Emulations on PC

[Salsa Party Animal]

How is PC emulations stuff getting on ? Should I leave Chipped XBOX for PC ?

What is good and bad ?

Just interested in arcade / 16 bits stuff.

[Kongster]

For CPS 1, CPS 2 and NEO GEO stuff I'd recommend Kawaks.

For SNES stuff, I'd recommended ZSNES.

[bootmonster]

For the most part the xbox is fine, only really better of with the PC for more modern MAME stuff.

Plus the xbox IMHO just feels better for emulation

[Ryo Saeba]

Plus the xbox IMHO just feels better for emulation

Too bad that the standard XBox Gamepad is a nightmare for 16bit and arcade games.

[Wools]

Too bad that the standard XBox Gamepad is a nightmare for 16bit and arcade games.

Not really...

Both are brillant, I dont condone modern piracy but fan made emulation for older systems is so important.

On my laptop I have Gens, SNES 9X and Meka.

Gens is brillant and supports Mega Drive, 32X and limited Mega CD support.
SNES 9X is a perfect SNES emulator.
Meka is a brillant, well made Master System emulator.

Download them all, with the nesscary files, and have some bloody good fun!

http://gens.consolemul.com/

http://www.snes9x.com/

http://www.smspower.org/meka/

[Red or Alive]

I'd argue that Kega Fusion is the superior MD emulator. Better sound emulation and none of the occasional control quirks you get with Gens (unresponsive diagonals mainly).

[mission]

http://haze.mameworld.info/

[Madjock]

Nice progression on Model 2 there, I wonder at what FPS though.

[tom-nook]

Project64 is really good for N64 stuff. Needs a slightly higher specced pc (nothing cutting edge though) than most other emus but plays pretty much anything you throw at it.

For Snes stuff ZSNES is great & for MD my emu's of choice are Kega Fusion & Gens32....at a push I'd say Kega is better. All 3 run very well on a low specced pc with just onboard graphics.

Control wise a PS2 dual shock with a USB adapter works well.

[JB@XL]

Thinking of having a bash with emulation on the pc for the first time.

Any problems with running on a vista machine?

[danholo]

ZSNES plays any and every SNES game (almost) perfectly. I say almost because it is emulation. But I was never dissappointed with ZSNES. That's what got me into emulation in the first place!

[Champloo]

Can anyone reccommend me a good N64 emulator? And a source for all the plug-ins i'll need would also be lovely.

Never really got into N64 emu, and I don't know if the info on Zophar is outdated so I thought i'd ask here first.

[tom-nook]

Can anyone reccommend me a good N64 emulator? And a source for all the plug-ins i'll need would also be lovely.

Never really got into N64 emu, and I don't know if the info on Zophar is outdated so I thought i'd ask here first.

Project64 is by far & away the best one I've tried. Very reliable & has run everything I've thrown at it.

You can download the latest release (v1.6) from the PJ64 website (no pop-up's, spyware etc.):

http://www.pj64.net/main/index.php

All the plug-ins etc. you'll need can be found there too although it supports others too if you want to change 'em.

Enjoy!

[eastyy]

was never that keen on n64 emulators they seemed very slow with some games

also without the n64 controller some games are impossible to play

[tom-nook]

N64 emulation has improved pretty dramatically over the last couple of years. I've not experienced any speed problems at all (except with games where the original had a choppy framerate) with the latest PJ64 and it's amazing how much better they look through vga.

I really like the PS2 pad for N64 games & not had any control issues that a little tweaking of the analogue sensitivity hasn't fixed. However, there're USB adapters available that'll let you use an N64 controller on a pc if you want things 'just right'.