RECOMMENDED EMULATORS
- fwNES (v0.302 / Linux, MS-DOS)
With true sound emulation and mapper support that would even make NESticle
tremble, fwNES has taken the Nintendo emulation scene by storm. The
author, Fanwen, has made his goal to get the Nintendo completely emulated
and to do it as fast and accurately as possible. Fanwen also wants to take
emulation to the next level by adding all sorts of interesting features
to his emulator.
- NESticle (vx.xx / MS-DOS)
NESticle. What a joke! At least that's what most people said when they
first heard the name of this emulator in the Spring of 1997. The joke
was that not only did NESticle out perform interNES, but NESticle was
also the fast, user friendly, and truly amazing solution to the Nintendo
emulation scene. NESticle is still a very strong and fast Nintendo
emulator and has set the precident for all future Nintendo emulators.
- LoopyNES (v0.51 / MS-DOS)
LoopyNES has proven itself to be quite a good Nintendo emulator. Although
its support is less than NESticle or fwNES it is steadily catching up,
it has great sound, zapper support allowing you to play duck hunt and hogan's
alley etc. etc. with your mouse, state saving, long file name support, VS
system emulation, game genie support and is one of the few Nintendo emulators
to boast a nearly perfect color pallete. (Much nicer then NESticle's)
LoopyNES' main drawbacks are its lack of support for games with just about
anything strange.
- interNES (v1.0 / All OS(s) except MS-DOS)
Marat Fayzullin's interNES pioneered the .NES file format and was the
first major emulator to challenge PasoFami, the quirky Japanese Nintendo
emulator. To deal with the lack of an MS-DOS port, dozens of emulation
fanatics installed versions of Linux on their computers for the sole
purpose of playing interNES, until NESticle came and whooped tail.
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