With the launch of Nintendo classic, the retro games of 90s ala Super Mario Bro’s, Konami Contra, and Track & Field are back into fashion. Considering Nintendo’s supply issues not all of you may get a hand on the Nintendo Classic, but yes, you can still enjoy all the features of a Nintendo Classic system by emulating the NES Games on your Mac OS X (MacBook Air, Pro, iMac, etc.mBs). Here are the top 3 Best NES emulators for Mac OS X which will let you enjoy your favorite NES games on your Mac – Note- We only provide links to legal emulators you need to own ROMs of Games (.NES game roms) inorder to play games, a simple google search with the game name and NES will render you the game roms to be used inside the emulators.

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Top 3 Best NES Emulators for Mac OS X to Play NES Games – NES Emulator # 1 – OpenEmu. OpenEmu has the ability to emulate NES as well as more OpenEmu is one emulator which will solve all your emulation worries on your Mac OS X. It comes bundled in with not only Classic NES Emulation libraries such as FCEUX & Nestopia, but it can also emulate NES, GBA, Sega and lot of old gaming consoles. Some Salient Features of OpenEmu can be classified as – • Free & Easy to install. • Comes inbuilt with many console emulation codes. • Gamepad Controller / Joystick support! – This is perhaps the best part as you can simply plug in your Joystick/gamepad and start playing your ROM on the game controller (totally console style!) • Incase you want to play via joystick or gamepad simply navigate to “OpenEmu” -> Preferences -> Controls and change input type from Keyboard to JoyStick.

() • Later map the joystick buttons and start playing! (Compatible with all versions Sierra, El Capitan, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, etc.). Nestopia NES Emulator for Mac OS X Though OpenEmu is excellent, it sometimes takes time to load and needs to be clicked on “Reopen” to launch it. But no such problem exists with Nestopia.

Nestopia is a simple, lightweight yet powerful free NES Emulator for Mac OS X. As Nestopia is concentrated only on NES Games emulation, it offers some extra features such as – • Ability to save game progress and start from the last save. • You can tweak the game ROMs to perform some non-game functions 🙂 • Nestopia also has Zapper light gun support just like the Nintendo Classic. • FDS Emulation (Fabicom Disk Space) (10.5 & later) (if you’re looking for method to install.dmg files on Mac OS X) NES Emulator # 3 – RockNes This is a PowerPC Application based NES Emulator for running NES Games on older Mac OS versions such as Snow Leopard and earlier. It can also be run on Mac OS X Lion using Rosetta, but cannot be run on the latest Mac OS X versions at all. So incase, if you’re using an Old version of Mac OS RockNes is the NES emulator to be used. So, these are the Top 3 Best NES Emulators for Mac OS X which will let you relive your childhood gaming memories that too at some MBs as the game size is very small as compared to modern games.

If in case you have any problems using any of the above emulators, feel free to comment.

Emulator is a software program which makes one hardware to behave like another one. The emulator makes one hardware( typically known as a host) to behave like another one (known as a guest). In this case, the host makes use of software originally developed for the guest.An emulator is used when the need arises to use a particular hardware to play software meant for another hardware. For example,for the Mac users, not many games are available for the Mac OS, but, with the use of an emulator a lot many games can be played on Mac.

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The user can use Microsoft virtul PC for Mac 7.0. XBOX emulator for Mac For playing XBOX, the most widely used emulator is XeMu360 emulator. This is a new software and it supports all XBOX games. This is a powerful emulator which can give you the joy of enjoying your game flawlessly. Playstation Emulators PCSX-Reloaded is the best emulator for playstation games. This emulator is an open source software and gives you the compatibility with all Mac OS. Recently it has modified its installation process as well, making the process simpler and easier.