HellzViolator Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 Anyone here use the emulators for the old games? One of my friends has more games then I ever thought came out all through these emulators. I decided to look up on it and downloaded a couple myself but it seems like MAC is limited to all the good stuff like that! I cant even play Gunbound because all the sources run for Windows. But I read up on some program that kind of inverts your MAC into reading WINDOWS based programs... So all these emulators for SNES, Genesis, etc. and I cant use not one, so I was wondering if anyone uses them for a MAC and to lend me a hand trying to figure out how to use it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 as a matter of fact I just installed a n64 emu on my laptop I was shooked it works. been playin some mario 64 CBFD and Mario Kart 64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 Just a polite reminder guys, no ROM talk or otherwise stuff about getting round copyright. Emulators are wonderful things, but ROM hunting is still illegal, and we don't want the site in trouble. Unfortunately, I've not yet got the courage to buy the fancypants Powerbook that I keep drooling over, so I can't help with recommending Mac software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFo Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 Just to follow up on what iain said about copyrights, I do want to point out this passage from the Terms of Use page (which you can find at the bottom of each page on this forum): You are prohibited from posting on or transmitting through the Service any unlawful... or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including, but not limited to, any material which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law. Carry on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 Haven't tried them on a MAC but I am currently running these emulators: zsnesw - SNES GensFE - Genesis Z26 - Atari 2600 FCE Ultra - NES Visual Boy Advance - Gameboy Sega Master System - Mekaw and it isn't quite the original without using original controllers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 JJ, What you are looking for is VirtualPC by Microsoft. It allows you to run a Windows session on your MacOS computer. Its not cheap, but it works. There is also a cheaper, ie free, soultion in the works that is a port of Wine to the MacOS X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 Wine is looking interesting, but so far they don't have an actual x86 emulator - you can run Windows programs, but only those you have the source to recompile on your Mac. Still, its very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Monkey Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 I'm sure any of us who play emulators own the original roms/boards and/or bought them from http://www.starroms.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 Actually, some of use use the likes of ScummVM or the Spectrum, Amiga and Playstation emulators where you don't even need ROMs, but can play the originals. Actually, in the case of the Amiga games you need to rip your own disk images on your regular real machine (having done so it now lives in a cupboard, poor thing), but its the next best thing if you don't want to play the naughty ROM finding game. edit - and yes - playing Spectrum games by loading them via the soundcard is an 'interesting' way to spend an afternoon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan FB Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 If you're looking for actual emulators that will run on a Mac (rather than on a Windows virtual machine on a Mac), look at the Mac section on Zophar's Domain, and on OS X if you install Fink you'll be able to run system emulators for *nix ported to Mac via Fink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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