Emulators-Rocket Science?
 

Has anyone ever tried to install an emulator and gave up because of difficulites? I'm not a PC guru; but not a novice either. I havent gotten one to work. If anyone else want to try and is successful please give some feedback or tips.



A good list of emulators

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Is there one in particular you want, Sun? I'll try to get it to work.

I use zSNESw for an snes emulator. I have a ton of snes (and atari and mame and sega) roms.

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I use Zsnes, Nesticle, and MAME for anything I want to play. I don't find them hard to set up, it's all a matter of finding a decent emulator, installing the emulator, and getting a game file to run with it.

yeah they were hard. espicially neorage i didnt know that the roms are suppose to be in zip

I guess I'm just really lucky with them or something, because I've never had any trouble with any of my emulators.

'S funny. About 2 years ago Mame used to have this really simple GUI. I had no problems installing it and was able to play Mr. Du to my heart's content. There came a point however where it became really difficult for me to find a similar emulator from the main site. Truth be told I didn't even understand the help file! I know where Sun Tzu is coming from on this point anyway. Nesticle has always worked well for me however, and is really a piece of cake. Been a bit difficult to find NES roms recently though.

Search for MAME32, it is the same program with a gui front end. It's pretty easy to use. For Super Nintendo, I use SNES9X. Same deal with it - gui front end and pretty easy to use. Good luck.

no one else has mentioned a sega emulator, so i'll tell my favorite.
Gens is good for SEGA Genesis/Mega-Drive/Sega-CD/
Mega-CD/32X and it supports online play.

www.zophar.net
this is a very good emulator site with lots of info.

Emus are good stuff. I have a shitload, but I don't remember they're names..

If you want a challenge try to get a nintendo emulator to work on your dreamcast. That took me an entire afternoon. I also got a snes one working, but it wasnt coded too well.

i never got the N64 emu to work either, but i do have ones for NES, SNES, genesis, MAME, GB, GBC, GBA, and atari 2600. i find i use play GBA the most and there's always more roms coming out for it all the time.

ePSXe is a really good PSone emu.
http://www.epsxe.com/download.php

This is a good site for emu info/downloads.
http://www.ngemu.com/

They're not the easiest things to work with, and you really need a fast computer to run them, but you'll be happy once you get them up and running.

Check out the win32 port of MAME at http://classicgaming.com/mame32qa

for a quality emu that's easy to set up if you can find the roms.

Keep in mind that some games will not work correctly in an emulator, nomatter what you do. If it is a decently well known game that isn't working I'm sure you'll see notices of it on various emulation websites.

Check out:
http://www.ngemu.com/forums/
for tons of great info and discussion.

I second the use of epsxe for a playstation emulator, it is well designed and easy to use.

I'm sure you can find ANYTHING you need to know on the emuforums.