GEKKO C64 vs BigPEmu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GEKKO C64
Experience classic gaming with this fast and user-friendly emulator for the Commodore 64. It accurately recreates the graphics, floppy drive, and tape loading, supporting joysticks and wireless controllers. Easily load games, software, and even SID music files.
- Commodore 64 emulation
- 1541 Floppy Drive emulation
- Tape emulation
- Joystick support (Port 1 & 2)
- Fast loading
- SID music player
- Wireless joypad support
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GEKKO C64 Emulator is a Commodore 64 emulation, fast and easy to use completely programmed from scratch. GEKKO C64 emulate the graphic, the 1541 Floppy Drive, and the Tape. Joystick in Port 1 and 2 switch, fast load and many other features. How it works: - Press DISK... and choose a game or a software - Press LOAD * to load and run automatically. - If a game has an intro, press SPACE or RUN STOP - Switch Joystick PORT 1/2 and press FIRE - If you need to insert text or press a key you can use the command line - To load a SID song, choose a Sid file and press LOAD SID. A player will be opened. - Use the RESET button, to reset the emulator. - Wireless Joypad supported!! Enjoy!!
BigPEmu
This application emulates the Atari Jaguar console, offering high accuracy and performance for its entire retail game library. It provides advanced features like saved states, movie recording, and customizable controller support, enhancing the classic gaming experience.
- Full retail library compatibility
- High performance emulation
- Accurate emulation
- Saved states and movie recording
- Jaguar CD support
- Customizable controller overlays
- Fast forward and rewind
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BigPEmu is the first Atari Jaguar emulator to feature compatibility with the entire retail library, along with excellent performance and a wide variety of unique features: • Fast. The emulator runs the entire Jaguar retail library (with default settings) at full speed on most devices. • Accurate. It's the most accurate Jaguar emulator to-date, although it's still being improved all the time. • Better than hardware. Although the emulator defaults to settings which are catered toward compatibility and accuracy, it's capable of far more. BigPEmu enables you to play lots of Jaguar games at a full 60 frames per second for the first time ever! • Saved states and movies. Everything is completely deterministic, just like real life. That's right, I went there. This means that all "randomness" is also controlled by a preserved seed. BigPEmu can record movies from nothing but controller inputs, and play them back with perfect accuracy. You can even interrupt a movie's playback and start playing yourself at any point. • Jaguar CD support. In addition to supporting the entire retail disc library (along with Memory Track), complete hardware emulation means that the Virtual Light Machine is fully functional. Also featured is a virtual disc system with an audio loopback option, allowing the VLM to be used as a native audio/music visualizer. • Excessive presentation detail. There's native support for the Jaguar Game Drive's MRQ format in the software browser (as well as box art sourced from PNG files), support for global and per-game backgrounds, and even support for controller overlays! Everything about the touch overlay for the iOS port is fully customizable, from appearance to collision boxes. • Extra device support. Featuring emulated device support for analog controllers (both via external bank switching and the ADC), driving controllers, rotary controllers, and Team Tap. For native input devices, the iOS port supports any MFi "Extended Gamepad" type device as well as keyboards through Apple's Game Controller API. • Glorious shaders. The emulator comes equipped with a powerful, fully customizable postprocessing system. The system supports any type of effect you can imagine, from applying smoothing filters to simulating CRT displays. • Per-game profiles. Mapping the Atari Jaguar controller to anything other than a telephone with wings can get a little complicated, so you might want to switch your controller mapping up for different games. You can do that! With per-game profiles, you can automatically load up a new input scheme (or any other emulator setting) each time you load a game. • Time travel. Native fast forwarding and rewinding capability means you can speed forward through time or go back in time whenever you please. • Flexible scripting. BigPEmu features a powerful scripting system. The emulator comes with a variety of scripts to enhance popular Jaguar games in amazing ways, from analog controller support to native-resolution and stereoscopic rendering! • The usual. Enjoy all of the emulator niceties you've come to expect in modern times. Automatic preservation of EEPROM, PAL support, custom boot ROM images, native support for multiple display aspect ratios, resolution scaling, custom display cropping, extremely customizable input, and a whole lot more. BigPEmu and Swinecrafters LLC are in no way affiliated with Atari. The name "Atari" and all associated game console names are the property of their respective owners.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BigPEmu at 94% against GEKKO C64's 15%. BigPEmu also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.5) and ads (none vs shown). GEKKO C64's advantage is price (Free vs $9.99) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15). On ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
GEKKO C64 is free to download; BigPEmu costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BigPEmu holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of GEKKO C64's written reviews are positive against 94% of BigPEmu's.
| Parameter | GEKKO C64 | BigPEmu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 2.5 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews | 94.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | +9 |
| Developer | Gennaro Coda | Swinecrafters LLC |
Customer experience
GEKKO C64
BigPEmu
In-app purchases
GEKKO C64
No in-app purchases
BigPEmu
No in-app purchases









