Re: [Audyssey] new psx game uploaded and v 1.0 of emulatorstomorrow!
Hi Nicol. You don't actually need any of the hardware at all. an emulator is just a program on your pc which emulates the behaviour of a games console or old computer. With it you run rom files which are like games and programs for that console or computer. Think of it like this, you can have a program like winamp or windows media player on your computer which can play music in the absense of a cd player. you don't physically need a cd, just the appropriate files in a format which the music player can read such as mp3. that's basically how emulators work. On the joystick issue, if you have a pc joystick, most emulators I believe have configuration files for them, but certainly you'd need a pc joystick plugged into your usb or similar, an original snes, playstation or whatever controller wouldn't do you much good. Legality wise, well it's one of these grey areas as Tom said. officially you need to legally own the console and games cartrage to have the right to run an emulator with a rom, unofficially, lots of people do it anyway. I will freely confess in the past I have run roms of some of my favourite coin operated arcade games such as the simpsons and ninja turtles beat em ups, and I certainly don't own several arcade cabinets. Sinse however there were never any console versions released of these games and sinse I don't know anywhere that actually stil has the machines available to play (actually, arcade machines seem something of a thing of the past now), I don't really feel too much compunction about running the emulator in this case. On the other hand, I personally find most emulators to be a litle buggy, and in the case of a machine like an amigar, quite a pest to run and I prefer to play the game on a console if at all possible. I have! in perfect legality run the Turrican games with an amigar emulator (sinse I did own all three of them and an amigar at one time), however this was such a pain to do I pretty much stopped, pluss the freeware pc turrican remake T2002 is easily as good as the original anyway. That's why if I want to play marrio brothers (as in fact I have been quite recently), I simply stick a copy of marrio all stars into my Snes. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new psx game uploaded and v 1.0 of emulatorstomorrow!
Hi Dark Thanks for explaining this. Please bare with me, I am still confused about what emulators do. Do I have to buy the game console in order to emulate its games on my pc? Or do I only have to buy the cartridge containing the games? If so, how do I put the console cartridge into my pc? Is the emulator idea cheeper than buying the console? I want to do this legally from the start, but I am in the dark as to what emulators do. Can I connect a joystick to my pc if I have a console emulator? And lastly, can I emulate games legally such as Mario brothers and sircus Charlie? I can always ask my sighted friends to assist me in playing mainstream games. Many thanks for any info. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 29 March 2011 08:31 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] new psx game uploaded and v 1.0 of emulatorstomorrow! Hi Nicol. An emulator is a program designed to pretend to be another piece of hardware running on your pc. If you wanted for instance, you could run a comador 64 computer emulator and use it's word processer function. However, obviously the thing people most want to do with emulators is emulate games consoles or computer systems of the past and run games. Thus, when running correctly, an emulator gets you precisely the same as you'd get if you physically had a nes, snes, ps1 or whatever. They thus don't specifically help with access, sinse unfortunately it's not possible to read the graphically emulated text with your pc screen reader (if it was that would be awsome, but sadly no). So, emulators are basically just another way of playing mainstream games, and one which, as Tom says is of dubious legality. I personally haven't run that many emulators, simply because I prefer to play games on original consoles and sinse I have a perfectly working Snes gamecube and Mega drive there really is no need for me to. beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] new psx game uploaded and v 1.0 of emulatorstomorrow!
Hi Nicol. An emulator is a program designed to pretend to be another piece of hardware running on your pc. If you wanted for instance, you could run a comador 64 computer emulator and use it's word processer function. However, obviously the thing people most want to do with emulators is emulate games consoles or computer systems of the past and run games. Thus, when running correctly, an emulator gets you precisely the same as you'd get if you physically had a nes, snes, ps1 or whatever. They thus don't specifically help with access, sinse unfortunately it's not possible to read the graphically emulated text with your pc screen reader (if it was that would be awsome, but sadly no). So, emulators are basically just another way of playing mainstream games, and one which, as Tom says is of dubious legality. I personally haven't run that many emulators, simply because I prefer to play games on original consoles and sinse I have a perfectly working Snes gamecube and Mega drive there really is no need for me to. beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "NIcol" To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:12 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] new psx game uploaded and v 1.0 of emulatorstomorrow! Hi Mathias I am not so clued up with mainstream games and emulators so here is a question from a newbee. Are emulators programs that can make mainstream pc games more accessible? I mean, if I legally buy a mainstream pc game such as Mario, is the emulators you uploaded, there to make them more accessible? Many thanks for any info. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Matheus r.c. souza Sent: 28 March 2011 12:00 AM To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] new psx game uploaded and v 1.0 of emulators tomorrow! new psx game uploaded: knockout kings 2000. boxing game. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1695866/KNOCKOUT_KINGS_2000.cdz version 1.0 of the emulators collection is ready. you will be able to download it only tomorrow though, because i won't use dropbox, i'll use a friend's website, and that's the last time that the link will change. from now on you will be able to download it from the same address. it will be much better. changelog: V 1.0 - March 28, 2011 *Added some new emulators: pcsx2, chankast, Fusion. *Corrected the Readme. *Updated the credits section. *Added some more sites to download roms. hope you guys like the new changes. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
