ZSNES board

Anyway I would not go for a VIA. Performance /Watt cannot match those of the core architecture.

After some googling, I saw some sites including AMD's that claim that AMD is the best about perf/watt...

Interresting topic...

As I recall, VIA bought Cyrix from Texas Instruments and turned it into a heatsink less CPU.

Cyrix was the worst CPU I could remember, along with the IDT Winchip...

I don't know if their performance raised with VIA. I do beleive they are no Athlon or P4 though...

Well count me out... It works now. And it's nothing related to zsnes or drivers sb emu etc... I have two IBM ThinkPad laptops. a 380d and a 380z. They both have the same sound hardware and they both have hardware that get messed up with time. or something like that i really have no clue. All I had t...

yes sound has always been an issue in dos, regardless of the game. But what I would like to understand is why it used to work in zsnes, and then at some point, stopped. I mean yes its dos sound supprt has never been very good but how (and when) did it get worst? Unless it has gotten better but just ...

BUMP! I'm having this trouble right now. I'm on a laptop so i can'T really change the soundcard ;) But i'm pretty sure that if I get an earlier version of zsnes, i'll get my sound back. snes9x and Out Of This World play fine and with sound so heh ;) But I was wondering... What happened? Why did the ...

By reading documentations, you acquire knowledge.

With that in mind, i wrote:

ZSnes is obviously not intented for people with no computer knowledge.

Plus if your TV isn't set properly, slight differences in colour may not be noticable (for instance, the hidden tunnels in FF2). anyway, Chances are it's supposed to be like that. the color difference is so slight that theres no way anybody would be able to notice it on a TV made in 1992 I run ZSne...

IMO, Windows XP Home Edition is meant for the most ignorant of mankind. So, following its patern, I would suggest putting wizards and popup helps everywhere. This, I think, is perfect for those ignorant people. But it is not for me, and neither of you too. This crappy stuff is annoying and frustrati...

or just "read the manual page 900"

Or put a warning that they are betas. I may be wrong, but the last thing I know about that is that ZSnes actually is a beta. I have read this somewhere in a doc. long ago though... As for myself, my questions went either not answered, flamed or both. I think because they were too specific, not wort...

I just want to basically get an idea of how Linux is viewed in recent times among technical people who were originally DOS/Windows users. I needed a fast OS for a Web Server and other wide and local network tasks. So I chose Debian for my server. Running in a wardrobe with only a lan card in it. Fo...

Changed some settings in the BIOS and nothing changed. I did some tests with my SB128 PCI. I took no chance and I downloaded the latest driver from creative's website. No more hissing noise! But, I can hear some slight crackling, whatever the sound config. I first thought it could just be that way. ...

As for his computer... i would say that a k6-2 450 is enough to run most games at a fairly acceptable speed. I used to have a k6-2 350 with 96 Mb of ram and it ran games pretty well, and I was using a DOS version under Win9X. IIRC, with each new version of Zsnes, the requirements to run it at an ac...

As for his computer... i would say that a k6-2 450 is enough to run most games at a fairly acceptable speed.

I used to have a k6-2 350 with 96 Mb of ram and it ran games pretty well, and I was using a DOS version under Win9X.

You will not find how to get games inside the docs, and you will not here either.

Games for ZSnes are called ROMs and if you look carefuly, it's written everywhere not to ask for them.

Just to save you from some rudeness...

I get the same "shhhhhhhh" noise under the DOS version, and no difference wether the "force 8 bit sound" is on or not. Oh and it doesn't happend when playing a WAV file in windows (neither in Snes9X like I said earlier). Edit: Just one question... Can we assume, considering the n...

Like I said I tried with three different sound cards: 2 from creative and one from uhm... AOpen Crystal.

I'll try to find out a WDM driver for one of those three.

I'll try to keep things as cheap as possible as we are talking about a dedicated nes/snes machine plugged on my TV

Something is obviously not quite right. Can we at least assume that the actual ZSNES software sound bufer which is fed to DirectSound is always correct regardless of primary or secondary buffer use? How can we tell... Nonetheless, I agree my own particular problem does not reside there and Secondar...

Nah, the size of the buffer doesn't fix the problem but using the primary buffer does... The problem with primary buffer in ZSnes is that the sound lags to the game. I may be way wrong here, but i think it's zsnes' way to handle the primary buffer's small size. I haven't scatered the whole sources t...

Too much anger in this thread...

Surprised?

When creating a primary buffer, applications must set the dwBufferBytes member to zero. DirectSound will determine the best buffer size for the particular sound device in use. To determine the size of a created primary buffer, call IDirectSoundBuffer8::GetCaps. If i looked far enough in the sources...

I tried with the oldest ZSnes version on the official site (1.20) and I got the same hissing sound, even with large sound buffer and interpolation settings.

I tried with Snes9X. I don't have the hissing sound in it.

I'll admit that when I first got Zsnes and looked around for the configuration options and stuff, the menus weren't arranged as intuitively as I thought they could have been. Took me a while to figure out how the hell to set up the controls, too. :P One of my friends had also been obsessively using...

As he didn't reply at all, I think he got his problem solved. Must have been something right in his face... as usual..

MonkeyforaHead wrote:Heh, I wonder how my 486 (33 MHz, 8 MB RAM) would handle Zsnes. But at the moment I can't be bothered digging it up to check.

I think you would lose 5 minutes of your life