This page is mostly dedicated to the Nintendo Gameboy, there are four
other Nintendo emulators available. So far we have DarkNEss, A/Nes,
CoolNESs, and AmiNES. Read on for more info !
The Gameboy is a small hand held portable console. It takes small
cartridges which contain rom images of games. It uses a monochrome
screen for display and the sound come from a tiny peizo buzzer or from
stereo headphones provided. Sound quality is surprisingly good as is the
Graphic quality considering the size of the screen.
The Nintendo Entertainment System is a relatively small console that
rivalled the Sega Mastersystem. The NES was a simplistic 8bit system
using the now famous Z80 processor. Unfortunately I have very few
details about this machine as I never owned one (I prefered the Sega
Master System and owned one too).
Games are still available from a lot of places, but you should be able
to find the images on the 'Net somewhere. These games are still
copyrighted to various companies and as such is illegal to distribute
them, so don't ask for them !
Based on the source code from Marat fayzullin's VGB (Video GameBoy)
emulator, this version has some slight improvements. It runs on it's own
screen and has background GFX that make it look like you're�actually
playing the game on a real Gameboy. Not that much of an improvement,
although it seems to be a little faster than VGB. This version is time
limited to 10 minutes, registering info is in the archive.
The original Gameboy emulator. Written by Marat Fayzullin in portable C
it has been converted to almost every possible platform (besides C64 &
Atari!). It's fastish (on my machine) but can slow down when things
become complicated. Not recommended for people with processors less than
an 040. Very complete emulation. Check it out.
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VGB V0.7r2 - Virtual GameBoy. Freeware
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Compatible: 68020-68060, OS3.0+
My apologies to Marat and Lars for having some misleading info, and thanks
to Lars for pointing it out to me :)
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This emulator is written by another emulating genuis, Juan Antonia Gomez
from Spain. He's also written an MSX emulator and a Sega Master System
emulator, both can be found elsewhere on this site. This fast emulator
is written in 68020 asembler. It still has quite a few bugs in the code,
but runs a little faster than Wzonka-lad, due to AGB turning off the
system whilst running the emulation. Sound is supported in three of the
four channels, and is promised to be finished in the next shareware
version. V0.9 will be US $20 to register. Very good if incomplete.
I am currently testing V0.9 of this emulator & it is quite good, but still
(in my opinion) not quite as good as Wzonka-lad. It is VERY fast though
so I would recommend it for slower Amigas.
This oddly named Gameboy emulator is NO LONGER the newbie, but has gone
through a great number of revisions. It has now gone shareware
due to Ville Helin's work on it. Sound support is promised to those who
register using the excellent AHI system. Written in pure Amiga assembler
it's very fast.
This version runs at full Gameboy speed on my 060 and
now contains 2 versions in the archive, one slightly faster than the
other. The "Fast" version has a noticable speed difference to the
standard version.
Said to run 4-5 times faster than VGB on 030's ! This is a must. Needs
minimum 020 & 3Mb fast. Updates will be a little slower now as Ville has
just started his mandatory Tour of Duty in the army, he has told me
Wzonka-lad is now finished to a point where it runs smoothly with sound
etc.
This is the new version of Wzonka-lad, I received my key file at the
same time as the archive and it sounds much better than the older beta
versions I tested. Absolutely brilliant, download this & pay the fee !
WOW ! DarkNESs has under gone some amazing changes since the last version.
Mark Van Hal has rewritten it in pure assembler and it now runs much much
faster than before.
He has added a GUI to DarkNESs so there is no more shell typing for you
lazy people out there. So what is it like emulation wise !?
Amazing Absolutely amazing. It ran every game I threw at it (I did
not test every game I had) and only had some grahpic glitches on one or 2
of them ! Much, much better than any other NES emulator at the moment.
Congratulations Mark on a job well done. The only let down at the
moment is speed still. It is still a lot slower than the other emulators
available, but this is the first ASM version and it multitasks too. I would
expect some more enhancements from Mark, especially after this version !
Support this program !!!!!
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DarkNESs V0.20 Giftware
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Compatible: 68020-68060, OS2.0+
Supported MMC's: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11.
Darkness
This is the new NES emulator on the market. It is in it's VERY early
stages and as such does very little. Infact it does less than DarkNESs
does.
Yet another version of A/NES, and again it's still very buggy. It's still
full of graphic glitches and many of the games are just unplayable,
especially those that have a scrolling background which A/NES just cannot
do. Still no support for MMC #8, maybe soon ?
Improvements to this version include some sound fixes and a BIG
CPU bug fix.
Written by Fredrik Schutlz and Morgan Johansson of Sweden this looks to be
a very promising emulator. I can't wait for updates and more MMC's being
supported. Stay tuned for more information !
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A/NES V0.36� Shareware $15US - Cash Only
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Compatible: 68020+, AGA. Some fast ram would help.
Supported MMC's: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11.
A/NES
The new NES emulator reminds me very much of DarkNESs, infact I would
have sworn they are from the same port. They have both been created
with the help of Marat & Y0SHI's documentation. I would assume that is
why they look very similar !
This new version of CoolNESs has undergone some minor impromvemets.
The background scrolling problem is now almost gone. I no longer need
to flick between the different types of mirroring to fix the background.
Although the graphics still appear corrupt when first starting a game.
Sound is now available to those who register with Fredrik. This version
now runs more games than A/NES ! And with fewer graphic glitches this one
is now a must !
The author Fredrik Olsson intends to improve the emulation by adding
support for possibly the Family Basic Keyboard, NES Disk drive
and the Zapper, these are only maybe's though...
Email Frederik and let him know how much you like the emulation though
. REMEMBER, it is only my opinion.
Still easily as fast as A/NES, if not slightly faster !
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CoolNESs V0.45 Shareware $15US, �12, 100SeKr
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Compatible: 68020+, AGA. Some fast ram would help.
Supported MMC's : 0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 11.
CoolNESs
Yet another emulator from Juan Antonio Gomez. This guy just can't help
himself it seems. This is a very early demo.
AmiNES now runs from a nice looking GUI (the same as all his other
emulators actually) and although it still supports very few ROMS & MMC's
it now will report that it cannot run a game. This will stop the emulation
from crashing, which can happen on the other NES emulators.
It needs a lot of work to get to DarkNESs' standards of game compatibility,
but knowing Juan it will not be long before he has added a lot more to the
emulator. Keep watching this space for more information.
Juan states that he will not be finishing this emulator in the near future and
has used it only as a stepping stone to his PC-Engine emulator. All I can
say is roll on PC-Engine !
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AmiNES V0.12� Preview Version
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Compatible: 68020+, AGA. Some fast ram ! (Has support for 040/060's)
Supported MMC's : 0, 2
AmiNES