...and don't just say Nintendulator. Which NES emulator do you consider the best? I was going to wait until I had finished WedNESday to start playing Zelda and that but I am too lazy. So I am going to play them on another emulator, only I can't decide which is best, and by best I mean, highly accurate. I am not interested in trivial support for a million and one useless things. At the moment I am using Nestopia v1.37. I have always found it to be very good, plus it has support for *.7z files.
I second NEStopia
On Windows, Nestopia is my favorite. Make sure to enable the NTSC filter, so that the video and colors look like they would on a real NES. With Nestopia fully tweaked out on a really fast PC, NES emulation starts to feel almost as good as playing on the real hardware. Especially if you use RetroPort NES-to-USB controller adapters, with real NES controllers.
Nestopia and Nintendulator are great, Nintendulator is too slow for me to use for anything other than testing/etc though.
Well... the utopia overrides the famous most accurate around. 
My personal favorite is FCEU - fast, simple, and fairly accurate. But for those cases where it doesn't work so good, I usually go with nNesterJ (great mapper support) or Nestopia (supports the mappers nNesterJ doesn't.)
I use 3 emulators, for different purposes:
.For playing, I use Nestopia with the NTSC filter;
.For debugging, I use FCEUXD, and Nintendulator sometimes;
.For compatibility tests, I use Nintendulator first, then the other 2.
.For playing, I use Nestopia with the NTSC filter;
.For debugging, I use FCEUXD, and Nintendulator sometimes;
.For compatibility tests, I use Nintendulator first, then the other 2.
Nestopia/Sega Li (for playing)
FCEUXDSP (only for debugging)
FCticity - my emulator just for tinkering; it should take the place of FCEU for me after it gets a debugger
FCEUXDSP (only for debugging)
FCticity - my emulator just for tinkering; it should take the place of FCEU for me after it gets a debugger
- For Playing RPGs wich saves, I use VirtuaNES, because it's an emulator I've always used for long (it has been my first emulator to work proprely on my older PC 6 years ago actually), and because it saves on the same folder as the ROM, and because it has great video and sound options (it's the only emulator as far I know where you can directly output to wav), and the image rendered looks overall better than any other emulator (before the latest Nestopia came out).
- For playing platformers, I use Nestopia, beacuse the last version feature an awesome NTSC filer.
- For debuging, I use FCEUltra, because it's the only emulator featuring a debugger. Also Nintendulator, but it crashes 2 times out of 3 and only output a ridiclously large .txt file with lists all instructions (wich is great for doing time-critical debuing, useless otherwise).
- For testing acuracy, Nestopia and Nintedulator without a doubt. Also Nesticle for a good laugh from time to time.
- To see tiles and edit patterns, definitely, nothing beats Nesticle, and I'm very serious this time.
- For playing platformers, I use Nestopia, beacuse the last version feature an awesome NTSC filer.
- For debuging, I use FCEUltra, because it's the only emulator featuring a debugger. Also Nintendulator, but it crashes 2 times out of 3 and only output a ridiclously large .txt file with lists all instructions (wich is great for doing time-critical debuing, useless otherwise).
- For testing acuracy, Nestopia and Nintedulator without a doubt. Also Nesticle for a good laugh from time to time.
- To see tiles and edit patterns, definitely, nothing beats Nesticle, and I'm very serious this time.
For the few times I actually do NES stuff these days for development/gaming I use Nintendulator almost always. Many moons ago like sometimes back on the old board I used NesterJ for that.. don't know why, just did.
If you're worried about accuracy, so 'the utopia' passes OK in all Blargg's tests AFAIK. So, it should be your choice.
Fx3 wrote:
If you're worried about accuracy, so 'the utopia' passes OK in all Blargg's tests AFAIK. So, it should be your choice.
Yeah, but so does WedNESday.
Bump that *cough*RockNES*cough* still does... for me *cough*, but this way your request becomes meaningless... 
I like Virtual NES because it is very accurate and you can see the pallets in game while you change them which is a great companion for hacks. The sound is so-so because you cannot individually mute the expansion channels or adjust their volumes. it is missing another feature, the removal of messages being displayed as it gets annoying after a while.
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The sound is so-so because you cannot individually mute the expansion channels or adjust their volumes.
Of couse you can, by pressing CTRL+1 for Square 1, CTRL+2 for Square 2, etc....
You can change the volume levels by goin in Options -> Sound. I think you should have messed up on this one, because Virtua NES is one of the emulators with the most options on Sound and Video out there (along with Nestopia).
Bregalad wrote:
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The sound is so-so because you cannot individually mute the expansion channels or adjust their volumes.
Of couse you can, by pressing CTRL+1 for Square 1, CTRL+2 for Square 2, etc....
You can change the volume levels by goin in Options -> Sound. I think you should have messed up on this one, because Virtua NES is one of the emulators with the most options on Sound and Video out there (along with Nestopia).
I meant that you cannon mute individual VRC7 channels. It also has the best emulator built-in NSF player.
Yes, the NSF player is awesome, and there is only one game arround that use the VRC7 audio, wich is affected by the fact that all channels are multiplexed prior to the channel interface inside the emulator.
Bregalad wrote:
Yes, the NSF player is awesome, and there is only one game around that use the VRC7 audio, which is affected by the fact that all channels are multiplexed prior to the channel interface inside the emulator.
Which means?