A NES emulator mimicks the Nintendo Entertainment System on your machine to play what are called NES Roms, which are the old video games that you are used to playing in school. There are a number of NES emulators available, and these are all small downloads. FCE Ultra and TUXNES are two popular NES emulators for Liriux. Use the package manager to download and install a NES emulator. Just start it up and search for NES. Depending on your distro, and the NES emulators listed in the reposItory. A NES emuiator should show up. Install one or two of these.

The next step is to get hold of NES roms. Most of these are abadoned, and can be downloaded for free. However, some are propretry. ROM files that you need. Here you can find old favourites like DIgDug, Contra or the original Mario.

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After installing a NES emulator, your first step WIll be to configure the buttons before you playa game. In most emulators, this configuration is done by selecting a button WIth the mouse, and pressing the keys on the keyboard you want to use for that button.

In FCE Ultra for example, click on the Gamepad you want action buttons. Press the button on the keyboard which you want to use for that particular function.

After downloading NES roms (most of them are less than 100 KB), unzip the files if they are packaged into one folder for ease of use. The files will have extension. Browse for the roms and load them in the emulator.

That is it, you can start playing now. Some emulators offer multi player modes over the network.