Nestopia
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| Developer(s) | Martin Freij |
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| Stable release | 1.40 / June 11, 2008 |
| Operating system | Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, MS Windows |
| Type | 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 does mid-scanline and other timing trickery. Other features listed in Nestopia's manual include:
- Famicom Disk System support
- VS. UniSystem support
- NSF support
- Accurate video emulation, including artifacts of the NES's NTSC color encoder
- Savestate support
- "Rewind" support
- IPS patching support
- Movie recording
- Several non-standard controllers and peripherals
- Support for over 200 memory mappers
- Cheat code menu with built-in Game Genie
- ZIP/RAR/7zip archive support
- Netplay
[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. A cheat code pack has been compiled and available on Mighty Mo's World. It consists of thousands of Game Genie and Pro Action Replay cheats for hundreds of games. The file is updated often.
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