The most important features of this emulator are its ability to upscale games making them look a lot better than on a PS1. This emulator is very mature and supports all games for PS1 but that isnt the best part of the emulator. I have been a fan of ePSXe for many years and first played classics such as FF8 on this emulator, and I have to say it doesn't disapoint. DirectX 7 compatable video card Links Site: Compatable with a lot of games and gets good speed. This emulator wins top spot for N64 due to its large support for games, its features and the fact its still in development after several years. Like many emulators, Project64 goes far beond the orginal with many tools to make the games look better, including 16x anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering.Īnother important feature is it supports texture packs so if the community creates a high definition texture pack for a game you will be able to import it to make the game look amazing. With another estimated 10% that work but with problems. Wikipedia quotes around 75-80% of games are compatible and will play almost perfectly. Project64 is a mature emulator, it has been around for years and is still being worked on to this date.ĭue to this it is compatable with many games and works quite well with those that it is compatable with.
GPU with 32MB VRAM and latest drivers supporting DirectX9 Links Site: 700 MHz CPU+ for GBA emulation, more if filters or other improvements are enabled Good compatability with the games Recommended System Requirements Overall this emulator plays alot of games with near perfect speeds and thats why its my top pick for GBA/GBC/GB. VBA-M has many features such as cheats, video recording, and savestate with its most notable being Turbo allowing you to speed the game up greatly allowing you for instance to easily train pokemon quickly.Īlso really interesting feature is JoyBus which allows you to connect this emulator to dolphin for games like Four Swords Advanced which use the gameboy advance as a controller.
VBA-M is a merge project of the many previous versions of VBA and so is very compatable and plays almost all gameboy, gameboy color and gameboy advanced games you can throw at it making it a perfect platform to play all your old portable games. This emulator is a one stop shop for all your portable console games, or more importantly pokemon. GameBoy & GameBoy Advanced Emulator: VBA-M Review
Your CPU needs to support SSE2, Pixel Shader 2.0 running Windows XP or higher
Lots of supported games and many run at near full speed Recommended System Requirements
Works with x360 pads and Wii controllers
Other advantages of this emulator is that it supports xbox360 controllers and with a bluetooth dongle you can use official wii controllers, making it a perfect Wii emulator.ĭuring my testing of Dolphin I managed to get Ledgend of Zelda Twilight Princess to run at 100% speed on my i5-2450M with HD integrated graphics and I couldn't see any graphical glitches or hear any wrong audio so any fairly new mid range hardware should easily run games. It started out as just a gamecube emulator but as the wii is similar hardware to the gamecube, the designers decided to program it also to emulate wii as well.ĭue to this dolphin supports both Wii and gamecube and at time of writing Dolphin is in version 3 so it supports a lot of games playing at near full speed or even perfectly. Dolphin is the only 7th Generation console emulator out at the moment and its actually at a very high level of progress with many games supported.