(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Update Oct. 05, 2011: desmume-0.9.7-2-i386.pet by grimoire

Homepage: http://desmume.org

Documentation: http://desmume.org/documentation/

Requires:

• [SDL-1.2.13-i386.pet] (Official pet package)
  libGLU can be found inside xorg_xorg_dri-7.3-1.pet (Official pet package)
  

Screenshot:

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Hey man, haven't seen you around in ages

Thanks for the pet.

Battleshooter

Of course, it should be worth noting that you're going to need a decently powerful (and probably relatively recent) system to run DeSmuME. Don't expect to be playing Pokemon on your old 486 (at least, at anything resembling normal speeds).

Makoto wrote:Of course, it should be worth noting that you're going to need a decently powerful (and probably relatively recent) system to run DeSmuME. Don't expect to be playing Pokemon on your old 486 (at least, at anything resembling normal speeds).

I tried LEGO harry potter, it run OK, about 12fps, but I do think a powerful PC is definitely recommended..

But thanks for this wow... Good stuff..

It's dependent largely on the games you're trying to run, I think. For example, the Pokemon games (Diamond/Pearl/Platinum/HeartGold/SoulSilver) are a bit infamous for bogging down even on decent systems, which is one reason I mentioned them. The more a game uses 3D and other special effects, the more likely it's going to require more system resources... but you know that.

It still tends to want a relatively decent system, for the most part, though.

Yes it's slow. No$gba is a lot faster, even running through wine.

You can run NO$GBA through Wine? I'd probably have been reluctant to try that. (Well, aside from the fact that my Linux system is mostly ten year-old hardware...)

Here's a new version

Well, version 0.9.8 was released not too long ago, but I don't know how easy it would be to compile, yet. :/

Makoto wrote:You can run NO$GBA through Wine? I'd probably have been reluctant to try that. (Well, aside from the fact that my Linux system is mostly ten year-old hardware...)

I run NO$GBA with wine and it is still buggy, so I installed No$Zoomer in wine which runs NO$Zoomer and then runs NO$GBA through No$Zoomer which allows you to make adjustments and get it running well. The downside is that the process for running nozoomer is buggy, and I believe you have to delete an INI file each time before running it or it doesn't load the No$Zoomer first. And you always have to launch No$Zoomer each time. But it does run much better than desmume if you do it this way. Strange how it runs better in Wine, I know.