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Best emulators?
« on: April 27, 2003, 10:41:25 pm »
Just wandering what everyone uses as far as emulators go.
I have tryed a few in the past but I always have to pull out
my keyboard to exit back into the front end.

I need emu's for nes, snes, genesis, gameboy mono / color/ and gameboy advance. I dont remember what I was useing as I hardly ever played anything but mame.
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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2003, 12:35:47 am »
Just wandering what everyone uses as far as emulators go.
I have tryed a few in the past but I always have to pull out
my keyboard to exit back into the front end.

I need emu's for nes, snes, genesis, gameboy mono / color/ and gameboy advance. I dont remember what I was useing as I hardly ever played anything but mame.

SNES - ZSNES
NES - Nesticle
Genesis - Gens.

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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2003, 01:50:31 am »
Is there a good Nes emulator that will actually stretch the game full screen, rather then confining it to a square box with a border around it? That always irked me.
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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2003, 02:50:54 am »
Right now I just use mame, znes, nebula, and zinc.

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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2003, 02:55:11 am »
for gb/gbc/gba - the best emulator is visualboy advance.  however - its not the greatest for using a fe for (like zsnes or gens or others) because of the esc key.  I have it working with my fe, but once a game starts up, i have to press esc right away to go into fullscreen mode.  pressing esc again brings up the menu.  

- to everybody else - do you have the same problem?  is there something i can do to fix this problem like use howards keystroke simulator or another alternative?  any help?
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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2003, 11:10:52 am »
Is there a good Nes emulator that will actually stretch the game full screen, rather then confining it to a square box with a border around it? That always irked me.

Yup, zsnes.   If you go the the config-->video menu, you'll see that there are a whole bunch of windowed and fullscreen modes.  I forget what the abbreviation is, but one of the modes will stretch the screen for you.  Just try all the modes for your particular resolution, and you'll find it.

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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2003, 11:26:05 am »
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for gb/gbc/gba - the best emulator is visualboy advance.  however - its not the greatest for using a fe for (like zsnes or gens or others) because of the esc key.

Use the SDL version ;)

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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2003, 01:39:57 pm »

Use the SDL version ;)

what is a SDL version?
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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2003, 04:59:39 pm »
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what is a SDL version?

from the faq at http://vboy.emuhq.com/faq.shtml:
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What is SDL?
SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Layer. It is a cross platform library for graphics, input, audio, threading, etc... that can be used for games, emulators, etc.
VisualBoyAdvance has a special version that uses the SDL library and that provides the same behaviour on the different systems it as been ported to.

To some people, the SDL version on Windows may be faster than the DirectX version.

The main difference with the Windows version is that it is command line driven, meaning you have to type arguments at the command line in order to run. Configuration is archieved by editing a text file.

Another big difference is that the SDL version has built-in debugging features (ARM/THUMB debugger, multiple breakpoints, RAM write breakpoints, etc...)

More debugging features will be available on upcoming versions.

Go to the vba download page, grab the windows SDL version, edit the cfg file to your liking, then just setup your fe to point to the exe ;D

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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2003, 01:31:36 am »
Is there a good Nes emulator that will actually stretch the game full screen, rather then confining it to a square box with a border around it? That always irked me.

Yup, zsnes.   If you go the the config-->video menu, you'll see that there are a whole bunch of windowed and fullscreen modes.  I forget what the abbreviation is, but one of the modes will stretch the screen for you.  Just try all the modes for your particular resolution, and you'll find it.

ZSNES plays NES games?

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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2003, 01:41:11 am »
I was under the assumption that Zsnes was a Super Nes emulator. I guess I will try it out with Nes games when I get home.
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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2003, 01:18:16 pm »
is this true can i run nes with zsnes??

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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2003, 02:11:23 pm »
is this true can i run nes with zsnes??
i dont think so.  im pretty sure that wee put the right answer to the wrong question.   ;)

btw - thanks for the tip visciously.  once i get the sdl configured (giving me grief right now) im sure that it will work much better.  
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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2003, 04:09:54 pm »
for gb/gbc/gba - the best emulator is visualboy advance.  

Cool, I just picked this up, I wanted to try out the new sonic and zelda.  Hmm, I might have to get a SP now...

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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2003, 05:01:08 pm »
GBA - visualboy is the best
SNES - Snes9x is my favorite
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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #15 on: April 30, 2003, 04:32:23 am »
NES - FCE Ultra (fceultra.sourceforge.net)
Super NES - ZSNES (www.zsnes.com)
Game Boy Advance - VisualBoyAdvance (not sure of URL)
Arcade - MAME (www.mame.net) or MAME32 (www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa)
LaserDisc - Daphne (daphne.rulecity.com)

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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #17 on: April 30, 2003, 02:07:56 pm »
is this true can i run nes with zsnes??
i dont think so.  im pretty sure that wee put the right answer to the wrong question.   ;)

btw - thanks for the tip visciously.  once i get the sdl configured (giving me grief right now) im sure that it will work much better.  

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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #18 on: April 30, 2003, 06:04:50 pm »
Best Emulators for Arcade Card/Arcade Monitor (IE Uses Noninterlaced Modes)
Full Screen and that is Windows XP Compatable
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Atari 2600 - Stella
Atari 5200 - Mess
Atari 7800 - Mess
Atari Jaguar - Tempest Project
Intellivision - Bliss32
Super Nintendo - ZSNES
NES - FCEULTRA
Colecovision - Mess
Gameboy - Playguy
Gameboy Advance - Visual Boy Advance
Genesis - Modified GENS see Thread
GameGear - KEGA or DEGA
SMS - KEGA or DEGA
N64 - Project 64
Arcade - Zinc, Modeler, Mame
Laser Disc - Daphne with Modified Mpegs for Non-Interlaced

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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #19 on: May 01, 2003, 12:15:56 am »
Best Emulators for Arcade Card/Arcade Monitor (IE Uses Noninterlaced Modes)
Full Screen and that is Windows XP Compatable
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Atari 2600 - Stella
Atari 5200 - Mess
Atari 7800 - Mess
Atari Jaguar - Tempest Project
Intellivision - Bliss32
Super Nintendo - ZSNES
NES - FCEULTRA
Colecovision - Mess
Gameboy - Playguy
Gameboy Advance - Visual Boy Advance
Genesis - Modified GENS see Thread
GameGear - KEGA or DEGA
SMS - KEGA or DEGA
N64 - Project 64
Arcade - Zinc, Modeler, Mame
Laser Disc - Daphne with Modified Mpegs for Non-Interlaced


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Re:Best emulators?
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Re:Best emulators?
« Reply #21 on: May 04, 2003, 11:16:20 pm »
Is there a good Nes emulator that will actually stretch the game full screen, rather then confining it to a square box with a border around it? That always irked me.

OK, I found an nes emulator that can do what you want.  FCE Ultra

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Re:Best emulators?
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