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<span style="font-size:13px;">[[FileThe earliest games released on the Famicom suffered from significant hardware constraints due to the way the Famicom was designed:Nes.png|thumb|The Nintendo Entertainment System limited memory addressing (NES)]]The </span>'''Nintendo Entertainment System'''<span style="font-which meant games had a low maximum ROM size:13px;"> (NES) , how the graphics are loaded onscreen, just the native sound processing is an 8-bitavailable, 3rd generation console released in 1983 in Japanno saving... To solve this problem, where it was known as the </span>'''Famicom'''<span style="font-sizeNintendo came up with two solutions:13px;">.</span>
<span style="font-size:13px;">* The Famicom '''Family Computer Disk System ''' (FDS) </span>is , a Japan-only add-on which played special versions games from a semi-custom variant of gamesMitsumi's Quick Disk format. It featured an extra FM offered slightly higher data storage and slightly enhanced sound channelprocessing. It also had a microphone never found anywhere else. There were plans to release it in the US, however since the NES itself had its launch delayed to late 1985, which allowed and the mapper solution obsoleted it, the add-on was never exported and some of its exclusives were ported as regular cartridge releases.* '''Memory Management Controllers''' (MMC), also known colloquially as '''mappers'''. They solved every single problem above with bank switching for richer sounds much more data, onboard FM audio chips, and music than much more. Most games released after 1986 that really pushed the system to its limits used mappers. A similar solution was used for the Game Boy. Emulation for the NES is possible on the regular consolerobust, with many high-quality emulators for various systems.
Emulation for the NES is robust, with several high quality emulators for various systems.
| style="text-align: center;"|[[NestopiaMesen]]| style="text-align: center;"|Windows, Linux| style="text-align: center;"|[http://0ldsk00lwww.mesen.ca/nestopia.html#downloads 1.45{{MesenVer}}]| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"Cycle|High{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}
| style="text-align: center;"|[[RetroArchNestopia|Nestopia UE]] (Nestopia)| style="text-align: center;"|Multi-platformWindows, Linux, macOS, <br/>BSD| style="text-align[http: center;"|1//0ldsk00l.46-wipca/nestopia/ {{NestopiaVer}}]| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"Cycle|High{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}
| style="text-align: center;"|[[puNES]]| style="text-align: center;"|Windows, Linux| style="text-align: center;"|[httphttps://www.emucrgithub.com/search/labelpunesemu/puNES/ SVNreleases {{PuNESVer}}]| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"{{✗}}|✓Cycle| style="text-align: center;"|Very High{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}
| style="text-align: center;"|[[Nintendulator]]| style="text-align: center;"|Windows| style="text-align: center;"|[http://www.emucrqmtpro.com/search~nes/labelnintendulator/Nintendulator/ SVN#downloads 0.985 Beta]| style="text-align: center;"{{✗}}|✓{{✗}}| style="text-align: center;"Cycle|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|Very High| style="text-align: center;"|✓{{✗}}
| style="text-align: center;"|[[Jnes]]| style="text-align: center;"[[Android emulators|WindowsAndroid]]|<p style="text-align[https: center;">1//play.1google.1 Windows<com/store/apps/p><p styledetails?id="text-align: center;">com.jabosoft.silverarrow 1.31.62.31 Android</p>11]| style="text-align: center;"|{{✓}}| style="text-align: center;"|✓{{✗}}| style="text-align: center;"|Low| style="text-align: center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}
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{===Comparisons===*[[Mesen]] is the most compatible NES emulator according to currently established NES test ROM suites.<ref name="mesentest">http://www.mesen.ca/TestResults.php</ref> It should be the emulator of choice for those who desire the utmost accuracy. Mesen is also very user-friendly and supports a lot of features that other emulators are missing such as; [[Texture_Packs|HD packs]], [[netplay]], auto-updating, [[Shaders and Filters|good built-in filters]], both .zip and [[GoodTools| bordergoodmerged]] file loading, etc.*[[puNES]] is the second most accurate NES/FDS emulator according to a separate test battery run by the TASVideos community.<ref name="0nestas" cellpadding>http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/NESAccuracyTests.html</ref> It should be noted that puNES used to have one mapper that Mesen didn't: 116, which allows games like Kart Fighter and Somari to be supported. This has since been added to Mesen.*[[Nestopia]] also has a high ranking in those same tests.<ref name="1nestas" cellspacing/> Even so, Nestopia has issues with The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and doesn't display the status bar in Mickey's Safari in Letterland correctly (among other problems). Nestopia Undead Edition is a fork of Nestopia meant to keep it alive and fix the aforementioned bugs. This version is generally recommended over vanilla. Even the libretro core for Nestopia is in the Undead Edition.*[[Nintendulator]] and My Nes also have a fairly high ranking in those tests.<ref name="1nestas" class/>*[[FCEUX]] scores rather low in these tests, despite being a recommended emulator on TAS Videos. The New PPU is more accurate than the Old PPU, thankfully. The emulator is still useful, though, thanks to its robust Lua scripting and incorporating FCEUmm into its feature set.*[[VirtuaNES]] also scores quite low in the tests, but in turn supports several obscure [[#Peripherals|peripherals]] that are not available on other emulators.*For official emulation, there is Nintendo's own [[Virtual Console]] or [[L-CLASSICS|Nintendo Switch Online]]. The Wii has a significantly larger library of NES games to choose from than the 3DS or Wii U, especially from third-party publishers. There are many other NES emulators not listed here, as the NES has more emulators than any other system (new ones are started all the time). Only those that are well known or stand out in some way are covered here. ==Emulation issues=====Mappers===A key difference between many emulators nowadays is how many mappers they support.* '''No Mapper:''' Supported on every emulator even official Nintendo emulators.* '''Official Mappers''' (UNROM, AOROM, MMC1-6): Most emulators, as well as Nintendo's Virtual Console (but not their GBA emulators), will cover these.* '''Third Party Mappers''' (Various: e.g. Konami's VRC6/VRC7) While officially licensed by Nintendo, they were not allowed outside Japan. As a result, for their Western releases, many games that took advantage of their features (advanced ROM mapping, extra sound channels) were reprogrammed significantly and shipped on the official mappers, often with simplified soundtracks. A lot of fan emulators worth their salt will cover these. With those, you cover the entire officially licensed library.* '''Unlicensed Mappers:''' Mostly used by pirate cartridges, often long past the console's official commercial lifespan. Only the more accurate emulators (Mesen, FCEUX) will even bother covering them in a whack-a-mole quest for every new one discovered to this very day. If you're not interested in '''unlicensed''' Chinese or Russian bootlegs or newer unofficial NES demakes, it isn't a problem. The NES ROM information isn't sufficient to describe the cartridge and emulate it, so emulators have to include the layout and behavior of these mappers in their code, while the ROM header tells the emulator which mapper to choose. So unlike with other consoles, no matter how accurate a given NES emulator will get, it will still never be able to run newly discovered ROM dumps from cartridges that used a so-far unknown mapper. Thus, Unlicensed NES support will be inevitably incomplete and a constant work-in-progress, hence claims some emulators are "inaccurate"article. Related to this issue: This is why most emulators won't run unheadered NES ROMs. Newer versions of Nestopia can open those, but they're handled in a slightly different way: the information that would have been included in the iNES header is instead provided in emulator configuration files that get summoned as long as the ROM's hash matches exactly the No-table articleIntro dump of that given game (which is inconvenient for romhacks). ===QD FDS Support===Games dumped off the Famicom Disc System come into two major types: * '''.fds format''': Most common format. Ubiquitous in ROM sets (GoodSets, No-tableIntro). Omits some checksum data.* '''.qd format''' (stands for QuickDisk): Only ever used in official Nintendo re-selectedreleases. Almost identical to fds, but a full dump with checksum data. May omit padding. The checksum data in question would be checked at BIOS startup to verify the integrity of the image and whether it was tampered with, in which case it will throw an anti-piracy error. As of now, no NES emulators support the alternate more complete dumps, as well as fudging that check's result to always return a negative. To emulate a .qd image, stripping the checksum data with a custom script is needed. ===Overscan==={{Main|Overscan}} [[File:Retroarch_2013-08-16_06-32-24-62.png|thumb|250px|Example of faulty visuals that are exposed when no overscan is cropped. Note the blank blue area to the left and the green garbage on the right. On NTSC CRT TVs, these areas may or may not be visible]]Several NES games need their overscan to be cropped to look proper. Unfortunately, there is no standard level of overcropping. Many games require different levels for best results. For example, Super Mario Bros. 3 requires quite a bit of cropping, however, the same level of cropping will obscure the letters of the status bar in Castlevania games. ===Color Palette==={{Main|Famicom Color Palette}} Unlike consoles such as the SNES, which natively generate their image in pure RGB, the Famicom normally generates and outputs an encoded NTSC video signal. This must then be decoded by the TV's built-in NTSC decoder, which means the resulting color palette often varies depending on the display's decoder. For this reason, NES games will appear to have different colors on different TV sets. To properly emulate this part of the NES experience, many Famicom emulators have a variety of different palettes to choose from. The 3DS and Wii U versions of [[Virtual Console]] use extremely dark color palettes. This is apparently not an accuracy issue, but rather an anti-epilepsy measure. For the Nintendo Switch Online service, the games were directly edited to remove seizure-inducing patterns, allowing it to use a normal palette. ==Peripherals==There were many accessories released for the NES but Emulation General only covers accessories that are truly differentiated data streams from the basic controller. For example, the Power Glove is in actuality just a really complicated NES controller, designed to convert motion into D-PAD, SELECT, START, A, and B button commands. The same goes for R.O.B. and his ''Stack-up'' and ''Gyromite'' games because he was really just the second player. Strangely, the Famicom has a lot more peripheral hardware to emulate than the NES.<ref>[[Wikipedia:List of Nintendo Entertainment System accessories|List of Nintendo Entertainment System accessories]]</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"! scope="col" style="width:200px;"|Name(s)! scope="col" style="width: 500px300px;"|Description! scope="col" style="width:150px;"|Game(s)! scope="col" style="width:100px;text-align:center"|Support emulator(s)! scope="col" style="width:300px;"|+ConsolesNote
| style="text-align: center;"|[[RetroArch]] (Nestopia)!Power Pad<br/>Family Trainer<br/>Family Fun Fitness| style="textA game controller that allows players stepping on a gray floor mat with 12 pressure-align: center;"|PS3, 360, Wii| style="text-align: center;"|1sensors embedded between flexible plastic to control gameplay.44| style="text-align''[[Wikipedia: center;"Stadium Events|✓| style="text-alignStadium Events]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia: center;"Dance Aerobics|✓Dance Aerobics]]''<br/>''Athletic World''| style="text-align: center;"|High[[FCEUX]]| style="text-align: center;"|✓N/A
| style="text-align: center;"|[[RetroArch]] (Nestopia)!Family Computer Network System<br/>Famicom Modem| style="textA Japan-align: center;"|Androidexclusive network peripheral that allowed users to connect to a Nintendo server which provided extra content such as jokes, news, game tips, weather forecasts, iOS| style="texthorse betting and downloadable content via dial-align: center;"|1up modem.44| style="text-align: center;"|✓| style="text-align: center;"|✓N/A| style="text-align: center;"|HighN/A| style="text-align: center;"|✓N/A
<nowiki>*AoEX ===Famicom Box===Also re-released later as Sharp's FamicomStation. The hybrid NES/Famicom arcade box [http://famicomworld.com/system/other/famicombox/ Nintendo Famicom Box] is based a bulky metal cube, with a slot to insert money and secured with tons of locks. The hotel would set the amount of time you could play on NesterJ 1one token, and choose the games available. You can see it in action in season 18 of [http://www.12 Plus 0gamingcx.61 RM, so it includes features like rewind mode, cheat codes support, rotatedcom/mirrored screenGame Center CX]. It was distributed in select hotels and stores and can hold up to 15 select Famicom releases at once, sepia palette, support to rare mappers and had many more hardware lockout chips and pins with different behavior than usual (the pirate bootleg FF7 works on italso only supported cartridges using memory mapper 0), etc, but its compatibility is inferior to 1.13 beta 2Sports a unique boot screen for both models released.</nowiki>
==Emulation Issues=====Color Palette===Unlike consoles like Neither the SNES, which natively generate cartridges nor the image in pure RGBBIOS has been dumped or tested with an emulator, unlike the NES/Super Famicom normally generates and outputs an encoded NTSC video signal, Box (which must then be decoded by the TVhas had both its BIOS's built-in NTSC decoder. This means the resulting color palette often varies depending on the display's decoder. This is why NES games appear to have different colors on different TV setsand most of its ROMs dumped).
Some arcade machines based on the NES hardwareMESS supports this console, and some other emulators (such as the PlayChoice-10 and the Versus series of cabinetsMesen, did generate a native RGB signalpuNES, however. The colors on these cabinets tend to be very vibrant and saturatedFCEUX) introduced support for it in r3134, giving games a very distinct look compared to how they would look on along with the real consolealready included support for iNES 2. Nestopia gives the user 0 ROM headers (including the choice to use the RGB palette featured in these cabinets, though it is not usually considered option to mark a ROM region as PAL Dendy). The cartridges themselves can still be played as long as the definitive or "real" NES palette.===Overscan===[[File:Retroarch_2013-08-16_06-32-24-62.png|thumb|320px|Example of faulty visuals that are exposed due to crop overscan not working. Note the blank blue area to the left and the green garbage on the rightemulator supports broken carts.]]
Several ==Resources==*[http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Nesdev_Wiki Nesdev Wiki] - A place for all your NES games need the overscan to be cropped to look properprogramming/NES emulator programming needs.*[http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=2818 Nesdev Forum] - Discussion of NES Wii Virtual Console accuracy.
[http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/NESAccuracyTests.html NES emulator accuracy]{{Nintendo}}
Nestopia has issues with The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Neither Nestopia nor puNES display the status bar in Mickey's Safari in Letterland correctly. etc... These test ROMs, unfortunately, don't test everything that matters for accurate emulation (and in some cases, test stuff that doesn't matter for emulating any games).
→Peripherals
{{Infobox console
|title = Nintendo Entertainment System
|logo = nes-t.png
|developer = [[:Nintendo]]
|type = [[:Category:Consoles|Home video game console]]
|generation = [[:Category:Third-generation video game consoles|Third generation]]
|release = 1983
|discontinued = 2003
|predecessor = [[First_and_Second_Generations_of_video_game_consoles|Color TV-Game]]
|successor = [[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]]
|emulated = {{✓}}
}}
The '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System Nintendo Entertainment System]''' (NES) is an 8-bit, third-generation console released on July 15, 1983 in Japan, where it was known as the '''Family Computer''' or '''Famicom''', and on October 18, 1985, it released in the US. It retailed for {{Inflation|USD|179.99|1985}}. It had a Ricoh 2A03 CPU at 1.79 MHz with 2KB of RAM.
==Emulators==
Like for [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Game Boy/Color]], tons of NES emulators exist. For a list of open-source projects, see this [https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=nes+emulator&type=Repositories GitHub query].{| borderclass="0wikitable" cellpaddingstyle="1text-align:center;" cellspacing! scope="1col" class|Name! scope="col"|Operating System(s)! scope="article-table article-table-selectedcol" style|Latest Version! scope="widthcol"|[[Wikipedia: 500px;Family Computer Disk System|FDS]]! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]! scope="col"|+PCActive! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> AoEX is based on NesterJ 1.12 Plus 0.61 RM, so it includes features like rewind, cheat code support, rotated/mirrored screen, sepia palette, support for rare mappers (the pirate bootleg FF7 works on it), etc. Its compatibility is inferior to 1.13 beta 2.<br>
<nowiki>**</nowiki> Only available on consoles as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).<br>
<nowiki>***</nowiki> Only available on mobile as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).
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==Hardware Variants==
===VS. System===
An arcade system based on the NES released for the US. It was released in two different cabinet variations: '''Vs. UniSystem''' and '''Vs. DualSystem''', which the later have double chipsets on the PCB and is capable of handling two different programs or simply two separate copies of a single program simultaneously.
Most emulators support games in Vs. UniSystem cabinet by setting up different DIP switches. But for games in Vs. DualSystem cabinet, [[MAME]] is the only choice.
Since most VS. System games have palettes differ from the standard RGB NES palette, roms made with VS. System which are accidentally played in the emulator's NES mode (or vice-versa) will cause the colors to be totally garbled. This can occur when there is an issue with the emulator's configuration or the ROM's iNES header.
===Dendy===A pirate NES emulators are similarly afflicted by this issueFamicom clone which was sold in Russia and Eastern Europe, as they each have their own algorithms with the blueprint later reused for generating the NES color palette, meaning they all have slightly other Famiclones. Here's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kne6AKyYUuM a link] to wildly varying palettesa CC-subtitled Kinaman video for more details. As such, there isnIt't really s a "true" very quirky NTSC NES color paletteoptimized for 50Hz, and which emulator has with many other changes from the "best" palette official PAL NES as well- through these differences often comes down to preference, or whichever looks closest to how break the real console looks compatibility of Dendy-specific releases on a user's own particular TV. Emulators such as Nestopia have the ability for the user to edit the color palette to their likingmost emulators.
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