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ZSNES was one of the first good SNES emulators along with snes9x. ZSNES had a high resolution mode 7 setting as well nearly 20 years ago in v0.915

https://zsnes.zophar.net/shrin...

We keep trying at Zophar's Domain Javascript but we need more help.

NSF?

It's what SPC format is for.

Because nothing makes code happen like BGM from Chrono Trigger or Terranigma.

and not a programming environment, there are a buncha TI (and other calculator) emulators. For example:

http://www.zophar.net/ti.html
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/84/8442.html

Personally, I'd just open up a spreadsheet program. If you need an algebraic equation solver, go with R, Matlab or possibly Mathomatic:
http://www.mathomatic.org/math/

Yay for chiptunes!
Too bad the site seems to use Java. I wanted to take a quick listen.

I never played much C64, so my own interests once I found computer playback tools were NES and SNES related.

It is true that it turns my real life friends off, so at some point near 2000 I turned to ocremix to get orchestrated remixes instead. But for the pure chiptune sound files in SMC and NSF format I still have from last decade's games, I recommend Winamp plugins, or standalone Nosefart, and Meridian player (it had a fake stereo for nonstereo 8bit games). For mac users, Audio overload from Banister.

Just 2 months ago I found that there's Playstation tunes out there, making the Chrono Cross and FF7 tracks finally something I could export to MP3 to best my older midi tracks. Today I was watching a playthrough of FinalFantasy XIII-2 and noticed most tracks in it now have vocals / actual lyrics. In a generation or two of consoles XBOX 720 and above there will probably be very little left in terms of that nice, cold triangle / square wave goodness.

The IPS file for Super Mario Forever, the map pack featured in the Super Mario Frustration video, is still available.

Umm, how about Mario Party? The nice thing about having a PC is you can also emulate a lot of other systems, including the Gamecube and Wii. You can even use Gamecube and Wii controllers with a PC.

You are wrong

And yet here are 4 virtualboy emulators.

the Kyocera lady brags about how their new phone has a dedicated music player with "8 megabytes of storage".

Which is actually quite a bit if you listen to SID or NSF chiptunes or tracker files in an 8-bit style. For example:

• Rhythmic noise in a 15 KB S3M
• ReMix of a song from Nintendo's Balloon Fight in a 100 KB S3M
• Ambient in a 30 KB S3M
• Dance pop in a 5 KB NSF
• More dance pop in a 5 KB NSF
• Numerous soundtracks from NES and C64 games

It's too bad the official firmware of most popular portable music players can't play chiptune formats or tracker formats.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Metroid secret worlds. By exploiting a glitch involving the doors, you could get past some walls and ceilings. Fans discovered some very strange areas. There was discussion years ago whether the secret worlds were inserted intentionally, but disassembling the game revealed that it was just non-map data being loaded by the game in areas outside the intended path.
http://mdb.classicgaming.gamespy.com/?g=m1&p=secretworlds

A similar glitch was found for Metroid 2. http://m2sw.zophar.net/

The emulation scene was starting then: it was a time when people were already fond of their older machines and software and began wondering if current machines would be able to run emulated versions just ok. And they did, at least the more basic stuff: emulators for NES, Commodore 64 and Infocom's z-machine were popping here and there. I was on the internet since the 1994 and saw these developments with great passion. :)

Here are some of those sites still around:
http://www.zophar.net/
http://www.ifarchive.org/
http://www.eidolons-inn.net/

Amazing. 1996 was when commercial web was beginning instead of just personal and community driven "homepages". I also remember first getting in contact with the GNU project when downloading a GCC-powered compiler for Windows in 1996. Would only switch to Linux in 2001, though...

That is true and with that Pentium you could emulate an Apple II or any number of other old computers.

http://applewin.berlios.de/
http://kegs.sourceforge.net/

http://www.zophar.net/windos.html
http://www.zophar.net/linux.html

That is true and with that Pentium you could emulate an Apple II or any number of other old computers.

http://applewin.berlios.de/
http://kegs.sourceforge.net/

http://www.zophar.net/windos.html
http://www.zophar.net/linux.html

Use a glide wrapper - http://www.zophar.net/utilities/glidewrapper.html

Works pretty damn well actually.

http://www.zophar.net/psf/VagrantStory_psf.rar

Here is the Vagrant Story soundtrack - give it a listen! The Firefly forest sticks out in my head, along with the 5 track opening sequence. The reason I mentioned 12's music as a plus is that it has a lot of overtones and nuances that invoke a great bit of VS nostalgia for me. I'm a huge Uematsu fan too, and I agree with your comments on 12's score. Give Vagrant Story's soundtrack a try though, I think you'll like it - especially in the context of the game. It gives it a very epic, fantasy feel.

As one of the many who learned to program when I was very young (8?) on an Apple II, in line-oriented BASIC, I'm sympathetic with the author's cause. However, his dillema is easily solved by downloading one of the dozens of Apple II emulators available.

http://www.zophar.net/apple2.html

I can point out every event, every location and every item in Final Fantasy. I played it so much then, there is noting new in it to discover.

Maybe my sarcasm detector is malfunctioning but NES emulation is one of the most popular consoles to emulate and thus may be found on any number of platforms, including of course, Mac. http://www.zophar.net/mac/nes.html

http://www.zophar.net/mac/nes.html

Actually the library of titles is vast. Unfortunately, in order to play the non-Halo games, you have to solder something on your motherboard, load some special binary, then you can run an emulator that supports a lot of games.

Seth

I'd get a Famiclone if it was done well, but these NES-on-a-chip clones aren't. The colors are washed, sound is spotty with missing sound effects and musical instruments... The people who took the time to both write NES emulators and dump NES cartridges put a lot more effort (and pride) in their work than this bunch of people selling $5 worth of hardware for $50. They make the vast majority of their money from people who don't know any better.

You can get a refurbished front-loader (complete with composite output) on eBay for less than what these people are charging for a cheap knock-off.

If all you're looking for is "better than nothing," here it is.

http://www.zophar.net/music.html

NSF files contain the extracted machine code for the music of NES games. There are specialized emulator programs, including WinAmp plugins, for playback. I'm still hoping that some genius out there figures out a way to add NSF support to iPods someday...

The inventor of the NSF format even made a hardware player using an actual NES CPU. This guy's too cool for school I tell you:

http://www.tripoint.org/kevtris/Projects/hardnes/i ndex.html

I doubt you'll get any of these to run on it, though.

Finally, you can emulate consoles on a PC, meaning you can effectively play games for any platform on the PC. The reverse is not true.

I'd say the open architecture is important.

You can get plugins for media players like WinAmp from the same site.

I'd also recommend checking out Zophar's Domain, they have a great selection of the original castlevania chiptunes (among others) and also a nice selection of different players. Castlevania IV and Symphony of the Night are still remarkable, much better than many redbook soundtracks.

http://www.zophar.net/music.html

"This site has been around for at least 6-7 years."

Seriously, why doesn't Slashdot post a link to Zophar's Domain while we're on the subject of old video game sites.

However, as long as we're talking about sites hosting on classicgaming.com, I'll throw in my two cents and say I prefer the Metroid Database myself...

It is even worse than that. There are many NES games that Nesticle can't play, and the games that it can play are emulated with the wrong color pallete and the sound is not just off tune, but sometimes completely wrong! The parent is right, Nintendulator uses a much lower-level and accurate emulation of the NES. Hence it has the best compatibility out of all of the NES emulators. However, it is Windows only and requires powerful hardware, again, because it is emulating the NES at a lower level than other emulators. You get pixel perfect emulation at a price.

If you want something that runs faster, runs on more platforms, and is still far more accurate and compatible than the ancient Nesticle, then try FCE Ultra. You can even run it on your Xbox, if you have a modded Xbox. You can find a good list of emulators here.

While I'm probably not going to throw down another $50 for another version of Snake Eater, it sounds like they threw in some cool additions. The original MSX games, Metal Gear, Metal Gear: Solid Snake, are a nice touch. After this and Namco adding Tekken 1-3 in Tekken 5, I hope this is a continuing trend for big game franchises. Both the games are worth checking to see where MGS came from.

The games are even more interesting if you're only familar with the NES Metal Gear games. The first Metal Gear(MSX) differs a lot from the NES(the biggest difference being that the NES version doesn't have Metal Gear in it!). Also there was a psuedo-squel for the NES called Snake's Revenge, but it doesn't hold a candle to the MSX Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. In the game, you'll see where a lot of elements of MGS series came from. And if you're too impatient to wait for this release try downloading a MSX emulator and the old ROMS(you're on your own for that one for that link but they shouldn't be too hard to find).

That's why I added "or someone already has". NES tracks and GBA tracks. Legally quite gray area, agreed... but personally I don't see much wrong with it, especially if I have the game.

Granted, I'm more of a PC-grown person, and on the PC the ripping is generally in form of "okay, another silly proprietary archive format, how do I extract these?" ... "weird proprietary file format, how do I convert it to mid/s3m/wav?" There's often a tool someone has written. And, of course, in modern days, it's fashionable to add modding tools to the game itself, which also allow music extraction in one way or other. Many games nowadays just have lightly disguised MP3 and Ogg files.

Ripping console formats is far more difficult, yes - transferring stuff from cartridge to PC is the first biggest problem.

Though, as weird as it sounds, I have actually ripped music from GBA games (just not from ROMs I had transferred myself, but actually ROMs from games I own =). Pointed an old DOS-era music ripper proggy at WarioWare ROM and I got a whole boatload of MIDI files right away, I was quite surprised they actually stored MIDI files in plain in the ROM. I also hear many use Amiga MODs =)

Personally, I'm still holding onto my GBA SP for travel. Its small, nice battery life, backlit for redeye flights.

I bought a 512MB GBA Flash Advance cartridge from http://www.easybuy2000.com/ so I can load the emulators from http://www.zophar.net/consoles/gameboy.html and play classic gaming on the go. The 512MB card holds every NES game I own, plus a few of my GBA cartridges. This makes it very easy to travel, its an all in one unit. No loose games to loose.

I couple that with a PDA screen protector on the GBA SP screen. The GBA closes to protect the screen, but I had some old protectors laying around and they work great for this. Just cut them to size. You could do the same thing with the DS; if you don't have any, look on ebay for a discontinued PDA's protectors. You pay more in shipping then the actual item, but its still less than $5.

Did you miss one of the point of his post?
VBA == Not optimized. Check out other GBA emulators. They exist. VBA might be the big name, but... The big names aren't always the best.

http://www.zophar.net/gba.html

From that list, No$GBA, Boycott Advance, and the OPTIMIZED version of VBA on the bottom of the page seem like they'd help you..

The whole "classic NES" series does make me think that Nintendo views its customers as suckers. I mean, you can easily download a NES emulator and any NES game ever created for free.

Is this legal? No.
Has Nintendo put ANY innovation into these games before rereleasing them? No.
Are Nintendo (or the original developers) receiving any money from NES games anymore? No.

But draw your own conclusions.

Is this targeting a specific type of pop under? I still get pop unders at Zophar's Domain after trying this fix. (clicking any of the links on the right will cause a pop under) I realize I could disable javascript and these will no longer function, but that's not practical with the amount of websites that have a useful purpose for javascript.

Okay, for those interested here is how you go about doing this (CORRECTLY!):

1. Get a decent cellphone that supports WAV or MP3's as ring tones.

2. Download Winamp

3. Go here for winamp plugins that emulate NES games.

4. And some emulated music of course:

5. Play song in winamp, use the Nullsoft Disk Writer plug-in to generate a wave file

6. Edit in your favorite WAV editor to get a 30 second clip and save as MP3/WAV.

7. Save it to your phone. Sending it via bluetooth is easiest.

So there you go. No $2.50 charge for a ring tone. Takes some work, but it's WELL worth it.

Okay, for those interested here is how you go about doing this (CORRECTLY!):

1. Get a decent cellphone that supports WAV or MP3's as ring tones.

2. Download Winamp

3. Go here for winamp plugins that emulate NES games.

4. And some emulated music of course:

5. Play song in winamp, use the Nullsoft Disk Writer plug-in to generate a wave file

6. Edit in your favorite WAV editor to get a 30 second clip and save as MP3/WAV.

7. Save it to your phone. Sending it via bluetooth is easiest.

So there you go. No $2.50 charge for a ring tone. Takes some work, but it's WELL worth it.

Adblock doesn't fix the "popups from links" problem, and neither does Firefox 1.0.1. To see them in action, go to Zophar's Domain (an emulation site) and click on any link in the sidebar.

Wha? you mean Marat isn't running a totally successful business?

sorry. I couldn't even say that one with a straight face.

I'm not too worried. the image is already copyrighted by Oscar Controls, and has been in commercial use for ages, as MAMEworld.net uses it for all their banner advertising. not to mention all the people contacting the USPTO on the MAMEdev's behalf.

if I were a MAMEdev, I'd be contacting the Electronic Frontier Foundation about this.

maybe a certain Site Admin or two should start a campaign to email the USPTO to make sure this never goes through.

The pop-under ad on Zophar's Domain has thoroughly pissed me off. If you do as little as click on ANYTHING on that page, you get this annoying pop-under ad that has audio.

Yeah, no game price cuts. But I *will* be picking up a few cheap Xboxes when they drop low enough. Hell, I may pick up a few extra Cubes too. A lot of my cube games will *always* be good for a party.

The emulators are out and about at the same stage those PS1 emulators were when the PS2 was released. Not a lot of progress though, these machines are incredibly complex.

I wish they would learn more towards the linux community though. I'm dying to hook those up to my MythBox. :)

Yeah, no game price cuts. But I *will* be picking up a few cheap Xboxes when they drop low enough. Hell, I may pick up a few extra Cubes too. A lot of my cube games will *always* be good for a party.

The emulators are out and about at the same stage those PS1 emulators were when the PS2 was released. Not a lot of progress though, these machines are incredibly complex.

I wish they would learn more towards the linux community though. I'm dying to hook those up to my MythBox. :)

Yeah, no game price cuts. But I *will* be picking up a few cheap Xboxes when they drop low enough. Hell, I may pick up a few extra Cubes too. A lot of my cube games will *always* be good for a party.

The emulators are out and about at the same stage those PS1 emulators were when the PS2 was released. Not a lot of progress though, these machines are incredibly complex.

I wish they would learn more towards the linux community though. I'm dying to hook those up to my MythBox. :)

Anyone peering in on this topic would be wasting his/her time by going to vgmusic.com - MIDI is a poor representation of the true glory of the videogame soundtracks of yesteryear.

With the development of digitally ripped (not recorded, we're talking the actual original data ripped directly from the game) soundtracks in the format of NSF, SPC, GSF, USF, PSF, and others, there's absolutely no point to downloading poorly interpreted general MIDI adaptations of these songs.

Download entire soundtracks in original format.

PSX and PS2
NES
SNES
Nintendo 64
GameBoy Advance

Don't subject yourself to the lack of organization at a poorly designed (ahaha powerlord sux at php rofl ;D) MIDI site.

It's remixes you're looking for? Look no further.

vgmix.net
Overclocked Remix

Anyone peering in on this topic would be wasting his/her time by going to vgmusic.com - MIDI is a poor representation of the true glory of the videogame soundtracks of yesteryear.

With the development of digitally ripped (not recorded, we're talking the actual original data ripped directly from the game) soundtracks in the format of NSF, SPC, GSF, USF, PSF, and others, there's absolutely no point to downloading poorly interpreted general MIDI adaptations of these songs.

Download entire soundtracks in original format.

PSX and PS2
NES
SNES
Nintendo 64
GameBoy Advance

Don't subject yourself to the lack of organization at a poorly designed (ahaha powerlord sux at php rofl ;D) MIDI site.

It's remixes you're looking for? Look no further.

vgmix.net
Overclocked Remix

Anyone peering in on this topic would be wasting his/her time by going to vgmusic.com - MIDI is a poor representation of the true glory of the videogame soundtracks of yesteryear.

With the development of digitally ripped (not recorded, we're talking the actual original data ripped directly from the game) soundtracks in the format of NSF, SPC, GSF, USF, PSF, and others, there's absolutely no point to downloading poorly interpreted general MIDI adaptations of these songs.

Download entire soundtracks in original format.

PSX and PS2
NES
SNES
Nintendo 64
GameBoy Advance

Don't subject yourself to the lack of organization at a poorly designed (ahaha powerlord sux at php rofl ;D) MIDI site.

It's remixes you're looking for? Look no further.

vgmix.net
Overclocked Remix

Anyone peering in on this topic would be wasting his/her time by going to vgmusic.com - MIDI is a poor representation of the true glory of the videogame soundtracks of yesteryear.

With the development of digitally ripped (not recorded, we're talking the actual original data ripped directly from the game) soundtracks in the format of NSF, SPC, GSF, USF, PSF, and others, there's absolutely no point to downloading poorly interpreted general MIDI adaptations of these songs.

Download entire soundtracks in original format.

PSX and PS2
NES
SNES
Nintendo 64
GameBoy Advance

Don't subject yourself to the lack of organization at a poorly designed (ahaha powerlord sux at php rofl ;D) MIDI site.

It's remixes you're looking for? Look no further.

vgmix.net
Overclocked Remix

Anyone peering in on this topic would be wasting his/her time by going to vgmusic.com - MIDI is a poor representation of the true glory of the videogame soundtracks of yesteryear.

With the development of digitally ripped (not recorded, we're talking the actual original data ripped directly from the game) soundtracks in the format of NSF, SPC, GSF, USF, PSF, and others, there's absolutely no point to downloading poorly interpreted general MIDI adaptations of these songs.

Download entire soundtracks in original format.

PSX and PS2
NES
SNES
Nintendo 64
GameBoy Advance

Don't subject yourself to the lack of organization at a poorly designed (ahaha powerlord sux at php rofl ;D) MIDI site.

It's remixes you're looking for? Look no further.

vgmix.net
Overclocked Remix

MIDI is shit. It is the Wonder Bread of music formats. MIDI of videogame music is never going to sound anything like the actual tunes themselves, neither will it sound like a nice live instrument recording of the tunes.

For the latter, go to ocremix.org

For the former, try zophar's music section

Don't even bother with the MIDI on VGmusic. It's not real videogame music.