What's the highest end consols system emulated on the PC?

[tigersty1e]

Can you play games from consoled more advanced than the N64?

How do I get these games?

 

[shortylickens]

Well, nobody here (with any sense) is going to tell you how to get the games illegally. The mods would likely not approve.

I have heard of people successfully emulating PS2 games with the original discs in their computers but I still havent found an emulator that actually works. So I got a slimline PS2 instead. Final Fantasy X and X-2 suck compared the the earlier games, I gave up on them after a short while. But I really liked Grandia 2 and since they never made Grandia 3 for computer I had to get a console. I'm playing that and some classic PS1 games like Saga Frontier and FF9 and thats about it.

Heard rumors about Xbox and Sega Dreamcast emulators but again, never saw one that actually worked and (supposedly) you cant read a Dreamcast disc in a standard computer drive, so you would have to get the data some other way, possibly in an illegitimate manner.

 

[Modelworks]

I have seen the dreamcast, N64, snes, genesis all running on a pc.
Gamecube, etc I think is still too hard to emulate with a pc.

I don't think its so much that pc hardware isn't fast enough, its more that most of the emulator work is done without help
of the manufacturer and reverse engineering can be a b*tch to put it mildly.

 

[schneiderguy]

There is a working PS2 emulator... not sure about xbox or gamecube

 

[tigersty1e]

This is all for hypothetical reasons of course.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy
There is a working PS2 emulator... not sure about xbox or gamecube

'working' is a very loosely held term here... it boots the games but runs like utter garbage on single core and has major graphic glitches regardless of your processor

The PS2/xbox/gamecube consoles all have stuff working (barely) but not really playable. The consoles are so cheap these days that you really should just pick one up.

 

[bfdd]

Dreamcast.

 

[bullbert]

I have a several-year-old PC emulating my XBox 360. Its GPU overheaded and died too.

 

[tigersty1e]

So how are the PS1 emulators?

 

[Oyeve]

Geez, I still have an old laptop running Bleem!

 

[toughwimp11]

n64 is one of the best
n64 emu + controller pad = hours of 90's fun

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: bullbert
I have a several-year-old PC emulating my XBox 360. Its GPU overheaded and died too.

:laugh:

 

[RaiderJ]

Sega Saturn and PSOne have fantastic emulators (SSF & ePSXe). Not sure about Dreamcast. Pretty much every system before that is emulated.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

null_DC is damn near perfect. i'm really impressed with how fast it is.

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: bullbert
I have a several-year-old PC emulating my XBox 360. Its GPU overheaded and died too.

You mean your xbox 1 was playing xbox games?


Anyhow, ps2, xbox, and gamecube have all technically been emulated, but not well.
Dreamcast is the latest system to have been emulated well.

 

[tigersty1e]

There are so many emulator choices for the n64 and ps1.

Which ones are the best?


(I'm not talking about ROMS. That would be illegal.)

 

[themisfit610]

<3 the SNES emulators. Oh MAN that brings back memories just playing Mario all day

~MiSfit

 

[EagleEye]

project 64 is the best 64 emulator

 

[RaiderJ]

ePSXe, with properly configured video plugins and whatnot, runs pretty much every PSOne game at full speed and with fancy graphic filters. I played through Oddworld again just because it looked so good.

 

[tigersty1e]

Is anti-aliasing available with these emulators?

 

[Continuity28]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: tigersty1e
There are so many emulator choices for the n64 and ps1.

Which ones are the best?


(I'm not talking about ROMS. That would be illegal.)</end quote></div>

N64 is hard to emulate, every single emulator out there for it is at most 80% compatible, some games don't work right (or at all) and most give some glitch or another. The best is probably some version of Project64.

As for the Playstation, there are a few great emulators. The most accurate is probably pSX Emulator http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com, but it doesn't have very much support for nice graphical filters. It's very much a slimmed down, easy to use, and almost completely accurate emulator. ePSXe http://www.epsxe.com is by far the most popular emulator today, it has great compatibility and lots of graphic filters. If your game works perfectly with ePSXe, use it, if not, use pSX.