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MednafenX-NES - NES Emulator for XBox v1

http://mednafen.com/
http://xport.xbox-scene.com

Thanks to J-Red for an excellent skin!


Features :

 - Emulates NES/Famicom Disk System/VS UniSystem

 - Excellent compatibility - ported from Mednafen

 - ZIP support

 - Loads of hardware/software filters and video options to tweak

 - Cheat system - Search/Create your own cheat codes (see notes)
 
 - Favorites list

 - Save states

 - Light gun support (see notes)

 - Fast forward/throttle

 - Resizable game screen

 - Text file viewer

 - ISO9660, Relax, Samba support

 - Take in-game screenshots and display them on the game selection list

 - Record/Playback feature - record your gameplay in the emu and then
   play it back again.  Record up to 10 minutes of gameplay.

 - Every single in-game command is fully customizable on any of the
   four joypad controllers.

 - Map any emulator or UI command to a single button or a combination of
   two buttons.  (e.g. RTrigger+LTrigger = Save State)

 - Autofire capabilities for any emulator button on any controller

 - One-button combos (define a series of emulator commands to be played
   back when you press a user-definable XBox controller combination.)
   (E.g. Press RTrigger+LTrigger to execute the command string
   A,B,A,B,Up,Down,Left,Right)

 - Traverse any directory on any drive ( Continue selecting the parent
   directory entry on the file selection list to get the drive selection
   list.  Selectable drives are C, D, E, F, R, X, Y, Z, RLX, and SMB.
   R is the CDROM drive.  SMB is your samba share, RLX is your relax share.
   Press Y from any file-listing screen to go up one directory level.

 - All UI commands (save state, load state, screenshot, etc) can be
   invoked from the Options/Pause menu as well as in-game via your
   customized joypad mappings.

 - All the other standard features found in XPort ports.


Default ROM dir is D:\NESROMS

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Important Notes
===============

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Palettes
--------

Try toggling "Autogenerate NTSC Palette" from the game configuration screen
if you are unhappy with the default palette.

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Light Gun Support
-----------------

My light gun no longer works for some mysterious reason, so I haven't
tested the light gun functionality.  It *should* work, though.  

To use the lightgun, first go to Main Menu -> Configuration ->
Controller Configuration -> Configure Light Gun

From that menu, calibrate the light gun.  You can also choose to have an
on-screen target to help you while playing lightgun games.

When you select a game to play, you are given the configuration options.
(You can also press X to select a game to force re-configuration.)
Be sure to change either Controller 1 or Controller 2 from Gamepad to
Zapper or else you will have no ability to use lightguns in the
game you've selected.

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Famicom Disk System
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The WHITE button will Load or Eject the current disk
The BLACK button selects the disk side to use

If you are trying to play an FDS game and it seems to be waiting forever
with some japanese text on the screen, it's probably waiting for you to
flip the disk.  To do so, press WHITE (eject), BLACK (select side), WHITE (load)
and it should continue.


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VS UniSystem
------------

Press the Y button to insert a coin.

Here is a good website to see what the DIP switches do in various VS
UniSystem games:

http://www.solvalou.com/subpage/arcade_dips/V

Stella, Gnuboy, SMSPlus, FCEUltra, HUGO, NeoPop, DGen, Bochs, HUGO-CD,
FMSXBox, Bliss, WinSTon, Gens, Z26X, StepmaniaX, PCSXBox, XBoyAdvance,
DOSXBox, AtariXLBox, MirrorMagicX, KoboX, MaelstromX, MarblesX, Vice64X,
Vice20X, VicePETX, KegsX, XPired, AdamX, WonderSwanX, BeatsOfRageX,
PowermangaX, LynxBox, BlueMSXBox, GladiatorX, AmphetamineX, StarfighterX,
PachiX, BlobWarsX, OdysseyX, ArnoldX, X68000X, WinUAEX, MekaX,
MednafenX-NES, MednafenX-Lynx
what's next?

Enjoy!

[Sirmatto]

Nice, I'll be trying this one out right away.  Thanks alot!

This post has been edited by Sirmatto: Mar 21 2006, 12:41 AM

[babyblu]

is this emu better than the current version of FCEUltraX??

thank for all your work i love playing all the old game i grew up with. It never felt right playing them on a PC.

babyblu

[XPort]

QUOTE(babyblu @ Mar 20 2006, 07:10 PM)

is this emu better than the current version of FCEUltraX??

Mednafen's NES core is an extension of FCEUltra.  There should be an increase in compatibility ( which isn't really saying anything since FCEUltra was already nearly 100% compatible with the exception of pirated/hacked versions.)  MednafenX-NES supports VS Unisystem which FCEUltraX does not.  It also has an option for selecting a palette that looks much closer to a real NES.  

The only drawback is that MednafenX-NES is slightly slower than FCEUltraX - but you'll never notice this unless you use HQ2X.  It should play pretty much everything at 60fps using any other graphics filter.

[Diontae18]

Thanks a lot for your hard work, you're awesome. Cheers (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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[BanjoK]

Thank you so much XPort.

[GLiTcH]

dont remember, but did fceultra had gamegenie support or the search engine?

[Diontae18]

QUOTE(GLiTcH @ Mar 20 2006, 07:35 PM)

dont remember, but did fceultra had gamegenie support or the search engine?

Yes, it had both (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by Diontae18: Mar 21 2006, 01:29 AM

[Nemo1985X]

And the correct sound for FDS games thanks again X-Port..

[norelidd]

this is fantastic work, xport! the only problem is that you left the xbetitle on all three to be "mednafenx", so if we have all 3 (nes, pce, lynx), dashboard that rely on the xbetitle will only show one. i manually edited mine to be "mednx-NES" and so on, but for future releases you might want to check this out

[xboxSlayer]

Thanks Xport, nice to see new stuff still coming out.

[Jagasian]

For those that don't know, the history of FCE Ultra goes like this, from the beginning up until now:

1.  FCE
2.  FCE Ultra
3.  Nintencer
4.  Mednafen

In other words, Nintencer is a better FCE Ultra and Mednafen is a better Nintencer.  So without a doubt, Mednafen is a better NES emulator than FCE Ultra.  It is also probably the best NES emulator that can run at full speed on the Xbox.  The best NES emulators, Nintendulator and Nestopia emulate the NES at such a low level that they probably couldn't be made to run at full speed on the Xbox.  The 360, however, is another story.

One of the coolest features of Mednafen is the rewind support, which is very similar to Prince of Persia Sands of Time in that at any time you can press a rewind button to make everything go backwards until you release the button.  This is much nicer than quick-saving.  Of course, you can still quick-save, but with rewind, you only need to quick save every 10 minutes or so.  Everything else can be rewound (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Seriously, check out the rewind feature.  Anybody that has used the Sands of Time, will appreciate it when used with NES games.

I haven't had a chance to test out the emulator, but definitely bind REWIND to the L button and FAST-FORWARD to the R button.  That way you can fast forward through the slow parts of a game, and you can rewind to undo any mistakes you make.

This post has been edited by Jagasian: Mar 21 2006, 04:46 AM

[Thraxen]

Well, I don't know what some of the options do in the game configuration screen, but I love this emulator already.  Great skin update too!

[KingSyze]

This is just damn beautiful work.  The skins alone are worth the download.  Your hard work is just amazing in the sense that you do it for everyone else.  So, you've heard it a thousand times, thank you so much for your continued work in the emulation scene.

[Joshua Wood]

Good stuff, much appreciated. That rewind feature sounds kick ass! Can't wait to bust that out (haha, reply your favourite deaths (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)