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Crayola

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Best emulators for other platforms(beside mame)?
« on: February 04, 2004, 10:18:10 am »
Folks,

I want to setup emulators for Atari, Sega, Snes/Nes, and N64.
What is the best emulator to run for each of these platforms?
There seems to be so many choices out there. Please help me
narrow it down.

Thanks,
Crayola

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Re:Best emulators for other platforms(beside mame)?
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2004, 11:35:17 am »
You haven't stated what Atari or Sega systems you want to run...but I'm guessing 2600 & Genesis:

2600: Z26
Genesis: Gens
SNES: ZSNES
NES: FCE Ultra
N64: Project 64

...are popular choices :)

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Re:Best emulators for other platforms(beside mame)?
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2004, 12:51:46 pm »
something to note about n64 emulation.... it depends upon the games you wish to run.  You really need about two or 3 to run a full set properly.  

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Re:Best emulators for other platforms(beside mame)?
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2004, 02:33:22 pm »
Am I drastically mistaken, or isn't N64 emulation still in a pretty infantile state? Last time I checked, most emulators can Run, on average, like 30-40 roms, and of them, maybe 10 run "perfectly".

Has it gotten drastically better than this?

Commodore 64: CCS64
Game boy Advance: Virtual Boy Advance

(check out www.retrogames.com/www.zophar.net/www.ngemu.com, etc for more ideas..)

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Re:Best emulators for other platforms(beside mame)?
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2004, 02:52:23 pm »
Yeah that's what I'm getting at.  They will run a lot more games now, but very few are perfect and emu a won't run what emu b does ect....

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Re:Best emulators for other platforms(beside mame)?
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2004, 03:47:38 am »
1964 and Project 64 together cover the N64 pretty well...like Howard said it's still far from perfect (depending on the game). My solution is to use a PSX emulator as most of the console games I want to play on my cab exist on both systems. Granted this leaves out the Nintendo only titles, but they seem to be pretty well covered by the two emulators already mentioned...if you're willing to forgive an occassional sound glitch. Oh THE Playstation emulator of choice is ePSXe...don't even waste your time looking at anything else. Just rip the games to HD and run the image...simple.
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