Here is a list of the file formats that I use within emulators, I prefer compressed files when possible as it saves on disk space. Generation System Best File Format Home Computer ZX Spectrum 7z Commodore 64 7z Amstrad CPC 7z Amiga 500 LHA Portable Game Boy 7z Game Boy Advance 7z Nintendo DS 7z Sony PSP CSO but don’t always work 3rd Atari 7800 7z Sega Master System 7z NES 7z 4th Sega Megadrive 7z SNES 7z 5th Sega…
Ares is a great multi-system emulator supporting a wide range of retro machines. It’s not obvious what file formats are supported though, so here’s a list: atari-2600 a26, bin bs-memory bs colecovision cv, col famicom-disk-system fds game-boy-advance gba game-boy-color gb, nbc game-boy gb game-gear gg master-system ms, sms mega-32x 32x mega-cd cue, chd mega-drive md, smd, gen, bin msx msx, wav msx2 msx2, wav myvision miv neo-geo-pocket-color ngpc, ngc neo-geo-pocket nap neo-geo ng nintendo-64 n64, v64, z64 nintendo-64dd n64dd, ndd…
I had issues with my Dell Optiplex 3050 micro PC not booting via UEFI into Batocera Linux. When trying to boot, I was stuck on a black screen with the message “Booting Batocera.linux” but the system wouldn’t continue to boot. If I switched the Dell Optiplex BIOS to use “Legacy” boot then it worked, but then the PC wouldn’t recognise other OS installations if I swapped out Batocera, and I didn’t want to have to keep fiddling with the BIOS…
Here are a few emulators that I’ve found that are easy to install on a standard installation of Raspberry Pi OS (formerly known as Raspbian). To install them, use the following command: – sudo apt install <package-name> Without further ado, here’s the list: – fuse-emulator-gtk – ZX Spectrum osmose-emulator – Sega Master System / Game Gear stella – Atari 2600 openmsx – MSX nestopia – NES desmume – Nintendo DS dosbox – DOS yabause – Sega Saturn mame – MAME…
Its quite easy to install a ZX Spectrum emulator on the Anbernic RG350. Here’s what I did: – Download the “Unreal Speccy” emulator from here: unreal_speccy_portable.opk Remove the external Micro SD card from your RG350 Copy this file into the /apps folder of your external Micro SD card Copy your Spectrum games into /roms/zxspectrum After you’ve re-inserted your Micro SD card, boot up your RG350 and it should be there in the “Emulators” tab You can bring up an on-screen…
Emulation is hardware or software that allows one computer system to behave like another. In the world of retro gaming this means that a newer more powerful system can pretend to be an older console or computer and old software can be loaded. Emulators for various old games platforms are available to run on different systems – Windows, macOS, even in web browsers. Alternatively, full retro gaming setups containing multiple emulators can be used, such as Batocera for PC’s, or…
The best ZX Spectrum emulator that I found for macs is Fuse for macOS. The latest version of Fuse for macOS is 1.5.6 which was released in August 2019. Even though this is a little old, it seems to work fine in 64-bit only macOS Catalina. All of the main ZX spectrum versions are available, from 16K, 48K, 128K, +2, +3, together with some more unusual versions. (Pentagon 1024K anyone?)