Red Dragon Issues

[Atari6660]

So according to ratings and rumors, Red Dragon is the best Virtual Boy emulator out there. I fail to see that. I dunno if it's the emulator or my emergency computer (My hard drive in my other computer recently died so I've been using a POS HP with a broken fan) but the emulator NEVER loads. Then to exit out I have to do Ctrl+Alt+Delete and go through the "This program is not responding. Send Error Report?"

 

Can anyone help me with getting the Virtual Boy emulator set up and working properly? I'd appreciate the help.

[ls650]

So according to ratings and rumors, Red Dragon is the best Virtual Boy emulator out there.

I hate to break it to you, but you heard wrong. The Reality Boy emulator is much, much better:

http://www.goliathindustries.com/vb/VBNews.html

 

Screenshots:

http://www.goliathindustries.com/vb/VBPic.html

Edited May 6, 2009 by ls650

[Atari6660]

Well then there's something wrong with this particular computer. Reality Boy won't work on it so when my other computer gets back I'll test it out on that one. Thanks.

[ls650]

It is an HP Pavillion? I'm guessing that if you're running Win XP or Vista (I've tried version Reality Boy 0.84 in both and it's fine on either) that it's an issue with an uncommon graphics processor.

[Atari6660]

This computer is an HP Pavillion yes. It runs on XP. My other computer is a Dell Inspiron with Vista, unfortunately enough, on it.

 

My graphics card is an NVidia, but the hard drive in this was sent to me blank when HP repaired an issue with it. It used to run Vista so I stuck an OEM of XP in when I saw the hard drive no longer had an OS on it.

 

Maybe the problem lies within there?

[ls650]

RB 0.84 should run on the Vista machine as well.

I've found RB to be a very good emulator. You want a reasonably fast processor to get 100% speed - I run it on a 1.9 GHz Athlon Toshiba with Vista SP1 and it works great there.

[Atari6660]

I'll check out what kind of processors I have when the hard drive gets here.