Clearly someone knows this better than me. Thanks!
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Which console. I <3 emulation.
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Ps2 and the Nintendo systems.
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Ps2 and the Nintendo systems.
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ps2?
I'm just your everyday black guy!
Final fantasy 7 & 8 would be fun.
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Ps2 and the Nintendo systems.
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The most recent consoles you'll be able to emulate are the PS1 and N64. Anything newer there is not an emulator for and I doubt there will be for a long time (and certainly not for the Epic.)
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The most recent consoles you'll be able to emulate are the PS1 and N64. Anything newer there is not an emulator for and I doubt there will be for a long time.
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Ps1 ran FF7. That'd be fine. Nintendo & Super Nintendo would also be great.
I use FPse for PS1 roms, there's a program called ECM Tools that will help you convert certain game roms into the file type(s) you need to run the image on Android.
I've put SNESoid on my girlfriends phone, she has been playing Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG and A Link to the Past, all without problems.
Both emulators feature save states, you will need a BIOs file for FPse but all you have to do is google the BIOs file mentioned when first booting up the app.
There are emulators for every system you listed accept for ps2 (a tad bit over board for our hardware ) psx4droid ver 3.0.0.6 is the newest ps emulator and n64droid 1.0..4 is the newest for n64. However all of these were recently pulled from the android market. Their developer yongzh has been giving them away for free since just google for the apk. Make sure you have the latest!
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toweringflesh said:
I use FPse for PS1 roms, there's a program called ECM Tools that will help you convert certain game roms into the file type(s) you need to run the image on Android.
Both emulators feature save states, you will need a BIOs file for FPse but all you have to do is google the BIOs file mentioned when first booting up the app.
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Explain these two portions a bit, please.
And btw all the ps1 final fantasys run well on psx4droid 3. I prefer IX (on disc 3 now with only a few hiccups)
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He uses another ps emulator fpse. Personally, final fantasy IX looked a whole lot nice for me on psx4droid with way less pixelation. The secnd part is about the saving system which is independent of the consoles emulated memory cards an takes a snapshot at any point you like which you can load later. Like an old school gameshark.
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I use FPse for PS1 roms, there's a program called ECM Tools that will help you convert certain game roms into the file type(s) you need to run the image on Android. -- Google ECM Tools and there'll be a website called Emuparadise, one of the first results. Just check out that page, there's a download link and a brief explanation of what the program does and how to use it (it's as simple as drag-and-drop).
If you download a game image and the files include a .bin or .iso or .img file, those are all good to go without any preparation. (Also wanna mention that the SNES emulator doesn't require anything like this, it's just for PSX games.)
Both emulators feature save states, you will need a BIOs file for FPse but all you have to do is google the BIOs file mentioned when first booting up the app. -- Save states are used as an alternative to the games native save file system. You can save whenever you want and load from that point. The BIOs file for FPse is named SCPH1001.bin, just pop that into Google as well and you'll find it no problem.
Edit: As being mentioned above, psx4droid is an option as well. I had lag issues with a few games while running psx4droid (primarily with the games that came around later in the PSX lifespan) which I havn't had with FPse. There have been a few games where I've noticed graphical faults within FPse, Breath of Fire III had some transparency issues...can't really think of anything else worth mentioning. I had a few roms that didn't work but I've managed to find other versions to try out and have gotten everything to work so far that I've wanted to get working.
I'd try them both out and see which works best for you.
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I use FPse for PS1 roms, there's a program called ECM Tools that will help you convert certain game roms into the file type(s) you need to run the image on Android. -- Google ECM Tools and there'll be a website called Emuparadise, one of the first results. Just check out that page, there's a download link and a brief explanation of what the program does and how to use it (it's as simple as drag-and-drop).
If you download a game image and the files include a .bin or .iso or .img file, those are all good to go without any preparation. (Also wanna mention that the SNES emulator doesn't require anything like this, it's just for PSX games.)
Both emulators feature save states, you will need a BIOs file for FPse but all you have to do is google the BIOs file mentioned when first booting up the app. -- Save states are used as an alternative to the games native save file system. You can save whenever you want and load from that point. The BIOs file for FPse is named SCPH1001.bin, just pop that into Google as well and you'll find it no problem.
Edit: As being mentioned above, psx4droid is an option as well. I had lag issues with a few games while running psx4droid (primarily with the games that came around later in the PSX lifespan) which I havn't had with FPse. There have been a few games where I've noticed graphical faults within FPse, Breath of Fire III had some transparency issues...can't really think of anything else worth mentioning. I had a few roms that didn't work but I've managed to find other versions to try out and have gotten everything to work so far that I've wanted to get working.
I'd try them both out and see which works best for you.
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And just let me say that in no way was I dissing fpse. It is most definitely the "faster" of the two.. and has better compatibility overall. But you mentioned final fantasy and I have to mention that I tested ffix on both and px4droid (the newest one, I haven't had much success with anything older than 3.0) just was better for that game. Plus it supports antialiasing which I really notice on this small screen in comparison to a computer monitor. Anyway happy gaming, PM me if you have any emu questions.. btw food for thought- anybody think once we get some quad core action going on in android we might be able to get a pcsx2 port going? That would be sweet.
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Is the Artemis any good with emulators for consolegames, arcadegames and such? I'm just thinking that the clockspeed of the Artemis isn't really up to par with what is needed for most emulators.
I'm going to download the ScummVM later today to relive those glorious days of lucasarts adventure games.
But I was also thinking of downloading something like Morphgear. But as I've gathered Morphgear is discontinued. Some of the modules became open source, while others remain commercial (i.e. you have to pay for them). I'd really like to know if GBA games can be played in a decent way on the Artemis. Games like fire emblem, final fantasy tactics and such...
Also, can anyone PM me a link to a site with the game files for scummvm-games. I have bought these games on my Amiga500 back in the day and I can't imagine why i would have to pay for these games all over again, just to play them on my PDA. They should just release these games for free use so we can all enjoy these gems.
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Is the Artemis any good with emulators for consolegames, arcadegames and such? I'm just thinking that the clockspeed of the Artemis isn't really up to par with what is needed for most emulators.
I'm going to download the ScummVM later today to relive those glorious days of lucasarts adventure games.
But I was also thinking of downloading something like Morphgear. But as I've gathered Morphgear is discontinued. Some of the modules became open source, while others remain commercial (i.e. you have to pay for them). I'd really like to know if GBA games can be played in a decent way on the Artemis. Games like fire emblem, final fantasy tactics and such...
Also, can anyone PM me a link to a site with the game files for scummvm-games. I have bought these games on my Amiga500 back in the day and I can't imagine why i would have to pay for these games all over again, just to play them on my PDA. They should just release these games for free use so we can all enjoy these gems.
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generally the Artemis can run the games, the problem comes when you want to control them! the buttons dont make the greatest game pads...
Monkey Island rules haha! I've you're interested I can PM you Monkey Island 1 + 2. I'm to trying to complete the game without a WWalkthrough but it's just too hard hehe
That would be awesome. I'm betting i'll find it harder to complete it this time round to when I was 13-14 and used to playing this kind of point and click adventure games all the time. I'm gonna look and see if i can find: Sam & Max, Loom, Full Throttle, Indiana Jones, Maniac Mansion...(i'm guessing that Grim Fandango isn't playable on ScummVM).
Which coincidentally brings me to another loved series of mine back in the day...Police Quest (and also King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry...). Is there an emulator out there that allows you to play these games???
=> I found a program called PocketSarien, but the latest build i found was for pocket pc 2000!! anything else out there?
Does anyone know if this build of morphgear will run on the Artemis:
Morphgear Windows Mobile - Download Version 2.4.0.9
Pocket PC devices with the Intel XScale processor. This includes devices such as the Dell Axim X5 Advanced, Dell Axim X3, and HP iPAQ 2215.
The Artemis doesn't feature said processor, so I'm curious if it can run on it.
Hey, Which version of ScummVM works on the Artemis? i'm guessing its gonna be "Windows CE ARM package" from http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php#stable .
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You're right. It's the ARM Package. I have it installed and running since yesterday.
There's a great topic about ScummVM and its games on their forum:
http://forum.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?p=24519&sid=69406681e9cf5636123d019c275c6c5d
Even though it explains everything in detail, I just can't seem to get Lure of the Temptress working (free download on ScummVM site). I wrote the files to a specified folder on my storage card (called ScummVMGames) and when I start up ScummVM and it asks me if it should automatically scan for games, it finds nothing, even when I manually redirect it to the folder where I stored the game.
Any help would be greatly appreciated...as well as sending me some games
Bejito007 said:
You're right. It's the ARM Package. I have it installed and running since yesterday.
There's a great topic about ScummVM and its games on their forum:
http://forum.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?p=24519&sid=69406681e9cf5636123d019c275c6c5d
Even though it explains everything in detail, I just can't seem to get Lure of the Temptress working (free download on ScummVM site). I wrote the files to a specified folder on my storage card (called ScummVMGames) and when I start up ScummVM and it asks me if it should automatically scan for games, it finds nothing, even when I manually redirect it to the folder where I stored the game.
Any help would be greatly appreciated...as well as sending me some games
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ok cool thanks i'll see if i can get the game to work...
Downloaded Flight Of The Amazon Queen and this one works as a charm. Very nice to play this type of games again. That absurd sense of humour found in games like Monkey Island is also present in this one and I absolutely love it. Wonder if Discworld will be playable...
OK here is my issue, I have a Sprint Touch Pro 2 and I just upgraded to the new windows mobile 6.5 rom. I am trying to get Pocket GBA to run in Full screen or....even half scree....hell any size screen would work.
I have a feeling there is no fully complatible GBA emulator for windows mobile 6.5 out right now.
I downloaded the newest version off
http://www.sunbug.net/board_contents/view/250/PocketGBA-GameBoy-Advance-Emulator-for-PocketPC
the cab wont install and however the .zip file will work just fine.
Any ideas or are there any 3rd party patches or is there a better emulator for GBA for wm 6.5 anywhere?
I can see there is no answer, possibly because there is no fully working emulator for 6.5?
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I can see there is no answer, possibly because there is no fully working emulator for 6.5?
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nope not really. i've done some browsing for answers and it seems all emulators have some sort of issues with our phones (TP2/Tilt 2) in particular. they will run some games...but framerate, screen size, sound..or something or the other will be missing.
i would love to get GBA working on my phone and of course a playstation emulator to have some of the Final Fantasy games
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i would love to get GBA working on my phone and of course a playstation emulator to have some of the Final Fantasy games
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That would be amazing if they were playable on the phone. the controller would obviously have to me emulated though the keyboard. btw, asiancuta, do you have a ff9 game?
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That would be amazing if they were playable on the phone. the controller would obviously have to me emulated though the keyboard. btw, asiancuta, do you have a ff9 game?
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used to own it, but unfortunately not in many years now lol. but i'd hunt for one on ebay, if i know for sure we can have an emulator that works and FF can run on it at 50-60 fps. i've been an FF fan since the NES first one.
FPSece is a PSX emulator that works very well on our phone, it can run somegames a full speed without sound.
http://www.fpsece.net/downloads.htm
Makes me sad when I see a PSX emu running this fast and I cant even get a SNES/GB/GBA emulator running a full speed with sound. We need these emulators to be updated with some better faster code. I know it possible with the hardware in our phone just no one with the skill willing to take the time to do it. Not like I blame them I am sure they have better things to do then make emulators for us.
Awesome to see there there is still some old school FF fans. For the last few months, I've been building a Tetra Master game for WVGA. its at v0.60 "missing the AI still". If your skilled at the game, you could be a beta tester for me. if you know C#, then i would love some help on how to add mp3s into the program.
the game has everything the PS game has, plus more features that SHOULD be included "buying/ selling cards and a non-cryptic tutorial"
Just if people are searching, as far as you're looking to play GB or GBC, I think the registered version of SmartGear is great. Game running, screen orientation and key mapping are ideal.
Hi guys
Whilst browsing, I came across this page at the microsoft channel 9 forum http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/543611-My-Silverlight-SNES-Emulator/
The guy has written a silverlight SNES emulator, how cool!!
There was me thinking without native code emulators wouldn't be possible, but heck just tried a rom and it worked, hopefully this means emulators on WP7 even if it does mean side loading them onto the phone.
here's the link to the emulator webpage http://unlimitedgilgamesh.com/supersharplight.html
Awesome. Hope it grows into something great for WP7. Either way nice to see a simple EMU being built in Silverlight and hopefully XNA in the future.
I hope to see a gameboy emulator on wp7 i havent played pokemon blue in years, it use to be the game when i was young
Hopefully the developer or someone else makes some on screen controls
Question, I have a ton of roms on my home computer, how would I go about putting them on WP7?
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Question, I have a ton of roms on my home computer, how would I go about putting them on WP7?
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pray & hope that one day it will appear on your device lol
no really tho can an app open the browser within the app & download things to the isolated storage thats reserved for that app? i think i read somewhere where the iphone emulators did that or something like that
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pray & hope that one day it will appear on your device lol
no really tho can an app open the browser within the app & download things to the isolated storage thats reserved for that app? i think i read somewhere where the iphone emulators did that or something like that
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I'm not sure if you can do it through the web browser control (one would think so) but you could code your own thing to download them at least.
I hope someone ports Scumm over. Those old lucas art games are better touch experiences than console emulators. I also hate using the screen for virtual gamepad and buttons. A device really needs a d-pad and buttons to play console emulators well.
Um, you can. MorphGear plays NES, SNES, GameBoy, GameBoy Advance, TurboGrafx/PC-Engine, Sega Master System, and Sega Genesis ROMs.
http://www.spicypixel.com/web/page/morphgear/Home.aspx
WVGA improvement:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=593464
PSx emulator:
http://www.fpsece.net/
Use your PS3 or Wii controller with MorphGear and FPSEce:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=689984
What more could you want?
He meant ported to WP7, we know morphgear etc exists
Great! I would love to see other emulators on WP7
any news? :/ i'd love to see SNES emulator on wp7..
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any news? :/ i'd love to see SNES emulator on wp7..
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No but there is an AWSOME NES emulator....
any news on a SNES emu?
How about the Ps1 emulator we had on the HD2?
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How about the Ps1 emulator we had on the HD2?
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That's not realistic without native code.
why silverlight not xna? just curious.
snes emu+chrono trigger+wp=win.
What happened to this project ?
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There has been NO progress at all.
Just nothing, it was claimed that someone created a Silverlight SNES emulator for the PC and notied it was buggy like crazy but, it worked.
Another person with the gamer tag CreamFilling512, claimed he got it running in XNA 4.0 and WP7, if you take a look at the image, it looks like it was photoshopped. THere is no way it was real, look for yourself..
http://ibghuq.bay.livefilestore.com...OwPxaZPljUzTTX35wTyXaSu8lg/supersharp_wp7.png
A few sites went up so far but, nothing saying that there is any progress towards making a working SNES emulator for WP7. We are currently at 8 bit systems (NES and SMS) but, seeing a SNES is a little time away.
Personally I think this thread should be closed till we get some proof that there is actually one in progress, this just gets peoples hopes up and kind of bumps a old thread.
I would love to be proved wrong here but, I have been searching and there is no active SNES programs in progress for WP7
I have recently got my Xperia play and it feels so incomplete without the gaming add-on. I want to install the following games on my play and have sumhow tried different links to install two emulators i) psx4droid ii) fpse on my play. But still when i download the Metal slug rom and placed it in the sd card i was unable to play that.
Tekken 3
King of fighters
Metal Slug
Super Mario
And please let me know when i search different web for the game roms am I looking for the sony playstation roms or playstation portable roms ?
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I have recently got my Xperia play and it feels so incomplete without the gaming add-on. I want to install the following games on my play and have sumhow tried different links to install two emulators i) psx4droid ii) fpse on my play. But still when i download the Metal slug rom and placed it in the sd card i was unable to play that.
Tekken 3
King of fighters
Metal Slug
Super Mario
And please let me know when i search different web for the game roms am I looking for the sony playstation roms or playstation portable roms ?
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First of all, though there are many places calling PSX or PSP disc images "ROMs," a ROM file is actually a dump of a ROM cartridge and a dump of a full disc structure + contents is called an "Image." The relationship between emulators and ROMs is the same as between data files and the applications to open, and edit/interpret them. For example, you might use MS Paint to open a bitmap file or Notepad to open a text file. If the operating system was not aware of what program to use to open that file automatically, you would have to launch the program first and use the File>Open function. This is essentially how you will be doing it on any Android device. Now, just like you can't open a Super Nintendo ROM with Microsoft Excel, you can't open a Sega Genesis/MegaDrive ROM with a Super Nintendo emulator. The emulator was written to understand SNES ROMs and would need to be two emulators in one to understand and play a Genesis ROM.
So, you first need to get the emulators you want installed, then copy the ROMs you want to the SD card, then launch the correct emulator and point it to the desired ROM. There are a few extra steps involved.
First, most people are oblivious to the fact that most of the emulators available are blatantly stolen and ported from open-source PC emulators. Half the reason they were open source was to be ported to other platforms like this and have the work and credit shared. Instead, hardly any SNES emulators on Android even mention SNES9x and many port authors have the audacity to charge for something they did not create! Do not support these crooks. For example, it's very easy to find the official Android port of SNES9x by searching on Google. It's called "SNES9x Ex" and it works as well as or better than any of the others on the Android Market. You can find official sanctions ports for most popular emulators. Start at a classic resource like vg-network and work from there.
Next, you need to enable installing from unofficial sources before you can browse to, download, and install the emulator. I'm sure you can figure it out.
After than, you need to download the ROM to the SD card. Me? I usually dump the original game cartridge from my collection, but if you download from websites on your phone, you will have a very hard time! Most downloads will fail or come in an archive format that the emulator does not support, like 7zip format. At least most emulators support standard zip format, but if you get a rar or 7z file, you need to use an app or PC program to extract the ROM file from inside.
Remember, ROMs only work with emulators made for their specific platform. Except for arcade ROMs being used with MAME, it's best to organize them by platform. Make NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, PSX, GB, etc sub directories/folders inside your ROM directory/folder. Place it somewhere that's easy to find on your SD card.
Launching the emulator, look for the "load" function if it doesn't already take you to a list of files. If you are not already on the top level ("root") of your SD card, look for "sdcard." To move up a level from a sub directory to its parent folder, some user interfaces have you pick two dots, which is a relic from the command line days (one dot is the current directory, two dots is the parent). Use this knowledge to browse and find the ROM file.
The emulator should know what to do from there. The specifics or playing and configuring a particular emulator are up to you., Keep in mind that not all games will work. You may want to try games that you know work with the particular emulator first so that you will not waste time troubleshooting something that isn't your fault.
Happy new year all.
Just thinking of flashing a new ROM and was contemplating what could be possible on current hardware.
The last time I ran a test from top to bottom I hit the ceiling at ps2 emulation but that was dodgy
Anyway, I personally haven't used any of the new emulators for a while so wondered what is currently possible? What have you used? What worked? Or was good?
I know in theory 90% of Wii games should work and everything underneath it, so GameCube, PSP, PSX, N64, Dreamcast, Saturn, 32x, jaguar, arcade, mega drive, SNES, Neogeo.
Any info, ideas, cool stuff,
IMO it all depends on the game.
I play NSMB Wii through dolphin and that works great. But as an example, I can't get Rogue Leader on GC to play on anything except a good GPU on a PC. The Hoth level brings everything to it's knee's and OP8P is no exception.
AetherSX2 is great for PS2 emulation and with a few tweaks seems to play everything very well. I tried shadow of the collosus and Black and both were very playable. Check youtube for how to tweak.
But yea, everything below that seems to work great. Dreamcast, PSP, PS1, Mame. I even managed to get Killer Instinct arcade working throuh retroarch and that worked very well.
You can also play packages for Doom 3 and OG Half Life as well as HL2 and Portal with hacky APK's.
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IMO it all depends on the game.
I play NSMB Wii through dolphin and that works great. But as an example, I can't get Rogue Leader on GC to play on anything except a good GPU on a PC. The Hoth level brings everything to it's knee's and OP8P is no exception.
AetherSX2 is great for PS2 emulation and with a few tweaks seems to play everything very well. I tried shadow of the collosus and Black and both were very playable. Check youtube for how to tweak.
But yea, everything below that seems to work great. Dreamcast, PSP, PS1, Mame. I even managed to get Killer Instinct arcade working throuh retroarch and that worked very well.
You can also play packages for Doom 3 and OG Half Life as well as HL2 and Portal with hacky APK's.
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What's NSMB?
Shadow of the colossus? If that's working then that's really really impressive, that absolutely pushed the ps2 to the limit, the use of fog to keep graphics in memory was genius for it's time and to manage to keep the frames up on ps2 hardware.
Cheers will have a look at that ps2 emulator, nice one.
PS:. I've got a guide on how to run PC games with native files
One of the things i've been using for gaming has been this app https://parsec.app/
Pop it on a PC you game on then log in, change some settings then leave that PC alone.
On a second device, android / mac / or other windows device, download the app from the link and install it.
Log in and you can then control the PC you installed it on in the first place, i have to say that the speed of input is really really good, i was massively impressed by the responsiveness and ability to play through games with minimal setup required.
Few things to change.
Set resolution to 1920x1080
Change network to latency / performance
Change network allowed to max / 50Mb
Renderer - DX11
That should work as expected.
I played some PS2 games on my Huawei P30 Pro already.
For the nature of emulation, not every game works. But everything below PS2 and below WII U is probably very enjoyable. Most emulators are open source and are ported to android anyway.
I would say God of War from PS2 is playable on the 8 Pro.
dladz said:
What's NSMB?
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New Super Mario Bros.... Not particularly taxing game.....
dladz said:
Happy new year all.
Just thinking of flashing a new ROM and was contemplating what could be possible on current hardware.
The last time I ran a test from top to bottom I hit the ceiling at ps2 emulation but that was dodgy
Anyway, I personally haven't used any of the new emulators for a while so wondered what is currently possible? What have you used? What worked? Or was good?
I know in theory 90% of Wii games should work and everything underneath it, so GameCube, PSP, PSX, N64, Dreamcast, Saturn, 32x, jaguar, arcade, mega drive, SNES, Neogeo.
Any info, ideas, cool stuff,
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AetherSX2 Compatibility List - Unofficial
Rules & Guidelines READ THESE Do not add any unrelated materials or delete other users' enteries Follow the template and add all data you can about it. Settings and all help, but please list your fps, device, and version Please keep in mind that the Master List is alphabetical and all enteries s...
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I keep a personal tab for AetherSX2
A demo i did back then
You can find the videos i recorded in AetherSX2's official telegram group
gsser said:
AetherSX2 Compatibility List - Unofficial
Rules & Guidelines READ THESE Do not add any unrelated materials or delete other users' enteries Follow the template and add all data you can about it. Settings and all help, but please list your fps, device, and version Please keep in mind that the Master List is alphabetical and all enteries s...
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I keep a personal tab for AetherSX2
A demo i did back then
You can find the videos i recorded in AetherSX2's official telegram group
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Aye I've just installed it. Runs fine, black and Tiger woods 6