Help!

All emulators work differently. Some have a neat graphical interface that lets you navigate to the ROM. Mednafen doesn’t – it requires you to provide the location of the ROM you want on a command line.

The easiest way to get a ROM to work is by dragging and dropping the .vb file onto mednafen.exe (assuming you’re using Windows).

Press ALT+SHIFT+1. You’ll now be asked to press keys corresponding to the buttons you want to use (at the bottom of the screen). Press each key twice. You have now set up your input. 😉

No clue. Press F1 and it will tell you how to access key bindings. Could have sworn it was the one I mentioned.

Yeah, that is a bit low-spec… Maybe disabling the sound and, if your hardware supports it, turning on the “overlay” video mode, might help. Otherwise, your system isn’t going to be very good at most emulation, especially VB. You might be able to do 10-20% of SNES games or any system older/lower spec than that (NES, PCE, Genesis, Game Boy, etc.). Believe me: I tried ’em all on my previous PC, which was a PIII and not a fast one (450MHz). I can suggest some good emulators if you tell me what systems you want to run.

BTW, is this, by chance, a Dell Latitude, perhaps a “CPx” model? I have one of these, although it’s technically a desktop, since I have no working battery. I only use it for light web-browsing and reading e-books, and only rarely at that. The main reason I don’t use it much is the extremely loud (and almost unusably tiny at only 6GB) HDD. At some point I plan to replace it with a CF card (I already have the adapter). Well, I guess that’s enough off-topic rambling for one post… 😛