The Family Computer Emulator was one of the first

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s. The development started in the early 1990s. It was made by Haruhisa Udagawa(宇田川治久), a developer at

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and KAZe. He also worked on twelve games from the 1980s to the early 2000s. The

was simple, but it was able to run games such as

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. The

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files had to be dumped through a complicated process.

Supported games

Udagawa only tested a few games on his

Emulator, those games being: *

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* Famicom Tennis * Mario Bros. *

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Limitations

The emulator could not do sound emulation, and did not support the

's microphone. The

had to be 256 kilobits, and the

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Tile Data file had to be 64 kilobits. (They had their own memory space. This was before the iNES format was created). Sprites had to be 8 pixels by 8 pixels The CPU emulation was slow

References

1990 software Nintendo Entertainment System emulators Discontinued software {{Videogame-software-stub

Supported games

Limitations

See also

References