Retro Emulators

File: 19 KB, 216x288, nesticle machine.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Retro Emulators Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:31:07 2014 No.1752556 [DELETED]

Let's have a thread discussing old emulators.

I'm talking about NESticle, Genecyst, iNES ZSNES, Bleem!, VGB, and the like.

I've also been wanting to ask, does anyone here know what the oldest console emulator ever developed was (not counting the alleged NES emulator made for the Mega Drive during its development)?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:33:32 2014 No.1752558 There was a zx spectrum emulator that had a couple games within it, that was hidden in a game, i can't remember what game though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:34:35 2014 No.1752561 >>1752558 It was Goldeneye for n64

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:40:46 2014 No.1752574 I'll be bumping the thread from time to time with some related videos a fellow /vr/-trooper posted a while back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VQSzdi84mo

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:43:25 2014 No.1752582 >>1752556 >Genecyst I didn't even know Streets of Rage had sequels before downloading and playing them back in the early 2000's.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:46:15 2014 No.1752587 >>1752556 wow sound emulation was bad >dat sword slash sound effect http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KMzsIzm5rjc#t=315

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:46:47 2014 No.1752589 I remember trying to play GT2 using bleem! everything worked fine, aside from the fact that every car was bright green, like a color of green screen. I also remember bleem having a dreamcast port

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:48:39 2014 No.1752592 >>1752589 The Dreamcast ports of Bleem! were great. The only problem is they took a whole VMU to make a save-file.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:48:40 2014 No.1752593 >>1752587 >Leene's bell makes such beautiful music! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jDlnEDoaLos#t=250 yeah sure

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 02:59:49 2014 No.1752608 I remember using an old Gameboy emulator called SMYGB. It worked okay for the few roms I had, but Super Mario Land 2 would occasionally crash at random. I should test it out again to see how well it compares to modern Gameboy emulators.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 03:16:35 2014 No.1752629 File: 13 KB, 202x184, 1357071441733.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1752593 >Frodo

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 03:29:27 2014 No.1752645 Aw, man...I fucking LOVED NESticle! My 18-21 year old self enjoyed the thought of clicking on a set of balls to play the games of my youth. If they had that shit for Android, I'd be all over it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 03:47:09 2014 No.1752660 >>1752645 Why aren't there any good emulators for Android?.. Or do I just not know about them?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 03:48:26 2014 No.1752662 >>1752660 RetroArch

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 05:17:28 2014 No.1752738 http://youtu.be/2XwBj4m5PIs NESticle-related.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 05:28:40 2014 No.1752750 Interesting review of Bleem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFY9Kv1c4-Q

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 06:47:06 2014 No.1752817 not console but i believe riscos machines shipped with a bbc micro emu. no doubt there will be other micro computer emus earlier than that made by crazy yurops

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 15:58:15 2014 No.1753658 >>1752750 Fascinating to think an emulator that functional would come out so early. It's still nowhere near perfect though and I'm sure the system requirements were sky high. Also, anyone remember UltraHLE?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 18:40:19 2014 No.1753989 >>1752750 I have all three Bleemcast discs, but I never bothered to open them. I thought they were nice little collector's items.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 18:47:41 2014 No.1754002 >>1752738 >informative >scripted dialogue >no gimmicky shit or pointless swearing 10/10

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 18:54:27 2014 No.1754020 >>1752556 The oldest I used was ESNES on MS-DOS, which could run some SNES games and ANES, which was a NES emulator. It ran Super Mario Bros. fullspeed on Amiga 1200 with Blizzard IV 1230 50Mhz ,32MB RAM. I think that was 1997.

Anonymous Wed Jul 9 18:54:55 2014 No.1754021

Here's a story I shared here before.

When I first got into emulating, NESticle was the first one that I tried. I was having a ton of fun so I put it on the desktop for easy access. This was the family computer. And I didn't realize until much later that the icon was a ballsack. My folks never said anything to me, so I assume they couldn't tell what it was either.

NESfag Wed Jul 9 19:03:40 2014 No.1754046

>>1754021
>nesticle
>testicle

Mind=blown; was my first emulator and I never realized this.
I didn't help that until now I pronounced it nestycle i was around 10 yo when I first used nesticle and didn't speak english and that pronounciation sticked in my mind even after I learnt speak English

Anyway NESticle was fantastic for me. Ran perfectly on the family's 486DX4-100mhz; and I used it with a fake SNES-style pad that I got with the PC version of Street Racer.
My brother got it from a friend and we had around 100 roms, I discovered so many good games including rare ones and famicom exclusives. Then at the age of 12-13 when we got an internet connection I quickly moved on to SNES/GB emulators, too.

Anonymous Wed Jul 9 19:05:12 2014 No.1754047

>>1754002
They were doing this whole "game review" thing just for fun way back when the internet was brand new, they have videos dating back to early 1994 or 1995 I believe.

This was over a decade before the advent of YouTube and the rise of AVGN and his derivatives, and about 4 or 5 years before Classic Game Room was originally a thing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 19:05:13 2014 No.1754048 >>1752556 i had that same computer

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 19:07:47 2014 No.1754052 >>1754020 I really wish the Amiga was as big here in the US as it was overseas.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 19:12:16 2014 No.1754061 File: 49 KB, 480x361, hernk hall.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1754021 >Thanks, Shitman!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 20:16:16 2014 No.1754223 >>1752574 Can an emulator really be called ancient if people still use it today? Or are we going purely by release dates for various versions here?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 20:19:48 2014 No.1754234 >>1754061 >BOW TO THE FECAL LORD

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 20:23:55 2014 No.1754243 >>1754223 Yes. I call some of the arcade games from the early 80s ancient even though I still play them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 20:26:04 2014 No.1754248 Did anyone use Kgen98? I liked it better than Genecyst but it is very rarely mentioned.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 21:23:20 2014 No.1754382 File: 25 KB, 640x480, meka072-sagaia.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1754248 Genecyst: awesome bloody interface x Kgen: dat menu sounds. I got some really good time emulating games, pic related. ;_;

Anonymous Thu Jul 10 06:40:39 2014 No.1755357

>>1754052
It was pretty much dead in 1997 thanks to lots of piracy, outdated and expensive hardware and lack of new commercial software. But I wished too, that it would stay on top of the game like in the early nineties, because it`s a really good computer.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 10 18:33:18 2014 No.1756752 >>1755357 >1997 Nigga, Commodore went bankrupt in 94

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 16:19:15 2014 No.1759409 >>1756752 They sold the brand to Escom, then to Gateway. Amiga Inc still exists and Amiga OS is still in development but it`s a very small niche market now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 16:57:40 2014 No.1759521 >>1752589 >>1752592 I still have some Dreamcast Bleem!s. Medievil and GT. I never got Medievil to work, but Gran Turismo worked just fine, surprisingly.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 17:11:49 2014 No.1759560 File: 24 KB, 344x356, 26750_front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1759521 Gran Turismo was an original Bleem release. Medieval was a hacked version.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 17:13:59 2014 No.1759569 >>1754234 came to the thread for this, was not disappointed

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 17:32:53 2014 No.1759629 There were MSX emulators appearing around 1993. iNES and Stella both appeared in 1996. I guess it depends on if you consider the MSX a console.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 17:55:58 2014 No.1759701 >>1759629 Also I guess VGB appeared in 94

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 20:35:02 2014 No.1760102 ZSNES was my first emulator, yeah. I don't feel nostalgic about it, though. It's just some technology.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 11 20:43:48 2014 No.1760124 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq7_6R_cvgw

Anonymous Fri Jul 11 20:51:41 2014 No.1760150

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo_MLmfpwzw

>that interface

Holy shit man I used to have a CD with a crapload of mega drive roms and a rom selector program that'd autorun when inserted on the computer. Staple of my fucking childhood, it had that exact same bloody menubar and I never knew which emulator it was until now

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 12 10:01:23 2014 No.1761343 >>1752738 The sole existance of this video blew my mind. 199X? Wow. Where the fuck was this broadcasted?

Anonymous Sat Jul 12 10:09:28 2014 No.1761353

>>1760150

A friend of mine had it too. He lent it to me a couple of times.
I didn't understand how you could play "the Sega in your computer".

Without this disk I am sure I would be one of the thousands of ignorants that say that the Genesis as a whole is worthless.

Thanks to that CD I got to know a lot of wonderful games I never got to have.
When I learnt there was a Mega Man game in it that had three Mega Man games...

Seems like the version I played was released later, as it did have good sound, unlike the one in that video.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 12 10:20:47 2014 No.1761365 >>1759521 I think I had the Metal Gear one for awhile, but I'm not 100% sure.

Anonymous Sat Jul 12 10:44:44 2014 No.1761393

>>1752556
I remember as a kid at the time the emulators I used were bio nes for Nintendo, genecyst for genesis, ZSNES for SNES, I can't remember what I used for game boy emulating, and a old version of epsxe that only worked a few games at the time. Things sure have come a long way

Anonymous Sat Jul 12 10:53:06 2014 No.1761401

>>1752662
yeah retroarch is good for most emulators. though I'm sure phone specs might be a problem. I have a sony ericsson so its specs aren't the best, but some emulators from retroarch just don't work very well mainly the super nintendo and gameboy advance. so I had to get Snes Droid and My Boy to be able to play those systems. though the sound is a bit off on the snes droid I really don't mind it much I'm mostly playing with the sound turned down all the way anyways as to not anoy others or theres to much noise around me for me to hear anyways.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 12 11:11:18 2014 No.1761425 >>1761401 i had emulators for N-Gage that worked better than this shit

Anonymous Sat Jul 12 11:57:08 2014 No.1761476

Anyone remember No$GB?
It was a pretty good GB emulator, the only one that ran at full speed on my shitty 486 computer. It also happened to be a PAID emulator, some ridiculous ammount like $100+USD.

That thing had some wicked AP. I downloaded a crack, probably a bad one, and first glance it worked normally, but it messed with my boot settings. Next time I turned on my computer, instead of going straight to Windows, it showed me this big, scary message in a DOS Window which said something among the lines of "YOU'RE A FUCKING THIEF! WHAT WOULD YOUR MOM AND DAD THINK IF THEY SAW THIS? PRESS THE SPACEBAR 500 TIMES TO ATONE FOR YOUR SINS!" and sure enough, it wouldn't budge from there unless you pressed the space bar. It scared the shit out of my 12yo self, I found a good crack shortly after though, so fuck that guy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 12 12:00:18 2014 No.1761483 >>1761476 Why can't modern AP be like this? That's awesome.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 12 14:00:53 2014 No.1761727 File: 218 KB, 1280x1270, psx-xboo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1761476 >nocash http://problemkaputt.de/index.htm that crazy madman that is still around after all these years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 12 14:03:51 2014 No.1761742 >>1761727 What happened to that PS1?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 12 15:38:03 2014 No.1762068 >>1761476 it edited autoexec.bat or winstart.bat and added an echo to it, big fucking deal.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 12 15:46:19 2014 No.1762105 >>1754046 I used to think the icon was a peanut until my friend pointed out it was a nutsack.

Anonymous Sat Jul 12 20:35:41 2014 No.1762815

>>1761353
It had so many games man, many of which I don't even remember the name. I'd play it all the time.

I distinctly remember a flight simulator, a platformer game about an acrobat bat and a shoot em up with a ship that changes colors/powers and was red, green and blue. Also, a game with that cheetos tiger.

Have been tracking them down, still haven't found 'em.

The CD would also play some sweet music, which were probably from video games. I haven't heard those sweet songs ever again. I want to....

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 13 14:37:11 2014 No.1765029 >>1761401 >but some emulators from retroarch just don't work very well mainly the super nintendo and gameboy advance Those are the same emulators being used on PC, so it's your device's fault if they don't run well.

Anonymous Sun Jul 13 16:16:56 2014 No.1765282
File: 214 KB, 1209x681, sshot2-full.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>1762815
>a platformer game about an acrobat bat
Aero The Acrobat
>a flight simulatoror F-22 Interceptor
F-15 Strike Eagle II
>a game with that cheetos tiger
Chester The Cheetah was that cool cat's name.
>a shoot em up with a ship that changes colors/powers and was red, green and blue
Thunderforce II?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 13 16:50:32 2014 No.1765369 >>1765029 >though I'm sure phone specs might be a problem. I have a sony ericsson so its specs aren't the best I know I stated this

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 13 17:35:07 2014 No.1765462 >>1761742 I see no hot glue, so it's safe to say that it wasn't touched by Drakon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 04:12:00 2014 No.1766825 >>1761343 I dunno, I think it was an isolated, just-for-fun thing and they sent videotapes out to friends or something.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 04:32:27 2014 No.1766858 >>1752738 It's like I'm watching a commercial for nesticle

Anonymous Mon Jul 14 18:36:50 2014 No.1768202

>>1752556
i met them in 1997-1998, huntig for dragonball and final fantasy games. for genesis first i used KGEN. for game boy, no$gmb was the best, 'cause the gb link emulation for pokemons. i only dreemed that time for flawless psx emulation. and now the ps2 is flawless. good times.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 18:43:13 2014 No.1768214 >>1768202 and i still prefer zsnes and epsxe

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 18:50:05 2014 No.1768223 >>1752738 I need more of this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 18:52:04 2014 No.1768228 >>1768202 >ps2 >flawless Try branching out from just Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy, and get back with results. Try the Jak or Ace Combat series.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 19:04:24 2014 No.1768260 File: 12 KB, 224x171, 1291442389160.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw people post my videos ITT Too bad I haven't really found any more games with hilarious glitches.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 14 21:20:49 2014 No.1768612 >>1768260 Endless Duel?

Anonymous Mon Jul 14 23:53:16 2014 No.1769014

>>1765282
Many thanks man, except for thunderforce those are the games I used to play!

My rom CD looked sort of like your pic, only a lot more basic. It was a custom blueish window frame with a Windows-style list box filled with game names and a screen shot box to the side. It also played music.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:45:31 2014 No.1769681 >>1768223 His channel is a goldmine of mid-90s greatness if you dig through it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:47:37 2014 No.1769684 >>1768202 >PS2 >Flawless There's still many games that are difficult to run without top-end hardware (Okage, MGS2 and 3, SotC) and some that are just fucking impossible (Jak, Ace Combat, etc.)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 07:49:06 2014 No.1769687 >>1768260 They're pretty fascinating, you should make moar, or at least more videos of other things you find interesting.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 16 10:44:51 2014 No.1773327 >>1761742 Added things: - parallel port - av connectors - serial port - analog tv antenna? - power regulator with heatsink for the new chip

Anonymous Wed Jul 16 12:15:31 2014 No.1773534

>>1769684
Ace Combat works fine in PCSX2 now, you just have to run it in software rendering mode, which is slow as fuck unless you have a really fast CPU.

Unfortunately, it has serious graphical issues in hardware mode, as the games use custom mipmapping code, which isn't supported by GSDX. IIRC one of the devs said it can't (or won't) be implemented, because of the way GSDX is written. It's a damn shame, too, because quite a few PS2 games use that method of mipmapping, including the Ratchet and Clank series.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 16 12:24:21 2014 No.1773557 >>1773534 >software rendering mode You're kidding me right? Might as well throw the GPU in the trash.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 16 15:41:48 2014 No.1774003 >>1773327 How does this shit even work

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 17 13:30:11 2014 No.1776812 >>1752556 >>1754048 Off-topic, but those pack-in speakers were simply great.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 17 13:52:13 2014 No.1776875 >>1762815 Hey that space shooter might be zero wing

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 17 15:28:22 2014 No.1777115 >>1765282 >sonic crackers

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 17 15:34:46 2014 No.1777126 >>1752556 >NESticle My first experience with emulation. Played a Boy and His Blob forever on that thing. Still miss the interface and icon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 17 15:47:06 2014 No.1777147 >>1762815 >>1765282 Sounds like Truxton. The Truxton song even says "with my space ships of red blue and green, you'll heard the crowd of ladies scream, we want truxton".

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 17 22:37:01 2014 No.1778571 >>1768202 >PCSX2 >flawless Yeah maybe for the half dozen popular games you play it is. People who call PCSX2 "flawless" are worse than those who say ZSNES is "perfect"

Advanced search
Text to find
Subject [?]Search by post subject. Leave empty for any.
Username [?]Search for user name. Leave empty for any user name.
Tripcode [?]Search for tripcode. Leave empty for any.
Email [?]Search by email. Leave empty for any.
Filename [?]Search by image filename. Leave empty for any.
From Date [?]Enter what date to start searching from. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
To Date [?]Enter what date to start searching until. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
Image hash
Search in	All Posts OPs Only
Deleted posts	Show all posts Show only deleted posts Only show non-deleted posts
Internal posts	Show all posts Show only internal posts Show only archived posts
Order	New posts first Old posts first
Capcode	All Posts Only by Users Only by Mods Only by Admins Only by Developers
Results	Posts Threads
Action	[ Simple ]

/vr/ - Retro Games