Hey guys, been looking around online, but there is a lot to choose from. If anyone has any suggestions/thoughts on emulators that can handle multiple Nintendo consoles I'd appreciate it. Mostly looking for the older, pre-3D consoles including handhelds, but the more the merrier. Ease of use and accuacy to original hardware would be good to have. Being acceptable for speedruns is a bonus, but not needed, if I do decide to run anything, I will likely get a recommened emulator for that game. Just want to try a bunch of stuff that I missed out on first time round. I had a SNES and a GB as a kid but less than a dozen games between them

Thanks guys

I don’t really understand what you’re asking. Are you looking for one emulator that can play games from multiple systems? There isn’t really an emulator like that, unless you’re doing something like Bizhawk that can inject different cores to handle different systems. But that’s still technically a different emulator, you just don’t need to download as many individual programs.

Yeah that was what I was asking, an emulator for different consoles. I mean, I use Kega Fusion and that runs Sega Master System, Genesis, Game Gear and Sega CD games. Is there not an equivalent for Nintendo?

Not that I know of no. Nintendo has never made a backwards compatible system that I can think of aside from handhelds so I don’t believe any emulator has built any functionality like that.

Your Sega one is a unique scenario because I believe all of those games are either backwards compatible on a Genesis or are add-ons to the Genesis (which would mean that it was probably easier to just code the add-ons into a single Genesis emulator).

You could use Virtual Console on a 3DS or Wii U.

bizhawk can emulate multiple consoles as long as you have the console "cores" and i think the most common ones come with the download

Correction to @Timmiluvs 's Nintendo claim: GameCube games were playable on original Wiis, and the Dolphin emulator successfully emulates both. Those are 3D systems, however.

Your best bet is something like BizHawk or RetroArch, though I think BizHawk focuses on having more accurate cores.

I have never been more ashamed of myself that I forgot that a Wii can okay GameCube games considering a I did that a few weeks ago with my Wii.