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DeFiBkIlLeR

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Anyone tried BSNES lately.

The newest release 0.73 has low level DSP emulation (you need the newly dumped DSP roms in the same folder as your Roms), which pretty much marks the completion of SNES emulation..

It's been a long road since i used my first Snes emulator back in late 97....

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Jamie John

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I'm running Chrono Cross on ePSXe, but there's a sort of splash image in the upper right hand corner that I can't get rid of. It's basically just the tag for the video plugin, but before it came up for a few seconds then went away. Now it just stays there.

Any ideas?

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Ryan

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Anyone tried BSNES lately.

The newest release 0.73 has low level DSP emulation (you need the newly dumped DSP roms in the same folder as your Roms), which pretty much marks the completion of SNES emulation..

It's been a long road since i used my first Snes emulator back in late 97....

Does it make a practical difference?

I still remember the day that the first ZSNES came out with proper support for layers (mode 7?). Suddenly all those SquareSoft RPGs were playable.

Must have completed all the FFs, ChronoTrigger & Secrets of Mana/Evermore over a period of about 6 months :)

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DeFiBkIlLeR

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Does it make a practical difference?

Well, the sound has definately improved on games using the SFX chips, no more 'popping and cracking' due to the DSP rom dumps having the correct timings, also a handful of games (mostly obscure Japanese only releases) are now playable.....

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Ant73

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Does anyone have any recommendations for good front ends / rom databases ? I'm thinking of something like iTunes, or a Mame front end with details and screenshots etc, but for console / computer games rather than Arcade? Been a while since I've played around with emulation so not sure what's out there... Have tried Mess, but couldnt get it to recognise any of my roms or find anywhere to download extras.

Mainly looking at

Speccy

NES

SNES

Genesis / 32X

GB/GBA/DS

But interested in whatever is out there! Have seen mention of Gamebase, XLoader - any good? Anything else?

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Goose

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Probably already covered earlier in the thread but the M2 Emulator has reached V1.0

- Finally fixed VF2 hair problems, now all graphics are correct.

- Added LUA script support for options, cheats and other uses (check model2lua.txt in SCRIPTS folder)

- Added texture replacement support (check model2lua.txt in SCRIPTS folder)

- Added widescreen support (needs per-game lua scripts to know when to enable it). Requires a wide fullscreen resolution or WideScreenWindow set in emulator.ini

- Fixed texture border detection for textures that caused wrong colors & pixelation on borders

- Simplified pixel shaders (half the texture fetches)

- Improved House of the dead FM sound

- Fixed VF2 wrong sound speeds

- Fixed background distortion on Dural stage in VF2

- Added STCC Euro

- Added Sonic the fighters.

- Fixed Virtual On missing background color on title screen

- Rewritten SCSP code for improved accuracy

- Fixed ATI video card gfx problems

- Fixed audio stuttering on some windows 7 machines

- Added Sega Rally Championship rev B

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Dimahoo

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Yep. Didn't get to play it with sound, but both appear to be imperfect, sound-wise.

Pics:

The version i grabbed appears to work well. Looks amazing vert. Actually everything looks amazing vert.

I'm using a 24" Sammy with the real scanlines filter so its pretty big. Ketsui as well, obv.

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Treble

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The version i grabbed appears to work well. Looks amazing vert. Actually everything looks amazing vert.

I'm using a 24" Sammy with the real scanlines filter so its pretty big. Ketsui as well, obv.

Ironically - having a TATE-capable setup - I'm not really into verts!

I play a lot of vertically-aligned arcade games anyway, though. I played Pac-Mania recently, which was ace ^_^

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Goose

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I was gutted using the new MAME, (new until today anyway!) as I found tonnes of games I wanted to play and almost every one I looked at was still "This Game Is Currently Not Working" :(

Like the PinMAME stuff, it'll come with time.

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bumclasshero

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Ok guys, hopefully you can help with this. I have a modded xbox, got pretty much all emulators and roms and they work just fine straight off the disc. Only problem is.... I'm missing a MAME disc and I really want to play WWF Wrestlefest and Dinosaurs and Cadillacs on it. Is it very complex to go about burning my own MAME set off? Any help greatly appreciated!

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Treble

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cheers everyone, i had a search around but couldnt really find much other than that BAED 3A.... then no one was seeding it as it was over 3 years old :facepalm:. The dream is over for now, I'll have to buy a 360 wired pad for the laptop I reckon.

Ah, it's a blessing in disguise really. The 360 pad is far better than either Xbox pad; the laptop resolution and display options will be far better, and it'll be far easier to update your ROMset :)

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Mr. Pickle

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Bart Trzynadlowski has finally released an alpha build of his model 3 emulator 'Supermodel'

http://www.trzy.org/Supermodel/

However, it does require a beefy PC to run. On Scud Race I get 50 fps on a 2.4Ghz quad core, 4 Gb ram and a GTX 260. On Daytona 2, I get slightly less. You can overclock the PPC via the emulator though. If command-line emulators are not your bag, there is a rough and ready front end available. Get it here

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Qazimod

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Bart Trzynadlowski has finally released an alpha build of his model 3 emulator 'Supermodel'

http://www.trzy.org/Supermodel/

However, it does require a beefy PC to run. On Scud Race I get 50 fps on a 2.4Ghz quad core, 4 Gb ram and a GTX 260. On Daytona 2, I get slightly less. You can overclock the PPC via the emulator though. If command-line emulators are not your bag, there is a rough and ready front end available. Get it here

Wow, great news that it's finally released. :D I somewhat doubt that I could run it on my tower PC (2.6Ghz dual core, 3GB ram, onboard GMA), although it'd be interesting to see how it compares with MAME (which runs like a pig with Model 3 stuff...)

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Treble

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Oh my god, this is the best news ever... SCUD Race is one of my favourite games of all time, but there are several brilliant arcade games that never saw a conversion: The Lost World, Star Wars Trilogy, Daytona 2.

I hope the issues the site mentions with the ROMs are fixed soon, but yeah - amazing news!

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Treble

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Right, had a quick go.

supermodel2011040819215.jpg

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The positives: very pretty, very easy to use.

The negatives: No pad config, so you have to map all the buttons in Xpadder (unless you want to use keys!) Knock-on effect is that there's no analogue control for steering :(

Also, despite my rig laughing in the face of framerate issues (it reports 60FPS constantly in FRAPS) the framerate in-game is actually very dippy - very odd and must be emulation bugs as the PC sees it as spitting out the correct framerate.

So, very early days with this but a good start nonetheless. Will try some other stuff out and let you know how it goes...

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Treble

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Had a quick go on The Lost World. Works perfectly, no frame drops. There's no cursor on the screen bar a tiny mouse cursor, though, making it extreeeemleeeee hard to see where the frig you're shooting <_<

supermodel2011040819544.jpg

I like the toilet rolls on the left of the screen to signify how much you've shat yourself?

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