NES Emulators for Windows

The best open source NES and Famicom Disk System emulator. Supports saves, joysticks, emulation of various controllers, archives (including 7z), movie recording and more.... And also has excellent compatibility. Ported under countless systems (old name FCE Ultra). It has built-in tools for creating tool-assisted superplay.

Mesen is a multi-system emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS. It supports NES, SNES, Game Boy (Color), Game Boy Advance, PC Engine, SMS/Game Gear and WonderSwan (Color) games. Features of the emulator include:

• High accuracy;
• High compatibility (support 220 mappers for NES);
• Savestates, audio and video recording, etc;
• Video filters;
• Stereo effects;

Open source NES/ Famicom and FDS emulator. Lots of customization, various filters, Kaillera support, launching ROMs directly from the archive, autosave and excellent compatibility. Undoubtedly, one of the most advanced and best NES emulators. Official site Nestopia UE.

Excellent emulator of NES/ Famicom and Famicom Disk System. Supports a large number of mappers, saves, filters, Dendy emulation mode and other features.

ares is an open-source multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It has a native graphical interface on each system. It has a native GUI on each system. It is a descendant of higan, byuu and bsnes and is focused on emulation accuracy. It emulates the following systems:

• Arcade
• Atari 2600 (Experimental)
• WonderSwan (Color)
• Pocket Challenge V2
• ColecoVision
• MSX / MSX2 (Experimental)
• PC-Engine / TurboGrafx / SuperGrafx
• PC-Engine CD / TurboGrafx CD (Experimental)
• My Vision
• NES / Famicom
• Famicom Disk System
• Game Boy (Color)
• SNES / Super Famicom
• Satellaview
• Nintendo 64 / 64DD
• SuFami Turbo
• Game Boy Advance
• Game Gear / Master System / Mark III / SG-1000
• Mega Drive / Genesis / Sega CD / Mega CD / 32X
• ZX Spectrum (Experimental)
• Neo Geo (AES/MVS) (Experimental)
• Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
• PlayStation (Experimental)

Note: cue+mp3 format is not supported for Sega CD, You can convert to cue+wav using the CueMp3ToWave.

BizHawk is an open-source multi-system emulator. It uses emulator cores from the Libretro project (RetroArch). It supports emulation of NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, PlayStation, and many other systems (around 30 systems). Developed with support from the TASVideos community, BizHawk is designed for creating Tool-Assisted Speedruns (TAS) — speedrunning game completions — as well as for casual gaming.

Supported platforms

• Arcade machines
• Apple II
• Atari 2600
• Atari 7800
• Atari Lynx
• ColecoVision
• Commodore 64
• Commodore Amiga
• Fairchild Channel F
• Game Boy, Super Game Boy, and Game Boy Color
• Game Boy Advance
• Mattel Intellivision
• NEC PC Engine (AKA TurboGrafx-16), including SuperGrafx and PCE CD
• Neo Geo Pocket
• Nintendo 3DS
• Nintendo 64
• Nintendo DS/DSi
• Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, Famicom Disk System
• Odyssey 2
• Sega Genesis, Sega-CD, 32x
• Sega Master System, Game Gear, and SG-1000
• Sega Saturn
• Sony PlayStation
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Famicom
• PCFX
• TI-83 graphing calculator
• Uzebox
• Vectrex
• Virtual Boy
• Wonderswan and Wonderswan Color
• ZX Spectrum

Emulator byuu is a project from the developer of bsnes and higan emulators, which combines the friendly interface of the former and the multi-system (with emphasis on accuracy) of the latter. List of emulated platforms: NES, SNES, SG-1000, Master System, Game Gear, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, SuperGrafx, MSX, MSX2, Game Boy (Color), Game Boy Advance, WonderSwan (Color), Pocket Challenge V2, Neo Geo Pocket (Color). Was merged back with higan evolving into the ares project.

Build NES/ Famicom emulator by CaH4e3. Many dumps of pirate cartridges can be run only on it.

A good NES and FDS emulator for Windows.

Nice NES emulator from the author of Project64, written with DirectX API. Supports a large number of mappers and is mainly focused on running USA-roms. Jnes has support for saves, as well as network play via Kaillera.

Mednafen is a great multiplatform emulator that emulates the following platforms:

• Atari Lynx [lynx]
• GameBoy (Color) [gb]
• GameBoy Advance [gba]
• Neo Geo Pocket (Color) [ngp]
• Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom [nes]
• PC Engine (CD)/TurboGrafx 16 (CD)/SuperGrafx [pce]
• PC-FX [pcfx]
• Sega Game Gear [gg]
• Sega Genesis/MegaDrive [md]
• Sega Master System [sms]
• Sony PlayStation [psx]
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom [snes]
• Virtual Boy [vb]
• WonderSwan [wswan]

The quality of emulation is very good.
There is support for graphic filters.
Attention: emulator runs only from command line. But you can use shell: Mednaffe or MedGui Reborn.
To fully work with the emulator, you should read the documentation. Also, do not forget about the F1 key.

An actively developing open source NES emulator written in C#. SlimDX Runtime .NET 4.0 x86 (January 2012) libraries must be installed in order to run it.

NES Emulator for Windows.

Unofficial release of the famous emulator of the most famous eight-bit console from Nintendo. Fixed a bug causing slow reaction of the joystick manifested on some computers in the official release and some other annoying glitches.

Fixed build of Nestopia 1.37 (stable for recording game movies). Now it supports unlimited video size when dumping AVI, as well as RGB32 color space.

Quite advanced open source NES/ Dendy emulator for Windows. Among its features: dendy-mode (hybrid), debugger, video recording, color palette adjustment, game genie, ROM header editor and so on.

NES emulator for Windows. This is a concept emulator, the main feature of which is - real-time rewind of the gameplay.

Multisystem emulator for Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega System E arcade machine. It has an original 3D interface, in the form of a game room with arcade machines, TVs. Also has a built-in database of games and covers.

One of the oldest, continuing development, emulators NES / Dendy. It has a graphical interface (in DOS-style because for a long time the emulator was for DOS), the ability to record and save the game, creating screenshots, support game genie codes, saves from nesticle and archives. For fans and nostalgic.

NES emulator-combine with a built-in database of games with cartridge covers. It features network play, saves, NSF player, GameGenie and an integrated browser. Various debugging tools are also available. More details on the official site.

An excellent Japanese NES and FDS emulator. Many features including: video filters, turbo button support, speed up/slow down, light gun support, record/replay gameplay. Has excellent compatibility, especially with Japanese games. Used to be the most advanced NES emulator, but unfortunately has not been updated for a long time and is slowly losing ground.

Older versions of various emulators, to be able to view some walkthrough recordings (game movies).

• FCE Ultra v0.98.15-rerecording
• Nintendulator v0.965
• VirtuaNES v0.85c
• VirtuaNES v0.86
• VirtuaNES v0.86a
• VirtuaNES v0.92
• VirtuaNES v0.93
• VirtuaNES v0.97