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Products that do what Online Game Emulation Platform – Afterplay.io does

Hello HN users, I made a web app that allows you to upload any SNES or GameBoy ROM file and play right within the web browser. It’s called Afterplay.io. It got a lot of upvotes on Reddit, and I noticed users signing up and coming back to play games every day, which feels great and has motivated me to keep on developing this thing :). Demo Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9iYbJ-1lQ Site : https://afterplay.io Problem: I couldn't play emulated games across my devices easily with saves. The Apple App Store does not allow emulator apps. Solution: Use…

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   Afterplay▲113

   Play retro games on any device, saves synced, no jailbreak

   2023

2. 2MF
   Multiplayer for Retro Games Online – Play with Friends Anywhere▲5

   We've just added netplay to https://afterplay.io

   2024 · youtube.com

3. 3NP
   NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC▲237

   2018 · nes.party

4. 4
   Delta Emulator▲68

   Best Emulator for playing retro games on iOS

   2022

5. 5
   Sutāto▲84

   Play NES and Gameboy games on IOS

   2024

6. 6
   Delta▲245

   The first Gameboy emulator approved in the App Store

   2024

7. 7
   Wireless Nintendo Controllers▲104

   Play enhanced NES™ games the way they're meant to be played

   2018

8. 8
   GBA4iOS▲76

   Game Boy Advance, meet iOS. Again.

   2014

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   Bluetooth SNES Controller▲95

   Game like it's the early 90s

   2015

10. 10
    NES30▲114

    Nintendo controller for iOS, Android, & Windows

    2014

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    WePlayDOS▲205

    Play classic DOS games in browser

    2024

12. 12PM
    Play multiplayer and singleplayer NES games online▲196

    2017 · nescat.gcubed.co

13. 13
    PokemonGO - Webspoof▲91

    👾 Play PokémonGo from your Mac by spoofing your iOS device

    2016

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    OpenEmu▲185

    🎮Retro video game emulation for OS X

    2015

15. 15
    NESBox▲98

    Online multiplayer NES(FC) games

    2022

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    Boxer▲84

    The DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac

    2015

17. 17GJ
    GBA.js, a Game Boy Advance emulator written in JavaScript▲76

    2012 · jpfau.github.com

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    GameBoy vibes▲150

    a Candycat themed GameBoy Emulator in the browser

    2025

19. 19EB
    Emulator-Backed Remakes, a new way to make classic game remakes▲87

    2014 · gabrielgambetta.com

20. 20CP
    Cross-Platform Apple IIe Emulator Written in Go▲103

    2017 · octalyzer.com

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    Knight IO▲85

    a real-time, funny & casual, cross-platform game

    2017

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    GIF RUNNER▲89

    What GIF-world will you play?

    2015

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    FunApéro▲90

    Video calls with games to have fun with friends & colleagues

    2020

24. 24PS
    Play SNES, gba, in your terminal, even in tmux▲6

    rom is a ~5k-line C libretro frontend that plays games in the terminal. It renders native pixels with the kitty graphics protocol in Ghostty or kitty, inline! even in tmux! Nine platforms: SNES, NES, GB/GBC, GBA, Genesis, PC Engine, N64, Doom/Heretic/Hexen, Wolfenstein. macOS and Linux, MIT. https://github.com/jhickner/rom

    Jul 2026 · github.com

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