thepacman Posted Tuesday at 09:09 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 09:09 PM If you've ever wished OpenEmu existed on Windows, that's basically why I built this. Emutastic is a free, open-source emulator frontend for Windows using libretro cores. I grabbed Claude and got to work building what I always wanted — a clean, organized way to manage and play retro games without juggling a dozen separate emulators. I haven't done any testing on Windows 10 or with AMD GPUs yet, and I've been the only tester so far — so bug reports are welcome. Supported Systems NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Game Boy, GBA, DS, 3DS, Genesis, Sega CD, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PSP, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket, WonderSwan, Vectrex, Virtual Boy, TurboGrafx-16, MSX, Arcade, and more. Features - Automatic game library with box art and metadata - Per-game save states and saves - Video recording for both 2D and 3D games — no extra software needed - Shader support - RetroAchievements integration - Theme support with a visual theme editor - Controller support with per-system mappings - Automatic BIOS detection - CHD and compressed archive support One thing I haven't tackled yet is EmuMovies integration. Right now artwork and metadata come from ScreenScraper's API. The scaffolding is in place to support multiple sources though — so if anyone from the team is around or has experience with their API, I'd love to make it happen. Built with WPF/.NET 8. Source and releases on GitHub: https://github.com/codingncaffeine/Emutastic Happy to hear feedback — still early days but it's been my daily driver for a while now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circo Posted Thursday at 12:47 AM Share Posted Thursday at 12:47 AM On 4/14/2026 at 2:09 PM, thepacman said: If you've ever wished OpenEmu existed on Windows, that's basically why I built this. Emutastic is a free, open-source emulator frontend for Windows using libretro cores. I grabbed Claude and got to work building what I always wanted — a clean, organized way to manage and play retro games without juggling a dozen separate emulators. I haven't done any testing on Windows 10 or with AMD GPUs yet, and I've been the only tester so far — so bug reports are welcome. Supported Systems NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Game Boy, GBA, DS, 3DS, Genesis, Sega CD, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PSP, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket, WonderSwan, Vectrex, Virtual Boy, TurboGrafx-16, MSX, Arcade, and more. Features - Automatic game library with box art and metadata - Per-game save states and saves - Video recording for both 2D and 3D games — no extra software needed - Shader support - RetroAchievements integration - Theme support with a visual theme editor - Controller support with per-system mappings - Automatic BIOS detection - CHD and compressed archive support One thing I haven't tackled yet is EmuMovies integration. Right now artwork and metadata come from ScreenScraper's API. The scaffolding is in place to support multiple sources though — so if anyone from the team is around or has experience with their API, I'd love to make it happen. Built with WPF/.NET 8. Source and releases on GitHub: https://github.com/codingncaffeine/Emutastic Happy to hear feedback — still early days but it's been my daily driver for a while now. Sounds great! Have any screenshots or a video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepacman Posted Thursday at 01:55 AM Author Share Posted Thursday at 01:55 AM 1 hour ago, Circo said: Sounds great! Have any screenshots or a video? I do have a screenshot, happy to share! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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