#159865 - gauauu - Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:19 pm
For all the linux users out there:
What do you use for emulation of gba and ds?
I assumed I'd just use vba for the gba stuff, but I'm having a heck of a time figuring out how to get it to run properly...it either runs at 250% speed, or is choppy if I throttle it to 100. It doesn't seem to have the Sound sync option that I need to run properly.
I'm also curious what people use for ds, although there seem to be more useful options
#159871 - josath - Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:05 pm
I use mednafen mostly for GBA. It's basically a multi-system emulator, I believe for GBA it actually uses the VBA sourcecode, but it runs a lot more stable for me. (I have the same problem with VBA, running at wrong speed, choppy, bad sound, etc)
For DS mostly I use desmume, but I hear there's a native iDeaS port to linux, that I haven't tried yet.
#159872 - gauauu - Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:16 pm
I tried mednafen, but it mostly just sits there on a black screen. Usually after a minute or two, it starts running the rom. Slowly. I haven't figure out what the problem is....
#159879 - gauauu - Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:57 pm
Aaah, for anyone else that's interested:
| Code: |
| mednafen -vdriver 1 |
Takes care of a world of performance issues.
#160063 - zazery - Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:59 pm
I use VBA SDL and Wine + VBA Windows for GBA emulation. I use the Windows version because of the helpful Tools menu that is missing in the SDL version. For DS emulation I use desmume and Wine + NO$GBA.
#160088 - nanou - Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:01 am
Neat, I've been wondering about this too.
I've been using hardware almost 100%. It sounds like Wine is a good option though, so maybe I'll start doing that... I'm already using it for other things.
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#160102 - gauauu - Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:07 pm
| zazery wrote: |
| I use VBA SDL and Wine + VBA Windows for GBA emulation. I use the Windows version because of the helpful Tools menu that is missing in the SDL version. For DS emulation I use desmume and Wine + NO$GBA. |
How's the speed when you do that? I tried doing Wine + VBA Windows, and the speed was pretty bad. And I've got a pretty good machine I'm running on.
#160245 - zazery - Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:59 pm
| gauauu wrote: |
| How's the speed when you do that? I tried doing Wine + VBA Windows, and the speed was pretty bad. And I've got a pretty good machine I'm running on. |
I can run VBA 1.72 at full speed with Wine 0.9.61. Make sure you set the rendering method to OpenGL. I have an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 and GeForce 8800GT. There are some issues such as it crashing when using File>Open but for the most part it works fine.