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Raspberry Pi

I have a Raspberry Pi, loaded with the latest Raspbian Debian Squeeze OS....I was wondering whether or not there are releases of Lunar Magic and an Emulator of sorts that will run on under 512mb RAM, on a 700MHz processor on Linux...as I want to see how well it will run. I am back on the scene for Lunar Magic after quite a few years, so I need to try and catch up on everything.

Thanks for the help guys #smw{:peace:}
To run Lunar Magic on Linux, you'll need Wine. We've got several Linux users around here, and I haven't heard any of them complain that Wine hates LM.
To run it on ARM (RPi is ARM), you'll need QEMU or something similar as well. I haven't heard of anyone around here trying that, but googling around a bit should help.

For emulators, snes9x is the standard for weird platforms like that, though you may need an older version to reach 60fps.
<blm> zsnes users are the flatearthers of emulation
First, you're using Raspberry Pi - it uses ARM as its architecture (hey, it's cheap). Normally, to use Lunar Magic, you would use Wine, except Wine is specific to x86 and x86-64 architectures (almost every Windows program uses those architectures).

So, to run Lunar Magic you will need x86 emulator (and either Windows or Linux with Wine installed on this emulator (yes, Linux in Linux - yo dawg)). QEMU is x86 emulator, but the problem is that's emulator - so it's rather slow. And you're already on slow computer, so you could expect Lunar Magic to be really slow. Either way, if you're going to use QEMU, I would use some low-weight desktop envirnoment (you need graphics to run Lunar Magic - console won't be enough), like Xfce or E17 (I wouldn't bother with GNOME or KDE on QEMU).

Next, you would want to test your ROM somehow (so you would need some bridge between Raspberry Pi and emulator running in it). You can either install emulator in emulator (yo dawg). I would use ZSNES here (you have x86 emulator, right - ZSNES is fast) or old version of Snes9x. Or you could install the emulator in Raspberry Pi and pipe it somehow (for example by using Dropbox). ZSNES isn't option, as it is mainly written in x86 assembly, but older versions of Snes9x could work.

If you have such option, I would hack SMW on something else instead ;-).

By the way, I'm aware I'm actually recommending ZSNES here. Normally I wouldn't, but on such slow machine, I doubt that you could even use Snes9x 1.52 (fastest sort of accurate emulator). So, you could as well use ZSNES.
QEMU also has user-mode binary support - it should hopefully translate a x86 version of WINE + it's running app into ARM on-the-fly.

I've never used it though.
layouts suck
Its basically gonna be wayyy to hard to get it to work then?
Yes, and it almost certainly won't work at a decent speed.
Does the RP 4 with its capacity for $GB RAM change any of the information given before?
Could it keep up with the graphical requirements?
Originally posted by Ulla_la_la
Does the RP 4 with its capacity for $GB RAM change any of the information given before?
Could it keep up with the graphical requirements?

First off, this is such a large bump that you should have just made a new thread instead. But it's on-topic, so I guess it can stay here.

The fundamental idea is the same, RPi4 still uses ARM so you'll need to do some trickery to run an x86 executable on it. But the RPi4 is so much faster that it may actually run at a decent speed now (though I tried the reverse once (emulating an ARM from an x86) and it was still pretty damn slow, so I'm not sure exactly how fast it'll run, you'll just have to try it and see). And running a full virtual machine is plausible too now, with the amount of RAM the newest models have.

Running an emulator on a Pi is trivial nowadays though, Retropie has existed for years and runs fine even on a Pi2.
Thx so much. I at it right now. Let see if I can make this happen
A few years ago I tackled this specific project trying to run LM on my RPI 3B+.
I did succeed and was able to use it moderately well. Surprisingly it wasn't even that laggy.
I followed this tutorial but there should be newer stuff somewhere. You will definitely need to have a decent understanding of Qemu and binary programs on Linux if you want to attempt this.