Can Amiga run on game roms from...

[MacG4Gal]

the Vs Nintendo arcade classics like Excitebike, Ice Climber, and all of the Mario Bros Classics? Anyone know, I love those games. And if it is true, where would I plug in the files within the WinUAE gui?

Thanks, MacG4Gal  :-D

[Tomas]

I am not sure what you mean? Are you trying to use Nitendo roms with the an Amiga emulator? If that is the case, then that is not possible as that is a totally different system and winuae will only run amiga games/software which usually comes in the fileformat .adf or dms when we talk about emualtion.

[KThunder]

you can use nes emulators for amiga to run nes roms. finding the roms online is tough and most of the emulators arent that great but they do work. i have run some roms on an a1200 with a 50mhz 030 accelerator.
sega master system, genesis and other emulators do exist as well

[MacG4Gal]

So do i need to find something that has a nes rom download, or is it a rom that I simply plug in somewhere? The nes games im talking about were actual arcade games and not the nes home system games.

Thanks :-?

[Tomas]

KThunder wrote:
you can use nes emulators for amiga to run nes roms. finding the roms online is tough and most of the emulators arent that great but they do work. i have run some roms on an a1200 with a 50mhz 030 accelerator.
sega master system, genesis and other emulators do exist as well

I still dont get it, since this person is wanting to use Winuae and not a real amiga. Would it not then be easier to run a Nes emulator under windows than running a Nes emulator within the amiga emulator?

[Legerdemain]

the Vs Nintendo arcade classics like Excitebike, Ice Climber, and all of the Mario Bros Classics? Anyone know, I love those games. And if it is true, where would I plug in the files within the WinUAE gui?

To run such roms together with WinUAE you would need to install a NES-emulator on your emulated Workbench/AmigaOS install which you are using together with WinUAE.

There is nothing particularly special with the Vs. roms, besides some special mappers used in some games. If the NES-emulators out there avaible for Workbench/AmigaOS manages those roms, I don't know.

You can NOT start the WinUAE gui and from there select the roms, you would have to install Workbench/AmigaOS FIRST. Then an emulator. Then start the roms from there.

Really. Go with a NES-emulator for Windows instead. You will produce a much better result.

[Legerdemain]

you can use nes emulators for amiga to run nes roms. finding the roms online is tough and most of the emulators arent that great but they do work. i have run some roms on an a1200 with a 50mhz 030 accelerator.

ShapeShifter is close to perfect, according to me, but I haven't used it to the extent that I've tested its limits, so I wouldn't know.

AmiMastergear runs mostly all SEGA Master System and SEGA GameGear games without any problems at all (I'd say that 95% of all the games I've tested have had zero to close to no glitches at all, running at full speed on my 060 and most of the time in full speed on my 030).

AmiMSX is also a very very good emulator (a shame that he who made those AmiXXX emulators stopped developement, since they are really great stuff!).

Besides these, I don't really know of any good emulators for the x86 Amiga. Which have missed out on?

[MacG4Gal]

QUOTE:You can NOT start the WinUAE gui and from there select the roms, you would have to install Workbench/AmigaOS FIRST. Then an emulator. Then start the roms from there.

Really. Go with a NES-emulator for Windows instead. You will produce a much better result.

Where would that such NES-emulator be for Windows and Mac g4iBook?

Regarding the above quote, which workbench would be best. I've got many of them from a purchase I made last year, plus the Amiga Forever 2005 that i just purchased. I want to be able to work with the MAME roms and the Amiga roms. Is that alright to do in amiga WinUAE? Or is MAME so separate from WinUAE that NES Arcade and others won't work under the Install Workbench "#x.x" to "?" and then nes roms will work once you place the file in "?" field? Is that the operation you are speaking of.

Basically I just want to play the some MAMES and Mostly Amiga. :idea: Thanks for your patience. Macg4Gal :crazy:

[Legerdemain]

Aha, but then it is an entirely different story.

Concerning MAME running on AmigaOS I have no clue whatsoever what works and what doesn't since I haven't run MAME in ages.

Concerning what OS to go for, I don't know what to recommend. I'm running OS3.9 but some would probably say to go for WB3.1 and then download what you need to get 3.1 up to date. I think it would be easier to go with OS3.9, though, if you are rather unfamiliar with AmigaOS/Workbench in general.

I'm running out of more of help to say, I think.

[Tomas]

Basically I just want to play the some MAMES and Mostly Amiga.  Thanks for your patience. Macg4Gal

Use Uae/Winuae for Amiga games and use the MAME emulator for MAME roms. There is free seperate emulators for both MAME and NES that exist for Mac. You find MAME for MAC here: http://www.macmame.org/ and here you find some emulators for Nintendo: http://www.zophar.net/mac/nes.html

[Lando]

MacG4Gal wrote:

Where would that such NES-emulator be for Windows and Mac g4iBook?

Go here and look at the emulators column on the left side of the page.  Click on the link that says 'Nintendo NES'.  Then you will see a list of emulators, and you can click on the one that you want to download.

Regarding the above quote, which workbench would be best. I've got many of them from a purchase I made last year, plus the Amiga Forever 2005 that i just purchased. I want to be able to work with the MAME roms and the Amiga roms. Is that alright to do in amiga WinUAE?

Since all you want to do is play games (or 'roms' as you call them) Workbench version is irrelevant.  99.9% of Amiga games don't use Workbench. - just download some .adf files and run them

Or is MAME so separate from WinUAE that NES Arcade and others won't work under the Install Workbench "#x.x" to "?" and then nes roms will work once you place the file in "?" field? Is that the operation you are speaking of.

WinUAE is a program (called an 'emulator') which makes your PC computer pretend to be an Amiga computer.  This way you can run programs designed for the Amiga on your PC.

MAME is a different and completely separate program which emulates (copies) old arcade machines so that you can play old arcade games on your PC.

A NES emulator makes your PC pretend to be an NES.

Ignore all the stuff about installing workbench and then installing a nes emulator inside workbench - it's just people getting confused.

Basically I just want to play the some MAMES and Mostly Amiga. :idea: Thanks for your patience. Macg4Gal :crazy:

Ok so download MAME and install it and then download some games (go to www.google.com and type 'mame roms' in the search engine).  Download them and copy them to the 'ROMS' folder wherever it was that you installed Mame.  Then, when you run Mame, it will show you which games are available and you can play them by double-clicking on them.

[Hyperspeed]

MAME is rubbish unless you have a PPC Amiga.

I think it'd be fun to run an emulator within an emulator, maybe even within an emulator!

:-D

AmiMasterGear is my favourite Amiga emulator but CoolNES is mildly entertaining with Mario 3. AmiGameBoy is another superb one and Kirby is not to be missed!

[MacG4Gal]

Ok, simple enough. But which mame do i download for Windows 2000. Do I go to the mame.net website? Once there it seems like there are a lot of different mame's to download for the pc.

Thanks :-?

[Tomas]

MacG4Gal wrote:
Ok, simple enough. But which mame do i download for Windows 2000. Do I go to the mame.net website? Once there it seems like there are a lot of different mame's to download for the pc.

Thanks :-?

Get this one: http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa/
Edit:
The difference between this one and the ones at mame.net, is that it has a graphical user interface.

[Oliver]

I suggest you have a good read of the MAME website, and download the latest version which will run with your PC and Win2000.  If there are issues with particular versions of MAME, then mame.net should probably be your primary source of information about that.  Download a pre-compiled version (binary), not the source code.

I also suggest you ignore the previous post suggesting MAME should run on a PPC Amiga.  I expect it will run much more successfully on your PC.

The MAME site also has a FAQ and a forum, which would probably be a more helpful source than here.  You should also be aware of the issues of legality regarding those ROMs, as many are pirated.

edit- Sorry, probably better just get the one Tomas suggested.  The GUI should be helpful.  He posted just before me.