Over the past few days you’ve likely spotted several SNES test builds circulating the scene. While the Japanese developer (or developers?) remains anonymous, people are talking, and word on the virtual street is, Ruka — you know, the talent behind NesterJ — may be responsible for the number of recent updates. Evidently, Snes9xTYLsmcm is based off the initial developments of YoyoFR and Laxer3a.

Anyway… I finally had the opportunity to sit down, install the latest test build, and kick some serious alien ass in Contra III – the Alien Wars. Fans of the Super NES — you need this emulator, no questions asked. It’s slick.

Ok, you can ask questions — leave ‘em below.

Download: Snes9xTYLsmcm Test 5 27/05/08

- source: dcemu

Boom bam, DAVEX in this jam. You were all gawking at DAVEX’s RIN GB/GBC release when the added ability of rewinding your actions came into play. Now do the same with Ruka’s Nintendo (NES) emulator, NesterJ! Persons who dug mirror mode can also use that.

To recapitulate…

“…With rewind (or “sands of time”, if you prefer) you can warp back in time without worrying about saving states. If you made a mistake, you can press “rewind” button and undo it….”

“…In mirror mode, like it’s name says, all graphics are horizontally inverted. So, if your favorite platform game is played from left to right, this time you can have the choice of playing it from right to left, giving it a little novelty touch…”

Thanks to Ruka for his original developments, and DAVEX for his added touch of dopeness.

1942!

Download: NesterJ v1.11 RM

In related news… NES emulation on the iPhone!

- source: davex @ qj

Ruka has released a new version of NesterJ – the increasingly popular Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Emulator! And v1.20 [beta2], as promised, supports WiFi Ad Hoc play! If you’re a 2.50/2.60 user, and you wish to take advantage of NesterJ and the ridiculous amount of fun derived from NES multiplayer – you will require the downdater; NesterJ v1.20beta2 is only compatible with FW 1.0 & 1.50!

v1.20beta2 changes:

• Support Wifi Network Play (Adhoc)
• GPU processing improvements. (about 20% speed up!)
• Sound timing Fixed. (But still not fixed in Network play)

Keep in mind this is a beta – bugs do exist and will cause unstable behaviour, especially those surrounding WiFi functionality. Enjoy!

Fetch the beta release over at Ruka’s site!

After many beta releases, Ruka has finally released v1.11 of NesterJ – the most stable NES emulator available for the PSP.

Changes include:

• Development environment was changed from PS2SDK to PSPSDK.
• Compression of SAVE data (SRAM etc.) and STATE data (ZIP format).
• Compatible file format of NNNesterJ.
• Format of thumbnail file was changed from non-compression raw to PNG.
• Emulation processing improvements.
• Added screenshot function (it saves to the “PSP/PHOTO/NesterJ/” folder by the PNG format).
• And other minor changes.

Download NesterJ v1.11

Download NesterJ v1.11 Source Code

- translation courtesy of qj -

Ruka has officially released NesterJ v1.10 – the solid NES emulator for your Sony PSP.

What’s new? A lot…

• GPU support (coded by “e”) and processing improvements.
• FDS audio changed processing method. (same as NSFplug)
• Refresh menu (similar to uoSnes9X)
• Use the left direction of ANALOG STICK to enter the menu.
• Selectable default palette (graphics part).
• Low battery warning.
• New support NSF file.
• Other minor changes…

Download NesterJ v1.10

Enjoy!

- translation via qj -