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This page covers everything that Nintendo made that isn't console related.
 
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Revision as of 00:23, 4 June 2022

This page covers everything that Nintendo made that isn't console related.


Arcade

Model Year Hardware / Series MAME support ROMs Emulators / Description
16mm / Film Games 1973 - 1978 Early No Nintendo's first attempts at making games were all light gun games that used pre-recorded films. all of these games are considered lost and can't emulated / simulated
Arm Wrestling 1985 N/A Good No
Atari R.B.I. Baseball 1987 Vs. Series Good No
Balloon Fight 1984 Vs. Series Good No
Baseball 1984 Vs. Series Good No
Battle City 1985 Vs. Series None No
Block Fever 1978 N/A None No
Castlevania 1987 Vs. Series Good No
Clu Clu Land 1984 Vs. Series Good No
Computer Othello 1978 N/A None No
Donkey Kong 1981 N/A Good No
Donkey Kong 3 1983 N/A Good No
Donkey Kong Jr. 1982 N/A Good No
Dr. Mario 1990 Vs. Series Good No
Duck Hunt 1984 Vs. Series Good No
Excitebike 1984 Vs. Series Good No
F-Zero AX 2003 Triforce Preliminary No
F-Zero AX Monster Ride 2003 Triforce Preliminary No
Family Tennis 1987 Vs. Series None No
Freedom Force 1988 Vs. Series Good No
Gekitou Pro Yakyuu 2003 Triforce Preliminary No
Gradius 1986 Vs. Series Good No
Gumshoe 1987 Vs. Series Good No
Head On N 1979 N/A Imperfect No
HeliFire 1980 N/A Imperfect No
Hogan's Alley 1984 Vs. Series Good No
Ice Climber 1985 Vs. Series Good No
Mach Rider 1985 Vs. Series Imperfect No
Mahjong 1984 Vs. Series Good No
Mario Bros. 1983 N/A Good No
Mario Bros. 1983 N/A Good No
Mario Kart Arcade GP 2005 Triforce Preliminary No
Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 2007 Triforce Preliminary No
Mario Kart Arcade GP DX 2013 System ES3 None No
Mario Kart Arcade GP VR 2017 N/A None No
Pinball 1984 Vs. Series Good No
Popeye 1982 N/A Good No
Punch-Out!! 1983 N/A Good No
Radar Scope 1980 N/A Good No
SF-HiSplitter 1979 N/A Good No
Sheriff 1979 N/A Good No
Sky Skipper 1981 N/A Good No
Slalom 1986 Vs. Series Imperfect No
Soccer 1986 Vs. Series Good No
Space Demon 1981 N/A Imperfect No
Space Fever 1979 N/A Good No
Space Fire Bird 1980 N/A Imperfect No
Space Launcher 1979 N/A Good No
Stroke and Match Golf 1984 Vs. Series Good No
Super Mario Bros. 1986 Vs. Series Good No
Super Punch-Out!! 1984 N/A Good No
Tennis 1984 Vs. Series Good No
The Key Of Avalon 2003 Triforce Preliminary No
The Key Of Avalon 2 2003 Triforce Preliminary No
Urban Champion 1984 Vs. Series None No
Virtua Striker 2002 2002 Triforce Preliminary No
Virtua Striker 4 2005 Triforce Preliminary No
Volleyball 1986 Vs. Series None No
Wild Gunman 1984 Vs. Series None No
Wrecking Crew 1984 Vs. Series Good No

Game & Watch

The Game & Watch is a series of self-contained handheld LCD games by Nintendo where the first one was released on April 28, 1980, and which are often seen as the precursor to the Game Boy/Color, although new Game & Watch games were still released as late as 1991.

Despite their simplicity, Game & Watch handhelds were completely unemulated for a very long time due to a lack of information about their hardware and difficulties with dumping ROMs and accurately recreating graphics. After an extensive reverse-engineering effort by several MAME developers, MAME became the first emulator to support many retro handheld electronic games, including Game & Watch systems.

Emulators

Name Platform(s) Latest Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.264
DSP Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.22
MAME
It was officially the 1st Game & Watch emulator, with support for almost all games. It started to comprehensively cover the Game & Watch games from around just before mid-2017 (e.g. 0.185 in May 2017) and emulated its first game in 0.186. Since July 9, 2020, MAME supports at least one version of each Game & Watch model.
  • See MAME driver which covers all of the Game & Watch series of games and those of a similar ilk from other companies running on the LCD game handhelds with Sharp SM5xx family of CPUs (SM5A/SM510/SM511/SM512) (Other companies that released similar games included Konami, Elektronika, Tiger Electronics, Tronica and VTech).
  • Arcade Italia's database of compatibility records for games on MAME.
DSP
It was officially the 2nd Game & Watch emulator. Just before mid-June 2017, it also started to emulate a few notable Game & Watch "Thanks to MAME for the ROMs and the info." (as stated in the readme).

Emulation issues

Although Game & Watch emulation has recently become possible, it took quite a while to achieve due to the lack of information about the microcontrollers driving them and the high difficulty of dumping the ROM from a system. (To dump a game's ROM, the microcontroller often must be decapped, which is not only very costly and complicated but highly destructive to the system.) The lack of information on the Game & Watch's hardware leads to the false belief that it does not contain a CPU or ROM and therefore could not be emulated. Even though this was disproven after reverse engineering efforts of several MAME developers which led to support for all of the games. Emulation of the games had been progressing slowly due to the high amount of time and patience it takes to dump their ROMs and recreate their graphics.

Graphics

Even when a Game & Watch game's ROM had been dumped, one of the biggest challenges with accurately emulating it was with how the Game & Watch displayed graphics. Rather than by sending output to an LCD display like most cartridge-based handhelds do, Game & Watch games (as well as most other handheld electronic games from the same time) displayed graphics by lighting up pre-drawn LCD segments, like a calculator. To recreate this as accurately as possible, MAME uses .SVG files traced from high-quality scans of the LCD screen, allowing graphics in supported Game & Watch games to be displayed crisply at any resolution without the loss of any detail. While this is the most accurate way to recreate the LCD graphics outside of obtaining the original art from Nintendo, it is a difficult and time-consuming process as not only does the LCD need to be scanned at a high resolution with all segments lit up to capture all of the graphics but the scans must be traced very carefully to faithfully recreate the original artwork.

MAME Support

Model Year Series MAME support ROMs Emulators / Description
Ball 2010 Club Nintendo None No
Ball / Toss-Up 1980 Silver Good No
Balloon Fight 1986 Crystal Screen Good No
Balloon Fight 1988 New Wide Screen Good No
Black Jack 1985 Vertical Multi Screen Good No
Bomb Sweeper 1987 Vertical Multi Screen Good No
Chef 1981 Wide Screen Good No
Climber 1986 Crystal Screen Good No
Climber 1988 New Wide Screen Good No
Crab Grab 1984 Super Color Good No
Donkey Kong 1982 Vertical Multi Screen Good No
Donkey Kong II 1983 Vertical Multi Screen Good No
Donkey Kong 3 1984 Micro Vs. Good No
Donkey Kong Circus 1984 Panorama Good No
Donkey Kong Jr. 1982 New Wide Screen Good No
Donkey Kong Jr. 1983 Panorama Good No
Donkey Kong Jr. 1983 Table Top None No
Donkey Kong Hockey 1984 Micro Vs. Good No
Egg 1981 Wide Screen Good No
Fire 1981 Wide Screen Good No
Fire Attack 1982 Wide Screen Good No
Fireman / Fire 1980 Silver Good No
Flagman 1980 Silver Good No
Gold Cliff 1988 Vertical Multi Screen Good No
Green House 1982 Vertical Multi Screen Good No
Headache / Helmet 1981 Gold Good No
Judge 1980 Silver Good No
Lifeboat 1983 Horizontal Multi Screen Good No
Lion 1981 Gold Good No
Manhole 1981 Gold Good No
Manhole 1983 New Wide Screen Good No
Mario's Bombs Away 1983 Panorama Good No
Mario's Cement Factory 1983 New Wide Screen Good No
Mario's Cement Factory 1983 Table Top Good No
Mario Bros. 1983 Horizontal Multi Screen Good No
Mario The Juggler 1991 New Wide Screen Good No
Mickey & Donald 1982 Vertical Multi Screen Good No
Mickey Mouse 1984 Panorama Good No
Mickey Mouse 1981 Wide Screen Good No
Mysteries of the Deep / Sea / Octopus 1981 Wide Screen Good No
Oil Panic 1982 Vertical Multi Screen Good No
Parachute 1981 Wide Screen Good No
Pinball 1983 Vertical Multi Screen Good No
Popeye 1983 Panorama Good No
Popeye 1983 Table Top None No
Popeye 1981 Wide Screen Good No
Punch Out / Boxing 1984 Micro Vs. Good No
Rain Shower 1983 Horizontal Multi Screen Good No
Safebuster 1988 Vertical Multi Screen Good No
Snoopy 1983 Panorama Good No
Snoopy 1983 Table Top None No
Snoopy Tennis 1982 Wide Screen Good No
Spitball Sparky 1984 Super Color Good No
Squish 1986 Vertical Multi Screen Good No
Super Mario Bros. 1986 Crystal Screen Good No
Super Mario Bros. 1988 New Wide Screen Good No
Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Edition 2020 Color Screen None No
The Exterminator / Vermin 1980 Silver Good No
The Legend of Zelda 35th Anniversary Edition 2021 Color Screen None No
Ball / Toss-Up 1980 Silver Good No
Tropical Fish 1985 New Wide Screen Good No
Turtle Bridge 1982 Wide Screen Good No
Zelda 1989 Vertical Multi Screen Good No