Pretty much everything until around 2003+ at least. Your usual exceptions are Unicode-wanting stuff, DX8/9-wanting stuff, and all those 6th gen-and-later emulators (PCSX2, Dolphin etc) that demand a few CPU extensions and some threading at least.

Back in the day I remember installing Nesticle, Genecyst, NO$GMB, and an early version of MAME on Win95 machines, but those were all DOS based and would run just as well without Win95. I can't remember using any native Windows emulators back then. I'm sure they were out there, but they weren't an option for the under powered machines I was playing with - playing Pokemon Red in NO$GMB on a 386DX40 for example. I also played with emulators for various 8 bit home computers such as the ZX spectrum, Amstrad CPC and TRS-80, but again these were all DOS based emulators running inside Win95 or Win98.

What hardware are we talking about? ZSNES, Snes9x, Fellow/WinFellow, Nesticle, Genecyst, that are some I used back then.

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Anyone here know of emulators for other machines you can run on Windows 95 other than NESticle?

I don't know much about Win95, but I know there were a few which ran on 3.1..

DOSBox

I want to say I ran old vers of pcem on NT4 but I could be thinking of something else.

I actually dabbled a bit with Emulators with my Windows 98 build, as I used to run NES, SNES, Genesis, and other old emulators just fine back in 1999, but now-a-days it's hella hard to find one that even works in Windows 9x much less smoothly. I dug backwards and found an older Nesticle (DOS) for NES, a really old version of ZSNES (DOS) for SNES, but that's it so far. I'm pleased they seem to run smoothly on my 600MHz Pentium III. I remember them playing perfectly fine with my original 350MHz Pentium II.

Yep. NESticle, ZSNES and Genecyst are a really good start. Even these old 16-bit emulators might not run fantastically on a Win95 era CPU, though. I remember running into some limitations on a P200.

10+ years ago, I found that Project 64 ran at full speed on a Pentium 4 2.4GHz desktop system running Windows 98SE. I think that's way out of the spec of this thread though. This inspires me to try some older emulators on my AMD K6-2 desktop system.

VisualBoyAdvance, ZNES and MEKA ran on Win9x the last time I tried..