Game Emulation How-To Links

[Felson]

Just building a list of links to How-Tos for emulation for various systems. This list isn't complete, so I am looking for input/opinions. No flame wars though please. I have NOT tested all these emulators personally, so some in this list may just be junk/dead. I am mostly trying to make it a list of native Linux emulators. I made an exception for the 2 pc98 ones, because there simply isn't any Linux ones I know of, and they are almost flawless in WINE. Also, do not ask about ROM's, ISOs or BIOS images in this thread. I am trying to make a useful list for everyone, and I would rather it not get deleted. Besides, no one will answer those questions here.

Nintendo Entertainment System
FakeNes (S)
ROCKnes (S)
FCEUX (S) (How-To)
GFCEU (S) (Repositories)
Nestra (S) (Repositories)
TuxNes (S)
NEStopia (S)

Game Boy/Game Boy Advance
TuxBoy (S)
Virtual GBA (S)
Visual Boy Advance (S)
Boycott Advance (S)

Super Nintendo
ZSNES (S) (How-To)
Snes9x (S) (GTK How-To) (Repositories)
BSnes (S)

N64
Mupen64 (S) (How-To)

Nintendo DS
DeSmuME (S) (Repositories)
iDeaS (S)

Sega Master System/Game Gear
SMS Plus (S)
Dega (S)
Osmose (S)
MasterGear (S)

Sega Genesis/Sega CD
Gens (S) (How-To)
DGen (S) (Repositories)

Sega Saturn
Yabause (S)

Playstation 1
ePSXe (S) (How-To:2)
PCSX (S) (How-To)
PSX (S) (How-To)

Playstation 2
PCSX2 (S)

Neo Geo
GnGeo (S)

Atari Jaguar
Virtual Jaguar (S) (How-To)

Commodore (Pre Amiga. eg Vic-20/C64 plus more)
VICE (S)(How-To) (Repositories)

Commodore Amiga
UAE (S) (Repositories)

Atari 2600
Stella (S)(How-To)(Repositories)

DOS
DosBox (S) (How-To:2)

PC98
Anex86 (S) (No good English howtos I could find. It's a winblows app, so you will need to run it/install it with wine. Runs HD images, but for some reason it won't do floppy images.)
T98-Next (S) (No good english howtos. Another winblows app. Installs and runs with wine. This one will run floppy images and hd images, but it has no english localization. Also, the window isn't resizable, so you can't run fullscreen.)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Fuse (S)

Multi
XE (S) (How-To) (famicom (nes), gameboy, gamegear, mark3, megadrive (Genesis), neocd, neogeo, neopocket, pcengine (TurboGrafx), sg1000, superfamicom (SNES), wonderswan)
Mess (S) (Repositories) (to many to list. Everything from soup to nuts.)
MAME (S) (How-To) (Repositories) (to many to list. All arcade related.)
Mednafen (S) (Repositories) (NES, Atari Lynx, GameBoy, PC Engine (TurboGrafx 16), PC-FX, SuperGrafx, NeoGeo Pocket, WonderSwan, SMS, Game Gear)
Raine (S) (Multi arcade)
OldSpark (S) (Multi arcade)

[jondecker76]

Nice thread

I just started a new application a few weeks ago that is going to make the emulation front a lot easier in Ubuntu. Hopefully in about a month I'll have a beta ready.

I haven't named the application yet, but its going to be a universal interface for all supported ubuntu emulators - a front end for launching roms, configuration of individual emulators and even going as far as letting the user know if they need a bios image with an interface to upload them to the correct location.
So far I have mednafen fully supported and I'm going to be adding support for each emulator one at a time. As there are multiple emulators that support the same system, there will also be a setting where a user can specify which emulator to use to open specific ROM types. This thread will definitely be a great help for me to support as many emulators as possible.

I'll be setting up a launchpad site as soon as I get some free time. After I'm finished I want to learn packaging and get on the MOTU team and work on providing this application as well as packaging as many emulators as possible. If anybody is interested in helping, please PM me.

Some others to add to your list:
gngeo - Neo Geo
raine - various arcade
mastergear - sega master system
virtual jaguar - atari jaguar (runs a few games)

[Felson]

Sweet. can't wait.

Added the emulators you listed to the list. Also, if you have any links to Linux How-Tos for any of them, that would be awesome. They don't need to be from here.

[Incense]

Thanks for the list!

[Sockerdrickan]

Don't forget GameBoy *hint hint*

[cogadh]

One of the mods really should sticky this one, way too many people are going to find it useful.

[Felson]

@Tux0r I "think" all the "Nintendo Entertainment System" emulators do GameBoy as well.... Adding it to that line.

Edit:
LOL sorry. Just saw you are responsible for TuxBoy. Added. Does it do NES as well? Or just GameBoy? So I can note that on the list.

[Felson]

ok, Looks like I was wrong. The NES emulators do not emulate Game Boy or Game Boy Advanced. If there are exceptions, let me know. Section separated.

[Sockerdrickan]

Some emulators are weird to integrate others into them lol yes. It's not very common though.

[Felson]

For some reason I thought that GameBoy/NES was the same as SMS/Game Gear. Doesn't seem to be the case though.