/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5534071

>>5534071
https://web.archive.org/web/19990218113559/http://www.zophar.net:80/nes.html
https://web.archive.org/web/19990423214502/http://zophar.net/snes.html
https://web.archive.org/web/19990508052722/http://www.zophar.net/psx.html

Those are all just old versions of old software as an example though, there should be lots of newer versions and programs that still run on W98.

>>5534071
>https://retroarch.com/?page=platforms
Download the Windows95/98 build

NESticle and ZSNES. Bleem was what we used for PS1 back in the day.

>>5534072
Soul

>>5534071
Yes back in the day we used to boot into DOS mode and run emulators through there coz it was way faster.

>>5534071
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7mopLMtaIo
I made a video on this. There's no one way to emulate a lot of these things as its dependent on what hardware you're using but I'll say the older your CPU leans you'll want to use DOS emulators and the newer your CPU the further you can venture into more resource-intensive territory. I went with programs that were the easiest to use and didn't require aftermarket video. Zophar's got tons of these still readily available. In this era disabling sound often made things perform better.

Pentium MMX 200MHz
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SNES - ZSNES, Snes9x
Atari 2600- no$2k6
MSX - no$msx
PC-Engine - hu-go!
Commodore 64 - CCS64
Genesis/CD/32X - Genecyst, KGen(was actually sold commercially with Sega Smash Pack, Gens (32x was playable on 600mhz Pentium III). Ages crashed whenever attempting to setup bios.
Amstrad CPC - No$cpc
ZX Spectrum - WSpecEm
Atari ST - STew
NeoGeo - NeoRageX (Minimum system requirements - 166mhz processor. Run beautifully but requires some funny romnames. Go search youtube for these. Very popular in South America.
NeoGeo Pocket - NeoPocott (slow, no sound). Rape, Koyote, and NeoPop run much better on Pentium III system.
PC-98 - Anex86
Game Boy - no$gmb
NES - DARCnes, FCE Ultra, Nesticle
Sega System 32 - Modeler (PIII and up my friend)
GBA - no$gba, VisualBoyAdvance
PS1 - Bleem, Connectix Virtual Game Station (600mhz, smooth like butter)

>>5534949
N64 - Corn (MMX 200MHz, ATI Rage XL. Mario 64 and Mace The Dark Age. 30fps/intermittent/skippy. (1964, Nemu, and others are currently being researched)
MAME - 1GHz and higher recommended.
CPS1/CPS-2 - Raine, Kawaks, Nebula. (research under development)
Saturn - GiriGiri (Target is Pentium III 600mhz, research under development)
VirtualBoy - rboy (PIII, 600mhz)
Amiga - WinUAE (Picky about onboard video and 16-bit color, I suggest a card)

>>5534978
For SNES, SuperFX, Mode7, and other special chips are immediately noticeable on a weak CPU. Frameskip is used to achieve playability but overall makes things look bad. The larger you have a window scaled for instance affects performance directly. Doom, Vortex, F-Zero, Stunt Race FX, Star Fox, Yoshi's Island, etc. SDD-1 decompression chip used in Star Ocean and Street Fighter Alpha 2??? Not sure if that takes a hit.

The ones I used back in the day
Snes9x
Nester
and HU-GO for turbo grafx emulation

>>5534148
>zophar
>vimm's lair
We would go to the computer lab and just get random games off there. The school IT guy, who was also a maintenance guy (janitor), would just wipe the storage once a week. He never learned where we were getting the games and emulators.

Of course, this was in 98, 99.

In addition to Zophar I'd also recommend this website, it's got a MASSIVE collection of all historical emulators (and modern ones too):
http://emu-russia.net/en/files/emus/

>>5534071
Just go download the emulators for it because yeah all those except for PS1 was doable on a Win98PC.

Well, unless you have Bleem, you can emulate PS1 on a Win98 machine, but you'd need the discs too.

>>5535514
vimms was how I discovered emulation. I was looking for mario games after playing all the freeware crap on cnet and then stumbled across the real deal, vimms lair is still up too I go back just to check on it occasionally. There there is actually one of those freeware mario games I wanna play again though, the sprites and everything were relatively small compared to SNES but more detail cause higher resolution and the levels were also really big, it was pretty fun for a freeware game though.

Nesticle, ZSnes, EPSXE.

You may or may not need an old version of EPSXE.

The snow is so comfy.

>>5534072
this; i was emulating NES games on my 486 back in ms-dos days. THANKS SHITMAN

>>5535537
>ZSNES
>WITH snow
18+ website, kiddo

>>5535514
>>5535531
For me it was emulation.net run by John Stiles, who ported a lot of Windows-hosted emulators to Mac OS. The emulator I played with the most on my slow entry-level PowerMac in those days was iNES.

>>5535537
ne1 know where to download scitech display doctor? i cant get past the stupid dome in chrono trigger cuz the clouds are blocking my view HELP

SNES had ZSNES and I think the very beginnings of SNES9x. PS1 had Bleem! and ePSXe. Can't help with NES.

>>5534949
Good video anon

>>5535731
So that's what I'm noticing. Most ZSNES screenshots I see have the snow and I didn't remember it having snow. I've been wondering what it was about those screenshots that's been bugging me for a long time.

>>5536304
Thanks, unfortunately the quality is a bit on the rougher side. I never should have zoomed in on those tiny little windows. Most people who do this have a Micomsoft or something similar and I'm using USB capture devices I picked up like 4 years ago

>>5534949
very interesting

>>5534071
Well you see sonny boy, back then we played PS1 with Bleem or Connectix Virtual Game Station

http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/pcengine/hugo.html
it has a 5.6 rating because it doesnt work on modern windows. I know for a fact it runs like a dream on 98

I remember using the DOS version of ZSNES, it had transparencies disabled by default.

>>5534072
Absolutely based