{"id":2992,"date":"2026-04-05T23:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastpixel.de\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:08:22","slug":"nesbag-2-6-0-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastpixel.de\/en\/2026\/04\/05\/nesbag-2-6-0-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"NESbag 2.6.0 is available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey lovely NES developers, due to user requests, NESbag got updated to version 2.6.0 with one major change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Changelog 2.6.0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Self-defined game icon<br \/>\nPlease put your game icon as a file named &#8220;game.ico&#8221; (a correct ICO file &#8211; please generate it yourself) beside your games ROM (&#8220;game.nes&#8221;) in the folder &#8220;game&#8221;. The icon appears in various locations after the program starts, such as in the upper corner of the program window and in all other windows (e.g., Main windows, About windows, &#8230;) and in the Windows taskbar.<\/li>\n<li>Change the Icon of the NESbag2.exe (or &#8220;Yourgame&#8221;.exe) also:<br \/>\nAs it&#8217;s not possible to do this dynamically, you have to change the .exe icon yourself. It&#8217;s a process of<br \/>\naround one minute. Please do this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a) Prepare your own icon as a PNG\/ICO file in at least 256\u00d7256 pixel<\/li>\n<li>b) Download the free tool &#8220;ResourceHacker&#8221; by Angus Johnson (Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angusj.com\/resourcehacker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.angusj.com\/resourcehacker\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>c) Watch this short video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nth2gLPlN98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nth2gLPlN98<\/a> if you need help<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Complete changelog:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastpixel.de\/en\/nesbag-changelog\/\">https:\/\/www.eastpixel.de\/en\/nesbag-changelog\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download and further informations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NESbag 2 at itch.io: <a href=\"https:\/\/eastpixel.itch.io\/nesbag\">https:\/\/eastpixel.itch.io\/nesbag<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Our Discord: <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/NUXuNfyWe2\">https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/NUXuNfyWe2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey lovely NES developers, due to user requests, NESbag got updated to version 2.6.0 with one major change. Changelog 2.6.0 Self-defined game icon Please put your game icon as a file named &#8220;game.ico&#8221; (a correct ICO file &#8211; please generate it yourself) beside your games ROM (&#8220;game.nes&#8221;) in the folder &#8220;game&#8221;. The icon appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastpixel.de\/en\/2026\/04\/05\/nesbag-2-6-0-is-available\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  NESbag 2.6.0 is available<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamedev-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NESbag 2.6.0 is available - EASTPIXEL Software<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eastpixel.de\/en\/2026\/04\/05\/nesbag-2-6-0-is-available\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NESbag 2.6.0 is available - EASTPIXEL Software\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hey lovely NES developers, due to user requests, NESbag got updated to version 2.6.0 with one major change. 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