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Nestopia VS AmpShell

Compare Nestopia VS AmpShell and see what are their differences

Nestopia logo Nestopia

A portable and cycle-accurate NES emulator written in C++

AmpShell logo AmpShell

AmpShell is a DOSBox front-end for Windows.
  • Nestopia Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-12-24
  • AmpShell Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-13

Nestopia videos

NEStopia Review

More videos:

  • Review - NES Emulator - NEStopia Install
  • Review - Let's Play Nestopia

AmpShell videos

AmpShell's Live PS4 Broadcast

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Nestopia and AmpShell)
Gaming
55 55%
45% 45
Emulators
70 70%
30% 30
Gaming Software
0 0%
100% 100
Media Player
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Nestopia seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Nestopia mentions (1)

  • Can't get Mesen (NES) Emulator to work with any NES games through Playnite. They work fine if I boot them manually in Mesen. Any ideas?
    Try to remove the emulator in Configure emulators,and import it again, it could work. You can also try different emulators like Nestopia or FCEUX (the one I am personally using). Source: about 2 years ago

AmpShell mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of AmpShell yet. Tracking of AmpShell recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Nestopia and AmpShell, you can also consider the following products

Mesen - Mesen is a NES/Famicom emulator and NSF player.

DBGL - DBGL is a free, open source, multiple frontends for DOSBox.

FCEUX - FCEUX is a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom, and Famicom Disk System (FDS) emulator.

RetriX - RetriX is an emulator front end for UWP, on all the hardware platforms it supports: it serves the...

puNES - PuNES is a high accuracy NES emulator.

Terminal Launch V - For those that want a clean, simple fast emu frontend.