Jul 24, 2017 - Here's how to download and install Nestopia IPA of NES emulator on your iOS 10 iPhone or iPad. No jailbreak is required for this to work. Download everything you need. First, you'll need to download the emulator. The emulator currently used by the online Tecmo community for Netplay is Nestopia, with anti-cheat modifications made by Bruddog. This Nestopia emulator can be downloaded here. Second, you'll need to download a ROM (game file) of the original Tecmo Super Bowl itself.

Oh, the NES. As an ’89 baby, there wasn’t a larger part of my childhood than this gaming console. Before school, after school, and on weekends you would find me attached to this thing. With Crystalis, Metroid, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, Mega Man 1-6, Castlevania, Dragon Warrior, River City Ransom, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, Contra, The Legend of Zelda, and the entire Mario Bros. series, what is there not to love as a kid? The NES wasn’t the first console, but it was the one that really cracked open the world of gaming and brought it to the forefront of home entertainment.

In this article, you’re going to learn how to re-live and enjoy those amazing classic games on your computer using Nestopia.

Downloading Nestopia

Nestopa is no longer being actively developed. It doesn’t need to be either, it’s practically perfect as it stands!

There are versions of the software available for the Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms. Here are direct links to the latest version (1.40):

Nestopia is also open source! You can find the source code here. Nestopia is portable100 Portable Apps for Your USB Stick for Windows and macOS100 Portable Apps for Your USB Stick for Windows and macOSPortable apps let you take your favorite software anywhere via a flash drive or cloud storage. Here are 100 of them to cover your every need, from games to image editors.Read More, so it can be thrown onto a service like Dropbox or a flash drive and go with you.

Configuring Nestopia

“Out of the box,” Nestopia doesn’t require too much advanced configuration. It’ll work just fine after unzipping the archive. However, I do recommend going into the Preferences… beneath the Options menu.

Here, just go ahead and check the boxes beside each file association. It’ll make loading ROMs a lot easier for you in the future.

Other than that, you can familiarize yourself with the controls at the Input… screen, also under Options.

The controls are pretty simple by default: directional keys for the directional pad, comma and period for A and B, and then Enter for the Start button.

Getting ROMs

While ROMs are freely available online, MakeUseOf can’t help you find them. Downloading ROMs for games that you don’t own is piracy, and doing so is your decision to make.

Extract your ROMs into the same folder. It’ll get messy and confusing otherwise. NES ROM files have the “.nes” extension.

Loading ROMs

Loading your games is as easy as can be. Simply go to File and then Open… and navigate to the location where your ROMs are stored.

If you made the file associations that I recommended before, you can alternatively just browse to the folder in Windows Explorer and double-click the file. It’ll automatically load and start in Nestopia.

Saving States

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This sure does beat having to remember a 16-digit password or having to play through 10 minutes of gameplay just to reach a stopping point. Nestopia supports the saving of your states, which is basically instantly saving your game progress.

All you’ve got to do is go to File and then Save State…. Load State… will allow you to restore your progress.

Go now. You’ve got time to waste and an entire childhood to catch up on. Or if you’re one of our younger readers, how about you go enrich yourself in some real gaming with Nestopia!

If you’re a Super Nintendo fan, I did a very similar article on how to emulate SNES games using ZSNESEmulating & Playing Classic SNES Games On The PC With ZSNESEmulating & Playing Classic SNES Games On The PC With ZSNESIn my opinion, the Super Nintendo was the greatest gaming console that ever existed. Boasting titles like Chrono Trigger, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, EarthBound, Final Fantasy III, Super...Read More. Go check it out and let’s talk some NES in the comments here!

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1. HOW CAN I PLAY

2. Not at all.
   Under my Options tab is has:
   Defrost Game State
   Freeze Game State
   Save Screenshot
   Start Recording Audio
   Transfer Random Barcode

   Then under Edit:
   Copy
   Game Genie
   Dip Switches

   File:
   Open
   Open Recent
   Reset
   Page Setup
   Print Screen

   Under Preferences:
   Video
   Interface
   Emulator
   Joysticks

   Under Joysticks:
   Get Emulator Enhancer (which I've gotten)
   Configure Keyboard

   Under Emulator:
   Hardware Configuration
   - Simulate NYSC video artifacts
   - Enable Unlimited Sprites
   - Trim Border Area
   - Use Image Database (the only one that's ticked)

   Sound Channels:
   - Square 1
   - Square 2
   - Triangle
   - Noise
   - PCM (all ticked)

   And that is pretty much my entire Nestopia menu and prefs.

3. Playing the real thing on an old school TV and a real controller in your hand is a so much cooler expierence than emulation.

   • i agree its cooler to play the real thing, but the nostalgia wears off kinda quick when u dont have the convenience of save states, and switching from one game to the next on the fly. also i dont miss blowing on the cartridges to get them to finally work after 20 minutes of trying. and one less set of cables i have to plug into the tv, or power strip.
     only draw back after the cool nastalgia effect fades is that the original nes controller had pimp dpad. and was made like a brick.

4. can i hook up my xbox360 controller to my pc and use it to play these NES games??

   inquiring minds would like to know.

5. No need for this now, I just found a NES at Goodwill for $10. Throw in two controllers, the AC adapter, SMB/Duck Hunt, and Excitebike and the total cost: $28! Then on to Ebay for MegaMan 2 and Super Mario Bros 3 for $20 more, I think I'm set! Even though all these games came out before I was born, they're still just so awesome. What I want even more is a Super Nintendo, that's what I grew up with, and stupidly sold for a very low price to afford a GameCube, I regret selling that...oh well.

   But yeah NES games are great, and if you can't play on an original system or Wii VC, then emulation isn't bad, especially if you have a decent gamepad to use. I recommend trying out some of these classics if you haven't :)