M3 / G6 = NO SNES Emulation

Ramin · August 02, 2005, 10:44:43 AM

Of course, I was prepared for this ever since NTolerance confirmed that there is no SNES emulator for the DS. I thought till the M3 comes out, they'd have developed one... but not yet.

So I e-mailed M3info, asking them how the M3 plays SNES games. They said:

"Hi,
All Flash Carts can not run SNES games perfectly. It is not concerned about the
flash cart , but the problem is about Emulator.
You’d better look for it on the net.
Regards
Danny"

So basically, he says that there's no flash cart that can play SNES games and that it has nothing to do with the cart itself, it has to do with the lack of a working emulator.

Let's hope the two main SNES on DS developers finish what they start and get things moving along.

Ultimately, this means that the whole SNES thing IS NOT an advantage that the M3 has over the Supercard DS.

mat · August 02, 2005, 10:49:21 AM

interesting... so all the M3 really has going for it over supercard now is the crystal engine movies.

Does anyone think that's worth the price?

Surely this thing:
http://home.utah.edu/%7Eu0422123/snesDS/
Will work with superpass anyway?

stupid2ass · August 02, 2005, 12:08:58 PM

Don't forget, it (reportedly) doesn't suffer from the slowdown Supercard issues and you don't have to "convert" the roms.
I'd say those are tremendous pluses.

memyselfandi · August 02, 2005, 02:38:01 PM

i don't realy care about converting the roms because it only takes about a minutee to start the software to playing the game and i haven't had too many probles with slowdowns.
I tried doing the whole movie thing but i don't think that i would use that any more.

cory1492 · August 02, 2005, 05:01:06 PM

There is no telling for sure what kind of quality the M3 will actually deliver, they are making wild claims without having a finalized product - which to me means they are only goals for their product wrather than actual statements about what it can do.

I have a supercard, I see what it can do and what its limitations are... and I already know how much it cost and what the support is like (which btw is great considering all the info here on the unofficial forum

, too bad more chinese products dont do this sort of thing themselves wrather than leaving it up to their international users to figure it out)

NT · August 02, 2005, 07:09:47 PM

I made that statement before the new SnesDS emulator was available. Compatibilty is really low right now.

Ramin · August 03, 2005, 01:23:31 AM

But technically you're still right.

SNESAdvance may partially work with SOME games, but I, for one, don't count it as "SNES Emulation on the GBA".

Mavromatis · August 03, 2005, 10:16:44 AM

Interesting but snes emulation on gba nor ds is taken serious by developers. Maybe it is because it is hard to emulate the sound chip and all these special chips game has. But I do think that SnesDS will progress alot since it has more room to development.

Hectic · August 03, 2005, 10:31:56 AM

get a psp for emulation, get an m3 for ds/gba games. m3 ds version conquors supercard if it in fact has no bottleneck issues.

cory1492 · August 03, 2005, 02:42:23 PM

I like the looks of the M3 but the thing sticks out more than the SC SD does (ie as much as the gba MP, about 3/4 the length of a gba game from the ds - add any form of the passme on the back and you get one really warped looking DS unit), and as of yet they have not announced even a working prototype for the DS side stuff...

Ramin · August 04, 2005, 02:13:06 AM

I get this really sick metallic taste in my mouth when I hear people telling me to a get a PSP for emulation.

Seems to me that Sony's pussyfooting around the homebrew developers with their firmware updates is a clear sign that PSP is NOT a stable emulation device.

Okay, sure, PSP can emulate. But how long will developers continue this dance they're doing around hardware updates?

And the DS' future is a helluvalot more vast than playing GBA and DS games. You've got a touch screen, man!!!!

joshob2004 · August 04, 2005, 02:17:01 AM

You can be sure to expect that modifications will be made to the M3 and most likely supercard ds as well. I emailed the people at M3 and asked if their product has a built in cheat system like the supercard and was told this is a feature that will be added later. Making a smaller version so it wouldnt be sticking out of your DS/GBA so far is also an issue for which I understand plans are being developed to correct.

stupid2ass · August 04, 2005, 04:50:34 AM

Quote from: "Ramin"I get this really sick metallic taste in my mouth when I hear people telling me to a get a PSP for emulation.

Seems to me that Sony's pussyfooting around the homebrew developers with their firmware updates is a clear sign that PSP is NOT a stable emulation device.

Okay, sure, PSP can emulate. But how long will developers continue this dance they're doing around hardware updates?

And the DS' future is a helluvalot more vast than playing GBA and DS games. You've got a touch screen, man!!!!

Yea, the homebrew days for my PSP are numbered. It is still a fantastic ride though. Since I'm seeing more folks dump their PSPs at the moment for $100 Cdn less than they paid for it, I'm thinking of grabbing another one when the games I want to play are forcing an update of the firmware.

Ramin · August 04, 2005, 09:41:35 PM

Yeah, man, if you can afford to follow up the games on the system(s) you like, more power to you!