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Top 22 Rust Emulation Projects
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Steam-Deck-Guide
Steam Deck Guide. Learn all about the Tools, Accessories, Games, Emulators, and Gaming Tips that will make your Steam Deck an awesome Gaming Handheld or a Portable Computer Workstation.
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InfluxDB
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shadow
Shadow is a discrete-event network simulator that directly executes real application code, enabling you to simulate distributed systems with thousands of network-connected processes in realistic and scalable private network experiments using your laptop, desktop, or server running Linux. (by shadow)
Project mention: Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-07What's the advantage of integrating this at a library level instead of just compiling it and running in Shadow? https://github.com/shadow/shadow
- Project mention: The Gameboy emulator that runs everywhere (Terminal, Web, Desktop) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-23
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gdbstub
An ergonomic, featureful, and easy-to-integrate implementation of the GDB Remote Serial Protocol in Rust (with no-compromises #![no_std] support)
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moa
An emulator for various m68k and z80 based computers, written in Rust. Currently it has support for the Sega Genesis, TRS-80, and Computie (my own project), with Macintosh support in the works (by transistorfet)
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ym2149-rs
Cycle-accurate YM2149 PSG emulator with real-time audio playback and visualization. Includes a Bevy plugin for easy integration into game engines and creative projects. Supports SNDH, GIST, Arkos-Tracker 2/3 & YM2-YM6 and AY formats with drag-and-drop file loading.
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solchip8
SolChip8 is the first 100% on-chain Chip8 emulator smart contract where you can run chip8 games on EVM
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ts7200
A high-level emulator for the TS-7200 Single Board Computer, as used in CS 452 - Real-Time Programming at the University of Waterloo
Project mention: FOSDEM 2025: The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video] | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-10The University of Waterloo has a similar course, CS452: Real-time Programming.
It’s not quite the same as having physical access to the train set, but some student eventually wrote a simulator for the Märklin train set [0]. Some other student wrote an emulator for the TS-7200 used for the class [1] if you don’t want to run your kernel in QEMU.
[0] https://github.com/Martin1994/MarklinSim
[1] https://github.com/daniel5151/ts7200
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Emulation projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steam-Deck-Guide | 2,129 |
| 2 | shadow | 1,638 |
| 3 | gameboy | 844 |
| 4 | martypc | 778 |
| 5 | gopher64 | 775 |
| 6 | retrowin32 | 660 |
| 7 | uvm | 575 |
| 8 | gdbstub | 371 |
| 9 | chip8-book | 286 |
| 10 | rust64 | 275 |
| 11 | oxyromon | 166 |
| 12 | moa | 62 |
| 13 | sleigh-rs | 44 |
| 14 | gbc | 42 |
| 15 | ym2149-rs | 38 |
| 16 | solchip8 | 34 |
| 17 | ts7200 | 30 |
| 18 | dream86 | 27 |
| 19 | nestadia | 22 |
| 20 | GBMU | 15 |
| 21 | rusty-nes | 15 |
| 22 | nes-rs | 3 |
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