Question about multicarts (sort of)

[UglyJoe]

Oh, forgot what forum I was in.  You probably don't care about accuracy.

It's PC/Linux only, afaik, there might be other ports out there, though.

[FamicomFreak]

You can rip it and all but it's not that easy to place it on a cart. I have tried it before with a friend so good luck and if you do I'll get one of the repros!

[nintendodork]

I wasn't going to do it myself, seeing as I have absolutely no experience in that kind of stuff, so I was just gonna send the ROM to gamereproductions and have it done there...I'll need to find a cheaper alternative for Pandamar.  There's no way I'm spending $30 on that!...


Actually, I forgot I had money, I think I may just get a PowerPak.

[FamicomFreak]

Yeah do that. I tried it with mario 8, SMW, and others that could be worth making a repro of and they all failed. There is something about the code that makes them unreproducible

[UglyJoe]

Actually, I forgot I had money, I think I may just get a PowerPak.

Pandamar will work on a PowerPak, but I'm 99% certain that SMW won't.

[nintendodork]

Yeah, you're probably right.  I could check the mapper in Nestopia, but when I *obtained* the SMW file, it automatically opened in VirtuaNES, and whenever I try and right click and click "Open with" and select Nestopia, it doesn't show up, and just opens it in VirtuaNES

[Blue Protoman]

Oh, forgot what forum I was in.  You probably don't care about accuracy.

It's PC/Linux only, afaik, there might be other ports out there, though.

I still don't know what you mean by accuracy in an emulator.  The method I play it?  I have a USB gamepad.

[UglyJoe]

Accuracy refers to how accurately it emulates the NES hardware and cartridge hardware.  Most emulators (FCE* included) are more concerned with getting the games to play at all, and not so much concerned with acting exactly like the real hardware.  This mindset is a holdover from the 486/Pentium I days when it was infeasible for an emulator to be 99% accurate.  They had to sacrifice accuracy for speed so that they would run at all on the hardware they had.

This is more of an issue in the rom hacking scene, since you have hacks that will work in emulator X, but not on the real hardware, because the emulator is not being accurate.

Nestopia and Nintendulator are considered accurate emulators (not that they're 100% accurate, but their goal is to be as accurate as possible -- these are as close as it gets).

[Blue Protoman]

Ah.  So, accuracy includes slowdown, flicker, and everything.  Emulation is more complex than I thought.  Yeah, I prefer being able to play the games over accuracy.

[133MHz]

But for being able to play weird pirate games, you need as much accuracy as you can get .

[Blue Protoman]

Dammit.  Those emus are for PC, and my laptop is broken beyond repair.

[nintendodork]

Unless you have the Homebrew Channel and a lot of patience, I'm afraid you're going to be without an emulator.

[Blue Protoman]

No, I'm against homebrew and piracy on consoles with upgradeable firmware.  Brick potential.

[133MHz]

Does that mean you like your homebrew and piracy on consoles w/o upgradeable firmware? So you like soldering modchips and replacing BIOSes huh?

[Blue Protoman]

No, that means I'd rather use my GP2X, PC, or Dreamcast.