Actually I got it running pretty good after a couple of hours of tweaking last night.
You're right Mottzilla, my computer is six years old, I need a new one, but it's what I've got.
Sizing the window down and setting the frames speed up seems to have done the most good, it sounds petty good now, and seems to run ok.
Emulation (open discussion)
what group of emulators do you reccomend (various systems) for a comp that's clocked at 450Mhz?
are there any hacks available to enable the sram for Megaman: the Wily Wars rom?
Zero, a 450mhz machine could run games with ZSNES, SNES9X, GENS, FCEULTRA, NESTOPIA, FINALBURNALPHA, KAWAKS, and maybe some older ones with MAME. You probably won't do well with systems such as N64 with anything besides UltraHLE which isn't that easy to use nor highly compatable or stable. You could pull of PSX emulation maybe with EPSXE. Don't bother trying anything past N64.
Cyborg, MM Wily Wars didn't use SRAM, it used EEPROM saving most likely. No emulator supports it, as wily wars is the only game to use it. There is a hacked save state however to allow you to play the wily tower awarded for beating all 3 games.
thanks Mottzilla, but what the heck is "FINALBURNALPHA"?
Mottzilla wrote:Cyborg, MM Wily Wars didn't use SRAM, it used EEPROM saving most likely. No emulator supports it, as wily wars is the only game to use it. There is a hacked save state however to allow you to play the wily tower awarded for beating all 3 games.
dang, thank's for the spoiler 😉 🙄
now to find an optimal configuration for gens...
Zero Wing wrote:what the heck is "FINALBURNALPHA"?
an extremely good CPS2 emulator. ;p
Capcom CPS1, CPS2, Neogeo and toplan or something emulator actually. And it has (currently disabled) Sega arcade support for some games.
here's another question 🙄
I'm going to be burning a CD of roms and emulators for a friend, and I was wondering,
for snes roms, is it possible to zip ips patches with the rom, and be able to load the zipped rom with the patching?
Mottzilla wrote:ZSNES is not a very accurate emulator, BSZelda is very sensitive, and doesn't work in all versions of ZSNES. Super Mario RPG uses the SA-1 chip by the way, which means it takes even more power to emulate since it must emulate the SA-1. Graphics problems, try hitting the 7, 8 or 9 keys, one of them switches between new and old gfx engines. One may look correct while the other does not. Also one may be faster than the other.
BS Zelda is sensitive? I find that odd, because I have the ROM, and have had almost no trouble with it at all in ZSNES (windows version). Unless I guess if perhaps you're talking about the unpatched one.
Gomar, did you know BS-Zelda (the patched one) doesn't work properly on the REAL snes? Atleast until dreamer nom started working on making it work properly. I was testing his hacks on my snes copier awhile back. I forget if we ever got the whole thing working properly, it's been awhile. Anyway, ZSNES is not very accurate, it's intended to play the most popular games fast. It's goal has never seemed to be accurate hardware emulation.
what does everybody reccomend for a Plastation emulator that's been extensively tested for NTSC timing games?
Epsxe is the best bet. Should do BOTH pal and ntsc just fine.
Freedom wrote:Can anyone recommend a good GBA emulator?
I've tried he visualboy advance, several versions, and the sound is awful.
Works ok otherwise.
I'm running windows 98, 64MB ram 400MHz processor.
Whether or not this is answered in a post or not is beyond me, the rest of the thread didn't load.
Anyways, first off, you need around 200MBram for VBA to run properly and at full speed, also, don't have any other programs running.
Another thing, you need to set your frameskip to 1.
You might need a faster processor as well.
No$GBA or whatever is pretty good from what I have heard, but, to get the full benifets you'll have to register it. =/
Dark Knight wrote:No$GBA or whatever is pretty good from what I have heard, but, to get the full benifets you'll have to register it. =/
I used to use No$GB. It was pretty cool cause it let you set up your own color palette for old GB games. (like Super Gameboy, but more involved) I was playing Final Fantasy Adventure on there and I had it set up so the background and landscapes were in shades of green, enemies were red and yellow, and my character was purple. It looked really cool.
I'm looking for an emulator that has good sound logging/music bank ripping for the Game Boy and NES; any reccomendations?
There are none. All GBS and NES music "ripping" is done via ASM hacking. Zophar.net probably has what you are looking for in their archive. If you just wanna record a wave file of gameplay you could use several emulators.
I'm trying to decide on which version of MAME to get, but I have no idea which would be best
(considering my comp config.; the old 350MHZ & 64MB ram)
Hmm... What game are you hoping to emulate...? Because MAME is not the best choice ALOT of the time. MAME is pretty demanding on power. To give you an example my 1533mhz amd athlon xp 1800+ cannot run Mortal Kombat 3 Ultimate full speed/no frame skipping on newer MAMEs with the new DCS sound system emulation which is slower than in older versions. That's pretty sad.
So once you tell me what you are hoping to play I can give you a better idea.
let's see...
Mortal Kombat 1/2; Capcom vs. series (including SNK, Marvel Super Heros 2, ect.); some of the early 90s racing games; the Mario arcade games; and some others that I can't think of at the moment
MK1 and 2, no way on that system. Capcom vs SNK, MvC2 are both Naomi and not emulated, they are encrypted, and you're screwwed. Get them for dreamcast. Racing games... like Cruisin Usa? No fucking way will that system run those man. The mario thing should be fine.
To give you an idea of the ideal MAME pc, we are talking 64bit amd 2ghz or more for later more intense games. For a good deal of stuff my system is quite sufficant, 1533mhz amd & 512mb pc133 ram.
If you wanna play the CPS2 capcom VS games, MvC, MvSF,XvSF, get FinalBurnAlpha. It's extremely fast and should run well on your system.
shit...
what's a good program extention for ePSXe for playin the black discs via the cd-rom drive?
can some one fill me in on what program u r talking about?
ePSXe is a program that allows a person to play (legally or illegally) Plastation games on the computer. Does that help?
Ya I think I get it now, thanks 4 the help 😊
In my experience few disc drives are very good at playing games directly from the disc because PSX games are CD-ROM Mode 2 XA. Even my really nice DVD-Writer gets really shitty data read rates on such a disc. It is recommended to rip the disc to an iso and load that/emulate the disc image. Forinstance Mega Man X4 for me ran really shitty from the CD, odd slowdowns from trying to stream the music. Once I imaged it to the hard disk, there were no problems at all. I experienced similar issues with FMVs.
ok, then question that follows is what is the best suited program for doing so?
I try to download the best ones I can find so yes verry yes😎
I use ISOBuster for ripping my isos. Use google and you should be able to find it easily.
I need a good SNES tile editor and have had no luck finding one so far. Any ideas?