PC Emulation Question

quick518 · Post by **quick518** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:03 pm

I just recently bought a laptop for $40 just for typing papers at school. It has a P1 133mhz engine, 40 mb RAM, 1.4gb HD and its running windows 95. I know its slow as piss, thats why its just for typing. But, I was wondering if I could run some of the older system emulators on it like NES, SNES, genesis? Is it possible to run, lets say ZNES at full speed with this laptop? Is MAME out of the question? What speed does MAME require? thanks

nevets934 · Post by **nevets934** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:33 pm

you can run nes but i'm not sure about snes

Post by **Quzar** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:42 pm

zsnes should be fine. there are mame builds made for old PCs that have asm cores for the processors that should work fine for pre-90's games. There are probably better specialized emulators for arcade games that are built for speed with assembly cores though.

quick518 · Post by **quick518** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:08 pm

Sweetttt.....(downloading nes emulator as I type...)

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:18 am

Master System is always good.

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:32 pm

Meka would see him right for Master System emulation, some of the Megadrive emulators should do decently on that system as well (no magic mushroom emulation though of course) I'm sure I used Genecyst back in the day on a similar system along with Nesticle for the nes stuff (note both of these aint been worked on for ages). Mame will depend on the games you try to run largely. If any of these arcade titles are of interest you:
1942
1943
1943 Kai
600
Amidar
Amidar US
Anteater
Armored Car (set 1)
Azurian Attack
Balloon Bomber
Battle of Atlantis (set 1)
Black Hole
Bomb Jack
Calipso
Checkman
Cosmo
Crush Roller (Kural Esco - bootleg?)
Devil Fish
Dingo
Donkey Kong (America)
Donkey Kong (Japan)
Donkey Kong Jnr
Donkey Kong Jnr (Japan)
Earth Invaders
Eyes
Frogger
Future Spy
Galaga
Galaga 84
Galaga Fast Shot Hack
Galaxian
Galaxian Part X
Galaxian Turbo
Galaxy Wars
GunSmoke
Hangly Man
HotShocker
Invaders Revenge
Jr Pac-Man
Jump shot
JumpBug
Jumping Jack
LadyBug
Levers
Lizard Wizard
Lost Tomb (easy)
Lunar Rescue
Moon Cresta
Moon War
Mr Do
Mr Do's Castle
Mr TNT
Ms Pac-Man
Ms Pac-Man Plus
Orbitron
Pac-Man
Pac-Man (Hearts)
Pac-Man Bootleg
Pac-Man Plus
Pengo Set 2 Unencrypted
Phoenix
Piranha
Pisces
Pooyan
PuckMan
Red UFO
Rescue
Scramble
Space Chaser (CV version)
Space Invaders
Space Invaders Part II
Space Laser
Space Phantom
Speed Coin (prototype)
Super Bond
Super Cobra
Super Galaxians
Super Zaxxon
Swarm
Tazz-Mania (Scramble hardware)
The End
The Glob
Triple Punch
Turtles
UniWar S
Van Van Car
Video Hustler
War of the Bugs
Yankee Do
Zaxxon
ZigZag (Galaxian Hardware)
Then Vantage might be worth a look if you find Mame slow for your tatses ont hat machine, I used to use Vantage on a 486 laptop to great effect so its a good un for lower powered machines, hell I used to use it on a disk with a few games its that small

Post by **melancholy** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:41 pm

I use to have a P1 166mhz with 32 megs of ram, and it ran ZSNES fairly well. And since that was many years ago, I imagine it would run even better today.

Zealous zerotype · Post by **Zealous zerotype** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:31 pm

Yea it will run znes perfect(well as perfect as emulators are) I ran it on a p133 with 32mb of ram.So good for you

Lartrak · Post by **Lartrak** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:11 pm

NESticle ran great on a 486. Very impressive emu. Of course, there are better ones that will also run perfect on your higher end machine.

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:18 pm

FCE Ultra and Zsnes should run fine. I used to use nesticle, snes9x and genecyst on a 166. It (snes9x & genecyst) ran the games at about 90% speed. Id imagine with todays advanced in emulation they should run pretty close to, if not, full speed.

Zealous zerotype · Post by **Zealous zerotype** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:59 pm

also get dos versions as they will run more effeciently

Gmc · Post by **Gmc** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:53 am

You should be fine playing Megadrive/Genesis games too.

On my old P1 60MHz (Yes, 60MHz!), I remember playing genesis games on a dos emulator and it worked perfect.

DaMadFiddler · Post by **DaMadFiddler** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:18 am

As someone who used a Pentium-133 laptop for schoolwork until late last year, I'd recommend (DOS versions wherever possible, of course):
Meka (MasterSystem/GameGear)
zSNES (SNES)
KGen98 (Genesis), or Genecyst
NESticle (NES), or one of the older builds of LoopyNES (the later versions screwed up the sound)
No$Gmb (GameBoy)

Those should run reasonably well, esp. if you keep the sound samplerate at 11025 or 22050. One of the early releases of Nemu64 will also work using the software renderer, but you'll only get about 2-5fps.

DaMadFiddler · Post by **DaMadFiddler** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:19 am

Oh, and sorry...but MarioKart, StarFox, and other SNES games using special in-cartridge hardware will be a bit sluggish. Nothing you can really do about it.