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mGBA – Free and open-source new generation of Game Boy Advance emulator

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mGBA is an excellent new generation of Nintendo Game Boy Advance emulator with very high degree of completion (most games can be simulated perfectly) and pretty fast running speed. It was thoroughly written in C language by Jeffrey Pfau, and first released in 2013 as an open-source freeware for multiple platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, PlayStation Vita and many other Unix-like OS).

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Blender – Free, open-source, cross-platform and full-featured 3D creation suite

If you are a 3D animation enthusiast, you probably have tried many 3D production software such like Maya, 3ds Max, most of which are extremely expensive for individuals and small businesses. Fortunately, there is an alternative that can compete with them on functionality and performance, and is free, open-source, cross-platform, very lightweight and full-featured 3D creation program – Blender (from Holland), which provides a series of solutions for producing animated short films, including modeling, animations, materials, rendering, audio processing, video clipping, and more.

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MeshLab – Free, open-source, portable and extensible 3D geometry processor

MeshLab is a free, open-source, portable and extensible three-dimensional geometry (3D meshes) processing system that was developed by the ISTI-CNR research center from Italy, and first published in late 2005. It is mainly used to perform interactive processing and unstructured editing to three-dimensional triangular meshes on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and has become popular in many technical fields of 3D development & data handling.

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MediaInfo – Detect and display technical & tag data for video/audio files

All relevant information of a audio/video file is stored in the file’s header area, including duration, codec id, aspect, frame rate, bit rate, sample rate, channels, bit depth, language, etc. MediaInfo can obtain and utilize these info from the header of a media file with ease, which is very helpful for media software developers. If you just want to know the codec info of some movie or music file that could not be recognized or played correctly, you can use MediaInfo to check its technical & tag data.

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SMPlayer – Free media player with simple UI and elaborate design

Although the MPlayer from Hungary is extremely powerful, for most common users, its command-line operation mode is really inconvenient, even though it comes with a graphical user interface called GMPlayer. While most often the features of a media player that we require are nothing more than concise user interface, smooth playback, support to as many media formats as possible, and some customizable functions for advanced users. All these requirements are implemented in SMPlayer.

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RPCS3 – #1 and only best Sony PlayStation 3 emulator & debugger

If PC players want to experience the games on home consoles, an emulator is always the best choice. And to play the PS3 games with excellent performance in many ways on PC platform had become a new dream for lots of PC emulator players. But due to the special hardware architecture PS3 adopts, the research and development of PS3 emulator used for PC has always been a very hard thing (the precondition for using a PC to emulate the game console is PC’s performance must surpass the console’s several times). Fortunately, some cool guys never gave up trying.

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[2.x.x] Resilio Sync – Simple and practical multi-platform file synchronization tool

When people need to synchronize, backup or frequently share files/data between a variety of devices (including computers and mobile phones), any traditional ways of file transfer are relatively inadequate. For example, a lot of cloud storage services like Dropbox have more and more and increasingly obvious limitations or restrictions. These include: files have to be uploaded to their servers for transfer, very limited disk space capacity, pretty high requirements on Internet connection speed and stability, limitation of transmission speed and bandwidth usage, very few acceptable file types, not high enough security, easy to be blocked by some countries, expensive cost, and so on. Thereupon, Resilio Sync (formerly called BTsync, full name BitTorrent Sync, now Sync for short) came out.

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