> I have replaced basically ALL of my 2D console emulators with MESS. Reason being is,
> it is wonderfully integrated into MAMEHub and my friend and I are always using it to
> play games online. Having MAME Hub, where it combines both MESS and MAME into one
> program for online play and giving you the ability to select games from both
> emulators by simply typing the name is nothing short of fantastic!
Okay, I'll grant you that's a pretty nice feature.
> MESS plays all the snes, genesis, sms, nes, and gba games I throw at it, except for
> Yoshi's Island, Super Punch Out and a couple others. It's such an amazing emu, and is
> quickly becoming THE go to emu for 2D console games, while the others(ZSNES, Snes9x,
> Gens, FCE Ultra, VBA, No$Gba, DEGA, etc...) are being phased out with little to no
> supports or development progress these days.
FCE Ultra I wouldn't necessarily call dead. It seems FCEUX is the branch getting the deepest devwork right now, and checking their changelog shows that while their last official release was mid-last year, they're still working on it as late as May 1st of this year.
I did give MESS a bit of a go last night. Ended up doing a bit of playing with HLSL with it as well. NES seems decent enough, though it really didn't like Akumajou Densetsu. Could be incomplete emulation, could be the fact I'm using a .NES file instead of a softlisted image.
I honestly don't think we're all that far away from a theoretical future where MESS runs a ton of platforms 100% and runs them full speed on your average smartphone hardware.
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