FCEUX for Mac? - NESdev BBS

FCEUX for Mac?
by neilbaldwin on 2010-07-09 (#63935)

Anyone seen a build out in the wild?

I downloaded the source and it seemed to build OK but when I try to run it I get the rather obscure error of "There was a problem opening the file xxxxx.nes"

by ManicGenius on 2010-07-09 (#63965)

I'm developing an NES emulator entirely in Cocoa and Objective-C, but as for FCEUX...

I've not seen any builds. Any emulators that are Mac based are either:
A) Really old and based on Carbon.
B) Shareware. Cause people are lame like that.

by neilbaldwin on 2010-07-09 (#63979)

ManicGenius wrote:
I'm developing an NES emulator entirely in Cocoa and Objective-C, but as for FCEUX...

I've not seen any builds. Any emulators that are Mac based are either:
A) Really old and based on Carbon.
B) Shareware. Cause people are lame like that.

Good man!

Nestopia is good to use but nothing else has the debugging capabilities of FCEUX - it's so essential for developing.

by LocalH on 2010-07-10 (#63987)

If nothing else, acquire a copy of Windows and run it under a VM. With a sufficiently fast machine, while not ideal, it would nonetheless be fully functional.

Alternatively, you could try running it under Wine/Darwine (I am assuming you're using an x86 Mac since PPC Macs have been outmoded for a few years, but I still raise both possibilities). Never ran FCEUX under Wine, so I don't know how it'd run, but assuming there aren't any major incompatibilties, I'd imagine a modern machine would run it equally well under a VM or under Wine.

by neilbaldwin on 2010-07-10 (#63988)

LocalH wrote:
If nothing else, acquire a copy of Windows and run it under a VM. With a sufficiently fast machine, while not ideal, it would nonetheless be fully functional.

Alternatively, you could try running it under Wine/Darwine (I am assuming you're using an x86 Mac since PPC Macs have been outmoded for a few years, but I still raise both possibilities). Never ran FCEUX under Wine, so I don't know how it'd run, but assuming there aren't any major incompatibilties, I'd imagine a modern machine would run it equally well under a VM or under Wine.

That's exactly how I'm using FCEUX at the moment (Parallels VM).

It works well, just would be better as a native app like Nestopia (things like shortcut keys etc.)

by tepples on 2010-07-10 (#63992)

LocalH wrote:
If nothing else, acquire a copy of Windows and run it under a VM.

For that price, you could almost buy an ION nettop with Windows and a KVM switch. When a box of Windows costs as much as a PC with preinstalled Windows, something is wrong.

by LocalH on 2010-07-10 (#64002)

Well, I did mean it as a stopgap measure, and it seems that's what he's doing at the present time. One could also buy an OEM version instead of having to buy the full retail box, as an example Newegg is selling OEM copies of the home editions of XP and 7 for $99.99 - much cheaper than the retail version (I don't see Vista listed there for some reason, however).

by ManicGenius on 2010-07-10 (#64006)

tepples wrote:
LocalH wrote:
If nothing else, acquire a copy of Windows and run it under a VM.

For that price, you could almost buy an ION nettop with Windows and a KVM switch. When a box of Windows costs as much as a PC with preinstalled Windows, something is wrong.

See... this is when the best moments of being a "student" come in to action. Though I haven't been a "student" in about 3-4 years I still download Windows from my college campus and use the "student" Pro serial number they give us.

by tepples on 2010-07-10 (#64011)

LocalH wrote:
One could also buy an OEM version

I thought OEM Windows had to come on the same invoice as a major PC component, such as a motherboard or an internal hard drive.

ManicGenius wrote:
See... this is when the best moments of being a "student" come in to action. Though I haven't been a "student" in about 3-4 years I still download Windows from my college campus and use the "student" Pro serial number they give us.

One of my PCs is still on a student copy of XP, but because that PC is still in operation, I can't legally move the Windows license to my Mac mini.

Oh, and you still have to keep virtualized Windows updated, just like stand-alone Windows.

by cpow on 2010-07-10 (#64013)

Could you use NESICIDE? It has an OSX distribution:

http://www.nesicide.com/nesicide2/secti ... e2-osx.dmg

That image was built about a month ago and since then I've had quite a few breakthroughs with test ROMs passing.

http://wiki.nesicide.com/doku.php?id=test_roms_status

hyarion, our Mac guy, can build you a new one if you don't want to go through the hassle of getting Qt/SDL/flex/bison yourself.

A brief list of the available debugger features, with many many more still in my head or partially implemented...

http://wiki.nesicide.com/doku.php?id=ap ... n#debugger

by neilbaldwin on 2010-07-11 (#64025)

NESICIDE wrote:
Could you use NESICIDE? It has an OSX distribution:

http://www.nesicide.com/nesicide2/secti ... e2-osx.dmg

That image was built about a month ago and since then I've had quite a few breakthroughs with test ROMs passing.

http://wiki.nesicide.com/doku.php?id=test_roms_status

hyarion, our Mac guy, can build you a new one if you don't want to go through the hassle of getting Qt/SDL/flex/bison yourself.

A brief list of the available debugger features, with many many more still in my head or partially implemented...

http://wiki.nesicide.com/doku.php?id=ap ... n#debugger

Hey, that's pretty nice man, not seen it for ages and it's certainly come on a lot!

I'll have a go with it, sure. From a quick glance the debugging seems pretty usable at the very least