Last Updated on October 18, 2022
Nestopia is an open source NES/Famicom emulator designed to emulate the NES hardware as accurately as possible.
It has a GTK+ graphical user interface for configuration that understands drag and drop from file managers and can extract supported files from zip or 7zip.
The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console.
Features include:
- Supports .nes, .unf/.unif, and XML format ROMs, including Vs. and Playchoice 10 games.
- Supports .fds discs.
- Supports .nsf music rips.
- All supported files can be extracted from zip or 7zip containers (an archive browser is not yet included – this assumes the common GoodSet case of one zip or 7zip per game).
- Supports save states.
- Supports movie recordings.
- Supports the “rewinder”.
- Friendly GUI configuration.
- Autodetection of PAL and NTSC format games.
- Supports drag and drop of compatible games and music rips from modern Linux file managers, including KDE’s Konqueror and GNOME’s Nautilus.
- XML ROM support.
- Archive browser comes up automatically if you select a zip or 7zip archive with multiple NES files in it.
- Option to select favored console.
- More flexible video configuration including OpenGL hardware scaling.
- Input mapping in the GUI.
- Core logging is now enabled to the terminal you start NEStopia from for easier diagnosis of problems.
- Cheat Manager with flexible support and import/export capability.
- Automatic soft-patching added.
- Coin inputs added for Vs. system.
- Audio filters added for fun.
Website: nestopia.sourceforge.net
Support: Forums
Developer: Martin Freij
License: GNU GPL
Nestopia is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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