Are there any good N64 and SNES emulators for Linux?

[Espreon]

If there is any please list them.

[absolofdoom]

Mupen 64 is great, I use it all the time. http://mupen64.emulation64.com/
(and no compiling or installing of any sort, just run the executable - all emulators should be like this!)

[FrozenFox]

ZSNES and SNES9X are generally considered the "best" snes emulators around, and both are available for linux. Last time I checked, emerging Zsnes failed for some reason, and snes9x didn't have any gui. However, if you download zsnes from the official website for linux, it has a gui and works just fine. I understand there are also custom gui's for snes9x, but I never got them to work myself. So, best bet, try to emerge zsnes. If it fails, don't be surprised. Just go find the official website via google and run that. I think it needed the usual ./configure, make, sudo make install to do so. The only problem with both of them that I am aware of aside from that is the lack of netplay. However, netplay was removed from zsnes in windows last I checked as well. I kept seeing mentions of it working on snes9x lin somehow, including in screenshots of one of the lin snes9x gui's i found but couldn't get working. I never figured out how to do it if it's possible.

In short: yes, zsnes and snes9x are available and work great. installing them might be a little trouble, probably not though. snes9x defaults w/o a gui afaik. Neither have netplay that I'm aware of. Correct me if I'm wrong. Google them or go to:

http://linuxemu.retrofaction.com/ For info and updates regarding emulators for linux, but don't expect all the links to work. You might consider running the windows versions in wine if netplay is important to you.

[FrozenFox]

Update:

I just tested (emerged) a gui for snes9x called snes9express and it works just fine now (it didn't work for me before), and has a section for netplay (no idea if/how it works, however). It is a simple gui with a couple small problems, but it should be sufficient for most people just wanting to play. Emerge snes9x and snes9express and run snes9express.

I just tested emerging zsnes and it still fails. Apparently, portage never tells it to "make", so it just sits there waiting for the user to type such forever. Downloading it and compiling it yourself with ./configure then make then sudo make install works though, as expected.

EDIT: OR,

http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9465

Download the appropriate binaries for your system here. No compiling required. It works without any extra installing (for me, anyway) on sabayon, but most other distros (in case any of you come to this post) seem to need other packages installed. See that page for info.

[absolofdoom]

Hey, thanks for that binary, FrozenFox! I runs great! Awesome emulator!

[Espreon]

Thanks guys.

[Mazor55]

I can't get mupen64 to run.
When I type ./mupen64 I get

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/mupen64: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


When I tried copying /usr/lib/libGL.so to /usr/lib/libGL.so and ran it I got

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./mupen64: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64


How do I fix this? Is the problem that 64 bit OSes aren't supported by mupen64?

[absolofdoom]

I think libGL probably means Glade library. Do you have glade and its stuff installed? If you do, it probably is that it only works for x86. I can't seem to find a faq or anything on their website, so I don't really know. Also, I've never used any archetecture but x86, so I don't know much about any other archetecture.







Hope this helps.
-absolofdoom

[FrozenFox]

Mazor: It -looks- like you have a video driver issue that I got a couple times. You may wish to try this and see if it changes anything though copying the other .so didn't seem to. If not, I suppose it was worth a shot, eh?

This is what I did the couple times I got that error:

(Assuming you have backups of your stuff just in case!) Open konsole, and do the following (assuming you have sudo rights. If not, su root instead and do so). I am assuming you have an nvidia card for this example:

sudo emerge nvidia-drivers nvidia-settings nvidia-cg-toolkit (hehe, you can ignore cg toolkit I suppose)

and then

sudo eselect opengl set nvidia

That will hopefully fix the libGL weirdness. As far as I can tell, that problem was caused by bad linking of the libGL.so file at some point, the system being confused as to what to load correctly because there are several copies of it. But take that explanation with a grain of salt I've gotten something similar just about every version I've installed or reinstalled of Sab since 3.3, particularly after video driver updates or some mystery installation that triggered it which I later determined with reasonable confidence was me being a moron and overwriting nvidia-settings. hehe.

[KaffiMann]

I was trying to install zsnes here, my snes abstinences are acting up again.

Tried downloading the tar.gz from the site, not successful at installing, the ./configure worked, but when i started make, i got some error saying something like 'strncasecmp' was not declared in this scope
I sort of gave up on it since i do'nt have much knowledge about linux stuff in general yet.
Decided to try and install through portage instead, did an emerge --rsync and emerge -s zsnes shows the package just fine. Ok that's nice, i typed emerge zsnes and it's just taking a crapload of times, there's an enormous list of warnings popping up, most of them are saying warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*

This happens right after portage started doing the make part, the ./configure part also worked fine for me.

It seems like both my manual install and the portage install gets errors, only it's completely different ones?

Can someone help a noob out?

Edit:
It seems portage actually installed zsnes as it should?! It only took "a little while longer than anticipated", about 15-20 minutes after it was finished downloading.
I think it's a really long time, but what the... As long as it works i guess.