Using vintage game counsil emulators/roms

[Metalhead Matt]

Figured you fellows might be able to help me out with this. I love old gaming systems from the late '70's and early '80's. I found a site, theoldcomputer.com that has emulators and roms for free down load. A good buddy told me about the site so I'm assuming it's safe. What I don't know is how to use these. I never have downloaded anything except for a couple of albums. My computer has windows xp. I'm basically looking for some dumbed-down instructions for using this software. The downloads have small descriptions as to what version of windows they need to run. Others say something about dos. I don't know what that means/is. Any help would be awesome. Here's the direct address he gave me. http://theoldcomputer.com/Libarary's/Emulation/NES/ROMs/NES_roms_summary.htm Thanks again to somebody that can fill me in on how to use this site.

 

[beason]

you will need an emulator first. this is the program you play the rom in. find a good one that works with your OS and then download the roms. inside the emulator there will be a menu option to "open" point that to whatever game you want to play and your off. i had an nes, snes, n64 and sega emulator on my desktop

 

[Metalhead Matt]

Thanks a lot beason. I love those old systems. Memories...

So basically when it asks for a place to put the stuff, send it to the desk top?

 

[Racer 1966]

MAME is a great emulator. I haven't played for a long time, but I've been thinking of dusting it off for the winter.

EDIT: I wasn't reading thoroughly,you're talking about game SYSTEMS, MAME is for the old arcade games. Finding the roms for them was hard the last time I was using it.

 

[beason]

i made a folder for each system, and put the emulator and roms in it. then i could open the folder and had the emulator and the roms all in one place.

 

[Metalhead Matt]

Thanks again for the info.