Mednafen (GBC)

Revisit the glory of pixel colors as you play the most popular Game Boy Color games of all time with the Mednafen multi-console emulator.

Mednafen, which is a short word for "My Emulator Doesn't Need A Frickin' Excellent Name", is an excellent and versatile multi-system emulator that can handle a wide variety of gaming consoles including all Game Boy Consoles, Famicom, SNES, and PlayStation 1, among many others. Unlike many emulators, Mednafen focuses entirely on providing highly accurate emulation with very high compatibility. As a result, this wonderful emulator has been known to outperform many other emulators including official emulators in accuracy tests. However, as a drawback, Mednafen utilizes a shell-only interface where you need to do most things manually - making it far from being user-friendly. Users must also first download the correct BIOS files to emulate any ROM.

Fortunately, this lack of UI can be resolved by installing third-party software and launchers that are available. Although Mednafen utilizes different cores to emulate a wide variety of games, this open-source project includes original cores for PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Virtual Boy, and TurboGrafx-16 which are known to boast higher quality, compatibility, and accuracy.