NES Utilities
Program | Download | Description |
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CajoNES | Download | I've heard many a good thing about this ROM utility, but I've never actually used it. This is the final release. |
Famicon Converter | Download | Changes pasofami formatted NES ROMs to Famicon format. |
Fix | Download | Fixes mapper problems for NES ROMs for iNES .7 and NESticle .4 |
Graphics Extractor | Download | This is a program written by Jair that rips the graphics from a ROM and dumps them into a BMP file. Use the Graphics Inserter to stick them back in. |
Graphics Inserter | Download | This goes along with the Graphics Extractor. You can poke in BMP images with it as well as reinserting graphics you extracted. |
Hexposure | Download | Many ROM hackers will tell you this is their favorite hex editor. It has good table support and a relative searcher built in. A must-have tool for any ROM hacker. |
NESimage | Download | Converts ROMs back and forth from iNES, Pasofami, and FFE. |
NESToy |
Download
Download (Windows) |
A utility that can do many things to NES ROMs, including renaming, repairing, and identifying.
There's also a Windows port that has the same capabilities as its DOS counterpart. |
Nosefart | Download
Download (WinAMP plug-in) |
This is, in my opinion, the best NSF player out there. It's for DOS and has visualization and the ability to turn off sound channels. There's also this WinAMP plug-in that works about as well as the DOS version. |
NSF Tool | Download | A small utility that lets you rename NSF files and view information about it. |
QND | Download | Another ROM manipulation utility. It's been discontinued though. |
ReadChar | Download | A utility that allows you to look at the NES ROM's sprite data. It doesn't let you edit the sprites at all though. |
TetaNES | Download | A useful tool that converts ROMs to different formats. |
Tile Layer | Download | This is THE sprite editor of choice for most ROM hackers. It has support for 1BPP, NES, SNES, SMS, Virtual Boy ,and Gameboy tiles. |
tniNES | Download | Similar to NESimage, it edits the header format of the ROM. It also has various other features. |
TRaCER | Download | A disassembler that was programmed by Y0SHi. I can't really judge how good it is though, since I don't know any ASM... |
X816 Assembler | Download | Again, thanks to my lack of ASM knowledge, I really can't say how good this thing is. Try it for yourself. |
Xchar | Download | I could never get it to work on my PC, but from what I hear it's a decent tile editor. |
6502 Disassembler | Download | Another utility that uses ASM, which I don't know. It might be good, but you ASM people will have to figure it out for yourselves. |