Nintendo Entertainment System - Family Computer

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Game Console - Lifespan: 1983 - 2003

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Information

Emulators	libretro: fceumm libretro: nestopia libretro: mesen mednafen mesen ares bizhawk: NesHawk bizhawk: QuickNes jgenesis
Games Location	📁 roms \ 📂 nes
File extensions	.fds .nes .wad .zip .7z

Features

Retroachievements	Netplay	Controller autoconfig
lr-fceumm: YES lr-nestopia: YES lr-mesen: YES Mednafen: NO Mesen: NO Ares: NO BizHawk: YES Jgenesis: NO	lr-fceumm: YES lr-nestopia: YES lr-mesen: YES Mednafen: NO Mesen: NO Ares: NO BizHawk: NO Jgenesis: NO	lr-fceumm: YES lr-nestopia: YES lr-mesen: YES Mednafen: YES Mesen: YES Ares: YES BizHawk: YES Jgenesis: YES

BIOS

There is no BIOS files needed to run games.

Controls

Some emulators allow to rotate face buttons and/or to enable the turbo function:

Available control layouts:

Option / emulator	Control layout
Défaut (tous les émulateurs)
TURBO - libretro (retroarch) - mesen - mednafen
ROTATION (tous les émulateurs)
ROTATION et TURBO - libretro (retroarch) - mesen - mednafen

Specific System Information

Custom textures

The libretro:mesen core allows to load custom texture packs.

To do so you need to place the custom texture pack in the \bios\HdPacks folder in a dedicated directory that has the same name than the game file, for example if your game name is Mega Man (USA).nes, the texture pack folder must be named Mega Man (USA)

It is very important that the sha1 hash of your game file matches the sha1 located in the "hires.txt" file from the texture pack folder:

Then, select the Libretro: mesen emulator for the game or the system:

Next you need to enable the Custom Textures options in the Advanced Settings > Visual Rendering section of the Game Options or Advanced Systems Options: