MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Probably a good time to see how far MESS has progressed

So what your saying is, rather than take up your time, I should just go and do the research myself. And if I can't find the answer easily, rather than spending my time on the back and forth here, and still not receive the answer that I wanted, I could've just used that time wisely, and done the research myself.

Totally makes sense now. When I'm done, I'll let you know which one(s) I like better.

Thanks!!

> Seriously, I don't understand why you're getting upset over a simple question
> I'm not getting upset. I'm never the first one in a conversation to curse or insult
> somebody. I always am respectful to others until they show disrespect to me. So you
> have to realize that after listening to so many followers, cowards, butt kissers,
> rude, know-it-all members of this forum that jump down the throat of anyone (besides
> their master- aka staff or some senior members) that asks a question or have a
> different opinion, it just gets pathetic after awhile. That some people can be that
> much of a coward and follower instead of being a leader. I mean c'mon, I'm dealing
> with people who think Threaded Mode is better than Flat Mode. (No, please let's not
> get into that discussion again). It just sucks that every thread turns into an
> argument. That some people have such low and negative points of view towards others.
> But there are some people on this forum who are good people.
>
> Back on topic...The fact that there is a bunch of people on this forum that know damn
> well that Bsnes, Nestopia/FCEUX, and Kega Fusion is hands down better than MESS but
> they refuse to speak up is just so sad. The whole emulation community knows it to be
> true. It's not even a debate.
>
> So far, all you've said is "they're more compatible." So for example, what games can
> the others play that MESS can't?
> You'll have to ask a MESS dev. for a MESS list of supported NES mappers and
> unsupported SNES & Genesis games. You can google Nestopia's supported mappers.
> Nestopia supports the most mappers out of any NES emulator. It can play basically
> every released game along with the most homebrews/pirates.
>
> Bsnes can play every single SNES game. Therefore it is obviously more compatible than
> MESS.
>
> As you know and admitted already, Kega Fusion has better 32X and Sega CD than MESS.
> It also has 100% or almost 100% compatibility for Genesis/MegaDrive, Sega Master
> System, and Sega Game Gear.
>
> So, all three emulators have 100% compatibility or nearly 100% compatibility. MESS is
> far from that number.
>
> In what way are they more accurate? At least two of the emulators you mentioned are
> closed-source, so the only way to measure accuracy would be side-by-side tests
> compared to a real system.
> I would suggest you visit nesdev and they will tell you that Nintendulator is the
> most accurate emulator followed by Nestopia or Mednafen. Both are a close second. I'm
> not going to take the time to show you a side by side comparison. If you wish, you
> can do that yourself.
>
> I'm not knowledgeable enough; that's why I asked in the first place. But like I said
> earlier, I'm not interested in the eye candy anyway, so we can just skip this one.
> Those emulators take the cake in this category as well. They have overwhelmingly more
> features, options, eye candy, video filters, etc.
>
> Bug reports? Real world examples? Where is it documented that these emulators have
> fewer bugs and glitches. What games are affected. Have these glitches proven to not
> exist in real hardware?
> You will have to play all various games in MESS to see this. Particulary obscure
> games (considering they even run in MESS). Of course all/most of the classic games
> are going to work fine in MESS. It's the other games, obscure games, unpopular games,
> and hardware advanced games (special games) that you might encounter bugs and
> glitches in MESS. I guess you can find some of those bugs and glitches in the MESS
> bug report documentation.
>
>
> All the emulators I mentioned are better equipped and easier to do TAS video stuff
> such as recording gamplay videos, etc.
>
> Skip again.
> You say skip, but to alot of others it's very important.
>
> Almost all the emulators I mentioned are better and easier to hack cheat codes
>
> Don't need to cheat, so skip again.
> You say skip, but this also is a huge plus and very important to people.
>
> --------
>
> All you have to do is experience it yourself. It's quite obvious. And you can also
> search the internet and read what emulator authors say, devs, and the whole emulation
> community. I've spent enough time on this discussion. I wasted half the night talking
> about something so obvious that it wasn't even worth talking about.
>
> Conclusion: "MESS is good but for the spoken systems, the other emulators mentioned
> are better. But please use MESS sometimes too because it helps with it's progress."
> That's all that had to be said to avoid this long, pointless discussion.