Fceu-gui a NES/Famicom emulator for Maemo

By Giovani Delgado Email @Giodelgado

Fceu-gui a NES/Famicom emulator for Maemo

There’s a better emulator for Nes games called FCEU, it was originally posted by Omoikane but games needed to be launched using the command line, ade over at the Maemo forums created a GUI for this emulator making it easy to use it.

Users are reporting that this is a better emulator than the popular iNES.

Fceu-gui is a graphical frontend for FCE Ultra, a NES/Famicom emulator.

After some playing around with FCE Ultra (fceu, recently mentioned in http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php…highlight=fceu), I experienced it as a better emulator than the already available iNES emulator (at least in terms of speed and sound quality). So it deserved some graphical interface

The key configuration is done by calling fceu itself. Roms must be in “.nes” format, zipped or non-zipped.

Reserved(?) in-game keys:
Code:
f = toggle fullscreen
q = quit
o = savestate
r = reset
l = loadstate
Both fceu and fceu-gui can be found in the extra-devel repo.

Version history:
0.0.1-1
* Initial version
0.0.1-2
* Added option for TV Blur effect (only in 16 & 32 BPP)
* Added option for Game Genie
0.0.1-3
* Fix TV Blur effect

Game Genie:
This was a cheating cartridge made for several consoles.
In order to use it: find the Game Genie rom for the NES and place it in “/home/user/.fceultra/”, giving it the name “gg.rom”.
Then after starting Fceu-gui, it should be checkable in the config screen. Starting a game then, will bring you in the Game Genie screen first. There you can enter your cheat codes that can be found on the internet. Uncheck it in the config screen if you no longer want to use it.

To download it go to the extra-devel repo on your device.

About the Author

Giovani Delgado Thanks for reading, I have been a Nokia fan since the N95 and I'm currently using the Lumia 900, you can follow me at Twitter @giodelgado or contact me by mail giodelgado(at)nokiabits.com