Putting emulator and rom games on USB?

[crustyasp46]

I think that you could put an emulator and a rom package together to boot from a usb stick. My question , having never used either, If Icould get some help and suggestions for a good emulator for NES, and super nintendo and for a good variety of games for each.

I have a friend with 3 kids, single Mom, who has a computer but can not afford internet, she does her best but does not have much extra income for the luxuries.

I would like to make a USB, with an emulator with a variety of games on it for her and her kids.

any help would be appreciated. Thanks, crusty.

[gamfrkI]

for snes i would use zsnesw ive used it from a usb before and for games i would go with rpg's or a mario game (there some other but i cant remember them)

[crustyasp46]

Thanks gamfrkI, appreciate the help.

[BlueMaxima]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_be ... ideo_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_be ... stem_games

I recommend NESTopia for a NES emulator, and ZSNES for a SNES emulator.

[crustyasp46]

thanks BlueMaxima. Why do I always forget the obvious sources when doing personal searches

Help very much appreciated

[BlueMaxima]

You know, I can compress the entire NES ROMset down to under 300mb...no reason why you can't chuck every NES game ever on one drive.

[crustyasp46]

You know, I can compress the entire NES ROMset down to under 300mb...no reason why you can't chuck every NES game ever on one drive.

I just went from dialup,where 300 mb would have taken a week to download I now have what they call a turbo hub that picks signals from the cellphone towers, and thus is really a phone plan. You get so much usage per month and if you go over the usage, they sock it to you by upping you to a higher usage plan.So I have to watch my usage carefully and I have to share with two other family members. So I suspect what I initially download will be modest and I can add to her selection monthly via a CD.

But I would not mind hearing about your method of reducing The NES ROMset to under 300mb. Thanks and again appreciated much

PS: which znes version? Remember total noob on this stuff

[BlueMaxima]

Well, I grab the full-on romset first (warts and all - bad dumps, overdumps, etc) then I extract them all and find the bad dumps, over dumps, translations, hacks, cracked, trainers, and delete them all, then (if I need to get it smaller) I delete Japanese language ones (since I can't play them for the most part anyway) and THEN I use ArcThemAll! (Windows program, Google it) to zip them all up individually, THEN I 7zip those results. Makes the resulting collection remarkably usable and remarkably small.

And also, latest version. Always latest version unless they have a giant disclaimer saying "YOU TAKE RISKS" or "THERE'S A PROBLEM" blablabla.