leileilol wrote on 2024-07-18, 14:47:

creepingnet wrote on 2024-07-18, 05:39:

The three fastest were SNES9x, ZSNES, and ESNES - with ESNES being the fastest.

I distinctly remember ESNES being the slowest - their early soundless releases had no assembly! Later on that became NLKE and had very slow transparency emulation.

Could have been a code optimization weirdness or something IIRC. I ran it on a 486 and that was their sorta bragging thing about the early no sound thing. Lol. ZSNES and SNES9X felt slower at that time, but that was just as people started making SNES emulators (1999-2001ish).

These days Zsnes is what I prefer, in windows and dos. It's glacially slow once the ROM starts but not unplayable. It managed Mario RPG just over slideshow, 🤣. I thought about maybe doing some YouTube videos on DOS emulation for #doscember this year if I can find the time to edit it together.

Hi guys

genecyst vs my 5x86 120mhz - S3 Virge

11khz sound
linear vesa 320x240 using 100mhz/120mhz video modes to reduce tearing (using VBEPLUS)
Use PAL optimized games if possible

Most games runs at 46-50fps, somes have fps drops in areas more cpu intensive, but most of time are perfect playable without frameskip, the best is use pal optimized games, if not, try to find one, for example community pal optimized sonic

Im building a megadrive pad to use that dont add any cpu overhead to complement experience

NO$GB was a great emulator!!
Early Pokemon games ran great on an Am5x86-133.

ZSNES used to work well on that computer too.

Thanks for such a great thread. It's fascinating to see how many consoles and different PCs it was possible to emulate on an early Pentium or even a late 486. Now I want to give them a try!