I put a few nes games on piplay, and when I tried to play them when my raspberry pi's hdmi was hooked up to me tv, they played fine. But when I got a monitor and try to play, the screen turns black after I select a game and then it just goes back to the menu. Other emulators do work.
This is a known issue that has been discussed in several threads, but it's basically because the fceux emulator can't decide resolution your monitor is set at. You need to specify a correct resolution in your boot/config.txt file (not all resolutions will work)