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'OpenEmu' for OS X Now Supports Nintendo 64, PlayStation 1 and More
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It would be nice if it supported Intellivision ROMs. But I dropped some in and it wouldn't play them without the BIOS ROM. I dropped the BIOS ROM in, and it doesn't recognize it.
Still a hit and miss. Im unable to make Tekken 3 work. I have all the bios files, but when i start the game i can only see a blank black screen.
yep exact same setup as me... same 2013 macbook pro and 11.1 and apple wireless keyboard but i also tried the laptop keyboard and it doesn't work either.
Actually, I have just a Mac Pro - people get that confused all the time - thanks Apple! ;-)
Did you change any of the default settings?
Maybe I'll try completely uninstalling it and reinstall from scratch.
Games were simple back then and at first glance one could easily see what the games were about and how to play them. Fast forward today and games are so complex with long storylines and way too many controller combos that aren't always revealed in the instructions, but rather you have to go online to watch others discover them or accidentally discover them yourself. I loved the old games and play many of them now on my iMac's emulator.
That's my biggest gripe with OpenEmu - it's unbelievably fussy about ROM and BIOS formatting. Other emulators are hugely more flexible.
I feel ya. Once i've beaten a game, I don't really care about it too much afterword. Retro games are fun once in a while, especially when you have a party at home full of 40 somethings who also love retro games, but I wouldn't play the alone.
OK, I've set up OpenEMU (actually a pretty nice front-end for a lot of programs that might not be so friendly otherwise) and the only issue I ran into was that their "help" site didn't make clear what the rom extension names should be for it to auto-recognize the games (i.e. it doesn't much care for .bin for example and instead prefers something like .a26 for Atari 2600 and .a52 for Atari 5200, etc.). Otherwise, there's a lot of manual clicking to approve them (no "Select All" type option to speed it up either).
In any case, I've had no trouble getting keyboard controls to work (or my PS3 controller, although I wish the analog controls were adjustable for sensitivity when being used as a D-Pad substitute). Based on previous experience with my Macbook Pro and a certain MAME emulator, I think some emulators have trouble with OS X notebook keyboards. They don't register the same as a USB keyboard for some reason. Bluetooth may have a similar issue for all I know. I'm using a wired USB Logitech K740 Illuminated keyboard on my Mac Mini and it works fine. Most games are more fun with a gamepad/joystick anyway (e.g. The PS3 controller will map out well for AD&D on Intellivision even).
Intellivision works fine here (even the voice module as I tested B17 Bomber out) and I've had these ROMs for over a decade. I also found that exiting OpenEMU and restarting got it to accept newly added ROMs after trying a set that didn't work (and I add them via the preference menu drag and drop. It then checkmarks them when they're correct). I had already from old emulators on my Windows machine or found all the Bios Roms without issue.
I've tested Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800, Colecovision, Odyssey2, NES, SNES, N64, Vectrex, TurboGrafx, TurboGrafx CD, Genesis and Sega Master System. Frogger didn't seem to work on Odyssey2 for some reason. Goldeneye on N64 does run too fast and the analog control for down doesn't work right (goes down so far and then starts going up again and no way to adjust). Mario64 worked well and StarFox was OK so far. All the other stuff I've tried seems OK so far (Coleco, Atari, etc.)
Too bad this guy doesn't add MAME SDL support. Mame SDL absolutely sucks without a front-end and the only front-end I've found doesn't seem to want to work with El Capitain. Fortunately, the old Mame OS X has pretty much all the games I'd ever want to play and it still works fine in El Capitain (think the last update was 2009) even with my PS3 controller.
I've used a few of the individual cores before, and they always worked well. I picked up a new MacBook Air so I have the latest OS, downloaded the latest update of OpenEMU and it's pretty great. I certainly appreciate the level of polish in the app!
I found this out there on the net thought it maybe worth a search on this keyboard issue.
For those with controller/input issues. Try closing Google Chrome, restart OpenEmu and see what happens. (Chrome is keyboard / input hog).
Probaly just one persons resolution but hey worth a try if you use Chrome.
You could try shutting down OpenEmu then shut down every other program you have running then re open OpenEmu, from what I am reading online this problem is pretty common and it normaly turns out that another program is blocking OpenEmu from the keyboard.
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Can't see how it's a legal issue, given there are over a dozen emulators on android. I suspect it's a $$ issue, Apple wants you to buy new games, instead of buying an emulator and having access to hundreds of games. Money theory aside, how do you get the roms onto an iPhone ?
I also had that problem with Goldeneye. I had to remap the joystick at the point before the games starts and asks you to select a file. For some reason, if I tried to remap from any other screen, the joystick will go bonkers.
As far as the speed, I had to get the rom from a differ site. The one from emuparadise speeds up the gameplay.
Try Provenance: https://github.com/jasarien/Provenance
NES, GB, SNES, GBA, MD/Genesis on Apple TV
Also, OpenEmu 2 BIOS pack:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/fk0swioyt9yp3eg
I know what the BIOS files are but are these extra ones or replacements
for the ones that come with OpenEmu ?
Zelda, Super Mario Brothers, Metroid, Contra, Castlevania.
If old school is not your thing, neither will this be.
You probably were the kid that no matter how many quarters you had in your pocket you always lost at bideo games.
Not sure if that is what fixed it but I closed every other program and it started working. Opening each one back and it still works so not sure which one did it but it does look like some other app is stealing the keys. Here are all the apps I had running incase it correlates to anyone else's setup:
- PathFinder
- Safari
- JRiver MC21 (music)
- Parallels running a windows 10 vm
- Skype