09-06-2004 02:40									#31
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there are a few. i think the best one needs a voodoo glide card(UltraHLE). there is also an opengl n64 emulator(project 64) but it runs extremely slow on my pc when i tried it. just for reference i had a 750mhz/128mb/gf1 ddr so it's not the fast pc in the world. i imagine n64 emu would be playable on a current top end pc. i imagine there are more newer emulators now too.

	09-06-2004 02:43									#32
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There are apparently some decent Play Station 2 emulators around, although I haven't tried any.

There are some X-Box ones under development, but none that I've heard of being very functional beyond a few games.

	09-06-2004 02:50									#33
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Someone technical explain how emulators work please.

	09-06-2004 02:55									#34
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they emulate/imitate console hardware, hence emulators. basically as i understand it the software acts as if it's the hardware and performs the same, except you are using your cpu/video. if you have a fast enough cpu/video card you can emulate any hardware more or less. it's all just math. i imagine we'll see xbox/gamecube/ps2 emulators in a few years after cpus after fast enough to make it easier.

	09-06-2004 03:21									#35
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It actually slows down your PC, if not, those games would run at insane speeds.

	09-06-2004 04:44									#36
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quote: Originally posted by alva It actually slows down your PC, if not, those games would run at insane speeds.

huh? not for n64 on my pc. i doubt it's fast enough to run it. emulators take a lot of extra cpu power generally over consoles. in the older games(16bit and lower games) it locks the framerate so it doesn't get insane. you need a beefy pc to run last generation consoles(especially when the emulators you are running is not optimized). look at these anandtech benches for ps1 -

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1986&p=8

the image below from ffix on ps1 only gets ~80 fps on an athlon 64 3400+ w/ radeon 9800 xt. of course i chose the slowest example but even the fastest benchmarks still aren't insanely fast considering the systems they are running on and how simple ps1 graphics are.

	09-06-2004 05:41									#37
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It depends on the game, and often varies during the gameplay. If you use ePSXe without a forced frame rate particular areas or low-requirement games (like Final Fantasy Tactics with it's primarily sprite based graphics) will go extremely fast. And yet there are some games (like Final Fantasy 9) where it will tend to slow down and get slugish at moments. (The music slows down due to a framerate drop while loading battles on my computer, for instance)

	09-06-2004 08:11									#38
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the Znes emulator didn't wrok, does anbody know a good website that would have an adequate snes emulator?

	09-06-2004 15:50									#39
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Probably best to try harder to make it work.

	10-06-2004 01:46									#40
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yeah, I think I'll jsut buy an old snes, with a copy of Donkey kong.

	10-06-2004 02:16									#41
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heh, how could you not get zsnes to work? that's a simple program. you just unzip it to a directory and place a rom in the same directory. voila! unless it doesn't run on windows xp or something... i've never had any problems with zsnes since i used it years ago. it's never even crashed once.

	10-06-2004 04:18									#42
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quote: Originally posted by bipolarbear yeah, I think I'll jsut buy an old snes, with a copy of Donkey kong.

I never got rid of my SNES.

In fact, I sold my PS1 and have the Super hooked up.

Super Nintendo

	10-06-2004 10:44									#43
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quote: heh, how could you not get zsnes to work? that's a simple program. you just unzip it to a directory and place a rom in the same directory. voila! unless it doesn't run on windows xp or something... i've never had any problems with zsnes since i used it years ago. it's never even crashed once.

I'm not to hip[ to the shizzy on compys, what the poop is a directory? I saved them to the same file.

	10-06-2004 15:12									#44
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All you have to do (if pg is right) is double click the zipped (you need winzip) emulator and whack it in a folder somewhere, then put the ROM in the same folder as you unzipped the emulator to.

	10-06-2004 16:18									#45
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You don't even need to, actually. When you go to load a rom you can change directories to wherever the rom is. And hell, you don't even have to unzip the rom 'cause ZSNES can run it from that state aswell.


It really is amazing that you couldn't get it to work.

	10-06-2004 20:06									#46
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quote: It really is amazing that you couldn't get it to work.

Nice euphemism

	11-06-2004 15:46									#47
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Se,, the big problem here is, that I did what spikey said, and nothing but a stupid read me file that is jsut liek an faq thing htta doesn't cover my probelm at all.
Should it be their own special folder, devoid of anything else?

	17-06-2004 02:04									#48
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What exactly do you ask for? Where the ROMS are supposed to be?(sorry, but it is a bit difficult to read your post properly...) It's the same where they are placed, but for simplicity, I suggest to have them in an own folder in the emulator folder.

	21-06-2004 20:52									#49
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genesis and mame have some really kickass games. until recently i'd only played nes/snes/gba stuff but it's staggering how many good games genesis/mame have...