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Emulation on pc (beehaw.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have an old Linux PC and wanna get a SNES emulator.

What's the best PC SNES emulator that doesn't have a huge filesize

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What emulator did you try to download that was 2GB? They're definitely not that big, but your choice of emulator might be pulling in a lot of dependencies especially if it's a Flatpak.

If you install it from apt you should get the smallest size as it can share the most libraries with the rest of the OS.

But that won't change that if you run KDE but end up with a GTK-based emulator you'll pull in a good chunk of Gnome to run it. Or if it's a 32bit application and your first one, it needs to pull in a good chunk of the OS in 32bit variant.

Total installed size really isn't an indicator of a bloated emulator or any indication it'll struggle on your old Celeron. I'm kinda curious how you end up with a 2GB though that seems rather extreme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yea. Seems like it was dependencies.

Flatpak go brr.

Got snes9x