Nestopia – NES/Famicom emulator

Last Updated on October 18, 2022

Nestopia is an open source NES/Famicom emulator designed to emulate the NES hardware as accurately as possible.

It has a GTK+ graphical user interface for configuration that understands drag and drop from file managers and can extract supported files from zip or 7zip.

The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console.

Features include:

• Supports .nes, .unf/.unif, and XML format ROMs, including Vs. and Playchoice 10 games.
• Supports .fds discs.
• Supports .nsf music rips.
• All supported files can be extracted from zip or 7zip containers (an archive browser is not yet included – this assumes the common GoodSet case of one zip or 7zip per game).
• Supports save states.
• Supports movie recordings.
• Supports the “rewinder”.
• Friendly GUI configuration.
• Autodetection of PAL and NTSC format games.
• Supports drag and drop of compatible games and music rips from modern Linux file managers, including KDE’s Konqueror and GNOME’s Nautilus.
• XML ROM support.
• Archive browser comes up automatically if you select a zip or 7zip archive with multiple NES files in it.
• Option to select favored console.
• More flexible video configuration including OpenGL hardware scaling.
• Input mapping in the GUI.
• Core logging is now enabled to the terminal you start NEStopia from for easier diagnosis of problems.
• Cheat Manager with flexible support and import/export capability.
• Automatic soft-patching added.
• Coin inputs added for Vs. system.
• Audio filters added for fun.

Website: nestopia.sourceforge.net
Support: Forums
Developer: Martin Freij
License: GNU GPL

Nestopia is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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