Best NES emulator?

WedNESday · Post by **WedNESday** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:31 pm

...and don't just say Nintendulator. Which NES emulator do you consider the best? I was going to wait until I had finished WedNESday to start playing Zelda and that but I am too lazy. So I am going to play them on another emulator, only I can't decide which is best, and by best I mean, highly accurate. I am not interested in trivial support for a million and one useless things. At the moment I am using Nestopia v1.37. I have always found it to be very good, plus it has support for *.7z files.

Disch · Post by **Disch** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:42 pm

I second NEStopia

Jagasian · Post by **Jagasian** » Thu May 31, 2007 2:15 pm

On Windows, Nestopia is my favorite. Make sure to enable the NTSC filter, so that the video and colors look like they would on a real NES. With Nestopia fully tweaked out on a really fast PC, NES emulation starts to feel almost as good as playing on the real hardware. Especially if you use RetroPort NES-to-USB controller adapters, with real NES controllers.

gannon · Post by **gannon** » Thu May 31, 2007 2:38 pm

Nestopia and Nintendulator are great, Nintendulator is too slow for me to use for anything other than testing/etc though.

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Thu May 31, 2007 2:46 pm

Well... the utopia overrides the famous most accurate around.

commodorejohn · Post by **commodorejohn** » Thu May 31, 2007 4:15 pm

My personal favorite is FCEU - fast, simple, and fairly accurate. But for those cases where it doesn't work so good, I usually go with nNesterJ (great mapper support) or Nestopia (supports the mappers nNesterJ doesn't.)

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Thu May 31, 2007 7:02 pm

I use 3 emulators, for different purposes:

.For playing, I use Nestopia with the NTSC filter;
.For debugging, I use FCEUXD, and Nintendulator sometimes;
.For compatibility tests, I use Nintendulator first, then the other 2.

kyuusaku · Post by **kyuusaku** » Thu May 31, 2007 8:34 pm

Nestopia/Sega Li (for playing)
FCEUXDSP (only for debugging)

FCticity - my emulator just for tinkering; it should take the place of FCEU for me after it gets a debugger

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:22 am

- For Playing RPGs wich saves, I use VirtuaNES, because it's an emulator I've always used for long (it has been my first emulator to work proprely on my older PC 6 years ago actually), and because it saves on the same folder as the ROM, and because it has great video and sound options (it's the only emulator as far I know where you can directly output to wav), and the image rendered looks overall better than any other emulator (before the latest Nestopia came out).
- For playing platformers, I use Nestopia, beacuse the last version feature an awesome NTSC filer.
- For debuging, I use FCEUltra, because it's the only emulator featuring a debugger. Also Nintendulator, but it crashes 2 times out of 3 and only output a ridiclously large .txt file with lists all instructions (wich is great for doing time-critical debuing, useless otherwise).
- For testing acuracy, Nestopia and Nintedulator without a doubt. Also Nesticle for a good laugh from time to time.
- To see tiles and edit patterns, definitely, nothing beats Nesticle, and I'm very serious this time.

dXtr · Post by **dXtr** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:01 pm

For the few times I actually do NES stuff these days for development/gaming I use Nintendulator almost always. Many moons ago like sometimes back on the old board I used NesterJ for that.. don't know why, just did.

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:23 pm

If you're worried about accuracy, so 'the utopia' passes OK in all Blargg's tests AFAIK. So, it should be your choice.

WedNESday · Post by **WedNESday** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:57 pm

Fx3 wrote:If you're worried about accuracy, so 'the utopia' passes OK in all Blargg's tests AFAIK. So, it should be your choice.

Yeah, but so does WedNESday.

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:44 pm

Bump that *cough*RockNES*cough* still does... for me *cough*, but this way your request becomes meaningless...

NotTheCommonDose · Post by **NotTheCommonDose** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:44 pm

I like Virtual NES because it is very accurate and you can see the pallets in game while you change them which is a great companion for hacks. The sound is so-so because you cannot individually mute the expansion channels or adjust their volumes. it is missing another feature, the removal of messages being displayed as it gets annoying after a while.

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:40 am

The sound is so-so because you cannot individually mute the expansion channels or adjust their volumes.

Of couse you can, by pressing CTRL+1 for Square 1, CTRL+2 for Square 2, etc....
You can change the volume levels by goin in Options -> Sound. I think you should have messed up on this one, because Virtua NES is one of the emulators with the most options on Sound and Video out there (along with Nestopia).