gaming emulation

[ZN`Aegis]

years ago i found this site http://www.coolrom.com and basically i died and went to gamer heaven! it was all the games i grew up playing,, punchout, mario etc. (all the rare unable to find games) but when i got into it i basically had a craptastic card that wouldnt let me go over 16 bit performance.

so i basically made an enormous library of all the games i could get my sticky fingers little on!

i never went higher than nin 64 but all below it down to ti994a are belonging to me.

however i wanted to get back into hooking up my tower with all the games i can load into it from 64 up!

so basically im kinda here asking if anyone has any experiences with good emulators (cause id say about every 3 out of 6 actually work)

i miss playing tenchu

[=cGc=Paladin]

Well, I can tell you the ones I use that have worked pretty well. Can't give you any links to their websites, but a quick google search will work.

SNES---> zSNES- plays pretty much every SNES game
Gameboy advance ------> Visualboy advance - plays almost every GBA game. If it doesn't, boycott advance does, usually.
Playstation-----> Epsxe- This one's involves downloading the emulator and a couple of extra files for the emulator. Lots of sites will have the files together though. It plays probably 90% of PSX games, but will still have lag issues sometimes, regardless of how good your PC is. Definitely takes more tweaking than emulators for older gaming systems, but it works for a lot of games. Sometimes I use it to play my PS1 games on my PC, just because the PC emulation makes a lot of them look better.

That's all I really have any experience with. I never found a great N64 emulator, though Project64 did ok. It still did not support a large library of games. And pretty much all the NES emulators I ran across work great, so I never had a preference there.

I know you said you were looking past the 16-bit era here, but I've never tried PS2 emulation or above. If trying anything relatively new, I've stuck to handhelds such as the nintendo DS.

[teeth_03]

the best PS1 emulator is a PSP

[ZN`Aegis]

thanks for the info ill look into the ps1 emu and see whats good with it,, i just wana play tenchu and gt2 right nao

[ZN`Raptor]

I just got my old Sega Genesis from my parents last weekend! It really took me back seeing the old Sonic cartridges--now I've had the Sonic theme songs stuck in my head all week.

Unfortunately, the power adapter was MIA, so I had to download the GENS emulator until I get around to picking up a replacement adapter. I did find a different power adapter in my collection that had the right voltage and current, but the polarity was reversed...that would not be good.

Emulators are cool, but they're just not the same as playing the real thing.

Rob

[ZN`Aegis]

i couldnt agree with you more rap,,

anyone know of a tutorial as to how to setup any working ps1 emulators? i do really miss tenchu

[ZN`Raptor]

Hahaha, nice find! Ever since the first PlayStation, I've seen a lot of console look-alike or cross-platform controllers, but hadn't seen the NES one.

Rob

[=cGc=Paladin]

Tutorial for Epsxe - http://www.fantasyanime.com/emuhelp/emuhelp_epsxe.htm

Some games have very specific issues, such as FF VII not showing the battle/command entry window, but most of these can be fixed by hitting the config button on the video driver. If you have issues setting it up, I may be able to help, if you can ever catch me on xfire.

[ZN`Aegis]

forum karma points= plus a gibillion! you rock paladin!! thank you so much i did some searching but came up short! dude i cant wait to get home from running my errands today to give it a spin!

btw its nice to see you again my gamer bud from miss! add me to your x fire i couldnt find yours!