NES Emulators for Linux

The best NES/ Dendy/ FDS emulator for Linux, based on FCE Ultra.

• Qt/SDL (old version GTK2 based GUI)
• Emulates a huge number of mappers
• Support for saves
• Many customizations
• OpenGL support (no video filters)
• Video filters (scale2x/3x, hx2x/3x)
• Support custom palettes
• Record/playback gameplay
• Game Genie support
• Network play (not Kaillera)
• NSF playback
• ZIP support
• Gamepad Support
• Screenshot creation

The fceux package is present in many distributions.

Mednafen is a great multiplatform emulator that emulates the following platforms:

• Atari Lynx [lynx]
• GameBoy (Color) [gb]
• GameBoy Advance [gba]
• Neo Geo Pocket (Color) [ngp]
• Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom [nes]
• PC Engine (CD)/TurboGrafx 16 (CD)/SuperGrafx [pce]
• PC-FX [pcfx]
• Sega Game Gear [gg]
• Sega Genesis/MegaDrive [md]
• Sega Master System [sms]
• Sony PlayStation [psx]
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom [snes]
• Virtual Boy [vb]
• WonderSwan [wswan]

The quality of emulation is very good.
There is support for graphic filters.
The mednafen package is present in many distributions.
The emulator runs only from the command line, but you can try the front-end of mednaffe and mfe.
To fully work with the emulator, you should read the documentation. Also, do not forget about F1 key.
What to do if there is no sound.

Mesen is a multi-system emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS. It supports NES, SNES, Game Boy (Color), Game Boy Advance, PC Engine and SMS/Game Gear games. Features of the emulator include:

• High accuracy;
• High compatibility (support 220 mappers for NES);
• Savestates, audio and video recording, etc;
• Video filters;
• Stereo effects;

Excellent NES/ Famicom and Famicom Disk System emulator for Linux with user interface based on GTK2 (up to version 0.90, then Qt). Supports a large number of mappers, saves, filters, Dendy emulation mode and other features.
BIOS for Famicom Disk System put in "$HOME/.puNES/bios/disksys.rom".

ares is an open-source multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It has a native graphical interface on each system. It has a native GUI on each system. It is a descendant of higan, byuu and bsnes and is focused on emulation accuracy. It emulates the following systems:

• Atari 2600 (Experimental)
• WonderSwan (Color)
• Pocket Challenge V2
• ColecoVision
• MSX / MSX2 (Experimental)
• PC-Engine / TurboGrafx / SuperGrafx
• PC-Engine CD / TurboGrafx CD (Experimental)
• My Vision
• NES / Famicom
• Famicom Disk System
• Game Boy (Color)
• SNES / Super Famicom
• Satellaview
• Nintendo 64 / 64DD
• SuFami Turbo
• Game Boy Advance
• Game Gear / Master System / Mark III / SG-1000
• Mega Drive / Genesis / Sega CD / Mega CD / 32X
• ZX Spectrum (Experimental)
• Neo Geo (AES/MVS) (Experimental)
• Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
• PlayStation (Experimental)

Note: cue+mp3 format is not supported for Sega CD, You can convert to cue+wav using the CueMp3ToWave.

NES Emulator. EmilNES port for Linux.

NES Emulator. FakeNES port for Linux.

A multiplatform emulator with a very confusing history. Originally called bsnes, it was renamed higan and became multiplatform, as higan is not a game-friendly emulator, Near first spun off the bsnes core project into a separate emulator with a more user-friendly interface and a much faster multi-threaded PPU renderer. Then the byuu project was spun off to build on the success of bsnes and offer an easy to use emulator for all emulator kernels, but after Near left the project, the community continues to develop a new project ares - which combines higan, byuu and bsnes. higan has a rather unusual interface and all that would be fine, but the requirement to import ROMs (think making copies) of any ROMs you intend to run in it is extremely inconvenient. So we advise you to look in the direction of ares.
The latest versions supports emulation: Famicom, Famicom Disk System, Super Famicom, Super Game Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Player, SG-1000, SC-3000, Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive, Mega CD, PC Engine, SuperGrafx, MSX, MSX2, ColecoVision, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, SwanCrystal, Pocket Challenge V2.

Good NES and FDS emulator for Linux. Run from the command line.

NES emulator written in C#. Mono is required to run it.

NEStopia port, NES / Dendy / FDS emulator for Linux (SDL). Supports saves, gamepad, graphics filters, GUI (FLTK). Available in the repositories of many Linux distributions.

Features:

• Full GUI configuration of all options
• .nes and .unf/.unif ROM support
• .fds Disk System support
• .nsf music player support
• .nst save state support
• .nsv movie play and recording
• .sav battery saving
• All the video filters from the Windows version (NTSC, Scale2x/3x, ScaleHQ 2x/3x/4x)
• Limited configuration of the NTSC filter (via presets)
• Sound volume, output rate, stereo/mono
• Rewind capability, so you can put time into reverse and fix that bad jump or ill-timed use of your last missile
• Keyboard and joypad support, fully remappable via a simple config file

Multisystem emulator of Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega System E arcade machine for Linux.

NES Emulator. RockNES version for Linux.

A good NES emulator for Linux and FreeBSD. It is based on Nestra. Supports a large number of mappers and unlike the vast majority of other emulators, is an independent project, not a port from another system. Unfortunately it has not been updated for a long time.

Multisystem emulator for Linux and Windows. Emulates:

• SG-1000
• Famicom / NES
• Mark III / Master System
• PC Engine & PC Engine CD-ROM2 / Turbo Grafx 16 & Turbo Grafx CD
• Mega Drive & Mega CD / Genesis & Sega CD
• Super Famicom / SNES
• Neo Geo
• Neo Geo CD
• Game Boy & Game Boy Color
• Game Gear
• Neo Geo Pocket & Neo Geo Pocket Color
• Wonder Swan & Wonder Swan Color

This archive includes all versions of the emulator, utilities and bios. Left as a museum piece, use on modern systems is not recommended.