Nestopia is a portable NES/Famicom emulator.
Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) is a fork of the original source code, with enhancements from members of the emulation community.
The emulator is released under an open source license.
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.
- Map more than 9 joysticks.
- Support for multiline cheats and raw cheats.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, macOS, and Windows.
Website: 0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Ryan Danbrook and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Nestopia is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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