KotRetro8 vs Super Emu

KotRetro8 is a fast and accurate classic 8-bit game console emulator with support for save states, rewind, cheats, gamepads, and a wide range of cartridge and disk-based formats. FEATURES • Wide game compatibility — Supports many mapper types and hardware configurations • Disk support — Play supported disk images with disk-side switching and dedicated sound support • Expansion audio — Faithful audio emulation for a variety of supported sound hardware • Save states — 20 slots per game with screenshot thumbnails, plus auto-resume that picks up right where you left off • Quick save/load — Instant save and restore mapped to your gamepad • Playback controls — Pause and resume from the on-screen HUD. While paused, advance one frame at a time with +1. Hold TURBO for fast-forward • Rewind — Automatic snapshots every 5 seconds let you jump back up to 60 seconds. Undo mistakes with an on-screen button, a gamepad shortcut, or the thumbnail timeline • Movie recording — Record your play as an FM2 movie from power-on or from the current position. Replay it later and rerecord from a save state • Cheats — Enter supported cheat codes or raw address:value cheats, saved per game • Controller support — Connect Bluetooth or USB gamepads with full button remapping, including two-player play • On-screen controls — Customizable touch gamepad with turbo A/B buttons • Speed control — Slow down or fast-forward from 0.25x to 4x • Arcade support — Supported arcade titles with coin, service, and DIP switch settings • Display options — Overscan cropping and pixel-perfect scaling • Convenient library — Recent games list with thumbnails, ZIP file support, and one-tap resume of your last game • Available in English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, and Korean REQUIREMENTS • You must provide your own legally obtained game files. KotRetro8 does not include any games or BIOS files. • BIOS files required by supported formats must be provided by the user. • KotRetro8 does not provide copyrighted game content. KotRetro8 focuses on accurate emulation, broad hardware compatibility, and a clean interface for managing your own legally obtained game files.

SuperEmu is a fast, beautiful emulator for the handhelds and consoles you grew up with, built natively for iPhone and iPad with the new Liquid Glass design. ONE LIBRARY FOR YOUR CLASSICS • Plays Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, Game Boy, Super Nintendo (SNES) and NES games. • Add games from the Files app, “Open in…”, or by copying them into the SuperEmu folder. • Artwork is captured automatically from your last session. Filter by system or search by title. CONTROLS MADE FOR EVERY CONSOLE • Multitouch buttons laid out for each system, with an 8-way D-pad, sliding between buttons and haptic feedback. • Full support for MFi, Xbox and PlayStation controllers and hardware keyboards. • Touch controls step aside automatically when you pick up a controller. REWIND, SAVE, SPEED UP • Rewind: hold L2 + R2 and jump back up to 20 seconds, then pick the exact moment to play from. • Save states: 4 slots per game with thumbnails and timestamps. • Fast-forward at 2×, 3× or 4×. SYNCED WITH iCLOUD • In-game saves, save states and thumbnails sync between your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud Drive. • Games are matched by their file’s fingerprint, so progress follows you across devices. ROOM LINK — PLAY TOGETHER ONLINE • Create a room, share the 5-letter code, and play with a friend over the internet through Game Center. • Handheld games connect like a link cable: trade, battle and play versus modes. • Console games play like two controllers plugged into the same machine. LOOKS THE WAY YOU REMEMBER • Pixel-perfect scaling plus Metal filters: Sharp, Smooth, LCD Grid, Scanline, CRT, color correction, Retro Green and Scale2x. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Your games and saves stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. IMPORTANT SuperEmu does not include any games. Play only games you own or that are legally free to use, such as homebrew. SuperEmu is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Nintendo. All product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. Open-source emulation cores: mGBA (MPL 2.0), Snes9x (Snes9x license, non-commercial) and FCEUmm (GPL 2.0).