#2177
Cxbx is the world's first Microsoft Xbox emulator for Windows, developed by a group of programmers led by Caustik from Canada, written in C++. And it is tiny (100+ KB), fast, completely free and open source.

#2096
Citra (AKA: eMu3Ds) is currently the only still living 3DS emulator for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android platforms. It is written in C++ and open source, and can run partial 3DS classic games better. Although supporting all HD 3DS games has a long distance, yet from the official news we are sure this is not far off.

#2028
Dolphin is currently the only best game emulator for Nintendo GameCube, Wii and Triforce game consoles on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Android platforms (both 32-bit & 64-bit). Moreover, it's open source and free to use, developed by the PPSSPP's author - Henrik Rydgård from Sweden.

#1939
NO$GBA (short for Nocash Game Boy Advance, AKA: No Cash GBA) is an NDS (Nintendo Dual Screen)/NDS Lite/GBA (GameBoy Advance) all-in-one emulator for both MS-DOS and Windows platforms which are perfectly compatible with most NDS games.

#1938
Many people only know there is an NO$GBA, but maybe not know it also has a magnifier front plugin - NO$Zoomer. Although it just acts as an add-on tool, it can greatly enhance the performance of NO$GBA, and will really solve the problem of a lot of games can not work well on NDS emulators.

#1559
VirtuaNES is an open source, very powerful video game emulator for Family Computer (Famicom/FC) / Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom Disk System (FDS), programmed by Norix from Japan.

#1555
Project64 (PJ64 for short) is a free and open-source Nintendo 64 (N64) game console emulator for Windows platform. It has very high game compatibility and dispenses with the BIOS files, allows users to play the classic N64 games on the computer with ease.

#1549
As one the best arcade game emulators for PC as popular as Nebula and MAME, Kawaks (also known as WinKawaks) is written based on Motorola 68000 chip, which can comprehensively and perfectly support games for CPS1/2 substrate of Capcom and Neo Geo substrate of SNK, easy to use and very powerful.

#1541
VisualBoyAdvance (VBA for short) is the number one, the most successful and most popular handheld emulator in the history of Game Boy Advance emulation. It is also one of the best video game emulators, and it's completely free and open source.

#1540
MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free, open source arcade game emulator for Windows users, it is also the most familiar to players from all over the world and one of the most commonly used game emulators.