/emugen/ - Emulation General

>>149937481
So this webm is the barren wasteland of emulation

I feel that if people truly took stock of priorities in life they would realize that preserving old games is really rather pointless and not worth doing. Let the future humans suffer without games you played as a kid and loved. They will not know the difference.

>>149937481
I'm always excited to see the shapes being rendered at all. It's a greater stage of figuring-out-how-a-system-works than I'll ever reach.

>>149937892
Then why are you here?

>>149938320
Because I am a mentally unhealthy individual without enough things I enjoy outside of video games, anime, movies, etc. I posit if I was mentally healthy though I would no longer care about such things.

>>149938705
So pretty much same ol same ol eh mudlord?

>>149938015
Designers of these systems should be forced to put the entire spec with the government so that the system can be recreated when the patent/copyright/etc expires

>>149939049
Youll never guess my true identity. For Anonymous am I, never used a tripecode have I. Yoda I am.

How do I get the cores for PSP Retroarch if I can't connect to my wifi network? Am I basically fucked?

>>149939450
Maybe SP put them somewhere where you can dl them on your PC and then use an SD card or something to throw them on the PSP

>>149939528
While the online updater is nice to have, it should still be possible to download the cores manually. WTF SP

>>149939450
Should come with cores (at least the ones that will actually work on a PSP).
http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/playstation/psp/

>>149939771
Indeed it does. Should have looked inside the archive first...

Emulation is dying. Why is it dying? Because after you get to a certain "level" of accuracy and you can play "most" of the "well known" games, the developers lose interest, excitement, pizzazz. They are, like the rest of us, still embroiled in a ME-culture, which emphasizes what they get out of things, not some kind of greater love for seeing a great accomplishment be totally perfected. Granted, they have far more of this energy than most of us, who will never code something as complex and intricate, but they still will not be able to reach out beyond our cultural milieu and continue developing until the emulation is PERFECT.

>>149941797
>Because after you get to a certain "level" of accuracy and you can play "most" of the "well known" games, the developers lose interest, excitement, pizzazz.
And then someone else comes around a few years later and makes a near perfect emulator, just like what always happens.

>>149942109
I look forward to seeing...your near perfect N64 emulator.

Ha

ha

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>149942227
Pretty terrible example as there's so many striving for that right now.

>>149942414
"Striving" yet none will succeed.

>>149942646
So 2 posts to completely change the entire point of your original post... you're not very good at this.
And I'll take the developers interest, excitement, pizzazz as an indication for the future over your baseless assumption thank you very much.

>>149939234
Fuck off Alex.

>>149943091
That was the period from 2004 to 2015. Now we enter the period of valiant idiots struggling against fate only to be run aground by cold, hard reality.

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https://github.com/libretro/slang-shaders/blob/master/procedural

mudlord fuck off.

>>149944572
Is this mudlord's idea of drawing penises on the desks of his peers?

>>149944572
>https://github.com/libretro/slang-shaders/blob/master/procedural
Memelord plz

>>149929260
>squarepusher doesn't seem to be planning on making a HLE RDP that doesn't also HLE the RSP, so no
I'm pretty sure he is planning on actually working on a unified HLE renderer. It sounds promising, but I hope he can deliver.

>>149944969
I hear this squarepusher cat is a pretty boss programmer

>>149944969
That has nothing to do with not HLEing the RSP.

>>149945101
From what I hear, they are going to combine Rice, gln64, and Glide64, etc.

>>149945743
Those all HLE the RSP.

will citra run ORAS?

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>>149945743
>they are going to combine Rice, gln64, and Glide64

>>149945860
sorry i missread haha. Why would you want to HLE the rdp and not rsp?

>>149946682
Because the RSP is actual game code. The RDP is just a rasterizer.

Is emugen nothing more than a purveyor of pessimism-porn or is there truth to our deep skepticism about the capabilities of emudevs to recreate past hardware behavior somewhat accurately?

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Never been to /emugen/ before but I've run out of options and I can't figure this out for the life of me. Currently playing Dragon Quest V on the DS. Got to the second stage of life, married Bianca, now I gotta go to Helmunaptra. Problem is once I reach a certain point south of the map the bottom screen goes blank. The music still plays and I can move around and go through my menus, but I can't see jack shit. Pic related it what Im getting.

>>149947753
>If you still need help, post your specs (speccy screenshot), OS, emulator version number and details of what's wrong.

>>149947753
Whenever I've had visual problems in Desmume (assuming you are using Desmume because you didn't say!) it's been either the block size or rarely the particular graphics backend. Never any other setting.

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You wouldn't dive down to save your drowning clone.

Can I emulate the GameCube version of Killer 7? It's on 2 discs, and each disc is a separate ROM. Does it still work?

>>149950651
Yes

Which is the best Nintendo DS emulator for Android?

I want to test the first games of the Professor Layton series and maybe play again SMT Strange Journey.

>>149953880
>i want to test the first games
no. no you don't.
you want something else.

>>149953942
Why not? The first game dub is bad?

Are CRT filters just a placebo effect? I tried emulating FF7 and the backgrounds look way less pixelated with a shader on. The steam version doesn't seem to have high res backgrounds and they just look kinda crummy by comparison.

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Would you use this as a wallpaper?

>>149958225
Maybe if I hated myself to the point where I wanted to punish my senses with that monstrosity.

>>149947753
>Dragon Quest V on the DS
feic laddy, i hoop yoos liek fookin awful translations aye

>Is it legal to make a profit from selling an emulator?

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/4uznwc/is_it_legal_to_make_a_profit_from_selling_an/

Does Bowser's Inside Story work without the terrible sound issues in any emulator?

>>149945053
I hear he relies a lot on others contribution and his own contributions are actually quite poor technically.

>>149959549
yes

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Hey guys.
I'm playing Kuon on PCSX2 1.4.0, and there's this "ghost" effect on every 3D object in the game. I know it's a ghost game, but I'm pretty sure this effect should not be there. Anyone know how to fix it?

>>149964703
Try wild arms hack or increase skipdraw.

Behold: Emulation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCMnGN-83jQ

How long can roms/isos last on a hard drive before they become unuseable?

Hey guys

Be honest, do you like emulation over using the original hardware?

I'm fine with emulators for the most part, but at times I feel like I would rather play stuff like DS games on a DS.

>>149967130
Depends entirely on how big they are and the rotational velocidensity of the drive, obviously.

>>149967267
Depends. For home consoles, if it emulates correctly, emulation easily beats it out for the most part. For handheld games where a big part of being enjoyable was because they were portable like Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing, OR anything that heavily takes advantage of a console-specific gimmick, using the original hardware gives a more complete experience

>>149966360

That bitch should have been punked out in 1999 so we wouldn'thave to see her ugly ass today.

>>149966360
Reminder that Ready to Rumble games were on the N64.

Y'all got any good Shenmue 1&2 torrents? Can't find any good ones for well, anything. If y'all can, some Yakuza 1 and 2 as well.
Please and thank you.

>virtual jaguar struggles to emulate Rayman 1
What a shitty fucking emulator
This is actually worse than N64 emulation

>>149964703
>but I'm pretty sure this effect should not be there
You'd be surprised. A lot of PS2 games had these ghetto methods of doing things which the console couldn't do and while they look ok on the tiny native resolution, they become awful once you upscale. Devil May Cry 1 and Yakuza 2 are pretty egregious of this.

Try fiddling with graphical hacks in the settings. Skipdraw should minimize it if not eliminate it completely.

>>149971789
Why the Jaguar version in particular?

>>149972704
Well its the original one innit?
Also I read up that it has some extra segments which were cut from the later versions

>>149973643
Technically no the three original versions (Jaguar, PS1, saturn) released less than a month apart of each other, but they might have targeted the jaguar primarily I don't know enough about the development of the game to say for sure.

But yeah if it has extra content go for it, just make sure it's not the same extra content as the PC version.

DS just died so I'm emulating Pokemon Black 2. For all people have said about poor DS emulation, this is running well. Makes me think I might get a copy of one of the advance war games too.

>>149974604
Brace for corrupted saves and triggered AP.

>>149974760

No idea what triggered AP is but thanks, I'll start backing up my saves

>>149974826
>No idea what triggered AP is but thanks
AntiPiracy, nintendo started putting a lot of antipiracy shit in their pokemon games during the DS era and you're bound to trigger a few of those measures on desmume (and those range from simple messages to full softlocks so it's not something you want), I know you can avoid them more or less but you'll have to ask someone more knowledgeable than me about DS pokemon emulation.

>>149971789
I remember playing the first few hubs of that in the libretro core of virtualjaguar without any major problems though, maybe it's very intensive and your PC doesn't cut it.

>>149975179

Should be alright regardless, this will tide me over until I decide on a new DS or to jump to 3DS. Hoping there'll be a price drop sometime soon to tie in with NX info or release.

3DS can play DS cartridges right?

>>149975497
>3DS can play DS cartridges right?
http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/324/~/can-i-play-nintendo-dsi-and-nintendo-ds-games-on-nintendo-3ds-family-systems%3F

>>149975705

Thanks man, appreciate it. They should consider getting creative with their anti-piracy, like pokecentres that charge money and a lower catch rate.

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EXPLAIN THIS GUYS
ALSO, WHERE CAN I GET ROMS

>>149975324
Well I got two random crashes and audio fuckups. If it was my system wouldn't I be getting less than stellar framerate too?
Considering I can emulate PS2 games or even Dolphin, a jaguar emulator running a 2D game being more system intensive than something like FF12 or Super Mario Sunshine is absurd in of itself.

>>149975902
Its a shitty virtual machine with poor compatibility.

>>149976064
PCem is good

>>149975902
Basically emulate an old PC, like dosbox but for Win95/98, it's not that great but it does the job for the very few win9x games that are impossible to run otherwise.
Still need to test GalPani X on that shit someday

>>149976064
>a jaguar emulator running a 2D game being more system intensive than something like FF12 or Super Mario Sunshine is absurd in of itself.
Not really, I get better framerates on some PS2 games than on mednafen, MAME or bSNES it all depends on the accuracy of the emulator and the complexity of the emulated hardware and the Jaguar is a clusterfuck so it wouldn't surprise me to see very high reqs.

>>149976450
I know, but I'm interested in the unofficial release.

Also, why isn't it great?

>>149976538
>Also, why isn't it great?
Extremely slow, forget about playing anything not using software rendering, forget about anything above 640x480.
I've head it's also not user friendly but I'm not sure it's really as bad as I heard

>>149976117
oh fuck they have actually updated it recently.
Last I checked it was dead and had awful hardware acceleration support

>>149976450
Well I can run Higan just fine too. What I meant by that statement is that virtual jaguar is shit if Rayman 1 is actually considered a resource intensive game for it.

>>149976064
>Considering I can emulate PS2 games or even Dolphin, a jaguar emulator running a 2D game being more system intensive than something like FF12 or Super Mario Sunshine is absurd in of itself.
And here lies someone who has absolutely no idea about the Jaguar's hardware

He never scored

>>149977447

explain, i'm curious

>>149977591
>I have absolutely no idea about anything
AVGN did a video where he briefly talks about the Jaguar's clusterfuck of hardware:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGEGon-Qc_Q

>I kind of have an idea on stuff
Basically, the Jaguar was a clusterfuck of many, many CPU's all working together. It puts the Saturn's dual CPU's to shame in complexity. It makes the N64 look like the Game Boy. It makes the PS3 look like the PSX. The Jaguar is a huge fucking mess, and absolutely nobody knew how to develop for it, and 99% of the machine is undocumented. Before Virtual Jaguar, the only emulator worth using was one that only emulated Tempest2000.

Combine this all with the fact that literally nobody gives a shit about the Jaguar, and no games besides Tempest 2000 were exclusive to the Jaguar AND worth playing, emulation just never took off for it, and probably never will.

>>149977875
b-but MUH 64 BIT

>>149977875
>uses AVGN as a source
>absolutely no technical details just a bunch of adjectives strung together
>calls others ignorant
This is too rich

>>149978051
Would you prefer if I just copy pasted Wikipedia's specs of the Jaguar?


"Tom" Chip, 26.59 MHz
Graphics processing unit (GPU) – 32-bit RISC architecture, 4 KB internal cache, all graphics effects are software based.
Core has some additional instructions intended for 3D operations
Object Processor – 64-bit non-programmable; provides all video output from system.
Blitter – 64-bit high speed logic operations, z-buffering and Gouraud shading, with 64-bit internal registers.
DRAM controller, 8, 16, 32 and 64-bit memory management
"Jerry" Chip, 26.59 MHz
Digital Signal Processor – 32-bit RISC architecture, 8 KB internal cache
Similar RISC core as the GPU, additional instructions intended for audio operations
CD-quality sound (16-bit stereo)
Number of sound channels limited by software
Two DACs (stereo) convert digital data to analog sound signals
Full stereo capabilities
Wavetable synthesis, FM synthesis, FM Sample synthesis, and AM synthesis
A clock control block, incorporating timers, and a UART
Joystick control
Motorola 68000 "used as a manager".[19]
General purpose 16/32-bit control processor, 13.295 MHz

There, three CPU's that are all undocumented. Is that good enough for you? Or are you going to bitch and moan some more about how this complex, pseudo 64-bit system which is completely undocumented should be easier to emulate than the GameCube which has had steady emulation work on it for over ten years?

>>149978051
Not him but here's someone who knows a bit more about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZbGy7keBZA

>>149978272
Specs don't reflect how much of a clusterfuck the Jaguar was though.

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>>149978272
>Two DACs

>>149978272
>>149978418
what's the point of building something like that?

>>149978418
>Specs don't reflect how much of a clusterfuck the Jaguar was though.
He knows absolutely nothing about the Jaguar and thinks it should be easier to emulate than a GameCube or PS2

He's fucking retarded, the specs and fact that there's three CPU's should be enough for someone like him

>>149978459
Why do you think Atari went out of business at mach 10 speeds?

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Groovy

>>149978459
>it's complicated so it must be good
>buzzwords
>muh bits

>>149978504
>the specs and fact that there's three CPU's
Not rare for arcade boards to have just as many or more CPUs, but they're well thought out and work fine, the Jaguar isn't and doesn't.

I'm just out of jail, is there a working Vita emulator now?

>>149979519
Go commit a murder and there will be one when you get back.

>>149979519
No, but homebrew was literally just released a few hours ago for it if you want to google HENkaku

>>149978272
>motorola 68000
>undocumented
u wot m8?

>>149978504
>fact that there's three CPU's should be enough for someone like him
You really don't know what you are talking about do you?
Number of CPUs has nothing to do with how difficult to code for a system is. Its about how the they work together which is something you cannot know from just the specificatons. Even if you are to assume Atari had no standard SDK they would provide proper support to developers making the games for their system. Even in terms of emulation you genuinely think that the three CPUs running on a fraction of clockspeed are going to be harder to reverse engineer than something like the emotion engine or the entirety of N64?

>>149979795
>u wot m8?
Could be custom chips based on 68k architecture though

>Number of CPUs has nothing to do with how difficult to code for a system is.
True but the first point was that it's hard to emulate and the more CPU you have to sync the harder a system is to emulate and the more demanding it is.

>>149979519
>I'm just out of jail

Wat

Since Retroarch devs comes here, someone should tell Maister or SP to stop building the Vita port as .velf files since .vpk is what HENkaku uses, and .velf is for the deprecated Rejuvinate hack.

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Is there any way to prevent HUD from stretching when using widescreen hack in epsxe?

>>149985048
>ePSXe

>>149985048
That's stretched? Looks misaligned.

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>>149985048
>that resolution
>that IR
>ePSXe

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>>149985048
>People unironically think that this looks good, better than the original res even, and will play through the game like this

I heard it is possible to wire a ps2 into a computer and run games through that.

How?

My ps2 is the last slim model. It is also hardmodded to read burned dvds, but the cable seem more interesting

>>149986498
OpenPS2Loader

It's not emulation, and compatibility is all over the place. For instance, Final Fantasy X will work fine. DMC3 completely desyncs from cutscenes and has slowdowns in battle when lots of shit is going on at once and is unplayable.

>>149985112
Not only does it have better compatibility than PCSXR, it has GTE correction and inbuilt widescreen hacks

>>149985139
I just want to make it so that the HUD is unaffected by the widescreen hack. Dunno what the proper term for it was.

>>149986623
>Not only does it have better compatibility than PCSXR, it has GTE correction and inbuilt widescreen hacks
Yeah, and as we can clearly see, that widescreen hack is fucking fabulous and works flawlessly.

>>149986498
>>149986618
Yeah, with Samba/Windows networking shares (not exclusive to Windows!)

You'd be limited to the PS2's networking speed of 1-2MB/s though, which is just above USB speed and nowhere near disc or HDD.

Fat is the best option.

>>149986623
It doesn't have better compatibility, and PCSXR has all of those things as well texture aspect correction.

Also, PCSXR is open source and isn't made by jewish cunts

>>149969712
You want the TOSEC dreamcast set. It's in the wiki under need games.
Emuparadise or somewhere similar will get you yakuza.

>>149986623
>Not only does it have better compatibility than PCSXR, it has GTE correction and inbuilt widescreen hacks
1.) Your information about compatibility is false. They are equal now

2.) PCSX-R has better GTE correction and widescreen hacks

3.) Hi Pete! Stay off our wiki you accuracy test cheating fuck

>>149960329
I hear RA doesn't have enough devs and squarepusher is basically doing it alone

Best current OS for emulation of multiple platforms?

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>>149964703
>>149964860
>>149972287

>>149978272
So how do Jag emus exist at all if so much is undocumented? Just HLE bullshit?

>>149982354
Go to his IRC and tell him. There's no guarantee he will see it here even if he occasionally reads this

>>149988568
>So how do Jag emus exist at all if so much is undocumented? Just HLE bullshit?
Guess work. Remember, the first Jaguar emulators could basically only run Tempest 2000, then they just went from there.

It's just like how Citra with no 3DS documentation (at first) could only run OoT.

>>149988202
Arch

>>149989152
Would you say Retro...

...Arch?

>>149986498
You need cross over cables for it. Its around twice as fast as using USB for it but its still slower than a real DVD. Get a fat PS2 with network adapter and HDD or a slimline model with HDD hardmod(dunno how good this one works).

>>149987098
>>149987884
>have to actually antagonize people to get any real help here
fucking hell. thanks anyway. Gonna try PCSXR and see what it does.

>>149989152
Probably. Even then, since you could run Arch, you could do the same thing in any other distribution. Debian testing is pretty comfy.

>>149937481
I have an issue with Retroarch.

I downloaded cps2, neogeo roms but I cant make them appear as playlist with their covers and everything.

They told me to modify the roms with FBA and other software and I did, but they dont fucking appear in the playlist and I must open them manually. Does anyone have a cps/neogeo rom collection modified for running on retroarch cores?

Just tested PCSXR. Its the same shit but even worse. The flickering is so intense that it feels like interlacing and now the fmvs have that old black line down the right side of them because the packaged video plugin is fucking shit. Tried the Opengl2tweak which removes the black line but the flickering is the same.
What the fuck you lying cunts

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>>149994085
The widescreen misaligned HUD pictured

>>149994085
Let me guess, you didn't download the Son of Ugly fork from the wiki

Why is there no Atari 2600 no-intro on archive? Where can I find it?

>>149994794
>>149994304
You should be downloading PGXP

>>149995535
It has a Good-Sets archive, and I don't know why you want to torture yourself like that by playing Atari 2600 games in 2016.

Unless you're over 40 or some shit, then godspeed.

>>149994304
Is this what a misaligned QPU looks like?

I have no fucking idea what to play

>>149995535
Doesn't exist

There is still the goodset and maybe TOSEC?

>>149995678
I played ET for the first time recently and it was pretty fun for the hour or so that it took me to beat hard mode. No real replayablility though.

>>149990254
>>149989152
Ah shit, nevermind. My 280x isn't supported by current AMDGPU drivers so it's doubtful it will perform any better than Windows

>>149995678
Eh, there's some good games on it. Hero is pretty good. Adventure is kinda cool.

>>149996149
Yeah, unless you're running Tonga or Polaris, you should not use AMD on Linux. Even then, their performance is pretty bad compared to Nvidia proprietary drivers. At least their open source drivers are great.

It's the year 2016. Do we finally have a playable PS2 emulator?

Are there any NES mappers still not supported by an emulator yet?

>>149996686

For most notable games PCSX2 is playable, but it's still very underwhelming.

>>149996686
it works ok for a lot of games, not too great but not bad.

>>149996908
>>149996947
>PCSX2

This piece of shit is still the best there is? Blows my mind that no one has made an actually good emulator for a console as popular as the PS2.

Those fuckers have been developing this shit for over 10 years and it's still shit.

>>149997145

It's not a well documented console and has a complicated architecture. Could be a long time before we get a truly good PS2 emulator.

I remember in earlier versions of RetroArch, I could have a different shader set up for each core. Now, whenever I change the shader, it does it for all cores. Any ideas?

>>149997145
Console popularity doesn't have much to do with it besides generating a basal level of interest, especially it depends on who the console is popular with. Dudebros and the like? Then you'll get nothing? Autists constantly trying to relive their childhood? Much better shot.

>>150000631
>Dudebros and the like
That's the Xbox

which we don't even have an emulator at all for

>>150000781
qcemu is the next emulator superpower.

Is DesMuMe better than its core in RetroArch?

I'm actually thinking of playing on a multimonitor setup, with one screen per... screen

>>150000781
You really think dudebros weren't on the PS2? A console does not sell as much as it did without dudebros. There are not 150 million nerds out there

>>149998846
Enable per-core settings.

>>150001698
good point

xbox had more tho, and was marketed towards them

In RetroArch, downloaded the BIOS pack and now DS games wont run.
1. Any fixes?
2. If none, what is the filename of the DS BIOS so I can delete it?

>>150005783
The RetroArch BIOS pack doesn't have the DS BIOS in it (does desmume-libretro even look for BIOS?).

>>150007078
huh, i guess it's a different problem

i just updated from 1.2.2

>>150009413
Wait, it seems that it only shits itself when I run it from the 7z, which is a problem in itself since it's more convenient to run archives.

>>149992161
>I have an issue with Retroarch.
You'll fit right in here then.

>>150011174
i'll fite you irl

>>150011174
Why do people hate RetroArch just this much? I could understand the hate for SP but this tool has rendered worthless many standalone emulators I used to play with. It's really convenient and all.

>>150012268
It won't have rendered them useless once you start experiencing some of SP's trademarked Regressions(TM)

>>150015678
Like?

>>150015765
Like the time shaders didn't work for 2 months

>>150015903
Damn, when was this?

>>150016013
The time anon decided it was a good idea to use stable releases.

>>150016242
Wait people don't strictly use nightlies? What the fuck?

>>150016494
Nightly pusher is even more likely to make you experience a regression or two

>>150015903
That has never happened. I follow development closely and any shader breakage was quickly fixed. It never sat around for 2 months with no shaders working, no idea where you got this nonsense from.

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>>150017337
Hello, D.va

>>150017431
>>150017960

What kind of shitposting is this?

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>>150018043
koisheep posting

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So i have retroarch 1.3.6 i believe running on my wii. Whats the difference between the snes9x and sens9x next core? Is mgba or vba next better for gba emulation?

>>150018736
Next is faster but less accurate. mGBA is better.

>>150018212
>>>/board.byuu.org/

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Reminder that not everyone who plays video games even cares that they're preserved.

>>149986623
epsxe and pcsxr are both redundant.
>>149996042
Pick a studio you like, look up their games, play the ones you haven't already.
>>150012268
It's not very user friendly and new versions tend to remove or break things

>>150018859
Thanks. Mgba felt better but sometimes i like a second opinion. How about snes9x gx? Are those on retroarch better than it? Any recommdended games to use snes9xnext for?
>>150019034
No thank you.

>>150019560
yes yes yes yes, you make me so hot.

Did someone get upset again because they didn't get their question answered?

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What's the best SNES emulator on Retroarch?

>>150020337
bsnes-mercury-balanced

>>150020375
Why wouldn't one of the "accurate" ones be best? I know they'll be harder to run, and that might matter on a phone or 3DS or something, but anything other than that?

I'm playing Earthbound on bsnes and the scrolling is not smooth at all, jerky as fuck when I'm walking around. Is there a way to fix that?

>>150020508
You fix two games and lose a third of your already low framerate.

>>150020672
Even on muh NASA-tier super computer?

>>150020615
It's originally this way. I found it irritating too at first. Like playing OoT at its original framerate after so many years.

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>>150020362
>act

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>>150020727

>>150020362
Do you not have anything better to do?

>>150020817
Ouch my autism. Alright, I'll deal with it. Thanks m8

>>150020727
A NASA-tier super computer would be shit at emulating.

>>150021040
Not my one, it's good at everything. NASA made me a special one because I helped them remember the difference between cm and inches.

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>>150020508
Only for the games in pic related.

Audio latency matters more than 'accuracy'. If you aren't running a <16ms buffer without glitching, you need a faster core.

>>150023503
I can't set the buffer any lower than 32, it seems.

On another note, how to I go back to the RetroArch menu without closing the whole program? I thought it might be Esc but that just shuts it down.

>>150023503
How is accuracy and low latency mutually exclusive?

>>150024274
> I can't set the buffer any lower than 32
Try the vulkan video driver, max swapchain 1, windowed fullscreen off.

> how to I go back to the RetroArch menu
By default F1 or the center button on the XBox controller. It's in the Help menu at the bottom.

>>150024585
Not mutually exclusive, but the slower cores may require a larger audio buffer on some systems.

>>150024585
Low latency options typically need more resources, same goes for accuracy, and you only have so much processing power to go around.

>>150025873
I don't have the Vulkan driver installed. I just googled it and it gives me the impression it's for N64 games.

>>150026074
Then it sounds like the solution is use higan snes core if you have enough performance otherwise use snes9x. I don't see the problem. I'm sure if someone can propose a solution that would increase performance without losing accuracy Byuu would accept.

>>150019068
Reminder that people who use the word "preserved" are actually just pirates

If you guys cared about preserving games you'd wait for the console's lifecycle to end before stealing the product

Wow lcd shaders look like shit when at a high scale

>>150027276
Most people should be able to run mercury-balanced just fine with some latency options on, the accuracy profile needs significantly more power though and it only helps one game.
>I'm sure if someone can propose a solution that would increase performance without losing accuracy Byuu would accept.
You'd be wrong then. There's some change in mercury that increases performance by ~25% in some instances, with no drawbacks, but byuu wont merge it (I think his excuse was he wont merge what he doesn't understand). There's also the option for HLE special chips, which is faster, but byuu doesn't like options.

Why do people even want to contribute to bsnes, when he's selling his license to crooks??

>>150028362
I don't understand either...

>>150027128
ParaLLEl is the only core that requires vulkan, but it enables sizeable latency reductions in almost all cases.

I have a Dualshock 4 that I use with DS4Windows. It's works great with all games but with Retroarch there's something in the settings that must be ignoring the touchpad. I've set up shortcuts in DS4Win so the PS button is F1, right touchpad is record movie, left touchpad is screenshot. It doesn't work, though.

Anyone have any experience with this and can tell me if it's possible to change the driver or whatever to get this to work?

>>150028147
General case performance is about the same though. byuu rolled some of the changes from mercury into upstream higan builds. Some of the others are irrelevant because of subsequent changes, and stuff like SuperFX overclocking he won't include because he hates fun.

Fun fact: higan has even CPU utilization across 4 cores now.

>>149985048

PGXP! Remove those wobbly textures.

>>150030104
But it's accurate.

>>150030501

High resolutions and wide screen aren't accurate. If you're going to upscale, might as well do it right.

Retroarch crashing when trying to play Phantasy Star, it doesn't matter which core I use. The same ROM works perfectly with the Fusion emulator.

Can mednafen only run PSX games at native? Using retroarch. Do they look fine at native as long as I use a decent shader? Trying to run Chrono Cross, if it helps.

Im triying to play Kirby SSU on desmume but the cinematics are hella desynchronized, the game itsefl runs pretty well. Anyone know how to fix that?

>>150030816

I would recommend having a CRT Monitor set to 640x480 for use in SD games. Don't bother with shaders.

>>>/v/346659209
Who was right, /emugen/?

>>150030886

Ah.

I think I might just snag a CRT TV on craigslist and a PSX. But Emulation + CRT seems more economical.

>>150031003

CRT monitor + emulation is great. You have flexibility too. You can go full HD if you want to.

There's even shaders to give the 480 screen a 240 look if you want to.

>>150030816
mednafen in RetroArch can do higher than native resolutions. Start a game then hit F1 to bring up the Quick Menu, then go to options.

>>150030816
Did you have to do anything to get it to work? I just get a black screen when I try to run SotN or Xenogears.

>>150031392

Just put the bios in the folder the FAQ mentions.

>>150031380

It only lets me select software as a render device for some reason.

Use the 'mednafen-psx-hw' core if you want to use the hardware renderer.

>>150031619
In "System"? I've done that and I still just get a black screen.

>>150032059
What are the differences between hardware and software rendering?

>>150030605
what autism.

>>150032196
Never mind, I'm a complete retard.

>>150032925
Hardware uses your GPU and is better although software is more compatible IIRC. If you want it to look better than it originally did, you want hardware.

>>150033026
What? Software can do the same things hardware can do.

>>150033145
Really? I'm sure that at least on other emulators, software was basically like a fixed mode that worked but looked shit and didn't necessarily get the best performance but it could fix things like, say, the FMV in FFX-2 going super scanline-y. Hardware had way more stuff you could do to it and would use something like DX or whatever.

>>150033361
Yeah it depends on the software renderer. Most are native resolution only, but mednafen-libretro allows for higher resolutions (you most likely will only be able to go up to 2x resolution though as it's quite slow).

>>150033145
Please don't mind me cumming into my own shit encrusted fedora, sir.

could my toaster run double dash "fine"? i got an i3 and a 750ti

What's a good CRT filter for Genesis?

>>150035246
Yes, my previous PC was way worse than that and could emulate GC stuff easily.

For some reason the RA scan won't pick up on most of my SNES games. Is it because they're fan translations, maybe? I've even fixed their checksums but it still won't detect them. It's only picking up an X-Men game and SF2.

>>150027757
Which corporation do you work for, Cleetus?

>>150035468
I just use the same for every core

>>150036174
.sfc or .smc or mixed?

>>150036174
It's because they're fan translations, don't bother using the scan shit, it uses a fixed inflexible catalogue.

>>150037691
>>150036174
What's even the point of scanning? Just choose your roms through the file system

>>150038162
So you can have them easily accessible from the menu. Retroarch actually makes it more tedious to select things than just using separate programs.

>>150038276
I just put my ROMs folder at the top of my C: drive so they're easy to access

I really wish you could dedicate a default "ROMs" folder for easy access.

>>150038162
Incompetent people don't organize their roms into console folders for quick selection in Select Content and Auto-Detect Core mode.

>>150038485
>I really wish you could dedicate a default "ROMs" folder for easy access.
Content Directory in the Directory settings, IIRC.

>>150038485
What the fuck, why are you dumb? Who made you dumb? Change the directories RA defaults to by going into options and finding the "Directories" category.

>>150038664
rude

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>>150038664

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Can we stop this shader nonsense where gameboy screens had huge dark lines all over?

>>150043835
>GB BOY COLOUR

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I'm waiting for the day Indiana Jones and the Anal Machine can finally be emulated without issues.

>>150046034
Doesn't it run full speed with Parallel?

>>150046623
>Doesn't it run full speed with Parallel?
It's not a matter of speed. There are FPU and MMU issues.

>>150046034
>playing Indy trash

>>150049436
I thought only PJ64 had FPU issues? What' MMU issues does it have?

Someone should contact the CEN64 devs and ask them to investigate that game..

why is retro arch scanning my snes games folder at like 1 game per second
every other system has gone like 5 times faster than this

>>150050168
>I thought only PJ64 had FPU issues? What' MMU issues does it have?
There's something wrong with virtual memory in Indiana Jones, based on the error messages it spits out at the end of each level. But attempts to debug it haven't gotten very far because the FPU is screwy, and of course fixing it has become complicated because Zilmar doesn't want to break Android compatibility.

>Someone should contact the CEN64 devs and ask them to investigate that game..
It doesn't even boot in Cen64, so I think it'll be a while before Cen64 gets anywhere.

All the emulators struggle with it. Mupen64plus is worse because the geometry constantly tears, and the physics are wrong.

It needs reasonably accurate CPU, RSP, Virtual Memory, and also fast enough RDP emulation. It's kinda like Rogue Squadron III, which had MMU issues with Dolphin for years.

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RetroArch: UNIX philosophy edition.

RetroArch is good at running things, but video players are better at displaying them. With this change RetroArch's output is passed to ffplay through an UNIX socket.

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>>150052430
Looks awfully confusing

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>>150054002
Thanks.

>>150052430
UNIX philosophy is sometimes pretty shit.

>>150052430
What's wrong with the way RA displays things?

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So the GTE accuracy in PCSXR is actually top notch with PGXP but this leads to new problems.
There are random framerate drops for some reason even when company logo and fmvs are running. Makes everything feel choppy as fuck.
The HUD is even more fucked now. Any way to fix this?

Step on the gas?

>>150050532
What's the point of scanning your SNES games folder if you already have an organized SNES games folder

what's the best solution for snes netplay

>>150057505
How else do you get it to show up in your playlists?

>>150057949
I remember when I first got Winamp, I didn't like this "play list" shit so I just opened a file when I wanted to listen to it

>>150057949
dude just choose what you want to play

>>150058598
The file browser in Retroarch is kind of shit though.

>>150056210
Ok I fixed the black health bar by disabling the texture filtering from INI but how can I fix that misaligned HUD?

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can someone tell me how to run atari 800 games in retroarch pls?!

>>150061775
800 games all at the same time? You mad man

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>>150061775
You can probably do it with MAME.

>>150065661
probably.
what would the arguments look like though?
eg: retroarch.exe -L cores\mame_libretro.dll at800 -disk1 C:\atari800\astrogrover.zip

??

>>150065951
I have no idea. I can't even figure out how to use MESS in standalone MAME.

You could go ask on IRC

>>149979618
RetroArch .vpk when?

>>150035468
>What's a good CRT filter
Lottes.
>>150038485
Unbelievable.

>>150068220
i do the same thing. the emulator should be smart enough to figure out what's what.

>>150067635
>shitposting at someone who left three hours ago

Why bother?

>>150068845
Shitposting? The misaligned HUD is almost certainly caused by some kind of widescreen hack.

>>150031380
You hsould be able to change internal resolution to 2x.
There's an experimental hardware rendering core too. Don't expect it to work well.

So this new PareLLEl core, does it only work with Vulkan? I tried it on Retroarch Android and it just crashed out (nexus 6 on android 6)

>>150075734
>does it only work with Vulkan
Yes.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq7_6R_cvgw

It's been two years guys...

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>>150076096
>going to say it feels longer
>look at date
>it has been longer

Why do you get my hopes up

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Now that we have emulators adding Vulkan support, does it start to matter what video card you use for emulation? Supposedly the 480s do much better than the new GTX 10xx cards at Vulkan and async.

>>150076662
Use AMD for the love of all that is holy in your religion if you want async compute.

>>150055432
Literally nothing. I was bored so I wrote the code.

>>150076096
Man, all of the "it just works for meme"

>>149958225
is that fucking dune?

retroarch for vita WHEN

>>150081854
That's what I want to know

How do I improve my speed in PCSX2? I'm able to get fairly solid speeds in most games but for some reason I just can't get more than like 40 fps on Super Robot Wars Impact where most of the actual gameplay takes place.

>>150076662
ParaLLEl is developed on nVidia and runs on Intel, so presumably the bar is as abysmally low for async compute as it is for GPUs in general where emulation is concerned.

Also the reference RX480 is fucking horrible.

>>150083576
Upgrade your toaster. No, there is no magic setting that'll make the emulator run better

Why do save files never transfer between emulators even though they use the same file type?

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>>150091690
>it is 2016 and emulators do not use a standard format for saves

>>150043835
Terrible screen

>>150091690
GPSP and mGBA share the same save files, it depends on the emulator. I wish Retroarch didn't rename everything to .srm yet they gave up on that when they got to Desmume's .dsv files.

Please go back to .sav.

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Where's the damn Retroarch .vpk?

Ayyyyy

>>150091690

PlayStation memory card images are pretty standard

>>150083576
MTVU.

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euro speedrunner assembly has some pretty good runs so far, but man do most of these guys have thick accents. i keep forgetting how big europe is, I was expecting just hours of "rooty tooty point n shooty" commentary.

>>150100053
what gaem

>>149967267
Just depends on the system in question really. Portable stuff I much prefer to play on hardware. I'll emulate anything pre 5th gen at this point. Saturn, DC, N64, most PS2 games and Xbox I play on hardware. Hoping we see advances in Saturn emulation soon from Ryphecha.

>>150100053
Media makes me think everyone speaks american english

>>150000781
XBOX was literally Dreamcast 2.0 my dude. All those great Smilebit and racing games.

I thought ParaLLel was supposed to be perfect, but Conker runs like shit on it. Also why doesn't it work at proper 3x native? Aren't N64 games 320x240? My monitor is 1366x768 yet I can't get 3x native integer

Now baby I'm the ripper

Can you recommend a game to emulate that would look fucking beautiful on a CRT monitor

Something fast

>>150105543
Alien Soldier

>>150104227
Masters of Darkness

>>150105543
Elemental Gimmick Gear

>>150105345
It's not done yet

When attoseconds aren't accurate enough

http://hastebin.com/raw/toxedenece

>>150105543
Sonic 2

Any good DS emulators out there for Android that don't cost 6 fucking dollars?

>>150108108
Just pirate it.

>>150107391

https://twitter.com/byuu_san/status/759188134605185024

>>150095829
Yeah, what the fuck SP?

Seriously though all they need to do is the icons/wallpapers (which can be shared like on 3DS) and send the velf to the packager.

Hopefully somebody comes along with a PR for it.

>>150108232
How? I'm not willing to root.

>>150108597
Lucky patcher on a rooted device. I mean, why would you get an android device and not root it, that'd just be silly.

>>150108819
What if you have an unrootable device?

>>150109202
Then that'd be even sillier. Although chances are a generic rooting tool will work. And really, there's no truly unrootable device.

So, how exactly do I run multi-disc games> m3u file right? And will the game still ask me to switch discs or automatically progress?

>>149978459
Corporate autism

>>150108285
Is byuu nuts?

>>150110543
>m3u file right?
Yes.
>And will the game still ask me to switch discs or automatically progress?
How would the game know you've made a playlist and have the next disc ready to go? Of course it still asks you to switch discs.

>>150111103
OK, and how do you switch discs in RA?

>>150111646
Disk Control > Disk Cycle Tray Status > Disk Index > Disk Cycle Tray Status

>>150111920
>>150111646
You can also just bind hotkeys for it

>>150111920
Thank you

What is the best emulator for Mother 3? I remember playing on VBA, and battle system was laggy. Any tips?

>>150111920
Why is the second step repeated?

>>150113461
mGBA or VBA-M

>>150113517
Open then close.

>>150113727
Why do you have to emulate the experience of operating a disc tray? Why can't you just pick a new disc?

>>150113461
Retroarch mGBA core, KMS

>>150113461
MAME/MESS

>>150113961
Because the game expects that the drive will send it a signal that the drive is closed and ready to operate and it was probably left to be done manually because doing it automatically would BREAK STUFF™

Why do Nintendo consoles always have amazing emulation scenes and other companies don't? With the exception of the N64 of course.

>>150115662
Because the fanbase has the most autism of all of them

>>150115662
The PS1 has a near perfect emulator

>>150116341
What is imperfect about it? Just curious.

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jesus christ guys pokemon isnt *that* good

>>150116543
Pokemon fans are crazed fanatics

>>150116507
i dunno

maybe the lack of gui, but that doesn't really affect emulation quality now does it

but like with all emulators there's probably some tiny inaccuracies

>>150115662
this >>150115770
and Nintendo tech ever since Gamecube has generally been simple, standards compliant stuff to avoid the horrific difficulty of creating games they experienced on N64

>>150116694
It affects my emulation quality since without a GUI I'm forced to use ePSXe which has much worse emulation quality.

>>150116902
Just use the RetroArch core

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>>150117262

>>150118889

Are you arguing that having options is a bad thing?

>>150118889
>oh no my software is complicated

Options is better than no options. What would really be nice is a decent manual.

>>150118889
Well meme'd

>>150118889
Let's just do like OpenEmu

Have like 2 options for every core

Have terrible fucking performance

Maybe 4 or 5 filters

>>150118889
this isn't the future of emulation.
sp just doesn't know the difference between settings, preferences, options and configurations.

>>150119065
>>150119115

Some of them could be merged or removed probably.

I guess the major argument would be I want options where I would want to change something and I don't want them when I wouldn't ;)

>>150118889
So? I understand what all of those settings do, and most of them are very necessary.

>>150120289
>I
>I
>I
>I

You're not the only person who uses it.

should i play leaf green or fire red guys help

>>150120660
Users are all about me me me, so I shouldn't surprise you.

>>150120610
Many of them are niche settings, like recording or multimedia. And privacy has like one useless option or just a blurb about it or something.

>>150120958
Well, would you rather not have those options?

>>150120951
Do you care about any particular exclusive pokemon? If not, just flip a coin.

>>150120951
sparky yellow

>>150122253
What's with the n64 hud.