NES NES / Famicon SpecificationsProcessor: Ricoh 2A03Picture Processing Unit: RP2C02Picture Processing Unit Speed: 1.79 MHzRAM: 16Kbit (2 Kib)Video RAM: 16 Kbit (2 KiB)Colors Available: 54Max Colors on Screen: 25Max Sprites: 64Max Sprites per Scan Line: 8Sprite Size: 8 x 8 or 8 x 16 pixels The Nintendo Entertainment System (often abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit video game console that was designed, developed and manufactured by Japanese company, Nintendo. The NES is strongly associated with the revitalization of the US video game industry after the crash of the industry in 1983. Nintendo used the NES to bring to life some of what are they most popular game series to date, these being Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda and Metroid. It also so the birth of Capcom’s Mega Man franchise, Konami’s Castlevania franchise, Square’s(Now Square Enix) Final Fantasy franchise and Enix’s(Now Square Enix) Dragon Quest franchise. All of these franchises are still highly popular and still exist today. While Nintendo’s NES brought to life some of the greatest game franchises it also gave console manufactures a new outlook in their relationship with third-party software developers by restricting developers from publishing software without licensed approval from the manufacturer. This led to the consoles having much more high quality software titles, and in turn better public outlook on the console. While the console is no longer being manufactured, the console has been emulated to the point where almost all hardware functionality has been replicated on the computer, with some emulators such as Nestopia providing cycle accurate emulation of the original hardware, meaning what is shown on screen should be exactly what the original console would of produced. Advertisement NES / Famicon Emulators higan is one of the best NES emulators around . With a focus on accuracy, higan offers some of the most accurate emulation available for the NES. Nestopia is a highly optemized, cycle accurate emulator for the NES. Thanks to Nestopia’s cycle based emulation it offers near 100% compatiblity with every NES game. Jnes is a Windows and Android NES emulator developed by Jabo, one of the developers of Project 64. Nemulator is regarded as one of the best NES emulators around. Nemulator offers support for almost all of the NES’s features including undocumented and unofficial features. FCEUX aims to be a bit of a jack of all trades. Offering accurate emulation alongside a set of useful debugging, rom-hacking tools and more . Nintendulator aims to be a hardware accurate NES emulator. Nintendulator manages to even emulate odd quirks of the NES hardware that others often neglect to handle properly. If you like this, you may also like… N64 Texture PacksDjipi’s 2016 Celda Majoras Mask Texture PackGameCube EmulatorsDolwinAtari 5200 EmulatorsAltirraGBC RomsAlien PlanetPS2 EmulatorsNeutrinoSX2Xbox 360 EmulatorsXenia