Nes Emulator For Mac

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Super Nintendo [SNES] or Super Famicom is one of the most famous 16-bit home gaming consoles, and the game titles such as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda gave a tough fight to even the Sega 32-bit consoles. You can now enjoy your favorite SNES games on your Mac OS X device [MacBook Air , iMac] by using the SNES emulators . So here we list the Best SNES Emulator for Mac .

Top 3 Free SNES Emulators for Mac OS X –

SNES Emulator # 1 -BSNES

BSNES comes from Bannister which makes a lot of retro console emulators.

BSNES is very light-weight and runs even on newer Mac OS X systems such as El Capitan, Sierra, Yosemite too.

It runs SNES games with color output and audio emulation too

BSNES can even run SNES games with Joystick or gamepad controller support by using Emulator Enhancer plugin.

Click here to Download BSNES Emulator for Mac OS X

Click here to Download BSNES Emulator enhancer plugin for Mac [Joystick / Gamepad Support]

SNES Emulator # 2 – Open Emu

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Open Emu is an all in one retro console gaming emulator which has emulation support for all retro game consoles i.e NES, GBA, SNES .

Open Emu can emulate all major Nintendo and SEGA Gaming consoles , in addition to unique features such as –

• Open GL Video Support
• External Gamepad or Joystick Support.
• Video filtering for Anti-distortion and scaled output.

SNES Emulator # 3 – Snes9X

Snes 9X is the original SNES Emulation repository for Mac OS X, even Open Emu uses the core developed by Snes 9x for emulating Super Nintendo console.

Despite this we kept Snes 9x at the third position due to the fact because it failed to emulate the Video screen of Zelda on our El Capitan, however the older versions of Snes have Power PC support which makes them usable even on Older versions of Mac OS x.

So, these are the Best SNES Emulators for Mac OS X which will let you play your favorite SNES games on Mac OS X, Please note that these emulators do not come with any game ROMs which need to be downloaded from separate sites such as Romhustler.net, to play the SNES games on your Mac OS X Device

Nintendo - NES Emulators

Name	Description
FakeNES	This is the Mac OS X port of FakeNES, an open source NES emulator written mostly in C and with the Allegro library.
FCE Ultra	This is a port of FCE Ultra, one of the better NES emulators for Windows and other platforms.
GrayBox Classic	One of the newer NES emulators for Mac, with adequate mapper support (0,1,2,3,4,7,11), sound, two player, and save state support. Very fast, and worth a download. This is the final version of GrayBox Classic; the developer is currently rewriting the code.
iNES	iNES used to be the big cheese of all Mac NES emulators.. but RockNES has far surpassed it in quality. iNES is still shareware. Version 1.0 has DiskSystem support, Vs. Unisystem Support, and improved compatibility over previous versions. Using a PowerPC assembly core, iNES runs at full or nearly full speed on any PowerPC-based Mac.
MacFCEU	A Mac port of FCEU, it's goal is to be the best FCEU it can be, but in Mac form.
Macifom	Macifom is a highly-accurate NES emulator and debugger written in Objective-C that leverages the latest Mac OS X APIs to provide excellent performance and usability. The purpose of this project to facilitate new NES development on the Mac OS X platform while leveraging OS X technologies such as AppKit, OpenCL, CoreAudio, OpenGL and more! Currently, Macifom has the following features: - Cycle-exact CPU (6502) emulation for valid opcodes - Scanline-accurate rendering by the PPU - Excellent sound reproduction care of Blargg's Nes_snd_emu library - Windowed and full-screen display modes. - Controller input via keyboard. - Support for NROM, UNROM, CNROM, AxROM and MMC1 mappers. - A debugger featuring live disassembly of program code, reading and writing of memory values, display of CPU registers and step-through of opcodes. Last update: 2010-07-19
NesMAC	NesMAC runs only mapper 0 games, but it runs them quite well if there's no scrolling. Also, it only accepts small (16k/32k) ROM images. This is an early release, but it has sound.
Nestopia	Nestopia is an emulator that uses cycle-exact emulation to give amazing compatibility. This is a port by Richard Bannister, and requires a Quartz Extreme compatible AGP video card for best performance.
RockNES	RockNES is one of the better NES emulators currently available for the Macintosh, given that it supports full PPU emulation, full sound emulation (including VRCVI sound, used by some Japanese games), battery backed RAM, Famicom DiskSystem, VS Unisystem, and some 83 different mappers.
xNES	xNES was in it's early stages when the authors quit due to differences within the team. It has no sound support and runs very few games. Not worth a download.

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