nes emulator

[acejones]

i've got a bunch of nes games. i'd like to be able to play them legally in ubuntu, but i'm having problems finding an emulator and roms. any help?

[aysiu]

zsnes is in Synaptic (you may have to enable extra repositories). If you don't know how to use Synaptic, see the second link in my sig. If you need extra repositories, follow these instructions:

http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories

(don't put in the backports, though)

[acejones]

cool. got zsnes, but the rom i downloaded is a .nes file and zsnes didn't read it. what extension am i looking for?

[smack]

z'snes' ? Does that do nes?

[kerm]

I think he wants to play the older 8-bit NES games not the SuperNES ones. Unless there has been a recent update, I don't think ZSNES plays the older 8-bit games.

fceu can though and it can be obtained by using 'apt-get'. But since developement on fceu has stopped you may want to try mednafen instead and it can emulate a lot of different systems.

http://mednafen.fobby.net]

[BoyOfDestiny]

I made a build of mednafen (a little behind the latest)

http://www.safaribans.com/gpl/mednafen-0.3.2.tar.bz2
http://www.safaribans.com/gpl/mednafen_0.3.2-1_i386.deb

It's built in breezy with the 2.6.12 kernel, but might work for you.

Also, if you play some snes, which zsnes is for, I have a nice cvs build that can play star ocean and mario kart etc etc (that the one in the ubuntu repository can't/has trouble with since it's over 2 years old!)

[irish rebel]

Okay as long as you own the games use synaptic to get fceu I like it as a nes emulator, get yourroms from wherever it is you get them, and have fun, if you have sega roms use dgen as a emulator.Again thru synaptic ......