Author Topic: Pico Drive seems way faster then NESEMU and SNES9X...  (Read 2793 times)

keithj202 (OP)

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Pico Drive seems way faster then NESEMU and SNES9X...
« on: November 10, 2009, 11:48:02 pm »
Is it just me?  How can we get these other emulators to run as good as Pico Drive.  I mean the NES emulator should have no problem right?


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Re: Pico Drive seems way faster then NESEMU and SNES9X...
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2009, 12:50:16 am »
Is it just me?  How can we get these other emulators to run as good as Pico Drive.  I mean the NES emulator should have no problem right?



It's not really that simple. NES should run fine, and it does (I haven't tried NESEMU in a while. It didn't work that well when I used it though. On the other hand, nofrendo works very well). Genesis/Mega Drive is generally easier to emulate than the SNES though.

Additionally, Picodrive is a very well optimized Mega Drive emulator, specifically optimized for ARM and MIPS processors, with years of development behind it. Snes9x also has a lot of development behind it, but it's development specific to Dingoo's MIPS processor and hardware hasn't gone on that long. It'll be a while until Snes9x works as well as picodrive, if that's even possible.

keithj202 (OP)

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Re: Pico Drive seems way faster then NESEMU and SNES9X...
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2009, 01:00:23 am »
Does Nofrendo work with sound on?  I haven't figured that out yet.

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Re: Pico Drive seems way faster then NESEMU and SNES9X...
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2009, 12:27:04 pm »
in fact, Snes is a little mor complex than megadrive...

and to fully optimise the snes9x you'll probably need to rewrite a good ammount of program code lines...

tough work and no one pays for it.

do someone wants to offer a "bounty" for a fully optimised snes emulator?

codiak

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Re: Pico Drive seems way faster then NESEMU and SNES9X...
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2009, 01:48:40 pm »
Does Nofrendo work with sound on?  I haven't figured that out yet.

Nofrendo has no sound support.

keithj202 (OP)

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Re: Pico Drive seems way faster then NESEMU and SNES9X...
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2009, 08:43:17 pm »
So as of right now,  the best NES emulator out there for the Dingoo is the native one,  correct?