NESSuper NintendoGame BoyGame Boy AdvancePC EngineMaster SystemGame GearWonderSwan
Mesen
A highly accurate NES and SNES emulator that grew into a multi-system one, with the best debugging tools in the scene.
- Source
- SourMesen/Mesen2
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Stars
- 2.4k
About
Mesen started as one of the most accurate NES emulators available and now covers the Super Nintendo, Game Boy line, PC Engine, Master System, Game Gear and WonderSwan. Its debugger, memory tools and event viewer are why ROM hackers and homebrew developers reach for it.
No games are included. You load ROM dumps of cartridges you own.
- Cycle-accurate NES and SNES emulation
- Eight systems in one application
- Debugger, memory viewer, event viewer and trace logger
- HD texture packs, rewind, run-ahead and netplay
What you need
The emulator contains none of this. It comes from hardware you own and stays on your machine.
ROM dumps of your own cartridges
Dumped from cartridges you own.
Setup
- 1
Extract the archive and open Mesen.
- 2
Choose File, then Open, and pick a dump of a cartridge you own.
- 3
Configure controllers under Options, Input.