NesterDC SE
| NesterDC SE | ||
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| Homepage | Homepage | |
| Latest Version | 7.1 | |
| Downloads | Emulator and CD Builder (CD builder is Windows-only) | |
| Release Date | December 24, 2005 | |
| Author | Scherzo | |
| Based on | Nester | |
| Systems Emulated | Nintendo | |
| Best Available Emulator For this system(s)? |
Yes. | |
| Active | No | |
| Refresh Rate | 50Hz / 60Hz | |
NesterDC SE is an excellent feature-rich version of the NesterDC NES emulator for the Dreamcast. It was created by Scherzo. It is the best NES emulator available for the Dreamcast.
Here are the release notes by Scherzo:
Many questioned me when I decided to work on an emulator, many considered more than adequate. I had two main purposes for the creation of this newest incarnation of NesterDC.
First, improve compatibility and speed. The release of NesterDC 7.1 brought seemingly fullspeed emuation, but somehow compatibility dropped a couple of notches. Many games no longer worked that were fine in version 6.
Second, I wanted to see an emulator that had many useful extras such as screen shots, NSF music, cartridge scans, a favorites list, and more.
In the end, I have accomplished my goals. The result is an emulator that is, at the core, functionally an improvement over its predecessors but has a uniqueness that can easily be appreciated.
Features
- Fullspeed emulation on 99.9% of games
- The most compatible Nester-based emulator on any platform, including PC
- Various game related images by which you can use to browse the ROM libary
- Configurable stereo separation of each NES sound channel
- An NSF player
- Insanely configurable controllers
- Full-screen sretched and pixel-for-pixel video modes
- Built-in Game Genie codes for many games
- Full color instruction manuals for many games
- User definable "favorites" lists
- Zipped ROMs support
- Multiple save state slots (with the first slot being backwards compatible)
- VS games correctly work
- Ability to enter your own personal notes about a game and save these notes on your VMU
Source Code
Source Code - This includes the source for the emulator itself, the Dreamscript JS scripting library, and the CD Builder. The CD Builder requires you to have the WxWidgets cross-platform GUI library. It was also designed using VisualWx as the IDE.
KOS Source Code - I had to make a couple tweaks to KOS here and there throughout development. I will eventually spell out what they are, assuming I can remember them all. Basically, trying to compile NesterDC SE with any other version of KOS other than this one will most likely either produce compile errors or might cause the emulator to crash at certain points.