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Blast from the past: 10 emulators for Android

Blast from the past: 10 emulators for Android

Posted: 07 Feb 2013, 07:15, by Nick T.

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Blast from the past: 10 emulators for Android

Ah, the magic of emulators – those neat applications that make software run on hardware it was never supposed to be compatible with! They have been around for quite some time allowing us to play old-school video games on our computers. But now that smartphones have grown capable enough, all sorts of emulators have been developed for mobile platforms as well. Today we're bringing you 10 emulators for Android – emulators that can be used for playing retro video games, but also for getting familiar with computer systems from 30 years ago. Check them out, throw on some games, and have fun! Just don't ask us where to get ROMs (games for emulators) from as we won't tell you.

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1. SonyXperiaNexus posted on 07 Feb 2013, 10:21 1 0

Yeah metal slug rocks!!!

4. SonyXperiaNexus posted on 07 Feb 2013, 10:43 1 0

no school like the old school. old IS Gold

2. jchuamanl posted on 07 Feb 2013, 10:33 1 0

No N64 or SNES emulators?

3. Jonathan41 posted on 07 Feb 2013, 10:39 0 0

There out there. They just didn't make the list for some reason.

5. koloss posted on 07 Feb 2013, 12:23 0 0

is there one for psp ??

9. bachelorrn0121 posted on 07 Feb 2013, 19:10 0 0

http://www.ppsspp.org/ - it is still in dev.. but some games are working..

6. ocilfa posted on 07 Feb 2013, 13:24 2 0

I'm not sure why they listed ePSXe instead of FPse. FPse is miles ahead easily.

7. Mxyzptlk posted on 07 Feb 2013, 14:15 6 1

I think this list is incomplete without SNES emulators being mentioned.

11. jroc74 posted on 08 Feb 2013, 00:42 1 0

NES too.

8. faisolbauuz posted on 07 Feb 2013, 16:57 0 0

WHat about Psp or nds emu on android there is one out there called ppsspp and dsoid

10. jsdechavez posted on 08 Feb 2013, 00:10 0 0

They can't. Sony had them banned already I guess.

12. faisolbauuz posted on 08 Feb 2013, 02:45 0 0

Lol if sony was banning emulators there is no fpse pcsx2 or ppsspp emulators are legal roms are not

13. reflex62 posted on 13 Apr 2013, 14:38 0 0

This list was very helpful but I agree with the others there is no mention of NES or SNES emulators. I recently got Jnes for Android and it's great, if there is an update to this article I'd include that.

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