Nestopia
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Nestopia is an open source NES/Famicom emulator designed to emulate the NES hardware as accurately as possible. Originally for Windows only, Nestopia has been ported to the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.
Nestopia emulates the NES CPU at cycle-exact granularity, ensuring full support for software that do mid-scanline and other timing trickery. Other features listed in Nestopia’s manual include:
- Famicom Disk System support
- VS. UniSystem support
- NSF support
- Accurate video emulation, including artifacts of the NES’s NTSC color encoder
- Savestate support
- “Rewind” support
- IPS patching support
- Movie recording
- Several non-standard controllers and peripherals
- Support for over 200 memory mappers
- Cheat code menu with built in Game Genie
- ZIP/RAR/7zip archive support
- Netplay
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