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The classic open source example is MESS, but there are lots of other emulators out there.

Windows and Unix users should check Retrogames and Zophar, and Mac users should check emulation.net.

If you want to learn OpenGL, your next stop should be NeHe's tutorials on Gamedev.Net.

http://nehe.gamedev.net/

GameDev itself is helpful...

http://www.gamedev.net/

As is Flipcode...

http://www.flipcode.com/

If you're interested in writing a good game, you should learn from those that came before you. Check them out using emulators from Zophar's Domain...

http://www.zophar.net/

Also, no game developer worth his salt can ignore the virtual treasure trove of information archived at GamaSutra...

http://www.gamasutra.com/

And finally, you'll want some cool free video game tunes to listen to while you code. The two best sites for video game remixes are Bart Klepka's remixes and Remix at Overclocked.org:

http://bart.overclocked.org/
http://remix.overclocked.org/

Go to it. I hope to play your games soon.

I don't see how this news is astonishing and breakthrough...our emulation archive has Boycott Advance builds as far back as February...not to mention none of the released GBA emulators can do anything other than play demos.

Furthermore, the authors didn't just guess how it works...the schematics and such were leaked long, long ago. Since the Japanese release, emulators have improved, but since the US release hasn't happened yet, they're still not capable of any decent commercial emulation.

Now, since GBA emulation received such huge mainstream attention via /., I wouldn't be surprised if the IDSA and/or Nintendo go after it and try to pull some nonsense with the DMCA (probably won't work because it wasn't reverse engineered...the details were released) or contract out some evil h4x0r to send an EMP into the authors' houses. Whether they succeed or not, they still will have achieved their goal by implanting the thought in everyones' mind...."GBA emulation is bad mmm'kay, and we can get sued".

The more important people in "the scene" tend to ask that you use emulation to relive old experiences on systems that are no longer being developed or have long been broken...so...if you're insistant upon GBA emulation, use the "try before you buy" method. If you like it, Nintendo deserves your money.

There is actually a NESticle movie of this (remember NESticle?) on Zophar's Domain, recorded by Scott Conrad way back in 1999. So dust off NESticle and your Zelda 1 ROM and get the movie from Zophar's NSM page. Pretty wild.

There is actually a NESticle movie of this (remember NESticle?) on Zophar's Domain, recorded by Scott Conrad way back in 1999. So dust off NESticle and your Zelda 1 ROM and get the movie from Zophar's NSM page. Pretty wild.

There is actually a NESticle movie of this (remember NESticle?) on Zophar's Domain, recorded by Scott Conrad way back in 1999. So dust off NESticle and your Zelda 1 ROM and get the movie from Zophar's NSM page. Pretty wild.

There is actually a NESticle movie of this (remember NESticle?) on Zophar's Domain, recorded by Scott Conrad way back in 1999. So dust off NESticle and your Zelda 1 ROM and get the movie from Zophar's NSM page. Pretty wild.

The same thing was actaully done quite a while ago by a guy who made a version of Zelda called "Revenge of Ganon". He also made a Zelda game editor and a version of Mario which he called "Ice Mario" or something where the iceballs shot across the screen instead of bouncing. I think this guy deserves more credit since he did this so long ago. I don't know where you could find it, but I imagine that Zophar's domain would have them.

Well, first of all, the game in question is for the NES, not the SNES.

Second, you can get pretty much any emulator available from Zophar's Domain.

-Grant/JimTheta

Anybody who's ever looked at Zophar's Domain (here) in the past two or three years or so knows that there are lots of re-writes and edits of old NES games, from Metroid to Super Mario.

So when is Pitfall going to be available on Linux?

PE2000 has ROM dumps of many classic games such as the original Pitfall. To run such binaries, you will need an emulator; pick one up at Zophar's Domain.

If all we need is running games on linux, why don't we emulate consoles?

TuxNES, DGen, and SNES9x (both available from Zophar's Domain) are console emulators ported to GNU/Linux + X11. Those consoles are from back in the day when games were games and not merely interactive movies. Want shooters? Lifeforce for NES and Zero Wing for Genesis are still as fun as it was when it was first released (and still more fun than modern shooters such as Q3A/UT/Tribes). And yes, software is still being developed for NES.

Take your pick of 4 different ones from either www.zophar.net or www.vg-network.com.

-Legion

• Alpine - Adaptive Large-scale Peer2peer Information NEtworking
• ANAP -- Anonymous Napster
• AudioGalaxy Satellite
• Bearshare -- Powerful Gnutella client
• Blocks -- open source distributed sharing client with encryption
• Carracho -- MacOS file sharing program
• CuteMX
• Direct Connect
• DFSI -- Distributed File Sharing over IRC
• Espra
• FileSwap
• Filetopia
• FreeNet
• Gnutmeg -- peered file sharing system
• gnutella -- distributed P2P file sharing tool
• Hotline
• IMesh
• Jungle Monkey -- open source
• KaZaA - Windows Media Desktop
• Konspire -- open source distributed client in java
• OFSI -- Open File Sharing Initiative
• ProjectELF -- anonymoys distributed sharing system
• SongSpy
• Spin Frenzy
• Splooge -- P2P file sharing by file extension
• Swapoo -- Napster like service for sharing video game ROMs
• Swaptor -- Online File Sharing Community
• VNN - secure file sharing app

Despite that fact, I play any Nintendo games I want to on Nesticle.

NESticle's accuracy sucks Big Floppy Donkey Dick; it can't emulate games that rely on precise timing. Use TuxNES or one of the better WinDOS-based emulators instead. The only reason I ever touch NESticle is to make sure NES software I write displays a warning message if it is run on NESticle; it takes only four lines of NES asm to detect NESticle, and from there I display an advertisement for LoopyNES.

The reason Turned Based Games sell poorly is people who like TBGs just have a greater tendency to disagree with the idea of intellectual property. In a TBG, you are planning in a pseudo-"now" for the "future". Thus, such players' perspective is in the future. This leads to the idea that all games eventually will become uncopyrighted over time. So why not copy the game?

Real-time game players are stuck in "now" and have to pay their money "now" for something that is copyrighted "now". I'd rather have the future oriented perspective. :)

On a more confusing note, stick with the "past": Stop complaining about crappy new games and stick with the classics. Go get an emulator and some ROMs.

How could you forget the 100s of other emulators for game systems like the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Gameboy, Atari, MSX, and on and on... There are great open source emulators for linux that work great on fast computers. So, actually, with classic game emulation alone, Linux has over 10,000 games easy. For a good arcade and console game system emulation site, check Zophar's Domain and look under the "Emulators for Unix" sections on the right hand side menu.

I admit that added full DOS/Windows emulation would add another 10,000 or so games, but do you even have the time to play that many games?
Oh, and nethack is cool and all, especially with that graphical front-end (has a Final Fantasy 1 look). Qt Graphical Nethack is a way to easily get your friends to start playing. Now, the best Rouge-like game has to be ADOM. It has everything that NetHack doesn't: a real storyline, towns with NPCs, agriculture, etc...

Can your Pentium 4 even run 64-bit programs?

If the answer were "no," then why would Nintendo 64 emulators, which emulate a 64-bit MIPS CPU, exist on x86 CPUs? Besides, double-precision floating-point and MMX are already 64-bit (although they may not be executed as 32-bit ops in a particular implementation).

2600 = 1441
5200 = 146
7800 = 40
Jaguar = 51
Lynx = 152

Total = 1830

Granted, there's probably more rare ones that were never dumped, but still, it's fairly accurate.

This doesn't mention the kilosanta or the megasanta, which makes Santa possible. Now this one does.

Solar Wars is a clone of Scorched Earth for your NES. The developers (Chris Covell and friends) have released the full source and binaries for download RIGHT HERE! (You'll need an NES emulator; get it for Linux86, DOS, or Windows.)

Of course, you could also scorch your brain at Goats.com (not Goatse.cx!)
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.

Solar Wars is a clone of Scorched Earth for your NES. The developers (Chris Covell and friends) have released the full source and binaries for download RIGHT HERE! (You'll need an NES emulator; get it for Linux86, DOS, or Windows.)

Of course, you could also scorch your brain at Goats.com (not Goatse.cx!)
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.

Says here that it is available in binary form only. No source is available. Do we have a GPL violation here?

• README
• 1ST_READ.BIN
• dc_linux.elf
• IP.BIN

• README
• 1ST_READ.BIN
• dc_linux.elf
• IP.BIN

• README
• 1ST_READ.BIN
• dc_linux.elf
• IP.BIN

• README
• 1ST_READ.BIN
• dc_linux.elf
• IP.BIN

• A list of links for arcade cabinents, especially about building your own.
• A M.A.M.E cocktale project, looks closely like the machine I want.
• Another build-your-own cabinet page (using consoles, not M.A.M.E)
• A great faq on how to build an arcade console, a must read for anyone thinking about it. Includes stuff like the problem of keyboard ghosting and encoders.
• Another build-a-cabinet page, with pics and diagrams
• Diagrams for a dual keyboard circuit and automatic joystick switch + other fun stuff. Another must read.
• Keyboard Matrix Help
• Happ Controls, the source of arcade quality joysticks, buttons, and other controls. They also sell keyboard encoders and other neat stuff. If you look around on the web page, you can find a place to order a free catalog, which can give you an idea of prices. (Please though, only ask for a catalog if you're interested, I hate to see the /. effect decend on this nice company)
• A source for emulators, and emulator news.
• An emulator front-end.
• English translations for NES & SNES. The reason why I became interested in emulation in the first place.

genecyst I sure wish bloodlust would open the source to their emulators so we can port their amazing software creations to other operating systems.

As I posted earlier, there is a mirror to the MPEG file available at Zophar's Domain:

http://www.zophar.net/Files/laserm ame NTSC.mpg

As I posted earlier, there is a mirror to the MPEG file available at Zophar's Domain:

http://www.zophar.net/Files/laserm ame NTSC.mpg

You can also view the MPEG at Zophar's Domain by going here:

Video File

You can also view the MPEG at Zophar's Domain by going here:

Video File

I think they missed one game for the Best Music category:

Journey to Silius.

Hold on while I find some links...
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That music sounds almost exactly like the original unless you have a wavetabele soundcard like me :D

Try the NSF version at this link here and get a player from zophar's domain. You can also find a lot more NES music there: this is one of the most comprehensive archives of NSF's i've found.

Listen, and remember! :D

I think they missed one game for the Best Music category:

Journey to Silius.

Hold on while I find some links...
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That music sounds almost exactly like the original unless you have a wavetabele soundcard like me :D

Try the NSF version at this link here and get a player from zophar's domain. You can also find a lot more NES music there: this is one of the most comprehensive archives of NSF's i've found.

Listen, and remember! :D

You will love this: Link

HOT DAMN! IT'S BACK! Thanks! That was one of the great Apple II disk image sites...it went down with a message a while back and then disappeared. Here are some Apple II sites, dealing with everyone's favorite 70's machine:
Graphical User Interface Gallery Has a tad bit of Apple II info, but tons of links and cynical reviews of GUIs!
Zophar's Domain General Emulation Info...with Apple II sections.
Also ODP has a few sections of Apple II info.
Check these sites

Definitions:
XML: Leading the way to make the web a ebiz thing

I still have my working Intellivision. It's nice to break it out and play a game of space invaders once in awhile.

For the rest of you who don't have an Intellivision Console, there's always emus. Yes, someone made one...

GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops runs on a computer called NES. NES emulators are available for GNU/Linux, BSD, DOS, and Windows.

By installing both GNOME and KDE libraries and running both GNOME and KDE apps.

By installing an X11-based NES emulator and running GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops.

If you have an NES emulator (get one at Zophar's Domain), play Battle of the Desktops. A GNOME mascot and a KDE mascot fight it out on the bingo board.
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• Many of the games at the Allegro Games Depot recompile fine on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and UNIX® systems, provided you install the Allegro library.
• Want Tetris®? You won't get it, but you will get an exact clone along with six other games in freepuzzlearena. (This also needs Allegro.)
• Head over to Zophar.net for an NES emulator to run on your GNU, BSD, or UNIX system. Grab some free(beer/speech) software here and here. If you're not satisfied, get some i11ega1 ROMz at Tobbe's.

So have a lot of sites. I can't see the one referenced (the filter nazis) but other than that there is Zophar's Domain that has been a good resource for a long time.

Rom sites don't stay up long though usually...

Most NES freeware developers on the Internet use LoopyNES, available at Zophar.net. It's for DOS, but it'll probably run in DOSEmu. It offers nearly perfect emulation of the NES CPU and PPU (helluva lot better than Testicle) with only two problems I've found: 1. no wave logging, and 2. a bug in the sample playback code (yes, the NES had a compressed sample channel) that sometimes loops or drops samples. (NESten is the best Windows-based emu currently.)
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Zophar's has a whole slew of original NES .nsf files that contain the original songs and nosefart does a fine job of playing them. Try playing the original and then the remix to compare. Really neat stuff.

1. Emulation on consoles would be nothing new (even barring bleemcast).
   
2. Future emulation on the X-Box (or other consoles) is likely to be transparent to the user -- people buy rereleases of the games they want (or developers write emulators for current games!) which may require emulation, but the user doesn't necessarily have to know that it's going on behind the scenes.

1. Emulation on consoles would be nothing new (even barring bleemcast).
   
2. Future emulation on the X-Box (or other consoles) is likely to be transparent to the user -- people buy rereleases of the games they want (or developers write emulators for current games!) which may require emulation, but the user doesn't necessarily have to know that it's going on behind the scenes.

Like the other guys that responded, I use ZSNES. I've never had a problem with it on my P2/333mHz/64 megs ram PC, and it's very customizable.

It _is_ DOS though.

I haven't tried Mario Kart on it, however. Get it and all kinds of emulator crap at Zophar's Domain.

Arguably it's an inferior translation to the unofficial RPGe translation, but it shows that games that appear to be abandonned can still have value to their copyright owners. If everybody had emulated illegal copies of the game then they would most likely have not bought Final Fantasy Anthology, making Squaresoft think that people don't like older games. This just makes the problem of abandoned games worse, as Squaresoft no longer has any reason to release old games. If you like FF5 then buy FF Anthology, it's a very good game and they deserve money for it.

Elite, by Ian Bell and David Braben, for the BBC, Nintendo (NES)

Elite has never been released in the States for one reason: It is not compatible with American NES consoles. The graphics engine in NES Elite is so complex that it requires more CPU time per scanline than an American NES can give out (European TVs have a slower scanrate for higher spatial resolution). Plus, there is no emulator that can run the Elite ROM (which is freebeerware on the legal ROMs sites).