Originally posted by Jansar:
RockNES is your best bet, but personally, I don't like it, which gives a bad name for all Mac OS X NES emulators out there. I mean, it doesn't compare to SNES9X, which is by far the best emulator (for anything) out there.
What do you mean 'for anything'? It only emulates SNES games and the app is poorly designed by OS X standards.
RockNES is problematic...I'll agree. Bannister also doesn't follow guidelines (doesn't use the 'Preference' menu item under the app menu for example). The RockNES core is old and buggy, and Bannister left us with the core 'save/freeze state' bug that corrupts games about 1/3 of the time.
Bannister also relies on a hack to speed up drawing to the screen. While this is great for older computers, this hack causes lots of weird effects such as screen artificats when switching to other apps and overlaying in certain cases. There are probably other ways to speed up the drawing that Bannister doesn't know about but he doesn't know about them or he won't admit that he can't code it in...programmer's pride I guess.
But Bannister's many emulator shine because they offer the same interface. They'll all offer HID support. And they have OpenGL and many different graphics filter such as Super2xSaI. And they play games in-a-window too.
SNES9X is good...but it's not the best IMO.
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