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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: Bgoulette on December 02, 2015, 11:22:11 AM

Title: Not really an attract mode question, but... higan?
Post by: Bgoulette on December 02, 2015, 11:22:11 AM

Hey all,

I have Mame up and running quite nicely in attract mode. Yay! With that success, I wanted to branch out to other emulators, and I came across higan (formerly bsnes, I think). But here's the thing: I have no clue how to get it work! I've got a selection of roms, and I ran the icarus app to generate a manfiest, but I see nothing when I attempt to load a rom. I'm sure I've missed something, but I was just wondering if anyone else had managed to get higan up and running. If so: share your secrets! Please! :)

(Apologies is this post is unwelcome or in the wrong place!)

Title: Re: Not really an attract mode question, but... higan?
Post by: Bgoulette on December 02, 2015, 11:35:41 AM

All right, I'm at least part moron: I tried running higan 0.95 on my work computer (shh!) and it appeared to work just fine. :( Gonna give it another shot on my primary machine...

Title: Re: Not really an attract mode question, but... higan?
Post by: Bgoulette on December 02, 2015, 11:51:19 AM

...at the risk of padding my post count, I got it working. Mostly. I downloaded higan again and this time it worked! Weird. Now to get it working in AM... :)

Title: Re: Not really an attract mode question, but... higan?
Post by: akafox on December 02, 2015, 09:23:08 PM

(Please move to emulators section)

I use snes9x myself. Never a problem with it. I tried hagin a year ago...I might pick it back up and try it. I understand it is hard on the cpu...it strives for "accuracy".

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/ (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/)

http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/2712-why-perfect-hardware-snes-emulation-requires-a-3ghz-cpu/ (http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/2712-why-perfect-hardware-snes-emulation-requires-a-3ghz-cpu/)

Title: Re: Not really an attract mode question, but... higan?
Post by: hermine.potter on December 02, 2015, 10:54:53 PM

creating rom-lists by an emulator-system (here : higan creates .sfc-romlists) is not very efficient for AM. If you add a game, you have to create this rom-lists again. And it seems that higan doesn't support starting roms directly (this doesn's works : path_to_higan\higan_accuracy.exe path_to_snes-roms\snes_game1.smc )

so use one emulator to each emulator-system (snes9x or zsnes => snes-roms; gameboy advance => gameboy-roms, and so on). they support parameter-starting and you're able to add them easy in AM.

ZSNES:

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executable           C:\attract\EMU\zsnes\zsnesw.exe
args                 -m "[romfilename]"
rompath              C:\attract\EMU\zsnes\roms
romext               .smc