As you know me and eatup have been talking about SNES emulators and games in the Video Gaming General forum.
I will also make a separate emulation thread for game emulator software too!
FAQ:
What is an emulator?
An emulator can play the games of your childhood on your PC. The Game Boy and NES are probably the most emulated consoles of all time.
What are famous emulators?
UltraHLE (1999) - made high level emulation a thing. It was discontinued 4 hours after its release but the source code is available. Requires Glide Wrapper if you don't have a Voodoo Card.
Nesticle (mid 1990s) - NES emulator which included many debugging features and such, useful for rom hackers and gamers. Could run a game full speed on a 25mhz processor.
bsnes/higan (2004) - in 2012 this emulator became the only one in history to be able to emulate the SNES 100% as it would on the actual hardware. Unfortunately though it requires 3ghz to actually work at full speed for most games.
Is this legal?
A common misconception is that they're illegal. It's not. It's actually commercial ROMs which are illegal, unless you have made the ROM dump yourself, and not got it off a website (where it might not be the same game, it might be a different region/revision to yours). You probably won't get done for downloading things like full set ROMs, but whoever put it up on the internet probably will some day.
Why do N64 emulators have so many graphical errors?
HLE is a type of emulation where the emulator guesses the next actions, meaning that there may be graphical glitches. LLE doesn't have this, but is obviously going to be like playing bsnes on a under 1 GhZ processor in the accuracy core if used for N64 emulation.
Where can I get ROMs?
PDRoms. None of those are commercial games but these ones are legal ROMs! I can direct you to pdroms, but I can't direct you to a site offering free commercial ROMs, though.
100% Virus Free?
A very common question among newbies. Nearly all emulators are 100% virus free, the only one I am aware of that has malware is Project64 (since v2.0), which is rubbish anyway. PJ64 1.6 and older do not have this bundled malware.
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Discuss!
I will also make a separate emulation thread for game emulator software too!
FAQ:
What is an emulator?
An emulator can play the games of your childhood on your PC. The Game Boy and NES are probably the most emulated consoles of all time.
What are famous emulators?
UltraHLE (1999) - made high level emulation a thing. It was discontinued 4 hours after its release but the source code is available. Requires Glide Wrapper if you don't have a Voodoo Card.
Nesticle (mid 1990s) - NES emulator which included many debugging features and such, useful for rom hackers and gamers. Could run a game full speed on a 25mhz processor.
bsnes/higan (2004) - in 2012 this emulator became the only one in history to be able to emulate the SNES 100% as it would on the actual hardware. Unfortunately though it requires 3ghz to actually work at full speed for most games.
Is this legal?
A common misconception is that they're illegal. It's not. It's actually commercial ROMs which are illegal, unless you have made the ROM dump yourself, and not got it off a website (where it might not be the same game, it might be a different region/revision to yours). You probably won't get done for downloading things like full set ROMs, but whoever put it up on the internet probably will some day.
Why do N64 emulators have so many graphical errors?
HLE is a type of emulation where the emulator guesses the next actions, meaning that there may be graphical glitches. LLE doesn't have this, but is obviously going to be like playing bsnes on a under 1 GhZ processor in the accuracy core if used for N64 emulation.
Where can I get ROMs?
PDRoms. None of those are commercial games but these ones are legal ROMs! I can direct you to pdroms, but I can't direct you to a site offering free commercial ROMs, though.
100% Virus Free?
A very common question among newbies. Nearly all emulators are 100% virus free, the only one I am aware of that has malware is Project64 (since v2.0), which is rubbish anyway. PJ64 1.6 and older do not have this bundled malware.
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Discuss!