linux emulation- help!

nasorean · December 9th, 2002

i am thinking of building a linux machine as a general use entertainment machine to attach to my entertainment center for things such as emulation, typing, mp3, moderate net surfing and homemade tivo. however, before i embark on such a journey i wish to know which machines are emulated on linux and how stable the emulators are, because what the point of making a cool entertainment machine if you cant play any games on it.

any help from linux users would be appreciated.

thank you

**ammoQ** · December 9th, 2002

Both ePSXe and PCSX work very well with Linux. The only reason to stick with Windows would be the rumble-effects not available in Linux. On the other hand, you can define macros with padJoy, something Windows users can´t. There´s a lot of other emus, e.g. Mame for arcade machines and Yame for the PC-Engine (and others, didn´t test that) that work very well with Linux.
Plus a lot of emus for ancient home-computers like the C64, ancient consoles etc. (didn´t test them)
I recommend a nVidia graphics board, unless you have trustable information that other boards (and their Linux drivers) work well.

jegHegy · December 9th, 2002

Matrox is quite good with Linux too.
SNES emulation is really good on Linux: Snes9x is much better than in windows, mainly because it doesn't have the sucky GUI. ZSNES is better than ever, especially if you download at compile CVS sources, so you can enjoy new stuff without a release ^^

nyaa

December 9th, 2002	#1 (permalink)
nasorean Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 30	linux emulation- help! i am thinking of building a linux machine as a general use entertainment machine to attach to my entertainment center for things such as emulation, typing, mp3, moderate net surfing and homemade tivo. however, before i embark on such a journey i wish to know which machines are emulated on linux and how stable the emulators are, because what the point of making a cool entertainment machine if you cant play any games on it. any help from linux users would be appreciated. thank you

December 9th, 2002	#2 (permalink)
ammoQ Emu author Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Vienna/Austria/Europe Posts: 1,168	Both ePSXe and PCSX work very well with Linux. The only reason to stick with Windows would be the rumble-effects not available in Linux. On the other hand, you can define macros with padJoy, something Windows users can´t. There´s a lot of other emus, e.g. Mame for arcade machines and Yame for the PC-Engine (and others, didn´t test that) that work very well with Linux. Plus a lot of emus for ancient home-computers like the C64, ancient consoles etc. (didn´t test them) I recommend a nVidia graphics board, unless you have trustable information that other boards (and their Linux drivers) work well. __________________ If you think my English is bad, wait till you read my Polish.

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December 9th, 2002	#3 (permalink)
jegHegy Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Hungary Posts: 2,184	Matrox is quite good with Linux too. SNES emulation is really good on Linux: Snes9x is much better than in windows, mainly because it doesn't have the sucky GUI. ZSNES is better than ever, especially if you download at compile CVS sources, so you can enjoy new stuff without a release ^^ nyaa