Emulator Links

Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

Some resources for those interested in the emulation scene. Each link goes directly to the download page. You should be able to run most of these commercial emulators with any even fairly decent computer and get great results.

Good Playstation emulator: http://www.epsxe.com/download.php
Best N64 emulator IMO: http://www.pj64-emu.com/downloads/startdown/34/
Great Dreamcast emulator: http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/107/dreamcast/nullDC-v1-00b-for-Windows.html
M.A.M.E. (Arcade Emulator): http://mamedev.org/release.html
Gameboy Advance emulator (2D gaming didn't die, it's better than ever!): http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/gba/vboyadvance.html
Play those emulators online: http://www.kaillera.com/
Zinc (Arcade emulator that specializes in 3-D, MAME sucks at that):
http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/arcade/zinc.html
? Last Edit: Oct 16, 2007, 11:47pm by Hackfest ?

Kizzume · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:39 am Post subject:

My favorite build of mame is:

mame32plus -- http://mame.emu-zone.org/download.htm

The number of things you can do to the way the game is displayed is quite extensive--you can even change the refresh rate the game is based on so you can match it up to the refresh rate of your monitor, in most cases, perfectly. No more tearing. And with all the enhanced filters available, you can make some old games look brand new.

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

I get all my roms from limewire, which seems to work pretty good Smile

Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

I find myself using torrents and just grabbing entire romsets. I also frequent some sites that still have them individually for download when I want a specific title. I used to use Limewire quite a bit back in the day.

Ess2s2 · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 48

I have found several private tracker sites that are dedicated to the preservation of ROMs. I have fullsets for NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, 32x, MAME .104, and N64. I also have partial sets for Gameboy and GBA. All told I probably have around 60GB of ROMs. That's not including the various PS1, Sega CD, Dreamcast, and classic PC disc images I have.

I surround myself with gaming. I have several PC games always installed, I have 4 active home consoles in operation currently (Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox 360) I have a fully modded PSP and a completely original DS. I also have a 1st gen. GBA floating around, just in case I want to play FF I & II when my wife is playing Brain Age. I also Have several classic systems here and in storage including a SNES, Genesis, PS1, Sega Saturn, and Sega Nomad. I have a wireless Xbox 360 reciever hooked up to my computer and I routinely play MAME with my 6 year old daughter.

Kizzume · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:40 am Post subject:

I'm not nearly as much of a gamer as I used to be. I've gotten more into the creation process now with gaming than ever before. I would love to be the one to get textures and do terrains for a new project with someone. I've gotten addicted to the whole process. I love it.

Segep · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 222

Ever considered kids' games?

www.tech4teachers.org

I'm always looking for good kids' games. Smile

Kizzume · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:41 am Post subject:

I'll see what I can find as far as retro kids games. I know I've got a ton for the Atari 2600 emulators, but I'm not sure about some of the others. I think I have some sort of Sesame Street playstation game, unless that was just a demo..... I'll let ya know if I run across anything good...

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Ess2s2 · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 48

I've kind of peeked into the NES and SNES dev/emulation scene, and from what I can gather, in order to create a game that can be interpreted and played by an NES or SNES (console or emulator) you have to learn the specific chip cores the system uses and learn assembly for that particular chip. A friend of mine (some may know him as Snowkitty) is striving to learn the 65000 series chip the SNES uses. I'm getting ready to take a slightly more basic approach and learn x86 assembly before trying to adapt to other chips.

A fairly in depth answer for programming in assembly is here:
LINK

Kizzume · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:44 am Post subject:

Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

Wow, that's impressive. I struggle with the "drag and drop" Metroid (NES) editor.

Kizzume · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:44 am Post subject:

If anyone knows of a really good Colecovision emulator besides VColeco and Adamem, I'd be really happy

Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

Newest Playstation emulator. No frontends, plugins, or anything else. Ready to go. jq, right up your alley iirc. You can use an optional frontend if you like to tweak settings like me, but this is the first PSX emu that requires almost no set up.

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/