I'm in the UK and I have no borders on my SMB, its just as full screen as in any emulator. the speed runs the same as I'm used to.

 

Shit, I didn't turn on my 3DS for a long time... I checked it again and the 3ds has little black borders around the screen. perfectly normal. Sorry for the panic...

If a Mod reads this, please delete the topic.

 

FULL SCREEN? the fuck?!!
either you don't know what full screen is, or Nintendo's holding out on most of us

 

What the hell are you talking about? the screen is almost pixel perfect with very little shrinkage. The aspect ration is 1:1 making the game appear the same as on any other emulator (on a computer). The image is the FULL HIGHT of the screen, making it wider will only warp the image and make it look worse. As for what you're saying about other emulators, they are meant for the DS screen resolution (256x192) and that is why it fits better, it's entirely because of the size of the screen, not the 'quality' of the emulator, which display-wize is much better than ANY DS based emulator I have used in the past.

 

I agree, it's very good emulation and looks a lot better than NESds

 

It always was a bit laggy when I played it

 

I didn't have any graphics issues at all with Zelda II.

The game itself is crap, but it's identical to the original crappy game as far as I can tell.

 

i hate buttons being swapped so this will annoy me, in emulators you can change the buttons round so yeah i'm going to have problems with this.

you are not the only one, zelda 2 is one of the games that is completely out of place from the series (next to the cdi games)

ah different topic, i thought you were talking about the button placement.

 

As someone who actually owns a real live NES and Zelda 2... I can tell you this emulated version is fine. If any other emulator plays it differently (faster, less bugs, etc) it's actually inaccurate emulation. Specifically the timings are probably off for the faster... Something that's very common in emulators...

Example: Ever play a megaman game (original NES) and have the game slow down/bug out a bit when there is a lot on screen? That's supposed to happen... there are several emulators that play this 'better' because the emulated system runs fast... so everything displays properly and doesn't slow down... THAT is actually the bug.

It's all about proper reproduction, just because you CAN fix bugs that were present in the real game doesn't mean you should, as it's not accurate. This version of Zelda 2 has the same slight controller lag and occasional slowdown that the real system had. If you've never played the real zelda 2 on a real NES (IE, you were born in the 90's... you know who you are) you can't really give a good interpretation of how the game should be played.

 

Just check at this article telling why te emulators that are fast are not actually accurate, so, they "FIX" bugs of the original game:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08...es-emulator.ars