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    BioNES by Shu Kondo. [Download]

    Version 0.2

    A rather new emulator, for Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0, requiring DirectX 3.0 or newer. It is optimized for MMX technology, and has good graphics and sound support. It lacks a proper Auto-skip option when it comes to the framerate though, it runs a bit too f ast on my P200MMX, and when I increase the frameskip to 1, it runs all to slow! But well, I guess it is a good alternative for Windows users, with machines up to the job. (I've heard that it is really slow on non-MMX machines.)
    For Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 with DirectX 3.0 or newer.

    fwNES by FanWen Yang and Shu Kondo. [Download]
    [Homepage]

    Version 0.302b

    This emulator emulates the 6502 (Using Marat's M6502 core and Shu Kondo's S6502) quite well from what I hear. The PPU Registers are almost finished, not to mention the amount of sound this emulates. This emulator supports FDS, the NES Zapper, and the FC T rainer. Great emulator!
    For DOS.

    jNES by Steven Rellinger. [Download]
    [Homepage]

    Version 0.26

    Additions to this emulator this version:

    - Added Konami VRC4 Emulation (iNES #21)
    - Added Konami VRC2b Emulation (iNES #23)
    - Added Konami VRC4b Emulation (iNES #25)
    - Added Konami VRC6 Sound Emulation,
       Thanks to Kevin Horton for his docs
    - Improved PCM channel emulation
    - Minor MMC1/MMC3 mirroring change
    - Tweaked MMC3 IRQ
    - Fixed 4-window vram
    - Support for Controller #2
    - Put back correct palette reading
    - Fixed game genie length detection
    - Major 6502 core optimizations
    - MMX enhanced PPU emulation
    - DirectSound is now used again
    - Dialog for input devices with button config
    - Background Sleep is now an option
    - Sound output graph
    - Command line load option
    For Windows 9x with DirectX 5.0 or newer

    NESticle by Bloodlust Software. [Download]
    [Homepage]

    Version X.XX

    This has to be the best emulator out there right now. It has support for sound (excellent, though sometimes buggy), Sidewinder Game Pads, Game Genie codes, real-time save states, NES movies, NES snapshots, and much more. Unfortunately, this emulator has b een discontinued. I expect newer updated emus to far surpass NESticle soon.
    For DOS and Windows 95.

    RockNES by Fx3. [Download]
    [Homepage]

    Version 0.97

    This is the newest release of RockNES. Here's what's new:
    - Appended datafile (yeah, bye rocknes.dat)
    - Fixed a CPU and a minor scrolling bug
    - Minor fix in the sound core
    - Added Mapper #8 support (such as Doraemon)
    - Minor Mapper #17 fix (Parodius looks better)
    - Mapper #18 rewritten, IRQs fixed (at least Bases Loaded works fine)
    - Mapper #26 (game Madara) fixed (still buggy)
    - Fixed a free memory problem
    - Fixed a strange bug that causes random snapshot saving (???)
    - Better VS Platoon color support
    - Second major code rewrite done (cleaned & bug fixed)

    For Dos, Linux, and MacOs.