Nes Nestopia Emulator

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The NES was a great 8 bit video game console in the early 1980s, and many great games were made for it. The Nintendo Entertainment System is what made Nintendo a very renown company in the video game world. Some of the games released in the 1980s, like Super Mario, Castlevania, Zelda, and Metal Gear are franchises that exist to this day. The NES was well known for kick starting the video game industry after the Video Game Crash of 1983. If you are a Generation Xer or a older Millennial you would know the significance of this video game console. Nintendo had a very strict licensing policy which limited the number of games a game developer can make in a year, so this was the reason the quality of each game was exceptional. If you compared the Nintendo Entertainment System to a Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Colecovision, other video game consoles, and computer that preceded it you can see the difference in quality. The quality of the NES far exceeded the quality of those systems which came before it.

In North America, the NES was released as the Nintendo Entertainment System in October 18th 1985, but in Japan it was known as the Famicom which was released 2 years earlier. The Famicom and the NES are basically the same video game console, but on the outside they look very different. The Famicom had a more traditional game console appearance of having cartridges going in vertically in the middle of the console. On the other hand, the NES resembled a VHS player, and the cartridges went in very much the same way. The NES had a zero insertion force (ZIF) connector, so it would be impossible to apply too much force when loading a cartridge vertically which could wear out the connectors. The ZIF had its fair share of problems, because it was very difficult to clean the grit that connected on the connectors. As a result, sometimes games would not load, so it was a common occurrence to blow on the cartridge to get it to work!

The Nintendo or Famicom had a remarkably long service life from 1983 to 2003, or 20 years! The NES was technically obsolete by 1989 with the release of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, and Turbografx-16/PCE which were superior to the NES in every way. A year later, the Super Nintendo was released which allowed Nintendo to enter the 16 bit video game console arena. 1990 was the year that spelled the end of the 8 bit gaming era, and the beginning of the 16 bit gaming era. Back in the day, Nintendo games were very expensive, most games in 1985 cost about $50, and that was a lot of money back then. In inflation adjusted dollars that would be almost $182, so it was very common for people to trade games with each other. I did a lot of that when I was going to elementary school and junior high school. This allowed us kids to play more games without actually having to shell out $50 to buy a new game. The NES had a very large library of games, and about 679 games were released for it across the world. It was released in almost every part of the globe, and about 61 million NES consoles were sold. As a result, Nintendo became one of the most successful companies in history.

It is still possible to play some of these classic 8 bit video games on emulators without owning the console system. It can be done in a number of ways, the first is getting a emulator, and the 2nd way is by getting hardware emulator. The software emulator allows you to run NES roms, and the hardware emulator allows you to run the actual NES games. I made a number of tutorials on how to run the NES emulator, and you can many videos on how to do this below.

1. How to Use Cheats on Nestopia NES Emulator

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3. Nestopia NES Emulator Tutorial

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5. Nestopia Game Genie Cheat for Multiple Codes

6. Nestopia Gameplay Recorder Feature

7. Nestopia how to record and save states

You can download the emulator from the official Nestopia website

http://nestopia.sourceforge.net/

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