GB32 Performance

[penx]

Hi, I've been thinking about forking out for one of these things for a couple of weeks, but the thing that's been bugging me is how useable the emulators will be, could someone please post some typical frame rates for the emulators, paticularly the snes and sega ones (does it emulate the genesis/megadrive as well as the master system by the way?)

Thanks,
Ali

 

[WaWaWang]

I saw a couple of threads on this topicin in the forum you should search for them

 

[craigix]

Basicly snesfxe will allow you to play snes games at a good speed, but it has no sound.

Snes9x has sound but is slow.

Zars genesis emu still isn't officially released so you won't find it on any websites, but it DOES exist and works well.

-Craig

www.gbax.com

 

[WaWaWang]

How are the nes frame rates and sound?

 

[MrT]

I think that the InfoNes port is pretty good, it just suffers as does it "Mother" from bad sound, and from what I had heard the porter was waiting for the "mother" to be improved before improving the port.

We shall have to wait and hope

MrT

 

[GurtyGurt]

For performance, out of 10 (Sound/Framerate/Compat/Overall):

Snesemu: 0/7/6/5
SNES9XGP: 9/4/9/5 (haven't tried the latest ver)
SMS32: 8/10/9/9
InfoNES: 4/5/5/5
fNES32: 0/5/4/4
FrodoGP: 8/10/8/9
GPengine: 8/8/8/8
PlusIVe: 9/9/9/9
WonderBoi: 0/9/6/7
GPSpeccy: 6/10/7/8

I was fairly generous with these scores. Basically, if all you want is Nintendo stuff, it's not going to satisfy (which is kinda ironic, really). Of course, most of these emus are still under development and will probably improve over time! (FYI I wouldn't give an emulator 10/10 unless if it had everything the original machine did and no compatability problems, except on maybe rare occasions - eg, on pc, CCS64 and ZSNES I would probably give a 10)

Individually though...InfoNES has really bad sound, and like MrT said, so did the PC version. The GP32's is even worse. Neither it or fNES32 run very well (both are ports of InfoNES on PC) and have poor compatibility - eg, SMB3 runs really slow (does it run in fNES32?) and Punch Out runs REALLY slow (it doesn't run at all in fNES32) and you can't play it, really. Especially since it has graphic glitches. A few games are playable decently - eg Megaman, but anything with a bit of speed (SMB1 even) is probably a big no-no for now. Give it time. It can only improve!

 

[penx]

Yeh, ok I'll wait for better compatability - I'll probably buy a GP32 once the emulators are up to speed, I understand the problems, I have watched SNES emulators on Mac and PC go from virtually unplayable to absolutely excellent so it's probably just a matter of time - but not ready to shed out £100 until that time comes, especially as support for the platform is not exactly massive, so no guarantee of decent emulators *ever* being developed. Let's just hope that Nintendo or whoever else haven't cracked down on this thing by the time some decent emu's have been made. (As hinted at by forums on slasdot.org etc)

Ali

 

[pip]

I think Nintendo will try to stop the copier for GBA (which they have failed to do) before trying to stop something that is completely legal.

 

[Retroid]

Thanks for the scores, GurtyGurt, I was wondering how well a lot of these emus ran.

Ah, C64 & C16 on one machine... it'll be like living my youth allover again (especially if I put some porny PD slideshows alongside the games, and watch episodes of Knightmare after I come home from school ^_^ - except in these times they may take a dim view of a 27yo man trying to attend secondary school) :blink:

Did I say any of that? No? Good ^_^;;;