No more trouble with downloading SNES games...

Finally, no more bothering with downloading SNES Games one by one. A friend of mine got all the SNES Games ever published, and even more to it, on a CD for me. Everything from Europe, USA, Japan etc. So now I just downloaded a SNES emulator, "ZSNES" and I have all the games for it. I think I'll ask him to find a couple of NES Games and burn them on a new CD for me while he's at it.

BTW, I noticed that if I take all the maps with the games from the CD, and put them on in some map on my computer, strange enough it doesn't take more space than just a few KBITs...

Roms of all SNES Games will never fit on one CD. You sure it's no DVD? Even then... There are over 1200 japanese games alone.

But surely you'll have lots of fun with these.

What do you mean by "maps"?... zip-Folders? (perhaps you only have shortcuts on you PC, that's why it's only a few kbs. If you copied all the roms they would surely take a lot of space.

I'm still thinking of moving this thread to the Emulation/Roms section.

If you do have all the SNES Games on that cd...stay far far away from leathal weapon...man oh man was that game plain AWFUL. Another movie to game where the movie was of couse..better like most of the time.

Get a bigger HDD and have all the games there forever.
200GB harddrives cost less than 100$ I think...

OR....

you could just keep the NES ROMs on the DVD and when you want to play a game, put the DVD in the computer and browse for it in the emulator. seems alot easier that way

OR....

you could just keep the NES ROMs on the DVD and when you want to play a game, put the DVD in the computer and browse for it in the emulator. seems alot easier that way
Yeah.. I was scratching my head about that one.. didn't want to say anything incase I came out looking like a dumbass.

That would be a way, too.

OR....

you could just keep the NES ROMs on the DVD and when you want to play a game, put the DVD in the computer and browse for it in the emulator. seems alot easier that way :lol:I didn't know that it was possible...

I believe a game NES ROM be on the computer's hard-drive in order for the emulator to make a proper "save file" for it.

You can still actively play the games off a disc, but the "game saves" need to be in the same directory as the NES ROM to work, and you can't just write the save file to a removable disc.
(I've never tried playing a game/emulator off a floppy disk though. Maybe that would work.)

Unless the emulator allows you to specify an alternate directory for save files, which many do.

Yeah, I even have a disc with GENS on it, and all of the good Genesis NES ROM's. I can run the emulator right off the CD, and select games off the same CD from the emulator.

Granted, it is a little slower than just select NES ROM's on your HDD, but it's alot faster then dragging the files from the CD to your computer.Cool, if I knew that from the start, I'd do it right away.

i have currently only one NES ROM to Sega Genesis, "SplatterHouse 3". Man, that game rocks!

There's a VERY easy way to get around not being able to save, given that the emulator has the ability. Like was said, you could specify where you want it to go. Instead of specifying everytime, just set the emulator up to what directories you want prior to placing it on a disc. Then you could have something like:

C:\Emu\FCEUltra\saves
Now you don't have to specify each and everytime you run the disc, it's already set-up. Also, setting it up the way specified above lets you save in a nice, orderly directory. Other emulators on disc could then be... say:

C:\Emu\NameOfEmulator\saves

... or whatever you specify, such as screenshots, movies, etc... Now I'm just rambling, but I think you get the point.