The Best 15 VirtuaNES Alternatives

  • Nestopia

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • FCEUX

    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.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • NESBox

    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.

    Free Open Source Windows Windows RT Windows Phone Self-Hosted JavaScript Adobe Flash Player

  • MESS

    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.

    Free Personal Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Nintendulator

    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...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Jnes

    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...

    Free Windows Android

  • DroidEmu

    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...

    Freemium Android

  • nemulator

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

    Free Windows

  • puNES

    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.

    Free Windows Linux

  • My Nes

    My Nes is a portable open source NES/FAMICOM emulator written in C#. My Nes covers thousands of nes games and getting close and close to the real nes.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • JSNES

    A JavaScript NES emulator. It's a library that works in both the browser and Node.js.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Nesoid

    NES emulator for Android phones. This project is based on sources, published by original Nesoid developer, who in turn used code of GPFCE, forked from FCEUltra...

    Free Open Source Android

  • Mesen

    Mesen is a NES/Famicom emulator and NSF player. It is still a work in progress and under active development. Features: - High Accuracy - A lot of effort has gone...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • NES.emu

    NES emulator for Android devices.

    Freemium Android Android Tablet