Mesen
Mesen is a Powerful and accurate NES emulator that is super easy to set up and install.
Full Setup Guide
First Download the ZIP file from the official site and extract the contents to your hard drive.
Next double click the mesen.exe file to start the emulator and run the initial setup config wizzard.
Select "store data in the same folder as the application"
Press the confirm button to finish installation.
Now go to the top menu bar, select "options" then "input".
on the screen that pops up check the console type is set to "Famicom".
Make sure next to player 1&2 in the drop downs "standard controller" is selected.
Then next to "expansion port" select "Zapper".
Next click the "Setup" Button next to Player 1, in the new window that pops up simply click on each button input and press the button you wish to associate with it e.g. DPAD Up = Press Keyboard button up etc.
Once you have set all the buttons press the "OK" button.
Back on the input selection screen select the "Advanced" tab at the top and you will see a tick box to hide the mouse cursor/crosshair if you wish to do so once done again press the "OK" Button.
If you wish you can apply different Filter options to the screen to make it look more CRT like.
To do so go to the "options" tab in the main menu at the top of the screen then select "Video" you can then navigate to the "Picture" Tab. This will give you a drop down where you can play with filter settings.
Next we want to auto hide the menu bar when we are playing.
To do so go to "Options" then "Preferences" then towards the bottom you will see a tick box to automatically hide the menu select that.
Also under the "Advanced" tab you may wish to disable the on screen display OSD and the game selection screen.
Once you have finished press "OK".
You can now load and play games normally with your gun!
However when you load a game they will NOT load full screen, to bring it to fullscreen you have to press F11.
If you wish to auto load a game fullscreen and not faff around with the menu system it is best to launch the emulator and game from the command line.
To do so you can create a batch file that will do everything for you once you click it.
To create a batch file do the following:
Within the MESEN folder right click in a blank space to bring up the menu and then highlight "new" then select "text document" this will ceate a new text file you can name as you wish.
Load the new text document and then type the following command adjusting the drive/file path to suit:
start C:\*Insert Messen directory here*\Mesen.exe "C:\*Insert NES rom directory here*\*ROM NAME GOES HERE*.nes" -fullscreen
Then simply go to "File" then "Save As", Give the file a name of your choosing but it MUST end with .bat
Eg gamename.bat
Hit save and then you should have a fully executable batch file that will boot the game you have chosen full screen!
You could also use AHK to carry out this task.
Downloads
- Download the Mesen Bezel pack (v1.5) from Mediafire
Launch Script
Example Batch File text:
start C:\NES\Mesen.exe "C:\NES\ROMS\*ROM NAME GOES HERE*.nes" -fullscreen