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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: hoffsta on January 03, 2017, 02:54:08 PM

Title: AM OSX users: What emulators are you using?
Post by: hoffsta on January 03, 2017, 02:54:08 PM

I'm tired of playing N64 on my Raspberry Pi- too choppy. I want to move over to my better hardware which is a Mac Mini but I've never done emulation on OS X. It looks lie there are a lot of abandoned platforms and its hard to tell whats current. Those of you running this on a Mac, what have you found to be the best emulators? I'm mostly going to run NES, SNES, N64, MAME, & Sega Genesis.

Thanks!

Title: Re: AM OSX users: What emulators are you using?
Post by: keilmillerjr on January 04, 2017, 09:12:14 AM

Try those consoles in mame first. MESS has been merged with MAME. If your not happy, then seek another emulator. The only console I'm unsure if mame will emulate well is n64, only because I could care less about emulating those newer consoles. Try it.

Title: Re: AM OSX users: What emulators are you using?
Post by: hoffsta on January 04, 2017, 09:56:13 PM

Thanks!

Title: Re: AM OSX users: What emulators are you using?
Post by: estefan3112 on January 27, 2017, 10:11:26 AM

I did a fast try with mupen64 plus, and it seems to work nicely:
https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-core/releases/tag/2.5
I just created the following config in Attract Mode/Emulators/Create New Emulator:

# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.2.0-3
#
executable           $HOME/Documents/Attract Mode Data/mupen64plus/run_rice.sh
args                 "[romfilename]"
rompath              $HOME/Documents/RetroArch/Hotstuff/N64/
romext               .n64
artwork    flyer           
artwork    marquee         
artwork    snap           
artwork    wheel           
Next would now be to finetune the Mupen64plus config file in [$HOME]/.config after first start of the emulator (joypad, resolution, etc.).
Hope this helps!

PS EDIT: After some testing, I would recommend you to go for Retroarch in the case of N64 emulation, alternatively OpenEmu, they both provide you with a far less painful configuration experience.

Title: Re: AM OSX users: What emulators are you using?
Post by: keilmillerjr on January 27, 2017, 04:29:17 PM

Mame. Don't need anything else.