. . .Console Emulation. . .

[slacker_x]

I am interested in video game emulation under linux. I did a search for packages in debian and I found the following:
xmame- arcade emulator
ines- nes emulator
nestra- nes emulator
zsnes- snes emulator
snes9x- snes emulator

My machine is a PII 350 with 224 megs of ram.

Which of the above emulators will run smoothly on my machine?

What are your experiences with the emulators I have listed?

What are some good emulation web sites? By good I mean that they host roms rather than linking to other sites and the pages aren't filled with deceptive advertising and run by l337 twelve year olds.

[yard21]

Snes9x runs really smooth on my Athlon 550, 128 MB RAM. There's also a GUI, snes9express, for it, which makes it more comfortable to use.

[ 08 August 2001: Message edited by: beamy ]

[slacker_x]

I'm still not confident that my computer will be able to handle snes emulation. A 550 athlon is a fair bit more power than a 350 PII

[yard21]

I would just try it out. I don't think that SNES-Emulation takes THAT much power.

[lilrabbit129]

I haven't had much experience with Emulation in Lkinux, but i do know that i used to run snes9x on win on a P1 200mhx mmx with no problem