OpenEmu

[pong 187]

 

OpenEmu is an awesome concept. Basically, it allows you to simply drag and drop a ROM for a classic video game and it just works. That's the beauty of it. It's so simple, and the interface looks really nice. 

 

It works by being powered by the official emulators that originally emulated the respective console IE: Visual Boy Advance for Game Boy Advance. It calls these "cores" and you can build a core yourself by compiling the source around the OpenEmu frame. 

 

 

Consoles that are emulated almost perfectly: Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, NeoGeo Pocket Color, NES/Famicon, SNES, Nintendo DS, Sega 32X, Sega Game Gear, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Sega Master System, TurboGrafx, and Virtual Boy. 

 

There are more coming, they are included in the experimental build and work OK for the most part. These are: PSP, N64, Playstation, and more. The N64 one has some graphical issues that will be fixed with a good port of Glide64 I think. 

 

Download Link: http://openemu.org/

 

Mac Only! Sorry

Edited December 27, 2013 by Pong

[nil 81]

Yep this has been one of the hot things around lately. I've tried open emu a few months ago, but I'm not really playing old school games leisurely these days..

 

I'm actually surprised this would be getting any N64 support at all, as I wasn't aware of any open source implementations, nor was I very impressed by the commercial ones.

[v3nture 1,209]

balla 

[Pfhunkie 3,544]

In case anyone is wondering if there's something similar on Windows, there is MESS

[ShikuTeshi 1,299]

This is awesome. Sadly I don't use Macs so I'll probably try out that MESS software. Now all you're missing is a link to some download packs so we don't need to play hide and seek for a single game.

[loolitah 462]

Thanks for sharing it with us.

I have two little sisters who need to be game-educated.

[pong 187]

@nil

 

There's the open source N64 emulator called mupen64plus, it's command line, but it's what's currently powering the N64 part. Currently, Mupen uses a shittier older video plugin as the default. The video plugin needs to be updated to Glide64 Final, and I'm more or less trying to figure this out myself. 

 

PSP works well. I only played Final Fantasy Crisis Core, but it works well. Playstation works fine, just a few minor glitches. 

[v3nture 1,209]

I use ppsspp 

 

http://www.ppsspp.org/

[pong 187]

PPSSPP is what's powering the PSP emulator for OpenEmu

[WaeV 5,049]

@nil

There's the open source N64 emulator called mupen64plus, it's command line, but it's what's currently powering the N64 part. Currently, Mupen uses a shittier older video plugin as the default. The video plugin needs to be updated to Glide64 Final, and I'm more or less trying to figure this out myself.

Do you know the difference between Mupen64 and mupen64plus? I can't tell if they are the same project or not. Both are open-source, anyhow.

 

http://mupen64.emulation64.com/

http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/

 

Edit: Ah- Mupen64 is the original project which started in 2001, and was designed to be extremely cross-platform. Mupen64plus is a fork which specifically focuses on Mac, Linux, and Windows, and is written exclusively for 64-bit CPUs.

 

Double-Edit: Oh sweet, Mupen64plus 2.0 is available for the OpenPandora as of a couple months ago; I should be able to play N64 games on the go now!