puNES VS Mesen

Compare puNES vs Mesen and see what are their differences.

puNES

Qt-based Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSF2/NSFe Music Player (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows) (by punesemu)

Mesen

Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C# (by mkwong98)
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puNES Mesen
4 12
563 103
- -
9.4 0.0
17 days ago over 1 year ago
C C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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puNES

Posts with mentions or reviews of puNES. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-16.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing puNES and Mesen you can also consider the following projects:

Mesen - Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#

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/

Nes_Snd_Emu - NES / Famicom sound library, descended from blargg's Nes_Snd_Emu

nestopia - Cross-platform Nestopia emulator core with a GUI

Gearsystem - Sega Master System / Game Gear / SG-1000 emulator for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch.

Mesen - Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#

dwrandomizer - A randomizer for Dragon Warrior 1 for NES. Compatible with Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

Mesen - Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++

Mesen - Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#

duckstation - Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64

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