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Just wanted to start letting people know that there is a Super Nintendo Emulator in development for Android. Demo should be out in June. Most of the core internals are complete just need to finish up the rest of the graphics engine. Check out my website and sign up for the latest news and updates of this product. SuperGNES - SNES Android Emulator
I can't wait for this to be released. I grew up on snes games. I imagine it would take some time getting used to the lack of the L and R buttons on some action oriented games.
1. Third party USB peripheral controller? The damn thing would be bigger than the phone!
2. The logistics of getting it to work on a keyboard-less phone seems daunting, if not impossible. That goes double if Android doesn't allow for multi-touch without root. /sigh
Voice controlled!
Could you imagine? "jump" "kick" "left". Would be entertaining to say the least.
1. Third party USB peripheral controller? The damn thing would be bigger than the phone!
2. The logistics of getting it to work on a keyboard-less phone seems daunting, if not impossible. That goes double if Android doesn't allow for multi-touch without root. /sigh
yeah, that's one of the major obstacles. there's only one button (camera) that's in the right position.
Im downloading the roms to test now. I will update this post shortly. Just wanted claim on the topic :P
Sound is meh, needs an update. im sure he will do this soon.
Chrono Trigger (works w/o sound. force closes w/)
FF2 (works great)
FF3 (works great, but kinda glitchy)
SMRPG (doesnt work ;
Earthbound (works great)
LoZ: LttP (works great, but almost impossible to make it past the first part. its raining and you cant see the ground. had to work from memory to get to the side of the castle, and still couldnt find the bush to lift up to enter the dungeon)
anyway this is all I had time to test since im at work. will test more later.
over all a great app. works better than Gensoid IMO. worth the 3$ just becuase I have the best RPGs ever on my phone - SMRPG ; ;
His NESoid is an excellent app and I've very happy with it. GENsoid is also very good. I only played the free one with Sonic.. but just getting Sonic up and running so smoothly and playing flawlessly is an achievement in itself.
I need to try this one out... then fight the urge (and probably loose) to buy it.
hmmm... there doesn't seem to be a free version yet. And now that I check... it looks like the free versions of Nesoid and Gensoid or gone too! Or am I missing something? I like to try it before I buy it. Although this guy has done great stuff in the past.. I'm tempted to buy it anyways.
Fro... please let me know how it is when you get a chance.
hmmm... there doesn't seem to be a free version yet. And now that I check... it looks like the free versions of Nesoid and Gensoid or gone too! Or am I missing something? I like to try it before I buy it. Although this guy has done great stuff in the past.. I'm tempted to buy it anyways.
Fro... please let me know how it is when you get a chance.
updated OP.
and I was kinda wondering why there wasnt a trial verison of this. I suppose SMW would of been the ideal game for the trial. But at the same time when Gensoid came out I didnt even bother with downloading the trial since I knew how well Nesoid worked.
Nice.. thanks for the update. I'll probably pick this up at some point (I wish I had more space on my phone.. I'm getting low). I'm a little dissappointed to hear about Zelda... because that is that game I was planning on playing the most! I'll probably get it anways though. So many great SNES games out there.
And thanks Swizz for the update on the ROMs.. that makes sense. I was actually surprised when the demo came with a ROM.. I was wondering how he got away with that.
Nice.. thanks for the update. I'll probably pick this up at some point (I wish I had more space on my phone.. I'm getting low). I'm a little dissappointed to hear about Zelda... because that is that game I was planning on playing the most! I'll probably get it anways though. So many great SNES games out there.
And thanks Swizz for the update on the ROMs.. that makes sense. I was actually surprised when the demo came with a ROM.. I was wondering how he got away with that.
dont get me wrong, zelda works great. but when ur dealing with emulators, they dont display the game the same way a consold would. I forget the exact term, but it is not being applied with this emulator for whatever reason.
A good example would be, on SNES emulators for your computer, for the game Final Fantasy 2/4j, when you are in the Cave of Mist, you would have to toggle the option to turn the mist on and off in the cave via the emulator, becuase the emulator could not render the mist the same as a console. thats is what is happenind with zelda, expect you dont have that option with the emulator on Andriod.
if that made any sense lololol.
If can go by memory and manage to get into the dungeon, then the rest of the game should play fine...with the expection of some other areas that make use of rain/fog. like Death Mountian, and the swamp in the dark world are 2 spots that come to mind that might be hard to navigate.
I still have more testing to do, but as luck would have it, it is a very busy day at work.
I tested a few more games out last night. They all worked great w/ and w/o sound. I still can't find a working copy of super mario rpg tho ;;
Mega man x
Mario all stars jp version (better than usa imo)
Zombies ate my neibhors (big props on this one since it would not work on Gensoid)
Super metroid
Tmnt 4
anyone know about rom patches? chrono trigger works, but some of the levels are blacked out, or the backgrounds are in the foreground blocking all the visuals . it seems to be pretty common, ive seen it so far in mario world, super metroid, and chrono trigger. Mario kart also has speed issues, and seems to play in slow motion with the sound on. It plays a lot better without sound though.
anyone know of any patches to fix the problems with the roms? or if patches do fix things.
Last edited by korgoth3; June 13th, 2009 at 05:03 PM.
dont get me wrong, zelda works great. but when ur dealing with emulators, they dont display the game the same way a consold would. I forget the exact term, but it is not being applied with this emulator for whatever reason.
A good example would be, on SNES emulators for your computer, for the game Final Fantasy 2/4j, when you are in the Cave of Mist, you would have to toggle the option to turn the mist on and off in the cave via the emulator, becuase the emulator could not render the mist the same as a console. thats is what is happenind with zelda, expect you dont have that option with the emulator on Andriod.
if that made any sense lololol.
If can go by memory and manage to get into the dungeon, then the rest of the game should play fine...with the expection of some other areas that make use of rain/fog. like Death Mountian, and the swamp in the dark world are 2 spots that come to mind that might be hard to navigate.
I still have more testing to do, but as luck would have it, it is a very busy day at work.
you know what, those are the exact problems i was trying to describe on chrono trigger and super metroid. is there no way around these?
oh yeah, and last thing, the "control pad" or at least the direction buttons will stick sometimes, and keep you going in that direction even after you let go, seems to happen to me about once every few minutes.
but even so, im very happy this app came out. If they fix some of these bugs, this will be the best app out there.
Hi I've got a HTC magic on the way can anyone tell me if it does or will work on this phone...obviously it lacks the physical keypad but i was wondering if you could use it with the phone buttons?!?!?
I have been losing my save states. It seems to happen after the phone loses power but it has also happened at ramdom. Like i saved my game, put the phone down for an hour, picked it up to load a rom and when i hit restore it starts the game from the beginning and my save state is gone anyone else experiencing this???
Some games are unlikely to be emulated (which currently don't work), or if they do get emulation support in the future they'll be unbearingly slow.
Starfox, Super Mario RPG, and both Kirby Games among some other titles I can't remember offhand have their own CPU built into the cartridge, which many people don't know about. Not only would the emulator be emulating the SNES cpu, graphics hardware, and sound processor, but it'd have to emulate the game's built-in CPU as well.
That's why those games don't run right now; the emulator does not support those external processors.
Some games are unlikely to be emulated (which currently don't work), or if they do get emulation support in the future they'll be unbearingly slow.
Starfox, Super Mario RPG, and both Kirby Games among some other titles I can't remember offhand have their own CPU built into the cartridge, which many people don't know about. Not only would the emulator be emulating the SNES cpu, graphics hardware, and sound processor, but it'd have to emulate the game's built-in CPU as well.
That's why those games don't run right now; the emulator does not support those external processors.
If a PC can emulate them, then andriod can as well. Just gotta wait for the devs to figure out how. All in due time.
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I downloaded the lite version and was trying to play some of the old Final Fantasy's. I have the Sprint HTC Hero and the virtual keys are not working and the trackball isn't being recognized as a Dpad. Anyone else having these issues and found a fix?
A SNES Emulator for the G1 Android platform
anyone else experiencing this???
