Phoenix is a Homebrew Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom emulator, which can be used in conjunction with various frontends available on the internet. It's an open-source project and includes several anti-piracy measures. Phoenix also has a built in rewind feature that allows you to review what you just did! Phoenix is one of the most popular NES emulators for homebrews and updates its compatibility lists regularly. It has been designed to play well with other emulators such as NESTOPIA32, MESS64, Daphne 64 among others. It can be used as a frontend for Nintendulator and other popular Frontends like Nestopia and Daphne 64. Phoenix first started as a fork of the Nestopia-based NES64 emulator, which was developed by its original author Kenney Vickers, but later became independent. Since then, it has been one of the most popular NES emulators for homebrews, with its home page being visited daily by thousands of users from around the world. In 2003 it is said that over 300 games have been successfully emulated with Phoenix. Currently it is being developed with funding from Patreon and is being developed at a pace faster than any previous emulator. Also it relies on a lot of open source libraries used in a lot of other emulators. Phoenix is one of the few NES emulators to achieve fast core emulation speeds. Phoenix uses a libretro core for its graphics and sound, which has the advantage of being able to use external hardware acceleration plugins that is supported by most 3D engines used in video games. Examples of these plugins is geom from Cocos2d-x and s3tc from Snes9x Next. The performance gains from using these programs can be tremendous but is dependent on how well they've been implemented with the emulator. Phoenix supports a wide range of peripherals such as the NES Classic through keyboard emulation, flash carts and is able to emulate most Famicom cartridges as well as Famicom Disk System games.Technically speaking, Phoenix is not really a multi-platform emulator as it uses a libretro core that can be ported to different platforms. It's currently being developed on the free BSD Unix operating system for performance reasons. Currently it runs on Qt5, GLEW and OpenMP on Linux/BSD systems and there are plans to port it to Windows too. Otherwise it uses the SWIG scripting language for most of its software development. According to the homepage, Phoenix aims to be a more accurate emulator with compatibility for most games. Although it aims for accuracy, it does not aim to add unnecessary features or add-ons that would break the original emulation. It also aims to have a simple user interface with few settings but many cheats. Phoenix was reviewed by Libretro in regards of its libretro core and the developers agree on several points that Phoenix has a lot of potential in terms of accuracy and will continue updating the blog post as new updates come out. FamicomWorld review of Phoenix 1. 8eeb4e9f32 13
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