Triforce, Model 3, etc...I'm stuck in the stoneage when it comes to what our desktops are capable of nowadays.

Help me bretheren! What's worth checking out?

> Triforce, Model 3, etc...I'm stuck in the stoneage when it comes to what our
> desktops are capable of nowadays.
>
> Help me bretheren! What's worth checking out?
>

Apparently Triforce is supported in Dolphin, but I don't know of any dumps to test with. Gamecube and Wii emulation is ok but not great. Better than Bleem and UltraHLE, worse than 2003-ePSXe.

Model 3 is making some awesome progress in recent years. Check out the new SuperModel (and GUI).

PS2 emulation is looking better every day. Not perfect, but like Dolphin, it's pretty darn good.

Xbox emulation is very poor.

Haven't played with DS emulation outside of the one time I used No$ to load up Operation Vietnam and my save file so that I could get screenshots of the hidden bonus level. That was neat.

PSP emulation isn't too hot.

Type X/X2 games have been getting dumped/decrypted and put out there. Since the basic hardware is an x86 computer running WindowsXP, they tend to work pretty well for most people.

To fill in the DS bit, if you get the stolen registered copy of no$gba 1.7 I believe it is, many games run fantastic, some have some scratchy audio though, but all in all most shit works and just fantastic. I can't speak much for the other emulators, they all sucked pretty hard when I looked a year ago except one iDeaS wasn't so bad, just far slower than no$ which is pretty pathetic.



Billy Connolly - Statement of the Century
"If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking, how come they can't have a headache and sex at the same time ?"

I clicked the "donate" button on his page to shoot him some $$ after using the demo to be able to grab the screenshots from Operation Vietnam and a quick story about how I loved his work, IIRC. He emailed me back with a registration key. (FWIW, I sent something like $20 and registration was like $5, but I really didn't have much interest in actually registering since I didn't really intend to use it again)

Never really had a need for it because I only had a C2D 2.4ghz, which was totally too weak to handle DS emulation. :(

A viable alternative is desmume, I think. Just fired it up and played a little of Order of Ecclesia...seemed to work pretty damn well at window size 2x.

> I clicked the "donate" button on his page to shoot him some $$ after using the
> demo to be able to grab the screenshots from Operation Vietnam and a quick story
> about how I loved his work, IIRC. He emailed me back with a registration key.
> (FWIW, I sent something like $20 and registration was like $5, but I really
> didn't have much interest in actually registering since I didn't really intend
> to use it again)
>
> Never really had a need for it because I only had a C2D 2.4ghz, which was
> totally too weak to handle DS emulation. :(
>
> A viable alternative is desmume, I think. Just fired it up and played a little
> of Order of Ecclesia...seemed to work pretty damn well at window size 2x.
>

All I know is back in the day when I was on irc and another forum the no$ guy was present and he had to be the biggest egomaniacal jackass I've seen next to some of the mame team squatters of all time. He would always swear it to be free except for developers wanting the tools and then changed it, shot his mouth off and well it got pirated hard out of spite. I still have the stolen copy, even if it was $5 it was principle not to pay.

That other you ran the last Castlevania game on I'm surprised did so well. Maybe they got their heads out of their asses and started optimizing and not just adding fluff features (it all trees and IdeaS kept doing that junk.) It was so bad my poor 256MB radeon and quadcore PC wouldn't run either of them full speed. I have a faster laptop than it now with a nicer card in it, may have to look but I don't do much with DS anymore with the 3DS around as much of the library I just never cared for.



Billy Connolly - Statement of the Century
"If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking, how come they can't have a headache and sex at the same time ?"

1.7?? The latest version on the website is 2.6a. It's fast but it have trouble with 3D. So does all the other emulators, games that uses 3D lags a little on my CPU that is.

No$GBA seems to be dead unless he's been updating it some where else. Desmume is probably the best DS emulator right now.

> To fill in the DS bit, if you get the stolen registered copy of no$gba 1.7 I
> believe it is, many games run fantastic, some have some scratchy audio though,
> but all in all most shit works and just fantastic. I can't speak much for the
> other emulators, they all sucked pretty hard when I looked a year ago except one
> iDeaS wasn't so bad, just far slower than no$ which is pretty pathetic.
>
>
>
> Billy Connolly - Statement of the Century
> "If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking, how come they can't have a
> headache and sex at the same time ?"
>