AmberELEC vs Nexen
AmberELEC
amberelec.orgNexen
github.comSide by side
| Figure | AmberELEC | Nexen |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · TurboGrafx-16 Emulators | 8.0 (#9) | 7.2 (#21) |
| Emulation | AmberELEC includes RetroArch and supports multiple emulator cores, with the latest site announcement highlighting new cores and emulators for the RG552. | It offers cycle-accurate CPU and PPU emulation and lists full coprocessor support for several SNES chips. |
| Integrations | The guides describe importing LaunchBox playlists, games, metadata, and media, and using RetroArch Netplay when players have the same AmberELEC version, ROM, and core. | Nexen exports symbols, code/data logging, cross-references, and source maps to Pansy as part of the Flower Toolchain. |
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In their own words
Nexen
Nexen is a free, open source multi-system emulator for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It lists eight fully supported systems: NES, SNES, Game Boy and Color, Game Boy Advance, Master System and Game Gear, PC Engine, WonderSwan, and Atari Lynx. CPU and PPU emulation is cycle-accurate, with full coprocessor support listed for several SNES chips. Each game can have unlimited timestamped saves, a visual picker, and 36 rolling checkpoints at five-minute intervals. Movie tools support frame-by-frame recording and playback, rerecording, and imports and exports for BK2, FM2, SMV, LSMV, VBM, and GMV files. A TAS editor provides a piano-roll timeline, undo and redo, greenzone seeking, alternate branches, and Lua scripting. Debugging tools include a disassembler, memory viewer, breakpoints, trace and code/data logging, and a profiler. Nexen also lists rollback netplay and exports symbols, code coverage data, cross-references, and source maps to Pansy for the Flower Toolchain. Sega Genesis, Atari 2600, and Fairchild Channel F support remain in progress.