And so... You downloaded your favorite game on dandy and decided to launch it. Having stumbled upon a file with the extension ".nes" or archive ".zip" you suddenly realize that you need help. In fact, you can’t play these games just like that, without the help of special programs. These programs are called emulators.
An emulator is a program that reproduces the work consoles on your personal computer. And the game file itself (by the way, it’s called rum) - This cartridge(exaggerated). Naturally, you can’t play dandy with just one thing. Therefore, for a full game you need download both rom and program to launch it.
I found dozens of emulators on the network, but I decided to take only the three best of them, besides, they all have support for the Russian language, which is very important for the Russian audience.
Russian emulators Dandy
| Virtual NES | Nestopia | FCE Ultra |
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| Virtual NES is an excellent dandy emulator that is best for opening Japanese-made games. Works on windows 7, XP, 2000. Excellent compatibility with most games. The Russian version of this emulator (version 0.93) is available at this link: | Nestopia- a relatively young dandy emulator, but it has already gained enormous popularity! Opens probably 99% of all roms without any problems. It supports online play, many filters for adjusting image and sound. Works on win xp, 7, 2000. The downside is that it is quite demanding on hardware, at least Pentium 3. | FCE Ultra- an excellent dandy, nes emulator that can handle most games. It is something between the two previous emulators. It eats few resources, but at the same time has a bunch of settings that will satisfy even the most experienced gamer. To enable the Russian language, you need to go to options, then click on language and select Russian. Version 0.98.15 is available at this link: |
How to run the game (rom) on Dandy
Let's say you downloaded the emulator and the rom itself, i.e. you should have two files: one with the extension “.nes” (game rom), the second “.zip” (emulator). To run the game, you need to extract the emulator program and run it. I'll show you how to run a rom using an emulator as an example Nestopia:
After starting the emulator, click on file / open ( file/open). Next, you need to select the folder in which you have a file with the extension ".nes" i.e. the downloaded game file itself. Open it in this program and you can play. The only thing that would be nice is to customize the control buttons, graphics, and sound. But it’s difficult to give any recommendations here, because everything will depend on the player’s personal preferences and the hardware on which the emulator runs. You can also configure where saves will be made, look at which buttons make quick saves, if your emulator has the ability to record video and sound - also specify in advance the folders where all this will be saved. If you actively use this program, the disk can contain a decent amount of photo and video materials, up to several gigabytes!
That's basically the whole discovery of Roma...
An emulator for playing on a smartphone with ANDROID OS can be downloaded
VirtuaNES is one of the best and most feature-rich Dandy ROM emulators. The emulator settings have a pixel smoothing function and many other image and sound settings. You can use cheats (Cheat mode, Game Genie) and the debugging function (Debugger). VirtuaNES has support for "turbo buttons". You can also shoot with a computer mouse instead of a light gun. Games can be recorded on video and saved at any time. There is an autosave function. The emulator supports more than 140 mappers, making it compatible with most games (Chinese, Japanese, Korean).
Platform: WindowsOS: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7
Language: English and Russian
Possibilities:
- Saving the game
- Cheat mode support
- Debugger Mode
- Game Genie support
- More than 140 mappers
- Sound settings
- Video settings
FCE Ultra is an emulator of the Dandy console.
The FCE Ultra emulator program is characterized by high speed, high-quality sound and is compatible with most games. This Dandy emulator has many features and settings, but, unfortunately, the program interface is only in English.
Platform: WindowsOS: Windows XP/Vista/7
Language: English
Possibilities:
- Save the game at any time, including autosave
- Game Genie support
- Debugger Mode
- Video recording of gameplay
- Setting the audio frequency
- Large selection of video settings
Gens32 2.35 Std is an emulator for Sega consoles.
The Gens32 emulator program is one of the best programs for running Sega games for Windows. The emulator is compatible with most games. There are many graphics and sound settings, but, unfortunately, the program interface is in English.
Platform: WindowsOS: Windows XP/Vista/7
Language: English
Possibilities:
- Save the game at any time
- Opens games in archives (zip, rar)
- Hotkeys for a screenshot from the game
- Large selection of video settings
- Hq2x rendering plugin increases graphics clarity even when playing on full screen
Download: Gens32 2.35 Std (1.22 MB)
Nesoid 2.9.0 RUS is an emulator of the Dendy console for Android.
Nesoid is one of the best emulators of the NES console (Dendy console is its clone) for phones and tablets on the Android operating system. Now it is possible to play your favorite games anywhere and at any time, because almost everyone now has smartphones.
Android Version: 2.0 or higherLanguage: Russian
Possibilities:
- Cheat support;
- Light gun support.
To play together, open the program settings with a long tap on the recently used applications button. Options->Multiplayer->
Download: Nesoid 2.9.0 RUS
Gensoid v2.4.3 rus - Sega console emulator for Android.
Gensoid is an emulator of the 16-bit Sega console for phones and tablets running the Android operating system. The emulator allows you to run most games from the Sega console on your phone or tablet. Games can be saved for later playthrough from the same place. It is possible to play together via Bluetooth or WiFi, but this emulator has problems with gameplay desynchronization between devices when playing online via Bluetooth.
Android Version: 2.0 or higherLanguage: Russian
Possibilities:
- Possibility to play together via bluetooth or wi-fi;
- Cheat code support;
- Ability to save and load games;
- Customizable game controller;
- Joystick support (via OTG cable);
- Ability to switch between 3 and 6 button controllers;
- Turbo mode.
To play together, open the program settings with a long tap on the recently used applications button. Options->Multiplayer->Bluetooth (Server). On a friend’s phone, open the same game, and in the options set Bluetooth (Client).
Download: Gensoid v2.4.3 rus (246 KB)
MD.emu 1.5.28 is a Sega console emulator for Android.
MD.emu 1.5.28 is not the best and most advanced Sega Genesis/Mega Drive/CD and Master System/Mark III emulator for Android. The emulator has many graphics, sound and control settings. Thanks to high-precision emulation, MD.emu displays graphics in games such as Panorama Cotton, Star Control, and VS mode in Sonic 2. The emulator uses a true 16-bit renderer (excellent compatibility), and not 8-bit as in Gensoid and the like! There is support for Sega CD roms (for this you need to download Sega-CD Model 2 BIOS V2.11). The disadvantages of this emulator include the lack of the ability to play via Bluetooth or WiFi and the interface is in English.
Android Version: 2.0 or higherLanguage: English
Possibilities:
- Very accurate sound emulation with high-quality sampling;
- SVP chip support in Virtua Racing (fast device required);
- SEGA CD emulation, CUE or TOC+BIN formats supported (BIOS files required for each USA/Japan/Europe region);
- CUE files support audio tracks in Ogg Vorbis and Wav formats (PCM, ADPCM, etc.);
- Support for games in .bin, .smd, .gen, .sms formats, as well as in .zip archives (namely zip, not 7z, not 7zip, and certainly not rar!);
- Support for cheat codes using .pat files (as in Kega Fusion, Gens, Genesis Plus GX, etc.);
- Save support, autosave and ten slots for manual saving;
- Supports 6-button controller and 4-port adapter;
- Joystick support (via OTG cable);
- Light gun support (Menacer and Justifier);
- Customizable on-screen keyboard and support for physical keys (up to 4 presses simultaneously), optimized button layout for Xperia Play;
- Multiplayer using Wiimote + Classic Controller, iControlPad, and Zeemote JS1 controllers.
The program features high-quality sound, high speed and is compatible with most games. This Dandy emulator has many features and settings, but, unfortunately, does not support the Russian language.
Platform: Windows
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
Language: English
Possibilities:
- Save the game at any time
- Opens games in archives( zip,rar)
- Support Game Genie
- Mode Debugger
- Video recording of gameplay
- Setting the audio frequency
- Large selection of video settings
Flaws: Poor implementation of the network game, does not support Russian language
Installing FCE Ultra
2 . Opening archive
3 . This will appear on your screen: list of files and folders:
4 . We create new folder By right-clicking on the desktop, a list of menus will appear:
5 . Let's call this folder
6 . Let's select everything archive contents and move it to this folder:
Here is a fragment of the transfer
7 . Run the main file fceu and on the left side we will see the emulator window:
8 . In this window, select the menu File and click on the menu item Open:
9 . Select the directory where the emulator is saved and open the folder games/ selecting the one you need game archive which you are planning to play:
10 . Click on the button open:
10 . If throughout all the steps you have done everything correctly, then you will see a window with the most game dandy in our case it’s Battle_City, this is what the window looks like after a successful launch:
Setting up game controls in FCE Ultra
1 . Let's move on to the most important question, control settings, select the tab Config and section Input...As the picture shows
2 . In front of you you will see a window with the required settings. Click on " Configure"and after clicking, an additional window opens Gamepad:
3 . Click on the required key that needs to be changed (in our example it is “ Up»):
4 . Click on Clear and select the required key (example of key assignment " W»)
Now press the keyboard key " W»
Upon completion of further settings, click on “ Close" And we do this with all the required key settings.
Controlling the FCE Ultra program (hot keys)
There is also a rather interesting section in the “ Config", it is called Map Hotkeys.
This section describes the keys for the main settings of the program itself:
From the list you can see that when you click " Ctrl+ F5"at any moment of the game it is saved, and when you press " Ctrl+F7» loading from the moment from which the save was made. All settings can be made to suit you if necessary.
After you have downloaded the file with the Dendy game, you also need to download the emulator, i.e. a program that will open this file itself. For more details, read below.
Emulators D endy- these are special programs that seem to reproduce the operation of the console on your personal computer. A cartridge (game) is a file with the extension “nes”, which is also called rom. ROMs are also very diverse, there are multi-games, and there are also ROMs with one game.
The logical conclusion: you can’t play dandy games without an emulator, just as you can’t play in an emulator without “nes” extension files.
In general, until the end of the 90s, no one even thought about any emulators; everyone calmly played the console itself. But at this time, quite powerful PCs began to appear (at that time), which had enough resources to run the emulator. American enthusiasts realized what was what in time... and around the same time the first programs began to appear that made it possible to play dandy on a personal computer.
Well, nowadays there are simply a great many emulators for dandies. It doesn’t even make sense to list them all for you. They differ in the quality of compatibility with original games, their demands on PC resources (don’t laugh), as well as the presence of additional features, for example, audio or video recording of the game during its passage.
Here are the most popular emulators for Dendy, which are enough, in general, to play 99.99% of games on your home PC or laptop or...
For Windows:
1) VirtuaNES— This is an excellent nes emulator that supports a large number of ROMs, has many settings, provides excellent sound and an equally attractive picture.
(Just a great nes emulator, with support for WinXP, Win7, 64 bit)
2) Nestopia— One of the best dandy emulators. Quite demanding on computer resources (comparatively), it requires at least a Pentium 2. It has a bunch of features, for example, video and sound recording, support for anti-aliasing filters, a simple and intuitive interface, etc. This nes emulator is definitely a must-download for everyone!
(A version of the emulator that works perfectly on both win7 64 bit and 32 bit XP systems!)
3) FCEU- Also very popular and in general a good dandy emulator. Supports most ROMs, produces good picture and sound.
(A nes emulator that works on win 98, ME, 2K, XP. However, it didn’t work on win7 64 bit.)
Several generations of Soviet boys grew up on the Dandy game console. So it's not surprising that many adults want to play old games. If you don't have a console at hand, you can use your computer. To do this, just download FCE Ultra for Windows 10. There are thousands of ported Dandy games for Windows on the Internet, but if you don’t install an emulator, they won’t work for you.
How to run Dandy games on Windows 10
To run the Dandy games you need to download the Dandy emulator. There are emulators that have games built into them, but we recommend avoiding them. These are the most unstable emulators. It is best to download an emulator that is not related to any specific game and separately download any games that interest you. If you want to play Dandy games, then your procedure is as follows:- Download FCE Ultra;
- Install the emulator;
- Download any game;
- Open the game through the emulator;
The English language in the emulator is so simple that you don't even need a translator. You'll get the hang of it in a couple of days and can enjoy playing old games. Sometimes the emulator freezes, especially on games that were poorly ported to Windows 10. It's okay, all emulators do this, and the problem is not with them, but with the games. The solution is simple - change the game or accept it. The game process itself is really similar to playing on a console, but there is an important “but”. You won't have a real gamepad. You will have to control it with a keyboard, mouse or touch screen. But you will have real Dandy graphics and the same plot familiar from childhood. You can download games from the Internet, but the easiest way is to download them through the client
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