RetroArch version 1.10.0 has been released:
- URL
- Download

"RetroArch is the official reference frontend for the libretro API."

Libretro is a simple but powerful development interface that allows for the easy creation of emulators, games and multimedia applications that can plug straight into any libretro-compatible frontend. This development interface is open to others so that they can run these pluggable emulator and game cores also in their own programs or devices.

Duckstation WIP 2022-01-18 had been released:
- Github

"DuckStation is an simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation(TM) console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability. The goal is to be as accurate as possible while maintaining performance suitable for low-end devices. "Hack" options are discouraged, the default configuration should support all playable games with only some of the enhancements having compatibility issues."

puNES 0.108 is available for download:
- Releases
- Github

"puNES is an emulator under development that works on Linux32/64 and Windows32/64. The SDL version, of course, needs of SDL libraries to run. Uncompress the zip/tar file in a subdirectory and use. The emulator, finally, support compressed archives."

ScummVM 2.5.1 had been released:
- URL

"ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical adventure and role-playing games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! ScummVM is a complete rewrite of these games' executables and is not an emulator."

Raine 0.92.6 is available for download:
- URL
- Download
"Raine is a arcade emulator which emulates some games which use M68000 or M68020 CPU's. The main focus is on emulating Taito and Jaleco games. Raine is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS."

ChiCLI 1.03 had been released:
- Github

A Commodore 64 command line interface terminal, inspired by: AmigaDOS, MS-DOS, and Linux. Open source under the GNU GPL V3 license.

Cemu 1.26.1 is available for download:
- WebSite

Cemu is an experimental Wii U emulator for the Windows x64 platform.

Mednafen 1.26.0 is available for download for Windows and Linux.
- URL
- Download

"Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system emulator. Mednafen has the ability to remap hotkey functions and virtual system inputs to a keyboard, a joystick, or both simultaneously.

The following systems are supported(refer to the emulation module documentation for more details):

- Atari Lynx
- Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
- WonderSwan
- GameBoy (Color)
- GameBoy Advance
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom
- Virtual Boy
- PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 (CD)
- SuperGrafx
- PC-FX
- Sega Game Gear
- Sega Genesis/Megadrive
- Sega Master System
- Sony PlayStation

Mednafen is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2. "

XRoar 1.0.9 has been released:
- URL

"XRoar is a Dragon emulator for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Windows. Due to hardware similarities, XRoar also emulates the Tandy Colour Computer (CoCo) models 1 & 2." XRoar is open source software under the GNU GPL V3 license.

XEMU - 2022-01-19 has been released:
- Github
- Releases
- Website
"xemu is an Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux." Open source under the GNU GPL V2 and LGPL license.

WinVICE r41655 had been released:

- Releases
- Github

WinVICE is a windows port of the VICE emulator. VICE (Versatile Commodore Emulator) is an emulator for the Commodore 8-bit computer range.

FCEUX 2.6.1 is available for download:
- URL
- Releases

"FCEUX is a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom, Famicom Disk System (FDS), and Dendy emulator. It supports NTSC (USA/JPN), PAL (European), and NTSC-PAL Hybrid modes. It supports both Windows and SDL versions for cross compatibility."

Wine version 7.0 for Linux has been released:

URL: https://www.winehq.org/

Here it is the official announcement:
URL: https://www.winehq.org/news/

"Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD.
It is open source software under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

I just for the news by Twitter that the SNESticle emulator source code is now available to the public.
- https://github.com/iaddis/SNESticle

SNESticle is now open source software under the MIT License. SNESticle is a SNES emulator and predecessor to the NESticle emulator.

Why is this interesting? Check some articles about it:
- Legendary SNES Emulator SNESTicle Freed Using NSA Tools - January 13, 2022
- Programmer Uses NSA Tool to Liberate Legendary Super Nintendo Emulator From EA - January 10, 2022
- The SNESticle Liberation Project

Greetings! I have not posted emulation news in a very long time, but thought it important to let you all know that Icer Addis ("Sardu of NESticle/Genecyst/Callus fame) has released the long-rumored SNESticle source code on GitHub yesterday. For those who may not remember or may not have been around, SNESticle was a rumored Super Nintendo emulator for DOS/Windows 9x that Icer was working on around the time of his popular NES emulator, NESticle. The source code below, released by Icer himself, confirms it! See below for details.

https://github.com/iaddis/SNESticle