Nestopia
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Nestopia | |
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Nestopia running Super Mario Bros. on Windows XP |
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Developed by | Martin Freij |
Latest release | 1.40 / June 11, 2008 |
OS | Linux, Mac OS X, MS Windows |
Genre | Emulator |
License | GPL |
Website | Official Home Page |
Nestopia is an open source NES/Famicom emulator designed to emulate the NES hardware as accurately as possible. Originally for Windows only, Nestopia has been ported to the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.
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[edit] Features
Nestopia emulates the NES CPU at cycle-exact granularity, ensuring full support for software that do mid-scanline and other timing trickery. Other features include:
- Famicom Disk System support
- VS. UniSystem support
- NSF support
- Wave-accurate video emulation
- Savestate support
- "Rewind" support
- IPS patching support
- Movie recording
- Several non-standard controllers
- Support for over 200 memory mappers
[edit] Development history
Nestopia was originally developed for Windows by Martin Freij. Richard Bannister and R. Belmont later ported it to Mac OS X and Linux, respectively.