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Welcome To VirtualNES.com
VirtualNES.com
is the largest website on the Internet that allows you to play your
favorite classic Nintendo Entertainment System games online for free.
VirtualNES.com is the official home of, and is powered by the vNES
emulator by Jamie Sanders.
Unlike our
competitors, VirtualNES.com is able to provide you classic NES games
without trampling over Copyright laws. We can only provide you with
classic NES games that we have here at our offices, which have either
been bought out of pocket or donated by Players Like You™. If we don't
have the games in our possession, we can't have them online. This
protects us from threats of litigation, and protects the users from
(wrongly) being hunted down for violating copyrights. If you can, please
consider
donating money, games, or server space to the VirtualNES.com team.

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What's Happening... Now! Posted on
October 24, 2009.
It's been awhile since I've said much
about vGBX, so I thought now would be as good a time as any.
Although it's not perfect, work on vGBX
is still continuing. Most of the original greyscale GB games work,
and a large amount of the black-cartridge GBC games work. There's
some issues with the clear-cartridge GBC games, although we don't
plan to launch GBC support out of the box. Many of the best games
for the system work currently, and accessory support is still being
ironed out. (It's just not Pokemon if you can't battle your
friends.)
We've learned a lot through testing.
Apparently, I'm the only one who liked Alleyway. The Super Game Boy
is a big pain in the ass. In Japan, they had a device called "Mobile
System GB" that allowed you to connect your Game Boy to your phone.
We figured out what the Gold Leaf and Silver Leaf were supposed to
be for in the Pokemon games.
The issue, as it stands, is that we
currently have about 60 Game Boy games. To put that in perspective
for you, the Game Boy + Color lasted from 1989 to 2002. In America,
slightly over 900 games were released for it in that time frame,
over half of which were grayscale games for the original GB. We're
very far behind in collecting games for the system, and I think we'd
be ridiculed if vGBX launched with 60 games, so I'm going to delay
the launch.
If you've
got some Game Boy games sitting around that you'd like to donate,
please, find them, and do so. I understand that a lot of you are
a little weary about donating games for something you haven't seen
yet, and so, if you look just a few pixels below, you'll see some
screenshots. Or, thumbnails. Click those to see them at full size.
   
Thank you, everyone, for your continued
support of vNES and vGBX, and our future products.
-- Jamie Sanders

We've Got More Games. Posted on
October 3, 2009.
As promised, we're adding a bunch of
games, as this is Games Update 21. The following 26 games were added
today:
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle,
Al Unser Jr.'s Turbo Racing, Back to the Future Part II & III,
Battleship, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Digger T. Rock:
Legend of the Lost City, Double Dare, F-117A Stealth Fighter,
Formula 1: Built to Win, Gold Medal Challenge 92, Isolated Warrior,
Mario's Time Machine, Might and Magic: The Secret of the Inner
Sanctum, Overlord, Power Blade, Puzznic, Romance of the Three
Kingdoms, Silver Surfer, Stanley and the Search for Dr. Livingston,
Three Stooges, Thunder & Lightning, Treasure Master, Trog, Whomp 'Em,
Widget, and Wizardry: The Knight of Diamonds
Although progress on vGBX is going well,
we're still rather behind in the amount of games we have for the GB/GBC.
As always, if you have some to donate,
click here.
Thank you everyone for your continued
support of vNES and vGBX.

The Update I've Wanted To Do For 2 Weeks. Posted on
September 11, 2009.
I don't pay for the quick shipping
because we're on a budget, so I've had to stay tight-lipped about
this update while the games were in transit. I assure you, it
doesn't get a lot more awesome than what we've got right here, my
friends.
Remember on April 1st where we announced
we're adding Famicom games but due to poor planning, we only managed
to find and purchase one game which is some kind of quiz show about
America? Thanks to the help of forum member Gregorius, We've fixed
that.
Ankoku Shinwa: Yamato Takeru
Densetsu, Dragon Quest III, Final Fantasy III, Titan, and
TetraStar: The Fighter were added today. These are all very
awesome games, and a translated version of Final Fantasy III is
available at the new translation section
here. My personal favorite
from today's update has to be TetraStar. It's extremely trippy, and
also one of the most graphically intensive games made for the
Famicom, and I'd recommend giving it a go, provided you aren't going
to wind up in the hospital.
In other news, more work is being done
on vGBX, we're still on schedule for our November launch. We're
still low on games, so please donate
some. We're going to try to have a lot of American games
prepared for vNES Games Update 21, and hopefully we can get the ball
rolling on that.
Thank you everyone for your continued
support of vNES and vGBX.

vNES 2.11 Released & 1 New Game. Posted on
September 9, 2009.
vNES 2.11 was released, which adds
support for a bunch of games primarily of Japanese origin. We do
upgrades internally on this site, so you're already running the new
version. For more info on the update, click here.
Rollergames was added today.
We are still trying to collect games for
the upcoming launch of vGBX. We're getting closer, but we've still
got a long way to go, so if you'd like to donate some games,
click here.
And finally, happy 10th birthday,
Dreamcast!

Hilarious Cultural Reference Posted on
September 2, 2009.
Gun-Nac and Rainbow Islands -
The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 were added today. They're both
incredibly fun, but you don't have to take my word for it,
play it today!
(Clearly, I'm still lamenting the loss
of Reading Rainbow. If you haven't noticed, a lot of the humor on
the site is derived from PBS.)
Additionally, the new unreleased games
Airball, Escape from Atlantis, Free Fall, Pescatore, RoboCop vs.
The Terminator, and SunMan were added today, and aren't
exactly great games, honestly. SunMan seems to be a second attempt
to release the Superman 2 game, this still didn't happen. Also,
Pescatore is a puzzle game about Sushi, which was intended for
release in Japan.
More interesting stuff to follow. Now if
you'll excuse me, I've gots to get my tree fed.

Items of Community Interest, Vol. 2 Posted on
August 12, 2009.
We're hard at work collecting games for
the new Game Boy / Game Boy Color emulator. We've still got a long
way to go, so if you'd like to donate some games,
click here. We've just added new
prizes for people donating games, and it's some really neat stuff.
The mystery gift is a lot more fun, it's usually something slightly
more expensive than the usual gift.
And you know, we're working closely with
www.yourgamestore.net to
trade in donated games for the NES and GB that we already have, and
games for other systems that we don't support. If you're in the
market to buy some games, go check out their selection.

Reaganomics! (Or, Fun With Reptiles.) Posted on
July 29, 2009.
Color a Dinosaur, Donkey Kong
Classics, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters, and
Tombs & Treasure were added today.
The title is a reference to a Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles sketch on the hilarious show Robot Chicken.
Which is funny, because two of the games here have to do with
reptiles.
Edit: I hadn't mentioned this earlier,
but vNES was
#8 in PC World's Top 40 Internet Time Wasters. We ranked higher
than Pogo.
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