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Emulation on the PPC
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 5:12amby SmarterThanSam
What kinds of speeds are you all getting on emulators for all the consoles that are currently available for the PPC?
Im assuming that most of the newer PPC's can get full speed on NES and GBC. I had an old MobilePro 770 HPC that could run most GBC games at full speed if not pretty close. Just wanna make sure though.
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 5:18amby damian
What emulator are you talking about specifically? Most emulators emulating old platforms (ex. NES) run perfectly well. SNES is a bit of a stretch, and is on the verge of unplayable.
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 5:36amby SmarterThanSam
Well really just any emulator in general. I know that any old runs well and anything not that old but not really new (ie Snes) chugs along.
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 6:13amby James S
Gameboy Color and NES are both full, 60 fps, speed. SuperNES is playable at around 30 to 45 frames per second if you can really get the settings just right and free up lots of RAM and with no sound. Playstation runs around 10 frames per second, depending on the game really. Some Playstation games, like Final Fantasy Chronicles, plays reasonable well at about 17 fps. Genesis is not playable, but I've got some inside information on a new Genesis emulator that's going to be released sometime soon (like, months, maybe next quarter) that should play very smoothly. Around the speed of current SuperNES, so 30 to 45 fps, but much more playable than the current emulator available. And that is simply speculation, as it's not really complete yet at all.
Anything pre-16bit runs perfectly. Sixteen bit systems run playably, and 32bit is, well, just a novelty.
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 7:43amby SiGen
the guy who made pocketnester (the nes emu that runs at 60fps in 200Mhz device) is currently developing a new proyect... SNES emu
there are also some hopes to get your games running full speed with new processors, <--- dont quote me on that
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 2:02pmby SmarterThanSam
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 4:52pmby James S
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 9:15pmby Dihnekis
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 9:21pmby James S
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 9:43pmby Dihnekis
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 9:59pmby sponge
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Mar 25, 2003 @ 10:28pmby James S
I'm not good with babies... they always look at me and smile and giggle but what am I supposed to do with them or say to them?
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Mar 26, 2003 @ 2:50amby damian
Calm down, the PSX emu works on my axim.
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Mar 29, 2003 @ 3:07amby SmarterThanSam
Does anyone know about how much faster an ARM processor is at SNES Emulation than an X-Scale?[/code]
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Mar 29, 2003 @ 4:07amby James S
Not significantly. Maybe 5 to 20 percent faster.