PicoNES is an easy to use NES emulator for your Android device. It allows you to play backups of your favorite classic games, or explore new indie games developed for the console.




NES.emu is described as 'Advanced open-source NES emulator (known as Famicom in Japan) based on FCEUX with a minimalist UI and a focus on low audio/video latency, supporting a wide variety of devices from the original Xperia Play to modern devices like the Nvidia' and is a Game Emulator in the gaming software category. There are more than 10 alternatives to NES.emu for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, Web-based and Mac apps. The best NES.emu alternative is PicoNES, which is free. Other great apps like NES.emu are FCEUX, Nestopia, Mesen and NostalgiaNes.
PicoNES is an easy to use NES emulator for your Android device. It allows you to play backups of your favorite classic games, or explore new indie games developed for the console.




FCEUX is a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom, and Famicom Disk System (FDS) emulator. It supports both PAL (European) and NTSC (USA/JPN) modes. It supports both Windows and SDL versions for cross compatibility.


Nestopia is a NES emulator that was written in C++ and it is perfect for games requiring precise timing since it is very cycle-accurate. With support for an incredible amount of mappers. It also supports NSFs, the famicom disk system, save states, IPS patching, battery-saved...

Mesen is a multi-system emulator (NES, SNES, Game Boy, PC Engine, Master System/Game Gear) for Windows, Linux and macOS built in C++ and C#.
It also includes an extensive set of debugging tools for homebrew development and romhacking.




NostalgiaNes is a high quality emulator based on the most up-to-date revision of the famous FCEUX.




PuNES is a high accuracy NES emulator.
In addition to the standard color pallettes used by most NES emulators, PuNES uses a color palette derived from an actual tv.


Nesbox Emulator is a multiplatform emulator of video consoles. You can play your favorite NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and GameBoy Color/Advanced games on any computer working under Windows 8.1/RT/Phone or directly in the browser.



MESS emulates portable and console gaming systems, computer platforms and calculators. The project strives for accuracy and portability and therefore is not always the fastest emulator for any one particular system.

DroidEmu is a game system to play SNES, NES, GameBoy Advanced, GameBoy/Color, SEGA GameGear, SEGA Genesis games on your Android phone. It runs thousands of games at full speed.



Jnes is a NES emulator for win32 platforms that uses DirectX for its hardware interface. Its emulation capabilities include graphics, sound, input devices, and emulating quite a few memory mapping boards found in most USA games and a few popular japanese ones.

Nintendulator is an open source Win32 NES emulator written in C++ (plus some assembly optimization). The original goal was to emulate the NES down to its hardware quirks; though its fallen behind over the years, recent builds have caught up once again and can emulate certain...

nemulator is a NES emulator. nemulator uses DirectX 10, therefore Windows Vista or Windows 7 is required.
