Shoddy NES Emulators
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- I play old obsolete NES emulators and react to the weird crazy results that you wouldn't get from your average modern emulator. Corrupted sprites and glitchy music galore. Hope you enjoy looking at these bad emulators :)
Obviously this is something different from my normal content, so let me know what you think. And be sure to like the video if you want more vids like this.
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EDIT: Don't take this video too seriously for the love of god. This isn't actual criticism and it's all just for fun and laughs, don't get it twisted.
Corrections:
- Amphetamines was not accurate lmao
- The Fester's Quest audio was in fact supposed to sound like that, my only experience with the game was on the Dendy with duty cycles swapped
I appreciate your Cave Story background
Dendy?
@@Kr2n It's a type of Famiclone popular in Russia.
@@Kr2n Russian NES knockoff.
how do you even have access to a dendy??
joel would have a field day with BasicNes if he heard it converts the OST to midi
he'd probably derail the stream for about 20 minutes going down a rabbit hole of nes midis (not with the emulator, like actually searching for them on google), which will inevitably lead him to discover mm2wood (if he hasn't already)
Oh god, Jobel would LOVE this
@@tsunderecat413no way he hasnt heard mm2wood before
he has a video called mario midi hell
@@edaC_3.1415 That one involved him tying a controller to a MIDI player, didn't it? bNES actually does the MIDI stuff natively.
My theory of bNES (basic NES) was that it was probably an emulator programmed in visual basic, which if true, would be pretty cool
And, it is indeed written in Visual Basic!
@@Metallumtenebrarum-jt7rd cool! thanks for letting me know
@@MiiGameplaysHD you can look for the source code online if you want to
It was, it was a proof of concept only, it was to push the language to it's limits. Sadly people dunk on him for it even if it was in the 90s.
@@RebrandSoon0000 It was simply ahead of it's time. Nowadays, an emulator with MIDI playback would be a decent novelty with the right crowd.
BASIC NES CONVERTED THE SOUND TO MIDI?!?!?! more emulators should have this feature lmao
That's why im gonna go dowload basic nes RN
@@Moxiisickagain wheres the download link?
@@fishguylmfao wait a sec
@@fishguylmfaoUA-cam doesn't let me post links
@@fishguylmfaoMarioNES is pretty much the same, except it cant run mario 3
that shitty mario music at 5:07 sounds like something that would be frowned upon in an exe fangame for being too on the nose
IMO it sounds like an old-ass Atari game.
Yeah, like, it's so off you KNOW there's a jumpscare incoming somewhere
And I thought Mario's overworld theme in C minor rather than major was too on the nose in Mario '85
BasicNES Converting the audio to MIDI is actually really fucking cool. I can imagine some fun things can be done with this feature
If you can get nuked SC55 or Soundcanvas VA working then you'd have a great time
I really wish more emulators could have the feature to replace the sounds with MIDI instruments. That would make playing these games quite a bit more interesting.
@@thardump859 even more with snes games especially if you could change out what soundfont the midi used
Honestly, every Emulators should've have the option to switch Audio to MIDI, I want BasicNES strictly for the novelty today.
This feels like a video you would see in 2011
Even down to the way the video kind of just... *_stops_* instead of actually having any sort of conclusion
nes emulators that don't get cpu emulation right are so funny, what do you MEAN you couldn't implement one of the simplest cpu architectures of all time
I couldn't.
I could.
still complicated as shit, and many of these were still a work in progress
I never tried.
I might
this is the next joel vinny vined sauce whatever the fuck killer
that was my first thought lmao glad I didn't have to scroll to see it
Fr he sounds like a mix between the two lmfaooo
hi vlad1
Yeah I remember when there was background noise.
zenithowo yo
A lot of early NES emulators didn't have sound because there was no public documentation on how it worked for a very long time. This is also why a lot of audio was inaccurate. Mapper support was also poor, hence Zelda not working.
4:36 back in the day a lot of software required 8 bit color for performance reasons. This is also why window resizing was not available. Its also why a lot of them run too fast.
The high speed beatdown at 6:27 had me dying LMAO
i love how basicnes uses midi instrumentation lol
It's pretty cool to see how the evolution of many of these old console emulators was in their time and also to see strange ways to play these emulators on PC (like Nester DS).
I would really like to see a second part with other consoles (like snes, gb, gba etc) since it seems like a pretty interesting topic, I don't know how this video got to my feed but I hope UA-cam recommends it to more people
I dunno what NES emulator I used on the DS but it was actually for GBA and It worked well for mario, zelda and metroid. Might've even been someone hacked nintendo's emulator they used for the NES classics on GBA so you could put whatever ROM in there.
This is a classic era UA-cam video, even down to the Cave Story computer background.
The version of NES496 you were running is a debug version. The stuff on the bottom right was RAM data from the NES, written in hexadecimal format. In this case, it's specifically data from the PPU, which makes it a little strange to me that they had ASCII writeouts on the right side. Also, I would encourage you to get a better quality screen recording setup, although the video seemed to be uploaded at 1080p, the original recording seemed closer to 360p.
thanks for explaining it, i had no clue what i was looking at lmao. also the reason the recording is low quality is a combination of the vm resolution being too high and the render's bitrate being too low, the original stream was slightly higher quality than this video but it still looked low quality because of the aforementioned resolution
5:37 As a computer nerd, I will say that HYNES is a great name being a combination of HYMEM (a MS-DOS feature) and NES.
I had no idea thats where the name comes from, thanks for enlightening me
it lets MS-DOS support more ram
1:13 how dare you not mention the 2 pixel artifacting around the coin
Also midi based nes audio is hilarious
Also zelda probably didnt work on any of them due to its mapper being unsupported
The reason why these emulators only run Mario correctly and Dr. Mario is glitched is because they only support Mapper 0 which was used by "gray label" original Nintendo published carts, and nothing else.
Since it ran Dr Mario in a glitched state (Mapper 16), it means that Mapper 16 is partially related to Mapper 0, however due to lack of some features offered by Mapper 16, the game is glitched up
If you attempt to launch a game that uses a different mapper, you will get nothing as likely the emulated CPU has locked up due to no mapper support.
it’s super funny but also weirdly interesting seeing all the ways nes emulators can shit the bed like this
Big fan of how this video feels like old vinesauce
4:21 That torch on a blue circle icon is very nostalgic for me for some reason... I used to see it in a lot of executables in my childhood...
I've never seen an emulator automatically replace the soundfont of the original console with another, intentionally or not. That's both fascinating and hilarious
I want to play Mega Man 2 with all of the lead instruments of the OST replaced with the Touhou ZUNpet MIDI instrument now
it isn't that capable. I think it only maps the NES sound channels to midi so mapping individual leads would be difficult.
Oh shit it's Bingles
Wood Man would be nice
@@LunaExpiX Hello! Have I met you before?
@@sam_64 I know it isn't with that, I was making a joke
The midi conversion is probably what was lagging bNES since it was in real time and not just a pre-existing midi file
It's pretty cool that it did that though even if there was lag
Nah, it was due to Visual Basic 6's limits
3:23 So you're basically running a NES emulator inside of a DS emulator inside of a virtual machine inside of your actual computer.
For some reason, I expected _NESticle_ to be in this video, to which I would have aggressively attacked and mocked you, thxdeeply, as it is not bad.
Thankfully, there are only bad and shoddy NES emulators here. 👍
@@JoLiKMC i would never disrespect the nesticle name
Nesticle was my jam in the 90s; I remember playing Konami Wai Wai World on it and all the music being downpitched such that when I finally heard the real music I was confused all to hell.
Man, I remember a time when NESticle was the only game in town, or at least the only one I could get to work
The beta version was called Testicle
this is great honestly, I like seeing this kinda stuff and wouldn't mind if you did it more. though I should mention that I think Fester's Quest sounds fine, it might just sound weird to you because lamp always plays it on dendy speed with duty cycles swapped I think.
now that i'm listening to the ost again honestly that explains it lol, pretty much everytime i saw fester's quest gameplay it was on the dendy
It reminded me when I tested some old Virtual Boy emulators and it's kinda the same as some of those NES emulators.
The Double Dragon part looks like something you'd see in a bad creepypasta.
More emulators should be named after kinds of drugs, not gonna lie.
"Fentanyl Emulator" goes hard
SNEStacy
"Cocaine" PS2 emulator.
@@JomasterTheSecond Heroin64
dolphin? nah, i emulate my gamecube games with cokebrick, you can only trust a gamecube emulator if its a roughly similar shape compared to the original
BREAKING NEWS: Basic NES Emulator fails to run Super Mario Bros (witnesses say it’s kind of an L, and it is)
1:20 why do I now want all emulators to have sound like this
3:53 You forgot unregistered hypercam
being windows xp royale remixed/royale noir it's somehow even better
so classic this reminds me of an ABYSMAL ds emulator I used back in the day called iDeaS. It's unusably slow with vertex explosions everywhere and a framerate of ~10 but for some reason it was one of the suggested DS emulators back in 2010. Would love to see you make a sequel with other consoles
in 2010 the ds was still fairly modern, so it would make sense for the emulator to be shit
A lot of people surprised that Bnes converts to MIDI lol
Audio emulation is very computationally expensive!
MIDI was basically free hardware acceleration and resulted in far lower system requirements on these ancient emulators, and while it's obviously not even remotely accurate, it was better than the alternative of no audio at all.
It was hardly the only emulator that did this.
I seem to recall old Genecyst builds did so as well!
i guess it would be more effective for genecyst where sound cards for DOS-era PCs would usually be FM synthesis-based and could even use the same chip as the genesis.
now i'm wondering what basicNES would sound like if put through something like a sound blaster?
@@giwake Actually I think it was some kind of FM conversion now that you mention, but still--the point was it made it run faster.
I recall that on FM cards, it never sounded a thing like real Genesis still though lmao.
2:53 Wait… COPYRIGHT 1330??????????
Damn I didn’t know Nintendo employees were time travelers
0:32 cave story mentioned🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
A video of someone running crappy NES emulators on Windows XP is so incredibly aesthetic, like I've leapt through time to a window to a rainy Saturday afternoon of 2005.
this is actually great, super unexpected from you but in the best way possible
I have to wonder if one of the reasons some of these cant get the speed right is that they're actually depending on the PC's CPU clock or some shit
5:22 I wish there was a youtube channel like chip furnace but for scummy emulators
HyNES has some real “didn’t blow into the cart” energy
5:08 if i heard the mario theme in a dream it would definitely sound like that
WTF WAS THAT DR MARIO GAMEPLAY DAWG
Mario was never the same after the lobotomy
6:09 Feels like one of those creepypastas that scare me a bit.
It also sounds like the leapster crash sound
Doubel dragon creepypasta
In sixth grade my teacher made us emulate The Oregon Trail… Even though it was free. Some kid got a virus.
the one that had the half screen with pinkish is because it also required to change the video mode to 256 colors... like the other asked to... since with DirectDraw if you do direct screen access the pixel format that you must write is the one of the desktop... so you get this... (buggy pixels if more bpp than desired... crash if less bpp than desired)...
this feels like early vinesauce era
I actually managed to find a newer version of the InfoNES emulator you used, which is version 0.91.
And, honestly, even this version is crap despite the improvements compared to version 0.61 you used in the video.
mario is off the fuckin shits
this will be NES in 2013
7:06 this has been a phrase me and my friends have been using constantly for the past few weeks. It’s so fuckin funny
This guy is like an unholy concoction of Vargskelethor Joel and the Burgerking Foot lettuce guy
the energy and vibe of this video really had me thinking I must've clicked on a 2008 clip or something
damn this felt like a blast to the past lmao
Don't forget iNES and Nesticle, the OGs!
Nevermind, dear god, they were PERFECT compared to these!
Why even bother if you can't make something that can compete with the first NES emulators ever?
I kind of like some of these.. it's a good way to experience video games on the NES when the 72 pin connector starts to fail lol.
Wow, this reminds me of Super Mario Advance 3 for my PS1 (actually pNesX). Really brings back memories of bad NES emulation.
About HyNES:
- Complete 6502 emulation, not enough to be a 2A03 but working
- It only supports mapper 0 games such as Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros, Dr. Mario (well, technically it's mapper 1 but it's compatible with it)...
- Buggy PPU emulation
- Sound emulation is 40% complete, no 25% & 12.5% duty cycles for pulse waves, no triangle, no noise and no DPCM.
7:01 new punch out creepypasta dropped
whole video reminds me of older vinesauce content and just gaming videos in general i’d see as a kid, really good stuff dog keep it up
You’re like a combination of Vinny, Joel, and even danooct1 and I love it.
I heard "graphic design is my passion" from a joel destruction video, btw this was very fun to watch
i can see why it would use midi for the audio, driving emulated audio can be a struggle on older hardware so having a midi device synthesize the sound instead saves a lot of load (especially in an already slow emulator)
I think you should make more videos like this with other consoles, like old ancient SNES and GB/GBC/GBA emulators
you should try more systems, this concept is original and it was a funny watch, i'll rate you 5 stars through the youtube rating system
great video concept, liked very much
i give big like added to favorites
the emulator at 5:17 is still very analog horror btw
I'm guessing most of the emulators that could only emulate Mario don't emulate the mappers in the cartridge (extra chips needed to run games that give the NES more power). Even Nintendo's early emulators in games like Animal Crossing didn't emulate mappers very well or at all.
6:44
WHY DOES IT SOUND LIKE YOU'RE CONNECTING TO THE INTERNET ON A WINDOWS 95 PC WITH A PHONE FROM MARCH 7, 1876
6:08 it looks like an analog horror video
for double dragon on the infones emulator my thought is who set the intstruments to sorting algarithom
basic nes and hynes feel like fever dreams
I'm so glad I didn't skip this video because it's one of the most hillarious ones I've seen in the whole year.
UA-cam algorithm is finally good again, recommended this gem to me and I am not disappointed!
I hope we get a whole series that are full of shoddy emulators
glass joe turning into text got me 😭
yo goated cave story background
1:48 - The MIDI sound emulation is terrible tbh, and the emulator seems to be buggy
the little john sound effects were much funnier than they should have been to me
Honestly, why does this video feel like it was posted 7 years ago…but in a good way, idk how to explain man
"This guy fucking sucks" took the fucking AIR out of me OMFg
After seeing it attempt MIDI output, I'm surprised more emulators don't have more novelty audio features.
Difference wave-forms and such.
I didn't know Dr. Mario started performing lobotomies along with his pill prescriptions
I feel like you can use half the sounds from what these cursed emulators make to make great jumpscares for analog horror
This is intresting, usually emulators are tweaked to perfection but this is goooooddd
top 10 videos that will kick your ass
i would have killed to see that fast emulator run mario's underground theme while you had 100 seconds.
what nintendo thinks emulation is like and what their games look emulated by anyone except themselves
You should make this a series for like different systems
I'd love to see really terrible N64 or PS1 emulators
4:23 On older versions of Windows, you need to switch the amount of colors your PC will display depending on how strong your GPU is. Not really an emulator problem, but not many people know about it so it's fine
This video is amazing. I feel like I've been taken back to Old UA-cam and I love it.
These emulators hurt😂
90s/2000s
Lore of Shoddy NES Emulators momentum 100
Where these sounds from the emulator, or were they edited in? 7:23
was edited in lol
The fact that they literally forgot the APU on the first one is so fucking funny
info nes feels like an arg
I love nes games in midi this is great… nice video… 5:18 sounds like an Atari game
dr mario overdosed on pills