Re: Fastest emulators period

Posted on 2024-04-07, 06:14

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This thread lacks info about early fast Sega Saturn emulators. Somewhere around 2006 I've been experimenting with stuff like Satourne, GiriGiri (?) or Satournin on 400 Mhz with no luck, first Saturn game I managed to run was NiGHTS on 2008 built of SSF - it ran almost fullspeed on 1,7 GHz Celeron M. …

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Re: Most advanced game to run on Voodoo 5

Posted on 2023-12-20, 18:10

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MkfMi9T_xI He managed to run not only Resident Evil 4, MGS 2 but even Crysis... and that all on Windows 11 WTF? How is it even possible?

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Were low prices a part of the fun?

Posted on 2023-11-25, 21:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I must admit I quit PC gaming somwhere in 2001. Out of my favourtites genres: RTS extincted, fighting games migrated entirely to consoles and fpp shooters became cutscene-heavy realistic / WW2 boringfest... My interest was focused in music and almost entire of money was spent on CD's/MC's/zines ( …

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Re: Transferring files between OG Xbox and Linux PC + FATX formatting

Posted on 2023-11-17, 17:39

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Thanks for your effort. Meanwhile I had to go back to Win7 on that PC so I'll try it once more once I reinstall Linux again, maybe some Ubuntu based this time. BTW I'll ask why Wine could not see USB drive in various apps, is there a workaround for that? It would be much simpler to just run those …

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Re: Transferring files between OG Xbox and Linux PC + FATX formatting

Posted on 2023-11-16, 13:42

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Antix (based on Debian), I've already tried that method before but failed at compiling anything due to various errors.

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Transferring files between OG Xbox and Linux PC + FATX formatting

Posted on 2023-11-16, 08:56

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There is no problem with transfering files from/into original Xbox on (up to 7) Windows machine, it is either FTP through Filezilla (slow, unconvenient) or using Xplorer360 to put files on FATX formatted USB stick (there is a need for USB-to-Xbox converted but I've got one or two). Problem is, I …

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Re: End of an Era

Posted on 2023-04-11, 17:37

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What were the last games that ended Win 3.11 lifespan? Image is kinda blurry because (at least some) magazines at some point stopped informing about W3.11 compatibility if game was released in W95 days for that OS but as far as I remember: Civilization 2 (og 1996 release) Berdmuda Syndrome (1996) …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2023-01-26, 18:37

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Azarien wrote on 2022-02-19, 22:18: songo wrote on 2022-02-19, 21:13: I cannot run 3dfx-patched version of Blood 1 on DosBox-X. I have the same problem. Other games work but Blood always says that it cannot load DLL. I have finally found a working solution - running DosBox-X with "-set memsize=63 - …

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Re: Share your paranoia!

Posted on 2023-01-16, 19:03

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in Milliways

Sure, there's more accurate N64 emulators that know what a frame buffer is and gets far closer to 99% (Ares, Mupen64plus both have ParaLLEi-RDP). There's also less risk of being mandela effect'd of emulator inaccuracies and glitches (if you're exclusively playing those games emulated for the first …

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Re: What are the most demanding games of their respective eras?

Posted on 2023-01-16, 18:30

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leileilol wrote on 2022-12-28, 01:40: 98- Unreal How about Trespasser?

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Share your paranoia!

Posted on 2023-01-16, 05:37

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Ok, everyone here is more or less paranoid with thing like pedantism, period-correct obsession etc. so what are yours extremes ? I simply cannot play games on overpowered hardware. I'm used to squeeze 100% of hardware I own and it's just like another side of the coin... Brain goes that: 'what's the …

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Re: Voodoo 5 emulation

Posted on 2022-10-22, 15:52

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86box dev crossed the hypothetical endline for 86box development... it includes V5! https://www.reddit.com/r/86box/comments/tiz7kp/we_get_a_lot_of_questions_about_why_dont_you/ If someone were to put in the effort to cross 86Box into that era, it would just have a very slow Pentium III and a very …

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Re: Most advanced game to run on Voodoo 5

Posted on 2022-10-15, 12:45

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Guis, what is optimal CPU / RAM for Voodoo 5? I mean - the point in which GPU became a bottleneck for entire system - 1 Ghz CPU / 512 RAM or less?

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Let's sort hardware into weak/decent/powerful/extreme cathegories with games

Posted on 2022-08-09, 18:38

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Everyone has some kind of internal benchmark that allows to separate different tiers of hardware's power hierarchy. Question is - what games would you guys choose such as milestones in following categories? Mine are: WEAK - cannot run Doom fluently so it peaks around low-end 486 DECENT - can run …

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Re: Any notable unofficial DOS conversions of games?

Posted on 2022-07-14, 18:47

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Super Mario Bros 3 by Id Software - but there's no way to download it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YWD6Y9FUuw

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When PC became soulless for you?

Posted on 2022-07-10, 18:10

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Back in the day, in 90's, Amiga 'elitists' considered IBM compatibiles inferior machines that lacked soul. Here, in Poland, they even called PC 'clones' and their users 'clonards'. I didn't understand such concepts but it changed once I felt myself similar thing at some point. For me, it's started …

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Re: Most advanced game to run on Voodoo 5

Posted on 2022-06-03, 21:29

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ7GkC9JrLY&t=153s This is the most impressive one, kinda slow but graphics is intact.

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Re: Most advanced game to run on Voodoo 5

Posted on 2022-06-01, 16:07

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More advanced games would probably be a fillrate-hungry GTA3 game or UT2003/2004, which still wouldn't be feature complete as a Geforce2 or even a Kyro and have visual issues... As youtube material prooves, those games runs kinda ok on V5. After doing some research I've found that someone manage to …

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Re: Most advanced game to run on Voodoo 5

Posted on 2022-06-01, 15:20

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As an aside (from voodoo being not so great beyond about 2000) i'm impressed you stayed with 200mmx for a decade :) what years were they? I'm sure a P200mmx has more power than generally thought of but interesting if you got it working fine with early 2000's internet and games etc 1998 - 2008, 32 …

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Re: Most advanced game to run on Voodoo 5

Posted on 2022-06-01, 03:41

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Now, when Duke Nukem Forever 2001 build finally leak, could some try to run it on V5?

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