Posted: 3/3/2007 4:23 AM
Post subject: Favorite Emulator to use?
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mmbossman
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I've played around with most of the emulators on this site, and made movies with a few of them, but I was curious which one was people's favorite and why. I started out with Visualboy, which I still like quite a bit, but (and I know a lot of people will disagree with me), I've really grown attached to Gens and prefer to use it now. So what's your favorite?
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Posted: 3/3/2007 4:30 AM
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Posted: 3/3/2007 4:31 AM
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laughing_gas
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I've always found VBA simple to use, snes9x comes a close second.
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Posted: 3/3/2007 7:00 AM
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Xkeeper
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laughing_gas wrote:
I've always found VBA simple to use, snes9x comes a close second.
For recording, FCEU. For general playing, ZSNES. FCEU is easy to use for me, and ZSNES has many features I like.
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Posted: 3/3/2007 7:11 AM
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Dromiceius
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Xkeeper wrote:
For general playing, ZSNES. FCEU is easy to use for me, and ZSNES has many features I like.
Likewise. ZSNES is the only emulator that actually supports both joysticks on my gamepad... albeit not very well.
Posted: 3/3/2007 9:00 AM
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Saturn
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Clearly Snes9x for movie recording, and ZSNES for general or online playing.
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Posted: 3/3/2007 1:15 PM
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Mukki
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The Gens 9z and VBA are my favourites. Years ago I always used the Famicommunist, which was a great emulator for general playing as far as I remember.
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Posted: 3/3/2007 5:01 PM
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jaysmad
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For TASing I started out with SNES9x and quickly got used to it because i thought it was easy to configure but aren't they all easy? FCEU is a very good one too. For regular play, any emu will work for me but I just love to bring back good old NES memories with FCEU. I started TASing with GENS9z last month and it seems to be quite good also. VBA seems to be great too but i say it's all about what you are used to play with and feel comfortable playing with. Once you know every option features on an emulator you feel good playing it i guess. But anyways snes9x rules them all........ IMO :)
Posted: 3/3/2007 6:01 PM
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zefiris
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My favorite for both tasing and playing is VBA. ZSNES is next one and pretty close, but stil VBA is the best ^^ all the rest emulators don't even have basic ability of rewinding ^^
Posted: 3/3/2007 9:31 PM
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Dacicus
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My favorite for TASing and playing is FCEU, mostly due to the simple menus. The tools available in VBA are probably great, but I don't use them very much; the only thing I really have against it is that the movie recording and playback options aren't in the File menu. I guess that's an effect of using FCEU first. I've used Mupen64 and Project64 quite a bit, mostly for playing OoT and MM. I don't really have a preference between them at this point, but N64 emulation still has some ways to go.
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Posted: 3/3/2007 11:41 PM
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Neo_Shinryu
Joined: 2/21/2007
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NES: Favorites: FCEU - Recording good AVIs beats other emulators. JNester - Decent if you can't get FCEU. NNNesterJ - Decent AVI recording. Least-Favorites: The DOS emulators - They should be called "Screw the guys with XP". (XP and DOS does NOT work good) Genesis: Favorites: Kega - If only it had AVI recording... Least-Favorites: The DOS emulators - Read above. Gens - Ungh, lag all around.
Posted: 3/5/2007 4:34 PM
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KRocketneo
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I like FCEU 0.98.15, or FCEU 0.98.16 for NES. I like Snes9x 1.43 Improvement 9, and ZSNES 1.53 for SNES. I like Mupen64 Version 8 Rerecord for N64.
Posted: 3/5/2007 11:56 PM
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I generally find VBA the most friendly overall, but since the roms are so hard to find I'll have to go with GENS.