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Prier
Posts: 3080/8392 |
Bottom line...go no less than a 300 or 400...there's really no point of having an emu multitask system with anything less. I'm pretty sure you could yank VisualBoyAdvance CE and get it running at a somewhat decent rate for some games on there as well. I had the original VBA it running a few on a 466 for a friend of mine and CE is a bit better. |
Colin
Posts: 4152/11302 |
...Well no. 
But it sure as hell wasn't a P266. Maybe a bit below that... eh... *I* thought it was fast at the time. |
Prier
Posts: 3076/8392 |
And you're saying a Celery 300 was less than a Pentium 133?
Wow...that's something I didn't know. |
Colin
Posts: 4151/11302 |
True but it was a Celeron 300 so... that's not quite a P300.
Still, I guess the 64 MB of RAM didn't help either. I could even do some PSX emulation on that thing... not perfect but some games were OK. |
Prier
Posts: 3069/8392 |
Originally posted by Culotte
Hiryuu: ZSNES ran at full speed on said Celery.
That was a 300. Mine was a Pentium 133-200 MMX. |
Colin
Posts: 4145/11302 |
I could run Genecyst in Windows on my old Celery...  So it could be an option even with the DOS aspect.
Hiryuu: ZSNES ran at full speed on said Celery. |
Xin
Posts: 28/30 |
For SNES, ZSNES DOS is what I recommend as well...
For the Genesis, I would say Genecyst which was very popular for its very high speed, but it's for DOS, so heh. But you could try to see if an old version of Gens (probably my favorite Genesis emulator) would work (would need DirectX 7.0). |
jmr
Posts: 43/149 |
Well, I did get an old version of Nesticle to work (old Win95).
Just to help, I need something that'll run on a P133 (old school comp. in our classroom... POS)
DOS seems to be blocked by Admin (thankfully I have the admin password). Windows 95- compatable would be appreciated.
I'll try out Zsnes Dos later if I have any spare time...
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Omega45889
Posts: 195/335 |
If you can get a hold of one of the first few versions of Zsnes, and turn the sound quality down, the games will run more or less fine on a 586. Thats what I had to do to emulate snes on my REALLY old computer. |
Prier
Posts: 3060/8392 |
NESTICLE on an old 25/33, 170MB HD, 4 MB RAM, Win 3.1, I had running at 30 FPS...which isn't full speed but it's halfway there.
NO$GB I had running most gameboy games flawlessly...however it does have a problem if you don't have enough mem for the bigger games in DOS mode.
SNES-wise you better have at least a 300 or 400 if you want some decent runtimes...I used ZSNES DOS for the longest time on my old 166 and 200 and it skipped like crazy on some of them. Tetris Attack had problems running full speed at times.
Genesis I'm not entirely sure on but GG with Meka was running rather decently on my 200.
That's about all I can give you from personal experience...my advice is to have at least a 300MHz or 400Mhz comp with nominal specs before tackling these, just to be on the safe side. A comp like that, nowadays, can't go for very much. |
Ailure
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Nesticle for NES at least, it runs on full speed on my 486!
I'm not sure about the other ones thought, ZSNES DOS actually do run on my 486 too. Just one frame per second... so that may work but i'm not sure.  |
jmr
Posts: 42/149 |
I'm looking for Emulators with EXTREMLY LOW system requirements, in paticular for NES, SNES, GB, and Sega Genesis/Megadrive. Windows emulators are perferable, but DOS would be ok as well. |
