List of Nintendo Entertainment System emulators

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A list of Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, emulators for different platforms.

[edit] For MSDOS

Aphrodite
DRR-NES [1]
DarcNES [2]
dNESe
DragoNes [3]
FakeNES [4]
FCE [5]
FCE Ultra (fork of FCE)
FCE++ (fork of FCE)
fwNES
iNES [6]
landyNES (possibly unofficial name for unnamed emulator preview)
loopyNES
madNES
Naughty
Nes-Lord (fork of NESA) [7]
NE
NES9x
NESA [8]
NESEM
NESemu
NESticle [9]
NEStopia
NEStron
NextFCE (fork of FCE) [10]
NEZulator [11]
Nofrendo
PCNES
PlasticNES
RadarNES
RockNES (fork of xNES)
shatbox [12]
SleepNES
TNES
Ultimate NES
uNESsential [13]
VeNES (unreleased)
xNES

[edit] For Microsoft Windows

Name	License	Status	Version	Notes	Link
BasicNES	Freeware	Not Active	1.5 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	0.5.8 WIP		[16]
Famtasia		Discontinued	5.1		[17]
FCE Ultra	GNU GPL	Active	0.98.15		[18]
FCE Ultra Extended Debugger SP	GNU GPL	Production / Active	1.07 / January 2007		[19]
iNES	Proprietary	Active	3.2 / December 2006		[20]
Jnes	Freeware	Active	1.0 / December 2007		[21]
Mednafen	GNU GPL	Active	0.7.2 / February 2007	Command-line driven, based on FCE Ultra.	[22]
MESS	Other	Production	0.113 / 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	0.61 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	0.43 / August 1998		[29]
Nestopia	GNU GPL	Production / Active	1.39 / 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	0.3 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]

[edit] For UNIX / GNU/Linux

Name	License	Status	Version	Environment	Link
FakeNES	zlib	Active	0.5.7 WIP	Allegro	[40]
FCE Ultra	GNU GPL	Active	0.98.15	SDL	[41]
fwNES	Freeware	Not Active	0.151 / March 1998	SVGALib
iNES	Freeware	Active	3.0	X11	[42]
Mednafen	GNU GPL	Active	0.8.9 / June 9, 2008	SDL	[43]
Nestopia	GNU GPL		1.37p5 / May 2007	SDL	[44]
NEStra	Public Domain	Not Active	0.66 / December 1999	X11	[45]
TuxNES	GNU GPL		0.75 / April 2001	X11	[46]
XMess	Other	Active	0.103 / January 2006	X11	[47]
TI-NESulator	Freeware	Partially Active	0.3 step 1	Allegro 4.2	[48]
HoboNES	GNU GPL	Not Active	0.2.2	SDL	[49]