Sony and Nintendo Make the Emulators of the Year ?

[wraggster]

The Homebrew and Emulation Scene has seen some great Emulators over the years, Snes9X, Zsnes, Mame (in all its versions), Bleem, Ultrahle, Project64, Chankast.

Those Emulators have brought many thousands to the Homebrew and Emulation Arena, since those emulators have come and gone we havent had the buzz of a killer emulator since then.

That is until the last few months, the might of Sony and Nintendo have jumped into the Emulation Scene with their own emulators for the PSP and Nintendo Wii.

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Sonys PS1 Emulator
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Sony who using bullyboy tactics killed of Bleem and VGS have released what is the best emulator easily of the last year. The Playstation Emulator works at full speed with sound and decent controls in a widescreen on the Playstation Portable. The Emulator is being released in a single game format with PSX Games on the PS Network Shop. Luckily for the Homebrew Scene, Dark Alex released a custom firmware that opened up the emulator and now thousands of PSP Homebrew fans are enjoying all their favourite PSOne games in both NTSC and PAL format. Just about every game is perfect.

So well done Sony, for a company who hates emulators you have made the best one so far.

Nintendo`s Emulators for Wii
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The Nintendo Wii is an amazing console, not as powerful as the PS3 and Xbox360 but so unique it is gathering fans from all over the globe.

The Virtual Console is an awesome way to buy your favourite classic games and relive the best years of gaming.

For this Nintendo has written some excellent emulators for the Wii, So far we have Snes, Nes, PC Engine, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64 and within the next few months NeoGeo and MSX.

Nintendo have done what most homebrew coders take years to do and thats get fullspeed emulators for the consoles mentioned above and with that in mind have dealt the homebrew community a major blow. Most Homebrewers love Emulators and with Nintendo covering most of the best systems already the need to write emulators for the Wii lessens.

Conclusion
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It feels strange as a fan of Homebrew and Emulators for over 12 years to be thanking Sony and Nintendo. But this year they deserve all the thanks from all corners of the emulation scene for the best emulators released in the last year.

Thanks Again Sony and Nintendo

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Do you agree or disagree with this article, answer via comments.

[kcajblue]

Nintendo`s Emulators for Wii was a better idea than the PS1 Emulator for the PSP.

[Broadus]

The PS1 emulator is only good because of the custom firmware that lets anyone play any PS1 game on the PSP without having to pay for them, though Sony had intended to sell limited amounts of overpriced games that could only be bought via PS3.
When I say overpriced, I mean more than zero dollars.
You have to pay for every last emulated game on the Wii, but I'm not sure of how much they cost or what games they're selling so far.

[joshisposer]

Well, for the Wii, the games range i think from like 4-10$. The older consoles like nintendo and crap are like 4. SNES and genesis are like 5/6$. This goes all the way up to N64 at a whopping 10$.
Now, compare that to around 5-7$ for a playstation game.

[DarthPaul]

Bluh...bull****. PSP owns! PSP can play all of that. SNES at full speed,NES at full speed,NG4 almost full speed and even more consoles at full speed. PSP is the bomb. And the best of all is that it's a handheld and we can play all emulators for free.

[aries2k4]

So true, the psp is a great portable device for emulation.
I´m curious how the Wii emu´s work though. Can you play your own roms or will it only work though download?

[acn010]

wait wait wait.. wii plays genesis elso?????
omg......... im really gonne buy it

[Basil Zero]

PSP can play all the listed emu that the wii can play except for the N64(full), besides the PS1 games are classic

SNES Emu + PS1 Emu + PSP= PRICELESS

[Anger]

i completly agree they have done amazing things with each of there respective hardware, however the pricing is an issue to me and the fact you cant get a discount (or freebie) if you own the actual game cart/disk/whatever is a big let down, and in fact is the only one.

[Veskgar]

Nintendo`s Emulators for Wii was a better idea than the PS1 Emulator for the PSP.

Looking at your statement from a homebrew perspective I'd say you were insane.

While the quantity and future potential of even more emulators on the Wii is impressive, it could hardly be considered a replacement for PSP homebrew. Hell, with gpSP you can even play 85-90% of GBA games on the PSP. I don't even think the Wii has a GBA Emulator.

And I don't know how anyone could not be excited about PS1 capabilities with Dark_AleX's 3.xx OE firmware.

But this article is not about homebrew necessarily, its about SONY & Nintendo's efforts in emulation. I'm not sure its really fair to compare a handheld to a console, but SONY did seem to poorly plan how they rolled out PS1 gaming on the PSP. For people who have no clue about homebrew it is indeed far more convenient to use the Wii's virtual console.

So for regular Joe consumers who are not technically inclined or are in the dark about PSP homebrew, the Nintendo Wii would be more attractive if one is looking for a way to relive the classics.