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Best emulators on mac?
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What are the game emulators available for mac and which ones work the best? I'm looking for emulators for gameboy, snes, sega, N64, playstation etc. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Here's a link to Emuscene http://www.macemu.com, a great website devoted to emulation and the Mac. All your emulator needs will be fulfilled here.
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MacGallant's website is good, but here are some of my personal favorites:
PSX - PCSX is pretty much your only option. Not Universal yet, but expect a release within a few months.
SNES - I use SNES9X. Works great on PPC, but has occasional slowdowns on Intel.
NES - Nestopia pretty much rocks. The end.
Genesis - Genesis Plus works for me.
I don't really use any others. (Edited for typos)
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Thanks for the reply. I haven't heard of PSCX or Genesis plus so I'll give em a try. thanks!
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Originally Posted by davoomac
Thanks for the reply. I haven't heard of PSX or Genesis so I'll give em a try. thanks!
You may have heard of PSX under it's unabbreviated name: PlayStation. I have no clue why it's abbreviated with an X at the end.
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Originally Posted by TheoCryst
You may have heard of PSX under it's unabbreviated name: PlayStation. I have no clue why it's abbreviated with an X at the end.
He might have heard of PSX he just didn't hear of PCSX which is a specific emulator but he reversed the C and the S.
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So how does the PSCX emulator work? you have to have the original game on disc right?
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On PPC PCSX you can either use the originl game disc or a legitimately backed up ISO of the game. You need a plugin to run the image though. I can't wait fot the Universal Version to come out for this, I used it all the time on my PPC and now I have to resort to windows for PSX and N64.
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and now... what about ROMs? I own about 30 games for Gamecube... I would either like to be able to find a place to d/l roms or find an app to rip the game!
edit: found some. (TPB)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but putting a Gamecube disk into my MacBook's slot-loading drive would be a terrible idea, correct?
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I think a cooler idea would be putting it in and taking pictures along the way to show us exactly what ****s up on your macbook.
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Originally Posted by TheoCryst
Correct me if I'm wrong, but putting a Gamecube disk into my MacBook's slot-loading drive would be a terrible idea, correct?
Correct. Those discs are special as a copy protection measure, and Apple's slotloading drives choke on anything non-standard.
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I've tried PCSX on my old MDD dual 1.25GHz and it worked quite well. It was a bit slow (maybe due to the fact that I had all sorts of stuff running in the background), but it worked. I can't wait to see how it runs on my Mac Pro when it arrives or see how PCSX runs under Windows which has plug-ins with hardware support rather than just the software renderers Mac users have.
If you have a Mac that can boot OS 9, Connectix' Virtual Game Station was (is?) one of the best PlayStation emulators ever.
I haven't played with it in a long time, but when I did MacMAME was awesome. It played all my old arcade favorites flawlessly. Time can only have improved it.
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