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Crystalis - does anything emulate it correctly?

ExCyber - Apr 13, 2002

		ExCyber	Apr 13, 2002
		Just wondering, but it seems like every single NES emulator I've tried to run Crystalis in makes the screen shake in an extremely annoying way whenever a text box comes up. Does anyone know if any emulator runs Crystalis correctly, or what it's doing that causes this problem? I'm thinking it has something to do with interlaced vs. progressive display, but I'm not really sure...

		Fabrizo	Apr 17, 2002
		Im not sure about this but I think that the Crystalis rom that has been circulated through the web is just a bad rip. I have noticed problems similar to that of the Crystalis rom on other games as well, and somtimes I find that their is another copy out their that works fine with emulators. Try downloading the game at several different sites, you might be able to find a copy that works properly.

		ExCyber	Apr 17, 2002
		FCE Ultra seems to run it without problems. I guess it's just a timing bug that a lot of emulators have...

		VertigoXX	Apr 19, 2002
		<font color="#00FF00">*VertigoXX loads his BFG-9000 and takes aim at the site regulars who should know better than to discuss the dreaded "R" word around these parts...*</font> Hey, Karny, can we start a shootin' gallery in here?

		ExCyber	Apr 19, 2002
		Look, this message board has too few regulars as it is; you can't afford to start shooting us. edit: besides, if you shoot a BFG9000, it'll just kill us all no matter where you were pointing it... (Edited by ExCyber at 1:52 pm on April 19, 2002)

		Karny	Apr 22, 2002
		LOL!!! Seriously tho... talking about emulation is fine. Begging for roms on the other hand.... is an entirely different situation!

		Fstuff	Apr 22, 2002
		FCE Ultra is the best Nintendo emu in my opinion, whatever people say about the others. I wish Rocknes would work better, because the GUI is so nice. All it does is crash my machine for some unfathomable reason.

		calganagain	Apr 26, 2002
		Nester(unofficial) is quite nice but if you don't have the most godly rom dump for that game it will spit an error message out at you.

		superyoshi	Aug 20, 2002
		admin, someone mentioned ROMs here! He broke a rule! As it says, "mention ROMs and die" ! Either 1. ban the person who wrote the thread or 2. move this thread to the translations and hacking section

		Raijin Z_vbulletin3_import15802	Aug 20, 2002
		NESten seems to work great. I got stuck when the Rabbit Boots wouldn't let me climb the ice slopes after the bug boss. >_<

		ExCyber	Aug 20, 2002
		admin, someone mentioned ROMs here! He broke a rule! As it says, "mention ROMs and die" ! And, as Karny said, talking about emulation is not necessarily a problem. Strictly speaking, my question was intended to help me find out whether or not Crystalis was exploiting some undocumented behavior of the PPU. I didn't ask for this directly because I didn't expect anyone to recall a snippet of 6502 assembly language from memory. I asked about games with diagonal scrolling for similar reasons.

		calganagain	Aug 20, 2002
		To die you must be alive. Please prove excyber lives.

		MasterAkumaMatata	Aug 20, 2002
		<span style='font-size:9pt;line-height:100%'>Quote: from calganagain on 10:46 pm on Aug. 20, 2002 To die you must be alive. Please prove excyber lives.</span> Hmm, that's a tough one. I don't even know where to start. I hate proofs.