Anybody Still Play Games From Back In the Day On An Emulator?

[Skywatcher]

@Engywook

I was delighted to find this Qix emulator. It’s built in Flash, and as far as I can tell it’s a perfect reproduction of the real thing from 1982.

It won’t allow you to backtrack on an internal line like I’m used to but I don’t know if that was in the original game or not.

[Anastasaeon]

@nikonikosuru

I use zsnes. Trying to look for N64 and up emulators, but it gets so hard to find a good site between all of the spam.

I loved playing Harvest Moon, Earthbound, and Final Fantasy VI. Good times.

Those are all my favourites, too.

I would love to find a decent N64 emulator - I played Harvest Moon 64 for many long hours… chubby lil’ cows… aw. I still play all the newer ones (still playing Magical Melody and More Friends of Mineral Town), but I love the old ones, too. Good times, indeed!

And Earthbound is the best game of all time ever in the history of life.

[Critical1]

@Darkhold

For the life of me I couldn’t get my wife to show an interest in computer games (aside from Sims 2 and titles like Theme Hospital)

Then I downloaded an emulator package that had all the English games from the Snes/Genesis generation and before and now we play together all the time much to my joy.

Please if anyone knows some good two player games that aren’t fighting games or racing games aside from Mario Cart I’d LOVE to hear any recommendations. Thanks in advance.

You should really REALLY check out “Bust-a-Move”
its a sort of puzzle game that you can play against another player on, you shoot colored balls at other colored balls and when you match 3 or more the fall off your pile and then get added to the other players pile…yeah sounds stupid as hell on a message board. its a game women and men love and very cut throat in vrs mode.

[Darkhold]

@Critical1

You should really REALLY check out “Bust-a-Move”
its a sort of puzzle game that you can play against another player on, you shoot colored balls at other colored balls and when you match 3 or more the fall off your pile and then get added to the other players pile…yeah sounds stupid as hell on a message board. its a game women and men love and very cut throat in vrs mode.

Sounds good thank you I’ll try it out. Anyone else have any ideas?

[RumMunkey]

I have an old PC running Windows 98 that I installed in a hollowed out full-size stand up video game cabinet. It runs emulators almost exclusively and the keyboard controls are re-mapped to a custom made 2-player, 6-button control panel.

Yes, I play emulators.

[neutron_star]

@nikonikosuru

Trying to look for N64 and up emulators, but it gets so hard to find a good site between all of the spam.

Downloading supposed emulators of newer systems is a good way to get a virus. The current progress of real emulators for said systems is as follows:

Nintendo 64: Working well.
Playstation: Working well.
Sega Dreamcast: Slow and buggy.
Nintendo Gamecube: Slow, low compatibility, buggy, very high system requirements.
Nintendo DS: Slow, no sound, buggy, low compatibility.
Playstation 2: No emulator currently runs commercial PS2 games. A couple of emulators run demos as a sort of proof-of-concept.
PSP: One emulator runs demos. Nothing commercial.
Xbox: One emulator runs a single game (Halo) very, very slowly. That’s about it so far.
Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo Wii: Ask again in eight years or so.

For ratings of, links to, and news about various emulators, I’ve been using The Emulator Zone for years. Good site.

[Autumn_Almanac]

I used to play a ton of emulated SNES games, mostly RPGs. Nowadays, I find that most of the old games I still want to play are being ported to Game Boy Advance or DS. I wonder if Nintendo is specifically responding to the popularity of emulators, or if re-releasing old games is something they’d be doing anyway.

[awldune]

@neutron star

Nintendo DS: Slow, no sound, buggy, low compatibility.

Worth mentioning that GBA runs great, however. Every game I’ve tried has run perfectly.

@neutron star

Playstation 2: No emulator currently runs commercial PS2 games. A couple of emulators run demos as a sort of proof-of-concept.

PCSX2 runs commercial games, although they are crushingly slow on my machine. Much happier on a Core 2 Duo, I understand.

@Autolycus

NESticle for NES games

While this used to be the only way to go, I feel that most of the newer programs are much better. NEStopia, for example.

[DustyButt]

I don’t know why, but I LOVE to unwind for an hour or two with Command & Conquer Red Alert every now and again.

There’s something about a properly designed tesla coil defense that makes me…

(DustyButt is now wringing hands together and staring into space with an evil grin)

[joemama24_98]

@Darkhold

Sounds good thank you I’ll try it out. Anyone else have any ideas?

Darkhold, check out this website - its a great resource for identifying co-op games an all sorts of platforms:

http://shadowpanther.net/ (link through “Other Resources”, “Retired Projects”, “Co-op Games List”)

I actually built an arcade cabinent thats host a MAME machine. Check our www.byoac.com for controls schematics, details, etc. Its a great party item.

I second “Bust a Move”. Ton’s of fun.

[Scuba_Ben]

I’ve dabbled in Power 64 (A C64 emulator for several systems) and in Mac MAME.

One day I might set up Power 64 and see if my old C64 floppies still work.

[Chronos]

There’s something about a properly designed tesla coil defense that makes me…

There’s also something about a properly designed tesla coil defense that makes your opponents nuke your power plants :>. Assuming, of course, that you can still find any human opponents.

[Bytegeist]

@Scuba_Ben

I’ve dabbled in Power 64 (A C64 emulator for several systems) and in Mac MAME.

One day I might set up Power 64 and see if my old C64 floppies still work.

You might already know this, but you’ll have to create disk image files out of your actual, 5.25-inch disks, then transfer these files over to the host machine, before you can run the C64 software under emulation.

To the OP: count me as another person into retro-computing. Primarily I’m into the Apple II, and own several real machines — but really, I like all those old computers from the 70s and 80s. They had a quirky charm and inviting simplicity that has long since gone.

Necessarily so, of course. I’m not a Luddite or anything, opposing progress. In fact I’m looking forward to having a quantum computer in my home someday. (It should make for one kick-ass Apple II emulator.)

[iamthewalrus_3]

@Shagnasty

From there, you have to come up with your own ROMS (images of the games). This usually falls under the category of abandonware although it is theoretically possible to create your own from old cartridges. Lets just say that Google is a big help on how it acquire these. All common consoles have pages dedicated to it.

This is probably worth its own thread, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to consider many old games “abandonware” anymore, considering how many are being ported to new portable systems, or put up for download on the new consoles. Sure, some of them are not likely to be published again, but lots of favorite (S)NES games are making a comeback in the Wii Virtual Console or on the DS.

[Least_Original_User_Name_Ever]

@nikonikosuru

I use zsnes. Trying to look for N64 and up emulators, but it gets so hard to find a good site between all of the spam.

I loved playing Harvest Moon, Earthbound, and Final Fantasy VI. Good times.

Ha, I’m working on Earthbound right now at work. Well, not right NOW right now, but when I’m at work and killing time, I’m playing Earthbound.