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[Ecrofirt]

Which emulators most accurately emulate their respective systems?

I've got a list here of various systems, and various emulators I understand to be the best. If I'm wrong, please let me know.

NES - FCE Ultra ?
SNES - ZSnes
Genesis - A toss up between Gens and Kega?
N64 - ?
PSX - ePSXe?
GameBoy - Visualboy Advance?

And which of the MAME variants is the best?

I know I experience odd stuttering with FCE Ultra if I go to full screen. I'm on a very fast rig, so I don't know what's causing this.

It would also be nice to know which emulators will support various graphics filters for playing in increased resolutions.

This thread is teetering on the edge of violating the TOS, so lets please not do anything to make it violate the TOS. I don't want any ROM links in here, or even links for where to get the emulators.

 

[Orin GA]

http://www.emuxhaven.net/index.shtml

I know you didnt want links to emulators but they give a good description of the emulators for different systems. Im pretty sure talking about Emulators doesnt go against TOS. After all, we have a PSP Hacking topic stickied :lol

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

Project 64 for N64...umm...seems like it might be a good one. Or so I've...ya know...heard. ePSXe is also good for running your playstation games on the computer when your system is at your friends house.

 

[Naked Snake]

Thank you for making this thread, I need the info too.

 

[Fatghost]

I use:

NES - FCE Ultra
PC Engine - MagicEngine
Genesis/Sega CD/32X - Kega
SNES - ZSNES
Nintendo 64 - Project 64
PS1 - ePSXE
CPS1/2 - winKawaks
NeoGeo - winKawaks
Other Arcade - MAME (latest version)

 

[koam]

Here's what I would use if I were into emulators:

NES - NESten
SNES - ZSnes
Genesis - Kega
N64 - Project 64
PSX - ePSXe
GameBoy - Visualboy Advance
DS - Dualis (I use this one for my homebrew, it doesn't support commercial afaik)

 

[Johnny]

2600: Z26
NES: Nester
TG16/CD: Magic Engine
Genesis/CD/32X: Gens
SNES: ZSNES
GBC/GBA: Visualboy Advance
CPS1&2/Neo Geo: WinKawaks
PS: ePSXe

Nester isn't the most accurate or complete emulator but it's simple and runs well. WinKawaks doesn't have the compatibility of MAME but it's got a nice interface and again runs well. The rest are clear choices.

 

[Matlock]

I've never used FCE Ultra...hrm. I've always been for nesterJ.

Nester isn't the most accurate or complete emulator but it's simple and runs well. WinKawaks doesn't have the compatibility of MAME but it's got a nice interface and again runs well. The rest are clear choices.

nesterJ is a little better--adds a few features and mappers.

 

[Grug]

Saturn emulation is coming along finally too. SSE looks the win. I can finally dust off my old copies of Nights and Panzer Dragoon.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Here are the three versions of nester I've seen:

1) nester
nester is a great NES emulator written by Darren Ranalli (aka "bald"). It supports DirectInput, excellent sound, and many other features. nester is compatible with many mappers and is highly configurable.

Unofficial Release adds a large number of additional features (including various input devices and support for playing NSFs), yet it has compatibility issues and, with certain games, speed problems. This could be because the unofficial release is built off the public beta 3 of nester as opposed to the current version.

2) nesterJ
Another unofficial version of nester which adds a wide variety of extra features. However, many of the changes that were made to the original program have resulted in incompatibilities with games that are supported by nester.

3)
NNNesterJ is a modified version of nesterj. The program adds some interesting features to the user interface (little icons and a better design for assigning buttons to a controller), includes support for zipped files, autofire, and an abundance of other miscellaneous things (.avi recording ). There are very few issues left in the emulation, so this is NES emulator of choice.

 

[Matlock]

3)
NNNesterJ is a modified version of nesterj. The program adds some interesting features to the user interface (little icons and a better design for assigning buttons to a controller), includes support for zipped files, autofire, and an abundance of other miscellaneous things (.avi recording ). There are very few issues left in the emulation, so this is NES emulator of choice.

:-o

I had not heard of NNNesterJ until you brought it up. Thanks!

 

[demi]

JNes

 

[BlueTsunami]

Can we link to emulation sites? I'm not sure if we can but heres the link I use to pick up my emulators...

http://www.zophar.net/

Note: if this is not supposed to be done, let me know

 

[Ecrofirt]

I've started using NNNesterJ as my fulltime NES emulator. It runs better in fullscreen mode than FCEU, and it works well with my X360 joystick.

If I had to use it with a keyboard though, I'd pull my ears off. It makes a ding noise whenever you press a letter key, and I typically use z and x as b and a.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Anyone know how to get Kega to work?

It's giving me problems because my desktop is in 32 bit mode instead of 16 bit mode.

 

[Gattsu25]

When dealing with PSX emu...be sure to check out the following site for plugins

http://www.pbernert.com/html/gpu.htm

 

[Red Scarlet]

I've used NNNesterJ for awhile, but it doesn't like my controller.

 

[Uremifasolasiututut]

What's the consensus regarding Nestopia?

Yea or nay?

 

[Ecrofirt]

No joystick support, no sale.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

No NeoRageX love? It plays many games that Kawaks and MAME don't.