By far the best emulator for the Nemesis games is Sparcade by Dave Spicer. It runs Nemesis, Salamander and Vulcan Venture to arcade-perfect standards on a modest PC, particularly the latter game which is fantastic. All credit to Dave!

You can download the Sparcade emulator from Dave's Video Game Classics under the Arcade Multi-Game section, or from the Sparcade home page here

The rom images below (Nemesis, Salamander, Vulcan Venture) will only work with Sparcade. When you have downloaded them unzip the rom images into folders within the Sparcade directory (the folders must have the same name as the zip file ie. Nemesis, Salamand, Vulcan).. then run the emulator (you may need to fiddle with the settings..read the docs or this nice explanation here (courtesy of Planet Gradius)

Hey Presto! Instant 80's arcade nostalgia ahoy!

Also below is the Snes version of Gradius 3 which needs ZSnes to run, ideally in 16-bit colour mode. Again, ZSnes can be downloaded at Dave's Classics under Console emulators/Super Nintendo. Well worth the effort though as it is a superb version.. although very difficult indeed to actually play!!

Download Roms:

Please read the disclaimer below before downloading any of these files

       

Nemesis
(Gradius)
 

Arcade

Sparcade

Rogues Gallery

       
 

Salamander

 

Arcade

Sparcade

 
       
 

Vulcan Venture
(Gradius II)

My fave ever Gradius game!

 

Arcade

Sparcade

 
       
 

Gradius III

 

Snes

ZSnes

 

 
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