Emulators

[ctophil]

I'm a purist.  So, I don't play emulators.  I used to a long time ago because I was working so much that there was no time to sit at home with a classic console.  But these days, it's straight real hardware with their games baby.  lol.  There is nothing like the feeling of the original controller in hand, console, and how the graphics & sound are the way it supposed to be. 

[ParanoiaDragon]

Question, for those familiar with all the SNES emulator's, does anyone know of any where you can turn on & off each sound channel(I think there are 8 total?).  I want to record individual sound channels, & either I'm not finding that option in the emu's I've tried, or there's an emu I haven't tried yet.

[seieienbu]

You can turn off sound channels with zsnes with default inputs  of F5~F12 for which-ever channel you're trying to mute.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Sweet, thank you!!!

[KnightWarrior]

I use my Wii to Emulate Mosty

PCE/TG16 - WiiMednafen
NES - FCE Ultra GX
SNES - SNES9X GX
Ganesis - Genesis Plus GX
GB/GBC/GBA - Visual Boy Advance GX
2600 - StallaWii
7800 - Wii7800

[esteban]

Q: emu?
A: until an emulator for XaviX is available, there is no need.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Sort of related, anyone know if any arcade emu's where you can turn on & off the sound channels?  I need to capture some songs from the Mega Man arcade games, & want to get each sound channel so I'm accurate when I recreate them, especially for the solo in Gutsman's theme!

[lukester]

I use OpenEmu, which is a great emulator containing multiple systems.

It's only on mac though.

What I like about it is that save states are really easy to make and access, and the emulator makes an automatic save state when you quit your game.

Also, you can upload cover art for all of your roms, so you feel like you have your own library. Some roms come with cover art (like Phantasy Star IV), but most don't.

[esadajr]

What are you favorite Windows based EMU's the following systems?

PCE
NES
Genesis
SNES
Neo-Geo

*not condoning piracy in any shape or form.

I rarely use emulators nowadays. These would be my choices under Win7 and XP

PCE - Magic Engine, Turbo engine
NES - FCEU, JNES, VirtuaNES (back then Nesticle)
GEN - Kega. (back in the day, Genecyst and KGen)
SNES - ZSnes
Neo Geo - MAME, NeoRageX (the XP hack)
PSX - ePSXe (back in the day Bleem and VGS)
x68000 - Winx68k (not that there are options)
Saturn - SSF, Cassini
GB / GBC / GBA - Visualboy Advance

Late 90s early 2000s was the golden age of emulation.