Which Arcade Emulator to chose?
Best Arcade emulator available at the moment for CPS and Neo Geo Games
Difference Between Mame 32, Mame 32 K 64, Mame 32 K 67, Nebula, Kawaks, NeoRage
- Visuals
- Frame Rate
- Speed
Hey fellow emulation users heres the big question which arcade emulator is best out there.
I know this is stupid but I've been trying to figure out which emulator to stick with I keep jumping
back and forth between emulators due to sound quality, visual quality rom compadibility and of of course net play.
Anyways my gripe here is which is the best looking and sounding emulator available at the moment. I'm
gonna try and stick with one or two for now.
I've been using
NeoRage X
Nebula 2.25
Kawaks
Mame 32
Mame 32 FX
Mame 32 K 64
Mame 32 K 67
Breif review for each
NeoRage X:
is the first emulator I've tried for arcade games and to be honest its excellent, If this emulator could
emulate CPS games I'd stick with it entirely.
User Friendly:
Easy set up quick play smooth sailing
FPS:
NeoRage X frames per second is really good can't complain at all, feels just like the neo and I own a Neo Geo AES too
Colour:
Colours looks really good no complaints here
Speed:
Plays well even with slow PCs
Sound:
Great sound no complaints
sharp:
Can't get bettor then this
Nebula:
Second emulator I tried and I found it really good seeing how it played capcom games too
User Friendly:
Well Nebula was easy to set up as well no complaints setting controlers and stuff wasn't bad
FPS:
I tend to notice Nebula not up to par with Mame or NeoRage when it comes to fps or smoothness whatever you want to call it
but its not by much
Colour:
Colour I guess depends on the games for Neo Geo games its not as colourful as Mame or NeoRagex but with Capcom games such as
street fighter alpha 3 colour is good.
Speed:
using nebula I feel you need a strong PC to do so or a lot of ram I'm not exactly sure lol
Sound:
The best sound out of all of them this is one of the reasons why I keep going back to it.. its the battle for visuals or sound
and Nebula has great sound very loud and crisp.
Sharp:
Game looks very sharp with Capcom games a little blurred with Neo Games. Other then that its up to par with the rest
Mame 32, FX, K 64, K67
Ahh the ultimate gameing emulator and everyone knows it. But being able to emulate a ton of games affect quality? Not sure
All these different versions of MAME and they all perform differently in my opinion yes..
User friendly:
I highly doubt it for mame took me a while to learn how to set it up
FPS
32:
I dontknow if its me but Frames on MAME seem to be really good with smoothness to it compared to Nebula when playing CPS games
FX:
same as 32
K 64:
Slight slowdowns causing it to jaggy
K 67:
I can't tell now lol to many
Coulour
32:
Colour looks good not as colourful as Nebula a little lighter actualy when it comes to CPS games and NeoGeo games are brighter
FX:
Same as original 32
K 67:
Same as original 32
K 64:
Now this is odd the colour in this is a little darker and it looks good almost like Nebula. There is even an option where you can set colour bit rate
Sound
32:
Man the worste out of all the emulators
32 FX:
Fixed up sound to an acceptable quality, its really good but not as good as Nebula
K 67:
Same as orginal 32
K 64:
Same as original 32
Sharp:
32:
looks pretty good though not as good as Nebula in my opinion but then again it maybe the colour difference seeing how I think Nebula has more colour in capcom games while Mame emulates it bettor for neo games
FX:
Same as original 32
K 67:
Same as original 32
K 64:
Same as original 32
Kawaks is probably the worste one out of the rest of these emulators only thing I liked about it was netplay however it does sound bettor then mame I have to give it that
So... after saying and reviewing all of this and spending a lot of time writing this out I hope I get some responses lol seems like a waste of time but I have a lot of questions
I've been wondering about and this is a good chance to answer them and put them to rest hahaha..
So out of all the emulators what works best lets not consider netplay here just visuals audio and game performance.
So far I'm leaning towards Mame 32 FX as my primary but I hear its not gonna be updated anymore. So I'm stuck
What do you guys like and recommend I keep?
Thanks for reading
Jimmy
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Originally Posted by -=VampyR=-
so I can really tell a difference with the sound.
