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Emulators?

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Dr. Righteous

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Hey guys, this may be a Duhhh question but here goes.........

My son was telling me his friends have Nintendo games to play.
I myself have not owned a game console since the Sega Genesis but had a NES before that.
I messed around with MAME before years ago, and found it was hit and miss.
I ran across a Nintendo 64 emulator call Project64.
And I installed it and found a few game files of N64 games. Let me say I'm impressed. It seems to work well.
My question is about getting a controller to work.
Would just buying a USB game pad work with this emulator? Is there some other method needed to get it working?
 
I don't believe we're supposed to talk about emulators here, but any USB gamepad should work.

PS: Don't say "found game files". Unless you make them yourself ROMs are illegal.
 
I used Project64 a few years back when I was deployed, it does work really well. I actually have my N64 still, but opted to just hook up my laptop running Project 64 up to my TV and played N64 games (that I actually owned cartridges of) on there because Project 64 makes the games look and run better. Since I obviously couldn't take a N64 with my while I was deployed, I had my laptop with P64 and we had TVs in some places where I could hook my laptop up to them and we played 4 player Mario Kart 64 on them with my 360 controllers. It was great.

I already had four wireless 360 controllers, so I picked up the wireless receiver for PC. I use this setup for pretty much any PC game that's not a FPS/RTS. I would recommend the same or just get a USB 360 controller.
 
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If you wanna go on the cheap you can get a logitech rumblepad which works great. for that program there should be an option for plugins. Go to controller plugin and there should be where you choose your button assignments.
 
piscian18 said:
If you wanna go on the cheap you can get a logitech rumblepad which works great. for that program there should be an option for plugins. Go to controller plugin and there should be where you choose your button assignments.
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Yeah, I forgot to mention that. I forgot P64 has a native controller plugin that you can configure to map your game pad buttons.

One thing that was awkward though was playing FPS games with a dual-joystick controller (such as the 360 controller I was using). Since the N64 only had one analog stick that usually only controlled moving forward/backward, looking left/right and the strafing was mapped to the directional C-buttons, there was no analog strafing or looking up/down even though I had this mapped to the right analog stick. It didn't ruin game play at all, but did take getting used to for a while.
 
360 controller all the way to the bitter end.

No wait actually mine is Saitek Cyborg. Same basic layout anyway.
 
Project64 worked great for me. Another one was Znes.
 
I actually just built a dedicated emulation system.

Gens - Sega Genesis
Nestopia - Nintendo NES
Zsnes - Super Nintendo
IdeaS - Nintendo DS
Dolphin - Nintendo gamecube and Wii
Visualboy Advance - Gamboy, gameboy color, gameboy advance
Project64 - N64
MAME - arcade

I'm missing atari 2600, playstation, and playstation 2. Don't really care about any of those 3 though, never been a fan of sony consoles/games. Xbox emulation is unessecary since most xbox games have pc versions and dreamcast emulation is still in the early stages. I might want to add commodore 64 emulation to the list soon.

I use a logitech rumblepad. Perfect for my needs.
 
you need a good dpad for many old school games and the 360 gamepad doesnt cut it. Any playstation style gamepad would do the job. Also I've been using gamepads on PC forever and one problem that has always plagued me has been most PC gamepads crap out within a few months. The gamepad that has lasted the longest has been my logitech dual action.
 
You can get USB adaptors for nes, snes, playstation controllers from ebay that work awesome, pretty cheap also.
 
I don't know why they don't buy out the best emulator, and sell it as a PC download - along with the roms. They could make money, and appease the retro crowd. A win - win IMO.
Annd.....the paltry offerings in the WII don't count.

But for some reason, they have no interest. I haven't heard of them going after anyone either.....just sitting back with a prepared "don't play out games it's illegal" statement.
 
Monkey34 said:
I don't know why they don't buy out the best emulator, and sell it as a PC download - along with the roms. They could make money, and appease the retro crowd. A win - win IMO.
Annd.....the paltry offerings in the WII don't count.

But for some reason, they have no interest. I haven't heard of them going after anyone either.....just sitting back with a prepared "don't play out games it's illegal" statement.
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Nintendo does send out take down notices. All I know is I am happy with my copy of Mario AllStars
 
Monkey34 said:
I don't know why they don't buy out the best emulator, and sell it as a PC download - along with the roms. They could make money, and appease the retro crowd. A win - win IMO.
Annd.....the paltry offerings in the WII don't count.

But for some reason, they have no interest. I haven't heard of them going after anyone either.....just sitting back with a prepared "don't play out games it's illegal" statement.
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It really is likely a nightmare of licensing issues. For products like game consoles and the associated games, the parent company likely does not fully own "everything."

There is also the issue with the emulator, whoever is developing it most likely does not own the full rights to everything in the emulator either.
 
psx2 is the king of all emulators as you can play actual PS2 games in it. Persona 4 in 720p with SaveState and 150fps speed for leveling up was Quite nice.

PS2 has way more to offer for someone one like me and getting a cheap PS2 usb replica controller is easy.
 
Sorry about necroing a thread, but what does everyone use now for controllers in emulators for n64,ps2 etc.?
All of this sparked my interest after I've been seeing screenshots of HQ shots of old games. I've only started using the Glide64 for a day or so now so I'm a little bit new to tweaking the settings to have good performance plus great quality
 
stevedave said:
psx2 is the king of all emulators as you can play actual PS2 games in it. Persona 4 in 720p with SaveState and 150fps speed for leveling up was Quite nice.

PS2 has way more to offer for someone one like me and getting a cheap PS2 usb replica controller is easy.
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That sounds nice. I do have a ps3, but having save states for games would be very nice. I have a ps2 to usb adapter, so I'd just use one of my Logitech wireless ps2 controllers.
 
fmsrttm said:
Sorry about necroing a thread, but what does everyone use now for controllers in emulators for n64,ps2 etc.?
All of this sparked my interest after I've been seeing screenshots of HQ shots of old games. I've only started using the Glide64 for a day or so now so I'm a little bit new to tweaking the settings to have good performance plus great quality
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Logitech rumble pad, and a sega saturn usb gamepad

*note I always prefer someone necro a thread over making another gdamn "which controller" thread or any other repeat offender thread.
 
piscian18 said:
Logitech rumble pad, and a sega saturn usb gamepad

*note I always prefer someone necro a thread over making another gdamn "which controller" thread or any other repeat offender thread.
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Thanks for the suggestions.
Also, if I wanted to do GC would the rumble pad work, or should I get a usb adapter for GC controller. Only downside is the price of those adapters 0.o
 
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