I wish the later was true for me. What I spent hours on as a child, seems like a futile waste of time now and I feel like a hollow basic experience. Man these things were awesome with an uneducated childs mind though.
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'OpenEmu' for OS X Now Supports Nintendo 64, PlayStation 1 and More
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I wish the later was true for me. What I spent hours on as a child, seems like a futile waste of time now and I feel like a hollow basic experience. Man these things were awesome with an uneducated childs mind though.
Because it'll tap into 10.11 only API's. It's pretty hard for devs to continue to support old OS's you know, they have to cripple the app by supporting legacy and unsupported/undocumented API's.
I think it can depend on the genre and system you're going back to. I enjoyed 2D platformers back in the SNES era and I'd say that being a genre that's sort of taken a backseat, there's many games there that still hold up very well still today. I'll still happily play the Donkey Kong Country series for example. For those titles the fundamentals still hold strong today. I'll still also load up A Link To The Past from time to time as I think it still plays incredibly well.
Some other genres on the other hand have gone through massive evolutions and the older titles really don't stack up as well. I can't imagine I'd bother booting up any FPS, sports or racing titles from 20 years or further back for example.
Nintendo 64 is definitely not the 80s and people buy 3ds and play remakes of Zelda, and if you're a gamer who hasn't played Zelda OOT (widely considered to be the greatest game of all time), than you're not a gamer at all.
OpenEmu itself uses features of 10.11. Isn't the entire point of the app the front end features, otherwise you'd just be using individual emulators.
Maybe that is something you could report on the github page as it's possible it could be a bug.
Is that the only core you see the issue with?
You're asking OpenEmu to be something it isn't.
If you want to debug core emulator issues than you would use the emulators directly.
It's all about the simplicity of having your games organized and easy to just run.
You tack on features like rewinding, save game states, cheats, auto configuration of gamepads and things are much more straight forward for people that want to just play.
Sure you can do some of things in the emulators directly, but each app is different and requires set up.
Right now, I have a 5 year old that can run OpenEmu, switch between consoles, enable cheats and save games, and use the gamepad without help, something they could never do with the emulators alone.
(That's not to say it's for 5 year olds, because as a 40+ grown up, I prefer this also.)
Just to be clear, is this broad based comment about performance just based on the PSP core?
If your machine can run 10.11, I think it's specs should run most of these cores without issues.
It's too bad OpenEmu doesn't fit your needs, but there are other options.
I think it's an impressive piece of software and accomplishes it's goals and purpose well.
pretty hard ? You don't need the latest iOS version to run some games as they can run on older OS's usually one OS back from from latest and or version...
The same will be said the other way... By limiting it to the latest OS. you've basically also closed out everyone who wants to enjoy this but refuses to upgrade from Yosemite because of it.. I'm one of them.. Its old yes, but its not like your still running Mavericks..... It's not just Apple doing that either, and forces uses to be up-to-date weather they to use the latest OS or not, they don't have a choice if they wanna run the latest version of a piece of software.
I am amazed that my cheap Chinese knockoff of a Super Shock controller... which is 15 years old... works without any drivers.
Sorry, I know this wasn't helpful, but I am amazed nevertheless.
I'm pretty certain that was the point of your original post correct? And to be honest I asked a question so I really didn't say anything lol
Due to graphic limitations, old games were very creative and imaginative, and a lot harder.
These days they tend to be really really good looking.... And take almost no brain power to accomplish.
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It's hard to argue with an opinion, even a really awful one.
I, for one, loved the arcade atmosphere of the 1980s (not to mention the music was 100x better than the god awful crap that passes for music these days, but then the '70s had even better music so....) and growing up with more primitive games that continually improved every year with new graphics and features was a lot of fun. Today's kids don't appreciate a damn thing because they don't what it was like back then. Of course, we got out more and did things other than play with bleeping iPads and iPhones and the like. No, the '80s were the greatest decade ever (not every stinking movie was a REBOOT or SEQUEL like today's GARBAGE) and anyone who doesn't think so that lived through them missed out, IMO. Of course, the '90s were a close second given it was the greatest decade for PINBALL (for pinball fans at least). It all went to hell after 9-11 (literally and figuratively). The iPhone may be the single most EVIL device ever made because it addicted people to smart phones (I have to give credit to the "text message" as the most EVIL invention of all time since it causes more accidents and wasted time than just about anything else combined).
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (Cloudy Mountain) is still a lot of fun on an Intellivision (Gateway to Apshai was fun on the Colecovision as well) and I've played everything from SSI's old D&D games to Baldur's Gate to Dragon Age and then some. Graphics aren't everything. In fact, I credit improved graphics for destroying a lot of gameplay over the years as people seemed to think that if it LOOKED GOOD it was worth buying. Sadly, that just isn't so.
These OpenEMU guys might want to give MAME the front-end treatment, though. I think MAME for OS X (outside some generic SDL version) has languished for a LONG time now. Of course, the last version I have had every game I'd personally want to play (i.e. 80s and early 90s arcade games), but the fact is OS X has seen more support in the past with fewer people on the platform. (e.g. http://mameosx.sourceforge.net/ shows the last version to be in November of 2009).
Mame/Mess builds are combined here (http://sdlmame.lngn.net/) and up-to-date, but it requires the god-awful SDL library (sorry, but it's only function is to make porting easier rather than functional for a given operating system's native format and typically has NO FRONT ENDS what-so-ever built-in (i.e. have fun with the freaking UNIX command line to try and run thousands of potential games. You WILL NEED to memorize the rom names in order to play any of them. Fracking ridiculous in 2015 and the ONE and ONLY front-end I've found for SDL Mame DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK AT ALL IN EL CAPITAIN. Mame32 was better fifteen years ago even based on the horrible screenshots I saw of the "QMC2" frontend that doesn't work anyway here! Just to "install" it you have to manually copy the sdl.framework to /Library/frameworks (which requires authentication to even do and for all I know might not even work with SIP enabled (mine is disabled). Horrible, horrible system for lazy programmers that can't be bothered with a GUI or anything else (e.g. a proper installer) for that matter.
And now we have terrorism and Justin Bieber. Your point?
What!? No Commodore Amiga emulation? I miss that and I believe most of the people here too… it would be awesome.
QMC2 it designed to be really flexible, but I've never liked it and it crashed more than any other application I have.
Once you add screenshots and turn on the use game names instead of rom names in secret prefs of OpenEmu, I find it works well for a lot of MAME games.
Its not perfect yet, but best GUI option if your game is supported.
For computer emulation, you're going to want a more configurable front-end that can handle all the complexities that come with computer emulation and has full keyboard support.
FS-UAE is great for that for Amiga emulation.
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QMC2 it designed to be really flexible, but I've never liked it and it crashed more than any other application I have.
Once you add screenshots and turn on the use game names instead of rom names in secret prefs of OpenEmu, I find it works well for a lot of MAME games.
Its not perfect yet, but best GUI option if your game is supported.
For computer emulation, you're going to want a more configurable front-end that can handle all the complexities that come with computer emulation and has full keyboard support.
FS-UAE is great for that for Amiga emulation.
Amiga Forever - http://www.amigaforever.com/
is better in many ways than FS-UAE - http://fs-uae.net/
Only downside is you have to purchase it, but I feel it is worth the asking price
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