NESCafe

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NESCafe
Developed by	David de Niese
Latest release	1.000 / December 2007
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Emulator
License	GNU Public License
Website	http://nescafeweb.com/

NESCafe is a Java-based Nintendo Entertainment System emulator used to play videogames on websites or as a standalone program to emulate videogames directly on the user's computer. There are two main distributions of NESCafe: standard and applet. Standard is for users who wish to run the emulator directly on their computer, applet is for those who wish to use the emulator on their website.

[edit] History

David de Niese started working on NESCafe as a project for a final year computer science project in May 2000. The first version was released in 2001.

NESCafe was the first Java-based emulator to support sound.^{[citation needed]}

On March 11, 2008, NESCafe was shut down. At 4:37pm, March 11, 2008, David de Niese wrote the following on NES Online's Facebook Wall:

Sorry guys, I got a joint letter from the ESA and Facebook. I've been told to remove NESCafe. Thanks for all your support and I hope this site brought back some happy memories of playing the Nintendo! Game Over.

As of March 18, 2008, NESCafe is back up. But with a few changes made. The changes made are due to threats made by the ESA.