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|discontinued = 2003

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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==

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! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Latest Version

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

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|[[Mesen]]

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

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|[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]

|{{✓}}

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|Cycle

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|[[puNES]]

|{{✓}}

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|[[Nintendulator]]

|{{✗}}

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|Cycle

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|My Nes

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|Mid

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|Cycle

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|cxNES

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

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|Mid

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|FakeNES GT

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

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|[[FCEUX]]

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

|{{✓}}

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|FCEUmm

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

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|Mid

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|[[HDNes]]

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

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|Low

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|[[Jnes]]

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

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!colspan="8"|Consoles

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|[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]

|{{✓}}

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|[[Virtual Console]]

|N/A

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|1.44

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|[[FCEUX|FCE Ultra GX]]

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

|{{✓}}

|?

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|NESBox

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

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|VirtuaNES for 3DS

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

|{{✓}}

|{{✓}}

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===Comparisons===

*[[Mesen]] is the most accurate 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|goodmerged]] file loading, etc.

*[[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.

===Mappers===

A key difference between many emulators nowadays is how many mappers they support.

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===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.

==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>

===Famicom Box===

==References==

{{Reflist}}

{{Nintendo}}