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Qt-based Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSF2/NSFe Music Player (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows)

puNES

Qt-based Nintendo Entertainment System emulator and NSF/NSFe Music Player

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:floppy_disk: Work in Progress (WIP) Builds

GitHub code size in bytes CodeFactor Build status

These executables are always updated to the latest commit:

Note : 32 bit versions are Windows XP compatible.

:beer: Support

If you want buy me a beer : PayPal donate button

:camera: Screenshots

puNES main window puNES NSFE Player puNES Slot Preview puNES General Settings puNES Video Filters Settings puNES Cheat Editor puNES Xbox360 Standard Controller Settings puNES PS4 Standard Controller Settings

:keyboard: Configuration

To run it in portable mode, rename the executable by adding the suffix _p. Examples: punes.exe -> punes_p.exe or punes64.exe -> punes64_p.exe

To see a list of available command-line options, start puNES with the -h argument.

:electric_plug: Supported Mappers

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:electric_plug: Unif

NROM, NROM-128, NROM-256, SLROM, UOROM, CNROM, TLROM, TBROM, TKROM, TFROM, ANROM, SL1632, SC-127, SuperHIK8in1, STREETFIGTER-GAME4IN1, Supervision16in1, MARIO1-MALEE2, T3H53, D1038, NTBROM, VRC7, TEK90, BB, H2288, LH32, 22211, SA-72008, Sachen-8259D, Sachen-8259B, Sachen-8259C, Sachen-8259A, KS7032, SA-NROM, SA-72007, SA-016-1M, TC-U01-1.5M, SA-0037, SA-0036, Sachen-74LS374N, FS304, FK23C, FK23CA, Super24in1SC03, WAIXING-FS005, NovelDiamond9999999in1, JC-016-2, 8237, 8237A, N625092, WAIXING-FW01, 42in1ResetSwitch, 70in1, 70in1B, 603-5052, OneBus, DANCE, 158B, F-15, HPXX, HP2018-A, 810544-C-A1, SHERO, KOF97, YOKO, T-262, CITYFIGHT, COOLBOY, MINDKIDS, 22026, 80013-B, GS-2004, GS-2013, A65AS, DRIPGAME, BS-5, 411120-C, K-3088, 60311C, NTD-03, DRAGONFIGHTER, TF1201, 11160, 190in1, 8157, KS7057, KS7017, SMB2J, KS7031, KS7016, KS7037, TH2131-1, LH51, KS7013B, RESET-TXROM, 64in1NoRepeat, 830134C, HP898F, 830425C-4391T, K-3033, FARID_SLROM_8-IN-1, FARID_UNROM_8-IN-1, MALISB, 10-24-C-A1, RT-01, EDU2000, 12-IN-1, WS, 8-IN-1, NEWSTAR-GRM070-8IN1, CTC-09, K-3046, CTC-12IN1, SA005-A, K-3006, K-3036, TJ-03, COOLGIRL, RESETNROM-XIN1, GN-26, L6IN1, KS7012, KS7030, 830118C, G-146, 891227, KS106C, 3D-BLOCK, SB-5013, N49C-300, 830752C, BS-400R, BS-4040R, K-3010, K-3071, SA-9602B, DANCE2000, EH8813A, DREAMTECH01, LH10, 900218, KS7021A, BJ-56, AX-40G, 831128C, T-230, AX5705, CHINA_ER_SAN2, 82112C, KONAMI-QTAI, Ghostbusters63in1, 43272, AC08, CC-21, BOY

:information_source: How to Compile

  • :penguin: Linux
  • :smiling_imp: FreeBSD
  • :blowfish: OpenBSD
  • :computer: Windows

:penguin: Linux

Dependencies

Compilation of puNES

git clone https://github.com/punesemu/puNES
cd puNES
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

the executable punes is in the src directory.

Linux Debug version

If you need the debug version then you need to replace the ./configure command of the previous examples with the following:

CFLAGS="-g -DDEBUG" CXXFLAGS="-g -DDEBUG" ./configure --disable-release [...]

where [...] are the other necessary options.

Example on how to compile on Ubuntu 21.10

sudo apt-get install git cmake autotools-dev autoconf libtool build-essential pkg-config libudev-dev libasound2-dev
sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqt5svg5-dev nvidia-cg-toolkit libx11-dev libxrandr-dev 
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswresample-dev libswscale-dev
git clone https://github.com/punesemu/puNES
cd puNES
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

to start the emulator

./src/punes

:smiling_imp: FreeBSD

Dependencies

Compilation of puNES

git clone https://github.com/punesemu/puNES
cd puNES
./autogen.sh
CC=cc CXX=c++ ./configure
make

the executable punes is in the src directory.

FreeBSD Debug version

If you need the debug version then you need to replace the ./configure command of the previous examples with the following:

CFLAGS="-g -DDEBUG" CXXFLAGS="-g -DDEBUG" CC=cc CXX=c++ ./configure --disable-release [...]

where [...] are the other necessary options.

:blowfish: OpenBSD

Dependencies

Compilation of puNES

git clone https://github.com/punesemu/puNES
cd puNES
./autogen.sh
CC=cc CXX=c++ ./configure
make

the executable punes is in the src directory.

OpenBSD Debug version

If you need the debug version then you need to replace the ./configure command of the previous examples with the following:

CFLAGS="-g -DDEBUG" CXXFLAGS="-g -DDEBUG" CC=cc CXX=c++ ./configure --disable-release [...]

where [...] are the other necessary options.

:computer: Windows

Dependencies

  • Qt5 with OpenGL support (5.6.3 is the last if you want the support for Windows XP)

Development Environment installation

  1. install MSYS2
  2. open "MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit" shell (or 32 bit if you want compile the 32 bit version of puNES)
pacman -Syu
  1. close the MSYS2 window and run it again from Start menu
pacman -Su
pacman -S base-devel git wget p7zip unzip mingw-w64-i686-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
pacman -S perl ruby python2 mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
exit
  1. open a new MSYS2 shell and build the necessary libraries

Compilation of the Qt5 libraries

  1. download and unzip the sources
wget http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.15/5.15.0/submodules/qtbase-everywhere-src-5.15.0.zip
unzip qtbase-everywhere-src-5.15.0.zip
mv qtbase-everywhere-src-5.15.0 qt5

the renaming of the directory is necessary to not generate a compile-time error caused by the 255 characters maximum path length limitation on Windows, This is the typical error message you might encounter:

"../../../../include/QtEventDispatcherSupport/5.15.0/QtEventDispatcherSupport/private/qwindowsguieventdispatcher_p.h:1:10: fatal error: ../../../../../src/platformsupport/eventdispatchers/qwindowsguieventdispatcher_p.h: No such file or directory"
  1. compile the libraries
cd qt5
echo -e "QMAKE_LFLAGS += -static -static-libgcc\nDEFINES += QT_STATIC_BUILD\n" >> mkspecs/win32-g++/qmake.conf
./configure.bat -prefix $MINGW_PREFIX -extprefix $MINGW_PREFIX -bindir $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/bin -headerdir $MINGW_PREFIX/include/qt5 -libdir $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5 -archdatadir $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5 -plugindir $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/plugins -libexecdir $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/bin -datadir $MINGW_PREFIX/share/qt5 -docdir $MINGW_PREFIX/share/doc/qt5 -translationdir $MINGW_PREFIX/share/qt5/translations -sysconfdir $MINGW_PREFIX/etc/xdg -examplesdir $MINGW_PREFIX/share/qt5/examples -testsdir $MINGW_PREFIX/share/qt5/tests -platform win32-g++ -nomake examples -nomake tests -nomake tools -no-compile-examples -release -opensource -confirm-license -static -c++std c++11 -sse2 -static-runtime -make libs -no-ltcg -no-dbus -no-accessibility -no-inotify -no-iconv -no-icu -no-openssl -no-system-proxies -no-cups -no-fontconfig -opengl desktop -no-angle -gif -ico -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -qt-pcre -qt-zlib -qt-freetype
make
  1. and finally install them
make install
sed -i -e s,Qt5OpenGLd,Qt5OpenGL,g -e s,Qt5OpenGLExtensionsd,Qt5OpenGLExtensions,g -e s,Qt5Concurrentd,Qt5Concurrent,g -e s,Qt5Cored,Qt5Core,g -e s,Qt5Guid,Qt5Gui,g -e s,Qt5Networkd,Qt5Network,g -e s,Qt5PrintSupportd,Qt5PrintSupport,g -e s,Qt5Sqld,Qt5Sql,g -e s,Qt5Testd,Qt5Test,g -e s,Qt5Widgetsd,Qt5Widgets,g -e s,Qt5Xmld,Qt5Xml,g -e s,libqtpcre2d,libqtpcre2,g -e s,libqtlibpngd,libqtlibpng,g -e s,libqtharfbuzzd,libqtharfbuzz,g $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/pkgconfig/*
cp -v $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/pkgconfig/* $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/.
cd ..
  1. now it's time for the SVG module...
wget http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.15/5.15.0/submodules/qtsvg-everywhere-src-5.15.0.zip
unzip qtsvg-everywhere-src-5.15.0.zip
mv qtsvg-everywhere-src-5.15.0 qt5svg
cd qt5svg
$MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/bin/qmake
make
make install
sed -i -e s,Qt5Svgd,Qt5Svg,g -e s,Qt5Cored,Qt5Core,g -e s,Qt5Guid,Qt5Gui,g -e s,Qt5Widgetsd,Qt5Widgets,g $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/pkgconfig/*
cp -v $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/pkgconfig/* $MINGW_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/.
cd ..
  1. ...and for the tools
wget http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.15/5.15.0/submodules/qttools-everywhere-src-5.15.0.zip
unzip qttools-everywhere-src-5.15.0.zip
mv qttools-everywhere-src-5.15.0 qt5tools
cd qt5tools
$MINGW_PREFIX/lib/qt5/bin/qmake
make
make install
cd ..

Compilation of puNES

  1. Now you have everything you need to compile correctly puNES
git clone https://github.com/punesemu/puNES
cd puNES
./autogen.sh

if you want D3D9 version :

./configure --with-d3d9
make

otherwise :

./configure --with-opengl
make

The executable punes.exe is in the src directory but in order to run it you need the following dlls:

  • 7z.dl
  • avcodec-58.dll
  • avformat-58.dll
  • avutil-56.dll
  • cg.dll
  • cgD3D9.dll (only for D3D9 version)
  • cgGL.dll (only for OpenGL version)
  • libwinpthread-1.dll
  • swresample-3.dll
  • swscale-5.dll

that you can download here : :link:64bit version or :link:32bit version.

Windows Debug version

If you need the debug version then you need to replace the ./configure command of the previous examples with the following:

CFLAGS="-g -DDEBUG" CXXFLAGS="-g -DDEBUG" ./configure --disable-release [...]

where [...] are the other necessary options.


:movie_camera: FFmpeg

It is always possible to disable audio/video recording support by specifying the configure parameter --without-ffmpeg. If the installed version is lower than 4.0 the support will be disabled automatically.

Supported audio recording formats:

  • WAV Audio
  • MP3 Audio (lame) (*)
  • AAC Audio
  • Flac Audio
  • Ogg Audio (vorbis) (*)
  • Opus Audio (libopus) (*)

Supported video recording formats:

  • MPEG 1 Video
  • MPEG 2 Video
  • MPEG 4 Video
  • MPEG H264 Video (libx264) (*)
  • High Efficiency Video Codec (libx265) (*)
  • WebM Video (libvpx) (*)
  • Windows Media Video
  • AVI FF Video
  • AVI Video

(*) if compiled in FFmpeg.