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Emulators with low reqs?

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I'm trying to get hold of an emulator that will run on a shitty laptop - Windows ME, Pentium 3 and 64mb of RAM. Tried a bsnes one but there's .DLLs missing (works fine on my XP, so presumably they are DLLs that Windows ME isn't supposed to have.)

Not toooo fussy about what games I can play with it, as long as they're cool. I've got nothing to play on that laptop atm so anything is good.

Any help would be cool :)

Edit: I got the bsnes one off this site http://www.coolrom.com/
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ZSNES is the fastest, most efficient SNES emulator. Its core is written in assembly--you should be fine.

I don't think you have to worry about anything from the NES era not being fullspeed, and I don't know enough about the Genesis to recommend something.
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I use zsnes for SNES, nesten for NES, and gens for Sega Genesis. Dunno if they're the best available, but they've worked for me, but I don't use them real frequently.
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Cool thanks, I'll check out ZSNES
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Ewan wrote:Cool thanks, I'll check out ZSNES
That's what I use...
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MarauderIIC wrote:Fourthed
Since when do you count as TWO people. Aw well, let admins be admins.
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What are you talking about, dan? Falco + you + comics + me + abuse of administrative powers by editing your post so that it doesn't look like I said "fifthed" anymore = four! ;)
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MarauderIIC wrote:What are you talking about, dan? Falco + you + comics + me + abuse of administrative powers by editing your post so that it doesn't look like I said "fifthed" anymore = four! ;)
:lol: Pfft.

On Topic: I'm using zsnes right not to play Final Fantasy III for the first time ever! ;)
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MarauderIIC wrote:What are you talking about, dan? Falco + you + comics + me + abuse of administrative powers by editing your post so that it doesn't look like I said "fifthed" anymore = four! ;)
I love you... :lol:
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eatcomics wrote:I love you... :lol:
Gay. :D
P.S. Dan: I win, neener (edit lock on your post) =)
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MarauderIIC wrote: P.S. Dan: I win, neener (edit lock on your post) =)
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ZSNES works good guys, thanks :)
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Glad to help.
I'm sure you're not using it for anything illegal. Here, you can just paste this into your reply:

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Of [i]course[/i] not!
[size=150]PS MARAUDER IS AWESOME[/size]
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MarauderIIC wrote:
eatcomics wrote:I love you... :lol:
Gay. :D
P.S. Dan: I win, neener (edit lock on your post) =)
Nope just very emotional xD
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