Welcome to VirtualNES.com
VirtualNES.com is the largest website on the Internet that allows you to play classic Nintendo Entertainment System games like Contra, Mega Man, Tecmo Bowl and Super Mario Bros. and great imported 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 legally. We can only provide you with classic NES games that we have an original cartridge of, 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.
A Great Website for All Retro Buffs
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Welcome to the New vNES Experience!
Over the past several months, we've been working on a redesign of the vNES site to bring the design in line with XHTML and CSS standards, and to have a more common user interface with the upcoming vGBX website. What you see here is the result of that project. Thanks to optimizations with the new design, vNES loads about 20% faster than it did before. If you notice something that doesn't work properly or could be improved on, please use the contact form to let us know.
Bonk's Adventure, Donkey Kong Jr. Math, Kiwi Kraze, and Prince of Persia were added in this update, as well as Crackout and New Ghostbusters 2 from the United Kingdom and Banana Prince from Germany.
Instead of having different options buttons on each page, the new Options menu has been introduced which allows you to define your own settings, such as whether sound is off or on, and if you wish to play with scanlines enabled.
Because we now have a method for users to define their own settings, the ability to change what keys you have assigned to the respective controller in vNES is now customizable.
Accordingly, the vNES applet was updated to version 2.12. Typically, this would be in the download section, but our new site www.openemulation.com was intended to replace that section. Unfortunately, it isn't ready to go live yet, so there is a simple page there with downloads to the source and applet, if you need it. If you're just here for the games, we've handled all of that for you already.
Update: Some users may have had difficulty using the site using WebKit-based browsers or Internet Explorer 6. This issue should now be fixed.
Items of Community Interest, Vol. 3
I don't really feel like going through my narrative spiel about things, so you're getting a bulleted list.
- vGBX is launching on February 14, 2010. That isn't a projected date, it is now set in stone.
- Naturally, we still need more games for vGBX, so if you've got something to send, let us know.
- A bunch of updates are in the works for vNES, they will be ready by the end of January.
- YourGameStore.net (who we trade games with) is selling a bunch of NES games starting at $0.01 each.
Non-Denominational Holiday Update Notification
Adventures of Lolo 3, Alien Syndrome, Blue Marlin, Eliminator Boat Duel, Fire 'n Ice, and Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom were added to vNES today.
Most of our focus right now is going towards acquiring games for the Game Boy, which is why updates here are going rather slowly.
First Time Here?
Default Controls:
You can change controller settings.
You should close Flash before starting a game, but that might not be needed.
If the controls don't respond for you, double-click the game screen.
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