FCE Ultra

Infobox_Software
name = FCE Ultra



caption = FCE Ultra, running "Metal Slader Glory" in Windows.
latest_release_version = 2.0.2
latest_release_date = August 14, 2008
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Emulator
license = GNU General Public License
website = [http://fceultra.sourceforge.net/ http://fceultra.sourceforge.net/]

FCE Ultra is an Open Source Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that also supports emulation of the Famicom Disk System and network play via TCP/IP. It is a fork of Bero's [http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown/2004/fce.htm FCE] , and has become far more advanced than its predecessor.

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, Wii and Pepper Pad.

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. [cite web| url=http://dietschnitzel.com/gfceu/| title=GTK+ Graphic Frontend for FCE Ultra| publisher=dietschnitzel.com]

History

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 latest release was v2.0.2 in August 14, 2008.

In the absence of official development, many forks of FCE Ultra were created. Foremost among these were:
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fceumm FCEU-MM] by CaH4e3, which supports many new and unusual mappers
* [http://code.google.com/p/fceu/ FCEU Re-recording project] which incorporates many useful features for Tool-assisted speedruns
* [http://www.the-interweb.com/serendipity/index.php?/categories/9-FCEUXD-SP FCEU XD SP] by Bbitmaster, Parasyte, and eventually SP, which adds a number of debugging utilities.

In March 2006 FCE Ultra was [http://thekingant.livejournal.com/40390.html resurrected] by Anthony Giorgio and Mark Doliner. Shortly thereafter SP and zeromus initiated a project to combine all the forks into one new application called FCEUX, which attracted collaboration from many of the fork's authors and ended in success.

The first public release of FCEUX was released on the 2nd of August 2008.

ee also

* FCEUXD
* FCE Ultra GC
* FCE Ultra GP2X
* List of NES emulators

References

External links

* [http://fceultra.sourceforge.net The FCE Ultra home page]
* [http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fceultra The SourceForge project page]
* [http://freshmeat.net/projects/fceultra/ The Freshmeat project page]
* [http://izik.se/gp2x/ NoName's GP2X projects] . Retrieved Mar. 24, 2006.
* [http://dietschnitzel.com/gfceu/ Description of the GNOME FCE Ultra frontend] . Retrieved Dec. 25, 2007