About This File
Nintendulator started out as NinthStar NES, written by David "Akilla"
De Regt. Written in C++, it was a reasonably accurate (and slow) NES
emulator which used NESten 0.61's mapper DLLs. Numerous other systems
were planned to be emulated within NinthStar (as well as complex
debuggers for each of them), but somewhere along the line, the project
was abandoned.
At that point, I took the existing NES sources and started improving
them. First, the PPU was rewritten to be much more accurate than
before, running cycle-by-cycle according to documentation that had been
released at the time. After that, the CPU was rewritten to execute
instructions more accurately. Then the APU was mostly completed, giving
the emulator proper sound. Somewhere along the line, it was determined
that the C++ usage in the code was very poorly done and was slowing the
program down, so I converted it to plain C and named the program
"Nintendulator".
The eventual goal of Nintendulator is to be *the* most accurate NES
emulator, right down to the hardware quirks. In the meanwhile, it can
certainly be used to test NES code with confidence that if it works
properly in Nintendulator, it will probably work properly on the real
hardware as well.
What's New in Version 0.975_10.13.2014 See changelog
Released
- Most recent development snapshot