[Bluenose12]

Anyone else hooked on emulators on the PC?I like a bit of nostalgia,I have good working emulators for the Spectrum,Amiga,Mega Drive,Super Nintendo,Nintendo 64 and Playstation 1.
There is also a Dos emulator for the PC called DosBox which lets you play all those ancient Dos games you have stashed away form the early PC days.

[Jobby]

Nope

[Mr X]

Bluenose12, on Oct 30 2009, 15:41, said:

Anyone else hooked on emulators on the PC?I like a bit of nostalgia,I have good working emulators for the Spectrum,Amiga,Mega Drive,Super Nintendo,Nintendo 64 and Playstation 1.
There is also a Dos emulator for the PC called DosBox which lets you play all those ancient Dos games you have stashed away form the early PC days.

I used to, but havent for ages.

I have a few old DOS games which I did fire up a few months ago, but I always found that not having the right controller spoiled the console emulators.

Anything further back, like the Amiga, C64 etc suffer from a bit of selective memory - ie their not as good as I remembered them

There are some decent sites where you can play C64, and spectrum (like anyone would want to), games online.

[StewartyMac]

I've got a few Spectrum emulators and virtually every game ever released for the machine, and I play it regularly. Some of the games are utterly timeless.

I also play my Amiga emulator quite a bit. I've got one for the C64 as well, but why play that when you have better versions of the same games on the Speccy.

Somewhere on my PC, I've got SNES and Megadrive emulators too, but they rarely see the light of day.

Oh, and MAME as well. The arcade versions of Bombjack and Moon Cresta rock!

[St. Starko]

I downloaded a PSX emulator from here. I regularly play games that I download from here.

Great stuff

[Bluenose12]

St. Starko, on Oct 30 2009, 16:10, said:

I downloaded a PSX emulator from here. I regularly play games that I download from here.

Great stuff

Thanks for the links mate,I'll give the 3DO one a shot.

[Mr X]

StewartyMac, on Oct 30 2009, 15:55, said:

I've got a few Spectrum emulators and virtually every game ever released for the machine, and I play it regularly. Some of the games are utterly timeless.

I also play my Amiga emulator quite a bit. I've got one for the C64 as well, but why play that when you have better versions of the same games on the Speccy.

Somewhere on my PC, I've got SNES and Megadrive emulators too, but they rarely see the light of day.

Oh, and MAME as well. The arcade versions of Bombjack and Moon Cresta rock!

So predictable

[DornochCaley]

For the Psp i have N64, GB colour, GD advanced and a Super nintendo emulators.

[port-ton]

Re-downloaded a megadrive emulator a couple of weeks ago so i can play shining force 2, golden axe, sensible soccer, toejam and earl, altered beast, James Pond, lion king, aladdin, cool spot, streets of rage and other games of my childhood again.

these games are far more enjoyable than games nowadays. Shining Force 2 is the greatest game in the history of games.

[Raith Against The Machine]

The PSX ones are far too complicated for me

Are there any that are just Download Emulator -> Install Emulator -> Download Rom -> Load Rom into Emulator -> Play Game?

[StewartyMac]

Dunc, on Oct 30 2009, 21:58, said:

The PSX ones are far too complicated for me

Are there any that are just Download Emulator -> Install Emulator -> Download Rom -> Load Rom into Emulator -> Play Game?

Aye, the SNES, N64, and Megadrive ones do that. The C64 and Speccy ones are even simpler.

The Amiga one requires a 'kickstart rom' to be d/loaded first, but after that it's the same deal as above.

[Raith Against The Machine]

StewartyMac, on Oct 30 2009, 23:22, said:

Aye, the SNES, N64, and Megadrive ones do that. The C64 and Speccy ones are even simpler.

The Amiga one requires a 'kickstart rom' to be d/loaded first, but after that it's the same deal as above.

Yeah, I didn't quite phrase that properly. I've used Gameboy and Megadrive emulators before, and I was just wondering if there were any PSX ones that were as simple to use.

To be honest, I think I'll just go back to Sonic again...

[NotSainteeSean]

Fantastic, downloaded all the best games from i was a kid. played a few games of rayman, destruction derby, power stone, sega gt, spyro and now playing chrono cross. class.

will keep me going till zaavi get their act together with fm anyway!

Dunc, try

http://www.emulator-...psx/psx_em.html

thats the one i use and it works very, very well.

edited to add, if you have a xbox 360 controller everything instantly becomes 30 times better.

This post has been edited by NotSainteeSean: 31 October 2009 - 02:02

[Raith Against The Machine]

Cheers, I couldn't get my head round the BIOS thing, but it turns out it was frighteningly simple...

I've got a PS2 controller that plugs into my laptop, so this will be great!

Now, to remember what the good games are...

[xbl]

I not long ago completed Heimdall on my Amiga emulator. I've been playing it since I was a wee kid, and it feels so good to finally complete it.

[NotSainteeSean]

Dunc, on Oct 31 2009, 02:00, said:

Cheers, I couldn't get my head round the BIOS thing, but it turns out it was frighteningly simple...

Yeah i was a bit confused by that at first, turns out thats just the "illegal" bit, and all you have to do is have a quick wee chat with mr google then bobs your uncle.

Destruction derby,mgs, resident evil, final fantasy.. ah the list goes on.

[Liam.]

Mr X, on Oct 30 2009, 15:49, said:

but I always found that not having the right controller spoiled the console emulators.

Totally agree with this. The only time I've been able to get into console emulators is on the PSP.

[Bluenose12]

Liam., on Oct 31 2009, 10:29, said:

Totally agree with this. The only time I've been able to get into console emulators is on the PSP.

I bought a Joypad with 12 buttons and find that it configures quite well to most emulators.
There is also a nifty wee utility called XPadder that allows you to program keyboard keys to Joypad buttons.

[Raith Against The Machine]

NotSainteeSean, on Oct 31 2009, 03:27, said:

Yeah i was a bit confused by that at first, turns out thats just the "illegal" bit, and all you have to do is have a quick wee chat with mr google then bobs your uncle.

Destruction derby,mgs, resident evil, final fantasy.. ah the list goes on.

Are you just downloading them in stuff like 7 parts? Seems a bit longwinded, to me.

[NotSainteeSean]

Dunc, on Oct 31 2009, 14:05, said:

Are you just downloading them in stuff like 7 parts? Seems a bit longwinded, to me.

Aye, its not so bad. you just group them all then unzip them when finished. Im using the link for roms given up there, they all seem to work so far. Dino crisis 2 and Crock legend of the gobbos, oh yeaaah

[Raith Against The Machine]

Playing my way through Syphon Filter. Brilliant game!

[Bluenose12]

If you want excellent enhanced graphics for you Playstation games use the ePSXe emulator.You have to configure plugins but if you need any help PM me.

[Raith Against The Machine]

I'm still having brilliant fun with Syphon Filter, there's a couple of wee things that aren't quite right but it's still fantastic.

One thing is that the cut-scenes, and radio transmissions seem to cut short quite a lot, leading to amusing stuff like...

"He's wearing full body armour! To beat him, you'll have to..."

[Bluenose12]

Had a go at Syphon Filter on ePSXe,the graphics are much improved from PSX and the radio messages were intact.