Any emulator that dosent ruin the computer

[sonicmario64]

Does anybody know a nintendo gamecube that dosent ruin the computer:o and no :beta: so dont even think about it

[TchuBacha]

There arent any working gamecube emulators out yet. Give it 4/5 years and we should start to see GC emulation on a computer.

[DudeJustDoIT]

GC emulation blows but im thinkin more like 3 yrs.

[sonicmario64]

so then are there any emulators that dont ruin the computer

[DudeJustDoIT]

you mean any emulator in general yeh ofcourse....

ePSXe
ZSNES
Nestopia
VBA
pSX
.....

its a long list but if you mean GC dont even bother looking for a GC emu.

[TchuBacha]

sonicmario64 have you had a bad experience with an emulator? A C64 emulator i used was a little troublesome. It wouldnt let me exit, so when i ended it in the task manager it closed ok but explorer.exe wouldnt run so i had to restart my computer.

[ulaoulao]

ya what do you mean by ruin, I have used just about every emulator I ever found. Short of an endtask nothing happened. Ruin is a bit vague. All GC emus work for me just fine as far as computer operation goes. They don’t emulate yet but that’s expected. Only thing I could think of is that you downloaded a hoax and it was a virus. Not saying you would buy in to that, but based on the description you left its the only answer that I see fit.

[Jale]

I've been using emulators since 1999 and no one has ruined my computer, except an old DOS ZSNES that froze my computer.

[sonicmario64]

no but i had VBA, Gens 32 and Project 64 suspishishley 1 busted my sound card

[sonicmario64]

and it wasent a hoax they were all trusted and i had Norton 2005/6

[Jale]

It's more likely a hardware or driver defect.

[sonicmario64]

no it wasnt butters cuz i had a Creative Live Sound Card and they are good

[ulaoulao]

no it wasnt butters cuz i had a Creative Live Sound Card and they are good


so? still could be a driver problem, Doesn’t mater how good a driver or sound card is, I could go in make one little chage to your ocx or sys file, and I bet you wont be here any sound. Butters point is software can effect software, So its highly possible that do to a problem your driver got wacked. Example Emulator had a driver file open, computer locks, user restarted it, computer restarts, scandisk truncates file, computer finished booting, drive no longer works, user reinstalls driver, everything is better... This is only an example to illustrate what butters is talking about. Now, for a emulator ruining your hardware that’s just nutz. They only way for software to damage hardware is to write to flash memory(BOIS) and I'm cretin no emulator is going to do or need to do that..

[sonicmario64]

yeah but the computer was Grade A top notch

[DudeJustDoIT]

Kid it could be grade AAAAA++++ super top shelf and all that but problems can still present themselves.... Your computer is not invincible to itself things happen Big business computers valued at triple the price of yours STILL CRASH why cant yours???

[sonicmario64]

so does any body know how to make an emulator

[alcoatjez]

so does any body know how to make an emulator

Emulator programming is very difficult.
No offense, but if you cannot find the info to get started yourself, you will certainly not be able to create one.

[sonicmario64]

man i really want another system but i dont wanna waste my money and emulators ruin my CPU:verysad:

[alcoatjez]

I said it before and I say it again: emulators don't ruin a CPU. Just buy your other system and ask us here which emus are good. That way nothing will go wrong :)

[DudeJustDoIT]

Wow kid i have been using emus for 4 years nothing has ever happened to my comp... As stated earlier Emus dont ruin omps USERS DO!

[sonicmario64]

DUDEJUSTDOIT STOP CALLING ME KID:mad:

well i am 9 years old though i dont like people calling me KID:fuckyou: :fuckyou: :fuckyou: :fuckyou:

[DudeJustDoIT]

Alright.... kid

[sonicmario64]

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[alcoatjez]

Please, someone close this useless thread...

[ulaoulao]

Emulators are for enthusiast not thief's. They are not designed just so you can play games for free. People like, alcoatjez and I, have gamed for years. At 9 I was playing Atari, didn’t even know what a computer was. The best money could buy was an apple at 4 k ram. And that was $1000 at the time. For me to be able to play my classic games and relive my years, its the best damn feeling in the world. This is why I really don’t care about gamecube emulators or the likes. I don’t really care to play games for free. My point is!! If you so damn concerned about playing console games go buy the damn system, its cheaper then a new computer. EMULATORS DON'T HURT COMPUTERS PEOPLE DO!!!!

[DudeJustDoIT]

Dude this kid isnt gonna listen so as alcoatjez said... Would someone please close this thread..

[sonicmario64]

SO either my settings are all wrong or one of my rom crashed causing my sound card to crash thats what ur talking about right:confused:

[alcoatjez]

No. None of that. As Butters said, probably either a driver or hardware defect.

[sonicmario64]

Tanx very much