ZSNES board

Specs:

P4 1.6 GHz
512 MB RAM
S3 SuperSavage/IXC 1179 w/ 16 MB vid RAM

I have tried both DR and DS modes and the results are about the same. In regard to special filters, I haven't played with that at all and have everything set to the default.

If your video card is integrated to the mobo, that's where the problem lies. That's weird. It seems like I remember running ZSNES full screen back in the day on an eMachines desktop with an integrated 4 MB video card. Anyway, yeah it's integrated, but I wouldn't think the hardware requirements of r...

This is one of the few "I told you so" moments. You would have never been able to maximize the overclock on ancient Pentiums... the best you can do is a slight one. Well, as mentioned, you can definitely do it. I know of many people who have gone from 166 MHz to 266. That's a 2/3 jump! If...

I'm sorry to announce that I have apparently killed my Libretto during the overclocking operation. If I can find one on eBay for parts that has a good mobo then I can switch them out and resurrect it but for now it's a paperweight, unfortunately.

So for some reason if I run ZSNES at anything above the standard 640x480 everything becomes choppy as hell. This is on a 1.6 GHz P4, 512 MB RAM, 16 MB video RAM. I've tried pretty much every video mode for both 800x600 and 1024x768 my frame rate drops from 60 FPS to 3-4 FPS. Any ideas on this? It's ...

sweener2001 wrote:GAMING DISCUSSION

Directly related to my experience with ZSNES.

Just curious as to everyone's opinion on where the border lies between playable and unplayable frame rates. As I mentioned in another thread, my PC runs games at around 4-5 FPS (unplayable) with the sound on and 14-16 FPS with the sound turned off (which I found to be playable). What does everyone e...

Gil: Well I stand corrected, sir. I do apologize. And thank you for your thorough explanation there. I still can't say I fully understand it, but that was certainly an interesting read. As far as what I know of MIDI, most of my ideas come two experiences. Several years ago I downloaded a "MIDI ...

Gil_Hamilton wrote: *twitch*
IT'S NOT MIDI! IT'S NOT EVEN RELATED!

Well whatever. You know what I mean. That blippy shit. Maybe you should explain the difference.

When you are running a game, hit F1.. there will be a menu for what you are looking for. Okay, thanks for the tip here. I took a few minutes to experiment a bit with Megaman and it looks like with the sound on I'm usually getting around 5-6 FPS, with it sometimes dropping as low as 4. Without sound...

Gil: Yeah, I did a bit of research on the SET BLASTER command and I'm sure my formatting was correct. I looked in device manager and the address and IRQ seemed correct. DMA was listed as both 00 and 03 so I tried D0 and D3 as settings but no luck on either of them. Perhaps it has something to do wit...

Deathlike2: Thanks for the info. I will link into the links you mentioned. By the way, how does one determine what their FPS rate is when running games in ZSNES? I never have been into PC games . . . always been more of a console guy . . . so I'm a little ignorant on this issue. But I hear a lot of ...

adventure_of_link wrote:DOS doesn't support USB, PERIOD. you need an OS which understands USB in order for it to work.

Well that's gay. It seems they would've added USB support in DOS 7+. From what I understand FreeDOS has limited USB support.

Okay, well I added the SET BLASTER entry to AUTOEXEC but just get a message from ZSNES that says, "SET BLASTER environment NOT found!" I tried a few different settings, from those recommended above, to slight modifications based on what I found in Device Manager, but no go. On another note...

Google it. In Windows, check the resources used for the sound card.. it would look like "Address 220, IRQ 5, DMA 1" for the resources (System Properties->Device Manager)... Try: SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 That should get you by. If a DOS app needs to be loaded for the laptop's sound to work, ...

In your case, though... it's probably the lack of a BLASTER variable. I did a bit of research on editing autoexec.bat but one thing I can't figure out is what the variable is supposed to be set to. How would one find this information? On a side note, a lot of people have been successful at overcloc...

SoundBlaster-compatible means so many things to so many people. If it's not an ISA card, expect more trouble than it's worth. We're talking about an onboard Yamaha OPL3 SA3 in a '98 Toshiba Libretto 100CT. As far as it being "SB Compatible," I say it is only because Toshiba's documentatio...

adventure_of_link wrote:did you set the SET BLASTER= variable in the autoexec.bat file?

I'm afraid not. I do know a little about DOS basics, but I was really getting into computing just as DOS was on the way out. (Think late 3.11 era.) So I really have no idea what you're talking about.

Try v1.36. If your using Windows ME, 98 or 95 then use the DOS version of the emulator and make sure you use a 16bit resolution setting (for transparencies.) Thanks for the suggestion. I seem to be having an issue with the DOS version, however. It doesn't seem to be detecting my soundcard even thou...

franpa wrote:what version? newer versions of ZSNES need higher requirements due to more accurate emulation amongst other things.

I downloaded the current version. Should I download an older version? Is there one you suggest?

I'm running a P166, 64MB RAM, 2MB video RAM. I know that falls just short of the stated requirements, but I've heard of people running it on less so I figured I'll give it a shot. So far I've attempted to run Mega Man X and Star Fox. And they'll both run . . . and they'll run ALMOST good enough. But...