GC emulation?

[ZTC]

This is prolly more of a question directed to Mott than anything, but how successful is emulating stuff on the GameCube? (specifically 16bit systems) (and) how would I go about doing it?

[shadowboxer2007]

you need to know alot about the hard ware and knowing how to code is a must. it takes a hell of alot of time also I will never make a emu again after my n64 one. All i can say is don't do it unless you got alot of time.

[MottZilla]

I don't know how I missed this. Goto www.tehskeen.com

There are emulators for gamecube that emulate NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, PC-Engine, and even NeoGeo CD. NES is a port of FCE Ultra and SNES is a port of SNES9X. They work pretty well. I haven't tried the PC-Engine or NeoGeo CD or Sega Genesis.

To run them you will need A. Modchip, B. Action Replay & SD MemoryCard Adapter, C. Datel SD Media Launcher. I advise option C.

I'd also advise you get a controller adapter for your GC so you can play the games with a nicer gamepad.

[vegeta1215]

Yeah, how did you miss that Mott? lol :D

So the SD Media Launcher, do you just load the SNES9X port and your ROMs onto the SD card, pop in the SD Media Launcher disc, and then run the emulator? And that's it? If so, that sounds really nice and easy.

[Glenn the Great]

Yeah, how did you miss that Mott? lol :D


Haha, yeah! I thought you were smart when it came to emulation! :tongue:

[MottZilla]

I missed it probably because I didn't visit the forum and it fell down the list.

But yes you just need to put the right files on your SD card and many of the emulators allow direct loading from the SD card of your roms and even saving save states and sram. It's pretty handy.

[vegeta1215]

The Cyborg, if you get an SNES emulator working on your GCN/Wii with the SD Media Launcher, please let me know. It would be nice to play the SNES games that I own on my GCN/Wii instead of having the SNES hooked up all the time, cause lord knows the chances are small that Square will ever put Chrono Trigger up on the Wii VC or any other big name game for that matter - they make too much rehashing those games themselves.

[MottZilla]

Well I can't really find much on the SD media Launcher (like anywhere selling it) but if you get a GameCube Action Replay and a GameCube "Gekko SD adapter" or better yet the Nintendo Japanese SD Adapter, with alittle effort you can use that to launch stuff. Just make sure it's a more recent Action Replay as supposively older ones will not worth on Wii.

[ctrl-alt-delete]

What if you are trying to run this stuff on the Wii? I know your last post references it a little, but give me some more in depth details please.

Also, what are the best options on the DS? Not only for older games, but for GBA and DS games too?

[MottZilla]

When you run these emulators on Wii, their GameCube drive functions (to load roms off DVD) won't work unless you have a modchip in your Wii. You must load the roms from the SD Card.

For DS, lookup the "M3 Adapter". It comes in various configurations depending on the media it uses. The current models I believe are MiniSD and CF memory cards. Be aware the "Pro" version is intended for Nintendo DS and not GBA. For GBA support you need the M3 "Perfect" model.

It will allow you to load GBA and DS homebrew as well as whatever else you want including MP3s, converted video files (pain in the ass), images like JPG I think. It'll cost you about 100$ to 130$ probably to buy the adapter along with the required memory card and a usb interface for your PC. It mainly depends on the cost of the memory card you get.

[vegeta1215]

Well I can't really find much on the SD media Launcher (like anywhere selling it) but if you get a GameCube Action Replay and a GameCube "Gekko SD adapter" or better yet the Nintendo Japanese SD Adapter, with alittle effort you can use that to launch stuff. Just make sure it's a more recent Action Replay as supposively older ones will not worth on Wii.

Gotta go right to the source: http://us.codejunkies.com/

Looks really easy: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jK9jG9Ddwjk I'm definitely thinking about picking this up.

I know this thread is old, but has anyone succeeded in using a product like this?

[Breaker]

The PSP is the best handheld to emulate oldschool games with, IMO. You can also download and play ISOs of current games. I'm playing FF7: Crisis Core before it's even been released.

[ctrl-alt-delete]

The PSP is the best handheld to emulate oldschool games with, IMO. You can also download and play ISOs of current games. I'm playing FF7: Crisis Core before it's even been released.

Does that require a bunch of modding?

[AlexMax]

The PSP is the best handheld to emulate oldschool games with, IMO. You can also download and play ISOs of current games. I'm playing FF7: Crisis Core before it's even been released.

The DS can do all of these things as well, fyi.

Well, not play PSP games, but it can definitely load ROMS of DS games and play them natively, quite handy if you can't find a fucking copy of Phoenix Wright:Ace Attorney to save your life.

Plus the possibilities for DS homebrew are far cooler, what with the two screens, touch screen and everything:

http://xs225.xs.to/xs225/08131/dsdoom_shot1699.jpg (http://xs.to)

[MottZilla]

No. Infact all you need is to have the japanese UMD and it would work in any PSP. Although you are probably talking about the ISO of the english version which was probably leaked to the internet before release. PSP also doesn't require any "modding" of the hardware kind. Just software exploits allow you to modify the PSP.

Similarly with Zelda for Wii you can run Wii homebrew. In theory they should be able to port much of the GC homebrew to the Wii taking advantage of more RAM and higher processor speed.

[vegeta1215]

So...has anybody used the SD Media Launcher to play SNES games on the Gamecube? :D

[Mitsukara]

The DS can also do the NES pretty nicely, by the way (minus a few games... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II, several bootlegs- though Kart Fighter and Somari work great-, and a few other things don't really work quite right. I swear there's some invisible enemies in Castlevania III for some reason, and Ultima Exodus doesn't want to save states or SRAM). There's a primitive SNES emulator, but all it seems to run for me is Super Mario World. Beats nothing, though it's graphically/musically glitchy and doesn't save. Oh, and it also runs Dracula X, but considering that it displays the background graphics layers in front of the sprites, it's kinda hard to play. Huge opaque flames in front of Richter and such.

Not sure what else the DS does to playable extents, besides of course nearly every DS game. It doesn't seem to do GBC or GBA at all, sadly- though GBA emulators can of course do that (yes, GB/C too, I hear) if you have a specifically GBA flash card.

The R4 card (I have no experience with other flash cards) can also handle images, though the tiny DS screen isn't really groovy for such things and it can't take advantage of both screens at once or anything... it can read TXT files, for which it does use both screens... there's some really halfass customizability on skinning the graphics of the menu (moonshell's background images are easy to find and replace, as is the GBA game border; not so much the main R4 menu/firmware though). And it can play videos as long as you use a program (batchDPG works well, and seems to like all the main formats) to convert them to .DPG files of relatively low quality (but it's plenty watchable; just don't push any buttons, it doesn't fast forward worth a crap much less keep your position, so it'll be a long wait to catch back up to what you were watching. In fact, it's a good idea to split your videos into separate shortish clips if they're very long, like anime or shows or some kind of epic porn).

The PSP seems to be the best bet for emulating stuff, though. All the main 8 and 16 bit systems, some primitive N64 emulation, pretty good PSX emulation, a nice big pretty screen for images and videos... ahh, I want one. Also Dracula X chronicles is a very attractive game for me, being an obsessive SotN (playable Maria!!!!!!! Outside the hard-to-get Saturn version!!!!! *faints*) and RoB fan (RoB legitimate period! Shiny new semi-3D remake and original!). Damn, I want one.

[MottZilla]

Vegeta, I've used the SNES9X "SNESGX" port. It runs very well. If you don't have an Xbox modded, it's the next best option other than the real console or a PC.

Jennifer, the R4 is purely pirate garbage at mass production. However better devices like the M3 Player that use the GBA slot actually can play GBA games. No "emulator" required. And there is no GBA emulator for DS. The GBA hardware is IN the DS. You just need the memory present at the GBA slot.

The NES emulator for DS is merely a port of PocketNES the very nice NES emulator for GBA. It is improved over the GBA but still has its limitations. But it was done by the very talented Loopy and is a wonderful emulator. There's also his SNES emulator for DS, but the issue there is the DS just isn't setup or powerful enough for real SNES emulation. It's interesting to toy with but technically will never be close to perfect by any means.

The PSP is excellent and Dracula X is reason enough to buy it. =) And by the way, the Saturn SotN is NOT hard to get at all.