Emulator recommendations for use with GameEX

[ConanTroutman]

I love this GameEx and can't wait to get off "work" and go home to do some more configurations. I just started on the other emu's last night with no luck.

I tried these without GameEx running. I couldn't see how to add the roms list otherwise and was thinking that if I ran ZSNES it would make up a list or something, but reading this forum it sounds like I need to make "map" files?

ZSNESW loads up a nice black box and locks the whole machine up- no ctrl+alt+del no nothing but reset button.

ZSNES Loads up with the top 10% of the window at the bottom of the screen and 70% of the rest loaded at the top - neat.

That's about as far as I got, running back and forth from the basement where I was using Remote desktop to "TS" in to the arcade machine and back to the garage to see if it worked (this is annoying -as I am fat and lazy) I am doing this because my arcade machine is using a TV for a display and I can't read the menus very well- I think I might hook a monitor up while doing the config so I don't burn so many calories. It also helps because the display settings are a little messy going through TS. Incidentally- ZSNES works over TS and locks up when I am at the machine. It's a GeForce3, P3 800 set at 800x600.

So here is the original topic question -

What Emulators work good with GameEx -

Mostly interested in Nintendo platforms for now.

Man I am chatty, sorry I am lonely back here in this server room waiting for something to break.

[Vinbot]

I had something like this happen with ZSNESW as well because I didn't have the quotation marks around the launch command like this

zsnesw.exe "[ROM_PATH]\[ROM_FILE]" or whatever.

Once I made that change, it worked ok.

Vinbot

[ConanTroutman]

  Vinbot said:

I had something like this happen with ZSNESW as well because I didn't have the quotation marks around the launch command like this

zsnesw.exe "[ROM_PATH]\[ROM_FILE]" or whatever.

Once I made that change, it worked ok.

Vinbot

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I remember seeing that in the GameEx config. But it is something that I need to change in ZSNES too? cause it severly hangs the machine when it runs

[djrobx]

When you are first setting up the emulators, set "Show Desktop" to true.

ZSnesW appears in a window by default, and will be hidden from view. You need to set it for one of the full screen modes in the video configuration menu.

Once you are happy with the way the emualtor works, you can try changing "Show Desktop" to false, to hide the Windows desktop while the emulator is launched.

[ConanTroutman]

  djrobx said:

When you are first setting up the emulators, set "Show Desktop" to true. 

ZSnesW appears in a window by default, and will be hidden from view.  You need to set it for one of the full screen modes in the video configuration menu.   

Once you are happy with the way the emualtor works, you can try changing "Show Desktop" to false, to hide the Windows desktop while the emulator is launched.

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Maybe I wasn't clear before- ZNESW hangs when it runs, period. I am not referring to running it from GameEx. if I simply double click on the ZSNESW.exe it hangs the machine completly and i thought it was odd because it does run from terminal services (not usable really, but it does run) My main goal of the topic was to see if there are other SNES emulators that are recommended to work with GameEX- I have never liked ZSNES

[Smiff]

Snes9x?

if you have problem with an emu you should really take it to emu board and not, you know, post here..

[ConanTroutman]

  Smiff said:

Snes9x?

if you have problem with an emu you should really take it to emu board and not, you know, post here..

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Yeah, gotchya. BUT- like I said, my main reason for topic was to get a list of recommended emulators for use with GameEx. I saw ZSNES mentioned all over so I tried it. Snes9x works? Cool I got that, and it runs great already on the machine, I haven't tried it with GameEx yet.

[djrobx]

Snes9x is the only other "100%" SNES emulator out there, but ZSnes is the better of the two for Windows. First delete zsnesw.cfg and try again. If Zsnes doesn't run on your PC, I'd first be looking into upgrading the video drivers. There's probably something wrong there that may affect other emulators as well.

Snes9x shouldn't be too difficult to get working under GameEx.

-- Rob

[ConanTroutman]

  djrobx said:

Snes9x is the only other "100%" SNES emulator out there, but ZSnes is the better of the two for Windows.  First delete zsnesw.cfg and try again.  If Zsnes doesn't run on your PC, I'd first be looking into upgrading the video drivers.  There's probably something wrong there that may affect other emulators as well.

Snes9x shouldn't be too difficult to get working under GameEx.

-- Rob

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I got ZSNESW to work finally by re-extracting the zip to a new directory. I had tried to delete the cfg before because the weird thing was it ran, with problems over RDC. Weird.

ZSNESW is working now just fine. Now I gotta figure out mapping for XArcade stick and to do game saves and such. But its working great. I also had to unset "Roms in folders" and copy roms into one big folder. I also need to weed all the other language roms out of the all in one directory.

Any other suggestions for other emu's??? They are next for tonight. I want to do GBA and NES and Genesis for now at least.

I love this program Tom. Donation coming soon.

[tomdrake]

  ConanTroutman said:

Any other suggestions for other emu's??? They are next for tonight. I want to do GBA and NES and Genesis for now at least.

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My picks...

GBA - Visualboy Advance

NES - FCE Ultra

Genesis - Kega Fusion