RockNES 5.53

Description

RockNES is a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) videogame emulator. It's fully coded in C and uses the Allegro library for audio, video and input devices, plus the zLib library for compressed files ZIP or GZ. Other ports are not available.

Compiled with Orwell Dev-C++ with gcc (GCC) 4.7.2 32bit, under Windows 7.
RockNES uses a 32bit color mode, plus sound output at 44100hz 16bit. File "alleg44.dll" is required!

Emulated stuff:

6502 CPU and APU emulation.
NTSC PPU emulation.
Joypads 1 and 2.
Konami VRC6 sound expansion (Akumajou Densetsu / Madara).
Partial VS System support.
Backed battery / PRG RAM.
Partial Famicom Disk System, emulated as mapper 20.
Supported iNES mappers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 48, 57, 58, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 78, 79, 83, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 97, 99, 101, 110, 113, 117, 118, 119, 151, 160, 180, 184, 187, 189, 211, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 240, 243, 246 and 255.

Available features:

PPU color emphasis and monochrome mode.
Gameplay joypad data logging, also known as NES movies.
Save states, at any time.
GUI and configuration file auto generated.
ROM edit in real time.
Sound recording, WAV format.
Built-in 6502 CPU disassembler.
Pseudo stereo sound generator.
Famiclone-style sound output.
Various screen blitters within stretched modes.
Video triple buffering in full screen, avoiding screen tearing.
Almost any NES PPU/CPU memory dumping.
Color RAM viewer.

Unemulated hardware/features:

All the unofficial CPU opcodes.
Famicom hardware (japanese NES) or european (PAL 50hz).
Input devices like Zapper, Power Pad and others.
Joypads 3 and 4.
VS Dualsystem.
Playchoice-10 upper monitor, requires z80 CPU emulation.
Other sound expansions like MMC5, VRCVII or Namco.

Notes:

ZIP files are supported. Any file, including savestates, can be ZIPped.
A configuration file named "rocknes.ini" is auto generated when you close the program.
Certain ascii characters on file names, like accents, are NOT supported on ROM loading.
The NSF player supports savestates.
The Famicom Disk System emulation requires the BIOS file "disksys.rom".
You can launch a ROM by typing rocknes <filename.NES> on command prompt.
Command line switches/options are not supported, sorry.
If you have any problems/annoyances, please, delete the configuration file "rocknes.ini" and start the emulator again.