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This page contains information of console emulation history, For a list of independent updates look at [[Template:News#Previous years|emulator news from previous years]].
Emulation, in general, gained popularity around 1995-1997, [[PC_Emulator_Comparisons#x86_CPU.27s|mostly due to increases in CPU speed]], the increased usage of the Internet, and the increased number of decent emulators.
==History==
Activision released the “Atari 2600 Action Pack” for Windows 3.1 on June 1995. It was the first Atari emulator known. Later emulators appeared in 1996, “VCS2600” and “Stella”. <ref>
[https://atariage.com/forums/topic/203848-first-atari-2600-emulator/ First Atari 2600 emulator? forum question by jhd]</ref>
<br>Stella began development in late 1995.<ref>
[https://www.intellimedia.ncsu.edu/people/bwmott/ Info about the Creator and his projects]</ref>
===NES===
*'''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 name="Zophar NES post">[https://www.zophar.net/forums/index.php?threads/first-famicom-nes-emulator.10169/ MyaMyaMya's post in "First Famicom/NES emulator?"]</ref>
*'''Pasofami''' for the FM Towns, with a release date of May 1, 1993, in its info file. It had very preliminary sound emulation.<ref name="Zophar NES post"></ref> Windows version was released in 1995.
*'''LandyNES''' by Alex Krasivsky, which it seems became the base of iNES emulator. At least one beta version for [[POS_(Pong_Consoles)_CPUs_and_Other_Chips#Intel_CPU.27s|DOS]], called '''Prerelease "Stupid" version''', was released to the public on September 8, 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 Luckily on January 5, 2023, the emulator remains was discovered on the internetarchive<ref name="LandyNES on Lost Media Wiki" >[https://lostmediawiki.com/LandyNES_(found_early_NES_emulator_software;_1996)#Discovery LandyNES on Lost Media Wiki]</ref>; it was mainly hosted on now-defunct FTP sites and none of the websites that supposedly hosted it were archived by Wayback Machine. This project was discontinued after the release of NESticle.
*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) emulators to use [http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/INES NES header format (also known as iNES format)]. The release date of the 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 emulators 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.
*[[Genecyst]], first released in 1997 was one of the first widely used Genesis emulators.
*[http://www.zophar.net/genesis/kgen.html KGen] was the earliest predecessor of [[Kega Fusion]], released around 1997-1998.
====External links====
*MVG: [https://youtu.be/-aLfKnJAe0Y How Sega bet against Reverse Engineering...and lost]
===SNES===
====External Links====
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcD420hP3YM MVG: Full Speed PlayStation 1 emulation in 1999 - Connectix Virtual Game Station]
*[https://youtu.be/MFY9Kv1c4-Q LGR: Bleem! Commercial PlayStation Emulator]
*[https://youtu.be/UGHul1PrXCE Gaming Historian: From Shady to Legal: How Bleem & VGS Battled Sony]
*[https://youtu.be/vFZvMzRE6TA Definitive Mac Upgrade Guide: That time Steve Jobs promoted PlayStation Emulation]
===Nintendo 64===
===Xbox===
Xbox emulation dates as far back as 2002.* [[Cxbx]] was released as a proof of concept on in August 2002. It can do some test apps, and later commercial games. Discontinued in October 2015.* Xeon, released in 2003, was the first Xbox emulator whose first version can could play games, but the only game that can it could boot and show graphics was Halo CE.
* Dxbx is a fork of Cxbx, released in 2008.
* [[Cxbx-Reloaded]] is a fork of Cxbx, that went open-source in April 2016. Because little work has been done on the original CXBX, its development is very slow (equals 15% playable titles), and like older Xbox emulators, it didn't need a BIOS dump to work.* [[XQEMU]] was the first low-level Xbox emulator. Its first commit It was on February 1, 2009released around mid-late 2012. It emulated games at slow speeds. Its last commit was on in December 2019.* [[xemu]] is a continuation of XQEMU, released somewhere in February 2020. It can play 5x more titles than Cxbx-Reloaded, and needed an requires a BIOS dump to work. ====External links====*[https://youtu.be/aiWH4TcFCAY MVG: The Current State of Original Xbox Emulation on the PC]
===Nintendo DS===
* [[3dmoo]] was started shortly after Citra, on Mar 19, 2014.<ref>[https://github.com/plutooo/3dmoo/commit/2c42353b7262a3d66483fbbccb83c12dcfe85594 3dmoo's initial Github commit.]</ref>
* [[TronDS|TronDS's]] first version was released on May 11, 2014.<ref>[http://trondsemu.byethost15.com/?i=1 TronDS changelog.]</ref>
* [[Mikage]] began development in 2016<ref>[https://mikage.app/faq/ Mikage FAQ]</ref>, and still has yet to release.
* [https://panda3ds.com Panda3DS'] fist commit on on September 15, 2022<ref>[https://github.com/wheremyfoodat/Panda3DS/commits/master/?since=2022-09-15&until=2022-09-15 Panda3DS Github]</ref> and had it's first release on July 9, 2023.<ref>[https://github.com/wheremyfoodat/Panda3DS/releases/tag/v0.1-beta Panda3DS First preview release]</ref>
===Wii U===
* [[Ryujinx]] was the first Nintendo Switch emulator to boot a commercial game, Puyo Puyo Tetris, when it released on February 4, 2018.<ref>[https://github.com/gdkchan/Ryujinx/tree/b7e1d9930db6d80fcb1f7c5c6b0aa627e42e6595 Ryujinx's initial GitHub commit.]</ref>
* [[Skyline]]'s first commit was on June 28, 2019.
==Lawsuits==
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==References==
[[Category:FAQs]]
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