How to Emulate any Nintendo Console
Whether it’s the old school NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) all the way to the Wii, any Nintendo console can be emulated in Windows. To find games for these emulators, search “console name roms” on Google. If you’re looking for simulators for Playstation, Atari, Xbox, etc, see our emulator database.
NES
There are plenty of NES emulators out there, but Nestopia is our favorite. Simple interface with thousands of games avaliable. See all of our NES hacks and projects.
SNES
ZSNES is a fantastic emulator (even though its interface is weird).  Here’s a great ZSNES tutorial and download it here.
Gameboy/Advanced
This hasn’t been updated for a while, but it works great. Â For now, you can download VBA here.
Nintendo 64
Project64 has been around for a while and is continually improved.  You can download it here.
Nintendo DS
DeSmuME works best, but has a few bugs. There is also iDeaS, but I have been told DeSmuME is slightly better.
Gamecube & Wii
Dolphin is the only emulator I know of for GameCube or Wii games – It works well for the games we tested it on.
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January 19th, 2009
It works for Wii games? Really?
January 19th, 2009
Indeed.
September 27th, 2009
no$gba is also good and it can emulate GBA and DS plus it have different save options so games like GTA are still emulaterable.