October 2005
Beginner
501 pages
15h 5m
English
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Emulate the Nintendo Entertainment System on a PC
Find the NES emulator that works best for you.
For some people, Nintendo Entertainment System emulation is emulation. It’s the only console they’ve ever emulated; it’s the only console they will ever emulate. Sure, they probably know that you can emulate other systems. They might have even messed around with an Atari 2600 emulator once or twice, just to see if it really worked. But that was probably only for a few minutes. NES emulators can suck up hours, days, weeks. [2]
The numbers bear this theory out. While you’re lucky to find one working emulator for certain classic game systems, the NES page at the emulation portal Zophar’s Domain (http://www.zophar.net/nes.html) lists a whopping 77 different programs that run NES games on your home computer!
Thus, the challenge of getting started with NES emulation is not finding the programs—it’s figuring out which one you should download. In this hack, I’ll take a look at four emulators that are both popular and fully-featured. Between these four, you should be able to find something that fits your needs.
Tip
The how-to segments of this hack will concentrate on the Windows versions of the emulators. Some of them also have DOS versions. In general, if you check Zophar’s Domain you can get a good idea of what DOS emulators are out there.
I suggest that you use the web site PD Roms (http://www.pdroms.de) to find NES-compatible games that are freely distributed or in the public domain, such as ...
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