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What Emulators are for what Systems (List)

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Polemicist Newbie

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I know, we love updates but not the updating!

Now if only we could script that or make an Emulator GIT repository with current versions and Hyperlaunch ready versions. Hmmm. Now that would be interesting. Gotta stop thinking.

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Here is my personal list.Im hoping it can help some of the newer emulation enthusiasts in choosing their emulators.I do take compatibility over features in choosing the emu's I use. System

djvj
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Just converted my modules folder to the new emu-based HL2 and created a listing so I know what emu does what systems. I know this list is not complete, but it matches what I had modules for. I know th

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When you are talking about emulators accuracy is what really matters, if you have a 100% accurate emulator then you have a perfectly emulated system and you won't have compatibility issues, because al

Polemicist Newbie

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OK. I have serious issues. I have just completed getting every single emulator for 64 bit systems (or 32 if 64 didn't exist) that DJVJ has listed in the modules. I have a folder of original ZIP / EXE etc files sitting beside folders that have been created based on the current Global Emulators INI and I am now going through every single emulator and trying to find BIOS files for all that require it. I didn't really have time to do this but it has become an obsession. I am also trying to write a little read me file for each emulator and would like to try and include a link to the sites I had to go hunting for due to not being able to find the files for the link in the module.

This collection is huge. I have even gone hunting for "off the back of the truck" copies of some things. It isn't finished yet but I have the raw emulators and many bios files and have started every single emulator to see if it at least starts and if it errors due to a bios missing I've gone hunting for that bios. Man I have learnt a lot doing this. DJVJ and all the other guys I tip my hat to your work on these modules. Seriously the amount of wok you guys have put in is beyond belief. We know how much time Rain has put in and I can only imagine what BBB has put in as well. Just awesome guys.

I'm kinda tempted to make a repo or some such thing for this as a way of sharing the love but not sure about the rules in that regard? Can't really put this into a dropbox as it will get killed in minutes. And a torrent is pointless as many of these emulators are very actively updated.

djvj Newbie

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Thank you.

You could probably put the bios files in one zip and host it off dropbox. It won't be that big.

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Polemicist Newbie

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No thank you bro.

Considering how difficult it was finding some of these emulator files and knowing that many of these emulators will not be updated I will try to put together a database with dates into a simple Excel document. I know of some content scraper systems that could check a site daily for the ones that do update but I'd prefer not going down that path as the number of active emulator projects is surprisingly limited. :(

The bios files are very interesting. A lot of wok has gone into many of these files and for some systems you can have multiple bios for different purposes. Quite fascinating.

sandman7793 Newbie

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You should of pm'd me I have all emulators and bios files since the new hyperlaunch was released. Did it the first few days just to see if I could. Man was it a mission. Not that you knew to pm me or anything. LOL

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You should of pm'd me I have all emulators and bios files since the new hyperlaunch was released. Did it the first few days just to see if I could. Man was it a mission. Not that you knew to pm me or anything. LOL

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Are they available somewhere?

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No never thought about putting them up somewhere. But it sounds like pole.has it in the works. If he needs help I will help him, but don't want to double work. Actually anyone that's ever logged on to my system has seen it all. Bad part is I lose my drive to accomplish these things. I haven't touched my system in over a month. Now winter is here so it's about time to start messing with the rc track so might disappear for a while.

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LOL... I don't know if I want to hug you or slap you Sandman... :pcguru:

Yeah, help doesn't sound like a bad thing. I am going back through everything I just downloaded and getting download links and version dates.

I want to have an Excel document that includes if a project has been abandoned or like neoraine has been absorbed into another project (in neoraine's case it became Raine) or if the project is currently parked or an active / WIP etc etc etc etc etc... god what have I got myself into ... :facepalm:

I'm gonna probably look at a simple GIT project I just don't know how dodgy that would be? I mean the emulators are all open source etc ... Hmmm... dunno ... maybe something else ... *sighs* dropbox sucked for that stuff ... storing this on the HS FTP has it's issues as well ...

The total zipped collection at the moment sits at nearly 700 meg minus MAME and MESS obviously but my collection also has the BIOS files being added (yeah Sandman I want to steal your BIOS files) :wavey: so that is where we reach a slight technicality. I can make two folders for sharing ... One that is Emulators in the correct folders and the other BIOS in the correct folders and then just merge the two. Technically separate but easy to put together ... hmmm... I think I'll finish the document first ... brain is hurting...:afraid:

brolly Newbie

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Careful where you will be hosting those, as for one GIT isn't really supposed to be hosting binaries, since it's a version control system. Plus a lot of emulator creators will be royally pissed with you for hosting their emulators without their consent. So if this is hosted in something like Google Code it has everything to be shutdown pretty fast.

Not to mention sharing bios files is illegal :)

Polemicist Newbie

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Plus a lot of emulator creators will be royally pissed with you for hosting their emulators without their consent.

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Not to mention sharing bios files is illegal :)

I'm saving the emulator creators bandwidth and also putting links to their original works. If they get pissed about that then they should be mega pissed about the dozens of other sites that already do this.

Well Illegal is such a strong word. ;) The illegal part is when you put an emulator and a bios file together. The distribution would have the two parts separated and it is the users choice to put them together. And legally you can do this if you own the hardware etc. Emulation is such a grey area. :D

brolly Newbie

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And they are :)

Makes some sense though, you could be providing their emulators modified with some trojans for instance and then the end user would think it was the developer's fault. Why do you think when someone states here that they got HyperSpin elsewhere they don't get any support here?

Emulators are property of their developers and as such they must grant you the rights to distribute them. Most of them simply won't care anyway, but others do.

Regarding the bios, no matter how people try to sugar coat it, distributing bios files as well as roms is illegal. The likelihood of any company actually caring about it decreases drastically with the age of a system that's why they are all over the place without any problems. Why do you think the Cave SH-3 drivers were pulled from MAME? Because those games still give a good revenue for Cave and so they took actions against it. They didn't bother with the older ones though.

Polemicist Newbie

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Yeah true. But I like sugar coated things and like trying to eat a cinnamon doughnut without liking your lips it is impossible to resist. What I really want to do more than sharing the files is to get accurate information on each emulator and direct links to the files that work plus links to a working BIOS that goes with that emulator. Plus adding in whether a new version is available and if it works with older modules here. Hmmm. That should keep all camps happy ... enough.

Oh and as a side note setting these things up is driving me nuts. The little things that go wrong and the complaints from X Emulator not having Y INI file and blah blah blah... No wonder some people just give up on some of these emulators. LOL.

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Polemicist Newbie

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I can't see an emulator being discussed in an open forum for a piece of current hardware. ;) My suggestion. Download the emulator. Grab a game. See if it works.

If I want to play XBox I use my XBox. :D

djvj Newbie

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It says right on the front page it does not run any games, so no sense in asking about it. Now, this system is obviously too new to discuss, so please do not ask about it again.

kaz321123 Newbie

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Is there any way to get a updated list going? And also one that isn't as complicated to figure out? I am trying to just go through and update all my emulators that I've had for a while and I don't need 4 SNES emulators. I just want one for each system, one that works the "best", Best all around compatibility and features. Just as a quick mockup this is what I have

AAE = AAE

Atari 2600 = Stella

Atari 5200 = Kat5200

Atari 7800 = ProSystem

Atari Jaguar = Virtual Jaguar

Atari Lynx = Mednafen

Colecovision = MESS

Nintendo 64 = Project 64

Nintendo DS = DeSmuME

Nintendo Gamecube = Dolphin

Nintendo Virtual Boy = Mednafen

Nintendo Wii = Dolphin

Nintendo Pokemon Mini = PokeMini SDL

SNES = SNES9X

Can we compile a new list of emulators in this format? I don't know why everyone does it a different way, it's extremely confusing to me.

For Colecovision: BlueMSX does Opcode's Pac-Man collection as well as other homebrews-it has my pick for the 'best'. So far I've had to use joytokey for it tho-I just couldn't seem to configure a pad for it otherwise.

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cid67 Newbie

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Time to take another look at mednafen for PSX emulation. Ive yet to find a game that has a noticeable error and Ive been throwing a lot of historically hard to emulate games at it. I think its probably the best emulator for that system now.

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suspendedhatch Newbie

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Agreed. I tried all the PSX emulators on the list and Mednafen is the way to go. The author is actively focused on PSX development which is promising.

I'd recommend RetroArch for SNES (BSnes Balanced core), Genesis (Gens Plus core), and most Nintendo 64 games (Mupen64plus core).

N64 is a special case because you need several emulators and a collection of plugins to get all the games running. 1964Ultrafast, Project64 1.6, Project64 2.1.0.1, Mupen64Plus.

Apparently there's some controversy surrounding RetroArch but I haven't witnessed it personally and my main concern is what works best. Many emulator authors are drama queens so I stay out of it and just play the games.

Between Mess, Mednafen, and RetroArch you can run quite a few consoles. Someone new to HyperSpin should start with the multi emulators and work their way down, replacing some systems with LLE emulators for higher accuracy and compatibility.

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Styphelus Newbie

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How would you go about setting up that many emulators for the N64? Would you post your setting for that system on the FTP? I've been pulling my hairs over that system.

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