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.

Osiris

Axim X50
1 GB SD card
Deluo GPS

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

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.

Osiris

Axim X50
1 GB SD card
Deluo GPS

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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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.

Dell Axim X5 400Mhz/64MB
SanDisk 256MB SD/ 64MB+128MB CF
Pretec WiFi

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.

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

has anyone been able to configure the emulator to have sound for the Snes roms?

Might and Magic II works great on the emulator too -- and it has an automap feature.

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.

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/

Osiris

Axim X50
1 GB SD card
Deluo GPS

can anyone put up a link to that emulator? i cant get a download going.(cant read the langauge)

I tried TWSFC .9 crashed my Axim maybe I'll try an update in the future.