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Old 02-23-03, 08:31 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question SNES Emulation?

Does anybody know of *any* acceptible SNES emulator for the Pocket PC? The 400 MHz XScale processor is more than fast enough to play SNES games. The original SNES only had a 3.5 MHz processor. A Pentium 100 CPU can easily emulate the SNES...so surely our 400 MHz Axim's can do it. It's simply a matter of somebody creating streamlined software to do it.
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Old 02-25-03, 07:32 PM   #2 (permalink)
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SNES Bleeding Edge is the most optimised SNES emu for the Pocket PC currently. You should be able to play SNES games at an OK speed without sound. http://paqpark.nuclearfallout.net/pr...pocketsnes.php
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Bleh...

Ya, I've tried it before. I was able to achieve 2 frames per second at most, with no sound. It almost completely froze once I turned the sound on.
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well until Intel releases the xscale sdk, don't expect any to come out.
and please don't fall for that overclocking program that I've seen a few fall for in hopes of making the emulators improve.
try adjusting your settings, you should be getting about 30fps under normal conditions on a rom, and 7fps under heavy usage.
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Check your settings and make sure you are not on Power Saver for the processor. I am playing FF4 and walking around I get 30 fps and when fighting I get 7 fps.
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Which version of bleeding edge are you using? I tried the most recent one, and my pda freezes when I try to boot the emulator. I end up having to do a soft reset. I'm running the emulator off a CF card... could that be an issue?
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Which version of bleeding edge are you using? I tried the most recent one, and my pda freezes when I try to boot the emulator. I end up having to do a soft reset. I'm running the emulator off a CF card... could that be an issue?
For optimum performance you shouldn't run it from the CF or SD card because reading from the cards eats up extra CPU% and is slower.
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Old 02-26-03, 05:12 PM   #8 (permalink)
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That worked... I'm getting about 23-30 fps. Not too bad. But walking is sorta slow in Final Fantasy 4 (2 US)... even with frame skip of 10! Any tips?

For that matter, any suggestions of games that work well with the emulator? I'm a big RPG fan.

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Big Smile

By the way, Wizardry 5 works great on this emulator. Even with slow frame-rate, it moves pretty fast!
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Question music or sounds?

has anyone been able to configure the emulator to have sound for the Snes roms?
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Might and Magic II works great on the emulator too -- and it has an automap feature.
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TWSFC is an SNES emulator that runs at acceptable speeds. I would estimate that it's generally twice the speed of PocketSNES. Unfortunately, the display is screwed up when you run the emulator on the Axim - it's supposed to draw in landscape mode, but it stays in Portrait mode.

The author of the emulator is Taiwanese, I believe. But it seems that there is still development under way.
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Aha, found it.

Most excellent, here's a review of that emulator. I'm going to download it and try it, tonight.

http://www.pocketgamer.org/reviews/emulators/twsfc/
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Old 03-01-03, 01:11 AM   #14 (permalink)
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can anyone put up a link to that emulator? i cant get a download going.(cant read the langauge)
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I tried TWSFC .9 crashed my Axim maybe I'll try an update in the future.
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