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NESticle
by Sardu of Bloodlust Software

NESticle is a DOS/Win95 based emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System written in C++/Assembly.

It is freeware and it is not to be distributed with game ROMs and it is not to be modified or sold.

A majority of the NES technical information used to create this came from Marat Fayzullin's (fms@freeflight.com) great NES.DOC.

Sound information was provided by AJG, Fanwen, Mikael Iushin and Y0SHi.

INFORMATION

Homepage: http://www.maelstrom.net/callus/
License: Freeware
Released: August 16, 1998
Language: English
Platform: MS-DOS
Programmed in: C++ & Assembly
Other: Editor's Choice Award Winner!

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DOCUMENTATION EXCERPT

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 NESticle                                 Version x.xx (xx/xx/xx)
 by Bloodlust Software
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Email: bldlust@maelstrom.net

Death to the defiler.

Do not send any files without asking first.

Do not ask about SNESticle (or anything else you want emulated).

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     What it is
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NESticle is a DOS/Win95 based emulator for the Nintendo
Entertainment System written in C++/Assembly.

It is freeware and it is not to be distributed with game
ROMs and it is not to be modified or sold.

A majority of the NES technical information used to create this
came from Marat Fayzullin's (fms@freeflight.com) great NES.DOC.

Sound information was provided by AJG, Fanwen, Mikael Iushin and Y0SHi.

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     Revisions
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Version x.xx:
 - ????

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    What it does
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NESticle emulates the basic NES hardware, along with several of
the memory mapping chips used by various games. 

What's emulated:

   -6502 CPU
   -PPU
   -VRAM/VROM
   -Horizontal/Vertical mirroring
   -Scrolling
   -8x8 and 8x16 Sprites
   -Dual joypads
   -iNES Memory mappers fully/partially supported: 
      0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,15,19,22,23,32
   -Battery backed RAM
   -Sound emulation

Other neat features:

   -Multiple save states
   -Joystick/"GrIP" support
   -Network play (Win95 exe only)
   -"Friendly" GUI
   -VESA/DirectDraw support
   -Fullscreen 256x224 VGA mode (DOS only)
   -Save .pcx snapshots
   -Editable pattern tables (CHR/tile/vrom)
   -iNES single file cart format
   -Wave output loggable
   -Editable palette (I dont have the correct colors)


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 What it doesn't do
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Lightgun

Mapper/compatibility problems

Palette changes during frame (W&W, Startropics)


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  What you need
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A 486 or Pentium running DOS or Windows 95/NT.

The DOS version requires DOS4GW, available separately.

For the Windows version you MUST HAVE DirectX Version 3.0.
It's available somewhere on Microsoft's labyrinth of a website.
At least 16MB of memory for the Win95 version.

NESticle can take advantage of VESA 2.0 support if it exists.
If it does not exist, NESticle will resort to only the
video modes 320x200, 256x224, 256x240, 256x256.
256x256 has scanlines.
You need about 8MB of memory for the DOS version.

The DOS version supports true Soundblasters ONLY.
The Win95 version utilizes DirectSound for digital output.

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