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<span style="font-sizeThe earliest games released on the Famicom suffered from significant hardware constraints due to the way the Famicom was designed:13px;">[[File:Nes.png|thumb|The Nintendo Entertainment System limited memory addressing (NES)]]The </span>'''[[gametech:Nintendo Entertainment System|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.

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].{| class="wikitable"|+PC|style="text-align:center;"

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* PuNES Related to this issue: This is the why most accurate emulators won't run unheadered NES emulator according to testsROMs.<ref name="nestas">http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/NESAccuracyTests.html</ref> These test ROMs used for determining accuracy in tests unfortunatelyNewer versions of Nestopia can open those, donbut they't test everything re handled in a slightly different way: the information that matters for accurate emulation (and would have been included in the iNES header is instead provided in some cases, test stuff emulator configuration files that doesnget summoned as long as the ROM't matter s hash matches exactly the No-Intro dump of that given game (which is inconvenient for emulating any gamesromhacks). So just because an emulator has high ratings doesn't mean it is free of issues. ===QD FDS Support===Games dumped off the Famicom Disc System come into two major types: * Nestopia has a high ranking in those same tests'''.<ref name="nestas"/> Nestopia has issues with The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and doesnfds format''t display the status bar in Mickey's Safari in Letterland correctly among other problems: Most common format.* FCEUX scores fairly low Ubiquitous in the same testsROM sets (GoodSets, despite being a recommended emulator on TAS VideosNo-Intro). The New PPU is more accurate than the Old PPU, howeverOmits some checksum data. Version 2* '''.2qd format''' (stands for QuickDisk): Only ever used in official Nintendo re-releases.2 is promised Almost identical to have brought improvements from Bizhawkfds, but a more accurate emulator, but it is unknown how much is fixedfull dump with checksum data. May omit padding.* There are very many NES emulators not listed here, as this system has more emulators than any other system and it The checksum data in question would take pages be checked at BIOS startup to list all verify the integrity of themthe image and whether it was tampered with, plus new ones are started all in which case it will throw an anti-piracy error. As of now, no NES emulators support the time. Italternate more complete dumps, as well as fudging that check's best result to just list always return a negative. To emulate a .qd image, stripping the ones that are well known and stand out in some waychecksum data with a custom script is needed.[[Category:Consoles]]

[[File:Retroarch_2013-08-16_06-32-24-62.png|thumb|250px|Example of faulty visuals that are exposed due to crop when no overscan not workingis 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 the their overscan to be cropped to look proper. There Unfortunately, there is however, seemingly no standard level of overcropping. Many games seem to require different levels of overcroppingfor best results. For example, Super Mario Bros. SMB3 3 requires quite a lot bit of cropping, however , the same level of cropping will obscure of the letters in of the status bar in Castlevania games. It did not seem that there was standardization until the next generation of consoles.

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:300px;"|Description! scope="col" style="width:150px;"|Game(s)! scope="col" style="width:100px;text-align:center"|Support emulator(s)! scope="col" style="width:300px;"|Note|-!Zapper|An electronic light gun accessory that allowing players to aim at the display and shoot various objects that appear on the screen.|''[[Wikipedia:Duck Hunt|Duck Hunt]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Wild Gunman|Wild Gunman]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Hogan's Alley (video game)|Hogan's Alley]]''|Various|Emulated in the form of a mouse click (PC), tap (for mobile), remote ([[Wii emulators|Wii]] ports of NES emulators), or faked pointers using a controller.|-!Arkanoid/Vaus Controller|A specific game controller with one button to "fire" and a dial to control back and forth movement.|''[[Wikipedia:Arkanoid|Arkanoid]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh|Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Chase H.Q.|Chase H.Q.]]''|Various|N/A|-!Power Pad<br/>Family Trainer<br/>Family Fun Fitness|A game controller that allows players stepping on a gray floor mat with 12 pressure-sensors embedded between flexible plastic to control gameplay.|''[[Wikipedia:Stadium Events|Stadium Events]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Dance Aerobics|Dance Aerobics]]''<br/>''Athletic World''|[[FCEUX]]|N/A|-!NES Four Score<br/>NES Satellite<br/>4-Player Adaptor|A multitap accessory that allows players to enable up to 4-player gameplay using infrared wireless communication.|''[[Wikipedia:R.C. Pro-Am II|R.C. Pro-Am II]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Bomberman II|Bomberman II]]''<ref group=N>Up to three players only.</ref><br/>''[[Wikipedia:Gauntlet II|Gauntlet II]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Nintendo World Cup|Nintendo World Cup]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise)#Video games|A Nightmare on Elm Street]]''|Various|Emulated by having an option to switch between 2-player and 4-player mode or just enabling/disabling Player 3 and Player 4's controller.|-!Family Computer Disk System|''See above''|''[[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda (video game)|Legend of Zelda: The Hyrule Fantasy]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Metroid|Metroid]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Kid Icarus|Light Mythology: Palutena's Mirror]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Castlevania (1986 video game)|Akumajō Dracula]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Ice Hockey (1988 video game)|Ice Hockey]]''|Various|BIOS file (which can be found [[Emulator_Files#NES_.2F_Famicom|here]]) is required for FDS emulation. Note that there's two versions of the BIOS: the one that comes with FDS and another one that comes with Sharp's [[Wikipedia:Twin Famicom|Twin Famicom]]. They function identically despite showing different intro during first boot.|-!Microphone|A Japan-exclusive built-in feature in the original Player 2 Famicom controller that allows players to use external sound source (e.g. player's voice) as input.|''[[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda (video game)|Legend of Zelda: The Hyrule Fantasy]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Kid Icarus|Light Mythology: Palutena's Mirror]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda (video game)|Kaiketsu Yanchamaru]]''|[[Mesen]]<ref group=N name=microphone>Cheated by pressing any specific key ("M" by default).</ref><br/>[[VirtuaNES]]<ref group=N name=microphone/><br/>[[Virtual Console]]<ref group=N>Through an actual microphone.</ref>|N/A|-!Family BASIC|A Japan-exclusive peripheral that includes a enchanced dialect of [[Wikipedia:BASIC|BASIC]] programming language that allow users to create programs in Famicom. It comes with a special designed cartridge, keyboard, and the Data Recorder.|''Family BASIC''|[[Mesen]]<br/>[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]<br/>[[FCEUX]]<br/>[[VirtuaNES]]|N/A|-!Famicom Data Recorder|A Japan-exclusive compact cassette tape data interface as an addition to the Family BASIC to save data from BASIC programs created by users.|''Family BASIC''|[[Mesen]]<br/>[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]<br/>[[VirtuaNES]]|+ N/A

! scope="col"Famicom 3D System|NameA Japan-exclusive active shutter glasses headset which allowed compatible games to display a stereoscopic image for 3D experience.! scope="col"|Alternate name''[[Wikipedia:List of Mario racing games#Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally|Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Rad Racer|Highway Star]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Falsion|Falsion]]''! scope="col"|Description[[RetroArch]]|[https://github.com/libretro/glsl-shaders/tree/master/stereoscopic-3d GLSL shaders] is needed for RetroArch to simulate the 3D experience with [[Virtual Reality|VR]] headset, 3D TV, 3D projector or Android phone with cardboard.

!Miracle Piano Teaching System|style="text-align:center;"|YUVAn accessory that used an electronic MIDI keyboard as input.|style="text-align''[[Wikipedia:center;"Miracle Piano Teaching System|CanonicalMiracle Piano Teaching System]]''|style="text-align:center;"N/A|Based of the standard method of NTSC decoding.N/A

!ASCII TurboFile<br/>ASCII TurboFile II|style="textA Japan-alignexclusive external storage devices for saving game positions on Famicom.|''[[Wikipedia:Wizardry:center;"Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord|RGBWizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds|Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:River City Ransom|style="text-alignDowntown Nekketsu Monogatari]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Miracle Warriors:center;"Seal of the Dark Lord|Haja no Fūin]]''|style="text-align:center;"[[VirtuaNES]]|PlayChoice-10 PPU palette. N/A

!Oeka Kids Tablet|style="textA Japan-alignexclusive drawing tablet for the Famicom ''Oeka Kids'' series.<ref>[https:center;"//web.archive.org/web/20160927112920/http://www.ne.jp/asahi/oroti/famicom/ish15.html ファミコンの周辺機器が大集合!　ザ☆周辺機器ズ　15] (Archived)</ref>|Sony CXA2025AS ''Oeka Kids: Anpanman no Hiragana Daisuki''<br/>''Oeka Kids: Anpanman to Oekaki Shiyou!!''|style="text-align:center;"[[Mesen]]<br/>[[Nestopia|ConsumerNestopia UE]]<br/>[[FCEUX]]<br/>[[puNES]]<br/>[[VirtuaNES]]|style="text-align:center;"|N/A

!RacerMate CompuTrainer Pro|style="text-alignA rare series of peripherals for the game ''RacerMate Challenge II''. It comes with a interface box, a bike trainer as well as a handlebar display.<ref>[http://www.nesmuseum.com/racermate.html NES Museum:center;"RacerMate Challenge II]</ref>|?''RacerMate Challenge II''|style="text-align:center;"|AlternateN/A|style="text-align:center;"|It's a mystery. N/A

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Unlike consoles like ==Hardware Variants=====VS. System===An arcade system based on the SNES, which natively generate NES released for the image US. It was released in pure RGB, the NES/Famicom normally generates two different cabinet variations: '''Vs. UniSystem''' and outputs an encoded NTSC video signal'''Vs. DualSystem''', which must then be decoded by the TV's built-in NTSC decoder. This means the resulting color palette often varies depending later have double chipsets on the display's decoder. This PCB and is why NES games appear to have different colors on capable of handling two different TV setsprograms or simply two separate copies of a single program simultaneously.

NES Most emulators are similarly afflicted support games in Vs. UniSystem cabinet by this issue, as they each have their own algorithms setting up different DIP switches. But for generating the NES color palette, meaning they all have slightly to wildly varying palettesgames in Vs. As suchDualSystem cabinet, there isn't really a "true" NES color palette, and which emulator has the "best" palette often comes down to preference, or whichever looks closest to how the real console looks on a user's own particular TV. Emulators such as Nestopia have the ability for the user to edit [[MAME]] is the color palette to their likingonly choice.

Some arcade machines based on Since most VS. System games have palettes differ from the standard RGB NES hardwarepalette, such as roms made with VS. System which are accidentally played in the PlayChoiceemulator's NES mode (or vice-10 and versa) will cause the Versus series of cabinets, did generate a native RGB signal, however. The colors on these cabinets tend to be very vibrant and saturated, giving games a very distinct look compared to how they would look on the real consoletotally garbled. Nestopia gives the user the choice to use the RGB palette featured in these cabinets, though it This can occur when there is not usually considered to be an issue with the definitive emulator's configuration or "real" NES palettethe ROM's iNES header.

===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 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 one token, and choose the games available. You can see it in action in season 18 of [http://www.gamingcx.com/ Game Center CX]. It was distributed in select hotels and stores and can hold up to 15 select Famicom releases at once, and had many more hardware lockout chips and pins with different behavior than usual (it also only supported cartridges using memory mapper 0). Sports a unique boot screen for both models released.  Neither the cartridges nor the BIOS has been dumped or tested with an emulator, unlike the Super Famicom Box (which has had both its BIOS' and most of its ROMs dumped). ===Dendy===A pirate NES Famicom clone which was sold in Russia and Eastern Europe, with the blueprint later reused for other Famiclones. Here's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kne6AKyYUuM a link] to a CC-subtitled Kinaman video for more details. It's a very quirky NTSC NES optimized for 50Hz, with many other changes from the official PAL NES as well- through these differences often break the compatibility of Dendy-specific releases on most emulators. MESS supports this console, and some other emulators (such as Mesen, puNES, and FCEUX) introduced support for it in r3134, along with the already included support for iNES 2.0 ROM headers (including the option to mark a ROM region as PAL Dendy). The cartridges themselves can still be played as long as the emulator supports broken carts. ==Resources==*[http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Nesdev_Wiki Nesdev Wiki] - mmhm. yeah. mmhm. I know some of these words. (A place for all your NES programming/NES emulator programming needs).*[http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=2818 Nesdev Forum] - Discussion of NES Wii Virtual Console accuracy.