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Title: Recommended emulators for these consoles?
Post by: arcadecab on August 24, 2003, 12:46:52 pm

Just wondering some opinions, views on the best emulators for the following consoles.  Compatibility with roms is very important obviously, and accuracy to original game is important.  The ability to exit with esc is a very nice feature and also 2 player ability.  Thanks.

Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Intellivision
Colecovision
Sega Master System
Turbo Grafx 16
Nintendo Gameboy (mono)
Nintendo Gameboy (color)
Gameboy Advance
Neo Geo Pocket
Atari Lynx
Nintendo 64
Sega 32x
Sega Game Gear

Thanks for any suggestions for these.  I figure I should ask before downloading some and then finding out there is something better.

Title: Re:Recommended emulators for these consoles?
Post by: TalkingOctopus on August 24, 2003, 02:15:46 pm

Nintendo 64 - Project 64
Sega Game Gear & Master System - Meka

Title: Re:Recommended emulators for these consoles?
Post by: pointdablame on August 24, 2003, 04:48:51 pm

Colecovision - ColEm
GB, GB color, GBA - Visual Boy Advance


I heard MESS works with atari 7800 and possibly 5200 as well. Haven't used it myself tho.

Title: Re:Recommended emulators for these consoles?
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 25, 2003, 02:52:28 pm

Gameboy Advance:  It's too new, you are stealing directly from programmers mouths.  Go buy one.  

Nintendo 64:  Nintendo 64 emulation is far from complete.  Buy a n64, unless you want to deal with several n64 emulators, each running a handful of games properly.  

Sorry just my little reality check.

Title: Re:Recommended emulators for these consoles?
Post by: Demon-Seed on August 25, 2003, 03:08:25 pm

Sega Gen/32x I use Gens it works great.
PC engine/Turbo.. use um that one u have to buy..magic engine I think

Title: Re:Recommended emulators for these consoles?
Post by: Jakobud on August 25, 2003, 06:51:52 pm

SNES = ZSNES
NES = VirtuaNES
TG16 = MagicEngine
SMS = I think Gens' plays SMS and Game Gear games also

Title: Re:Recommended emulators for these consoles?
Post by: SirPeale on August 25, 2003, 09:12:06 pm

Quote from: Jakobud on August 25, 2003, 06:51:52 pm

SNES = ZSNES

The only thing I don't like about ZSNES is that when you hit ESC, it brings up the menu.  I'd love it if it would just exit.

Title: Re:Recommended emulators for these consoles?
Post by: jakejake28 on August 25, 2003, 09:16:41 pm

Quote from: Peale on August 25, 2003, 09:12:06 pm

The only thing I don't like about ZSNES is that when you hit ESC, it brings up the menu.  I'd love it if it would just exit.

actually, there is a patched version, ZSNESFE, that does not do this... i have it mirrored here:

www.geocities.com/jakejake28

Title: Re:Recommended emulators for these consoles?
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 25, 2003, 09:25:52 pm

Forget the patch, the latest version of my command line wrapper will kill zsnes.

Title: Re:Recommended emulators for these consoles?
Post by: stuzza on August 26, 2003, 02:05:37 am

If you don't like using command line wrappers, I also have modified versions of the following emus that will exit with escape, mirrored at my site (http://members.lycos.co.uk/stuzza12/help.htm):

GensFE
ZsnesW
FCEUltra
Project 64
Z26