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Emulators on Mac (without running windows)

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TDHXXX

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I'm planning on picking up one of the upcoming quad-core iMacs, either the i5 or i7, I haven't decided yet.

I'm very interested in running emulators for the following platforms and was wondering if they were available.


SNES
GBA
NDS
PSX
PS2

Thanks
 
Thanks alot, just what I was looking for.

The frame rate seems to suffer a bit on the PS2 emulator... do you think the 27" with 512mb GPU & 4GB or RAM + Quadcore will help this?
 
TDHXXX said:
Thanks alot, just what I was looking for.

The frame rate seems to suffer a bit on the PS2 emulator... do you think the 27" with 512mb GPU & 4GB or RAM + Quadcore will help this?
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It depends on what you've got now and what games you're running. Also keep in mind that it's a relatively new port being maintained by one guy trying to keep up with the Linux version. It has come a long way though.
 
nice list. im interested to see how the PS2 emulator goes too as the P1 controller port on my PS2 is dead! 😡

hope it works good 😀
 
if anyones curious about N64, sixtyforce is a good N64 emulator (but it costs $16 to be able to save)

they released a beta version of a cocoa rewrite of the program (the old version's roots date back to 1998) in 2007
 
Could anyone post a description of how they got the PS2 one working in Snow Leopard? I would very much appreciate it.

Also: does the PSX emulator work only with discs or can you use ROM files? If so, how?
 
TDHXXX said:
I'm planning on picking up one of the upcoming quad-core iMacs, either the i5 or i7, I haven't decided yet.

I'm very interested in running emulators for the following platforms and was wondering if they were available.


SNES
GBA
NDS
PSX
PS2

Thanks
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Crossover games is like a windows emulator without windows it runs some apps and games, but check compatibility list to see what runs on it, i know that's not what you r looking for but i just said so u have another option, and Project64 is a N64 emulator for windows that works on crossover games with no bugs that i can find.
 
samm565 said:
Crossover games is like a windows emulator without windows it runs some apps and games, but check compatibility list to see what runs on it, i know that's not what you r looking for but i just said so u have another option, and Project64 is a N64 emulator for windows that works on crossover games with no bugs that i can find.
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common mistake: crossover is not an emulator. it runs off WINE (google it and you will see what i mean eh? 😉).
 
Alright, so I've been trying to get PCSX to work. I've downloaded it, gotten the bios, put it in the appropriate folder, etc... I tried downloading the ROM of Chrono Trigger, got that too. I now have "Chrono Trigger.bin" and "Chrono Trigger.cue". I try to use "Run CD" with each of them; neither works. Either it crashes or I get a black screen. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
 
cripplerking said:
Alright, so I've been trying to get PCSX to work. I've downloaded it, gotten the bios, put it in the appropriate folder, etc... I tried downloading the ROM of Chrono Trigger, got that too. I now have "Chrono Trigger.bin" and "Chrono Trigger.cue". I try to use "Run CD" with each of them; neither works. Either it crashes or I get a black screen. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
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You could try the DS-re-release of it, it has a better translation.
 
Hi everyone,

did anyone forget the great Nintendo 64?? 😛 lol

I'm locking for a mac emulator for N64. i'm locking for the best!!

can somebody tell me the right one?? I appreciate it..

thanks to everyone
 
I can't seem to get any of my images working in pscx with that plugin, Dino Crisis 2 worked, but the sound quality was awful and Parasite Eve loaded to the Square Europe screen but then stalled...


What am I doing wrong?
 
i need help getting the snes emulator working for osx snow leopard. one game i love and played but hate using the keyboard for it is super mario rpg.
 
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