Emulators

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This is a list of NES emulators.

Commercial

Emulator name Author Platform(s) Ports and/or other details
acNES Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance Used for Animal Crossing, e-Reader, and Classic NES Series. The name "acNES" is unofficial, as Nintendo has not released this emulator as a distinct product. Information from TCRF indicates that it may be called "QFC".
Virtual Console Nintendo Wii/Wii U/3DS Most games cost 500 Nintendo Points in Wii Shop Channel
PocketNES loopy, FluBBa, and Dwedit Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS Used commercially for some emulated re-releases by Atlus, Jaleco, Konami

Popular

These are commonly used or well-established.

Emulator name Author Platform(s) Ports and/or other details
BizHawk Multiple authors Win32, Linux
FCE Ultra GX Tantric Wii, GameCube
FCEUX Anthony Giorgio / Mark Doliner Win32, macOS, Linux
higan Near (formerly as byuu) Win32, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS
iNES Marat Fayzullin Win32 and Linux
Jnes Jabosoft Win32
Mesen Sour Win32, Linux/.NET Announcement / Source, excellent debugger
nemulator James Slepicka Win32
nesemu2 holodnak Win32, OS X, Linux
Nestopia UE rdanbrook Linux, BSD, Win7+ a.k.a. Nestopia Undead Edition. Contains bugfixes/etc.
Windows binaries are available at Sourceforge or at EmuCR
Nintaco zeroone Java (Windows, GNU/Linux, macOS) Announcement Source API FAQ Screenshots
Nintendulator Quietust Win32 Nintendulator DX (by thefox) for an even more-improved debugger
NO$NES Martin Korth Win32
PocketNES loopy, FluBBa, and Dwedit Game Boy Advance Updates on Dwedit's board
RockNES Zepper (formerly Fx3) Win32

Under development

The following is a list of NES emulators that are under development, who their authors are, relevant home pages/sites, and the source of the announcement (direct or indirect). Only projects are listed that had a release in form of source or binary.

Before considering developing your own NES emulator, ask yourself if your efforts may be better spent helping out those who already have emulators in development!
Emulator name Author Platform(s) Ports and/or other details
NESICIDE cpow Win32/64, Linux32/64, macOS
FPGA NES kevtris FPGA (hardware)
FPGA NES Dan Strother FPGA (hardware)
kindred Overload Win32 Announcement
A/NES Morgan Johansson AmigaOS Announcement
puNES FHorse Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Win32 Announcement / Source
jaNES crudelios Win32 Announcement
HDNes mkwong98 Win32 Announcement
MahNES HLorenzi Win32 Announcement
Fergulator fergus_maximus Mac OS X or X Windows Announcement
? submarine600 PC-8801 Announcement
Yane roku6185 libSDL (portable), testing under Linux Announcement
VPNES x0000 Win32 w/ SDL
macifom Auston Stewart OS X, iOS Announcement
macifomlite Auston Stewart iOS
Pretendo proxy Linux/BeOS/Win32 Announcement
Nezulator Zelex JavaScript Announcement
EMUya Zelex Ouya Announcement
NES-Emulator Dartht33bagger ? Announcement
? SuperFXMaster FPGA (hardware) Announcement
? Choz Win32 w/ SDL Announcement
? sronsse ? Announcement
? Emu6502Writer ? Announcement
? fred ? Announcement
? janzdott ? Announcement
? d15ea5e ? Announcement
? mrhyde ? Announcement
? codeblox ? Announcement
FC87 Boolean SDL (Win32, GNU/Linux) Announcement
phibiaNES nIghtorius Win32 Announcement
? Choz ? Announcement
nintengo nwidger Go w/ libSDL
ffnes rockcarry Win32 Announcement
WebNES peteward44 Javascript Announcement / Live demo
O-Nes-Sama Fumarumota, aLaix SDL2 (Win32, GNU/Linux) Announcement
? austere ? Announcement
cfxnes jonyzz Javascript/CoffeeScript Announcement / Live demo
? mreiland ? Announcement
? daroou Win32 Announcement
fogleman/nes Michael Fogleman Go with Go/GL and PortAudio Medium article
? RobertLoggia ? Announcement
nesalizer Ulfalizer libSDL (portable), tested on Linux
? NewDietCoke248903 ? Announcement
NES-Emu imid C#/.NET Announcement
? mreiland Linux (?) Announcement
nSide hex_usr ? Fork of byuu's higan-nes. Announcement
? DarylTechNES ? Announcement
HalfNES Grapeshot Java Github source
EduNes thomson SDL2 Announcement
? Feuerwerk42 FPGA (hardware) Announcement
? fspinolo ? Announcement
? DaNES ? Announcement
? charrli ? Announcement
? amhndu ? Announcement
SharpNES colinvella Win32/.NET Announcement
? Alyosha_TAS ? Announcement
NESfusto DarkMoe ? Announcement
? Bowie90333212391 ? Announcement
? RomarioSilva ? Announcement
? JSBryan ? Announcement
? Sarospa ? Announcement
? Totolasticot42 ? Announcement
? been_jamin ? Announcement
? wbrian ? Announcement
? lord_Chile ? Announcement
Nintendoish drewying Win32 Announcement / Source
? tdondich JavaScript (Vue.js) Announcement / Source
? ace314159 ? Announcement
? iOSBrett Swift Announcement
? relaxok ? Announcement
? jamieyello ? Announcement
? JonteP ? Announcement
? zzzz898 ? Announcement
? ap9 ? Announcement
? zeno84 ? Announcement
? HastatusXXI ? Announcement
? andsve ? Announcement
? stickzman ? Announcement
? babai ? Announcement
? arcnor ? Announcement
? cbalen ? Announcement
? psychopathetica ? Announcement
? Myself086 SNES Announcement
? nflga ? Announcement
? rodri042 ? Announcement
? twicetimes ? Announcement
? dawid9554 ? Announcement
agnes kgabis C with libSDL examples Announcement
? LukasP ? Announcement
HydraNES BadFoolPrototype Win32 (Glew/OpenGL) Announcement / First mention
? mferrantini JavaScript Announcement
? gobblebit ? Announcement
? AshleyJamesy Android First mention on Discord #programming channel
RustyNES lukexor Rust/SDL 2 Announcement
? radis ? First mention on Discord #emulator-development channel
? timl132 ? Announcement
? thejunkjon ? Announcement
? olivecc ? Announcement
nin Nax C++/Qt/OpenAL/OpenGL Announcement
? Seksys ? Announcement
q00.nes LilaQ ? Announcement
BeesNES L. Spiro Win64 Source

Discontinued

These are emulators which are known to be officially discontinued, i.e. abandoned or are no longer in development.

Emulator name Author Platform(s) Last update Other details
NESten TNSe Win32 2003
VirtuaNES Norix Win32 2007 Has a real-time memory hex-editor
FCEUXD SP sp Win32 2007 was merged with other FCEU forks under the name FCEUX
NEStopia Martin Freij Win32, OS X, Linux 2008 Linux, MacOS
AminNes amin2312 Flash 2009 Announcement
VeriNES jwdonal FPGA (hardware) 2010 Announcement - Website is not working
iNES Marat Fayzullin MS-DOS 2010 Version discontinued; Win32 and Linux still active
ModNES Petruza Portable, mainly MacOS & Win32 2010 Announcement
UberNES M \ K Productions Win32 2011
NESFaCE 6T4 Win32 2011 Announcement
FooNES aphex Win32 2011 Announcement
nesemu1 Bisqwit libSDL (portable), testing under Linux 2011 Announcement
Kryptonware rubenhbaca Java 2012 Initial development announcement. Website has reported "under maintenance" for a very long time
MSE Alegend45 ? 2012 Initial development announcement. GitHub account has been deleted
NESSIM MottZilla Win32 2012 Announcement
? graham Javascript 2013 Initial development announcement. Website returns internal server error
MoarNES miker00lz Win32 2013 Announcement
FPGA NES Ludde FPGA (hardware) 2014
famique sahib Mac OS X, Win32, Linux 2015 Announcement - GitHub repository has been deleted
Yanese Anes Win32 2015 Announcement Website not working anymore
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