| Beetle PSX HW | Sony PlayStation | A fork of Mednafen's PSX providing GPU-accelerated renderers for OpenGL and Vulkan |
| Beetle Saturn | Sega Saturn | |
| Beetle SuperGrafx | NEC PC Engine/SuperGrafx | |
| Beetle Supafaust | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| Beetle VB | Nintendo Virtual Boy | |
| BK | BK-0010/BK-0011(M)/Terak 8510-a | A port of the PDP11 emulator to libretro. This core emulates the PDP-11/03 platform. |
| BlastEm | Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) | |
| blueMSX | MSX/SVI/ColecoVision/SG-1000 | |
| bnes | Nintendo NES/Famicom | |
| boom 3 | Game engine | A port of the Doom 3 engine to libretro. There is a separate core for it's expansion pack 'Resurrection of Evil'. |
| boom 3 xp | Game engine | (See boom 3 note) |
| bsnes | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| bsnes 2014 Accuracy | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| bsnes 2014 Balanced | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| bsnes 2014 Performance | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| bsnes C++98 (v085) | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| bsnes-hd beta | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| bsnes-mercury Accuracy | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| bsnes-mercury Balanced | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| bsnes-mercury Performance | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| Cannonball | Game engine | A port of the Cannonball, enhanced OutRun engine to libretro |
| Caprice32 | Amstrad CPC | |
| CDi 2015 | Philips CDi | |
| ChaiLove | Game engine | A free, open-source framework used to make 2D games in ChaiScript |
| Citra | Nintendo 3DS | |
| Citra 2018 | Nintendo 3DS | |
| Citra Canary | Nintendo 3DS | Based on Citra development branch |
| Craft | Game | A basic clone of the Minecraft sandbox game |
| CrocoDS | Amstrad CPC | |
| Cruzes | Game | (Further information required) |
| Daphne | Arcade | |
| DeSmuME | Nintendo DS | |
| DeSmuME 2015 | Nintendo DS | |
| Dinothawr | Game engine | A push-the-block-in-a-straight-line puzzle game in the spirit of Kickle Cubicle |
| DirectXbox | Xbox | |
| Dolphin | Nintendo GameCube/Wii | |
| DOSBox | DOS | |
| DOSBox-core | DOS | Provides some improvements over the DOSBox-SVN trunk, including native MIDI support, cycle-accurate OPL3 (YMF262) emulation, MT-32 emulation and experimental 3dfx Voodoo support |
| DOSBox-Pure | DOS | A port of DOSBox with a goal of simplicty and ease of use and gameplay. This core includes a streamlined workflow for launching games directly from ZIP archives with automated mapping of controls to gamepads and a native onscreen keyboard. |
| DOSBox-SVN | DOS | This core is based on DOSBox-SVN trunk and allows on-the-fly configuration and different sync methods |
| DuckStation | Sony PlayStation | |
| Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup | Game | A preliminary port of the Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup strategy game |
| EasyRPG | RPG Maker 2000/2003 | |
| ECWolf | Game engine | A port of the Wolfenstein 3D engine to libretro |
| EighyOne | Sinclair ZX 81 | |
| Emux CHIP-8 | CHIP-8 | |
| Emux GB | Game Boy/Color | |
| Emux NES | Nintendo NES/Famicom | |
| Emux SMS | Sega Master System | |
| EmuSCV | Super Cassette Vision | |
| Ep128emu | Enterprise 128 | |
| FAKE-08 | Pico-8 | A port of the FAKE-08 open-source reimplementation of the PICO-8 fantasy console to libretro |
| MAME 2003-Plus | Arcade/Console/various | (See MAME note) |
| MAME 2009 | Arcade/Console/various | (See MAME note) |
| MAME 2010 | Arcade/Console/various | (See MAME note) |
| MAME 2015 | Arcade/Console/various | (See MAME note) |
| MAME 2016 | Arcade/Console/various | (See MAME note) |
| melonDS | Nintendo DS | |
| Mesen | Nintendo NES/Famicom | |
| Mesen-S | Nintendo SNES/SFC/Game Boy/Color | |
| MESS 2015 | Multi (various) | (See MAME note) |
| Meteor | Game Boy Advance | |
| mGBA | Game Boy Advance | |
| Microw8 | Game engine | A port of a WebAssembly based fantasy console to libretro |
| Minivmac | Mac II | MacII variant of minivmac emulator |
| mpv | Media player | An port of MPV media player to libretro |
| Mr.Boom | Game | A clone of the classic Bomberman series |
| Mu | Palm OS | An emulator for the Palm m515 OS ported to libretro |
| [Mupen64Plus-Next](https://docs.libretro.com/library/mupen64plus/) | Nintendo 64 | |
| [Mupen64Plus-Next GLES2](https://docs.libretro.com/library/mupen64plus/) | Nintendo 64 | |
| [Mupen64Plus-Next GLES3](https://docs.libretro.com/library/mupen64plus/) | Nintendo 64 | |
| Neko Project II | NEC PC-98 | |
| Neko Project II Kai | NEC PC-98 | |
| NeoCD | Neo Geo CD | |
| Nestopia UE | Nintendo NES/Famicom | |
| nSide Balanced | Nintendo SNES/SFC/Game Boy/Color | |
| Numero | TI-83 | A TI-83 Emulator for Libretro |
| NXEngine | Game engine | An open-source reimplementation of the Cave Story / Doukutsu engine |
| O2EM | Magnavox Odyssey2/Phillips Videopac+ | |
| Oberon | Oberon RISC machine | An emulator for the Oberon RISC machine, ported to libretro |
| OpenLara | Game engine | A port of the OpenLara free/open re-implementation of the engine used by the original Tomb Raider series |
| OpenTyrian | Game | A port of the OpenTyrian clone of the classic Tyrian shmup, ported to libretro |
| Opera | 3DO | |
| ParaLLEl N64 | Nintendo 64 | |
| PascalPong | Game | A free and basic clone of the classic Pong game, written for libretro |
| PCem | IBM PC | |
| [LRPS2](https://docs.libretro.com/library/pcsx2/) | Sony PlayStation 2 | |
| [PCSX ReARMed](https://docs.libretro.com/library/pcsx_rearmed/) | Sony PlayStation | |
| PicoDrive | Sega MS/GG/MD/CD/32X | |
| Play! | Sony PlayStation 2 | |
| Pocket CDG | Karaoke player | A karaoke music player, ported to libretro |
| PokeMini | Nintendo Pokemon Mini | |
| Potator | Watara Supervision | |
| PPSSPP | PlayStation Portable | |
| PrBoom | Game engine | A port of the PrBoom source port of iD's classic Doom engine |
| ProSystem | Atari 7800 | |
| PUAE | Commodore Amiga | |
| PUAE 2021 | Commodore Amiga | |
| PuzzleScript | Game engine | A port of PuzzleScript, open source HTML5 puzzle game engine |
| PX68k | Sharp X68000 | |
| QUASI88 | NEC PC-8000/PC-8800 series | |
| QuickNES | Nintendo NES/Famicom | |
| RACE | Neo Geo Pocket/Color | |
| Redbook | Music player | A libretro core for playing back Redbook-formatted audio, such as commercial audio CDs |
| REminiscence | Game engine | A port of the REminiscence engine, a reimplementation of the engine used by Delphine Software's Flashback |
| Retro8 | Game engine | A port of the Retro8 open-source reimplementation of the PICO-8 fantasy console to libretro |
| Rustation | Sony PlayStation | |
| RVVM | RISC-V Virtual Machine | |
| SameBoy | Game Boy/Color | |
| SameDuck | Mega Duck (Cougar Boy) | An adaptation of SameBoy to play Mega Duck games |
| SAME CDI | Philips CDi | SAME CDi is a S(ingle) A(rcade) M(achine) E(mulator) for libretro, forked from MAME, which only includes the Philips CD-i driver |
| [ScummVM](https://docs.libretro.com/library/scummvm/) | Game engine | A fork of the ScummVM adventure game engine ported to libretro |
| SimCoupe | SAM Coupe | |
| [SMS Plus GX](https://docs.libretro.com/library/smsplus/) | Sega MS/GG | |
| [Snes9x](https://docs.libretro.com/library/snes9x/) | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| [Snes9x 2002](https://docs.libretro.com/library/snes9x_2002/) | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| [Snes9x 2005](https://docs.libretro.com/library/snes9x_2005/) | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| [Snes9x 2005 Plus](https://docs.libretro.com/library/snes9x_2005_plus/) | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| [Snes9x 2010](https://docs.libretro.com/library/snes9x_2010/) | Nintendo SNES/SFC | |
| SquirrelJME | Java ME | A port of the SquirrelJME Java ME 8 Virtual Machine emulator to libretro |
| [VeMUlator](https://docs.libretro.com/library/vemulator/) | SEGA Visual Memory Unit | A port of VeMUlator, a SEGA Dreamcast VMU emulator originally developed for Android |
| VICE x64 | Commodore C64 | |
| VICE x64sc | Commodore C64 | |
| VICE x128 | Commodore C128 | |
| VICE xcbm2 | Commodore CBM-II 6x0/7x0 | |
| VICE xcbm5x0 | Commodore CBM-II 5x0 | |
| VICE xpet | Commodore PET | |
| VICE xplus4 | Commodore Plus/4 | |
| VICE xscpu64 | Commodore C64 SuperCPU | |
| VICE xvic | Commodore VIC-20 | |
| Vircon32 | Game engine | A port of Vircon32 game console to libretro |
| Virtual Jaguar | Atari Jaguar | |
| VirtualXT | DOS | Runns PC/XT class software. Mainly intended for PC booters from the 80's. |
| vitaQuake 2 | Game engine | A port of the VitaQuake 2 source port of iD's Quake 2 engine to libretro. There is a separate core for each of the Quake 2 mission packs, 'Rogue', 'Zaero' and 'Xatrix'. |
| vitaQuake 2 (Rogue) | Game engine | (See vitaQuake 2 note) |
| vitaQuake 2 (Xatrix) | Game engine | (See vitaQuake 2 note) |
| vitaQuake 2 (Zaero) | Game engine | (See vitaQuake 2 note) |
| vitaQuake 3 | Game engine | A port of the VitaQuake 3 source port of iD's ioquake3 engine to libretro |
| vitaVoyager | Game engine | A port of the Lilium Voyager engine, which runs the Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force game and is itself based on the ioquake3 |
| WASM-4 | Game engine | WASM-4 is a open source low-level fantasy game console for building small games with WebAssembly |
| X Millennium | Sharp X1 | |
| XRick | Game engine | A port of the XRick, an open-source clone of the Rick Dangerous engine |
| YabaSanshiro | Sega Saturn | A port of the YabaSanshiro, which is itself a fork of Yabause emulator |
