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The FCEUX team maintains two ports: Qt/SDL and Win32.

The Win32 port offers the classic extensive set of native gui amenities and tools.

The newer Qt/SDL port supports all of the features of the Win32 build (debug tools, Lua scripting, movie recording), with the exception of the TAS Editor which will be added at a later date. Many of the tools in the Qt/SDL port have taken on a new look and feel. There are also a few new tools exclusive to the Qt/SDL port such as the sprite viewer, NES Palette Editor, AVI RIFF Tree viewer, and frame timing tool. The Qt/SDL port is 100% cross platform and should run on any UNIX-like OS (Linux/Solaris/BSD/OSX) as well as Windows.

Network play in both the Win32 and SDL ports is not presently functional. There are no plans to fix it at this time.

Win32

• Be sure to check out the fceux.chm file (Under Help -> Help... in the emulator main menu). We work pretty hard on keeping that up to date!
  • We also keep an up to date online version

SDL

• Cmake is required to build from source.
• Cross platform Qt GUI replaces deprecated GTK GUI
• Requires Qt5, SDL2, minizip, zlib, and OpenGL
• ffmpeg libraries (libavutil, libavformat, libavcodec, libswscale, libswresample) are recommended optional dependencies that provide many encoding features for AVI recording
• libx264 is an optional dependency that provides H.264 video encoding for AVI recording
• Lua 5.1 is optional, if the system cannot provide this, an internal version of Lua will be statically linked
• The Qt GUI is required and will automatically be part of the build.
• For installation instructions on Linux systems, see the README at the root level of the source tree
• For build examples, see the script files in the pipelines directory of the project

Download

• FCEUX 2.5.0 win32 Binary
• FCEUX 2.5.0 Qt/SDL win64 Binary
• FCEUX 2.5.0 MacOSX Binary
• FCEUX 2.5.0 src

If you would like to test the current in-development version of FCEUX, interim builds are available here:

• Windows 32-bit
• Windows 64-bit
• Win 64 Qt/SDL
• Ubuntu Linux
• Mac OS X

Source Code

• Git repository

FCEUX development is done commited to a Git repository hosted at Github. The last version of the source can be found there.

Compiling

• Win32 uses MS Visual Studio 2010. Newer versions of visual studio should be able to build it, with a little trouble.
• The Qt/SDL build uses Cmake
• Everything needed to compile the win32 version is included in SVN
• The Qt/SDL port requires development packages for Qt5, SDL2, minizip, zlib, and OpenGL

Old Versions