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Name: Aphrodite
Website: N/A
Version: v0.1
Last Updated: 12/19/1999
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0, 2, 3
Description: Really hardly worth downloading, Aphrodite was only included for sake of completeness. Aphrodite only has full support for mapper 0 - mappers 2 and 3 are partially supported.

Name: basicNES
Website: http://home.att.net/~r.jarrett/bNES.html
Version: v1.5 (debug level 1), Source v1.5 (debug level 1)
Last Updated: 6/26/2002, 7/31/2003 (Both Discontinued)
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 22, 23, 32, 33, 34, 40, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 71, 78, 91
Description: basicNES, written by Don Jarrett, is the unlikely emulator coded in Visual Basic. He's done an excellent job of coding this emulator since it runs well with slower CPUs. basicNES is now discontinued.

Name: BioNES
Website: N/A
Version: v0.2
Last Updated: 8/5/1998 (Discontinued)
OS: Win9x
Mappers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97
Description: Solid emulator written by Shu Konda and Fan Wen Yang (the authoer of fwNES). Great mapper and sprite support.

Name: DarcNES
Website: http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/darcnes/
Version: v.dn9b0313
Last Updated: 3/21/2001
OS: Win9x
Mappers: Unsure
Description: DarcNES has some serious problems: no joystick support, no fullscreen mode, and speed problems (not serious with newer computers).

Name: DragoNES
Website: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/3925/dragones.html
Version: v0.2
Last Updated: 9/14/1997 (Discontinued)
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0, 1, 2, 3
Description: DragoNES was originally created to emulate the Dragon Quest games. Unfortunately many other emulators actually emulate the games better than DragoNES, rendering it more or less obsolete.

Name: DreamNES
Website: http://emu.myrice.com/dreamnes/
Version: v2.000 Beta 1, Update v2.000 Beta 3
Last Updated: 4/21/2003, 6/11/2003
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 34, 41, 48, 64, 65, 69, 71, 80, 91, 112, 115, 160, 225, 241, 246, 248
Description: DreamNES is a pretty solid emulator to begin with but it has one really great feature: a ROM encyclopedia. Well worth the download. Oh, and check out the mapper support!

Name: DRR-NES
Website: http://www.d-r-r.com/
Version: v0.30, Source
Last Updated: 2/27/1999 (Discontinued)
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 11
Description: The author of this emulator, DRR, wrote the emulator entirely in QBasic. With that in mind the emulator is really quite incredible.

Name: EmilNES
Website: http://www.geocities.com/egm_nes/
Version: Beta v3
Last Updated: 2/11/2004
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0
Description: Despite receiving pretty frequent updates EmilNES is still far from complete with some sound and many compatibility problems.

Name:FakeNES
Website: http://fakenes.sourceforge.net/ (FakeNES), http://ipher.no-ip.org/ (FakeNES WIP)
Version: v0.3.0 Final (Win), v0.3.0 Final (DOS), Source v0.3.0 Final
Last Updated: 9/10/2003 (all)
OS: Windows, DOS, Windows
Mappers: Unsure
Description: FakeNES, written by stainless, has good mapper, sound, and zapper support.

Name: Famtasia
Website: http://hinomaru.virtualave.net/
Version: v6 Beta
Last Updated: 12/30/2000
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unsure
Description: Originally called Famicom, Famtasia is a decent emulator that plays .FAM files well.

Name: FCE Ultra
Website: http://fceultra.sourceforge.net/
Version: v0.98, v0.96, v0.96 Source, v0.81.3 (with Debugger), Source w/Debugger, v0.81
Last Updated: 11/11/2009, 6/21/2003, 6/21/2003, 7/25/2003, 7/25/2003, 12/26/2003
OS: Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows, DOS
Mappers: 1-19, 21-26, 32, 33, 34, 40, 41, 42, 44-52, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 64-80, 82, 83, 85-99, 105, 107, 112-115, 117-119, 140, 144, 151-158, 180, 182, 184, 189, 193, 200-203, 206, 207-210, 225-232, 234, 235, 240, 242, 244, 246, 248-250, 255
Description: FCE Ultra is one of the most complete emulators available (heck, just look at the mappers!). Features include: good sound emulation, VS Unisystem support, zapper-mouse emulation, FDS emulation, NSF player, save states, screenshots, and TCP/IP play.

Name: FE
Website: N/A
Version: v0.13a
Last Updated: 1/28/2001
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0-11, 13, 15-19, 21-26, 32-34, 40-52, 54-59, 65-73, 75-80, 82, 83, 85-95, 97, 100, 101, 112, 113, 117-119, 122, 180-184, 186, 187, 189, 225-231, 234-238, 240-246, 248, 251
Description: FE (short for Family Emulator) looks promising with support for a wide array of mappers. Keep an eye on this one.

Name: fwNES
Website: N/A
Version: v0.302
Last Updated: 11/16/1998 (Discontinued)
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0-5, 7-11, 15-26, 32-34, 48, 64-97, 100, 112-119, 122, 125-128
Description: fwNES has good mapper and sound support. If that isn't enough it also has a unique user interface.

Name: G-NES
Website: http://gigo.retrogames.com/
Version: v0.54b, v0.614 (Japanese)
Last Updated: 11/4/2001, 5/18/2003
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0-5, 7, 10, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21-26, 32-34, 48, 64-70, 72, 73, 75-78, 80, 82-89, 92-95, 97, 99, 101, 118, 122, 151, 184, 187
Description: Although G-NES doesn't have the mapper support that some other emulators have, it does support a decent number. The real reason to download G-NES is for its very solid color depth, sound support, and joystick support.

Name: HyNES
Website: http://www.castledragmire.com/hynes/
Version: v0.9
Last Updated: 10/30/2000
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0
Description: HyNES, from Hyrulian Productions, doesn't have great compatibility but it's still one of the more interesting emulators out there due a very well crafted Zelda user interface.

Name: InfoNES
Website: http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/5604/infones.html
Version: v0.92 (Japanese), v0.92 (Source), v0.91 (English), v0.91 (PPC)
Last Updated: 10/14/2003, 10/14/2003, 6/18/2003, 6/18/2003
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0-11, 13, 15-19, 21, 22-26, 32-34, 40-51, 57, 58, 60, 62, 64-80, 82-97, 100, 101, 105, 107-110, 112-120, 122, 133-135, 140, 151, 160, 180-183, 185, 187-189, 191, 193, 194, 222, 225-236, 240-246, 248, 249, 251, 252, 255
Description: InfoNES is a Japenese emulator written in VC++. Worth a download for the excellent mapper support.

Name: JaneNES
Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/janenes/
Version: Source v0.01
Last Updated: 3/21/2003
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unsure
Description: Not much right now but looks promising.

Name: Jnes
Website: http://www.jabosoft.com/jnes
Version: v0.5.2
Last Updated: 11/5/2003
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 21, 23, 24, 25, 34, 66, 69
Description: Average mapper support. Jnes is really a pretty standard emulator

Name: LazyNES
Website: http://www.ruinedsoft.com/lazynes/
Version: Release 9, Release 9 (LAN Client)
Last Updated: 4/23/2001
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unknown
Description: LazyNES is a pretty standard emulator except that it uses DirectX for graphics and has a brilliant LAN client.

Name: Liss NES
Website: N/A
Version: v1.09
Last Updated: 3/3/2003
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0-4, 7, 9, 11, 21, 23, 24, 26, 34, 64, 66, 68, 69, 71
Description: A promising young emulator written in Visual Basic. It currently has full sound emulation as well as joystick and full screen support.

Name: Little John New Generation
Website: N/A
Version: v0.1.1
Last Updated: 6/3/2000
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9
Description: An interesting NES emulator that runs fast and supports some SNES and NES emulation.

Name: loopynes
Website: N/A
Version: v0.51, 10/18/1999 Beta, Debugger
Last Updated: 8/24/2998, 8/24/1998, 10/18/1999 (All discontinued)
OS: DOS
Mappers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 15, 64
Description: Despite what looks like little mapper support loopynes is a fantastic (and fast) emulator with sound, joystick, zapper, and game genie support.

Name: MadNES
Website: N/A
Version: v0.95 Beta 5
Last Updated: 10/6/1998
OS: DOS
Mappers: Unknown
Description: Pretty average emulator although it seems to be dead.

Name: marijuanes
Website: N/A
Version: v0.04
Last Updated: 8/15/1999
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unknown
Description: Ugh, this is a pretty rotten emu. Only added for the sake of completeness. Perhaps download it and see how not to make an emulator....

Name: MarioNES
Website: http://mariones.emuxhaven.net/
Version: v1.4
Last Updated: 5/7/2000
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unknown
Description: MarioNES is a comparatively young NES emulator coded in Visual Basic. A little shaky right now but it could become a solid emulator in the future.

Name: mIRCNES
Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~akilla/9s/news.html
Version: mIRC NES (final?)
Last Updated: 12/28/2000
OS: DOS
Mappers: Unknown
Description: mIRCNES is simply a novelty emulator that outputs to an mIRC window.

Name: Naughty
Website: N/A
Version: v0.0, v0.0 Source
Last Updated: 12/26/2000
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0, 2
Description: Nothing much here, but the source file is worth a look as it has the tile based graphics rendering engine for the emu

Name: Nes-Lord
Website: http://www.zophar.net/Nes-Lord/
Version: v0.55
Last Updated: 5/15/1997 (Discontinued)
OS: DOS
Mappers: Unknown
Description: This emulator, by ChEcK, was written in Turbo Pascal 7 and Assmbler. It looks as though this version (0.55) is the last since it hasn't been updated since 1997.

Name: NES496
Website: N/A
Version: v0.13
Last Updated: 10/18/1999 (Discontinued)
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0-4
Description: Good graphical debugger, below average emulator. Enough said.

Name: NES4PC
Website: N/A
Version: v0.30, v0.35 Alpha
Last Updated: 1/1/1999 (Discontinued), 2/13/1999 (Discontinued)
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0-4, 7-11, 24, 34, 64, 66, 71, 99, 230
Description: A pretty GUI and decent mapper support mean that NES4PC is an average emulator, even if discontinued.

Name: NESEM
Website: N/A
Version: v0.10, v0.10 Source
Last Updated: 1/30/1999
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0
Description: Written in QBasic with only support for Mapper 0. Not much here.

Name: NESemu
Website: N/A
Version: v0.40a
Last Updated: 9/13/1998
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0-4, 7-9, 10, 15-17, 19, 22-24, 32-34, 64-66, 69
Description: Small with decent mapper support. NESemu is actually so fast that it's better run on older (read: OLDER) machines.

Name: NESemu8
Website: N/A
Version: v0.01b
Last Updated: 6/13/1999 (Discontinued)
OS: Win95
Mappers: Unsure
Description: Terrible. Win95? Only included for completeness.

Name: Nessie
Website: http://nessie.321.cn
Version: v1.01, Source v1.01
Last Updated: 4/6/2004
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0-11, 13, 15, 18, 21-26, 32-34, 40, 41, 44, 46, 49, 60-62, 65-68, 70-73, 75-80, 82, 85-89, 91-95, 97, 101, 112, 113, 117, 118, 133, 152, 155, 160, 180, 182, 184, 185, 188, 225-235, 240, 242-246, 250
Description: Good things come in small packages, as Martin proved with Nessie.

Name: NESten
Website: http://tnse.zophar.net
Version: v0.61 Beta 1, v0.61 Beta 2 Pre-Release, Mappers v1.3, Source for v1.3 Mappers
Last Updated: 2/10/2001, 4/8/2003, 4/8/2003, 4/8/2003
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unsure
Description: NESten, by TNSe, is certainly one of the best NES emulators available.

Name: nester
Website: http://nester.dranalli.com
Version: v2000.02.02, Source v2000.02.02, Unofficial Release v2001.07.05
Last Updated: 2/2/2002, 2/2/2002, 7/5/2001
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0-4, 7, 9, 24, 40
Description: A solid emulator, nester has plenty of features. If you prefer even more features try the unofficial release.

Name: nesterJ
Website: http://www.dcn.ne.jp/~otim2/nesterj/en/index.html
Version: v0.51b, v0.51b (Japanese), v0.51b (Source)
Last Updated: 7/27/2003
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unknown
Description: nesterJ is a good emulator but the current release is unofficial and thus has many compatability issues.

Name: NESticle
Website: http://bloodlust.zophar.net/NESticle/nes.html (English), http://www.power3d.com (French)
Version: vx.xx, v0.43, 6502 Source v0.42, Solar Jetman Patch, v0.42 (French)
Last Updated: 1/2/1998, 8/19/1998, 12/26/1999 (All discontinued)
OS: DOS / Win9x
Mappers: 0-9, 11, 15, 19, 22, 23, 32
Description: NESticle is, without doubt, one of the most famous emulators (on any system) available. Although slightly outdated NESticle still serves its purpose rather well. A must download for anyone who's never used it.

Name: Nestopia
Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nestopia
Version: v1.40, v1.40 (Source), v1.07, v1.07 (Source)
Last Updated: 06/11/2008, 9/10/2003
OS: Windows
Mappers: 1-19, 21-26, 32-34, 40-52, 57-58, 60-80, 82-83, 85-101, 105, 107, 112-119, 122, 133-135, 140, 144, 151-157, 160, 180-189, 198, 200-202, 222, 225-237, 240-250, 252-255
Description: One of the best emulators available, with including support for NSFs, the famicom disk system, save states, IPS patching, battery-saved ram, NES movie files, and many VS-Unisystem games

Name: NEStron
Website: http://nestron.emuunlim.com/main.htm
Version: v0.6.6b
Last Updated: 7/23/2003
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unknown
Description: NEStron was underwent a complete redesign in its last version, making it an excellent up-and-coming emulator.

Name: NExS
Website: N/A
Version: Beta 2
Last Updated: 2/8/2002
OS: Win9x
Mappers: Unknown
Description: Despite showing some promise NExS, in its current state, isn't a great emulator.

Name: NexTFCE
Website: http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-PaloAlto/8854/
Version: v0.10 Beta
Last Updated: 3/29/1999
OS: DOS
Mappers: Unknown
Description: NexTFCE, based on bero's FCE v0.01, is strictly an average emulator. Not much to see here.

Name: NEZulator
Website: http://members.tripod.com/~nezulator
Version: v0.0040, v0.0040 (Source)
Last Updated: 3/19/2003
OS: DOS
Mappers: Unknown
Description: An average emulator that does well on older systems.

Name: Nintendulator
Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nintendulator
Version: v0.900, v0.900 (Source)
Last Updated: 6/20/2002
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unknown
Description: An excellent up-and-coming emulator. Open source and written in C, this will turn out to be an exceptional emulator in future versions.

Name: NinthStar NES
Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~akilla/9s/news.html
Version: Alpha
Last Updated: 1/18/2001
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unknown
Description: Although NinthStar NES originally showed potential it seems to be more or less dead and as such is essentially useless.

Name: Pasofami
Website: http://www.vector.co.jp/authors/VA005758
Version: v1.4u
Last Updated: 12/06/2004
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unknown
Description: As I don't speak Japanese I can't provide too much information on this emulator...

Name: PC NES
Website: N/A
Version: v0.12b
Last Updated: 12/07/1997 (Discontinued)
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 32, 34 (partial)
Description: Not really much here, added for the sake of completeness.

Name: olafnes
Website: http://olafnes.1emulation.com/
Version: v1.1c, v1.1c (Source)
Last Updated: 1/20/2005
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unknown
Description: An excellent emulator that is a continuation of the basicNES 2000 project. The emulator is pretty solid already and shows a lot of promise as it's update regularly.

Name: Project51
Website: http://www.emuhq.com/project51/
Version: v0.5
Last Updated: 12/08/2000
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0-3, 7, 8, 11
Description: Not really much here, added for the sake of completeness.

Name: RADARnes
Website: N/A
Version: v0.2
Last Updated: 8/26/2000
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 11
Description: Only seven mappers and it hasn't been updated in five years, I think we can write this one off.

Name: SadNES
Website: N/A
Version: v0.17
Last Updated: 12/14/2000
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unknown
Description: Mostly useless but runs exceptionally well on slower computers (anything under 200 mhz).

Name: SleepNES
Website: N/A
Version: v0.01
Last Updated: 10/19/2000
OS: DOS
Mappers: 0-3
Description: Hasn't been updated in years, this one's a writeoff.

Name: VirtuaNES
Website: http://virtuanes.s1.xrea.com/index.php
Version: 0.97 (English), 0.97 (Japanese), 0.97 (Source)
Last Updated: 07/09/2008
OS: Windows
Mappers: Unknown
Description: Good emulator, hasn't been updated for quite some time though!

Name: WinNES
Website: http://web.tiscali.it/cdemichele/winnes.html
Version: v0.0.6 Beta, v0.0.6 Beta Source
Last Updated: 2/22/99
OS: Windows
Mappers: 0-4, 7-11, 15, 16
Description: Older emulator coded in Delphi. Looks like this one's probably dead!

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