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Game Emulator · 2026 · macOS · Free

Encore

Play PlayStation 1, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color and Game Boy games on your Mac — a fast, native emulator with a cartridge-shelf library, save states, and a floating play window that keeps the game in view while you work.

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A Game Boy Advance game running in Encore at full speed, with on-screen controls, save-state and speed buttons in the play toolbar
Pixel-perfect Game Boy Advance, at a full 60fps
Encore's library showing a PlayStation 1 game, Metal Gear Solid, on the shelf next to Game Boy Advance cartridges
Now playing PlayStation 1 discs, alongside your Game Boy shelf
Encore's library — a carousel of cartridges with the selected game's system, region, publisher and details
Your collection, as a shelf of cartridges
Encore playing with the background-sound menu open, offering off, rain or storm ambience with a volume slider
Set the mood with ambient rain or storm
Encore's edit-game panel, cropping a cartridge cover with a custom title, notes, favourite and hidden toggles
Crop covers, favourite and tidy your shelves
A game running in Encore's main window with a second copy popped out into a small floating, always-on-top picture-in-picture window
Pop the game into a floating window and keep playing