| Name | Download | Updated (dd/mm/yy) | OS | History | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio Overload | v2.0 v2.0 | 29/07/08 29/07/08 | Linux 32-bits Linux 64-bits | History | This is a music player for many formats including NES, SNES, Amiga, Sam Coupe, Playstation, Sega Saturn, and many more. edit / other platforms |
| DarcNES | dn9b0401 dn9b0401 dn9b0401 | 01/04/01 01/04/01 01/04/01 | Linux Linux (X11) Linux (GTK) | History | DarcNES is a multi-system emulator, it emulates NES, Sega Master System, PCE, and other consoles/computers. edit / other platforms |
| EmilNES | v0.3.1 | 05/05/07 | Debian Linux i386 | History | This was to become a good multi-platform NES emulator but it was aborted after this release. edit / other platforms |
| FCEUX | v2.1.0 v2.1.1 Sources | 29/03/09 29/07/09 | Linux (i386) - | History | FCEUX is a cross platform, NTSC and PAL Famicom/NES emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. Over time FCE Ultra had separated into many separate branches.
The concept behind FCEUX is to merge elements from FCE Ultra, FCEU rerecording, FCEUXD, FCEUXDSP, and FCEU-mm into a single branch of FCEU. As the X implies, it is an all-encompassing FCEU emulator that gives the best of all worlds for the general player, the ROM-hacking community, and the Tool-Assisted Speedrun Community. |
| FCE Ultra | v0.98.12 Sources v0.98.13-PRE | 28/08/04 20/09/04 | Linux Linux | History | This is a very good emulator based on FCE. The 0.98.13 is a pre-release, it was not tested extensively, so use 0.98.12 if you are looking for the last stable release. edit / other platforms |
| FakeNES | v0.5.9 Beta 3 Sources | 14/06/07 | -- | History | FakeNES is a free, portable, Open Source NES emulation system. edit / other platforms |
| InfoNES | v0.97J | 25/02/06 | Linux (SDL) | History | This is one of the best choices available for Linux. It uses the SDL library. edit / other platforms |
| Little John New Generation | v0.2 Beta v0.2.1 v0.1.1 Sources | 14/06/00 21/03/00 03/06/00 | Linux Sun/Solaris - | History | This is an old NES emulator with some SNES support. This version was not developed further but the author released a very nice multi-system emulator for Palm OS called LJP. edit / other platforms |
| MESS | v0.122 Sources v0.128 Sources | 30/12/07 20/10/08 | Linux Linux | History | The list of consoles/computers that MESS can emulate is just incredible. See the website for more information. edit / other platforms |
| NESEmu | v0.2.2 Beta Preview v0.1.28 Sources | 20/12/08 05/11/08 | Linux (i686) All platforms | History | An extremely fast and accurate Nintendo NES emulator. Easily ported to anything that can use SDL; anything else requires very little work. The authors refer to it as the unnamed NES emulator. edit / other platforms |
| Nestopia | v1.3.2 | 31/07/06 | Linux | History | Nestopia is a source overlay of the official Nestopia allowing you to compile it for Linux. edit / other platforms |
| Nestra | v0.66 | 05/12/99 | Linux/X11/FreeBSD | History | This emulator has a couple of bugs and does not support sound. It uses dynamic recompiling to speed up emulation. edit / other platforms |
| NextFCE | v0.20b | 09/10/99 | FreeBSD | History | NextFCE is an NES emulator that is based on FCE. It runs on FreeBSD and the documentation is in japanese. edit / other platforms |
| RockNES | v4.00 v4.00 | 07/12/04 07/12/04 | Linux (i386) Linux (i686) | History | This is a very good choice for your emualtion needs. The windows version continues to be updated, however these are the last versions available for Linux. edit / other platforms |
| SDLMESS | v0.136 Sources v0.135 Sources | 10/01/10 07/11/09 | - - | History | A port of MESS to SDL. edit / other platforms |
| SharpNES | v0.2 | 03/01/05 | Linux | History | SharpNES is a clean-room implementation of an 8-bit NES emulator in Mono/C#. edit / other platforms |
| TuxNES | v0.75 Sources v0.74 | 15/04/01 09/07/00 | Linux Linux i586 | History | TuxNES is an emulator for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. Currently, the emulator has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD, all running on i386 processors. TuxNES is based on Nestra, a great public-domain NES emulator by Quor. edit / other platforms |
| XNes | v0.49 | 27/12/97 | Linux SVGAlib | History | XNes (Extra-Nintendo Entertainment System emulator) was originally for DOS. It was ported to linux by Chuck Mason. edit / other platforms |
| Xe | v2.16.2 v2.16.2 v2.16.2 Various Bios v2.16.2 | 01/04/09 01/04/09 01/04/09 28/09/07 01/04/09 | Linux (x86) Linux (x86_64) Linux (PPC64) - Linux (PPC32) | History | This multi-console emulator emulates Playstation, Neo Geo, FM TOWNS, and a couple of other consoles. The Bios are not official Bios, they are replacement bios given by the authors of Xe. edit / other platforms |
| YAME | v0.38 | 20/11/01 | Linux | History | YAME is a japanese emulator. It emulates PC Engine, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Super Gameboy & NES. edit / other platforms |
| ZXMameCD | v0.80 | 18/04/10 | Linux (Bootable) | History | ZXMameCD is a CD that can be booted from platforms such as PCs or Macs and that contains emulators for multiple systems. edit / other platforms |
| fwNES | v0.151 | 30/03/98 | Linux SVGAlib | History | This is also a very good emulator for Linux, altough it is pretty old. edit / other platforms |
| iNES | v3.0 v3.0 v0.7 v0.7 v1.0 | 24/01/05 24/01/05 23/10/99 05/08/97 11/02/99 | Solaris SPARC Redhat Linux (x86) SunOS SPARC AIX RS6000 OSF/1 | History | This is a popular emulator Marat Fayzullin that has been ported to many platforms. edit / other platforms |
| nofrendo | v2.0PRE1 | 05/05/01 | Unix | History | This NES emulator is written by Matt Conte, and I don't have much information about it. edit / other platforms |
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