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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