Qt-based Nintendo Entertainment System emulator and NSF/NSF2/NSFe Music Player

💾 Work in Progress (WIP) Builds

These executables are always updated to the latest commit:

• Linux AppImage : 🔗x86_64
• Windows 32 bit : 🔗OpenGL - 🔗D3D9
• Windows 64 bit : 🔗OpenGL - 🔗D3D9

Notes:

• WARNING save states of version 0.110 or earlier are no longer compatible.
• Due to the many changes I'm making to the core of the emulator, new bugs may have been introduced, if you find that the roms no longer work properly compared to version 0.110, please let me know.
• 32 bit versions are Windows XP compatible.

🍺 Support

If you want buy me a beer :

Multilingual Support

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the translations:

• Arabic
• Chinese
• English
• French
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Turkish

Help with Translations here

📷 Screenshots

⌨️ Configuration

To run in portable mode there is 3 distinct ways:

1. If the executable is in a folder containing the puNES.cfg file.
2. Rename the executable by adding the suffix _p.
   • Examples: punes.exe -> punes_p.exe or punes64.exe -> punes64_p.exe
3. Run the emulator with the "--portable" option.

To see a list of available command-line options, start puNES with the -h argument.

🔌 Supported Mappers

0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
33	34	35	36	37	38		40	41	42	43
44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53
55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64	65
66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76
77	78	79	80	81	82	83		85	86	87
88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97
99	100	101		103	104	105	106	107	108
	111	112	113	114	115	116	117	118	119	120
121	122	123		125	126
132	133	134		136	137	138	139	140	141	142
143	144	145	146	147	148	149	150	151	152	153
154	155	156	157	158	159			162	163	164
165	166	167	168		170	171	172	173		175
176	177	178	179	180		182	183	184	185	186
187	188	189	190	191	192	193	194	195	196	197
198	199	200	201	202	203	204	205	206	207	208
209	210	211	212	213	214	215	216	217	218	219
	221	222		224	225	226	227	228	229	230
231	232	233	234	235	236	237	238		240	241
242	243	244	245	246		248	249	250		252
253	254	255	256		258	259	260	261	262	263
264	265	266	267	268	269		271	272		274
						281	282	283	284	285
286	287	288	289	290	291	292			295
297	298	299	300	301	302	303	304	305	306	307
308	309		311	312	313	314	315
319	320		322	323	324	325		327	328	329
	331	332	333	334	335	336	337	338	339	340
341	342	343	344	345	346	347	348	349	350	351
352	353	354	355	356	357	358	359	360	361	362
			366		368	369	370		372
374	375		377			380	381	382		384
	386	387	388	389	390			393	394	395
396	397	398	399	400	401		403	404		406
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429		431	432	433	434		436	437	438
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528	529	530		532		534		536	537	538
539	540	541		543				547
550	551	552		554	555	556	557	558	559	560
561	562

🔌 UNIF boards

1. 3D-BLOCK
2. 8-IN-1
3. 10-24-C-A1
4. 12-IN-1
5. 13in1JY110
6. 42in1ResetSwitch
7. 64in1NoRepeat
8. 70in1
9. 70in1B
10. 150in1A
11. 158B
12. 190in1
13. 212-HONG-KONG
14. 603-5052
15. 8157
16. 8237
17. 8237A
18. 11160
19. 22026
20. 22211
21. 43272
22. 60311C
23. 80013-B
24. 82112C
25. 411120-C
26. 810544-C-A1
27. 820561C
28. 830118C
29. 830134C
30. 830425C-4391T
31. 830752C
32. 831128C
33. 891227
34. 900218
35. A60AS
36. A65AS
37. AC08
38. AMROM
39. ANROM
40. AOROM
41. AX5705
42. AX-40G
43. BB
44. BJ-56
45. BOY
46. BS-5
47. BS-400R
48. BS-4040R
49. CC-21
50. CHINA_ER_SAN2
51. CITYFIGHT
52. CNROM
53. COOLBOY
54. COOLGIRL
55. CTC-09
56. CTC-12IN1
57. D1038
58. DANCE
59. DANCE2000
60. DRAGONFIGHTER
61. DREAMTECH01
62. DRIPGAME
63. EDU2000
64. EH8813A
65. F-15
66. FARID_SLROM_8-IN-1
67. FARID_UNROM_8-IN-1
68. FC-28-5027
69. FK23C
70. FK23CA
71. FS304
72. G-146
73. Ghostbusters63in1
74. GKCXIN1
75. GN-26
76. GS-2004
77. GS-2013
78. H2288
79. HP898F
80. HP2018-A
81. HPXX
82. JC-016-2
83. K-3006
84. K-3010
85. K-3033
86. K-3036
87. K-3046
88. K-3071
89. K-3088
90. KOF97
91. KONAMI-QTAI
92. KS106C
93. KS7012
94. KS7013B
95. KS7016
96. KS7017
97. KS7021A
98. KS7030
99. KS7031
100. KS7032
101. KS7037
102. KS7057
103. L6IN1
104. LH09
105. LH10
106. LH32
107. LH51
108. M2C52A
109. MALISB
110. MARIO1-MALEE2
111. MINDKIDS
112. N49C-300
113. N625092
114. NEWSTAR-GRM070-8IN1
115. NovelDiamond9999999in1
116. NROM
117. NROM-128
118. NROM-256
119. NTBROM
120. NTD-03
121. OneBus
122. RESET-TXROM
123. RESETNROM-XIN1
124. RT-01
125. S-2009
126. SA005-A
127. SA-0036
128. SA-0037
129. SA-016-1M
130. SA-9602B
131. SA-72007
132. SA-72008
133. SA-NROM
134. Sachen-74LS374N
135. Sachen-8259A
136. Sachen-8259B
137. Sachen-8259C
138. Sachen-8259D
139. SB-5013
140. SC-127
141. SHERO
142. SL1632
143. SLROM
144. SMB2J
145. STREETFIGTER-GAME4IN1
146. Super24in1SC03
147. SuperHIK8in1
148. Supervision16in1
149. T3H53
150. T4A54A
151. T-230
152. T-262
153. TBROM
154. TC-U01-1.5M
155. TEK90
156. TF1201
157. TFROM
158. TH2131-1
159. TJ-03
160. TKROM
161. TLROM
162. Transformer
163. UNROM
164. UOROM
165. VRC7
166. WAIXING-FS005
167. WAIXING-FW01
168. WS
169. YOKO

ℹ️ How to Compile

• 🐧 Linux
• 😈 FreeBSD
• 🐡 OpenBSD
• 💻 Windows

CMake Options

CMake Option	Description	Default
ENABLE_RELEASE	Build release version	ON
ENABLE_FFMPEG	Enable FFMPEG support	ON
ENABLE_OPENGL	Use OpenGL support instead of Direct3D 9 (only for Windows)	ON
ENABLE_OPENGL_CG	Enable OpenGL nVidia Cg Toolkit support	OFF
ENABLE_FULLSCREEN_RESFREQ	Enable Fullscreen resolution and auto frequency	ON
ENABLE_QT6_LIBS	Enable support for QT6 libraries	OFF
DISABLE_PORTABLE_MODE	Disable portable mode handling (useful with sandbox environments like Flatpak)	OFF

🐧 Linux

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Dependencies

• CMake >= 3.14 (Ninja build system is optional)
• Qt5 or Qt6 with OpenGL support (qtcore, qtgui, qtwidgets, qtnetwork, qtsvg and qttools)
• nvidia-cg
• alsa
• libudev
• libX11 and libXrandr
• p7zip for compressed file support (lib7zip uses the 7z.so library on unix-like systems)
• (optional) ffmpeg libraries >= 4.0 if you want video and audio recording support (libavcodec, libavformat, libavutil, libswresample and libswscale). See notes.

Compilation of puNES

git clone https://github.com/punesemu/puNES
cd puNES
cmake -B build -G Ninja -DENABLE_FFMPEG:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_OPENGL_CG:BOOL=ON
cmake --build build -j2

if you don't want to use the Ninja build system and prefer the classic Makefile:

cmake -B build -DENABLE_FFMPEG:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_OPENGL_CG:BOOL=ON
make -j2

the executable punes is in the build/src directory.

Linux Debug version

If you need the debug version then you need to replace the cmake -B build -G Ninja command of the previous examples with the following:

cmake -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -DENABLE_RELEASE:BOL=OFF [...]
cmake --build build -j2

or if you prefer the classic Makefile:

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -DENABLE_RELEASE:BOL=OFF [...]
make -j2

where [...] are the other necessary options.

Example on how to compile on Ubuntu 22.04

sudo apt-get install git cmake ninja-build libtool build-essential pkg-config libudev-dev libasound2-dev
sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqt5svg5-dev nvidia-cg-toolkit libx11-dev libxrandr-dev
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswresample-dev libswscale-dev p7zip-full
git clone https://github.com/punesemu/puNES
cd puNES
cmake -B build -G Ninja
cmake --build build -j2

to start the emulator

./build/src/punes

😈 FreeBSD

Expand

Dependencies

• CMake >= 3.14 (Ninja build system is optional)
• Qt5 or Qt6 with OpenGL support (qtcore, qtgui, qtwidgets, qtnetwork, qtsvg and qttools)
• sndio
• libX11 and libXrandr
• p7zip for compressed file support (lib7zip uses the 7z.so library on unix-like systems)
• (optional) ffmpeg libraries >= 4.0 if you want video and audio recording support (libavcodec, libavformat, libavutil, libswresample and libswscale). See notes.

Compilation of puNES

sudo pkg install -y devel/cmake devel/ninja devel/pkgconf devel/git multimedia/ffmpeg audio/sndio devel/qt5-qmake
sudo pkg install -y devel/qt5-buildtools devel/qt5-core x11-toolkits/qt5-gui x11-toolkits/qt5-widgets graphics/qt5-svg
sudo pkg install -y devel/qt5-linguisttools
git clone https://github.com/punesemu/puNES
cd puNES
cmake -B build -G Ninja -DQt5_DIR=/usr/local/lib/qt5/cmake/Qt5 -DENABLE_FFMPEG:BOOL=ON
cmake --build build -j2

if you don't want to use the Ninja build system and prefer the classic Makefile:

cmake -B build -DQt5_DIR=/usr/local/lib/qt5/cmake/Qt5 -DENABLE_FFMPEG:BOOL=ON
make -j2

the executable punes is in the build/src directory.

FreeBSD Debug version

If you need the debug version then you need to replace the cmake -B Build -G Ninja command of the previous examples with the following:

cmake -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -DENABLE_RELEASE:BOOL=OFF [...]
cmake --build build -j2

or if you prefer the classic Makefile:

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -DENABLE_RELEASE:BOOL=OFF [...]
make -j2

where [...] are the other necessary options.

🐡 OpenBSD

Expand

Dependencies

• CMake >= 3.14 (Ninja build system is optional)
• Qt5 or Qt6 with OpenGL support (qtcore, qtgui, qtwidgets, qtnetwork, qtsvg and qttools)
• sndio
• libX11 and libXrandr
• p7zip for compressed file support (lib7zip uses the 7z.so library on unix-like systems)
• (optional) ffmpeg libraries >= 4.0 if you want video and audio recording support (libavcodec, libavformat, libavutil, libswresample and libswscale). See notes

Compilation of puNES

git clone https://github.com/punesemu/puNES
cd puNES
cmake -B build -G Ninja -DQt5_DIR=/usr/local/lib/qt5/cmake/Qt5 -DENABLE_FFMPEG:BOOL=ON
cmake --build build -j2

if you don't want to use the Ninja build system and prefer the classic Makefile:

cmake -B build -DQt5_DIR=/usr/local/lib/qt5/cmake/Qt5 -DENABLE_FFMPEG:BOOL=ON
make -j2

the executable punes is in the buid/src directory.

OpenBSD Debug version

If you need the debug version then you need to replace the cmake -B Build -G Ninja command of the previous examples with the following:

cmake -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -DENABLE_RELEASE:BOOL=OFF [...]
cmake --build build -j2

or if you prefer the classic Makefile:

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -DENABLE_RELEASE:BOOL=OFF [...]
make -j2

where [...] are the other necessary options.

💻 Windows

Expand

Dependencies

• Qt5 with OpenGL support (5.6.3 is the last if you want the support for Windows XP)

Development Environment installation

1. install MSYS2
2. open "MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit" shell (or 32 bit if you want compile the 32 bit version of puNES)

pacman -Syu

3. close the MSYS2 window and run it again from Start menu

pacman -Su
pacman -S base-devel git wget p7zip unzip mingw-w64-i686-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
pacman -S perl ruby python2 mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-ffmpeg mingw-w64-x86_64-ffmpeg
exit

4. open a new MSYS2 shell and build the necessary libraries

Compilation of the Qt5 libraries

5. download and unzip the sources

wget http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.15/5.15.8/submodules/qtbase-everywhere-opensource-src-5.15.8.zip
unzip qtbase-everywhere-opensource-src-5.15.8.zip
mv qtbase-everywhere-src-5.15.8 qt5

the renaming of the directory is necessary to not generate a compile-time error caused by the 255 characters maximum path length limitation on Windows, This is the typical error message you might encounter:

"../../../../include/QtEventDispatcherSupport/5.15.8/QtEventDispatcherSupport/private/qwindowsguieventdispatcher_p.h:1:10: fatal error: ../../../../../src/platformsupport/eventdispatchers/qwindowsguieventdispatcher_p.h: No such file or directory"

6. compile the libraries

cd qt5
echo -e "QMAKE_LFLAGS += -static -static-libgcc\nDEFINES += QT_STATIC_BUILD\n" >> mkspecs/win32-g++/qmake.conf
./configure.bat -prefix $MINGW_PREFIX -extprefix $MINGW_PREFIX -bindir $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/bin -headerdir $MINGW_PREFIX/include/qt5 -libdir $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5 -archdatadir $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5 -plugindir $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/plugins -libexecdir $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/bin -datadir $MINGW_PREFIX/share/qt5 -docdir $MINGW_PREFIX/share/doc/qt5 -translationdir $MINGW_PREFIX/share/qt5/translations -sysconfdir $MINGW_PREFIX/etc/xdg -examplesdir $MINGW_PREFIX/share/qt5/examples -testsdir $MINGW_PREFIX/share/qt5/tests -platform win32-g++ -nomake examples -nomake tests -nomake tools -no-compile-examples -release -opensource -confirm-license -static -c++std c++17 -sse2 -static-runtime -make libs -no-ltcg -no-dbus -no-accessibility -no-inotify -no-iconv -no-icu -no-openssl -no-system-proxies -no-cups -no-fontconfig -no-zstd -opengl desktop -no-angle -gif -ico -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -qt-pcre -qt-zlib -qt-freetype
make

7. and finally install them

make install
cp -v $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/pkgconfig/* $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/.
cd ..

8. now it's time for the SVG module...

wget http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.15/5.15.8/submodules/qtsvg-everywhere-opensource-src-5.15.8.zip
unzip qtsvg-everywhere-opensource-src-5.15.8.zip
mv qtsvg-everywhere-src-5.15.8 qt5svg
cd qt5svg
$MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/bin/qmake
make
make install
cp -v $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/pkgconfig/* $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/.
cd ..

9. ...and for the tools

wget http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.15/5.15.8/submodules/qttools-everywhere-opensource-src-5.15.8.zip
unzip qttools-everywhere-opensource-src-5.15.8.zip
mv qttools-everywhere-src-5.15.8 qt5tools
cd qt5tools
$MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/bin/qmake
make
make install
cd ..

Compilation of puNES

10. Now you have everything you need to compile correctly puNES

git clone https://github.com/punesemu/puNES
cd puNES

if you want D3D9 version :

cmake -B build -G Ninja -DENABLE_FFMPEG:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_OPENGL:BOOL=OFF
cmake --build build -j2

otherwise :

cmake -B build -G Ninja -DENABLE_FFMPEG:BOOL=ON
cmake --build build -j2

The executable punes.exe is in the build/src directory but in order to run it you need the following dlls:

• 7z.dl
• avcodec-58.dll
• avformat-58.dll
• avutil-56.dll
• cg.dll
• cgD3D9.dll (only for D3D9 version)
• cgGL.dll (only for OpenGL version)
• libwinpthread-1.dll
• swresample-3.dll
• swscale-5.dll

that you can download here : 🔗64bit version or 🔗32bit version.

Windows Debug version

If you need the debug version then you need to replace the cmake -B build -G Ninja command of the previous examples with the following:

cmake -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING='-O0 -g -DDEBUG' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -DENABLE_RELEASE:BOOL=OFF [...]

where [...] are the other necessary options.

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🎥 FFmpeg

It is always possible to disable audio/video recording support by specifying the configure parameter --without-ffmpeg. If the installed version is lower than 4.0 the support will be disabled automatically.

Supported audio recording formats:

• WAV Audio
• MP3 Audio (lame) (*)
• AAC Audio
• Flac Audio
• Ogg Audio (vorbis) (*)
• Opus Audio (libopus) (*)

Supported video recording formats:

• MPEG 1 Video
• MPEG 2 Video
• MPEG 4 Video
• MPEG H264 Video (libx264) (*)
• High Efficiency Video Codec (libx265) (*)
• WebM Video (libvpx) (*)
• Windows Media Video
• AVI FF Video
• AVI Video

(*) if compiled in FFmpeg.