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          * Bandai - Wonderswan Compatibility List
      
       * ColecoVision Emulation
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          * Commodore - 8-bit (VICE)
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       * GCE Emulation
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       * Mattel Emulation
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          * Mattel - Intellivision (FreeIntv)
      
       * Microsoft Emulation
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       * Nintendo Emulation
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          * Nintendo - SNES / Famicom (higan Accuracy)
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          * Nintendo - SNES / Famicom (Snes9x 2005)
          * Nintendo - SNES / Famicom (Snes9x 2010)
          * Nintendo - SNES / Famicom (Snes9x)
          * Nintendo - Virtual Boy (Beetle VB)
      
       * NEC Emulation
         NEC Emulation
          * NEC - PC-FX Compatibility List
          * NEC - PC-8000 / PC-8800 series (QUASI88)
          * NEC - PC-98 (Neko Project II Kai)
          * NEC - PC Engine SuperGrafx (Beetle SGX)
          * NEC - PC Engine / CD (Beetle PCE FAST)
          * NEC - PC-FX (Beetle PC-FX)
      
       * Phillips Emulation
         Phillips Emulation
          * Magnavox - Odyssey2 / Phillips Videopac+ (O2EM)
      
       * RISC-V Emulation
         RISC-V Emulation
          * RVVM - RISC-V Virtual Machine
      
       * SNK Emulation
         SNK Emulation
          * SNK - Neo Geo Pocket / Color (Beetle NeoPop)
          * SNK - Neo Geo Pocket / Color (RACE)
      
       * Sega Emulation
         Sega Emulation
          * Cannonball
          * Sega - 32X Compatibility List
          * Sega - Dreamcast Compatibility List
          * Sega - Saturn Compatibility List
          * Sega - Dreamcast (flycast)
          * Sega - Dreamcast (redream)
          * Sega - Dreamcast VMU (VeMUlator)
          * Sega - Master System (Emux SMS)
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          * Sega - MD/CD (BlastEm)
          * Sega - Saturn (Beetle Saturn)
          * Sega - Saturn/ST-V (Kronos)
          * Sega - Saturn (Yabause)
          * Sega - Saturn (YabaSanshiro)
          * MSX/SVI/ColecoVision/SG-1000 (blueMSX)
      
       * Sharp Emulation
         Sharp Emulation
          * Sharp - X68000 (PX68k)
      
       * Sinclair Emulation
         Sinclair Emulation
          * Sinclair - ZX 81 (EightyOne)
          * Sinclair - ZX Spectrum (Fuse)
      
       * Sony Emulation
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          * Sony - PlayStation 2 (PCSX2)
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       * SpectraVision Emulation
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          * MSX/SVI/ColecoVision/SG-1000 (blueMSX)
      
       * Texas Instruments Emulation
         Texas Instruments Emulation
          * Texas Instruments - TI-83 (Numero)
      
       * Thomson Emulation
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          * Thomson - MO/TO (Theodore)
      
       * MegaDuck Emulation
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          * Welback Holdings - Mega Duck (SameDuck)
   
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          * XO-CHIP/CHIP-8 (JAXE)
          * CHIP-8 (Emux)
      
       * Dinothawr
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       * Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
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       * Handheld Electronic (GW)
       * Jump n Bump
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    * Core Library: Special-Purpose
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       * xbr
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