Mesen
Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C# (by mkwong98)
dolphin
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements. (by dolphin-emu)
| Mesen | dolphin | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 386 | |
| 103 | 12,239 | |
| - | 1.7% | |
| 0.0 | 9.9 | |
| over 1 year ago | 2 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Mesen
Posts with mentions or reviews of Mesen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-03.
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Replay old video games
NES: Mesen is the best NES emulator in my opinion: Download Mesen
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Tried an NES Emulator on this 13" Sharp CRT TV from 1997
TV is directly hooked to my PC as a second monitor via an active VGA to SCART adapter. Picture and audio works flawlessly. For the NES Emulator I use Mesen and as a controller just a wireless Xbox controller.
- Sound problems with NES emulators
- Gaming forslag?
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Donkey Kong Country 3 Remove 103% final cutscene
Unfortunately, you may have to go through the process of documenting the game's hexadecimal code yourself. You can do this by finding an emulator that can trace changes in a Super Nintendo game's code (I recommend Mesen-S). Link to the site
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I want to play tetris.
Tetris version played on championships is NES/Famicom Tetris, the best option is to download an emulator, im using Mesen (https://www.mesen.ca/) and it works very well, you will need also a .nes game file (https://www.emulatorgames.net/roms/nintendo/tetris/ for example)
- Mesen revival (attempt)
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Megaman: Super V 2.0 Released (Mesen "HD" Pack Rewritten from the Ground Up)
Glad you were able to get it working. For your awareness, mkwong98 is the best go to person for the latest builds at the moment (https://github.com/mkwong98/Mesen/releases).
- Sprite Flicker - Accuracy / Authenticity vs Aesthetics
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Will someone continue to work of Mesen-S?
For a relatively recent compiled build of Mesen (the AppVeyor link still points to Sour's account), see mkwong98's github: https://github.com/mkwong98/Mesen/releases/tag/0.9.9-210220
dolphin
Posts with mentions or reviews of dolphin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-07.
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Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store
Dolphin ships with a bunch of keys in the source code[0]. So do almost every other emulators for any console from 6/7th gen consoles (ps3, xbox360, gamecube), see delroth's post on the matter here[1]. It's really not that simple - jurisdiction matters a lot, and also Nintendo's own priorities.
[0]: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/34527cadcce49a9a...
[1]: https://delroth.net/posts/emulation-crypto-keys-copyright-dm...
- Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023
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Replay old video games
GameCube/Wii: Dolphin is the best GameCube/Wii emulator in my opinion: Download Dolphin
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How to create a Qt 5 ARM/Intel universal binary for Mac
Dolphin has actually had this for their macOS builds for over a year now.
https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
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Welcome to r/OnlinePreservation!
Dolphin (GameCube/Wii) Emulator: https://dolphin-emu.org/
- Dolphin: Emulator for two Nintendo video game consoles – GameCube and Wii
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Rokid Max Review and Many Tips
Though these consoles did not support stereoscopy originally, the Dolphin emulator can add it and output SBS. My experience was a bit mixed. Your mileage may vary.
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Am I the only one tired of the remakes?
You install Dolphin emulator, go into settings and make a folder for your games where it says "directory", and then you just stick your game in the folder. That's pretty much all there is to it, that's why I think Dolphin is the best emulator.
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[TP] Can you give me reasons to buy twilight princess?
Dolphin
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Local Co-op Action RPGs on PC
Platform: Gamecube. The remaster scrapped the local co-op entirely (booo). This one is a bit tricky but works perfectly once setup properly in Dolphin.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Mesen and dolphin you can also consider the following projects:
Mesen-X - Mesen X is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#. This fork is meant to gather development efforts from different forks. Deprecated; see https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2/
yuzu - Nintendo Switch emulator
nestopia - Cross-platform Nestopia emulator core with a GUI
Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
puNES - Qt-based Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSF2/NSFe Music Player (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows)
Ishiiruka
Mesen - Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#
OpenEmu - 🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
Mesen - Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++
citra - A Nintendo 3DS Emulator
Mesen - Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#
Vita3K - Experimental PlayStation Vita emulator