I downloaded mednafen in hopes of playing some homebrew VB games (since I sadly have no Flashboy) but I am completely clueless on how to get it to work… what do I do? (I haven’t really used emulators before) 😉

I do remember using a GBA emulator where I could place a ROM in a folder (or something like that) and just go to this application thing and it worked but my memory is really fuzzy

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).

ok, I got a ROM to work on it but what do I use as the control keys to navigate through the game?

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. 😉

I did that, I first saw “select movie” said on the emulator… I didn’t think that was right so I did the same key combination again and my computer screen went completely black with a flickering underscore… (I’d hate to see what disasters I’d cause trying to DEVELOP a Virtual Boy game! 😛 )

I’m horribly clueless…

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

I did that but I didn’t see a thing on the quick help guide that sounded like it would help me set the controls…

I guess I don’t play any homebrew games… for now 😛

(sorry for the double posting, I couldn’t edit the other one anymore)

I got it working! however its a bit laggy… is it my computer or how Mednafen responds to VB emulation?

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:
I got it working! however its a bit laggy… is it my computer or how Mednafen responds to VB emulation?

Without knowing the specs of your PC, it’s hard to say, but Mednafen runs pretty smoothly on my ancient hunk-o-junk (ca. 7-year-old 2.4GHz P4).

RunnerPack wrote:

gunpeiyokoifan wrote:
I got it working! however its a bit laggy… is it my computer or how Mednafen responds to VB emulation?

Without knowing the specs of your PC, it’s hard to say, but Mednafen runs pretty smoothly on my ancient hunk-o-junk (ca. 7-year-old 2.4GHz P4).

my (laptop) computer was made somewhere around 2000 and has a sticker that says “Pentium III”, it also says “designed for Windows 2000” and “Windows 98” but it has Windows XP (I forget how to get to the place to check the specs on it)

[dasi]

If it’s a Pentium 3 it won’t be fast enough to run mednafen at full speed.

• This reply was modified 13 years, 10 months ago by dasi.

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… 😛

its not a Dell Latitude, its a IBM ThinkPad T20

also, the only emulation I wanted to do was Virtual Boy at this moment