Android emulators/simulators are largely required to run Android apps & games on PC (Windows 7/8/8.1/10) . However, choosing the correct Android emulator might become a daunting task, as if not selected properly they can really slow down your Computer (e.g Duos M) . So, here we bring you the best 7 Android emulators for your PC – Windows 7/8/8.1/10 which you can use to run android on computer
Most emulators do not need per-game configurations until you get into the PS2 era and beyond. As far as I know, the emulators themselves do not offer Box Art, but you can easily set up the emulators to launch through a frontend such as HyperSpin, a media center such as XBMC, and even Steam. • • • Open a CMD prompt (hit start and search for “CMD” without quotes and press enter) • type “cd ” and press enter • now the location of your mame file by “cd HyperSpin Emulators MAME” press enter • now type “mame64 -cc” press enter you will need a space between 4 and -cc Open the newly created MAME.ini file with notepad in the C: HyperSpin Emulators MAME folder You can put the path to your roms for now and save the file back.
Emulator # 1 – Nox App Player – Android Emulator
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Hyperpie – The ultimate cross between Hyperspin and RetroPie – Project Hyperpie launch their gem of an Image. Totally just shy of 55gb uncompressed (47gb compressed) – this is a ROMLESS set-up – You need to add your own roms (using the Hyperlist format).
Gaming on Nox App Player with Keyboard mapping for touch input!
Nox App Player is our preferred Android emulator to play Android games on PC / Computer (Windows 10 & 7), or to try out new android apps due to its speed.
Nox App Player is fast, plus provides lots of features such as –
One-click root hide / unhide (disable or enable root)
Ability to specify the CPU Processor & Ram size! which is great for gamers & app-testers to check resource usage.
Besides, these Nox even provides Keyboard mapping for touch input. Thus, you can specify the areas where touch is to be simulated, on pressing a keyboard key! (Awesome thing for gamers)
Plus, it even has an inbuilt GPS controller setting, by which you can even play GPS required games such as Pokemon Go directly inside Nox App Player. –>
Emulator # 2 – BlueStacks
BlueStacks is the most widely used Android emulator or Android App Player for Windows . It used to be free but now is only in Specific regions
Easy One-click installation on the Windows System (Split-online installer as well as offline installer is available).
Easily install 3rd party apk’s or android apps by simply double clicking on the apk files.
No other-3rd party virtualization required (VirtualBox isn’t required).
Click here to download BlueStacks Offline Installer for Windows XP/7/8/8.1/10.
Emulator # 3 – KO Player
KO Player Android Emulator
KO Player is the latest entrant in this list & is a great android emulator especially when it comes to playing Android games on your Computer / PC. KO Player provides a host of great features in its android emulator such as –
Keyboard to Touch Mapping
Crisp Display on Bigger screens due to HD Resolution
Ability directly record your Android emulation screen & save it as a video. Thus, enabling you to share your Gameplay easily.
Besides, you can run multiple accounts of various simultaneously
Since, it is made for gaming KO Player does require a good amount of RAM & graphics memory
Emulator # 4 – Andyroid – Andy OS
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AndyRoid is one of its own kind Android Emulator for Windows 7/8/8.1/10 . It supports some unique features which aren’t supported by any other android emulators out there such as –
Using your phone as remote control while playing games!.
ARM support, You can directly install apps in your andy emulator through your host’s desktop browser!.
As Andy is based upon VirtualBox , It doesn’t require any dedicated Graphics card to function smoothly and works well even on Intel HD Graphics.
Andyroid is very similar and may be classified as an advanced alternative to Genymotion as both of them require VirtualBox to be installed on the system. The newest version seems to have a keylogger or some shady thing. Hence, we have given the link of the older version.
Emulator # 5 – Droid4X
Droid4X Android Simulator
Droid4X is perhaps its the most interesting emulators mentioned in this article. Droid4X is designed for real Power! in the hands of user, and its features too point to the same . Droid4X has some salient features such as –
It comes Pre-rooted, with Play Store installed .
Its pretty fast,doesn’t lag & even allows you to configure your keyboard as a controller! for the emulator – Checkout this Droid4X tutorial for the same.
Emulator # 6 – Windroy – The Android emulator with a Windows Kernel!
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Windroy is perhaps the most unique Emulators present in this article because of the fact – It completely runs using the Windows Kernel!
Windroy doesnt require any external Virtualbox support. Like bluestacks, also its quite light-weight and handy to use!. You just have to take care that the directory path wherein you install Windroy must not contain Spaces.
GenyMotion is another advanced Android Emulator for PC , and may be classified as a worthy alternative to/of Bluestacks. GenyMotion has advanced features like OpenGL, and hardware aceleration support. Its built on the x86 Architecture and hence is faster as compared to BlueStacks.
You need to install GenyMotion on your PC/Laptop and configure Android device on it – Click here for complete tutorial on GenyMotion configuration (Check out the Steps after running Genymotion – They’re common for Linux as well as Windows)
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So, these were the top 7 free android emulators for PC/windows , If you know of some other one do comment ? , also feel free to ask any questions regarding them
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So I know this is specific, but it seems some other articles/posts run into a somewhat similar issue. I have Retroarch, and from the RocketLauncherUI I am able to successfully load all of the emulators I want to. However, from Hyperspin, only the most recently emulator loaded directly from Retroarch will successfully load, all others go to a black screen.
Example. If I load Super Mario 64 from Retroarch using detect core it loads perfectly. I can then go into Hyperspin and load Goldeneye64 no problem. Now if I go to load Sonic the screen goes black. Back out, open Retroarch, detect core load Sonic. Loads fine. Go back to Hyperspin, load Lion King for Sega and all is well. Go to load Goldeneye64 and get a black screen.
This can be repeated for other systems, so it seems it is dependent on the most recently loaded system.
I have turned on settings per core and turned them off. Off it loads a window with an overflow of gibberish (likely from the bad core config). This goes for the settings in RocketLauncherUI and Retroarch. I can't figure it, but it is so close to working.. Rather frustrating. Also, have the specific cores selected for each system in the system specific Retroarch configuration within RocketLauncherUI.
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Any help is appreciated. Windows 8.1.
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So in the end I had to redo the Hyperspin to RocketLauncherUI Transition and Update process now all is well. Weird, but hope it helps someone in the future.
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