A list of Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, emulators for different platforms. The Nintendo Entertainment System (often abbreviated as NES or simply Nintendo) is an 8-bit Video game console that was released by
| Name | License | Status | Version | Notes | Link |
| BasicNES | Freeware | Not Active | 1. MS-DOS (short for M icro' s' oft D isk O perating S ystem is an Operating system commercialized by Microsoft. FCE Ultra is an Open Source Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator that also supports emulation of the Famicom Disk System and network fwNES is a Nintendo Entertainment System Console emulator that is designed for classic Pentium computers NESticle was a popular NES emulator for DOS, created by Sardu of Bloodlust Software. Nestopia is an Open source NES/Famicom Emulator designed to emulate the NES hardware as accurately as possible Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Freeware is computer Software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee 5 Debug Level 2 | Written in Microsoft Visual Basic | [14] |
| BioNES | Freeware | Not Active | 0. 2 / August 1998 | Optimized for MMX technology | [15] |
| FakeNES | zlib | Active | 0. zlib is a software library used for Data compression. zlib was written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler and is an abstraction of 5. 8 WIP | [16] | |
| Famtasia | Discontinued | 5. 1 | [17] | ||
| FCE Ultra | GNU GPL | Active | 0. FCE Ultra is an Open Source Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator that also supports emulation of the Famicom Disk System and network 98. 15 | [18] | |
| FCE Ultra Extended Debugger SP | GNU GPL | Production / Active | 1. 07 / January 2007 | [19] | |
| iNES | Proprietary | Active | 3. Proprietary software is Computer software on which the producer has set restrictions on use private modification copying, or republishing. 2 / December 2006 | [20] | |
| Jnes | Freeware | Active | 1. "JNES" is also a four-letter abbreviation for the Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 0 / December 2007 | [21] | |
| Mednafen | GNU GPL | Active | 0. Mednafen (previously known as Nintencer) is an OpenGL and SDL Command-line driven multi-system Free Software Emulator 7. 2 / February 2007 | Command-line driven, based on FCE Ultra. | [22] |
| MESS | Other | Production | 0. MESS ( Multi Emulator Super System) is an Emulator for many game consoles and computer systems based on the MAME core 113 / March 2007 | [23] | |
| nemulator | 1. 03 / March 2005 | [24] | |||
| Nessie (emulator) | Open Source [25] | 1. 02 / April 2004 | Accurate, written in assembly language | [26] | |
| NESten | open-source | Not active | 0. NESten is a software Emulator for running Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom videogame console programs in Microsoft Windows. 61 Beta 1 / February 2001 | Used external modules for mapper support | [27] |
| Nester | GNU GPL | Not Active | public beta 4 / January 2001 | [28] | |
| NESticle | Freeware | Preproduction | 0. Nester is a NES Emulator for Windows that emphasizes ease of use stability performance emulation of many MMC chips and organized source NESticle was a popular NES emulator for DOS, created by Sardu of Bloodlust Software. 43 / August 1998 | [29] | |
| Nestopia | GNU GPL | Production / Active | 1. Nestopia is an Open source NES/Famicom Emulator designed to emulate the NES hardware as accurately as possible 39 / May 2008 | Very accurate emulation | [30] |
| Nintendulator | GNU GPL | Production / Active | 0. 960 / January 2006 | Very accurate emulation | [31] |
| NinthStar NES | Not Active | 0. 01 / March 2005 | Accurate multi-system emulator | [32] | |
| NNNesterJ | GNU GPL | Not Active | 0. 23 / December 2002 | [33] | |
| olafnes | Active | 0. 2. 0 / February 2006 | Open source optimized continuation of BasicNES | [34] | |
| RockNES | Freeware | Production/Active | 5. 00 BETA3/ March 2007 | [35] | |
| Sega Li | Freeware | Active | 1. 10 / December 2006 | Source is available | [36] |
| UberNES | GNU GPL | Active | V3 / July 2005 | Has a built-in boxart viewer and global high score database | [37] |
| VirtuaNES | GNU GPL | Active | 2 pre-alpha2 / January 2006 | [38] | |
| TI-NESulator | Freeware | Partially Active | 0. Freeware is computer Software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee 3 step 1 | The primary goal of this project is for TI-68k calculator, but for testing purposes a Windows/Linux/Mac OS X version is make. | [39] |
| Name | License | Status | Version | Environment | Link |
| FakeNES | zlib | Active | 0. Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks zlib is a software library used for Data compression. zlib was written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler and is an abstraction of 5. 7 WIP | Allegro | [40] |
| FCE Ultra | GNU GPL | Active | 0. Allegro is a free and open source Software library for Video game development FCE Ultra is an Open Source Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator that also supports emulation of the Famicom Disk System and network 98. 15 | SDL | [41] |
| fwNES | Freeware | Not Active | 0. Simple DirectMedia Layer ( SDL) is a cross-platform Free and open source software multimedia library written in C that presents a simple interface fwNES is a Nintendo Entertainment System Console emulator that is designed for classic Pentium computers Freeware is computer Software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee 151 / March 1998 | SVGALib | |
| iNES | Freeware | Active | 3. SVGAlib is an open-source low-level graphics library which runs on Linux and FreeBSD and allows programs to change video mode and display full-screen graphics 0 | X11 | [42] |
| Mednafen | GNU GPL | Active | 0. Mednafen (previously known as Nintencer) is an OpenGL and SDL Command-line driven multi-system Free Software Emulator 8. 9 / June 9, 2008 | SDL | [43] |
| Nestopia | GNU GPL | 1. Simple DirectMedia Layer ( SDL) is a cross-platform Free and open source software multimedia library written in C that presents a simple interface Nestopia is an Open source NES/Famicom Emulator designed to emulate the NES hardware as accurately as possible 37p5 / May 2007 | SDL | [44] | |
| NEStra | Public Domain | Not Active | 0. Simple DirectMedia Layer ( SDL) is a cross-platform Free and open source software multimedia library written in C that presents a simple interface The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone 66 / December 1999 | X11 | [45] |
| TuxNES | GNU GPL | 0. 75 / April 2001 | X11 | [46] | |
| XMess | Other | Active | 0. MESS ( Multi Emulator Super System) is an Emulator for many game consoles and computer systems based on the MAME core 103 / January 2006 | X11 | [47] |
| TI-NESulator | Freeware | Partially Active | 0. Freeware is computer Software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee 3 step 1 | Allegro 4.2 | [48] |
| HoboNES | GNU GPL | Not Active | 0. Allegro is a free and open source Software library for Video game development 2. 2 | SDL | [49] |
[LJP][50] - Little John Palm (has NES Module)- Open Source