Do you plan on full MMC5 support and any other mappers not already supported in future version(s)?

Also to follow up, I don't remember the unsupported mapper numbers, I think it was 14 or 15 and 30 or 40? Also on Final Fantasy 3 (J).nes rom, the battle music is whacked and only emulator that seems to play it correctly is RockNES. Also FDS rom support would be neat feature. Jnes is my favorite emulator but I have some roms and hacks that don't work because of MMC5 or mapper #s unsupported.

Working in linux ubuntu 16.10 with wine-stable

Jnes was my first NES emulator, and I've enjoyed using it very much these years! But recently I've acquired a CRT monitor, and after some research and tweaking, I've managed to make it display 240p. It's a joy playing retro games in their native resolution, pixel-perfect and scanlines. But sadly Jnes can't display that resolution very well. Besides not having it in the fullscreen resolution drop down list (I managed to force it through the .ini), there seems to be a forced bilinear filter. Using either default or nearest neighbour, will make the picture blurry, even at a resolution like 640x480. I know that's more for modern displays, because the higher the resolution, the sharper it looks, and the pixels won't be "out of place", but I think "native" (I know it's never truly that way for any emulator) should be supported. I made a small comparison with SMB 3, running at 1280x240 ("super" resolution) on Jnes and another emulator, with default settings (no palettes, and correct 4:3 aspect ratio):

Jnes:
http://imgur.com/a/tH0WV

Mednafen, NES core (not Retroarch, Mednafen with Mednaffe GUI, easier to configure 240p):
http://imgur.com/a/D4AYu

Notice how blurry the Jnes pics look. I would love an option to disable simple filtering (I actually don't know if it's linear or bilinear), so that true 240p wouldn't look like that. I like Jnes because it's practically pick up and play. Other NES emulators I've used, obligatorily need many configurations to set up (not that I completely dislike it), but when I knew nothing about emulation, Jnes was there, and now I can't let it go XD.

Muchas gracias!

Ahora funciona correctamente en XP!

Saludos

Good to see coming back of Jnes, hope that the accuracy can be improved year by year...

Thanks for making a great emulator. The easiest and most reliable NES emulator, IMO.

Reporting a bug on Windows 10: The emulator won't open if there's no mouse plugged in. Giving the error "DirectInput: Error setting mouse format". This causes problems on tablets, because the touchscreen is not recognized as a mouse. Plugging in a mouse before running the executable fixes the problem even if the device is otherwise being used in tablet mode.

Someone mentinoed the same problem in this thread: http://www.jabosoft.com/articles/126#94

Greaaat! Thanks Jabo/Gent

Thanks for the feedback! People like yourself are why I still work on Jnes despite a busy life.

I'm reasonably confident that anything lower than 640x480 is hidden, but glad you found a way around that. The default screen drawing filter in 1.2 is linear as you have discovered, this is a hardware filter responsible for positioning the emulated screen tailored to more common LCD displays.

While disabling the linear filter is an obvious choice, the real issue is likely that displayed resolution in Jnes is 256x224, which does not map to 240p evenly. I'll give this some thought, but hopefully this explanation makes sense.


That's disappointing, I had made a guess what the issue was and it seems that it did not work out, based on this information I will try again in the next update.

Can't activate cheats...

Thanks for making this great emulator. I was looking for a NES emulator and this is the best one I found.

I just downloaded this 1.21 and I'm loving it. I've never tried previous versions so I don't know what improved or what is worse now. I think it has a great balance of settings, light weight and simplicity..

it's working fine in my Windows 10 laptop and with my SNES gamepad. I haven't noticed any bug so far but I know I need to play it longer.

I also wrote the translation to Catalan language and it's working fine. I'd like to share it but I can't find any contact email.

Really nice emulator would be great if it was back in mobile stores.

Fantastic!!! Now I can even play on my old xp computer...

Thank you for replying, Jabo! I understand that the NES resolution is smaller than 240p, and consumer CRTs would compensate that with overscan. But, to not "deform" the pixels by stretching the image inside 240p, just let the image be centered. I know that would create small black bars all around, but I'm already used to it in most emulators XD. I think that's what the Super Game Boy and the Game Boy Player do in their hardware, since those handhelds resolutions are even smaller than the "bigger" consoles, and simply zooming the image on the big screen would make things distorted, so it's centered by default.

Ya sounds like we are on the same page with the issue.


You are welcome to post a link here, you can use any number of file sharing sites, even dropbox. I gave up on attachments or email a long time ago.

Hey Jabo, Great job! Thank you so much for doing this. I've been having trouble getting my ds3 controller to work on the latest release. I have a much older version that works with it. The new release lets me set my buttons, but they don't work in game. is there something that I'm not doing right? I'm using win10 btw.

Hi,
I don't know if it's the right place to post this but, first, thank you so much for this emulator! Jnes has been my NES emulator of choice since several years.
There is however a feature that I would like to see in future versions. It would be nice if we could map the Save and Restore function on spare controller buttons.

Keep up the good work!

used the original for years. i just upgraded my laptop. i cant get jnes 1.2.1 to work with windows 10. i keep getting the msg "error file missing or corrupt". I copied from the laptop to the desk top running windows 8 and it works great. Any ideas

Can you fix wrong? When i load Mr Gimmick after save state and kill self. You try it.....

It certainly is, thanks for the kind words and feedback!

Is there ANY way to turn off the bottom status bar?

Hy guys... want to ask about game Disney`s Aladdin.. it seems it`s not work fine.. and why the street fighters not working ?

Hello i found mega man 6 is bug after Yamato man but when i have battle Knight man but have not delete knight man. Too i have battle centaur man have not delete centaur man.

I am having issues with full screen mode not working properly on Jnes 1.2.1 it has audio but not video and I can get any games to start.

That's not good, I assume windowed mode works fine? Can you describe your computer a bit in terms of platform and graphics hardware specifically? Are you using any full screen filters? Is the full screen resolution the same as your desktop?

Thank you for creating this emulator. I have been using it for many years and never got to say thank you. I just wanted to share with you an issue I had with the new release that can easily be resolved. I saw that some users were having full screen issues like myself with windows 10. I finally got it to stop hanging up with a black screen. Right click on the executable and under properties --> compatibility tab--> settings block check the box that says "disable fullscreen optimizations" and you should be good to go. Again thank you for putting in the time to create this great program. Nice work!!!

Un-Check the box is what I meant..... Hope this helps someone else...

Hello, i bought the emulator from a friend that didn't use it much, he lost the instructions to use the usb controller and how to setup the controller? Some of the games work with controller setup and alot dont work Any help please , Thanks

street fighter II is working fine ?

is this emulator ever going to update?

I think so! There is a road map to the next release for Windows that I'm currently working towards, it's just going very slowly since I have more responsibilities and less free time.

Im a total newb. Just downloaded the file and im stuck. I also cant find a forum topic on how to install so if i could get some help id love to start playing my childhood games again...

Hi Jabo, the emulator works well for me, in windows 7,8,8.1 and 10.
as much as x86 and x64.
but it doesn't have a button to record, pause, stop, etc. the game in avi.
When I record the game, it has recording errors.
For example to record the game, I had to use MSI Afterburner to capture the game and upload to my YouTube channel.
I hope solution soon.
Greetings from Argentina

are you ever going to update the emulator?

Descargo roms de # in-1 pero al abrir aparece un error !!! mapper #255 unsupported y no me deja jugar son varias roms me ayuda gracias

Be nice that, J check emutalk for pm >:D<

I am having the below error message when I try to open Full screen. Could you please help?


Directdraw: Unable to set display mode
texttext

Could you please assist?

I have a Lenovo Ideapad 100 laptop with Windows 10

Jnes no longer uses DirectDraw so I'm a little confused why you would see that error message, I know you posted in the 1.2.1 thread but I would suggest downloading the latest version from here it doesn't seem like the latest.

How odd that sounds like a win10 compact issue.



I will be interetested to see if JJ still gets that same error.

Everything that flickers in Wrath of the Black Manta is invisible instead.

Aren't NES games supposed to run at 30fps, not 60?

Quote: greenwoodjwt

Actually no, the precise frame rates were:

(North America) NTSC: 60.098813897441
(Europe) PAL: 50.006978908189

But Nintendo just rounded them up to 60 and 50 for the consoles.