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+Introduction
+FCEUX is a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Famicom Disk System (FDS) emulator. It supports both PAL and NTSC modes and is cross platform.
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Project Administrators
+If you would are interesting in joining the FCEUX project please contact our project administrators.
+If you have a bug report or feature request please post it in our Sourceforge tracker.
+ + +The most basic function of FCEUX is to play Nintendo Entertainment + System (NES) and Famicom Disk System (FDS) games.
+To play a game, simply open a ROM by selecting "Open" in the File + Menu (or press Ctrl+O). (See + Game + Compatibility for information regarding file types that are + compatible with FCEU.)
+FCEUX is a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Famicom Disk System (FDS) emulator. It supports both PAL and NTSC modes and is cross platform.
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FCEUX is a merger of versions forks of FCE Ultra.
+ The project began in 2006 by Zeromus and Rheiny (SP). Additional
+ authors joined the group prior to its August 2008 release, including mz,
+ adelikat, nitsujrehtona, maximus, CaH4e3, qFox, punkrockguy318, and
+ Sebastian Porst.
FCEUX contains all features and enhancements from FCE, FCE Ultra, + FCEU rerecording, FCEUXD, and FCEUXDSP as well as many new mappers from + FCEU-mm.
+Bero originally wrote a Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom + emulator that was referred to as + FCE. This + name was apparently meant only to serve as a temporary name, but its + usage remained. Xodnizel originally ported it to Linux SVGAlib, and made + a few improvements. This code base was abandoned, and work began anew, + under DOS, with the original FCE source code. At the end of November, + 1998, FCE Ultra Beta 1 was released.
+FCE Ultra remained DOS-only until version 0.18, when it was ported to + Linux SVGAlib, and released as a statically-linked executable. The first + MS Windows port was released as version 0.25.
+The source code of 0.40 was released on November 12, 2000. It + retained the simple license of FCE for a long time, which stated that + "This software is freeware. You can use it non-commercially." Almost two + years later, in June 2002, 0.80 was released, and FCE Ultra was + re-licensed under the GNU GPL.
+It has been tested (and runs) under DOS, Linux SVGAlib, Linux X, Mac + OS X, and Windows. A native GUI is provided for the Windows port, and + the other ports use a command-line interface. The SDL port should run on + any modern UNIX-like operating system (such as FreeBSD, Solaris or IRIX) + with no code changes. It has also been ported to the GP2X, PlayStation + Portable as PSPFceUltra, the Nintendo GameCube and Pepper Pad.
+FCE Ultra was created by Xodnizel. Development appeared to stop and + the homepage and forums for the emulator were taken down. The last + version before this was v0.98.13-pre, released in September 2004 as + source-only. The last binary release was v0.98.12 in August 2004.
+However, it was resurrected again in March of 2006 by Anthony Giorgio + and Mark Doliner.
+There is also a graphical frontend for FCE Ultra. GFCE Ultra is + written in Python and uses the GTK2 user interface library. Because is + it written in Python and with portability in mind, it can be run on any + UNIX-like platform and any processor architecture that is supported by + Python.
+The "rerecording" version of FCE Ultra was implemented to FCE Ultra + 0.98.10 with movie + recording support. This was done by blip, and was implemented + for the purpose of creating + Tool-Assisted + Speedruns.
+The rerecording branch continued with 0.98.12, adding movie support + features, such as "bullet proof" recording. In 2006, FCEU 0.98.16 + was implemented by nitsuja and luke. Various tools such as + read-only toggling, increased hotkey mapping, + and memory watch + were added.
+In 2008, FCEU rerecording was picked up again by mz, maximus, + adelikat, and nitsujrehtona with various updates named FCEU.0.98.17 - + 0.98.28
+ +In 2002, Parasyte modified the then-current version (0.81.3) of FCE Ultra and added a Nesten-style debugger, along with several other features, and named it "FCEUD" (FCE Ultra Debugger).
+In January 2004, bbitmaster began working on more features and called
+ it "FCEUXD" (FCE Ultra Extended Debugger).
+ It is a branch of FCE Ultra that contains many extended debugging
+ features compared to the original FCE Ultra code such as a trace logger,
+ a built-in hex editor, a name table viewer, code/data logger, inline
+ assembler, and Game Genie decoder/encoder in addition to the debugger
+ and PPU viewer from FCEUD. The last version made was FCEUXD 1.0a.
FCEUXDSP stands for FCEUXD "SP" version and is a branch of FCEUXD + 1.0a.
+It was created in 2006 by sp. The project extends the debugging + tools even further compared to FCEUXD by adding new tools, functions, + and usability of debugging tools.
+The last version of FCEUXDSP was 1.07 which adds a feature known as + the RAM Filter.
+ +CE stands for "Champion Edition" and is a branch of XDSP that adds a + text hooker tool. The CE is a play on the excessive acronyms and branches in the FCEUD chain.
+ +FCEU "mappers modified" is an unofficial build of FCEU Ultra by + CaH4e3, which supports a lot of new mappers including some obscure + mappers such as one for unlicensed NES ROM's.
+FCEUX supports mappers from older versions of FCEU-mm.
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