The Emulation Thread

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[Dr. Zoidberg]

In the early days, Super Nintendo Emulation was inaccurate and required a fast Pentium II PC to run at full speeds with sound, but in 1997 everything changed with the released on ZSNES, a blazingly fast SNES emulator written entirely in x86 assembly language that ran even on a 486 PC with playable speeds. While other emulators existed, ZSNES brought emulation to the masses with its UI and features. In this episode we take a closer look at how ZSNES pioneered modern emulation and played a significant role in advancing emulation technology during its time.

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It's the UI for me, it made me feel like a hacker at 11 years old. I desperately wanted it on our 68k Macintosh but had to settle for SNES9X when we upgraded to a G3 iMac.

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Xenia manager is great. I'm still holding onto hope that they'll get the Forza games working online

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Xenia manager is great. I'm still holding onto hope that they'll get the Forza games working online

Yeah, we need koinigsegegegeggggg races again, and Forza is the only place it's proper!

I've got a bunch of 360's out at the moment having some fun. Would be nice if emulation is in a good place by the time all 3 Red Ring
(Arcade is PRE HDMI, should have Red Ringed 18 years ago)
(PRO is HDMI, SHOULD HAVE Red Ringed 10 years ago)
(Superslim, do the superslims even red ring?)

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Have these smoothing filters ever made any sense?

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[Calavera]

MAME .279 Sega Model 2 Testing! So Close to Perfect

I haven't done much Model 2 emulation in awhile but whenever I feel the need for some Model 2 gaming I still use Model 2 Emu V1.1A which was released all the way back in January 2014! I haven't used it in awhile but from what I remember it ran most of the games I tried just fine. The main issue I had with it was getting the controls configured properly. Cool that Model 2 emulation is still be worked on in MAME.

Saturn Emulation Keeps Getting Better! Big Emulation Updates for Ymir

Ah Sega Saturn emulation, it is so crazy to me that it has been 31 years since the console released and we still don't have a really good emulator for it. The last time I messed with Saturn emulation I used an emulator called Yabasanshiro as it was the only one I could find that not only could run the games decently but also allowed for them to be run at a higher resolution. For whatever reason it seems the majority of Saturn emulators only run the games in native resolution.

I find this to be quite odd because I can clearly remember using a Saturn emulator around 2002 or so called Hacked GiriGiri. With that emulator not only was I able to play Saturn games at full speed but I was able to do so at 2048x1536 on my Gateway VX1120 CRT monitor! The specs of the machine was a 1GHZ AMD Slot A CPU with 384MB of ram with a 32MB Geforce 2 GTS video card. Once I upgraded to a new PC which was an Athlon 2800+ with 1.5GB of ram and a Radeon 9500 (softmodded to a 9700) I could no longer get the emulator to work. That old 1GHZ AMD was the only PC that was ever able to run that emulator for some reason.

I don't recall how good the compatibility was on GiriGiri but the games it did run ran great! So I find it to be pretty bizarre that all these years later so many Saturn emulators only offer native resolution when I was playing Nights into Dreams at 2048x1568 over 20 years ago!