Best Android Emulators

Having owned and been enjoying an Android powered retro handheld, the Powkiddy X18s for a couple of weeks now I’m of the opinion that, with it’s superb choice of high quality and great looking and performing emulators Android is the best platform for retrogaming for sure, detailed below are some of the best emulators in my opinion :

Redream (Sega Dreamcast) - A great looking emulator for Dreamcast offering perfect performance with an easy to use and attractive interface automatically downloading the box art too for your selected games.

Drastic (Nintendo DS) - Offers a choice of screen layouts for the Nintendo DS games, you can either display the screens side-by-side, top and bottom or switch between them, again the games run perfectly and is really great to use.

M64 Plus FZ Pro (Nintendo 64) - My favourite emulator for Nintendo 64, again like Redream it automatically downloads the box art for your games offering a visually attractive interface and perfect performance even on Goldeneye!

John GBAC (GameBoy and GameBoy Color) - There are a couple of reasons why this is my favourite emulator for GameBoy and GameBoy Color, one is that full support for Super GameBoy enhanced titles is built-in, it automatically scans your device for the games saving you the job of doing so, it is also possible in the Settings to choose the correct original green palette for GameBoy titles and to top it all off performance is perfect, there is an advert which appears after exiting each game but an optional in-app purchase is available for £3.99 to remove these.  Also when exiting a game you are automatically given the option to save your progress.  A really excellent emulator

Virtual Virtual Boy (Nintendo Virtual Boy) - I am constantly surprised that with the complex nature of Virtual Boy games that emulation of them is possible at all let alone as perfect as they are on this emulator, they look and play great!

PPSSPP Gold (Sony PlayStation Portable) - An emulator for the PSP offering a wealth of tinkering options in the settings for getting the best out of the games, again a visually attractive emulator thanks to the game icons displayed, and it performs great, even God of War : Chains of Olympus runs pretty much perfectly on my X18s, a title which has always struggled on my Anbernic handhelds, the best choice for PSP.

These are just some of the many great emulators available for Android, there are many more great ones available but these are my personal favourites, happy emulating!