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{{Infobox console|title = Nintendo Entertainment System|logo = nes-t.png|developer = [[File:Nes.png|thumb|The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)]]The '''|type = [[gametech:Nintendo Entertainment SystemCategory:Home consoles|Nintendo Entertainment SystemHome video game console]]''' (NES) is an 8|generation = [[:Category:Third-bit, 3rd generation console released in video game consoles|Third generation]]|release = 1983 in Japan, where it was known as the '''Famicom'''.|discontinued = 2003|predecessor = [[First_and_second_generations_of_video_game_consoles|Color TV-Game]]|successor = [[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]]|emulated = {{✓}}}}

The Famicom Disk '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System Nintendo Entertainment System ]''' (FDSNES) is a Japanan 8-only addbit, third-generation console released on which played special versions of games. It featured an extra FM sound channelJuly 15, 1983 in Japan, where it was known as the '''Family Computer''' or '''Famicom''', which allowed for richer sounds and music than is possible on October 18, 1985, it released in the regular consoleUS. 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), a Japan-only add-on which played games from a semi-custom variant of Mitsumi's Quick Disk format. 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 Game Boy. Emulation for the NES is robust, with several 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].<div style="max-width:100%; overflow:auto;">{| class="wikitable"style="text-align:center;"! scope="col"|Name! scope="col"|Platform(s)! scope="col"|Latest version! scope="col"|[[Wikipedia:Famicom Disk System|FDS]]! scope="col"|[[libretro]]! scope="col"|[[Emulation accuracy|Accuracy]]! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>! scope="col"|Active! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]|-!colspan="9"|+PC/ x86|-|[[Mesen#List_of_forks|Mesen X]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X/releases/ 2022-05-15] [https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X/actions git]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[[puNES]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|FreeBSD}}|[https://github.com/punesemu/puNES/releases {{PuNESVer}}] [https://github.com/punesemu/puNES/actions wip]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|FreeBSD}}|[http://0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia/ {{NestopiaVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[[BizHawk]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|NintendulatorNRS|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://unlicensed.games/libg/static.php?page=NintendulatorNRS 2022-09-12]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|[[Mesen]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[http://www.mesen.ca {{MesenVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{~}}|-|[[FCEUX]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD|Sol}}|[http://www.fceux.com/web/download.html {{FCEUXVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|[[3dSen]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[http://www.geodstudio.net/ {{3dSenVRVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|[[ares]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases {{aresVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|?|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[Nintendulator]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://www.qmtpro.com/~nes/nintendulator/#downloads 0.985 Beta] [https://github.com/quietust/nintendulator git]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[FinalBurn Neo]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo/releases/tag/latest WIP builds]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|High|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[https://fms.komkon.org/iNES iNES]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD|Solaris}}|[https://fms.komkon.org/iNES {{INESVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|?|{{✓}}|{{✗}}

! scope|My Nes|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[https://github.com/alaahadid/My-Nes/releases git]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[higan]]|align="col"left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{higanVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|Cycle|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|Name[https://prilik.com/ANESE ANESE]! scope|align="col"left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/daniel5151/ANESE/releases git]|{{✗}}|OS{{✗}}! scope|Cycle<ref group="col"N>[https://prilik.com/ANESE/#disclaimers The CPU is instruction-cycle accurate, but not sub-instruction cycle accurate (TODO ). While this inaccuracy doesn’t affect most games, there are some that that rely on sub-instruction level timings.]</ref>|{{✓}}|{{~}}|{{✗}}|-|Version[[RockNES]]! scope|align="col"left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://rocknes.web.fc2.com {{RockNESVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[gametechnemulator]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http:Famicom Disk system//nemulator.com/downloads.html {{NemulatorVer}}]|FDS{{✗}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|Nesemu|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}|[https://github.com/tsalvo/nes-emu-ios git]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|High|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/fceultra.php FCEUmm]! scope|align="col"left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/fceumm/ 98.13mm] ([[Emulators on Windows|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|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[VirtuaNES]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://virtuanes.s1.xrea.com/ 0.97]|{{~}}|{{✗}}|Low|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[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|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|[[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|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-|Libretro Core[[QuickNES]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://web.archive.org/web/20180904003223/https://kode54.net/fb2k/QuickNES.zip 0.7.0b1] ([[Emulators on Windows|Windows]])<br />[https://github.com/libretro/QuickNES_Core git] ([[libretro]])|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|Low|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|-! scopecolspan="col9"|Mobile / ARM|-|Nestopia<ref group=N name=libretro>Only available as a libretro core (e.g. [[AccuracyRetroArch]]).</ref>|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS}}|1.44! scope|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|High|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[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="col"left|{{Icon|Android|Maemo}}<br/>{{Icon|Symbian}}|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fms.ines.free&hl=en_US&gl=US 6.1.4]<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>([[Recommended Emulatorson Symbian|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|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|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><br/>[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|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{~}}|-|John NESS|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.johnemulators.johnness 1.09]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|Mid|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|Recommended[[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|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}

|styleNesemu|align="text-align:center;"left|[[Nestopia]]{{Icon|style="text-align:center;"iOS|Windows, LinuxAppleTV}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://0ldsk00lgithub.cacom/nestopia.html#downloads 1.45tsalvo/nes-emu-ios git]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|Very High{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}

|style="text-align:center;"|[[puNES]]Pocket Nester+|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, LinuxWinMobile}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://www.emucrzophar.comnet/searchwmsphone/labelnes/puNES/ SVNpocketnester+.html 0.9]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Low|Very High{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|✓{{✗}}

|style="text-align:center;"|[[Nintendulator]]|style="text-align:center;"|Windows|style="text-align:center;"|[http://www.emucr.com/search/label/Nintendulator/ SVN]|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|✗|style="text-align:center;"|Very High|style!colspan="text-align:center;9"|✓Consoles

|style="text[[L-align:center;"CLASSICS|[[BizHawkSwitch Online]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|WindowsSwitch}}|style="text-align:center;"|[http://tasvideos2.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html 13.7.3]0|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"High|Very High{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|✗{{✓}}

|style="text-align:center;"|[[nemulatorVirtual Console]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Wii|3DS|WindowsWiiU}}|style="text-align:center;"|[http://nemulator.comN/downloads.php 3.3]A|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|High{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|✗{{✓}}

|styleNestopia<ref group="text-N name=libretro/>|align:center;"=left|{{Icon|[[FCEUX]]PS3|style="text-align:center;"360|Multi-platformWii}}|style="text-align:center;"|[http://www.fceux.com/web/download.html 2.21.2]44|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|✗{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|✗{{✓}}

|style="text-align:center;"[[FCEUX|FCEUmmFCE Ultra GX]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|GCN|Multi-platformWii}}|style="text-align[https:center;"|98//github.13mmcom/dborth/fceugx/releases {{FCEUXGXVer}}]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}

|stylepNES|align="text-align:center;"left|[[higan]]{{Icon|style="text-align:center;"Switch|Windows, Linux, OS XVita}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://byuugithub.orgcom/higanCpasjuste/ 0.94pemu/releases git]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"High|{{✓ (as bNESv0.83)}}|style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|✗{{✓}}

|styleNesterJ<ref group="text-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:center;"=left|{{Icon|FakeNES GTPSP}}|style="text[http://filetrip.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-nesterj-113-align:center;"|Windows, Linux, Mac, MSbeta-DOS|style="text2-align:center;"|f27533.html 1.13 beta 2]<br />[http://sourceforgefiletrip.net/projectspsp-downloads/fakeneshomebrew/ 0download-nesterj-112aoex-r3-f29028.59 b3html AoEX]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|Mid|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{~}}

|styleFCEUltra for PS2|align="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|QuickNESPS2}}|style="text-align[https://www.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_Emulators/Playstation_2/FCEUltra/146 0.9.3]<br/>[https:center;"|Multi//mundowiihack.wordpress.com/tag/fce-platformultra 0.90i Mod]|style="text-align:center;"|v1{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|Low{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}

|style="text-align[https:center;"|[[Jnes]//hcs64.com/neon64.html Neon64]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|WindowsN64}}|style="text-align[https:center;"|1//github.1.1 Windowscom/hcs64/neon64v2 git]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Mid|Low{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}}|{{✗}}

|style="text-align:center;"|[[NESticle]]VirtuaNES for 3DS|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, MS-DOS3DS}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://webgithub.archive.org/web/20070227191851/http:com/TBirdSoars/www.zophar.net/NESticle/nestcxxx.zip x.xx MS-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;"|[[MESS]]nesDS|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Multi-platformNDS}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://wwwsourceforge.mamedevnet/projects/nesds/files/nesds1.3a.orgzip/release.html 0download 1.1543a]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|Low|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{| class="wikitable"|+Consoles{✗}}

! scope="col"|NameimbNES! scope|align="col"left|Operating System(s)! scope="col"{{Icon|Latest VersionPS1}}! scope="col"|[[gametechhttp://web.archive.org/web/20090221132233/http://imbnes.gamebase.ca:Famicom Disk system80/downloads.html 1.3.2]|FDS]]{{✗}}! scope="col"|[[libretro{{✗}}|Libretro Core]]Low! scope="col"|[[Accuracy]]{{✓}}! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators{{✗}}|Recommended]]{{✗}}

|style="text-align:center;"|NesterJ*NESBox|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|[[PlayStation Portable]]XB1}}|style="text-align:center;"|[http://filetrip.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-nesterj-113-beta-2-f27533.html 1.13 beta 2]/[httphttps://filetripnesbox.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-nesterj-112aoex-r3-f29028.html AoEXcom v4]|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Low|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|?{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}

|style="text-align:center;"|Nestopia**[[Project Nested]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|PS3, 360, WiiSNES}}|style="text-align[https:center;"|1//github.44com/Myself086/Project-Nested/releases {{ProjectNestedVer}}]|style="text-align:center;"{{✗}}|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"Low|{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✓}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}

|style="text-align:center;"|[[FCEUXNeMul]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Wii, GamecubeMD}}|style="text-align[http:center;"|2//pscd.2ru/games/smd/nsmd/1247-nemul.html 1<br />3.3.20]|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|style="text-align:center;"|MidLow|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}|{{✗}}<nowiki>*AoEX is based on NesterJ 1.12 Plus 0.61 RM, so it includes features like rewind mode, cheat codes support, rotated/mirrored screen, sepia palette, support to rare mappers (the pirate bootleg FF7 works on it), etc, but its compatibility is inferior to 1.13 beta 2.</nowiki> <nowiki>**</nowiki>Only available on consoles as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).|{{| class="wikitable"|+Mobile✗}}

! scope="col"|NamePocketNES! scope|align="col"left|Operating System(s)! scope="col"{{Icon|Latest VersionGBA}}! scope="col"|[[gametechhttps:Famicom Disk system//www.dwedit.org/gba/pocketnes_2013_07_01.zip 7-1-2013]|FDS]]{{✗}}! scope="col"|[[libretro{{✗}}|Libretro Core]]Low! scope="col"|[[Accuracy]]{{✗}}! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators{{✗}}|Recommended]]{{✗}}

|style="text-align:center;"|[[Jnes]]|style="text-align:center;"|Android|style="text-align:center;"|1.3.6.31 Android|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|✗|style="text-align:center;"|Low|style!colspan="text-align:center;9"|✗Other

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<nowiki/div>**<references group=N /nowiki>Only available on mobile as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).

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=Comparisons====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 ([https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/Mesen-X/commits/master/Core Mesen-X], [https://github.com/punesemu/puNES/commits/master/src/core/mappers puNES], NintendulatorNRS, [https://github.com/0ldsk00l/nestopia/commits/master/source/core/board Nestopia UE]) 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". 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-Intro 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-Intro). Omits some checksum data.* '''.qd format''' (stands for QuickDisk): Only ever used in official Nintendo re-releases. Almost identical to fds, but a full dump with checksum data. May omit padding.

* PuNES is The checksum data in question would be checked at BIOS startup to verify the integrity of the most accurate NES emulator according to tests.<ref name="nestas">http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/NESAccuracyTests.html</ref> These test ROMs used for determining accuracy in tests unfortunately, don't test everything that matters for accurate emulation (image and in some cases, test stuff that doesn't matter for emulating any games). So just because an emulator has high ratings doesn't mean whether it is free of issues.* Nestopia has a high ranking in those same tests.<ref name="nestas"/> Nestopia has issues was tampered with The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and doesn't display the status bar , in Mickey's Safari in Letterland correctly among other problemswhich case it will throw an anti-piracy error.* FCEUX scores fairly low in the same testsAs of now, despite being a recommended emulator on TAS Videos. The New PPU is more accurate than no NES emulators support the Old PPU, however. Version 2.2.2 is promised to have brought improvements from Bizhawk, a alternate more accurate emulator, but it is unknown how much is fixed.* There are very many NES emulators not listed herecomplete dumps, as this system has more emulators than any other system and it would take pages to list all of them, plus new ones are started all of the time. Itwell 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.

===Color Palettepalette==={{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 Wii 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> <div style="max-width:100%; overflow:auto;">{| 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[[MAME]]<br/>no$nes<br/>Nintaco<br/>[https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t="text-align:center;"17135 FCEUX mod]<br>[[MiSTer]]|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;"|Based on an actual NTSC decoder found in real TVs. 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

!Game Genie|style="textA pass-align:center;"through devices that attached between a cartridge and the console, allowing the player to manipulate various aspects of games and access unused assets and functions by temporarily modify game data.|Various|[[https:FCEUX]]<ref group=N name=gamegenie>Cheat authentically by using a Game Genie ROM.</ref><br/docs.google.com/viewer?a>[[puNES]]<ref group=v&pidN name=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpbnNlY3RkdWVsfGd4OjUyNmRmMDIzMzA3ZTQyN2U Mega Man 9]gamegenie/>|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|Palette used in Mega Man 9Most emulators have a GUI to manage cheats and don't rely on real hardware cheating devices.

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 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 Since most VS. System games have palettes that 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. ===Famicom Box===Also re-released later as Sharp's FamicomStation. The hybrid NES/Famicom arcade machines based 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 hardwareoptimized for 50Hz, such with many other changes from the official PAL NES as well- through these differences often break the PlayChoicecompatibility of Dendy-10 specific releases on most emulators. MESS supports this console, and some other emulators (such as Mesen, puNES, and FCEUX) have introduced support for it, 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 Versus emulator supports broken carts. ===VTxx===VTxx is a series of cabinetsNOAC (Nintendo-On-A-Chip, did generate a native RGB signalkind of chip that contains all the components of a Famicom/NES) chips that implemented multiple changes and enhancements compared to regular NES, howevermanufactured by [http://www.vrt.com.tw/ V.R Technology]. The colors  Differences between VTxx series chips and regular NES could be checked on these cabinets tend [https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/VTxx NesDev Wiki]. VTxx is often being used in those low-quality plug & play consoles, or keyboard-shaped so-called educational computers. V.R technology provides an emulator called [http://www.vrt.com.tw/download.htm EmuVT] as official development & debugging tool, which supports the emulation of multiple kinds of VTxx series chips, and seems to be very vibrant modded out of an old emulator called [https://web.archive.org/web/20110317151619/http://www.emulation9.com/nnnesterj/ NNNesterJ]. ===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 saturatedsold about 2.3 million NES Classic Editions from November 2016 through April 2017, with shipments selling out nearly immediately. In April 2017, giving games a very distinct look compared to how Nintendo announced they would look on were discontinuing the real consoleproduct, leading to consumer confusion, and incidents of greatly increased pricing among private sellers. Nestopia gives Due to the user demand of the choice to use NES Classic, and the success of the RGB palette featured in these cabinetsSuper NES Classic Edition console, though it is not usually considered to be Nintendo re-introduced the definitive or "real" NES paletteClassic on June 29, 2018. Production was discontinued again in December 2018.

*[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.