Class316 Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 (edited) Here I'm going to post what I believe is the best emulator for various systems. I use Windows 10 to emulate so all emulators I use are for this OS. I also don't like RetroArch so I do everything in my power to avoid that. I also avoid MAME for most anything besides Arcade emulation. Here's my list 3DO Project Phoenix Atari 8 bit (800 series computer and 5200 console) Altirra Atari 2600 Stella Atari 7800 A7800 Atari Jaguar Project Phoenix Atari Lynx Mednafe Multi System Emu Atari ST Steem Bandai Wonderswan Mednafe Multi System Emu Colecovision Colem Honorable mention goes to MEKA which also emulates Sega 8bit Commodore 64 VICE Commodore Amiga series and CD32 console WinUAE Mattel Intellivision Nostalgia (although don't run in full screen as it goes widescreen) Neo Geo and Neo Geo CD Final Burn Neo (also does CPS1, CPS2, CPS3, and more) Honorable mention goes to the mighty MAME Neo Geo Pocket Mednafe Multi System Emu Nintendo 3DS Citra (far from 100% but still the best one) Nintendo DS DeSmuME Nintendo 64 ParaLLEl via RetroArch. Sadly the best one. Other emulators are buggy for most anything besides Mario and Zelda. Honorable mentions go to Project 64 and Mupen 64 plus, just because they're not RetroArch Nintendo Game Boy/Game Boy Color/Super Game Boy Sameboy Nintendo Game Advance mGBA Nintendo GameCube Dolphin Nintendo NES Mesen and FCE Ultra (the latter is better for Famicom disk system) Nintendo SNES SNES9x and BSNES (SNES9x is great just because it's still awesome after almost 25 years) Nintendo Virtual Boy Mednafe Multi System Emu Nintendo Wii Dolphin NEC systems (PC Engine, PC Engine CD, Supergraft, and PCFX) Mednafe Multi System Emu Odyssey 2 O2EM Phillips CD-i MAME (the only choice which only has limited compatibility) Playstation Mednafe Multi System Emu Playstation 2 PCSX2 Playstation 3 RPCS3 (far from 100% but still the best one) Playstation Portable PPSSPP Sega Genesis/Megadrive and addons (Sega/Mega CD, 32X, 32X CD) Kega Fusion. Despite no update since 2010 it still is awesome and IMO overall the best for all these systems. And in fact the ONLY one that does 32X CD. Honorable mention goes to Mednafe Multi System Emu for any Genesis roms that don't work with Kega. Sega 8-bit (Master System, Game Gear, CS-3000, SG-1000) Kega Fusion. Again have to go with this one despite its age. Honorable mention goes to both Mednafe Multi System Emu and Meka for roms that don't work with Kega (and Meka for all the peripherals it emulates) Sega Dreamcast Redream Honorable mention goes to Demul cause it has lots of good feedback (even if it didn't work well on my PC). Sega Saturn Mednafe Multi System Emu Sharp X68000 XM6 Pro-68k Vectrex ParaJVE Edited January 18, 2021 by Class316 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class316 Posted January 18, 2021 Author Share Posted January 18, 2021 (edited) Also, some of the best non-MAME arcade emulators Final Burn Neo IMO great for Neo Geo, CPS1, CPS2, CPS3, and more. But I don't believe it runs anything MAME doesn't. DICE Great emulator for old discrete circuity Pong era games. Runs lots that MAME doesn't. Daphne Great emulator for Laserdisc games. Runs lots that MAME doesn't. Edited January 18, 2021 by Class316 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 TI-99/4A classic99, mame, js99er.netSent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 (edited) Nostalgia runs intellivision widescreen in a window as well. For Intellivision I use MAME or Jzintv for the most compatibility. Mame is also good for astrocade, channel f, colecovision/adam, atari 7800, coco3, ti-99/4a. In 64-bit windows use MAMEUI64. Edited January 18, 2021 by mr_me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Defining what a "best" emulator per given system is not always a clear-cut task. Some emus have options which others don't, and vice versa. Dismissing RetroArch out of hand is rather unwise, since it offers some very powerful functionalities, such as runahead, shaders, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class316 Posted January 18, 2021 Author Share Posted January 18, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, mr_me said: Nostalgia runs intellivision widescreen in a window as well. For Intellivision I use MAME or Jzintv for the most compatibility. It does? It looked stretched to me on full screen not so much on window. Ugh! Why do they ruin such a cool emulator by not being flexible on the aspect ratio! I had tried Jzintv it doesn't even have a GUI nor could I find a good front end. So I installed an older version with a GUI then replaced files on there with the newest files of the most stable win32 SDL2 release. I then linked the 3 bios roms within the GUI. It largely worked. But from the 5-10 random games I tried, two versions of Pacman wouldn't run at all. And Pole Position was buggy and hung at the title screen. And those 3 roms worked on Nostalgia. Annoying. That probably means Nostalgia is more compatible than Jzintv. Also, Nostalgia supports zip roms Jzintv does not. Edited January 18, 2021 by Class316 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 (edited) Some intellivision emulators read the cartridge memory map configuration from their own database, some read them from individual .cfg files. Below is a link to a collection of memory map configuration files, rename them to match your game rom files. Files with .rom extensions don't need a configuration file. Game roms that use the basic mattel standard memory configuration don't need them either. https://atariage.com/forums/topic/203179-config-files-to-use-with-various-intellivision-titles/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-3480601 Nostalgia uses square pixels for a 5:3 aspect ratio, at full screen it will stretch according to your display settings. MAME has a 4:3 aspect ratio and jzintv does whatever you specify. I like MAME because it slows down rather than skip frames while jzintv will skip frames to maintain time. I have an old computer, on most computers it probably makes no difference. You can use any front end with jzintv, I just use windows file explorer. MAME and Jzintv are actively maintained while nostalgia hasn't been touched for years. Edited January 18, 2021 by mr_me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class316 Posted January 18, 2021 Author Share Posted January 18, 2021 32 minutes ago, mr_me said: Some intellivision emulators read the cartridge memory map configuration from their own database, some read them from individual .cfg files. Below is a link to a collection of memory map configuration files, rename them to match your game rom files. Files with .rom extensions don't need a configuration file. Game roms that use the basic mattel standard memory configuration don't need them either. https://atariage.com/forums/topic/203179-config-files-to-use-with-various-intellivision-titles/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-3480601 Nostalgia uses square pixels for a 5:3 aspect ratio, at full screen it will stretch according to your display settings. MAME has a 4:3 aspect ratio and jzintv does whatever you specify. I like MAME because it slows down rather than skip frames while jzintv will skip frames to maintain time. I have an old computer, on most computers it probably makes no difference. You can use any front end with jzintv, I just use windows file explorer. MAME and Jzintv are actively maintained while nostalgia hasn't been touched for years. So you're saying the cfg files is the reason I'm having these compatibility issues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swami Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 I think XEBRA may be the best for Playstation 1. It plays everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Class316 said: So you're saying the cfg files is the reason I'm having these compatibility issues? Jzintv uses cfg files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicGMR Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 8 hours ago, Swami said: I think XEBRA may be the best for Playstation 1. It plays everything. I have been impressed with the quality of DuckStation. It just makes the games look good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class316 Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 22 hours ago, mr_me said: Jzintv uses cfg files. I feel a windowed Nostalgia is still better than Jzintv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minuous Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 (edited) Oops, wrong thread, sorry... Edited October 13, 2021 by Minuous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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