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* '''Memory Management Controllers''' (MMC), also known colloquially as '''mappers'''. They solved every single problem above with bank switching for much more data, onboard FM audio chips, and 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.

==Emulators==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Latest Version

! scope="col"|[[Wikipedia:Family Computer Disk System|FDS]]

! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]

|-

|-

|[[Mesen]]

|[http://www.mesen.ca {{MesenVer}}]

|{{✓}}

|-

|[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]

|[http://0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia/ {{NestopiaVer}}]

|{{✓}}

|-

|[[puNES]]

|{{✓}}

|{{✗}}

|-

|[[Nintendulator]]

|{{✗}}

|{{✗}}

|Cycle

|{{✓}}

|-

|My Nes

|{{✗}}

|{{✗}}

|Mid

|{{✓}}

|-

|[[BizHawk]]

|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]

|{{✓}}

|-

|[[higan]]

|[http://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ {{higanVer}}]

|{{✓}}

|Cycle

|{{✓}}

|{{✗}}

|-

|[http://www.nesemu2.com/ nesemu2]

|[https://github.com/holodnak/nesemu2 Git]

|{{✗}}

|-

|[[nemulator]]

|[http://nemulator.com/downloads.html 4.2]

|{{✗}}

|-

|[[RockNES]]

|[http://rocknes.web.fc2.com/ 5.54]

|{{✓}}

|-

|cxNES

|[https://github.com/perilsensitive/cxnes/releases 0.3.3]

|{{✓}}

|-

|FakeNES GT

|[[sourceforge:projects/fakenes/|0.59 b3]]

|{{✓}}

|-

|[[FCEUX]]

|[http://www.fceux.com/web/download.html 2.2.3]

|{{✓}}

|-

|FCEUmm

|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/fceumm/ 98.13mm] (Windows)<br />[https://github.com/libretro/libretro-fceumm Git] (libretro)

|{{✗}}

|-

|[[MAME]]

|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]

|{{✓}}

|-

|[[HDNes]]

|[http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9935#p109627 Git]

|{{✗}}

|-

|[[Jnes]]

|[http://www.jabosoft.com/categories/3 1.2.1]

|{{✓}}

|-

|[[NESticle]]

|[http://web.archive.org/web/20070227191851/http://www.zophar.net/NESticle/nestcxxx.zip x.xx] (DOS) <br /> [https://web.archive.org/web/20070116124329/http://www.zophar.net:80/NESticle/nestc042.zip 0.42] (Windows 9x)

|{{✗}}

|-

|[[QuickNES]]

|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

|-

|[[VirtuaNES]]

|[http://virtuanes.s1.xrea.com/ 0.97]

|{{~}}

|-

|[http://freezesms.emuunlim.com/ FreezeSMS]

|[http://freezesms.emuunlim.com/download.html 4.6]

|{{✗}}

|{{✗}}

|-

|{{✗}}

|{{✗}}

|-

|Nescala

|[https://github.com/hywelandrews/nescala Git]

|{{✗}}

|{{✗}}

|?

|{{✓}}

|{{✗}}

|-

|[[L-CLASSICS|Switch Online]]

|{{✓}}

|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

|-

|[http://filetrip.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-nesterj-113-beta-2-f27533.html 1.13 beta 2]<br />[http://filetrip.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-nesterj-112aoex-r3-f29028.html AoEX]

|{{✓}}

|-

|[[Virtual Console]]

|N/A

|{{✓}}

|{{✓}}

|-

|1.44

|{{✓}}

|-

|[[FCEUX|FCE Ultra GX]]

|[https://github.com/dborth/fceugx/releases 3.3.9]

|{{✓}}

|-

|[http://web.archive.org/web/20090227044416/http://imbnes.gamebase.ca imbNES]

|[http://web.archive.org/web/20090221132233/http://imbnes.gamebase.ca:80/downloads.html 1.3.2]

|{{✗}}

|-

|NESBox

|[https://nesbox.com/ v4]

|{{✗}}

|-

|VirtuaNES for 3DS

|[https://github.com/bubble2k16/emus3ds/releases 1.02]

|{{✓}}

|{{✓}}

|{{✗}}

|}

===Comparisons===

*[[puNES]] is the second most accurate NES/FDS emulator according to a separate test battery run by the TASVideos community.<ref name="nestas">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="nestas"/> 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.

*[[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.

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.

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===Color Palette===

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>

===Famicom Box===

==References==

{{Reflist}}

{{Nintendo}}