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DESCRIPTION
Nestopia is a Nintendo NES emulator for Mac OS X. Nestopia is by far the most compatible of any NES emulator for Mac OS X. Using cycle-exact emulation, it is able to run titles that rely on precise timing, and which therefore break under other emulators. It supports five extra sound chips and an astonishing 143 mappers. This accurate emulation comes at a cost; Nestopia requires an 800MHz machine for full speed; but if you have one, this the best available NES emulation for Mac.

Nestopia was initially developed for Windows by Martin Freij. The original sources may be downloaded from the Nestopia home page. The toolkit used to develop the Macintosh port, including the bridge code to link it to Nestopia, will be available in the longer term from my developer pages. Certain portions are available now, and more will be added in the future. Further information is also available from the enclosed Read Me file.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.4.1: Updated to shell version 2.3. See "About the Shell" for changes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


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Developer:Richard Bannister
Downloads:27,196
  - Version d/l:776
Games:Gaming Tools & Utilities
License:Free
Date:27 Sep 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
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    Nestopia User Reviews (7 posts)Write A Review
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    Mar 14 2006
    *****

    EM ADESPOTON  The current version of Nestopia features

    * Completely free to use.

    * Efficient CPU usage, for improved battery life on PowerBooks.

    * Flexible video display sizes with numerous Blitter effects.

    * Sound recording functionality.

    * Transparent decompression of GZIP-compressed game files.

    * Support for 174 different mappers.

    * Support for five additional sound chips.

    It is THE BEST cycle-exact emulator for NES on OS X.

    The previous reviewer who said Nestopia can't run full screen stated falsely. The free version of Nestopia cannot run full-screen; with the purchase of Emulator Enhancer (which works with ALL of Bannister's 28 current emulators).

    From his web site:

    Additional Features

    This feature set above can be expanded using Emulator Enhancer, a shareware module which adds the following additional options:

    * Full screen mode.

    * Network play (some emulators).

    * Real time video and sound filtering.

    * Support for USB game pads and joysticks.

    EE is currently available for . If anyone wants to rate EE (based on the customer having to pay for it), this belongs in a review of that software, not Nestopia.

    Nestopia even has its own support forum now; use it if you need help with the program: http://www.bannister.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=forum;f=36

    I rated the Features as low, as Nestopia is missing a few features in the free version -- also, it is currently missing support for zip and 7-zip archives, as well as for Quartz effects and OpenGL overlays.

    Everything else, I rated as 5, as there are no other NES emulators that perform as well (on ANY platform) as long as you have a fast enough CPU to run it at full speed.  
    (Version 1.2.4)

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    Mar 14 2006
    *****

    EMULAUNCH  The best Nes emulator available for the Mac. You need emulator enhancer to make the best of all of Richard's emulators but its a small price to pay for all the hard that one person has done porting so many emulators to the mac.   
    (Version 1.2.4)

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    Jan 29 2006
    *....

    GRAKNOR  This emulator cannot even play in fullscreen mode, pathetic.  
    (Version 1.2.3)

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    Oct 3 2008

    ZEPHYRSTARFIELDS  The emulator gains support from the developers "Emulator Enhancer" product. This adds full-screen support and gamepad support. Emulator Enhancer is shareware, but is fully-featured without registration (there is a nag screen at startup).  
    (Version 1.4.1)

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    Oct 16 2005

    ANONYMOUS  The best NES mac emulator. SO the best. I don't like NES much but I play it now just because this emulator is better than my N64 one!!!!

    Get this emulator, and get commercial ROMs for it with Limewire a free program that lets you download files  
    (Version 1.2)

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    Oct 12 2005

    IAN LUECK  Nestopia 1.2 is FAR faster than previous versions (up to 50% faster, in fact). Anyone who was severely disappointed with Nestopia's former performance (or irritated with how slow RockNES has become) should definitely give the new Nestopia a try.  
    (Version 1.2)

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    Jul 17 2005
    ****.

    ANONYMOUS  Works great....except has no USBcontroller option, the supplied emulator enhancer DOES NOT WORK, all other NES emulators work with USB controllers  
    (Version 1.1.2)

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    Sep 11 2004
    *****

    RENTED MULE  Best NES emulator on the Mac, period. Sure it's a little slow on older G4s but that's only because the emulator is cycle-accurate and not taking shortcuts like most NES emulators do. Small price to pay for near-perfect emulation, IMO.  
    (Version 1.1.2)

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