NES Emulator for macs?

I tried Nestopia but its a little poo. to be honest all the emulators I've tried for OS X have been sub-par. which is why i run emulators off my Xbox instead

 

My Mac is my primary emulating machine actually. iNes was good, but I believe it remained Classic only. Try www.bannister.org/software/emu.htm or www.emulation.net for good lists of Mac emulators.

 

RockNES used to be the best, but with the new version 4.0 I think you have to have an incredibly fast machine in order to run games smoothly. Try Nestopia 1.1.2.

http://www.bannister.org/software/nestopia.htm

 

How to use nestopia

I have downloaded nestopia and am eager to play oldschool games but i do not know which application to use to run it. if anyone can tell me what to do it would be great.

 

Nestopia is the app.... you use nestopia to play the rom files

 

Is Nestopia anything like sixtyforce? Do I need to get ROMs for it? And if so, how?

 

Nestopia Help

Well when I click on the nestopia program nothing but a list of the things on my hard drive comes up and it asks me to choose what to open nestopia with. What is the next step to playing the games? When I had my PC i downloaded a emulator and it would open when clicked on, and from in the program window i could load the roms. Do i need to download the roms and click on them when it asks me what to open with nestopia? I am pretty confused on the steps needed to start playing the games.

 

Yes.

 

You can also just double-click the ROM file to launch Nestopia and load that ROM.

 

I have searched, but I can't find any reliable places to download ROMs. Can anyone tell me a good place to acquire them? I am mostly just looking to play Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3.

EDIT: Post 1000!!!

 

Asking for roms is usually not allowed on forums and generally illegal in general unless you actually own the carts themselves. In which that case you should dump the rom on your own.

However, in your situation I would say you best bet is to just keep googling for them. Or use a P2P setup.

 

I was told Xbox didn't run most emulators at 100%. Is this true? Because I purposely did not buy one all this time because people have told me SNES and Mega Drive games don't run at full speed.

I used to use my mac for all my emulation. But now I just use it for NES, SNES and Sega stuff I want to play. It's true the macs have fallen far behind to PC's when it comes to emulation.

Which is why I own a PC, mainly to power my MAME arcade cabinet.