In Emulators / NES ROMs

Do any of the emulators playthe NES ROMs while they are still a zip file, or will I need to unzip them?

I'm...uh...writing a research paper because it is illegal to play NES ROMs. No, wait I'm only playing the ones I already own.....yeah that's it.

1.1 gigs of compressed files should fit into 4.7 gigs of space anyway, right?

I'm thinking of making an emulator box out of the computer parts I have laying around. I think there's a 1.3 Ghz processor a DVD-ROM drive and a 6 gig or so hard drive. (The hard drive only needs to be big enough to hold the emulators and any save games.) With a simple video out card it would play on a regular TV. A couple spare controllers and a soldering iron and I could have a "gamebox".

All of the emulators I've played have to have an unzipped file to play, with the exception of MAME.

I thought so, but thought it was worth a try.

Do any of the emulators run off of Linux? I have never tried it yet, but a lot of the hacker sites seem to love the whole "open code" thing. Being a car geek it's kind of weird to see Megasquirt EFI on a hacker site.

very nearly ALL emuators for ANYTHING can play from a standard zip file.

As for the video-out card, Save yourself some money, and grab one of , A friend and I discovered those due to curiosity regarding an Emulator/Media PC. I haven't tested it personally, but if it works, it'll be great.

The video out cards I was looking are something like these:




I think it would work great for an emulator machine.

Tiger Direct: BAD
Pricewatch: GOOD

I've had issues with Tiger Direct in the past, most especially on fulfilling promises of rebates. Pricewatch is twice as nice. I strongly suggest the video out thing that NES-Luke suggested. Also, I got a spare Video card that should fulfill most 2D emulation, but you'd need an adapter. PM me if interested...

I'm off to google LINUX+nes+emulator and see what I come up with.

I'll post my results here eventually.

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FCE Ultra v0.93 (Windows) (HP)
FCE Ultra v0.74 (Linux)
FCE Ultra v0.74 (DOS)
FCE Ultra is a very nice NES emulator, what makes it special is its excellent Linux port


and then this:


What is TuxNES?
TuxNES is an emulator for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. Currently, the emulator has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD, all running on i386 processors. For a full list of capabilities, please visit the features page.
TuxNES is based on Nestra, a great public-domain NES emulator by Quor.



It sounds like I have plenty of options for my gamebox, without having to upgrade the windows 98 I think is on there right now.