Hello all,
Have any of you had any luck setting up RBI on a Mac? I am using the RockNES emulator (with Emulator Enhancer), which handles all the RBI roms flawlessly. However, I have been unable to join or host an Internet game. Have any of you had any success using a Mac for this?
RBI is the best.
Thanks,
Breathy
Welcome Nippithon! The online play most people use on here are tied to specific emulator. So unless FCE Ultra has a Mac port you are going to be SOL in that regard. You running OS X? It is unix based, so maybe there's a port...
FCE Ultra does run on Mac OS X, but you have to compile it yourself. You ever done anything like that?
Hi Gantry,
Thank you for replying. This is a great thing you guys have going here. Great. (I love your RBI pages -- read 'em all. Well, a lot of 'em.) I am running OSX and I did get FCE Ultra today but I have no idea what to do with it. I sure could use a how-to, if there is such a thing. Maybe there's a Mac user somewhere around here who knows.
I am determined -- been dreaming about online RBI for years. May have to learn about Unix, Terminal and such. Hate to risk messing up my machine, though. I use it for work, too, which is almost as important as RBI.
Thanks.
Thanks for the kind words, always good have new members. Assuming FCE Ultra is similar on OSX than Windows, try the options on my FAQ and see if that helps:
http://dee-nee.com/rbi/faq.shtml#ONLINE
Does the OS X version have the same menus? Can you do tools --> Network or help --> About? The version of FCE is important as well...
Kinda all over the place there but give it a whirl and let me know where you get stuck...
The Mac version is essentially the same thing as the linux version. It'll need to be compiled, but I've no idea how that works on a Mac. I'd assume you can "./configure; make; make install" like most source releases, but the last time I used a Mac there was no such thing as a command prompt, so I've no idea of even where to suggest you start.
There's also no GUI, so there's no menus whatsoever. All options are specified via command-line arguments. If you can get it compiled and running under OSX I'd be happy to help with setting up network play.
Nightwulf
Mac OS X has a command-prompt, OS9 and previously do not. It doesn't not have a "console" though, so the FCE Ultra for Mac probably has a GUI window mode and doesn't use SVGAlib. Anything else I really don't know...
The key is to get gcc for OS X, there's gotta be a binary...
My buddy Nick is getting a new IMac so if you can wait for the weekend Nippithon I'll try to get it running on his sysetm. Let me know if you are still interested though because I'll likely forget...
Thank you nightwulf and Gantry.
I'm interested to learn whether or not Nick gets his Mac going.
Contingency plan: I understand that I must use the same emulator as the guy I'm networking with, but does dee-nee support other emulators? I have RockNES, seems fabulous, and if all else fails I should at least be able to hook up with other Macs running RockNES, right?
My other question is very newby: what is the network address here? Your FAQs say "dee-nee.com" -- is that really the complete server address to join a network game here? Or do players just meet here, then exchange IPs?
Thanks again, guys
Quote from: Gantry on 11/16/04, 08:07:08 PM
It doesn't not have a "console" though, so the FCE Ultra for Mac probably has a GUI window mode and doesn't use SVGAlib.
I'm almost 100% sure that it doesn't. The only GUI included with FCEU was written specifically for Win32.
Nightwulf
Well FCE now uses SDL which makes a GUI possible. OS X doesn't have a console so if it does run, then it's in some sort of GUI window. Perhaps no menubars or options though...
Quote from: Gantry on 11/16/04, 09:14:51 PM
Well FCE now uses SDL which makes a GUI possible. OS X doesn't have a console so if it does run, then it's in some sort of GUI window. Perhaps no menubars or options though...
That's exactly how it runs in linux. There's no GUI whatsoever, just a bare window with the emulator output. Hooray for ridiculously long command lines ...
I believe there was a linux GUI several versions back, written using GTK or something. It was promptly discontinued though.
Nightwulf
ah, now I see.... When I ran FCE in Linux I literally ran it on a console via SVGAlib, no X at all. Thought that's what you were talking about. 'tall makes sense now. Is t'all (it all) a contraction? 'tall? If not I'm making it one...
ROCKNes Use to work, but all of a sudden the netplay went down one day. It did rule though. If they got a remote server to work with it, it would be heaven.
Is it possible to use rocknes, then?
Or are there specific instructions for running fce in the terminal. I get an error when I follow the instructions and try and run "configure". It does this:
[Deltron:~] bbwilcox% /Users/bbwilcox/Desktop/Nes/other/fceu/configure --disable-sdltest
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.5.0
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.5.0
checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.5.0
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
Any way to possibly make this work to play online? Thanks,
TJD
It seems RockNES would be the way to go -- at least for playing Mac-to-Mac -- since it's an easy GUI install, but I can't get mine to network.