Comments on: Good emulators for OS X Intel?

Question: Good emulators for OS X Intel?

NucleophilicAttack — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:54:20 -0800

Please recommend good entertainment console emulators for Mac OS X Intel.

I used to use zsnes, nesticle, ultraHLE, Bleem, etc. a few years ago under DOS and Wintel, but I'm no longer sure what the applications of choice are under OS X Intel.

Please suggest whatever is best from the free/open, and payware sides.

Thanks!

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:28:18 -0800

snes9x is great for SNES

By: SECONDHANDSMOTE

SECONDHANDSMOTE — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:54:43 -0800

You know, gametap.com has a mac player that plays a bunch of b-list games for free. They had Wonderboy in Monsterworld! But I'll second the snex9x for playing SNES titles.

For Genesis titles, Generator is pretty good.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/7431

By: jessenoonan

jessenoonan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:03:40 -0800

Nestopia is good for NES games. Get a Wii-mote and download Darwiin Remote and it's just like the real thing, almost. And seconding snes9x. I've been wasting entirely too much time playing Rampart with that the last few days...

By: majick

majick — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:59:19 -0800

The stuff Richard Bannister puts out is where most of the quality is.

By: blueberry

blueberry — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:22:32 -0800

Not a console, but there's OSXII for playing old Apple ][ games like Taipan! and Castle Wolfenstein.

By: blag

blag — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:38:33 -0800

Mupen64 (N64 emu) has an OSX port.

By: blag

blag — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:48:43 -0800

And how could I forget ScummVM?

By: bryanzera

bryanzera — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:01:06 -0800

Note: Nestopia requires Emulator Enhancer (shareware) in order to utilize USB gamepads. Even then, don't expect any head-to-head USB action as you can only use one USB gamepad at a time.