Deep Sky Creations
Deep Sky Creations presents
Ultimate Emulator
All your systems. One place.
Ultimate Emulator brings nine classic systems — from the Atari 2600 to the Game Boy Advance — into one polished Windows application, with more in development.
Public release in preparation
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Included systems: Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Genesis / Mega Drive, Super Nintendo, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance.
See how it works.
One application and one library for every system it plays.
Library
Welcome home.
Every game you own, from every included system, in one place — searchable, organised and ready where you left off.
- One library Available
- Many systems, one app Available
- Firmware & BIOS center Available
Play
Pick up where you left off.
Numbered states with thumbnails, a quick save a keypress away, Auto Resume on launch and rewind for the moment that went wrong.
- Save states Available
- Rewind, frame advance and screenshots Available
- In-game saves Available
Together
Bring someone with you.
Host or join an online session, send an invite, or link two handhelds across the internet — one system for playing together.
- Online play Available
- Link cable over the internet Available
- Friends, invites and messages Available
Visuals
Make it yours.
Keep the original look, sharpen it, or go further — and compare against the source image before you commit.
- Authentic to enhanced Available
Controls
Your controller, your way.
Plug in and play. Remap anything, and save it for one game, one system or everything.
- Controller Mapping Studio Available
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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Many systems, one app
AvailableNine systems are included and chosen automatically. No separate emulator to install, configure or keep up to date per console.
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Online play
AvailableHost or join a session over the internet, drop in mid-game and change games without leaving the session — on NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Genesis and Atari 2600.
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Link cable over the internet
AvailableConnect two Game Boy or Game Boy Color games as if a link cable ran between them — across the internet.
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Authentic to enhanced
AvailableAuthentic, Enhanced and Ultimate presets, higher internal resolution, CRT looks and a before/after comparison.
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Controller Mapping Studio
AvailableXbox, SDL-supported and standard HID controllers, hot-plugged. Map, calibrate and save profiles per device, system or game.
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Save states
AvailableNumbered slots with thumbnails, quick save, Auto Resume where you left off, and Undo Load for the save you did not mean to load.
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Automatic updates
In developmentUltimate Emulator checks for approved, signed releases and offers Update & Restart. Your library, settings and saves stay where they are.
Public release in preparation
Version is available
The first public build is being finished, and will arrive as a signed Windows installer.
Signed by Deep Sky Creations LLC, for Windows 64-bit, with automatic updates included.
Deep Sky Creations
- Explore the Universe.
- Create the Impossible.
An independent game studio building original worlds — and exploring the real universe that inspires them.
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.
- 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.