Nintendulator
an NES emulator by Quietust
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About

Nintendulator is an open source Win32 NES emulator written in C++ (plus some assembly optimization). The original goal was to emulate the NES down to its hardware quirks; though it's fallen behind over the years, recent builds have caught up once again and can emulate certain behaviors most other emulators neglect to handle. However, this emulation precision comes at a price - a 1500MHz (estimated) or faster CPU is required to emulate at full speed.

Supported file formats include .NES, UNIF, FDS (fwNES format), and NSF. Mappers are handled using external DLLs, complete with extra sound channels for most games which provide them. Other notable features include writing to FDS images (by storing the differences in separate files), Game Genie support (limited to 3 codes), customizeable controllers (including 4 player), input movie recording and playback (with re-recording), AVI capturing, and a debugger. Additionally, savestates and battery-backed RAM are saved within the current user's profile rather than in the application's own directory, allowing Nintendulator to function properly on Windows 7 and Vista without requiring the program to be run as an administrator.

News

All - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004

November 24, 2005

A few major bugs (dealing with recording movies from savestates) have been fixed, and a few new mappers have been added.

After some consideration, I realized that there's no point in including separate downloads for the beta mapper DLLs when the beta emulator binaries always include them.

November 19, 2005

Partial VS Unisystem support has been readded to Nintendulator, in the form of a new mapper DLL - VS.DLL. Mappers 99 and 151 have been removed from iNES.DLL as a result.

Automatic VS palette detection will likely not be implemented, and it'll be a while before the VS palettes are added.

June 30, 2005

Nintendulator has been modified to support Unicode; separate downloads are now available for ANSI (Windows 9x/ME) and Unicode (Windows NT/2K/XP) binaries.

March 14, 2005

After trying for perfection for too long (and never reaching it), I've decided to formally release Nintendulator 0.950.

Downloads

Here you may download various versions of Nintendulator and other related applications.

Latest unstable build

This is a snapshot of my latest development code. Though this has features not present in the current release below, it may also have significant bugs, so download it at your own risk!
This is NOT a release!

Current release

This is the latest officially released version of Nintendulator. You are highly recommended to use this version instead of the latest build above unless you require any of the new functionality added since the last release.

Outdated releases

These are old releases of Nintendulator, archived here for posterity. Where present, mapper DLL binaries are also included with the corresponding emulator releases.

Mappers Supported

These mappers are supported in the latest released version of Nintendulator. Mappers listed in bold are only available at the listed compatibility level in the latest beta build (strike indicates mappers whose compatibility has changed in the latest beta build).

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