Has anyone ever written a definitive list ranking how easy or difficult it is to emulate various retro platforms on low-end hardware?
Like sure, you could just go by generation to get a broad idea, but every so often you encounter outliers like the SNES being harder to emulate than the Genesis or TG16, or the PS1 being much easier to emulate than the N64 or Saturn.
Also, there's often a big difference between the specs you need to run an accurate emulator, and one that's less accurate, but passable for most uses.

Nesticle worked perfectly on a 486

You can emulate N64 with Project 64 on a Pentium III and get about 15 FPS in Ocarina of Time.

>>11861158
>get about 15 FPS in Ocarina of Time.
You get that many FPS in OoT with an actual N64.

>>11861158
>Nesticle worked perfectly on a 486
That's why I used it for the example picture. Ftr it wasn't 100% perfect on a 486; I remember some games like Contra struggling on the 66MHz DX2 I used to have, and digitized samples didn't work. Most common games that didn't use weird mappers worked fine though.

>>11861158
>You can emulate N64 with Project 64 on a Pentium III and get about 15 FPS in Ocarina of Time.
Do you remember the exact specs of the machine you used? GPU, plugins, etc?

>>11861139 (OP)
THANKS SHITMAN

>>11861387
Pentium III 500 mhz with a TNT2, all I remember

>>11861401
That gives me a good idea. Thanks, anon.

>>11861412
NTA, but I recall emulating N64 with a pentium III and dual VooDoo 2s.

>>11861158
I was getting full speed on quite a few N64 games using UltraHLE with a P3 Celeron 600mhz and a Voodoo 3 2000 back in the day. Played a ton of Bomberman 64 this way.

>>11861139 (OP)
I tried running Final Burn Neo running a Neo Geo game on a Core 2 Duo laptop and it did not play at full speed.

I imagine it's due to the overhead of a modern OS along with whatever float FBneo has come with these days as opposed to an emulator built at the turn of the millennium.

>>11861401
>>11861419
yep rivas and doodoos were the cards of the era, and f you were bigtime you'd have dual doodoos and an aureal vortex 2

>>11861139 (OP)
I don't know but i was impressed with PCSX Rearmed smooth, fast performance on my 1gb ram chinkheld. I wish I knew about it when I had a dogshit potato laptop.

With NeoRageX I played all the latest Neo Geo games literally as they came out. Metal Slug 4, KOF 2003 etc. Then went to the arcade to apply what I learned. I had a potato computer so it must not have been very demanding to emulate at all.

>>11861139 (OP)
I was about to mention playing through the GBA version of Breath of Fire on my old Nokia 5800, but looking through it's specs, it's pretty cutting edge hardware compared to the 486 and Voodoos. Almost half a GHz CPU frequency, 128 Mb of RAM and even a video out.

>>11861139 (OP)
thanks shitman

>>11862059
There must have been something going on wrong settings wise since you very much can run neo-geo on a core 2 with FBNeo, with a lot of overhead even.

Is there any practical reason to use NESticle in 2025 on a modern rig?

>>11861139 (OP)
I have a gpd win and can emulate up to PS1 comfortably. N64 is ok for some games, haven't tried DC. It plays older PC games amazingly well though. Morrowind with mods plays well with low settings. Snes9x, kega fusion and epsxe are my go to emus and mupen if I'm going to play 64. Tbh I don't usually play emulators on it, just old PC games. Deus ex, Morrowind/daggerfall, fallout 1/2, doom, Ultima, point n clicks... I do use uae Amiga emulator to play it came from the desert, which it does play nicely and I recommend it to anybody into cheesy scifi and point n click/detective games. Great story, plays different each time due time being a huge factor. Lots of fun interactions to be had in a nice atmosphere

>>11862542
Nostalgia, curiosity, compatibility testing if you really want to make sure the ROMhack you're working on works on a 486, playing around with the real-time sprite editor.
Other than that, there's no real reason to use it when better emulators have existed for decades. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if it's got some arbitrary code execution exploits like ZSNES that could run malware.
>>11863105
It'd be cool as hell to own one of those, even if the Steam Deck is basically a better version of it, minus the built-in keyboard.