Gaming emulators for Vista?

[#1 Sailor Scout]

One day, I went to visit one of my cousins & I let her play my emulated games on my laptop. Now, she wants them on hers. The problem is, I'm running Windows XP (Dell Latitude D505); she, Vista (Compaq Presario). I don't know which emulators are compatible w/Vista w/out screw-ups.

I have on my laptop FCE Ultra (NES emulator), ZNES (Super NES emulator), DGens (Sega Genesis emulator), BGB (Game Boy Emulator), & Mekaw 8 (Sega Game Gear emulator). They run great with my machine (1.4 GHz processor w/1 GB of ram), but I don't know about hers. She has a gig of ram as well. Can any of my emulators run on Vista w/out screw-ups? If not, where can I get some that won't cause screw-ups? She wants to play Super Mario Bros. 3 on her laptop, but her original NES is broken.

Thanks in advance.

[airmannn]

Bump for a good question. I've heard many compatibility problems for games and Vista.

[Nali]

As far as i know it should be relatively easy to get any emulator which worked on Xp to work on Vista.Just right click the shortcut and chose to run in compatibility mode Win XP or Win 98 to be safe.

I havent run into any problem running emulator in comp mode.My DC emulator would run on Vista until i put it in comp mode Win 98.

[marlin29311]

+1 - compatiblity mode is your friend

[OriginalWheelman]

Although I don't have experience with any of the others ZSNES works fine on Vista for me. I also run a DOS emulator w/o a problem so I can't imagine you'll have a problem with the others.

*A note about emulations.

They are legal if and only if you own the game.

I have all my SNES cartridges in storage with my dead SNES and I emulate all my games.

[#1 Sailor Scout]

*A note about emulations.

They are legal if and only if you own the game.

I have all my SNES cartridges in storage with my dead SNES and I emulate all my games.

Same here; I legally own all of the cartridges to the ROMS i've downloaded except for the Sailor Moon games...those were stolen from me along with the Super Famicom that I spent $300 bucks for. FTL.