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{{Infobox console

|title = Nintendo Entertainment System

|developer = [[:Nintendo]]

|type = [[:Category:Home consoles|Home video game console]]

|generation = [[:Category:Third-generation video game consoles|Third generation]]

|successor = [[Super Nintendo emulators|Super Family Computer / Super Nintendo Entertainment System]]

|emulated = {{✓}}

|Transistor-level

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|{{✗}} (WIP)

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!colspan="11"|Mobile / ARM

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|NESBox

===Comparisons===

*[[Nestopia]] also is a [[Emulation_accuracy|cycle-accurate]] NES/FDS emulator. Nestopia has issues with [[Wikipedia:The_Young_Indiana_Jones_Chronicles_(video_game)|''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'']] and doesn't display the status bar in [[Wikipedia:Mickey%27s_Safari_in_Letterland|''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 the Undead Edition.

*[[FCEUX]] is a [[Emulation_accuracy|highly-accurate]] NES/FDS emulator and it supports lots of [[#Mappers|unlicensed mappers]], on top of this it's a [https://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources recommended emulator on TAS Videos]. The New PPU implementation is more [[Emulation_accuracy|accurate]] than the Old PPU implementation. The emulator is very useful; thanks to its robust Lua scripting and incorporating FCEUmm into its feature set.

*breakNES is aiming for [[Emulation_accuracy|gate-level accuracy]]. Currently it is a work-in-progress and requires [https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet .NET 6].

!Zapper

|An electronic light gun accessory that allows players to aim at the display and shoot various objects that appear on the screen.

|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.

!Microphone

|A Japan-exclusive, built-in feature in the original Player 2 Famicom controller that allows players to use an external sound source (e.g., the player's voice) as input.

|[[Mesen]]<ref group=N name=microphone>Cheated by pressing any specific key ("M" by default).</ref><br/>[[puNES]]<ref group=N name=microphone/><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 with an enhanced [[Wikipedia:BASIC|BASIC]] programming language dialect. It allows users to create programs in the Famicom. It has a specially designed cartridge, keyboard, and Data Recorder.

|[[Mesen]]<br/>[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]<br/>[[FCEUX]]<br/>[[puNES]]<br/>[[VirtuaNES]]

|N/A

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|[[File:Famicom Data Recorder.jpg|200px]]

|[[Mesen]]<br/>[[Nestopia|Nestopia UE]]<br/>[[puNES]]<br/>[[VirtuaNES]]

|N/A

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|[[File:Famicom 3D System.jpg|200px]]

|A Japan-exclusive active shutter glasses headset that allowed compatible games to display a stereoscopic image for a 3D experience.

|[[RetroArch]]<br/>[https://discord.com/channels/976404869386747954/976412672486678568/1183159919864713256 Ares?]

|[https://github.com/libretro/glsl-shaders/tree/master/stereoscopic-3d GLSL shaders] are needed for RetroArch to simulate the 3D experience with a [[Virtual reality|VR]] headset, 3D TV, 3D projector or Android phone with cardboard.

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|[[File:Family Computer Network System.png|200px]]

|A Japan-exclusive network peripheral that allowed users to connect to a Nintendo server that provided extra content such as jokes, news, game tips, weather forecasts, horse betting and downloadable content via dial-up modem.

|N/A

Also re-released later as Sharp's FamicomStation. The hybrid NES/Famicom arcade box [http://famicomworld.com/system/other/famicombox/ Nintendo Famicom Box] is a bulky metal cube with a slot to insert money and secured with tons of locks. The hotel would set the amount of time you could play on one token and choose the available games. 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. It 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.

===Dendy===

*[http://rec0ded88.com/play-nes-games Rec0deD:88] - Play a NES emulator.

*[https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nes/ Copetti] - NES Architecture (A practical analysis by Rodrigo Copetti).

==References==