Nesticle
has lots of cool features. Once you download it,
open it (either Nestcl95.exe, the Windows version, or Nesticle.exe, the DOS
version) and press ALT+L to load the BC ROM
that you should have put into the same directory as Nesticle. Press enter to
load it. If, in Nesticle, you want to remap the keys, go to Settings> Device
Input> Device 1. For this walkthrough, I’m assuming you’re using your
keyboard. Although the default mapping of keys makes sense, I use this mapping,
shown below.
A-
. (the period)
B-
/ (the slash)
Select-
; (the semicolon)
Start-
‘ (the quote)
And,
the arrows are the appropriate keys on the keyboard.
Why
this strange configuration? The hands are close together, the left hand controls
all of the non-direction buttons, all the buttons are close together, and it’s
comfortable. THIS IS JUST AN EXPERIENCED SUGGESTION; LOTS OF OTHER
CONFIGURATIONS ARE GOOD, TOO. HOWEVER, THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST MAPPINGS
POSSIBLE. All right.
I
also make lots of references to some NSMs in this walkthrough. They're all stored
together here. These are
movies, recordings of BC in Nesticle. To play them, put them into the
same directory as Nesticle. Then run Nesticle, load the appropriate ROM, and go to CPU> NES Movie>
Play. Type in the name of the movie there (for example, if the file is named
bionic.nsm, then just erase whatever it has, type in “bionic” without the
quotes, and click play.) There are also convenient links on the
parts of the walkthrough they pertain to. For example, in Area 12's page, it has
links to NSMs about Area 12 (duh.) So you can either download them all at one time
from
here
or download just the ones you want as you go through the walkthrough.
Nesticle
has ten save slots for each ROM. When playing, for example, hit the button 5. At
the bottom of the screen, ten slots will appear, with 5 being selected. If you
press 7, you’ll select save slot 7. 0 is selected by default. Save into a slot
by hitting the button F5. Load the slot by hitting F7. I could write several
pages about saving and loading in emulators, but here’s a brief summary:
There are four basic types of views towards saving in emulators: the paranoid saver, the frequent saver, the occasional saver, and the abstainer. The next section talks about how these people would use Nesticle's save/load features.