Editor's Choice
Editor’s Choice emulators stand out for delivering a gaming experience unrivaled by any other emulators on their platform. Emulators in this category are professionally reviewed by our staff and are the recommended starting point for most gamers.
Recommended Emulators
Recommended emulators provide good compatibility, performance and stability. Emulators in this category are suitable for gaming.
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FCEUX is one of the best NES emulators out there in terms of compatibility. It supports many mappers and also has support for Famicom Disk System games. FCEUX also packs a big list of features including Game Genie emulation, Joystick support, Save-Sate support, PAL emulation, a debugger and Netplay support via TCP/IP.
v2.1.2 for Windows (11/3/2009)
v2.1.2 Source (11/3/2009) |
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NESten is an excellent NES emulator featuring a wide selection of mappers, save-state support, a debugger and other valuable development output data, joystick support, support for modular video plugins, a decent ROM manager and finally, cheat support. The only thing this emulator is lacking is a full-screen mode. This is definitely an emulator worth looking at.
v0.61 Beta 1 for Windows (2/10/2001) |
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Nestopia is a NES and Famicom Disk System emulator supporting save-states, sound and video recording, Game Genie support, graphical acceleration, several graphics filters and extensive input device support. Nestopia is coded in C++ and released as Open Source software under the GPL. This is a very fast emulator and certainly one we would recommend to anyone.
v1.40 for Windows (6/11/2008)
v1.40 Source (6/11/2008) |
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NNNesterJ is another great NES emulator featuring graphical acceleration, graphical filters, save-states, netplay, support for a wide variety of input devices, Game Genie support and record-to-AVI support. Stability and speed are exemplary in this emulator; it’s definitely worth a download.
v0.23 for Windows (12/21/2002) |
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UberNES is a relatively new NES emulator for Windows. UberNES has several unique features such as a game browser, the ability to parse for boxart and game information, as well as an online scoreboard for several titles. UberNES supports most expected features and boasts a good compatibility rate.
v2010 for Windows (1/6/2010) |
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VirtuaNES is another top-notch NES emulator with some graphical acceleration, save-state support, a custom ROM manager, WAV recording, netplay support, Famicom Disk System support, joystick support and a host of other features. VirtuaNES also has multi-lingual support through the use of language plug-ins. Compatibility on VirtuaNES is excellent, with support for over 130 mappers.
v0.97 for Windows (10/18/2007)
v0.97 Source (10/18/2008) |
Other Emulators
Emulators in this category are generally considered early in development or have not reached a level of compatibility, performance and stability that would be suitable for gaming. These emulators are considered works-in-progress.
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Famtasia is a NES and Famicom Disk System (FDS) emulator for Windows. Famtasia has joystick support, save-state support, multilingual support (German, English, French, Japanese, and Portuguese) as well as previously mentioned, Famicom Disk System support. Unfortunately Famtasia has a few serious stability issues and development seems to have stopped on this emulator.
v6 Beta for Windows (12/30/2000) |
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RockNES is a NES and Famicom Disk System (FDS) emulator for Windows, DOS, and MacOS. Only the Windows version is currently under active development.
The DOS version of RockNES was the emulator that RockNES X was based upon. According to the author, DOS versions of this emulator can be run under Windows XP with the aid of VDMSound (new window), an emulator which allows sound and joystick support in DOS under Windows XP and other flavors of NT.
v5.03 i586 (Single-Core Processor Optimized) for Windows (1/30/2010)
v5.03 Core2Duo (Dual-Core Processor Optimized) for Windows (1/30/2010)
v4.00 Beta 1 for DOS (8/23/2004)
v3.10 for DOS (12/9/2003) |
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- 500MHz Single Core Processor
- On-Board Video
- 256MB of RAM
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