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Play Nobunaga's Ambition (Japan edition · Japanese) Online
Nobunaga no Yabou: Zenkokuban
Play Japanese Famicom Zenkokuban online. Manage rice, loyalty and flood defenses before going to war in 17- or 50-province campaigns. Learn original menu and number-entry controls.
Browser play
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| A / B | Z / X |
| START / SELECT | Enter / V |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Nobunaga's Ambition
Quick start
Press A after the opening to enter setup. Choose Y for a new game, the 17-province mode and one player, then select a province and complete the ruler settings. B cycles the province-selection map sections. Difficulty 1 is a useful starting point. Once your turn arrives, check money, rice, flood protection and loyalty. Use Up/Down and A to choose an order. The command list has two pages, changed with Left/Right. Build a sustainable province before pushing your troops into a neighboring territory.
Controls
Control Pad: move between choices and enter numbers. A confirms; B normally cancels. For numerical entry, Up/Down changes a digit, Right advances and Left returns one digit; A confirms the completed amount. Up/Down selects an order and Left/Right switches command pages 1–12 and 13–21. From MAIN, B opens the local map; Up/Right goes north, Down/Left goes south, and A returns to MAIN. Use Left/Right for Y/N choices. These are original Japanese Famicom controls, not PC or Super Famicom shortcuts.
Nobunaga's Ambition — About this game
Zenkokuban offers a compact 17-province setting and a 50-province nationwide campaign, both beginning in spring 1560. As a daimyo, you must make each season count: develop farmland, improve flood protection, maintain support and prepare an army rather than treating conquest as a simple numbers race. Hiring more soldiers lowers the average readiness of the force, while money and rice must cover its upkeep. A successful domain needs the means to feed, equip and train its troops before committing them to a campaign. War takes place on a separate hex map, where orders move your units through the terrain. Your ruler's health also matters, so long-term survival is as much a part of unification as taking the next province.
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · nes
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
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