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*'''Family Computer Emulator V0.35''' for FM Towns, by "Haruhisa Udagawa", with file timestamps of December 12, 1990. It could run some simple NES games such as Donkey Kong.<ref>[http://www.zophar.net/forums/showpost.php?p=85512&postcount=1 MyaMyaMya's post in "First Famicom/NES emulator?"] - "I've tested both in an FM Towns emulator, and both do work with simple games like Donkey Kong, so they're not fakes."</ref>
*'''Pasofami''' for the FM Towns, with a release date of May 1, 1993 in its info file. It had very prelimilary sound emulation.<ref>[http://www.zophar.net/forums/showpost.php?p=85512&postcount=1 MyaMyaMya's post in "First Famicom/NES emulator?"] - "Pasofami even has sound...awful ear-killing sound."</ref> Windows version was released on 1995.
*'''LandyNES''' by Alex Krasivsky, which seems became the base of iNES emulator. At least one beta version for MS-DOS, called '''Prerelease "Stupid" version''', was released to the publicon September 8, but 1996 with the filename "DC-NES.ZIP".<ref>[http://lngn.net/archaic-ruins/features/ar-dc/nes-emu.htm#lnes Archaic Ruins: Nintendo]</ref> This version supported some simple Mapper 1 games and had graphical glitches.<ref>[http://oldies.malban.de/firstpage/EMU2.HTM EMULATOR PAGE 2]</ref> Unfortunately no copy of this emulator remains on the internet; it was mainly hosted on now-defunct FTP sites and none of websites that supposedly hosted it was archived by Wayback Machine. This project was discontinued after the release of NESticle. No release date known but likely mid to late 1990s.
*Marat Fayzullin's [http://fms.komkon.org/iNES/ iNES] (also known as interNES in early versions) is the first (or at least one of the first) emulator to use [http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/INES NES header format (also known as iNES format)]. The release date of first version is 1996 according to its site.
*[http://www.zophar.net/documents/nes/nesa.html NESA] (Nintendo Entertainment System in Assembler) by British programmer Paul Robson was one of the first free NES emulator with source code available. [http://metopal.com/2012/04/06/interview-paul-robson-programmer-of-the-nesa-emulator/ metropal.com] has an interview with the author.
