EmulatorWorld

Arcade machines / Atari Jaguar / Commodore 64 / Commodore Amiga / IBM PC & DOS compatibles / MSX / Nintendo 64 / Nintendo Entertainment System / Nintendo Game Boy / Nintendo Game Boy Advance / Nintendo Game Boy Color / Sega Mega Drive / Genesis / Sinclair ZX Spectrum / Sony PlayStation / Super Nintendo Entertainment System /

BizHawk Active

A multi-system emulator built for tool-assisted speedruns, with frame-perfect input recording, memory tools and Lua scripting across dozens of cores.

Website Source code

Screenshot of BizHawk
YoshiRulz (EmuHawk running the GPL homebrew game µCity) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Facts

Runs on
Windows, Linux
Native: x86-64
License
Open source (MIT (frontend; cores vary))
Mobile
None (no official phone or tablet version)
RetroAchievements
Built in
Written in
C#
Authors
The BizHawk team
Last checked
Oct 2026

C64 features

  • HasTrue drive emulation
  • HasPAL machines
  • HasNTSC machines
  • Has6581 and 8580 SID
  • Does not haveTwo or more SIDs
  • Does not haveOutput to a real SID chip
  • Does not have1571 and 1581 drives
  • Does not haveREU
  • Does not haveFreezer cartridges
  • HasEasyFlash
  • Does not haveReal cassette recordings
  • Does not haveTape restoration
  • Does not haveSID music player
  • Does not haveAssembly64 catalog

Has it Doesn't have it Not known yet

MSX features

  • Unknown:Konami SCC sound
  • Unknown:MSX-MUSIC / FM-PAC
  • Unknown:MSX-AUDIO
  • Unknown:V9990 / GFX9000

Has it Doesn't have it Not known yet

PlayStation features

  • Unknown:PGXP geometry correction
  • Unknown:Texture filtering
  • Unknown:24-bit colour rendering
  • Unknown:Texture replacement
  • Unknown:Memory card management
  • Unknown:Multitap

Has it Doesn't have it Not known yet

Features

  • HasSave states
  • HasRewind
  • HasFast-forward
  • Not listed:Run-ahead
  • Not listed:Online multiplayer
  • Not listed:CRT shaders
  • HasA/V recording
  • HasCheats
  • HasAchievements
  • Not listed:Themes

Input

  • HasGamepad
  • Not listed:Touch controls
  • Not listed:Light gun
  • Not listed:Mouse
  • Not listed:Positional key mapping
  • Not listed:Symbolic key mapping
  • Not listed:On-screen keyboard
  • Not listed:Native keyboard

For developers

  • HasDebugger
  • HasMemory viewer
  • Not listed:Disassembler
  • Not listed:Profiler
  • HasTrace logger
  • HasScripting
  • Not listed:Command line

Features not listed may still exist. Edit this entry if something is missing or wrong.