Emulators on NX

[mattyj2002]

I have just recently purchased NesEm form KalemSoft. What a great program, all my old NES faves on my plam!

But, i have just been thinking recently, and well;

To get the games on NesEm to run at the correct speed (on auto setting) i have to UNDERCLOCK my cpu to 100MHZ!! If i dont, they run wayyyy to fast. If i change the slider bar in v1.2beta of NesEm down just one notch at 200mhz they run too slow! So at auto and cpu at 100Mhz its just prefect!

Anyway, onto my point;

Would it now be possible to make a decent MegaDrive or SNES emulator for Palm? Seeing as we can now overclock to 300Mhz? (remember liberty? that needed to be overclocked on older devices to get decent speed.)

So is it possible, or am i just dreaming? I presonally would easily pay £30 to be able to play Sonic 1,2+3 and Street Fighter etc on my Palm with the GameCon!:D:D:D

 

Possible or not?

 

Matt

[philzhub]

possible

[Pdasrock]

Indeed, possible. Also, right now I'm drumming up support for a Gameboyadvance emulator which Gambit studios is willing to develop if there is a market for(can you say- YES!). See the thread here
http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=279289#post279289

[cloudless]

Most console emulators achieve full speed by using frame skips. It is possible to create a SNES emulator for Palm, but if it runs at 1 fps, would you still want it?

Anyway, the SNES emulator on Pocket PCs proves that a 200Mhz ARM CPU can be done at playble speed/framerate.

[mattyj2002]

Exactly my point. If PPC can do it, why can't Palm?

Should be easier in my opinion, seeing as PPC is shoved full of Microsoft crap and APIs, Palm is more simple and stable :)

Well, im keeping my fingers crossed! :D

[Jubai]

i would easily pay 50 $ for a snes emulator!

[mattyj2002]

Me too! But i would prefer a MegaDrive / Genisis emu (that is what i had as a child, i have tons of games for it!!)

 :D:D:D

[philzhub]

yhea nesem is still in test stages but gameboy advance is posssible

[Prozak]

How well can you play games that were designed to be used with a digital pad on an NX70v PDA?

[the_pixelator]

Just to let you guys know, I find it unlikely with the current Palm/CLIE hardware that SNES or Genesis/MD games would run at anything approaching decent speeds. It's taken Pocket PCs years to get to the point where they now do full or mostly playable speeds for most SNES & Genesis titles, but even then, it's far from perfect. With such apps as Morphgear and PSNES, there are still audio sync issues and overclocking is STILL recommended for some really heavy games.

I don't want to get into a CLIE vs. PPC argument - and I am not a hardware expert, but it seems that if a multimedia-oriented PPC running 400MHz or faster on a PXA-255 with the latest optimized OS (WM2003) is just now arriving at truly playable SNES emulation, that it may still be a ways off for PalmOS based devices (except possibly the Zodiac).

That said, I'd be really interested to see and/or test any such apps on my NX if they become available. You just can't have too many games ;)

[Unregistered]

The point is: there are overclocking apps that can get anywhere from 300 to 600 MHz out of a palm device.

[the_pixelator]

I thought the point was whether SNES and Genesis games will run on a PalmOS device, and until they get sturdier multimedia hardware and more memory to execute the much larger ROM files, I just don't see it. But as I said, if it does happen, I'll be first in line. :)