Games - FakeNES

	Games - FakeNES

FakeNES is a portable, Open source NES emulator written in C, using the Allegro game library, released under the Clarified Artistic License, which is compatible with the GNU GPL. It runs on any operating system that Allegro supports, such as 32-bit DOS or compatible, any version of Windows released after 1995, and POSIX compliant systems such as MacOS and Linux.

It is one of the more common NES emulators, and is well-known for it's "DOS style" GUI.

History

FakeNES was first released on January 25th, 2002, after three months of work, by Randy McDowell (Siloh) and Ian Smith (RobotBebop), after an IRC chat on DALnet. They created the name, and then went searching for developers. Many joined, among them, Charles Bilyue´ (TRAC) of the SNEeSe project.

However, as of October 23rd, 2004, FakeNES was oficially cancelled. The author announced that it was just too buggy that couldn't be fixed without a complete rewrite. However, in May 6th, 2005, Siloh announced that FakeNES was, again, under limited development, and in October 31st, a Work In Progress file was released.

Features

FakeNES supports emulation of the Four Score (a 4-player adapter), and the Zapper, the NES' light gun. It also supports joysticks/joypads or the keyboard for playing, palette selection, sound-related tweaks, cheating-device emulation, video filters, and also, it has plans to implement netplay.

Codenames

Throughout it's lifetime FakeNES has had several codenames which have sometimes also appeared in various logos for the project.

0.2.x - Zero 2
0.4.x - Zero 4 (Unreleased)
0.6.x - Panta (Under development)

Up until the Panta series, Capcom's Mega Man was the official mascot for the project. However, recently the use of Nintendo game characters in FakeNES logos and background artwork has been discouraged, due to potential legal issues.

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