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Gameboy, GameBoy Color Emulators

The most well known portable gaming device in the world is Nintendo’s Gameboy. Originally released in the late 80′s it has sold more than any other portable game console in the world. Several years later Nintendo released the “color” version of the all time classic!

Download Emulators		Platform	Date	Size
Visual Boy Advance 1.8.0	Probably the best Gameboy Advance emulator available.	Windows	Oct 2, 2005	645 Kb.
Visual Boy Advance 1.8.0 Link	unofficial ports	Windows	May 1, 2006	552 Kb.
BGB 1.2	Gameboy emulator supporting link function.	Windows	Jan 5, 2006	265 Kb.
TGB DUAL 7.7	The only emulator that supports the link function	Windows	Aug 5, 2003	263 Kb.
BasicBoy 2.0.3	Gameboy emulator written in Visual Basic	Windows	Jul 7, 2004	141 Kb.
KiGB 2.04	Gameboy Color Emulator. Windows Port	Windows	Nov 20, 2007	434 Kb.
PlayGuy 1.03b	Gameboy Color Emulator	Windows	Aug 14, 2003	223 Kb.
GEST 0.85	Gameboy Color Emulator	Windows	Apr 8, 2004	306 Kb.
DreamGBC 2001 Final Beta5	Gameboy Color Emulator	Windows	Aug 14, 2003	118 Kb.
gnuboy 1.0.3	Open source Gameboy emulator.	Windows	Aug 14, 2003	73 Kb.

Gameboy Advance Emulators

The successor of the all time classic that shortly became a hit just like it’s “father”. The fact that Gameboy Advance plays the older Gameboy titles means you get to use the older games. There is also another version of the Advance called SP.

Download Emulators		Platform	Date	Size
Visual Boy Advance 1.8.0	Probably the best Gameboy Advance emulator available.	Windows	Oct 2, 2005	645 Kb.
Visual Boy Advance 1.8.0 Link	unofficial ports	Windows	May 1, 2006	552 Kb.
BoycottAdvance 0.2.8 English	Good GBA emulator with sound. Runs several commercial games.	Windows	Jun 22, 2003	636 Kb.
No$gba 2.6a	GBA with multiplayer support. Now Supports Nintendo DS as well.	Windows	Nov 24, 2007	152 Kb.
BatGBA 2.25b	Gameboy Advance emulator.	Windows	Jul 10, 2002	230 Kb.
DreamGBA 2.5 Requires GBA BIOS	Supports sound & runs some games. Uses a seperate loader program.	Windows	Dec 12, 2001	126 Kb.
RascalBoy Advance	Gameboy Advance emulator.	Windows	Feb 12, 2006	275 Kb.
MultiPlayer Plugin 1.0.0.0	RBA MultiPlayer Plugin	Windows	Aug 1, 2004	17 Kb.

Nintendo DS Emulator

The Nintendo DS is the most recent handheld system developed by Nintendo. It was released in 2004 and was the first handheld system to feature dual screens. In improved edition called the DS Lite was released in 2006. The term “Lite” refers to it having brighter screens, smaller size and lower weight, it still has the same features as the original.

About Nintendo DS emulation

Unfortunately emulation of the Nintendo DS is still at an early stage. No emulator exists yet which can play most games properly. This means the current focus of emulator authors is to make their emulators more accurate, which in turn means that optimization has less priority. Due to this, even if a game can be played, it might run extremely slow – even on the fastest PCs available today.

Download Emulators		Platform	Date	Size
No$gba 2.6a	GBA with multiplayer support. Now Supports Nintendo DS as well.	Windows	Nov 24, 2007	152 Kb.
DeSmuME v0.9.7	Nintendo DS Emulator	Windows	Dec 21, 2009	2801 Kb.
iDeaS 1.0.3.3	Nintendo DS Emulator	Windows	Jul 10, 2009	234 Kb.
NeonDS 0.1.1	Nintendo DS Emulator	Windows	Aug 30, 2007	1055 Kb.
Dualis 20.4	Nintendo DS Emulator	Windows	Jun 2, 2007	278 Kb.
DSemu 0.4.10	Nintendo DS Emulator	Windows	Jan 18, 2006	312 Kb.

NES Emulator

The Nintendo’s 8 bit console was Sega’s biggest rival for its Master System which was a huge hit as well at the time.

Download Emulators		Platform	Date	Size
VirtuaNES 0.97	Relatively new emulator of Japanese origin. An English version is available though!	Windows	Oct 22, 2007	374 Kb.
FCEUX 2.0.0	Back again, now open source, ported for Windows and much improved!	Windows	Aug 4, 2008	851 Kb.
Nestopia 1.40	NES Emulator	Windows	May 16, 2008	1161 Kb.
Jnes 1.0.1	Another good NES emulator for Windows. Requires a reasonbly fast PC.	Windows	Jun 25, 2005	815 Kb.
Nesticle X.XX	It's old and hasn't been updated in ages, but it still rocks!	DOS	Aug 17, 1998	192 Kb.
Nesticle 0.42	Includes Windows version	Windows	Sep 21, 1997	330 Kb.
Nesticle DOS/4GW	Required by Nesticle for DOS	DOS	Jun 12, 1997	141 Kb.
NESten 0.61 Beta 1	Great NES emulator for Windows.	Windows	Feb 9, 2001	634 Kb.
NESten Mappers 1.3	Updated mappers for NESten	Windows	Apr 7, 2003	77 Kb.
NesterJ 0.51b	Improved version of the emulator Nester.	Windows	Aug 6, 2006	196 Kb.
RockNES X 2.0 Final	Nice NES emulator, but a little slower than the rest.	Windows	Apr 13, 2002	464 Kb.
RockNES 5.061	Nice NES emulator, but a little slower than the rest.	Windows	Jul 26, 2009	680 Kb.
FakeNES v0.5.8	Normal version	Windows	Apr 27, 2006	639 Kb.
FakeNES v0.5.8	wip release	Windows	Jan 28, 2007	714 Kb.
UberNES V3 Rev3	NES Emulator	Windows	Aug 11, 2008	433 Kb.
Nintendulator 0.975	(ANSI Binary) 0.975 for Windows 95/98/ME	Windows	Feb 8, 2006	331 Kb.
Nintendulator 0.975	(Unicode Binary) for Windows NT/2000/XP	Windows	Feb 8, 2006	331 Kb.
fwNES 0.302	Probably the most compatible NES emulator available	DOS	Nov 15, 1998	867 Kb.
80five	The new version of MarioNES	Windows	Aug 23, 2004	101 Kb.
MarioNES 1.5	NES Emulator	Windows	Jun 10, 2004	59 Kb.
olafnes 0.2.1	NES Emulator	Windows	Apr 19, 2006	619 Kb.
olafnes runtimes	NES Emulator	Windows	Jan 1, 2005	727 Kb.

SNES Emulator

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System was Nintendo’s first 16 bit gaming console that was originally released in Japan.

Download Emulators		Platform	Date	Size
ZSNES 1.51 Official Release	One of the best Super Nintendo emulators available	Windows	Jan 29, 2007	848 Kb.
ZSNES 11-12-2006	Work In Progress Release	Windows	Nov 18, 2006	622 Kb.
Snes9x 1.53	Great Super Nintendo emulator with ports available for several systems.	Windows	Jan 15, 2010	1324 Kb.
Snes9k 0.09	Snes9x with Kaillera support	Windows	Nov 3, 2004	578 Kb.
bsnes 0.78	Super Nintendo Emulator	Windows	Jan 15, 2010	3712 Kb.
SNEeSE 0.853	Super Nintendo Emulator	Windows	Aug 29, 2006	682 Kb.
SNEeSE 0.853	Super Nintendo emulator for DOS	DOS	Aug 29, 2006	687 Kb.
SnEM 0.02	Super Nintendo Emulator	Windows	Dec 22, 2003	395 Kb.

Nintendo 64 Emulators

The N64 was released in mid-1996 as Nintendo’s front-runner in the original next-gen console wars. Although it was a much higher powered machine than Sony’s Playstation or Sega’s Saturn, the N64 always lagged behind in sales. Nintendo chose to sell the machine on the merits of its fast-loading cartridge system and the insignificant fact that it featured a 64-bit architecture – unfortunately for Nintendo, people were more impressed by high-capacity CD media, in-game movie sequences and pre-recorded soundtracks than fast loading and the size of the machine’s pipeline. Developers often preferred the Playstation for their titles due to the N64′s inability to provide media rich content which games such as the Final Fantasy series demanded. Although the hardware facilitated classics such as Goldeneye and the late Perfect Dark, it wasn’t enough to win over the masses.

Download Emulators		Platform	Date	Size
Project64 1.7.0.49	One of the best Nintendo 64 emulators available.	Windows	Mar 31, 2005	2033 Kb.
1964 1.1	In the same league as Project64, or in other words, it's GOOD.	Windows	Jan 3, 2005	1458 Kb.
UltraHLE 1.1.0	The legendary Nintendo 64 emulator. Unfortunately not updated anymore since it's release.	Windows	Jul 13, 2003	209 Kb.
Nemu64 0.8	One of the older Nintendo 64 emulators. Requires a very fast PC.	Windows	Mar 22, 2003	4862 Kb.
Mupen64 0.5.1	Nintendo 64 emulator designed to be portable to multiple systems.	Windows	Aug 28, 2005	2082 Kb.
Corn 0.3	The fastest N64 emulator. Unfortunately it runs very few games.	Windows	Jul 13, 2003	96 Kb.
SupraHLE 1.1.3	Hacked version of UltraHLE which supports more features and games.	Windows	Jul 13, 2003	2394 Kb.
Daedalus 0.07b	Good open source Nintendo 64 emulator.	Windows	Jun 20, 2002	287 Kb.
UltraHLE 2064 1.0.5a	The succesor of a legend!	Windows	Jul 13, 2003	728 Kb.
Apollo 0.03	Promising Nintendo 64 emulator.	Windows	Jul 13, 2003	274 Kb.
TR64 WIP 5.666a	Nintendo 64 emulator by the creators of TRWin.	Windows	Jul 13, 2003	45 Kb.
TRWIN 2.36	This emulator lags behind the rest, but you never know what might happen.	Windows	Jul 13, 2003	118 Kb.

Nintendo GameCube Emulators

Nintendo’s first ever console to use an optical disk system for loading games is the 128-bit Gamecube. It competes with Sony’s Playstation 2 and Microsoft’s XBox.

Download Emulators		Platform	Date	Size
Dolphin Last Version	GameCube & Wii Emulator. (32bit Win)	Windows	Jul 7, 2009	4828 Kb.
Dolphin Last Version	GameCube & Wii Emulator. (64bit Win)	Windows	Jul 7, 2009	5557 Kb.
Dolwin 0.10	The first ever GC emu released.	Windows	Jan 10, 2005	831 Kb.
GCEmu 20051211	Gamecube Emulator	Windows	Feb 8, 2006	3069 Kb.
WhineCube Release 7	Gamecube Emulator	Windows	Jul 26, 2005	483 Kb.
Gcube 0.3	Gamecube Emulator	Windows	Dec 5, 2004	1389 Kb.

Nintendo Wii Emulators

The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo at 2006. It’s the primary competitor of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3.

Download Emulators		Platform	Date	Size
Dolphin Last Version	GameCube & Wii Emulator. (32bit Win)	Windows	Jul 7, 2009	4828 Kb.
Dolphin Last Version	GameCube & Wii Emulator. (64bit Win)	Windows	Jul 7, 2009	5557 Kb.

Download MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)

The world’s most famous emulator is without a doubt MAME! Just imagine that it plays more or less around 3000 games and it keeps going! With it you can play the most classic games that you loved so long ago.
Below you can find the command line version of MAME along with one of the best frontends(use it only if you like frontends) or you can always use MAME32! MAME32 has an intergrated frontend and it’s much easier to use.
Whether you like emulators or not if you are a fan of all those old games then MAME might be your last chance to play them again.