Why is Morphgear sucking so badly?

Louse76 · 03-22-04, 11:15 PM

Well I hear Morphgear is supposed to be the end all of emulators, but... it can't seem to emulate a freakin thing on my Axim.

First I tried to load some Final Fantasy SNES games, none worked, Out of memory error. So I thought maybe it just needed more memory than Pocket SNES. So I wait until I get my card, and now its installed with over 20 MB of system memory to work with, still out of memory error.

WTF is with this? Anyone else had this problem? Thanks for the help in advance!

Scratch2k · 03-23-04, 12:08 AM

I got a few games working, I was mainly trying GBA ones...none of them ran at full speed and I eventually just gave up. Emulators on PDA's have a fair way to go I think, don't forget, they're trying to emulate functions in software that are taken care of by specialist chipsets in the consoles.

neilsmith · 03-23-04, 04:57 AM

I like it, it runs Zelda just fine ;-)

dr_bob · 03-23-04, 07:09 AM

could it be the roms??
It runs ok on my axim , but 2 of the EA megadrive (what you guys call genesis)
games give a access violation error a few seconds in a cause it to crash
the 2 games are starflight and rings of power btw as I'm curious to see if anyone else can get them working?

Raynne413 · 03-23-04, 01:52 PM

How much program memory do you have free on your Axim? I think you need somewhere around 6 MB free to run the emulator.

asdfTT123 · 03-23-04, 03:10 PM

Check to see if you have emulate sound checked in the SNES module options. Some games will only run if the sound is being emulated (i.e. Lufia 2, Super Metriod). Final Fantasy 4,5,6 for SNES works perfectly on my PPC's. Since you have an X3i, I would have expected it to work perfectly. It still could be your ROMs. Copy them on your desktop computer and run them with snes9x to confirm they work.

moore · 03-25-04, 02:43 PM

I think I'd use pocketdos for starflight.

ff5 for psx on fpsece actually runs better for me than it does on morphgear. Also the current beta of morphgear is slower as snes than the 2037 one.

ff6 snes for some reason runs just fine on morphgear and not so hot for me in fpsece (psx).

Louse76 · 03-26-04, 07:14 AM

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Originally posted by dr_bob
could it be the roms??

Nope, they all work fine on Pocket SNES.

Louse76 · 03-26-04, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Raynne413
How much program memory do you have free on your Axim? I think you need somewhere around 6 MB free to run the emulator.

I have much much more. As soon as I got my memory card, I unloaded everything off of the main memory and put it all on the SD card, so I have 20-30 free.

aNiMeMaN14 · 03-28-04, 11:34 PM

Can someone post a link up to PocketSNES? Thanks =\

Scratch2k · 03-29-04, 12:06 AM

www.google.com is your friend.

amt521999 · 03-29-04, 12:37 AM

Links to ROMS or sites that have them is not allowed - Per Aximsite rules!

Aximx3BlackWolf · 04-01-04, 06:52 PM

I found some nice snes and gba emus but sound is the issue to be looked at..... would't that be cool if you could implant a chip for consoles? like an sd :laughs:

sheepy · 04-01-04, 07:25 PM

Technically possible but unlikely to ever happen due to the legal connotations... unless Ninetendo themselves sold the card, and some way of attaching it to your official GBA cartridges....

Robotic Clone · 04-03-04, 01:51 PM

what if one of those companys that make those GBA backup readers make one for PPC? That would be sweet