Today I was thinking about the old games I used to play when I was really young. I used to love a lot of Nintendo games like “Dig Dug” and “Pole Position” and also a lot of Super Nintendo games like “Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball” and “Punch Out.” So I looked online to see where I could play these games. I searched “Dig Dug play…” and I couldn’t get anything good. I mostly found games that were not dig dug, but similar newer games, but I could not find the real dig dug anywhere. Well, a few hours ago, I found the solution…Emulation. Emulation refers to the ability of a computer program or electronic device to imitate another program or device. The emulators you will use to play these older games will imitate the old software in the old system. It is very similar to the emulation software that you use to run windows on your mac. Instead of creating a windows environment, it creates a Nintendo environment or a Super Nintendo environment.
How to play old classic games on your mac:
1) Choose your emulator.
This depends on what kind of system you want to play. If you want to play a game on Nintendo, download Nestopia. If you want to play Super Nintendo, download Snes9x. If you want to play N64, download SixtyForce. There is also an emulator called MAME, which supports many platforms and has some good titles such as Marvel vs. Capcom and other similar games. Once you have your emulator, now you need the gmaes
2) Collect your Roms
The data for the games are stored in what is called Roms. In order to play the games you want, you have to download the Rom for it. My favorite place to get Roms is Rom-world (in order for you to legally download these roms, you must actually own the games themselfs. If you don’t, you could get into some trouble). Basically just search for the Rom that you want, make sure it is on the platfor you want, and then download it. It will proablly com in a zip file,so extract first. If you downlaod a snes game, your Rom will end in .smc and if its a nes game, it will end in .nes. You can download as many Roms as you want, and i suggest keeping them all in a folder on your desktop, just to be organized…
3) Open your Rom
if you have the emulator already on your computer, your rom will proably recongnize the emulator and will open with it. So usually, if you double-click your rom, it will start playing. If this doesn’t happen, just open your emulator and select the Rom manually.
4) Play!
When you first start playing, your going to have to learn the new controls for your keyboard. Your emulator will probably have a config panel where you can change your keyboard layout. Once you get the controls down, just have fun!
And people say Macs arnt for gaming….
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January 25th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Good post! I used to use emulators back when I was on a PC. I just kinda stopped… and forgot about it -_-. But having a mac emulator would be nice and I love Marvel Vs. Capcom! However it seems hard to get MacMAME to work with the Marvel Vs. Capcom zip attained at Rom-world. Maybe I’m doing something wrong :P.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Thats funny, because I had trouble getting Mame to work also. I thought it was just me also… I’ll look into it more.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
It seems the rom has to be specially made for MacMAME *sigh*. So I think most of the Zips at Rom-world will not work. I looked up MacMAME ROMs and tried one by putting it in the ROMs folder; it showed up when I loaded the application… but than it didn’t work, it said something about corrupt file (YIKES! -_-). So i’ll see what other MacMAME roms there are, but as for now I feel sad… because I was so hoping to play Marvel Vs. Capcom
January 26th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Well after much research and such, it turns out everyone agrees that MacMAME is too outdated so it only works with really old ROMs. Supposedly MAME OS X a good counterpart. As for Marvel Vs. Capcom, I actually got it all together. Like I read a forum talking about what you needed to do to get it to work; However, one of the zips you have to download is missing 2 pieces of info (even though the people say it shouldn’t)… so I’m going to try using MAME OS X and than see if it’ll work. If you want the link to what stuff it says you need to download for Marvel Vs. Capcom, email me.
January 26th, 2008 at 12:28 am
I don’t want to keep spamming comments, but just wanted to say MAME OS X is able to run Marvel Vs. Capcom perfectly! <3 <3 <3
January 26th, 2008 at 12:42 am
How did you get it to work!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
I used to use MacMAME often. I recall that you leave the ROM files in their .zip format and store them in the ROMs folder. Sometimes you have to download several different version to find a working one.
I’m on a pre-intel iMac on Tiger and can run the following games on MacMAME .103u2 — for some reason my ROMs are stored in /Users/me/Documents/MacMAME User Data/ROMs — i don’t remember putting them there, but it was years ago:
Dig Dug
PacMac
Sinistar
Trivial Pursuit
Burger Time
Frogger
Kung Fu Master
Night Driver
Pengo
Qix
I just tried these again and the sound is a bit poky… could be my system is overloaded.
Anyone have a similar configuration and wants these games going?
April 16th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
i recently got MAcMAME because i just got a mac but i really want to know if there’s a way to downoad just MAME onto a MAC so i can play MAME games
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