Emulators Used In Commercial Games

**chrisrulz555** · August 11th, 2006, 05:03

God I wish there was a gba game released on psp using a gba emu that we could rip and run all gba roms full speed :P

**GobboFett** · August 11th, 2006, 06:22

Originally Posted by SSaxdude

I think the Sonic collection must be emulation, because it runs slow on the Gamecube.

Yes, the Sonic Mega Collection uses emulation to run, can you imagine how UNBELIVEBLY FAST it would run if the games were played off the GCN/PS2 hardware?

And what do you mean by slow? It runs perfectly fast off my Gamecube, faster than my SMD actually. Maybe you haven't set your cube to 60Hz?

**thetree222** · August 11th, 2006, 07:40

well, the big use of emulators on a console currently would be playing xbox games on an xbox 360. man, for the most part it runs fine, but then, like five covenant go flying from a grenade and it hits a brick wall, slows down, gathers its brains from the wreckage, and speeds back up. it sucks when you're making a jump, and next thing you know, your face is in the snow at the bottom of the cliff... sorry for the rambling...

**Junior** · August 11th, 2006, 10:08

Originally Posted by lucidtraveller

in "day of the tentacle" You could play the original "maniac mansion" on commodore 64, i think it was emulation and seems incredibly primitive when it is done (sound comes from "pc speaker")

That is not emulation.

It's simply the PC version of the game. Just so you know, there exist 2 PC versions of the game. EGA Low-res - like the C64, and EGA high-res. When that conversion was made, PC speaker sound was the only sound option available aside from overly expensive addon cards that too few people had installed to be considered for support in the game.

**Tzvi** · August 12th, 2006, 02:49

I know that Shenmue for the Dreamcast had several emulated arcade games on it. I distinctly remember playing Space Harrier.

Out Run 2 for the XBox has the original Out Run as a hidden game. I assume that this is an emulator, as porting it over wouldn't make much sense.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time included the original PoP as an unlockable. I have no idea what the source of this version was. It may have been a port, or it could be emulating a console that PoP was released for.

--Tzvi

**gxb** · August 16th, 2006, 13:06

It is proved by Lonwern and me that the collection of gunstar hero (PS2) used the emu .We have hacked the emu to support other games and found that the compatible was quite poor .Few games could run without sound while most Genesis games could not. The graphic is good(480P).Here are some pictures that we used the emu to support other games.

Here's the original post in Chinese.
http://bbs.a9vg.com/read.php?tid=430...toread=&page=5

**NoQuarter** · August 16th, 2006, 13:43

Interesting thread!
If companies were using open source software in their emu's this could spell trouble for them,since they would be forced to share their source code or face legal action.