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Welcome To VirtualNES.com
VirtualNES.com
is the largest website on the Internet that allows you to play your
favorite classic Nintendo Entertainment System games online for free.
VirtualNES.com is the official home of, and is powered by the vNES
emulator by Jamie Sanders.
Unlike our
competitors, VirtualNES.com is able to provide you classic NES games
without trampling over Copyright laws. We can only provide you with
classic NES games that we have here at our offices, which have either
been bought out of pocket or donated by Players Like You™. If we don't
have the games in our possession, we can't have them online. This
protects us from threats of litigation, and protects the users from
(wrongly) being hunted down for violating copyrights. If you can, please
consider
donating money, games, or server space to the VirtualNES.com team.
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Contra Force & 30 Others Released
Posted on
June 16, 2009.
Thanks to your generous donations, the
following games were added today:
All-Pro Basketball, Conquest of the
Crystal Palace, Contra Force, Cyberball, Deadly Towers, Destination
Earthstar, F-15 Strike Eagle, Flying Dragon - The Secret Scroll,
Ghoul School, Magmax, Orb 3D, Pac-Mania, Phantom Fighter, Pinball Quest, Racket
Attack, Rock 'n' Ball, Seicross, Shingen The Ruler, Ski or Die, Sky
Kid, Sqoon, Star Trek - The Next Generation, Super Sprint, Tecmo World Wrestling,
Totally Rad, Twin Cobra, Ultima - Quest of the Avatar, Ultimate
Basketball, Urban Champion, Wayne Gretzky Hockey, Wheel of Fortune -
Starring Vanna White.
Also, this wasn't mentioned previously,
but some settings regarding color emulation on vNES were changed in
2.09, making the games look slightly different when you're playing
them. This change was made to more accurately emulate the color
output of the original NES on an NTSC television.
vNES Applet 2.09 Released
Posted on
June 16, 2009.
Edit: I had broken something and
caused games to not load at all for about 12 hours. It's fixed. I'm
very sorry.
An update to vNES is now available for
website owners, it can be
downloaded here. Users of this website do not need to take
further action, the upgrade is a server-side fix.
The release is mostly optimizations of
the code and removal of unused items that are not necessary for
emulation. It also includes mapper support for BxROM, which was
apparently used only in the game Deadly Towers.
I'm waiting on USPS to deliver the
shipment of games for this month, but I've ordered some really great
games that I'm sure all of you will enjoy.
A Brief, Unimportant Update
Posted on
June 2, 2009.
These four games were added today:
Alien³, Felix the Cat, Low G Man, Mario Is Missing!. They
were provided to vNES by
www.yourgamestore.net.
In related news, the vNES Retrogaming
Store powered by 4Triangles was updated to include this great new
USB adapter - it allows you to plug in two N64 controllers to
connect to your PC. It's
available here for $19.99.
A Long-Winded, Unimportant Update
Posted on
May 20, 2009.
Well, to kick off this month's
update, let's just get to the list of games.
Classic NES Games added in this
update: Barbie, Home Alone, Ikari Warriors III: The Rescue,
Legend of the Ghost Lion, Monster Party, Ring King, Sesame
Street: Countdown, Stinger, Vegas Dream.
Pirate Original Games added in this
update: Gaiapolis, Rocman X, Samurai Showdown III, Sonic the
Hedgehog, Street Fighter V, Street Fighter V Turbo 60, Super
Donkey Kong 2, Super Shinobi, The, (Depressing Soviet) Tom &
Jerry 3.
Prototype games added in this
update: Superman 2
I usually like to do theme updates,
with one category of game at a time, but that wasn't really
possible this time around. All in all, the new 19 games should
keep every busy for awhile. Also, I'm not sure what to call the
prototype Superman game, as it has no title screen, or basically
any other information about it that I can find. It's also not
based on any of the movies, as far as I can tell.
As for things behind the scenes here
at vNES, I have been working on a large rewrite of the program,
to clean up the source and try to solve various issues with
individual games. I'd like to be able to focus more on
compatibility, and my work on the technical side of this has
limited the frequency of updates recently. One of the other
changes I've made in the beta I'm working on is a correction of
various palette issues that somehow didn't get fixed previously.
This is going to cause the colors in the game to look very
slightly different, but it will be more accurate when compared
to the NES, when hooked up to the TV.
One other thing that has been
brought up at various points throughout about this time last
year is the inclusion of ROM Hacks. I've told a few people that
there is a plan underway to start rolling out those games. And
while there is, and considering that we've gotten past the legal
issues of doing so, the underlying problem remains that most ROM
Hacks are terrible. For every one good ROM Hack that
brings something new to the table, there's one hundred useless
hacks of people re-coloring Mario or drawing a penis. (That's
not a joke.) So, the question is how high the Quality Control
bar for this is going to be. To be honest, I'm setting it way
too high, and a lot of the people who are suggesting games for
the upcoming section are either setting it way too low.
Hopefully, a good middle-ground will be found in the future. But
until then, it is still being planned, and I do ask for your
patience.
Also, vNES Support Forum user
HexStunner has sent me a patch that will be implemented soon.
With it, you'll be able to log in to vNES, and the server will
store your save codes, instead of prompting you to copy and
paste them. I'm going to do a lot of testing to ensure this
works correctly, and I'm going to work on a way to let users
enter the save codes they have been using previously into the
database, so you won't lose your progress. It's going to take
some time, but it is in the pipeline, and will hopefully be done
soon.
Have a great summer, I'll be back
with more games to add in three or four weeks.
-- Jamie Sanders
vNES News Titles Don't Convey Actual News
Posted on April
21, 2009.
Hey everyone! It's your favorite
nameless, disembodied and apparently British writer back with news
about what the vNES team is up to this week!
For this week's update, we've got nine
awesome games - the first being "Solar Wars 2001" which is a
homebrew game (like D-Pad Hero is) for the NES. You can head on over
to the homebrew section and
play this awesome game - but it's best if you've got one of your
mates at the keyboard with you, as this game requires two players -
don't worry, it's a turn based game, so both players can use the
same controls if they want.
The other eight games are in the
newly-opened Pirate
Originals section, a new category of games that were made by
frequently indeterminate individuals and sold in various places in
Asia. Apparently, nobody really holds a copyright on these games
anyway, so they are essentially free to use - the vNES team isn't
required to own an original cartridge of these games.
The Game of the Month archive page
doesn't have some of the newer Games of the Month. Apparently,
nobody can be bothered to write a description of the games, which is
why that keeps not getting updated. I'm told it will be fixed soon.
Hey, remember
Dexy's Midnight Runners? Yeah! Nobody has thought about them for
years, but the nameless, apparently British writer decided to remind
you about them for no reason!
Go play some games.
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