Complete List of Best Emulators?

[kelemvor]

Is ther ea list of all the various emulators and what systems they emulate?  I want to work on setting up my PC with other emulator options along with MAME.  I know there are emulators for Atari and all the older game systems but where can I get information them and how they work and such?

And more importantly, which ones are the best or most popular?

Thanks.

[namedos]

Do a google search and you should find a lot of them.  Here is one that I've used:

http://www.emuxhaven.net/

[Brad]

The "Best" emulators can be a very subjective thing so even if their is a list out there it's not necessarily accurate.

Brad

[mahuti]

A great place to start is jcrouse's page. He has his favorite emulators and his mamewah configuration files that he uses for them. The emulators he uses can be accessed from within a frontend, which make them some of the best in my opinion.

http://home.comcast.net/~cpviewer/downloads.htm

[Fat_Trucker]

If you want to launch them all using a single Front End then THIS is a handy place to start.
Direct links to various emulator versions designed to exit using the ESC key.

[jcrouse]

http://nonmess.retrogames.com/

http://nonmame.retrogames.com/

Enjoy,
John

[deadsoulz]

Yeah I am using all the ones from screenshot archive that are designed to use the escape key to exit, but some of them kinda feel outdated or maybe they aren't the latest version, but most of them work just fine.

[jcrouse]

Yeah I am using all the ones from screenshot archive that are designed to use the escape key to exit, but some of them kinda feel outdated or maybe they aren't the latest version, but most of them work just fine.

There are some here also, http://www.emuchrist.org/cpviewer/applications.htm

Enjoy,
John

[deadsoulz]

Well in search of the best snes emu for ths job, I chose zsnes, but I don't use the 1.36 Wip version out there that is hacked to exit on escape.  Zsnes will do this automatically if you edit the .cfg file and disable the gui.  So you can use the latest stable or wip, I prever stable which is version 1.42 

http://www.zsnes.com/index.php?page=files

The line to edit is this one.  Change it from 0 to 1

; GUI Disable (1 = Disable GUI, 0 = Enable GUI)

GUIDisable = 1

deadsoulz

p.s. I am still in search of a better nes emu FCE Ultra v0.97 with escape on exit hack doesn't seem to be the most accurate nes emulator, has some graphical glitches etc...

[jcrouse]

The one on my site, see post above yours, is FCEU 0.98.13 if you wish to try it. Also, MESS now does a very good job with NES. A few of my friends have switched to it. You may also want to try Mednafen, http://mednafen.com/ . I use it for Atari Lynx and it works great although a bit tricky to set up.

John

[deadsoulz]

The one on my site, see post above yours, is FCEU 0.98.13 if you wish to try it. Also, MESS now does a very good job with NES. A few of my friends have switched to it. You may also want to try Mednafen, http://mednafen.com/ . I use it for Atari Lynx and it works great although a bit tricky to set up.

John

I wouldn't mind trying mess for nintendo, do you have a mamewah mess.ini example I could look at for launching nes with it?

[jcrouse]

I would guess it is the same as all the other MESS ini files. Something like so:

c:\mess\mess.exe nes -cart "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}

I just guessed at the "nes" parameter. It may be slightly different syntax.

Good Luck and let us know what your opinion is.

John

[jcrouse]

I would guess it is the same as all the other MESS ini files. Something like so for MameWAH 1.62b10:

c:\mess\mess.exe nes -cart "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}

I just guessed at the "nes" parameter. It may be slightly different syntax.

Good Luck and let us know what your opinion is.

John

[Silver]

.... You may also want to try Mednafen, http://mednafen.com/ ...... although a bit tricky to set up.

You 'aint kidding. Tried to get mednafen up and running for PCE-CD support. Took me ages just to figure how to get the program to even create a window without crashing first. Never ever got it to run anything PCE related. Although I gave up reasonably quickly (I just wanted to test some PCE-CD's that MagicEngine and Hu-Go failed to run)..

[offtopic]
Speaking of tricky setting up..... whats the word on the latest Mamewah beta? ready for a RC release?

[Necro]

just a reminder, you can use autohotkey to close most emulators on a specific keypress/button press combination.  It works well for emulators that dont support exit on esc or what not.

[jcrouse]

[offtopic]
Speaking of tricky setting up..... whats the word on the latest Mamewah beta? ready for a RC release?

I am guessing the structure and feature will not change much, if any, between b10 and a final releade. Mini, care to comment?

John

[jcrouse]

You 'aint kidding.

Here is a commandline for NES in Mednafen:

C:\Mednafen>c:\mednafen\mednafen.exe -fs 1 -nes.xres 640 -nes.yres 480 -nes.stretch 1 "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"

Just an FYI,
John

[Minwah]

I am guessing the structure and feature will not change much, if any, between b10 and a final releade. Mini, care to comment?

You guess right

[deadsoulz]

Anyone tried fakeNES?  Looks to be done by the same author as ZSNES  and you can disable the gui really easily as well.

[jcrouse]

I just gave it a go. Unfortunately it was short lived. I tried the "latest stable" release. It was missing a file, hawknl.dll. I downloaded it and installed it but it still couldn't find it. Maybe a versioning issue.

John