Deep Sky Creations
- Explore the Universe.
- Create the Impossible.
An independent game studio building original worlds — and exploring the real universe that inspires them.
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Deep Sky Creations presents
Ultimate Emulator
All your systems. One place.
Ultimate Emulator brings 19 classic systems — from the Atari 2600 to the Game Boy Advance — into one polished Windows application, with more in development.
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Public release availability
Version 0.6.0-alpha.152 · Public Preview
Free download for Windows
Included systems: Atari 2600, Magnavox Odyssey², Intellivision, ColecoVision, Atari 5200, SG-1000, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, Atari 7800, PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16, Game Boy, Genesis / Mega Drive, Atari Lynx, Sega Game Gear, Super Nintendo, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance.
- Included Razor cores
- 20One application
- Windows x64
- FreeDownload & local play
- Updates
- Built inFree · you choose when
- Installer
- SignedDeep Sky Creations LLC
- Public download
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What's inside.
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One library
AvailableEvery game you own, across every included system, in one searchable library with collections, favourites and history.
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20 first-party cores
Available19 game systems on included Razor cores, selected automatically by system, plus the PC / DOS reference environment. See the support matrix for compatibility and feature limits.
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Online Multiplayer
AvailableWith Premium, play across PCs in ROM Mode on NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Genesis, Atari 2600, PlayStation and N64, online or over LAN and direct IP. Supported modes and game compatibility vary.
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Internet Linked Play
AvailableWith Premium, link Game Boy and Game Boy Color games across PCs with Link Cable. Each PC runs the linked consoles locally while the network synchronizes inputs.
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Make it yours
AvailableOutput scaling, integer scaling and visual filters, plus internal HD render scales on PlayStation and Nintendo 64. Effects depend on the selected core and graphics backend.
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Controllers
AvailableXbox, SDL-supported and standard HID controllers, hot-plugged. Change the button mapping, tune dead zone, sensitivity and response, and keep layouts per device, system or game.
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Save states
AvailableSave and resume local sessions on supporting cores, with Quick Save, Auto-Save, the State Manager and thumbnails. The matrix shows which systems do not support states.
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Free built-in updates
AvailableThe installed app checks for signed public releases (on by default), and you choose when to download and install with Update & Restart. Downloads are verified. Free, with no account or Premium.
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Cloud Saves
PlannedComing Soon as part of the Premium connected-services membership. Local saves remain free.
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Public release availability
Version 0.6.0-alpha.152 is available
No public installer is currently available from the release catalogue. Check back shortly for the current signed Windows download.
Signed by Deep Sky Creations LLC, for Windows 64-bit, with free built-in updates.
Games.
We create worlds.
Hide Tide
In DevelopmentA competitive underwater hide-and-seek game where camouflage is something you make rather than something you pick. Paint your fish to match the world around you, hold your nerve, and hope the disguise survives a careful set of eyes.
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Starhauler
In DevelopmentA deep space mining RPG about exploration, progression and the constant pull of going farther than your ship was meant to survive. Mine, refine, craft, salvage and fight your way toward the edge of known space.
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Kernel Command
In DevelopmentA programmable real-time strategy game where your greatest weapon is your code. Build bases, produce armies and command them by hand — then teach them to run themselves, with visual logic or with real Python.
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OFF CUE!
In DevelopmentA social party game about dubbing scenes you already know. Pick a clip, take the mic, and recreate every line in your own voice — then watch the finished dub together and vote on who stole the show.
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Deep Sky Creations is home to four very different games. Each one has its own identity, its own reason to exist, and its own kind of world to get lost in.
Dispatches.
Progress from inside Deep Sky Creations — games taking shape, studio milestones, new space work, and the things worth sharing along the way.
Space.
There is still nothing like looking up and knowing all of it is really there.
Gallery reference image
- Original captures
Astrophotography Gallery
Original deep-sky photography, with the exposure and the gear recorded beside every frame. Open - Reference atlas
Wonders of the Universe
A catalogue of deep-sky objects, sourced from SIMBAD, NED and NASA rather than from memory. Open - Solar system
The Orrery
A live 3D solar system you can scrub through time. Real positions on any date you choose. Open - Observer setup
Your Sky
Set your location and the site answers for your sky: what is up tonight and how high it gets. Open
The story.
Deep Sky Creations started under a Michigan night sky.
Before I was building games, I was spending cold nights trying to pull faint galaxies and nebulae out of a backyard sky that was never dark enough. I loved the process as much as the result: learning the equipment, understanding the physics, solving one problem after another until something that had been almost invisible finally appeared.
Game development came from the same part of me. At some point, I didn't only want to explore worlds. I wanted to build them.
Games are where Deep Sky Creations is going. Astronomy is still part of its heart. One lets me discover what already exists. The other lets me create what doesn't.
Some worlds are waiting to be discovered. Others are waiting to be built.
Deep Sky Creations is doing both.