Nestopia 1.45

What is this?

Nestopia is an emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom (and Famicom Disk System). It is a computer program that acts like a physical piece of hardware.

In other words, this is a method of preserving videogame history, with the welcome side effect of allowing you to play NES games on a modern computer.

History

Nestopia was started many years ago by Martin Freij, and quickly rose to fame for being one of the most accurate NES emulators around. Due to it being released as open source software, other people were allowed to enhance it. A Linux port was eventually done by R. Belmont, but the emulator, and the Linux port seem to have been abandoned since 2008.

What now?

A lot of bugs have been fixed and improvements have been made already. The emulator core is in pretty good shape already, so most of the improvements will be related to user-friendliness and modernity. Support for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD is now integrated. The Windows version is also being maintained, and will receive any updates to the core that may come, such as support for more mappers. There is also a libretro port that can be used on most (all?) of the libretro-supported platforms.

1.45

Unix Shell:

• Additions:
• Added the ability to switch FDS disks for multi-disk games
• xBR filter options
• Support for more archive formats through libarchive
• Differentiated Soft/Hard Reset
• Changes:
• Removed internal zip and 7zip decoders in favour of libarchive
• Replaced gtk_key_snooper with key_press_event and key_release_event
• Fixes:
• 7zip CRC check segfault

Windows Shell:

• Additions:
• xBR filter options
• Changes:
• Redundant TV Aspect checkbox removed from NTSC filter dialog
• Modified default sound settings to avoid desync

libretro:

• Additions:
• blargg's NTSC filter core option
• L/R now insert coins on Vs. System games

Core:

• Additions:
• xBR filter added - Hyllian, notBald

Fixes:

• Triangle volume bug in Dendy mode - emu-russia
• NTSC filter background colour fix - blargg

• Homepage
• nestopiaue | Free Games software downloads at SourceForge.net

• Nestopia 1.45 [Windows] [32-Bit Intel] Hits: 1032 Size: 1,06 Mb
• Nestopia 1.45 [Source Code] Hits: 566 Size: 1,80 Mb