I was thinking about checking this emulator out to finally (maybe) play FF7. However, when I looked at it in the market, there were a lot of complaints about it not being updated anymore, and some performance/playability issues? Has anyone recently tried it on recently released phones (I have a stock DroidX)?
plays great on my incredible
There are many problems with the emulator. It will only run SOME games okay. The games it runs just seem to be random.
FF7 will work just fine... seems to be an easy game to emulator. However, another simple game like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is unplayable.
Most games are probably unplayable if you like sound. The sound is so bad on most games that you have to mute it.
The list of games that work perfectly is probably under 20... and most of those are games you don't care about
The emulator is no longer supported by the developer. He even made a comment on twitter saying "what needs to be updated?"
The emulator ignores the phones GPU and only runs off of the CPU... so faster phones don't get any performance gain. It also needs a ton of compatibility fixes, as there are so many games that just do not work.
With that being said, if the only game you want to play is FF7, you're in luck! Is it worth the money? Not if you ask me.....
Is there another PS emulator that is better supported, and works with more games?
sfreemanoh said:
Is there another PS emulator that is better supported, and works with more games?
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There is no other PSX emulator
Haven't tried it yet, but grab it quick... emulates 0.37b5 ROM list. Yes, it supports Xperia Play buttons.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.seleuco.mame4all&feature=search_result
Project page: http://code.google.com/p/imame4all/
Nice find. Testing romset now
I prefer this to jrioni, it has a better user interface.
Games run at good speed, just as good as jrioni, and I find the sound better in this.
Still no save states that I can see though.
Posting for tiger kings emulator to own them all. Mame needs save states to be functional imho. I play for 5 minutes at a time at work and can't progress in games without save states.
The good thing about this emulator is that it saves all your high scores. with Jromi you have to manually save and load your high scores.
My Metal Slugs and CPS2 games dont seem to work though.
dsswoosh said:
I prefer this to jrioni, it has a better user interface.
Games run at good speed, just as good as jrioni, and I find the sound better in this.
Still no save states that I can see though.
Posting for tiger kings emulator to own them all. Mame needs save states to be functional imho. I play for 5 minutes at a time at work and can't progress in games without save states.
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They are *arcade* games. They're only meant to be played for 5 minutes at a time. Only purpose for savestates is if you are cheating your way through a game with infinite quarters.
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They are *arcade* games. They're only meant to be played for 5 minutes at a time.
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Totally disagree with this.
Some games take 30+ minutes to beat and complete. Some are even longer taking 1 hour+ to beat.
You forget that this is a mobile device. Which means you are playing games on the move.
People playing on trains, aeorplanes, cars, 10 minute work breaks, sitting at the bus stop, sitting on the toilet (yea i do this ), etc etc etc
You want to continue your game, but at a later date.
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Only purpose for savestates is if you are cheating your way through a game with infinite quarters.
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This sentence makes zero sense if you sit to think about it.
"Infinite Quarters" are there whether you have save states or not
Completing metal slugs, alien vs predator, final fight, street fighter, strider, rampage, ghould n ghosts, heck LOADS of games take ALOT longer than 5 minutes.
If you played ghould n ghosts for 5 minutes at a time, you would forever be playing the first level.
What is the point in that?
Yes, it is inconclusive, save states ARE needed.
However i have some unfortunate news, MAME4ALL will NEVER have save states, since it is based on a version of MAME that doesnt have them either.
Our only hope is to see what magic Tiger King can produce.
Anyway, no disrespect to Jrioni, i was one of the people that loved and bought his version of Mame.
I support him ALL the way.
But this version of Mame i prefer, the UI is superior to Jrioni. And since it is free, there is no need to purchase Jrioni anymore.
Anyone who wants to play Mame games, this is now the best version.
Glad I held off from buying Jrioni now. Was waiting for save states.
This seems better, though without save states as well.
...and to say Save States are not needed on a mobile device is well...I'm not going to get into it again...but its pretty stupid.
Red_Kop said:
Glad I held off from buying Jrioni now. Was waiting for save states.
This seems better, though without save states as well.
...and to say Save States are not needed on a mobile device is well...I'm not going to get into it again...but its pretty stupid.
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does Mame4droid support dip switches?
reason why i ask its pointless playing mame games for me on medium setting, i like to crank the difficulty up on games, otherwise no challenge !
harlzden said:
does Mame4droid support dip switches?
reason why i ask its pointless playing mame games for me on medium setting, i like to crank the difficulty up on games, otherwise no challenge !
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No it doesnt.
Which is quite annoying because i cant change the analog sensitivity for games like Paperboy, which is unplayable on Mame4Droid because he steers to the left all the time.
Jrioni's graphics seem to be a bit better too. Mame4droid is a bit blockier.
Sound and speed works best on Mame4Droid though. And Mame4Droid is far more user friendly in setting up screen sizes etc.
mame4droid support dip switches u can enable it during in games by pressing select+start at the same time will bring up the menu, only the bad side is the graphic blockier but enable smooth graphic the games lag if it can fixed this then this is the best emu u can get for play.
Does the APP comes with roms or do you have to download them if so from where?! does the app run well on the sony play?
Teku
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mame4droid support dip switches u can enable it during in games by pressing select+start at the same time will bring up the menu, only the bad side is the graphic blockier but enable smooth graphic the games lag if it can fixed this then this is the best emu u can get for play.
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Yes!
Dip switches work.
This is hands down the best Mame emulator for Android. The only thing that can top this is save states or support for newer ROM sets.
Guy above. Don't ask for roms here. They are easily findable with any search engine.
for the roms to work with this Emulator what file type do the roms need to be?
It tells you on the market download page
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No it doesnt.
Which is quite annoying because i cant change the analog sensitivity for games like Paperboy, which is unplayable on Mame4Droid because he steers to the left all the time.
Jrioni's graphics seem to be a bit better too. Mame4droid is a bit blockier.
Sound and speed works best on Mame4Droid though. And Mame4Droid is far more user friendly in setting up screen sizes etc.
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I must be doing something wrong because even though sound is a bit better than Jrioni's, this emus is much slower, almost unplayable. So I will stick to Jrioni.
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I must be doing something wrong because even though sound is a bit better than Jrioni's, this emus is much slower, almost unplayable. So I will stick to Jrioni.
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What games are you seeing that are slower?
For instance Three Wonders, and Mortal Kombat 2 does not work. On a second attempt I uninstalled it and downloaded from Market and works fine now.
FYI Three Wonders works perfectly in Tiger Arcade 2.20
I'm trying to put this on my ATT Captivate and I can not get the games to show up on the program. I know that I have the right versions of the games. After installing the program, I checked the SD card to see if a ROMs folder was created. There wasn't any so I created a ROMs/Mame4all/roms folder which didn't help. I tried to move the program to the SD card, but I couldn't see the folder when I put the card in a reader. What am I doing wrong?
Never mind. It was on the phone. I was able to see the folder after plugging the phone directly into the computer.
Has anyone found a good config of settings for this device?
It has the horsepower to run a lot of the game I have tested on it so far I just can't figure out the stuttering sound on most of the games I have run. It is not clipping, more like losing rhythm.
Try changing the sound sampling rate. I believe it has that option. Also make use to use the open gl plugin for improved graphics. It will clean up alot of games and make them look even better than PS original.
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Has anyone found a good config of settings for this device?
It has the horsepower to run a lot of the game I have tested on it so far I just can't figure out the stuttering sound on most of the games I have run. It is not clipping, more like losing rhythm.
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Usually, even if the system is stronger, if the emulator has a bad code, that contradicts the way the game should run, it will studder, and what not.
After about an hour of playing with the setting I figured out the sound issue. I had to turn on the spusync plugin in the sound options what I didn't realize all along was that the emulator had to be restarted for the change to take effect quite unlike the video settings in FPse.
So when using the FPS meter on the Shield , as well as trying out different emulators that I have, I've noticed a few things
1. At the top left when the FPS meter is enabled , the max I have ever seen was 29FPS for an emulator(PPSSPP).
2. I seem to have different issues with streaming, when it comes to emulators
a. When streaming PPSSPP, games run pretty much perfectly. Though i've noticed menu's being slower, in terms of gameplay it seems perfect. Shows 29 FPS for the games I've tried out.
B. When streaming a game like DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3, I get framedrops. This is for Dolphin and PCSX2.
-For the Dolphin version, it'll show 28 FPS at first, and then drop to 25-26 FPS at many points.
-For the PCSX2 version, it'll show between 19-20 FPS. But have framedrops in the gameplay
- FOR PCSX2, when I stream a game like Infinite World, and SMT Nocturne it seems to run great however(they both show 20FPS on the meter, but for some reason I can't notice a huge performance hit when it comes to those games). For anyone who isn't aware, IW is a DBZ 2d fighting game, and SMT is an RPG.
3. The basic thing is this. Are certain games from emulators subject to not having perfect or good experiences for streaming? Is it normal to not see anything past 29-30FPS when it comes to streaming emulators? Because if I stream PC games, I can see higher than 30FPS. But when I set the option for 60FPS and the bitrate, for emulators I've never seen it go higher than 29-30FPS
Or could this be some type of bug I only have? Any Shield Owners here who stream emulators, can put in their input? For anyone who doesn't know how the FPS meter shows, I believe you just press the Shield screen twice with 2 fingers, when Gamestreaming.
My set up is a laptop with a GTX660m. Using ethernet.5ghz. No slowdowns on the laptop when gamestreaming, only on the Shield.
The emulator is at fault. All emulators are slow even when played directly on a PC. There are so many computations being done not just for the game but to emulate the device the game is played on that it is almost mind boggling. Emulation has always been faulty and iffy at best on even the highest end PC's now add to that you are pushing that across a wireless stream and you compound the issue even more.
Having no problems here streaming PCSX2 to Shield with a GTX770,
streaming Final Fantasy XII and even God of War 2 at constant 60fps with no probs.
Your mobile GPU might be the problem that bottlenecks the Emulator while streaming.