What emulators are your favorite?

Arcade: Mame (obv)
Atari ST: SainT
MegaDrive: Gens
NES: FCEU/JNES
Speccy: Klive
Z-Machine: WinFrotz

for what they sound like, respectively. mac emulators are more limited tho. (note: my visualboy version is actually a custom compile of the unix one so that it can handle the savefiles of more recent games -- e.g., and particularly, final fantasy tactics advance)

On windows I use something called ZX32 i think, it's the one which requires 256 colour mode.

http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/5796/5796463_sa.jpg

good stuff. Not really enough buttons to run a N64 emulator, but with an N64, i'd probably just buy the thing. enough of those "CD Universe"/used game places have cheap systems that it'd be worth it.

I have a playstation controller to usb convertor. it is great for every system.

http://blackzarak.co.uk/adi/upload/upload_files/161220051717070109.jpg

Looks awful, but hey, it's Megadrive shaped and has exactly the same amount of buttons as N64! Shame it's missing an analogue stick though. It's held up for years, too.

thus this thread, so's we can filter

now i can play Duck Shot & Strider again for the first time in 13 years!

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

And this place changed hosting provider so he lost his title domain, but it's still the number one source, and has been mine for years:

http://emulation.victoly.com/

I use a N64 to USB converter. However my problem is, when playing games such as Zelda, the toggle stick has too modes i.e. push forward and it cause a walk, push a little further forward and it turns a walk into a run. However, the emulator only supports one move forward i.e. it will only cause a walk.

Is that clear?!

Can anyone help?

Jon

Anybody with experience of PS1 emulators?

And specifically, are there emulators that let you play Japanese (PSX) games?

Every PS1 emulator I've tried - and my son agreed with me when I talked to him about this - has been buggy and unrewarding and not worth the hassle tbh. I think you can play Japanese games on them, if you can get them to play anything at all.

Eh? I don't know, it really depends what game you're trying to run. ePSXe and PSX (yes terrible generic emulator name) have been pretty good on Windows... not up the standard of the NES, SNES and MAME emulators out there, but quite workable. But I could never get certain games, like Chrono Cross, to work properly. But I did get through like 75% of Final Fantasy Tactics.

Most of these emulators let you set the region, or you can probably just swap the BIOS file.

update: does anyone know of any good nes emulators for mac that don't charge you to use a gamepad?

I'm sick and I have this craving to play Castlevania. But I've played the NES and SNES ones. Are there any good emulators that play recent Castlevania games and are they any good?

PS I really like ZSNES, can't believe it's still going after all these years. SNES9X too! I remember downloading that from the library like over 10 years ago...

it looks like there are a bunch of game boy advance emulators out there, i loved 'aria of sorrow'

Cool I'll check that out. I'm currently looking for "Symphony of the Night".

going back to a bunch of older games now that i never completed as a kid including earthbound, super castlevania IV and super metroid. i'm using a 360 controller in my laptop which is actually not terrible (tho i imagine grabbing an original controller w/ the usb connection would probably be better? anyone have experience with this?). also what other older games that i might've missed should i go back to? i was thinking i could play as many as possible before we redo the big upcoming game poll.