FakeNES Portable Development Test Release 6

i am going to test this out. i also told some friends at a site i go to about it seeing as they use emulators alot. This might be useful for playing NES games at a school or library. Thanks. I look forward to any updates.

Nice.

I hate to say it, but I can't get FakeNES (the non-portable version) to work without freezing up & crashing on me. I'll keep trying to get it work, but it may be a losing battle.

If I can't get the non-portable version to work... I hate to think how badly I'll crash FakeNES portable.

If you're planning on getting a NES emulator portable, I highly suggest trying NEStopia ( http://nestopia.sourceforge.net ) as it's fairly stable.

since you are having issues, check out this list of different emulators. it's not limited to NES, its a decent looking list and I think they are all GPL. there are 4 pages and the navigation is only at the top...took me a while to figure that one out lol

I've been testing this on and off all week, and haven't found any major problems yet.

There was one little thing that I thought I would mention, but I doubt it's a result of being portable. I'm running Vista Ultimate, and I noticed that the minimize and close buttons on the window aren't disabled like they are when I tested it in windows xp.

Other then that minor thing, it runs perfectly...keep up the good work

Hitting all the download links takes me to what appears to be a "generic" search site. Maybe the target's down?......

I temporarily uploaded it to MediaFire for anyone who wants it. I can remove it when the official link is fixed.

http://www.mediafire.com/?tyjhx1bxlx1

Hokay, so... here's ze changes:

1. You're missing a help.html file. Copy it and Other\Help from another app.
2. Rename Other\Source\FakeNES Source.txt to AppSource.txt and eventually it should read:

   The source for the base application in this package can be obtained from the portable applications homepage mentioned in the help.html file.
   

3. In the Other\Source\Readme.txt, remove the version number from the first line, put John's copyright back, and change the website to:
   Website: http://PortableApps.com/FakeNESPortable
4. In that readme, only the first directory structure is supported now, so remove the second.
5. The VER entry in the source is somewhere around 1.5.5.0 for all the launchers globally, not for the programs.
6. Look at one of the newer launchers to update the !define's, things like NAME is now PORTABLEAPPNAME and APP is APPNAME, and FULLNAME is NAME, you'll also have to change those throughout the launcher.
7. Replace:

   ;=== Program Icon
   Icon "${NAME}.ico" ;defines the icon for the script
   

   WITH

   ;=== Program Icon
   Icon "..\..\App\AppInfo\appicon.ico"
   
   ;=== Icon & Stye ===
   !define MUI_ICON "..\..\App\AppInfo\appicon.ico"
   

   And therefore delete Other\Source\FakeNESPortable.ico.

8. In the source, there's some new error strings that go near the beggining of the secion and then are referenced throughout the launcher, see if you can figure that one out by looking at the source of something simple like 7-Zip.
9. Update the NewAdvSplash plugin from the NSIS site and then change:
   
newadvsplash::stop

   To
   
newadvsplash::stop /WAIT

10. Change the 200 in line 97 to 0.
11. In the AppInfo.ini, update it to a newer one from a recent release, and change the homepage like in the readme, and the Publisher should be ... & PortableApps.com.
12. UPX if you haven't. -> http://cubegames.net/development/compression

That was fun, now you have fun.

I tried several roms and keep getting errors:
Failed to open new machine state file.
Quick save failed.
I think I was able to save states on previous releases. Later I will try reverting to release 5.

Edit: I was able to remedy by creating a folder callled "saved" under FakeNESPortable\Data. This was the default folder, but it did not exist until I created it. There is a folder called "saved" under FakeNESPortable\App\fakenes. I was unable to change the path to this folder and keep the settings after closing the program.

I have made a note that there are some roms that refuse or crash when used with this program. Though a few of them (EarthBound Zero, Final Fantasy III Alien3) crashed on the Linux port as well and refused to work on KFCEU for some odd reason, There are some others that should have played that didnt including Sonic (yes a NES sonic rom) Final Fantasy IV (Prototype)and Mario is Missing. These worked in other emulators and other ports of FakeNES. hope this helps.

Hi OliverK
Is this still being developed?

Hope so

Any luck yet?

What is it exactly? I thought it was something similar to the Nintendo Entertainment System. I think i was wrong. Could you clarify this?