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==Peripherals==There were many accessories released for the The NES but Emulation General only covers accessories that are truly differentiated data streams from ROM information isn't sufficient to describe the basic controller. For examplecartridge and emulate it, so emulators have to include the Power Glove is layout and behavior of these mappers in actuality just their code, while the ROM header tells the emulator which mapper to choose. So unlike with other consoles, no matter how accurate a really complicated given NES controlleremulator will get, designed it will still never be able to convert motion into Drun newly discovered ROM dumps from cartridges that used a so-PAD, SELECT, START, Afar unknown mapper. Thus, Unlicensed NES support will be inevitably incomplete and B button commands. The same goes for R.O.B. and his ''Stacka constant work-in-up'' and ''Gyromite'' games because he was really just the second player. Strangelyprogress, the Famicom has a lot more peripheral hardware to emulate than the NEShence claims some emulators are "inaccurate".<ref>[[Wikipedia:List of Nintendo Entertainment System accessories|List of Nintendo Entertainment System accessories]]</ref>
===Zapper===Related to this issue: This accessory was very commonis why most emulators won't run unheadered NES ROMs. It's a light gunNewer versions of Nestopia can open those, used for many games such as but they''Duck Hunt'', ''Wild Gunman'', and ''Hogan's Alley'', to name three examples. When the trigger is pulled, the screen flashes black for re handled in a period of 1-2 frames while displaying a white rectangle (indicating slightly different way: the target to shoot at). If information that would have been included in the gun detects it iNES header is pointing at instead provided in emulator configuration files that get summoned as long as the white rectangle, it tells ROM's hash matches exactly the No-Intro dump of that given game to register a hit. On real hardware this could be quite unreliable unless the lenses were thoroughly clean. The Zapper plugged into the P2 port and mainly worked with old CRT TVs; newer LCD TVs will not register with the Zapper. Many emulators support this accessory with 100% accurate hit detection in the form of a mouse click (PC), tap (which is inconvenient for mobileromhacks), remote ([[Wii]] ports of NES emulators), or faked pointers using a controller.
===Miracle Piano Teaching System===* '''.fds format''': Most common format. Ubiquitous in ROM sets (GoodSets, No-Intro). Omits some checksum data.By the Software Toolworks, the * '''.qd format'[[Wikipedia:Miracle Piano Teaching System|Miracle Piano Teaching System]]'' (stands for QuickDisk): Only ever used an electronic piano keyboard as inputin official Nintendo re-releases. Almost identical to fds, but a full dump with checksum data. It is unknown if any emulator supports this featureMay omit padding.
===Family Trainer/Family Fun Fitness/Power Pad===This was designed to The checksum data in question would be used with your feet, typically by running in place on numbered circles checked at BIOS startup to represent verify the button presses. It plugs into integrity of the P2 port image and has 12 different buttonswhether it was tampered with, in which case it will throw an anti-piracy error. Notable games such as ''Stadium Events''As of now, ''World Class Track Meet''no NES emulators support the alternate more complete dumps, and 'as well as fudging that check'Athletic World'', utilize this, and trying s result to use always return a negative. To emulate a standard controller is not an option. Despite being less accurate than puNES or Mesenqd image, [[FCEUX]] actually supports thisstripping the checksum data with a custom script is needed.
===Microphone===Technically not a peripheral because it was physically part [[File:Retroarch_2013-08-16_06-32-24-62.png|thumb|250px|Example of each Model 1 Famicom, on the second player's controller faulty visuals that are exposed when no overscan is a microphone and volume slider instead of having START and SELECT buttonscropped. One noteworthy game that makes use of this is Note the Japanese ''Legend of Zelda''. Pols Voice, an enemy, is destroyed if blank blue area to the player makes a loud sound into left and the microphone (green garbage on the US version changed this right. On NTSC CRT TVs, these areas may or may not be visible]]Several NES games need their overscan to merely firing an arrow be cropped to 1-shot them)look proper. Another game to make use of the microphone Unfortunately, there is ''Takeshi no Chōsenjō'' (''Takeshi's Challenge'')standard level of overcropping. Many games require different levels for best results. For example, Super Mario Bros. [[VirtuaNES]] supports this3 requires quite a bit of cropping, however, activated by tapping the 'M' key on default settings. [[Mesen]] also supports thissame level of cropping will obscure the letters of the status bar in Castlevania games.
===Family Computer Disk System===A Japan-only peripheral using a magnetic disk format instead of cartridgesUnlike consoles such as the SNES, which natively generate their image in pure RGB, with its own unique game library. Some of these were later ported to the regular NES/Famicom cartridge format with significant downgrades (particularly the loss of enhanced FDS hardware audio)normally generates and outputs an encoded NTSC video signal. This accessory made it possible to save game data without needing batterymust then be decoded by the TV's built-backed ROMin NTSC decoder, but only for which means the game contained resulting color palette often varies depending on each 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 disksNES experience, many Famicom emulators have a variety of different palettes to choose from.
You'll need the BIOS file to emulate games made for this add-on. It's interesting to note there are actually two The 3DS and Wii U versions of the BIOS; [[Wikipedia:Family Computer Disk System|Nintendo's peripheral]] and [[Wikipedia:Twin Famicom|Sharp's Twin FamicomVirtual Console]]use extremely dark color palettes. The only difference This is apparently not an accuracy issue, but rather an anti-epilepsy measure. For the Nintendo's displays ''Nintendo'' while [[Wikipedia:Sharp Corporation|Sharp]]'s displays ''Famicom'' when Switch Online service, the hardware is first booted. Other than thatgames were directly edited to remove seizure-inducing patterns, they function identicallyallowing it to use a normal palette.
===Oeka Kids tablet===This accessory was a tablet for the Famicom Most emulators support games ''Oeka Kids: Anpanman no Hiragana Daisuki'' and ''Oeka Kids: Anpanman to Oekaki Shiyou!!''in Vs.<ref>http://wwwUniSystem cabinet by setting up different DIP switches.neBut for games in Vs.jp/asahi/oroti/famicom/ish15.html</ref> DualSystem cabinet, [[MesenMAME]] supports itis the only choice.
===CompuTrainer Pro===This is very rare and was only used in the unlicensed game RacerMate Challenge II. No known emulator supports it. <ref>http://www.nesmuseum.com/racermate.html</ref> ===Game Genie===Although Since most emulators in general have a GUI to manage cheats and don't rely on real hardware cheating devices, [[FCEUX]] can cheat authentically using a Game Genie ROMVS. ==Hardware Variants=====VS System===An arcade system based on games have palettes that differ from the standard RGB NES released for the US. Most emulators have an option to let you "Insert Coin(s)". ROMs palette, roms made with VS . System in mind 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.
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{{Infobox console|title = Nintendo Entertainment System|logo = nes-t.png|developer = [[File:Nes.pngNintendo]]|thumbtype = [[:Category:Home consoles|250px|The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)Home video game console]]The '''|generation = [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System Nintendo Entertainment System]''' (NES) is an 8-bit, thirdCategory:Third-generation console released in video game consoles|Third generation]]|release = 1983 in Japan, where it was known as the '''Family Computer''' or '''Famicom'''.|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. The earliest games released on the Famicom suffered from significant hardware constraints due to the way the Famicom was designed: limited memory addressing (which meant games had a low maximum ROM size), how the graphics are loaded onscreen, just the native sound processing is available, no saving... To solve this problem, Nintendo came up with two solutions: * The '''Family Computer Disk System ''' (FDS) is , a Japan-only add-on which played games from a special Nintendosemi-only magnetic disk custom variant of Mitsumi's Quick Disk format strongly reminiscent of floppy disks . It offered slightly higher data storage and slightly enhanced sound processing. 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, 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 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 timeGame Boy. Emulation for the NES is robust, with several many high -quality emulators for various systems.
==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].{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
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!colspan="89"|PC/ x86|-|[[Mesen]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[http://www.mesen.ca {{MesenVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|-|[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|FreeBSD}}|[http://0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia/ {{NestopiaVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[[puNES]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|FreeBSD}}|[https://github.com/punesemu/puNES/releases {{PuNESVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[[3dSen]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[http://www.geodstudio.net/ {{3dSenVRVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|[[Mesen#List_of_forks|Mesen X]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X/releases/ 1.0]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{TBD}}|-|NintendulatorNRS|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://unlicensed.games/libg/static.php?page=NintendulatorNRS 202105282224]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[FinalBurn Neo]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo-WIP-Storage-Facility/releases/tag/appveyor-build WIP builds]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|?|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[ares]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases {{aresVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[https://fms.komkon.org/iNES iNES]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD|Solaris}}|[https://fms.komkon.org/iNES {{INESVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|?|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[RockNES]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://rocknes.web.fc2.com {{RockNESVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|Gearnes|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|macOS|Lin|LiA}}|[https://github.com/drhelius/Gearnes git]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|High|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[Nintendulator]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://www.qmtpro.com/~nes/nintendulator/#downloads 0.985 Beta] [https://github.com/quietust/nintendulator git]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|Nintaco|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https://nintaco.com/ 2020-05-01]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|My Nes|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[https://github.com/alaahadid/My-Nes/releases git]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[BizHawk]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[higan]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{higanVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}} <small>(as bsnes v083)</small>|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[https://prilik.com/ANESE ANESE]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/daniel5151/ANESE/releases git]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{~}}|{{✗}}|-|[http://www.nesemu2.com nesemu2]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|MacOS}}|[https://github.com/holodnak/nesemu2 git]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[nemulator]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://nemulator.com/downloads.html {{NemulatorVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|Nesemu|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}|[https://github.com/tsalvo/nes-emu-ios git]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|cxNES|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[https://github.com/perilsensitive/cxnes/releases git]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|FakeNES GT|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|DOS}}|[[sourceforge:projects/fakenes/|0.59 b3]]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[FCEUX]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD|Sol}}|[http://www.fceux.com/web/download.html {{FCEUXVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/fceultra.php FCEUmm]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/fceumm/ 98.13mm] (Windows)<br />[https://github.com/libretro/libretro-fceumm git] (libretro)|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[MAME]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[HDNes]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9935#p109627 git]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[Jnes]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://www.jabosoft.com/categories/3 1.2.1]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|Pocket Nester+|align=left|{{Icon|WinMobile}}|[https://www.zophar.net/wmsphone/nes/pocketnester+.html 0.9]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[NESticle]]|align=left|{{Icon|DOS|Windows9x}}|[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] (Win9x)|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[QuickNES]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://web.archive.org/web/20180904003223/https://kode54.net/fb2k/QuickNES.zip 0.7.0b1] (Windows)<br />[https://github.com/libretro/QuickNES_Core git] (libretro)|?|{{✓}}|Low|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[VirtuaNES]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://virtuanes.s1.xrea.com/ 0.97]|{{~}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[http://freezesms.emuunlim.com/ FreezeSMS]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://freezesms.emuunlim.com/download.html 4.6]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[https://web.archive.org/web/20131022152846/http://www.dridus.com:80/~nyef/darcnes/ DarcNES]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://web.archive.org/web/20131031224033/http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/dn_bin/ 9b0401/9b0313]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|Nescala|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/hywelandrews/nescala git]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✓}}|{{~}}|{{✗}}|-|[https://nin.nax.io Nin]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/Nax/nin/releases git]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|CoolNESs|align=left|{{Icon|AmigaOS|MorphOS}}|[https://www.zophar.net/download_file/28 0.78]|?|{{✗}}|?|?|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|InfoNES|align=left|{{Icon|Win|Linux}}|[https://www.zophar.net/nes/infones.html 0.93]|?|{{✗}}|?|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-!colspan="9"|Mobile / ARM|-|Nestopia<ref group=N name=libretro>Only available as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).</ref>|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS}}|1.44|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|High|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|GPFCE|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|Pandora|GP2X}}<br/>{{Icon|Wiz}}|[http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=package.gpfce.notaz 0.81.0.r2]<small> (Pandora)</small>[https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,2136 0.4 r313]<small> (GP2X)</small><br/>[https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,51 0.4+]<small> (Wiz)</small>|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|-|[http://www.explusalpha.com/home/nes-emu NES.emu]<br/><small>(based on fceux 2020.05.03 git)</small>|align=left|{{Icon|Android|Pyra}}|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explusalpha.NesEmu&hl=en_IN&gl=US {{.emuVer}}][https://github.com/Rakashazi/emu-ex-plus-alpha git]<small> (Android)</small><br/>[https://pyra-handheld.com/repo/apps/80 1.5.46.02]<small> (Pyra)</small>|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✓}}<br/><small>(Android only)</small>|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|FreeiNES|align=left|{{Icon|Android|Maemo}}<br/>{{Icon|Symbian}}|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fms.ines.free&hl=en_US&gl=US 6.1]<small> (Android)</small><br/>[https://fms.komkon.org/iNES/ines_3.6.5-1_armel.deb 3.6.5]<small> (Maemo)</small><br/>[https://www.mobiles24.co/downloads/s/229852-184-ines 3.6]<small> (Symbian)</small>|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|VGBANext|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fms.emu&hl=en&gl=US {{VGBANextVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|John NESS|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.johnemulators.johnness 1.09]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[Jnes]]|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jabosoft.silverarrow 1.2.6.26]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{~}}|{{✗}}|-|Nostalgia.NES|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nostalgiaemulators.neslite 2.0.9]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|nesemu|align=left|{{Icon|Pandora|Wiz|Dingoo}}|[https://code.google.com/archive/p/nesemu/downloads 0.2.3 Beta Preview]<br/><small> (Pandora)</small>[https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,235 V1]<small> (Wiz)</small><br/>[https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/dingoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,181 0.2]<small> (Dingoo)</small>|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[Nestopia]]|align=left|{{Icon|Pandora}}|[https://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=nestopia-app V2]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|LittleJohnGP|align=left|{{Icon|GP32}}|[https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp32.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,15 0.4]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|NesterGPd|align=left|{{Icon|GP32}}|[https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp32.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,11 1.5a]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|LittleJohn Zod|align=left|{{Icon|Zodiac}}|[https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/zodiac.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,530 1.2]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|FishyNES|align=left|{{Icon|GP2X}}|[https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,1379 0.01d]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|FCEUX|align=left|{{Icon|Dingoo|RetroFW}}|[https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/dingoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,592 V1]<small> (Dingoo)</small><br/>[https://github.com/retrofw/fceux git]<small> (RetroFW)</small>|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}<br/><small>(RetroFW only)</small>|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|Nofrendo|align=left|{{Icon|Wiz}}|[https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/dingoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,116 r1]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|GPFCE 4 Caanoo|align=left|{{Icon|Caanoo}}|[https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/caanoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,623 0.4+]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-| NESizm|align=left|{{Icon|Prizm}}|[https://github.com/tswilliamson/nesizm git]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-| NES84|align=left|{{Icon|TI84+CE}}|[https://github.com/Skyluker4/NES84 git]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-| NESEmulator|align=left|{{Icon|WatchOS}}|[https://github.com/giginet/NESEmulator-watchOS git]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|NESpire|align=left|{{Icon|Nspire}}|[https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/432/43217.html 0.30]<br/>[https://github.com/tangrs/nespire-tangrs-mod git]<small> (tangrs-mod)</small>|{{~}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}<br/><small>(tangrs-mod)</small>|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|GizNester|align=left|{{Icon|Gizmondo}}|[https://app.box.com/s/uciqhge60t7lc4kekudh5yyomvqnvkpn 0.3.1]|{{~}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|FCEUXpb|align=left|{{Icon|BB}}|[http://www.mediafire.com/file/7uttd7x6zkzcq1f/FCEUXpb-1_0_0_18.bar/file 1.0.0.18]|{{~}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|LameNES|align=left|{{Icon|Nspire}}|[https://github.com/gameblabla/lamenes-nspire git]|{{~}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[https://zardam.github.io/webnofrendo numworks-nofrendo]|align=left|{{Icon|Numworks}}|[https://github.com/zardam/numworks-nofrendo git]|{{~}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|Nesemu|align=left|{{Icon|iOS|AppleTV}}|[https://github.com/tsalvo/nes-emu-ios git]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|vNES|align=left|{{Icon|Java|Symbian}}|[http://web.archive.org/web/20111010231155/http://www.vampent.com/vnes.htm 1.7 (S60v3)][https://github.com/Summeli/vNes-Asha git]<br/>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061202055857/http://www.vampent.com:80/files/vNesJ2ME.zip 1.2][http://emul.lark.ru/dendy/emu/vnes.html alt]|?|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|Berry FC|align=left|{{Icon|BB}}|?|{{~}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|FCEUX|align=left|{{Icon|LeapsterGS}}|?|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|8bkc-nofrendo|align=left|{{Icon|PocketSprite}}|[https://github.com/PocketSprite/8bkc-nofrendo git]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-!colspan="9"|Consoles|-|[[L-CLASSICS|Switch Online]]|align=left|{{Icon|Switch}}|2.3.0|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[[Virtual Console]]|align=left|{{Icon|Wii|3DS|WiiU}}|N/A|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|Nestopia<ref group=N name=libretro/>|align=left|{{Icon|PS3|360|Wii}}|1.44|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|NesterJ<ref group=N>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.</ref>|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}|[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]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|-|[[FCEUX|FCE Ultra GX]]|align=left|{{Icon|GCN|Wii}}|[https://github.com/dborth/fceugx/releases {{FCEUXGXVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}
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|stylepNES|align="text-align:center;"left|[[Mesen]]{{Icon|style="text-align:center;"Switch|Windows, LinuxVita}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://wwwgithub.mesen.ca com/Cpasjuste/pemu/releases git]|{{MesenVer✓}}]|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|✓High|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|Cycle|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]NoiES|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, LinuxSwitch}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://0ldsk00lgithub.cacom/nestopiaHydr8gon/ 1.48NoiES/releases git]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|✓Mid|style="text-align:center;"|Cycle{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[puNES]]LaiNES|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, LinuxSwitch}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://forums.nesdevgithub.com/viewtopic.php?t=6928 0.102Kevoot/LaiNESwitch/releases git]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|CycleMid|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|✓{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[Nintendulator]]NES4Vita|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|WindowsVita}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://wwwwololo.qmtpro.comnet/2015/~nes08/nintendulator03/#downloads nes4vita-1-0-released-smoke-updates-his-nes-emu-on-the-ps-vita 1.975 Beta0]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|Cycle{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|3DNESPS4NES|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, Mac, LinuxPS4}}|style="text-align:center;"|[https://geodwww.itchpsx-place.iocom/3dnes threads/update-v1-01-ps4-nes-full-speed-nes-emulator-5-05-fw-by-m0rph3us1987.21092 1.401]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|?{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[BizHawk]]PNES|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|WindowsPS4}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://tasvideoswww.psxhax.orgcom/BizHawkthreads/ReleaseHistoryps4-nintendo-entertainment-system-nes-emulator-by-m0rph3us1987.html 6033 rel]|{{BizHawkVer✓}}]|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|✓Mid|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|Cycle{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/mynes/ MyNes]FCEU PS3|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, LinuxPS3}}|style="text-align:center;"|[https://sourceforgeps3.net/projects/mynesbrewology.com/filesdownloads/ 6download.3php?id=12480&mcid=4 1.104]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|?{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[http://perilsensitive.github.io/cxnes/download.html cxNES[Nestopia]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, LinuxPS3}}|style="text-align:center;"|[https://githubps3.brewology.com/perilsensitivedownloads/cxnes/releases 0download.3.3php?id=12225&mcid=4 r2]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|FakeNES GTFCEUltra for PS2|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, Linux, Mac, MS-DOSPS2}}|style="text-align[https:center;"|//www.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_Emulators/Playstation_2/FCEUltra/146 0.9.3]<br/>[httphttps://sourceforgemundowiihack.wordpress.netcom/projects/fakenestag/ fce-ultra 0.59 b390i Mod]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|Mid|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="textFCEUmm-align:center;"|[[FCEUX]]PS2|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Multi-platformPS2}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://www.fceuxgithub.com/webps2homebrew/download.html 2.2.3Fceumm-PS2/releases git]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|Mid|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|FCEUmmInfoNES|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Multi-platformPS2}}|style="text-align[https:center;"|98//mundowiihack.wordpress.com/tag/infones 0.13mm91 LbFn]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓Mid|style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[HDNes]]pNESx|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|WindowsPS2}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://forumsmundowiihack.nesdevwordpress.com/viewtopictag/pnesx 0.php?f=3&t=9935#p109627 Git34b]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|Low|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[higan]]NES for PSP|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, Linux, OS XPSP}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://byuuarchive.org/emulation/higandetails/ nes-05.7z 0.5]|{{higanVer✓}}]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓ (as bnes v0.83)Mid|style="text-align:center;"|Cycle{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[Jnes]]InfoNES|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|WindowsPSP}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://wwwarchive.jabosoft.comorg/categoriesdetails/3 1info-nes-r-03.27z 0.195J]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|Low{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[MAME]]Famicontest|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Multi-platformPSP}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://www.mamedevarchive.org/releasedetails/famicontest031.html 7z 0.31]|{{MAMEVer✓}}]|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓Mid|style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="textFCEUltra-align:center;"|[[nemulator]]PSP (FCEUPSP)|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|WindowsPSP}}|style="text[https://archive.org/details/fceultra-j.-align7z 0.3j][https:center;"|//archive.org/details/fceu-psp.7z 0.3][httphttps://nemulatorgithub.com/downloads.html 4.2phoe-nix/fceupsp git]|style="text-align:center;"|✗{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|HighMid|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align[https:center;"|nesemu2//hcs64.com/neon64.html Neon64]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|LinuxN64}}|style="text-align:center;"|[https://github.com/holodnakhcs64/nesemu2 Gitneon64v2 git]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✗Mid|style="text-align:center;"|Cycle{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[NESticle]]VirtuaNES for 3DS|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, DOS3DS}}|style="text-align:center;"|[http://web.archive.org/web/20070227191851/httphttps://www.zophargithub.netcom/NESticleTBirdSoars/nestcxxx.zip x.xx DOSVirtuaNES git]<br />0.42 Windows|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✗Mid|style="text-align:center;"|Low{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|QuickNESNesterDC SE|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Multi-platformDC}}|style[https://dcemulation.org/index.php?title="text-align:center;"NesterDC_SE 1.1 (Unofficial)]|v1{{~}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|Low|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[http://rocknes.web.fc2.com/ RockNES]NESwitch|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|WindowsSwitch}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://rocknes.web.fc2github.com/ 5.54FreakDev/NESwitch git]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|HighMid|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|{{✗}}
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|style="textBD-align:center;"|[[VirtuaNES]]J|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|WindowsPS3}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://virtuanesforums.s1.xreaafterdawn.com/ threads/nes-emulator-for-ps3-via-bd-j-format-released.655885 0.970.3]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|Low{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|NesterJ*PSPFceUltra|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|[[PlayStation Portable]]PSP}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://filetriparchive.net/psp-downloadsorg/homebrewdetails/download-nesterj-113-beta-2-f27533pspfceultra_rls_2.html 1.13 beta 2]/[http://filetrip.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-nesterj-112aoex-r3-f29028.html AoEX7z r2]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Low|Mid{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|?{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[Virtual Console]]LameNES|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Wii, 3DS, Wii U3DO}}|style="text[https://github.com/gameblabla/lamenes-align:center;"|varies per system3do git]|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{~}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|MinimalMid|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|✓{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|Nestopia**VNES|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|PS3, 360, WiiN64}}|style="text-align[https:center;"|1//www.zophar.net/consoles/n64/nes/vnes.html 0.4412]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|✓Low|style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|?{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[FCEUX]]NestopiaX|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Wii, GamecubeXbox}}|style="text-align[https:center;"|2//digiex.2net/threads/nestopiax-v1-3-download-nes-emulator-for-xbox.13696 1<br />3.3.2]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|Mid|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|?{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|NESBoxFCEUltraX|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Xbox One}}|style="text-align:center;"|[https://nesboxdigiex.comnet/threads/ v4fceultrax-v17-download-nes-emulator-for-xbox.13693 V17]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|?{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|Nestopia***imbNES|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Android, iOSPS1}}|style="text-align[http://web.archive.org/web/20090221132233/http://imbnes.gamebase.ca:center;"|80/downloads.html 1.443.2]|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Low|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|High{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[Jnes]]NESBox|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|AndroidXB1}}|style="text-align[https:center;"|1//nesbox.4.8.55com v4]|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|Low|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}
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|style3DNES|align="textleft|{{Icon|3DS}}|[https://github.com/st4rk/3DNES git]|{{~}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|FCEUmm-3DS|align=left|{{Icon|3DS}}|[https:center;"//www.gamebrew.org/wiki/FCEUMM3DS 1.0]|{{~}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Nostalgia.NES{{✗}}|style="text-|[[Project Nested]]|align=left|{{Icon|SNES}}|[https:center;"//github.com/Myself086/Project-Nested/releases {{ProjectNestedVer}}]|{{?}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Android{{✗}}|style="text-| Little John PSP|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}| [https:center;"|1//archive.16org/details/lj-nes-psp.27z POC]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|style-|Nestopia 3DS|align="textleft|{{Icon|3DS}}|?|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[NeMul]]|align=left|{{Icon|MD}}|[http:center;"//pscd.ru/games/smd/nsmd/1247-nemul.html 1.0]|?|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|✓{{✗}}|style="text-|PocketNES|align=left|{{Icon|GBA}}|[https:center;"//www.dwedit.org/gba/pocketnes_2013_07_01.zip 7-1-2013]|?|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|style="text-|nesDS|align=left|{{Icon|NDS}}|[https:center;"//sourceforge.net/projects/nesds/files/nesds1.3a.zip/download 1.3a]|?|{{✗}}|Low|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|High{{✗}}|style-!colspan="text9"|Other|-|NESDUE|align=left|{{Icon|Arduino}}|[https:center;"//github.com/nathalis/NESDUE-Arduino_DUE_Nintendo_emulator git]|?|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|style="text{{✗}}|{{~}}|-|nofrendo-arcada|align=left|{{Icon|Arduino}}|[https:center;"//github.com/adafruit/nofrendo_arcada git]|?|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{~}}
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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>***<references group=N /nowiki> Only available on mobile as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).
===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.*[[PuNESpuNES]] 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> While Mesen has more overall mapper support, it It should be noted that PuNES has puNES used to have one mapper that Mesen doesndidn't: 116. This , 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 in libretro form.*[[Nintendulator]] and MyNes My Nes also have a fairly high ranking in those tests.<ref name="nestas"/>. NintendulatorNRS is a fork of Nintendulator which has support for the Famicom Disk System, rare mappers, and many unlicensed and bootleg carts and systems.
*[[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, use there is Nintendo's own [[Virtual Console]]. It has the backing of many of the developers, including or [[L-CLASSICS|Nintendo, Capcom, Square Enix and NamcoSwitch 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 Issuesissues=====OverscanMappers===A key difference between many emulators nowadays is how many mappers they support.[[File* '''No Mapper:Retroarch_2013''' Supported on every emulator even official Nintendo emulators.* '''Official Mappers''' (UNROM, AOROM, MMC1-08-16_06-32-24-626): Most emulators, as well as Nintendo's Virtual Console (but not their GBA emulators), will cover these.png|thumb|250px|Example of faulty visuals that are exposed when no overscan is cropped* '''Third Party Mappers''' (Various: e. Note the blank blue area to the left and the green garbage on the rightg. On NTSC CRT TVsKonami's VRC6/VRC7) While officially licensed by Nintendo, these areas may or may they were not be visible]]Several NES games need their overscan to be cropped to look properallowed outside Japan. UnfortunatelyAs a result, there is seemingly no standard level of overcropping. Many games appear to require different levels for best results. For exampletheir Western releases, SMB3 requires quite a lot many games that took advantage of croppingtheir features (advanced ROM mapping, however extra sound channels) were reprogrammed significantly and shipped on the same level official mappers, often with simplified soundtracks. A lot of cropping fan emulators worth their salt will certainly obscure the letters of the status bar in Castlevania gamescover these.===Color Palette==={{Main|Famicom Color Palette}} Unlike consoles such as the SNES, which natively generate their image in pure RGBWith those, you cover the Famicom normally generates and outputs an encoded NTSC video signalentire officially licensed library. This must then be decoded * '''Unlicensed Mappers:''' Mostly used by the TV's built-in NTSC decoderpirate cartridges, which means the resulting color palette often varies depending on long past the displayconsole's decoderofficial commercial lifespan. For this reason NES games Only the more accurate emulators (Mesen, FCEUX) will appear even bother covering them in a whack-a-mole quest for every new one discovered to have different colors on different TV setsthis very day. To properly emulate this part of the If you're not interested in '''unlicensed''' Chinese or Russian bootlegs or newer unofficial NES experiencedemakes, many Famicom emulators have it isn't a variety of different palettes to choose fromproblem.
===Arkanoid/Vaus ControllerQD FDS Support===This controller was released by Taito with one button to "fire" and a dial to control back and forth movement. ''Arkanoid'' is Games dumped off the only NES game to utilize it, but it is still optional even so. [[Mesen]] supports this.Famicom Disc System come into two major types:
===NES Four Score/NES Satellite/4-Player AdaptorOverscan===This turned the standard two controller ports into four by plugging into both P1 and P2. A few games utilized this capability, such as LJN's ''A Nightmare on Elm Street''. Many emulators support this feature by having an option to switch between 2-player and 4-player mode or just enabling/disabling Player 3 and Player 4's controller.{{Main|Overscan}}
====Karaoke Studio=Color Palette===Separate from the built-in microphone, Bandai made ''[[Wikipedia:Karaoke Studio{{Main|Karaoke Studio]]'', which is a special game cartridge that has a microphone attached to it. It is unknown if any emulator supports this.Famicom Color Palette}}
===Famicom Keyboard=Peripherals==Only one game used 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 keyboard really complicated NES controller, designed to program in BASIC on the Famicom convert motion into D-PAD, SELECT, START, A, and B button commands. The same goes for R.O.B. and his ''Stack-up'' and that was ''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:Family BASICList of Nintendo Entertainment System accessories|Family BASICList of Nintendo Entertainment System accessories]]''. VirtuaNES supports it.</ref>
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Three </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. 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They function identically despite showing different intro during first boot.|-!Microphone|A Japan-exclusive built-in feature in the Data Recorderoriginal 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]]''Excitebike<br/>'', [[Wikipedia:Kid Icarus|Light Mythology: Palutena's Mirror]]'Mach Rider'<br/>', ''Wrecking Crew[[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''. These sent |[[Mesen]]<br/>[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]<br/>[[FCEUX]]<br/>[[VirtuaNES]]|N/A|-!Famicom Data Recorder|A Japan-exclusive compact cassette tape data interface as an analog audio stream through addition to the keyboard Family BASIC to save data from BASIC programs created by users.|''Family BASIC''|[[Mesen]]<br/>[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]<br/>[[VirtuaNES]]|N/A|-!Famicom 3D System|A Japan-exclusive active shutter glasses headset which allowed compatible games to display a cassette tape deckstereoscopic image for 3D experience.|''[[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]]''|[[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, but really any device capable 3D projector or Android phone with cardboard.|-!Miracle Piano Teaching System|An accessory that used an electronic MIDI keyboard as input.|''[[Wikipedia:Miracle Piano Teaching System|Miracle Piano Teaching System]]''|N/A|N/A|-!ASCII TurboFile<br/>ASCII TurboFile II|A Japan-exclusive external storage devices for saving game positions on Famicom.|''[[Wikipedia:Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord|Wizardry: 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|Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari]]''<br/>''[[Wikipedia:Miracle Warriors: Seal of analog audio recordingthe Dark Lord|Haja no Fūin]]''|[[VirtuaNES]]|N/A|-!Oeka Kids Tablet|A Japan-exclusive drawing tablet for the Famicom ''Oeka Kids'' series.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160927112920/playback can work 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>|''Oeka Kids: Anpanman no Hiragana Daisuki''<br/>''Oeka Kids: Anpanman to Oekaki Shiyou!!''|[[Mesen]]<br/>[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]<br/>[[FCEUX]]<br/>[[puNES]]<br/>[[VirtuaNES]]|N/A|-!RacerMate CompuTrainer Pro|A rare series of peripherals for the game ''RacerMate Challenge II''. It comes with ita interface box, a bike trainer as well as a handlebar display.<ref>[http://www.nesmuseum.com/racermate. The "sounds" are really just 0s html NES Museum: RacerMate Challenge II]</ref>|''RacerMate Challenge II''|N/A|N/A|-!Game Genie|A pass-through devices that attached between a cartridge and 1s to represent the data console, allowing the player to manipulate various aspects of games are trying and access unused assets and functions by temporarily modify game data.|Various|[[FCEUX]]<ref group=N name=gamegenie>Cheat authentically by using a Game Genie ROM.</ref><br/>[[puNES]]<ref group=N name=gamegenie/>|Most emulators have a GUI to writemanage cheats and don't rely on real hardware cheating devices. VirtuaNES supports this accessory|-!Family Computer Network System<br/>Famicom Modem|A Japan-exclusive network peripheral that allowed users to connect to a Nintendo server which provided extra content such as jokes, news, game tips, weather forecasts, controlled from the "Tape" menuhorse betting and downloadable content via dial-up modem.|N/A|N/A|N/A|}<references group=N/>
==Hardware Variants=ASCII Turbo File====VS. System===Different from either battery-backed ROM cartridge or An arcade system based on the NES released for the FDS, ASCII Corporation (based US. It was released in Japan) created their own method to save game data with the [[Wikipediatwo different cabinet variations:Turbo File (ASCII)|ASCII Turbo File]]'''Vs. VirtuaNES supports this tooUniSystem''' 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.
===Famicom Box===
Also re-released later as Sharp's FamicomStation. A 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 have 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- though 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) have introduced support for it in r3134, along with the already included as well as 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.
===NES Classic Edition===
{{main|wikipedia:NES Classic Edition}}
The NES Classic Edition is a mini console that emulates the experience of the Nintendo Entertainment System. It includes 30 classic NES games and is compatible with the Wii Classic Controller and NES Classic Edition controller.
Nintendo produced and sold about 2.3 million NES Classic Editions from November 2016 through April 2017, with shipments selling out nearly immediately. In April 2017, Nintendo announced they were discontinuing the product, leading to consumer confusion, and incidents of greatly increased pricing among private sellers. Due to the demand of the NES Classic, and the success of the Super NES Classic Edition console, Nintendo re-introduced the NES Classic on June 29, 2018. Production was discontinued again in December 2018.
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