Simple. Minimal. Unembellished. Yes, yes... Jolly Good!
Jolly Good Emulation is a preservation oriented emulation project with a focus on reusability. As a side effect, it offers emulation technology that extreme minimalists may find tolerable.
System | Emulator Core |
---|---|
Atari 7800 | ProSystem JG |
Atari Lynx | Mednafen |
ColecoVision | JollyCV |
Nintendo Entertainment System (FDS) | Nestopia JG |
Super Nintendo Entertainment System | bsnes-jg |
Nintendo Game Boy/Game Boy Color | Gambatte JG |
Nintendo Game Boy Advance | mGBA |
Nintendo Virtual Boy | Mednafen |
Sega SG-1000/Master System | Cega |
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis (CD) | Genesis Plus GX |
Sega 32X | PicoDrive |
Sega Saturn | Mednafen |
Sega Game Gear | Cega |
NEC PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 (CD) | Mednafen |
SNK Neo Geo AES/MVS | Geolith |
SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color | Mednafen |
Sony PlayStation | Mednafen |
WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color | Mednafen |
Vectrex | Vecx JG |
The Jolly Good Reference Frontend, licensed under the BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" license, and the reference implementation of The Jolly Good API, licensed under the zlib License, are Free and Open-Source Software. Some emulators are not Free Software due to non-commercial clauses, but are compatible with these licenses.
In most jurisdictions, you are legally permitted to format shift the games you own to be played using emulators. There is also a wealth of free homebrew available.
API | 1.0.0 |
Frontend | 1.2.0 |
The software and all components are considered stable unless otherwise noted.
Please do not report issues to upstream emulator developers, unless they are also in the upstream build.