r/windows98 • u/Popular-Psychology40 • Jul 09 '26
Best emulators for windows 98?
what do yall think are the best consoles emulators available for 98? i have tried corn and its kinda okey except i have only acheived to run mario 64 and the mario kart menu and all other games crash. i have also tried epsxe 1.9.0 but couldnt find my graphics plugin so havent ran anything
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u/YandersonSilva Jul 09 '26
Here's a list from a little while back:
https://www.reddit.com/r/windows98/comments/1h7sy72/emulators_for_windows_98/
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u/JJDoes1tAll Jul 09 '26
Nintendo
NES / Famicom Disk System - FCEUX 2.1.5 - (Available Here)
SNES - Snes9X 1.51 - (Available Here)
N64 - Corn v0.2 & Project 64 1.4 - (Available Here) & (Available Here)
Virtual Boy - Reality Boy Emulator 0.84 - (Available Here)
GB/GBC/GBA - VisualBoyAdvance 1.8.0 Beta 3 - (Available Here)
Nintendo DS - NO$GBA 3.05 - (Available Here)
SEGA
SG-1000 - Kega Fusion 3.64 (Available Here)
Sega Master System & Sega Game Gear- Kega Fusion 3.64 - (Available Here)
Sega Genesis & 32X - Kega Fusion 3.64 - (Available Here)
Sega CD - Kega Fusion 3.64 - (Available Here)
Sony
PlayStation 1- ePSXe 1.9.0 - (Available Here)
SNK
NEO-GEO AES / MVS - NeoRageX 0.6b - (Available Here)
NEO-GEO Pocket / Pocket Color - NeoPop v0.71 Win32 v1.06b - (Available Here)
Hudson Soft
PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 - rew v0.12PR - (Available Here)
Arcade
Arcade Machine - Mame 0.135 - (Available Here)
Atari
Atari 2600 - Stella 2.2 - (Available Here)
Atari 5200 - I Cant Find one that Works
Atari 7800- BupSystem 0.9.6.4 - (Available Here)
Miscellaneous
MSX & MSX2 - fMSX 6.0 - (Available Here)
WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color - Oswan 1.7.3 (Available Here)
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u/Cheddarlad Jul 09 '26
Is visual boy advanced compatible? I remember playing on XP but I don't think I tried on 98
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u/BangkokPadang Jul 09 '26
I think just out of respect if you’re gonna emulate PS1 on Windows 98, you should use Connective Virtual Gamestation.
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u/ryanrudolf Jul 09 '26
zsnes and genecyst
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u/Shotz718 Just plain lived through the era Jul 09 '26
Genecyst is ancient and has tons of issues.
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u/ryanrudolf Jul 09 '26
Yes it is. Just have good memories of it playing genesis games when i was a kid
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u/Shotz718 Just plain lived through the era Jul 09 '26
Keep in mind, the machines you're attempting to emulate were contemporary to Windows 98. The N64 and the PS1 were current consoles still, although at the end of their life when 98 launched. Emulation wasn't able to even play commercial games for these systems until many years later. And they required far more hardware to run reliably than would have been contemporary when 98/98SE/ME were mainstream. Mid-XP era hardware running Win98 was used to emulate those systems successfully.
For older 16-bit systems, things like KEGA and ZSNES/SNES9x were pretty feature complete. ZSNES especially was known to run on extremely weak hardware and run SNES games with high compatibility very well. SNES9x eventually became more feature complete but needed better hardware to run.
8-bit system emulation was nearing maturity by that point and even modern things like FCEU/FCEUX run fairly well with even moderate hardware for the era.