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reemas · Oct 17, 2005, 12:55 PM

Does anyone know of any good NES and SNES and N64 emulators? I currently use NEStopia on my powerbook 1.67mhz, but in the center of the screen, there is always an annoying horizontal line that looks like it cuts the screen in half.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

RevEvs · Oct 17, 2005, 01:17 PM

SNES - As on all platforms, the one you want is Snes9x

reemas · Oct 17, 2005, 01:56 PM

thank you. looks good. im also looking for the other two systems still. Anyone?

Horsepoo!!! · Oct 17, 2005, 02:45 PM

Nestopia is currently the best NES emulator. I don't know what the black line you're refering to actually is.

SNES9x is the only SNES emulator on Mac. And it's pretty good so, I have no choice but to recommend it.

As for N64...it's a long and sad story but I'll cut right to the chase. There's sixtyforce and Mupen. Mupen 0.5 is coming soon for Mac...supposed to be pretty good. You need a fast computer though to get good framerates. sixtyforce is alright but the author seems uninterested in updating it (and uninterested in programming in general)...needs at least 1GHz to play most games at full framerate.

reemas · Oct 17, 2005, 02:49 PM

i only get that line in full screen mode. is a horizontal line that vibrates and somewhat shakes the picture along the line. the rest of it is unaffected.

any ideas as to the differences between ROCKNes and NEStopia? i think they are both the same author. i didn't like ROCKNes as much though.

Stradlater · Oct 17, 2005, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by reemas

i only get that line in full screen mode. is a horizontal line that vibrates and somewhat shakes the picture along the line. the rest of it is unaffected.

screenshot?

any ideas as to the differences between ROCKNes and NEStopia? i think they are both the same author. i didn't like ROCKNes as much though.

RockNES is older and runs better on old machines; NEStopia supports more games (mappers) and better sound emulation.

reemas · Oct 17, 2005, 05:14 PM

i tried the screenshot, unfortunately it only saves a tiny version of the screenshot. Are you guys running this in full screen mode as well? i notice it happens on all games. and i have a powerbook 1.67, 128vram, 1gig ram, and a clean install of tiger 10.4.2

i am using nestopia by the way, not rocknes. thanks for all the info!

CharlesS · Oct 17, 2005, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by Stradlater

RockNES is older and runs better on old machines; NEStopia supports more games (mappers) and better sound emulation.

Not exactly - RockNES only works better on old machines if you're using 3.x or earlier. RockNES 4.0 is actually more demanding than NEStopia. The author claims it requires at least a 1 GHz processor to run well, but I've got a 2 GHz G5 iMac and it still stutters.

Horsepoo!!! · Oct 17, 2005, 07:58 PM

Like CharlesS has said, RockNES 3.x is faster but RockNES 4.x is slower. This is due to the changes in RockNES 4.x. Both RockNES and Nestopia are cycle-exact emulators. RockNES only became cycle-exact in version 4.0 but is slower than Nestopia (dunno if it's Bannister's fault or the original author.)

Stradlater · Oct 17, 2005, 09:31 PM

Damn, I didn't realize that. I guess I'm not sure which one's preferable, then, but it looks like Nestopia.

reemas · Oct 18, 2005, 12:47 AM

i think i figured out that horizontal line. it set the emulator to "synronize monitor to video refresh" and it no longer appears. pretty strange. again it was only in full screen mode. anyone make any sense out of this?

also what is "use bilinear filerting" and "effect size"?

thanks again!