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.
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RockNES X RockNES X is one of the most well-rounded NES and Famicom Disk System emulators available for the Windows platform. RockNES X is our Editor’s Choice emulator for the NES platform. For more information, please see the Editor’s Choice review below.
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Recommended Emulators Recommended emulators provide good compatibility, performance and stability. Emulators in this category are suitable for gaming. FCEUX 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.
Nemulator nemulator is a DirectX 10 based NES emulator created by James Slepicka. Nemulator's most prominent feature is a unique live-preview launcher where all games within the ROM directory are emulated in real-time. Nemulator also features a full screen mode, gamepad support and vsync. Nemulator's compatibility is primarily focused on the North American game library and according to the author, many foreign and unlicensed games will not run. Since nemulator is based on DirectX 10, it requires Windows Vista and above.
Options for nemulator are configured in the included nemulator.ini file. NESten 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.
Nestopia 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.
NNNesterJ 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. UberNES 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. VirtuaNES 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. 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. Famtasia No Homepage 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. RockNES 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. What you'll need: To use most emulators for this platform, we recommend a computer of at least the following:.
500MHz Single Core Processor. On-Board Video. 256MB of RAM Resources:.
What's in this How-To? In this how-to, you be guided through the full process of setting up MacOS 7.5.3 and optionally the 7.5.5 update on Basilisk II, the freeware Mac II emulator designed by Christian Bauer, from scratch using only freeware, downloadable items. The end result will be a fully working MacOS system. Locate the file you downloaded earlier called 'NetworkAccessDisk7.5.sea.bin', and drag it into the StuffIt Expander Window. This will decompress the file and create a new directory below the one in which 'NetworkAccessDisk7.5.sea.bin' was stored.
This will be called 'Network Access', and contains The Network Access Disk Readme and a file called Network Access.Image. It is the latter which we shall concern ourselves with. 2 a) Writing the Boot floppy; To physically write a boot floppy for Basilisk II then use WinImage Trial Edition that you downloaded earlier. From the 'File' Menu, select 'Open'. Select to show all files in the dialogue at the base of the window.
Open the newly made Network Access folder, and Select to open the 'Network Access.Image' file. From the disk menu, select to write a disk. Insert a blank 1.44Mb floppy disk into the disk drive you gave ticked under the 'Disk' menu. You have created your startup disk for a Macintosh Computer!
3) Preparing Hard Files for Basilisk II: Open the program HFV Explorer from the folder you installed it to. Now, to format a new Hard Drive File for use in Basilisk II. For a start, lets format a 500 Megabyte Apple HFS Hard Drive. In the 'File' Menu in the HFV Explorer Window, select the option to 'Format New Volume'. The Options selected in the Picture above will create a new 'Hard Disk' for use in the Emulated Macintosh. The 'Mac' will see this as a 500Mb Hard Disk Partition named System7, whereas it is really a file, stored in D: system7.hfv.
Get the picture? (NOTE: The volume names and file names do not have to match, I merely do this for the sake of consistency. For example, if you name the file the same as the volume name in the emulated environment, it is easier to keep yourself right when opening volumes in HFV Explorer.).
Locate all 19 parts of the System 7.5.3 Install CD Image you downloaded earlier. Copy all these items to your Macintosh Disk volume (System7 in this example by dragging them to it). It is a good idea to create folders from within HFV Explorer in the same way as you would in Windows Explorer, just to keep track of all the files. Copy all the Macintosh files you will be using later on at this point as well.
I downloaded HFVExplorer and they won't copy for me, I just drag them into the disk but nothing happens, if anyone knows how to correct this e-mail me at [email protected]. When the above dialogue is shown, always select 'Automatic; let the program decide' and 'OK to All' as is shown above.
4) Configuring the Basilisk II Emulator: Once you have unzipped Basilisk II to your chosen folder, open the program ' BasiliskIIGUI.exe'. This is the configuration utility for Basilisk II. Since Basilisk II emulates a a Macintosh system with a 68020, 30 or 40 Central Processing Unit, you will need a ROM file from one of these computers. You are only allowed to use a ROM from the computer you legally own. There are detailed instructions in the Basilisk Installation regarding dumping a rom from a real 68k Mac. There is a Quadra ROM available from the Downloads Section for Quadra owners only, and is provided for convenience only.
In the 'General' Tab: set the Boot Driver to '0: Boot from first bootable volume' Set the Model ID to '14 (Mac Quadra 900)' (No matter what ROM you are using, the Windows port of BII is optimized to use this model ID. Set the CPU to 68040, and check the use of FPU Emulation. In the 'Memory' Tab: Set the RAM size to something that won't cripple your PC, but won't leave the Mac short either.
64 Mb is fine for most 68k work. Click browse at the 'ROM file path' section to find your ROM file. Information about the ROM will be displayed in the box at the base of the Window, if you 'Corrupt' or 'Unsupported', then you have incorrectly obtained the ROM from your Macintosh. In the 'Screen' Tab: Completely your preference. I always like to set the 'Colors' value to 16 bit or 32 bit though. Next, move to the 'Disk' Tab: Firstly, click on browse, enable all files in the file types field, and find the file 'Network Access.image'. Next, find the Hard Disk File you created earlier.
Set the Network Install Image to hive higher boot priority by putting it up the list. Your end result should appear similar to this. NOTE: You can again, create update disks to use on a real Mac or for reference. Format three floppies to Mac 1.44Mb and simply copy the contents of the three images shown above to the three diskettes. Open up the 'disk' Update - 1' and double click on the installer. This will automatically update the system to 7.5.5 CONGRATULATIONS: The groundwork is now done for making your Macintosh System. The OS is set up and you have a number of Applications installed.
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