extracting sprite/bank based graphic imagery from Arcade game ROMs into a common graphics file format so that you can view and edit them in a paint program. You can then use Turaco CL to take these extracted graphics and convert them back into Arcade game ROMs to be burned out to EPROMS and installed into arcade games.

• TuxArcade
  
  A multi-emulator frontend. It's designed for arcade cabinets, so it doesn't need a keyboard and a mouse, but is completely configurable via joystick. It includes theme support.

• TuxNES
  
  TuxNES is an emulator for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. Currently, the emulator has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD, all running on i386 processors. TuxNES is a continuation of Nestra.

• uCON64
  
  uCON64 is a tool to backup all kinds of video game media (cartridges and CDs). It can operate as an intelligent frontend for every available emulator. uCON64 uses code from various people.

• VBA Express
  
  VBA Express, a front end to the GameBoy Advance emulator VisualBoyAdvance for Linux.

• VGB-GUI
  
  VGB-GUI is for launching and configuring VGB, a GameBoy emulator.

• Virtual Gameboy Emulator
  
  Virtual GameBoy (VGB) is an emulator of the GameBoy videogame handheld produced by Nintendo. It runs GameBoy, Super GameBoy, and GameBoy Color games on PCs, Macs, PocketPCs, or just about any other sufficiently fast computer in existence. It can also help to debug GameBoy software without using a costly development system.

• Virtual Jaguar
  
  A portable Jaguar emulator which is based on the source code released by David Raingeard (Cal2) of Potato Emulation.

• Visualboy Advance
  
  A GBA emulator for Linux featuring great speed, excellent compatiblity, sound support, savestates, cheat functions, and multiple languages.

• Wah!Cade
  
  Wah!Cade is a GUI front-end to the xmame emulator for arcade games. It's a clone of the Windows only program MameWAH.

• X-Mame
  
  The X11/Unix port of the MultiArcade Machine Emulator project.

• X-MESS
  
  A free emulator that can emulate a variety of systems. The current release (0.1) supports the NES, Sega Genesis/Megadrive, TRS-80, Colour Genie, and Colecovision. It is written in C and the source code is available for download.

• XGngeo
  
  XGngeo is a frontend (GUI) for Gngeo which is a powerful command line Neo Geo emulator. With XGngeo multiple configuration panels, designed in an intuitive way, emulator behaviour can be regulated both precisely and easily; while Rom selection is made simple thanks to a full featured list with preview image and various game information, etc.

• Xmame-fe
  
  The primary goal of xmame-fe is to have a front end for xmame that can handle all the options of xmame without needing to be modified every time the options change. The second goal is to handle multiple configurations. Xmame-fe requires Tcl/TK.

• Yabause
  
  Yabause is a Sega Saturn emulator under GNU GPL. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and is being ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

• Zinc
  
  Zinc is a command line emulator that focuses in emulating the ZN1, ZN2 and System 11 arcade hardware which are based on Playstation hardware.

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