This little nigga runs everything.

It's less accurate than Mednafen/Beetle PSX (Retroarch)

It's now closed source proprietary software

I don't want to use a standalone emulator ever, none of their frontends match the features and consistency of Retroarch. The dev is also a schizo that has absolute seething rage meltdowns over anything.

>>714950984 (OP)
yep it's great, I press play and it's good to go.

>>714951198
>Retroarch

>>714951198
>Texture Warp corection on
>1080P on
>60 FPS on
Fuck your accuracy nigger, it's not 1994 anymore (unfortunately).

>>714951471
Affine texture warping is such garbage. I didn't even like it when the PS1 was "new" and vastly preferred the N64 because of it.

>>714950984 (OP)
I had it freak the fuck out at one point while playing Shadow Tower on whatever the default settings were. That's it though. Everything else has been just fine to great.

>>714951198
>MUH ACCURACY
If you care about accuracy you probably also want to cut your dick off

retroACK!

>>714951545
Sony wanted to release the PS1 before the N64 so you got a 3D rendering console with no Z buffer.
It paid off though.
>I vastly prefered the N64 due to it
Meh, the PS1 had more and better games, plus long term you can fix it now with emulation.

>>714951198
>It's now closed source proprietary software
>https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation
????

>>714951471
Depends on the game for me. Some don't look right with everything at super high res. So I use per-game settings and fine tune things to what I like before playing.

>>714951198
>I don't want to use a standalone emulator ever
Retard needs his hand held.

>>714951889
I guess so, low res pre rendered backgrounds with high res polygon models don't mesh well.
But it has honestly never bothered me enough since the pros outweight the cons.
Running stuff checkboarded bothers me a whole lot more than issues like that.
Resident Evil Remake also had that issue on original Gamecube as the character models looked a bit too clean compared to many of it's pre rendered 2D backgrounds.

>>714951545
Personally I prefer texture filtering OFF on low res graphics which is why I always liked the PS1 more. I turn it off manually in HL1 too btw

>>714951764
PGXP texture correction is far from completely fixing it. Some games that attempted to address the issue with a workaround like the Spyro games look just as shitty, just a different kind of shitty.

>>714952420
Same, it just smears everything into an awful mess.
It's really no wonder I thought Half Life looked better to me before all the updates.
The 25th Anniversary thankfully made texture filtering off by default and added the option to enable and disable it.

It's like night and day

>>714952650
The polygons stay still, that's good enough for me, though I don't mind improvements.

Never use PGXP, never disable dithering, never upscale

All problems fixed by CRT shader

>>714952930
Looks like ass
Real CRT or get the fuck out

>>714950984 (OP)
he's yellow

>>714953003
Damn, this guy knows his colors!

>>714952930
>>714952990
Yeah I'd rather just have no shader than that CRT shader.

>>714952930
Looks like shit

>>714953076
Believe it or not
He's actually white!

>>714950984 (OP)
It doesnt run on 32-bit systems. So in trash it goes

>>714953597
Ultra turbo most brownest most third-worldest poster on 4chan to ever exist

>>714953597
>Please unlock your copy of Windows

>>714950984 (OP)
Psx1.13 or bust

https://github.com/unofficial-issue-tracker/duckstation/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+sort%3Aupdated-desc

>>714950984 (OP)
Can you do netplay on duckstation?

>>714953861
>Ultra turbo most brownest most third-worldest poster on 4chan to ever exist
KEK

>>714950984 (OP)
non-free software disgusting

>>714951198
Are you the same fag that bitches about the Triangle glyph in God of War at native resolution in PCSX2? Fuck you, fuck accuracy, and fuck your mom.

>>714951198
>it’s less accurate
It runs really well, it’s as good as using the hardware, you are lying.
>it’s now closed source
It has a public GitHub. What is this, more lies?
>I don't want to use a standalone emulator ever
So now we get to the actual issue and it’s all you.

>>714952990
>real CRT
No. I left those behind some number of decades ago, filthy reseller. Get someone else to pay money for the garbage you took out of a .

>>714950984 (OP)
Literally 0 good games

Is Um Jammer Lammy fucked on Duckstation or do I or the game just suck? Cant even beat the first stage. PCSX2 runs Parappa 2 just fine and I can ace that game no problem

>>714959987
I never played UJL, but it likely suffers from the same problems as Parappa 1 (desync issues in the core game compounded by emulator lag and system lag).

>>714952990
>>714953139
You can make it look pretty good though.

is there a single game worth playing on PS1?

>>714959856
>>714960273

>>714951198
Nooooooooooo i have to click a different icon on my desktop, please help me gaben they are literally raping me!!

>>714960273
The only good series on the ps1 is crash, but shit last 2 hours you finish each game in one session.

>>714960273
>FF8
>Parasite Eve
>sequel
>Fade to Black (fully textured unlike the PC version)
>Chocobo's Dungeon
>sequel
>Torneko spinoff
>Nuclear Strike
>Soviet Strike
>Thunder Strike
>Road Rash
>maybe the 2 others, but I never played them
>Loaded
There's also a bunch of jarpigs and shmup ports that either still are hard to emulate (like Raiden DX) or not worth doing because the PSX ports are so good.

>>714960273
Resident Evil 1-3 and Silent Hill are obvious ones. But you need high IQ to enjoy them. Unfortunately you might not make the cut.

>>714951198
>Mednafen
fair
>retroarch
kill yourself

>>714953597
stick to zsnes gramps

I only use retroarch for some beetle texture replacement fuckery in xenogears

>>714951198
>MUHHH ACCURACY! OH MY GOD IT'S SO INNACURATE THESE 2 PIXELS SHOULD NOT LOOK LIKE THIS! OMG I'M CANNOT TAKE THIS ANYMORE AIIIIIEEEE JEWARCH SAVE MEEEEEE!!
remove yourself from existence.

Upscale + CRT shader is the chad move
CRT shader downscales again to proper res so it looks anti-aliased and nice without being too far off from original, and 2D elements look fantastic.

>>714951198
Ironic that I dropped mednafen in favor of duckstation and whatever compatibility issues I had went away.
Although I do still get a crash in Resident Evil 2 randomly for some odd reason. That happened in both and makes me think it's my disc copies or something.

>>714961495
This is the developer of Duckstation btw

He hates accuracy and CRT shaders (but only because his implementation is inferior to Retroarch slang shaders)

>>714961770
CRT shaders are dog shit. If you use CRT shaders, you will never in a btrillion years experience CRT. You'll think you have experienced it, but you'll be cheated. It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a CRT, on your fucking LCD. Get real.

>>714961495
>>MUHHH DYSPHORIA! OH MY GOD MY GENDER'S SO INNACURATE THESE DICKS SHOULD NOT LOOK LIKE THIS! OMG I'M CANNOT TAKE THIS ANYMORE AIIIIIEEEE DR GOLDBERG TRANSITION MEEEEEE!!
People want games to be how they remember them you zoomoid twat.

>>714960273

>>714962097
I already experienced CRT, it was nice. I still use CRT shaders because while it won't match the appearance of a real CRT, it looks better than crusty pixels in most cases.

>>714950984 (OP)
Mednafen is and always will be better.

>>714951448
Brainlet filtered by a comprehensive UI thats also customizable lol

>>714951621

I haven't emulated psx in over a decade, I was using epsxe back then
I'd use duckstation now simply because the nigga is adorable. I'm gonna replay PE1+2 soon

>>714963909
I open Duckstation and all the settings I need are easily found and accessed. Beyond that, I just click the games to start playing. What the fuck do you need to "customize"?

>>714964969
This guy shills Retroarch all the time. He's not someone who can be reasoned with.

>>714963909
i think some people prefer to have a lot of specialized single purpose tools instead of combine solution that does everything.
thats the best way to retain independence without relying on a faggot that maintains that tool.

>>714960273
are you a zoomer or just a retard that pretends to play games?

I think people who don't like Retroarch aren't programmers

Anyone who knows any programming at all, or understands how software works would love Retroarch.

It turns the chaos of standalone emulators into a standardized paradigm

The frontend and libretro has rules, it has an API, it's standardized. The emulators are now one single file, a .dll or .so file, called cores, they all go in the cores folder

Their options are now all standardized, they write to a standard config file location, they save to a standard location

Everything frontend related, from controller input, audio, shaders, hotkeys, is all configured once and now works for every core

The fast-forward and screenshot button you configured now works on every emulator with zero extra configuration

This work consistently and predictably, for years and years and years

One package vs. 15

>>714965639
>change setting
>have to restart core to see how it affected things
Great design, faggot.

>>714965639
it's genuinely unappealing to look at and has a bad UI

>>714965639
I don't emulate 20 different systems, autistic redditor-kun. And every time I tried to setup anything for Retroarch, it took me like three times the amount of time just to configure a single system correctly than it would have just installing a dedicated emulator from scratch and redoing my controller inputs and whatnot, simply because of how shit it is to navigate the UI.

I know you'll tell me how smart you are that you found a way to turn your Retroarch into a convenient Rube Goldberg machine that does everything it needs to, but I don't care to do that.

>>714963236
Not without Mednaffe it's not

>>714966075
There's 3 different UIs, I think ozone (the default for years now) looks good, not the old PS3 XMB one though

>>714966126
Well I do emulate 16 different systems on RA. You think it's complex but it's actually the opposite, it's simplicity. It's portable C, it will compile and run on basically anything.I

It tard wrangles in 16 different standalone emulators doing 16 different things

An emulator developer really never has to care about anything frontend related, they could just develop the core emulation and let Retroarch handle all frontend, they're not going to do it better than RA anyway, literally no one has.

>>714961671
why the fuck are you using discs to emulate

What is the best NES emulator?

>>714966631
3dSen.

>>714966631
NES - Mesen
SNES - bsnes-jg or Snes9x (for speed)
N64 - Mupen64plus-nx
PS1 - Beetle PSX
PS2 - LRPS2 (PCSX2 fork)
Genesis - Genesis Plus GX
Saturn - Beetle Saturn
Dreamcast - Flycast
GB(C) - Sameboy
GBA - mGBA
DS - Melon DS DS
PSP - PPSSPP

Only reason to use retroarch is genesisplusgx and wide core, everything else has better standalone emulation.

>>714967135
i wish there were more emulators with widescreen hacks. it's so amazing to use.

>>714952930
Nigga that looks like festering garbage. I've seen flip phones with better visuals.

>>714950984 (OP)
After using ePSXe for 20 years my friend convinced me to at least try DS and compare a game.
I can't believe how much better this is. I don't know if there's another one that's even better, but this one should be good enough for the rest of my life.
I especially like the ability to map hotkeys to gamepad buttons, including combinations, so I can set save state to R3+R2 for example.
And geometry correction.

>>714966440
>let Retroarch handle all frontend
that's the main thing I'm trying to avoid, you loser shill

>>714950984 (OP)
but they don't tell you that you need the beta version to actually have any fucking features enabked, retarded fucking emulator woth retarded fucking devs

>>714950984 (OP)
didn't work with brave fencer musashi tho - i mean it runs fine but i was unable to avoid the first boss's attacks at all
other than that yeah it's a pretty good emulator, was able to play some ps1 games i wanted to try out

>>714966551
Retard what the fuck do you think an ISO is

>>714967385
latest stable is one month old, what features are missing?

>>714966723
>3dSen
this looks cool but also lmao at charging money for it

>>714965639
stop

reddit

spacing

you

gigantic

fucking

faggot

>>714967501
It's an old complaint that's not really valid anymore. I run nightly because bells and whistles, but it used to be the 2.0 branch wasn't available on stable for a long time, and it had fucked up input control and so on.

>>714967501
all the fucking hotkey binds that aren't accessible unless it's the beta version

>>714951198
>crt filter
mental illness
also it's open source, check its github
>>714950984 (OP)
the settings are too limited and it's very buggy especially screen capture (every 6 seconds has an audio glitch)
the ffmpeg option doesn't even work, it asks for DLLs and even if you provide it with the DLLs it still refuses to use the ffmpeg backend

I use Retroarch for shit up to 5th gen because I couch game and having menus that favour controllers is helpful.
I think Duckstation is fine, but the dev is a massive faggot for changing the license because he was sperging out about forks. He wants the dev clout of open source without any of the caveats

>>714952420
this is so much better than the blurry bullshit

>>714950984 (OP)
i tried running dragonheart but the audio crackles so bad it makes the ears bleed, and i tried many options to fix but it did not work, so no this nigga does not just run everything, it's always searching through endless options to fix things, wasting your time, the old days were superior as always, emulation is always wonky for some reason even in 2025

>>714952930
the crt meme has hit thermonuclear levels of comical insanity among the NPCs

>>714952990
I do not care about CRTs

>>714951198
>royale on anything less than 4k
>DEFAULT SETTINGS royale

>>714951198
I tried beetle on retroarch and couldn't get it to run LSD dream emulator for some reason. Other games ran fine.

>>714966426
Just install retroarch in you're phone and the beetle psx core.

>>714962854
no it wasn't

>>714968203
Just uninstall your life, shill

>>714968163
Probably missing a Japanese BIOS

>>714966939
everything here is wrong except for snes and psp

>>714965639
there are so many bootcamp trannies nowadays that "programmer" doesn't mean anything in 2025. You're probably some webshitter who thinks
>x % 2 == 0
is "higher maffs" and uses an is_even package/library
no wonder you're defending the bloated mess of retroarch

>>714961770
this CRT meme is so fucking retarded kek

Why does /v/ hate Retroarch? It pisses off Redditors and trannies so I'd assume anons would love that just for that. Is it a skill issue? I'm not technically savvy but there are wikis and YouTube videos which show you how to configure. The only thing that's annoying is the thumbnail download thing doesn't always work.

>>714968338
I have all 3 bios(es?), was able to get it running on duckstation no problem.

>>714953380
also why did they give him boots?

>>714951198
>all these dumb replies
Anyone else notice how 4chan is just retarded normalfags now

>>714968607
we're not 80 IQ contrarians who love shit because mentally ill people hate it

>>714968607
It's not that /v/ hates RetroArch. Most of us use it for certain things. It's the RetroArch shill (it's one guy) who's psychotic that makes people pick on him.
But, RetroArch isn't without its problems
>goofy interface (whatever skin you pick or the desktop interface isn't great)
>having to restart cores to apply changes, when most standalones can do it during runtime
>some libretro cores aren't at parity with standalones on features people like
It's not BAD, but it's not Jesus and Muhammed grilling steaks.

>>714961770
you're insane

>>714968784
the crt filter is the most normalfag take on emulation
you can easily dismiss the whole post just based off that

>>714968825
You gotta take meds and stop spreading retarded disinfo

>>714968274
>Makes a whole thread to mass shill duckstation
>People tell him to use mednafen because it's objectively better
>Hurr durr neck you'reself shill!!!!
The absolute state, bet you're the retard developing it.

>>714968607
I like it, but for some systems the cores they offer (or their versions) are just worse than stand alones.

>>714968105
It works fine. You're mentally ill.

>>714969135
>someone makes a complaint
>"NUH UH! MEDS!"

>>714968856
He's correct that retroarch cores are the most accurate emulation, and that's literally all that matters. Using something else is like bragging you use gzdoom for regular wads because it's "feature rich". 5 seconds of temporary once in a lifetime inconvenience is a small price to pay for good emulation, and not a single person has offered a more accurate alternative.

>>714968140
>>714968856
CRT Royale in 4k is great, what settings would you recommend if not the default?
Not OP but I’m playing ICO with Royale in 4k and I think it’s gorgeous, how can I improve it???

>>714969197
>someone made shit up with 0 proof
>melts down when challenged

>>714969210
We don't care, shill.

>>714968105
no idea why the fuck these emulators have fucked up audio that pops and crackles so often. They should focus on that instead of pandering to autistic losers.

>>714968984
>>People tell him to use mednafen because it's objectively better
Is there any up-to-date comparison on what "accuracy" I'm missing out on compared to Mednafen when using the most recent version of Duckstation? I'm getting a bit tired of seeing autists screech about accuracy without ever showing concrete examples.

>>714960273
I have stockpilled all of the roms to confirm it.
So far satifying results are:
>Baroque
>SotN
>Silent Hill
>X-COM
>Armored Core
>Civ II
>Spyro II
>SP Gunbike
>Mad Panic Coaster
>Dodonpachi
>Fear Effect
>GaiaSeed
>Wip3out SE

I think biggest suprise so far is W3:SE. No wonder I've hated nu-wipeouts. They are slow af compared to the 3rd.

>>714969413
where'd you get your roms

>>714966723
Now show me what it looks like with some random game nobody gives a shit about.

>>714969413
This is insanely grim taste, lurk for at least 10 years before you post again

>>714969392
Both are fine and it's incredibly autistic to argue about it. Just use whichever comes with the best QoL features and/or enhancements suited for your needs.

>>714960273
>>714969413
Ghost in the Shell.

>>714951875
>Licence
>Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

>>714969574
>113 issues
There were 1000 non Jap PS1 games. Isn't that 10% of the entire library doesn't work?

>>714965639
People will say the UI sucks but you can mostly ignore it once you fiddle with some settings you want and run it through a frontend like Playnite.

Too many standalone emulators is a pain in the ass in 2025, especially since some of them still need to have you hotkey your controller inputs, fuck off.

>>714951198
What makes you think I want accuracy?
As for the devs I've been around long enough to know that mental instability and emu devs go hand in hand, I don't give a shit as long as their work is good.

>>714964969
I like CRT shaders.
Change my mind.

>>714969702
Issues doesn't mean that the game doesn't work. Here, look for yourself: https://github.com/unofficial-issue-tracker/duckstation/issues
It's mostly minor issues, some of them with literal prototype games and some are not even clear if they're actual issues with the emulator but instead issues with the game itself or the setup of the user.

>not using pic related on your pentium 3

>>714951198
I'm 100% sure that most of the replies to your posts are by stenzek himself

Mentally ill fucker

>>714969210
>accuracy
Why not play on real hardware? I want to play at 4k with shit looking pretty, faggot.

>>714969557
>t. squere slopper troon

>>714967135
run-ahead and better shader support make it better than most standalone emulators pre 6th gen.

CRTs are fine but I've never thought a shader looks good and I feel like it's just pure cope from people who don't want to go out of their way to actually set up a real crt.

>>714969970
Hundreds of small issues add up to a big problem. Why don't the developers fix any of them?

>>714960273
FF7
FF8
FF9
FFT
Xenogears
Vagrant Story
Suikoden

>>714967253
This has been a thing for a decade or so now, it's crazy how many people think duckstation invented it now.

>>714970162
Are you retarded?

>>714966939
>>LRPS2
>Libretro core
fuck off

>>714969960
So what’s better than CRT Royale’s default settings? >>714969253

>>714969960
I have Shaderglass configured how I want for 2D stuff, so it's nice to have one solution I don't need to configure for each emulator.
>>714970138
It's not worth the trouble just for 2D games. It's not like cards have S-Video out anymore. Shaders do a decent job if you have a good monitor.

>>714970198
Are you the developer?

Duckastation is the best emulator i've ever used. Shit just works.

>>714966939
It looks like you're tied to RetroArch cores
I'd suggest duckstation over beetle and regular pcsx2 over the core
>>714968441
I would love to see your list

>>714970305
dont know if youre a retarded zoomer or being disingenous on purpose
do you know how any of this even works or are you just saying shit

>make a thread to shill your own garbage software
>people say it's garbage
>samefag your ass off

>>714968441
melonDS is objectively better than Desmume. Desmume dev is a cuck who hates pokemon so he decided he'll never support wireless/wifi functionality

>>714970404
>a-actually, it's everyone else that's samefagging!
Why does every thread on /v/ these days devolve into this kind of shit. It's so tiresome.

>>714966440
What are the best cores for each console up to the 5th console gen? I have a powerful PC if that matters~

>>714970442
>dude cuckity cuck cuck cuckoldry
opinion dismissed

>>714969816
>>714970404
Shut the fuck up you testostrone depraved, shit drpping RA troon. GTFO to your inbred hive you maggor infested shill >>>/discord/
Not s single standalone emu is worse then the pile of this plebbit garbage.

>>714970498
Because of shitcord RA shills

>>714970442
Pokemon sucks so nothing of value was lost

>>714970572
This. Pokey man is boring.

People who hate retroarch are the same retards who in 2011 still used ZNSES over BSNES because le comfy ui

Bet some of you still use epsxe and project 64. bonus points if you complained about PCSX2 sucking while using the outdated 1.6 build instead of the SVN.

>>714970571
>dev having a full on melter
Never using your shit LOL. Get a job.

>>714970652
>using BSNES over Snes9x at any point

>>714970572
Have fun with single player MKDS when wiimmfi exists

>>714970571
I dunno what's with tech and its power to attract the most mentally ill subhumans humanity has to offer. Is it the escapism?

>>714951198
Just play the og playstation at that point, retard

>>714970498
Remember are you most likely talking to a bot.

>>714970737
BSNES was a lot better for a window of time.

RA shills are the same kind of mouthbreathers as Steam users who cant bear to play PC games if it isnt through Steam. They have the retarded compulsion to have all of their programs in one place regardless of whether it makes sense or not, a sensibility only shared by phonefaggots that dont even comprehend what a filesystem is.

>>714970882
If you play SNES games without shaders you didn't beat the game.

>>714970652
You don't even play your own garbgae you stupid fucking shill. Otherwise (You) would know this deviated garbage has ongoing bug which erases all savefiles on snes core unless you manually close the app.

>>714967628
>bring new
Ugh. Summer is here again

>>714970964
I only need bilinear filtering

>It runs everything
>what about these hundreds of games that don't work?
>T-THAT DOESN'T COUNT YOU DON'T GET IT TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY

>>714970882
For purchasing, it makes sense, as it's convenient. There's really no reason to buy elsewhere unless it's not available. Even if I don't use one emulator, I keep all my roms under one directory tree for convenience.

>>714969557
Pure tranime seethe.

>>714970572
I can never understand why people sacrifice 1/3 of display height for some retarded fake frame.

>>714971124
Well I dont buy PC games

>>714968984
I like and use Mednafen my guy. The post I was replying to was shilling Retroarch, maybe learn2read

>714971097
>hundreds
list 1 (one)

>>714950984 (OP)
lil niggers ruin everything

>>714971097
>troonime enter emulation thread
>*proceeds to shit its panties while schreeching* HURRR WHAT ABOUT THESE LITERAL WHO GAMES NOBODY BOUGHT OR PLAYED

>>714950984 (OP)
No it doesn't.

It is literally confirmed that the Duckstation dev shills here.
Retroarch is better in every way. Stay away.

>>714970882
I use runahead
Any alternatives?

>>714971413
/thread

>>714960273
FF9

>>714971403
You didn't play them because you're poor brown favela scum. Just like your emulator.

>>714971495
More like Alt F4

>714971413
>714971492
>one minute apart

>>714971589
I'm replying to your post literally 1 minute apart you fucking faggot

>>714971530
>Y-Y-Y-YOUR'E B-BROWN.....!

>>714969680
>the faggot duckstation developer got so anally buttblasted by people using his OPEN SOURCE code he literally dig up some retarded obscure license no one ever used because he wants all the benefits of open source (people doing his work for free) but don't want people to use his OPEN SOURCE code in any way, even if the code was contributed by completely different people for free
I will never use software made by this retard.

>>714969680
>>714971765
What a faggot

>>714971679
And your emulator is shit. Like your home country it has thousands of problems that brownoids like you can't fix.

>>714968441
bsnes is cringe nigger trash

>>714971435
This feature is the singular virtue of Retroarch and its for autists that care more about "optimizing" their retro gaming experience with superfluous filters, widescreen hacks and HD textures more than playing games.
Not even fighting game players or speedrunners, who care about frames the most, use this feature because of how superfluous it is and how it needlessly deviates from the original game experience.

>714971858
>says the self projecting little brownie
You just keep coming back for more, this is too easy.

>>714968607
/v/edditors ARE trannies

>>714971765
Stop spamming and make your own thread discord RA troon. Nobody forces you to use superior emulator if you dont want to.

>>714970652
>using anything but zsnes ever
cringe zoomer tranny faggot

>>714971991
Wot, run ahead is pretty important for some older games. They were designed with low latency in mind and modern set's up have much higher latency than a console + CRT + wired controller of old.

>>714971003
yeah, hence why you're here redditspacing and ESLposting, they should keep you locked in a cage all summer, juan gonzales

>>714972072
Shut up dicksucktion developer. You lost.

>>714971097
Any examples? Genuinely asking, because I play a lot of Japanese only obscure games and I've yet to see one DS doesn't run.

>>714972236
So you dont use run ahead to turn the input lag to 0 but to adjust it to the hypothetical amount of lag youd have with a CRT? Speedfags and fgcfags just get a CRT monitor anyways. Thats a lot of hair splitting over a few frames and wasting computational resources for minimal benefit. Its not bad to have the option but you cant sell it as this huge plus thats worth changing emulators over, I wouldnt touch that if I had the option.

>>714972790
What was it?

>>714971991
Fighting game players and speed runners are casuals
Top autists like me play shmups

>>714951198
>redditarch
go back

>>714971413
Fuck tribadism, I'll use what I want: Duck for PS1 on PC, Retro for Amstrad on 3DS. Fuck you.

>>714973624
>google doesn't work
It's some shitty Wizard of Oz game.

>>714969960
Duckstation has tons of them though. And they're fully customizable.

>>714973624
That one is Rungu Rungu Ozu no Mahoutsukai. Yes, The Wizard of Oz. It's pretty much a JRPG, except it doesn't have combat. Instead, there's crafting stuff with a magical cauldron.
Quite fun actually and main cutscenes are pretty amateurishly but soulfully voiced.
Not the most beautiful PSX game certainly, but it's cute.

>>714960273
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
Crash Team Racing
Spyro the Dragon
Spyro the Dragon 2: Ripto's Rage
Spyro the Dragon 3: Year of the Dragon
Legend of Dragoon
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Ape Escape
Jade Cocoon
Tomba
Tomba 2
Mega Man Legends
Mega Man Legends 2
Medievil
Medievil 2
Metal Gear Solid
Digimon World
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Hogs of War
Driver
Driver 2
Parasite Eve
Parasite Eve 2
Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit
Chrono Cross
Ghost in the Shell
Resident Evil
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX

>>714950984 (OP)
Duckstation or ePSXe?

>>714969970
>Emperor's New Groove
>Men in Black
>Return Fire
>Power Rangers
Do these games really not work? They're not obscure at all.

>>714968784
>if you don't use the ebin predatory retroarch hidden gem software you are a normalfaggot
kys stupid fucking secondary faggot.

>>714974448
Bro no one with a brain has used ePSXe in like a decade

>>714974448
The only advantage epsxe has over duck is ability to run eboots.
But why would you want to play fucking eboots is entirely different question.

>>714969210
>retroarch cores are the most accurate emulation
>source? my post
>dont question it goyjin
RA has downgrade in perfomance compared to standalone emulation in EVERY SINGLE CORE, expect the one for genesis. It's especially apparent when playing anything related to 3D.

>>714973786
Top autists like shmup players and rhythm game players dont need run ahead if they have any pride. Like speedrunners and fighting game players they want an even playing field with everyone else and dont want to seem like faggots for using run ahead for the same reason they dont use save states during real runs.

>>714975480
>if your turn on game mode on your TV you don't have pride

>>714960273
>Gran Turismo 2 A-Spec mod
>Ace Combat 2
>Ace Combat 3 (english patched)
>Digimon World
>Wip3out
>Ridge Racer Type 4
>Armored Core

>>714975601
TV modes are a matter of setup and equipment. Run ahead is designed to eliminate the natural input lag that games were made with.

>>714974358
>>714972790
Why the best games are always japan only?

>>714975963
That ain't true but there are certainly way more interesting Japan-only games than western-only games because westerners can't make decent console games generally.

>>714972072
fuck off stenzek

>>714975963
I wouldn't say that, but PSX does have quite a lot of untranslated gems. I started to appreciate them, because after playing vidya for over 30 years I'm at a point where I'd rather play an interesting 6/10 game that does something original than a 10/10 game that just copies stuff from previous games.

>>714975480
That's a different category between real hardware and emulated and runahead is absolutely accepted in the latter
Absolutely not comparable to save states

>>714975283
>The only advantage epsxe has over duck is ability to run eboots.
>But why would you want to play fucking eboots is entirely different question.
What's eboots

>>714975737
>>Gran Turismo 2 A-Spec mod
>>Ace Combat 2
>>Ace Combat 3 (english patched)
>>Digimon World
>>Wip3out
>>Ridge Racer Type 4
>>Armored Core
Holy shit that's some fucking good taste.
I kneel

>>714977098
www.cfwaifu.com/psx2psp/

>>714975283
The reason to use eboots WAS for file compression purposes. However, with the rising popularity of the .CHD format, it's pretty much only supported as a legacy feature.

>>714978052
>chud format

>>714951198
>I don't want to use a standalone emulator ever
I much prefer using stand alone emulators. I don't want to fuck with every single game in one clusterfuck program, especially because it took YEARS for Retroarch to get a UI that wasn't complete aids.

>>714972072
>supporting proprietary emulators

>>714972252
>redditposting
Has noone schooled you with old screengrabs yet, newfag?

>>714979121
You dont support anything pajeet, you dont have any shekels poorfag

>>714960273
Ape Escape
Brave Fencer Musashi

I don't give a fuck about internet drama or licenses or tranny devs or any of that shit. Does the emulator work well? Yes? Then I'm going to use it. Suck my cock (male).

for me it's epsxe and green ff7

I beat Xenogears with his help. On a fucking Chromebook of all things

>>714952930
looks great

>>714952930
crt filters are based

>>714979918
Obviously.
It's te only non-retard psx emu avaliable.
It's just that it is abandonwere now. Because codelets from RA had to steal source code base from it, without asking for premission, and laying about it later. Since they are third worlder retards who cannot program anything useful by themeselves.

i remember using epsxe 5 years ago to play Crash Bandicoot and the emulator fucking sucked and was nothing but a pain, even when you got it working it felt like it was just barely getting by.

Thank fucking god for duckstation

>>714980254
>laying
oops, hehe

>>714980254
Okay but I don't give a fuck about whatever you just said. Duckstation has worked perfectly for me in the last five or six years I've been using it and is constantly being updated. So I'm gonna keep using it.

>>714965639
please go back..........

DUCKEY JOCKEY

>>714970498
Blame the site admins for removing the IP counter.

>>714969574
>Source available
So the other anon was right and it isn't open source...
This loser really earned his own reputation hasn't he?

>>714970498
Dumb people thinking they are smarter than they are by noticing things that often aren't there.

>>714967253
what game?

>>714980942
Robin Lloyd no Bouken (ロビン・ロイドの冒険)

>>714968784
literally every thread has a completely obvious baitpost within 3-4 replies that has five thousand replies hanging off it. I used to just think they're setup threads where the OP replies to himself and a few replies to the baitpost to get it started but if I'm honest /v/ is probably just retarded

>>714974201
didn't know that, thanks anon

>>714980043
Based. Did you like it?

>>714978661
Today, I will remind them.

https://retrogamecorps.com/2023/02/06/the-ultimate-rom-file-compression-guide/

If any of you have a large ROM/ISO collection, you should read this.

>>714981312
どうも

RA dev seething as always, news at 11

>>714982672
>Summon Night
Now that's an idea.

>>714952930
>>714980195
this shit is like bizarre actual manchild delusion
>I NEED THINGS TO BE EXACTLY HOW THEY WERE WHEN I WAS 3
>I NEED MOMMY COOKING ME TENDIES AND DADDY BBQING ME HAMBURGERS EVERY NIGHT
>I NEED NURSING HANDJOBS FROM MY MOM FOREVER
like what the fuck is wrong withy ou, grow up, you're 40 years old now, the accident wasn't your fault wake up

>>714952930
That looks unironically terrible. I'd rather just pick up a PS3 and hook that up to a CRT. I'm pretty sure even the Wii has a PS1 emulator nowadays.

>>714965639
Retroarch is actually good for anything up to N64. PS1 onwards is just done leagues better by standalone developers. Dolphin's core on Retroarch is an actual joke compared to Dolphin standalone.

>>714984853
PS1 came out before the N64

Not only is the PS1 Beetle PSX core great, the PS2 core literally better than PCSX2 now (ParaLLEl-GS)

The dolphin core is fine, you couldn't even name an issue with it (I could name a couple, but you couldn't name any)

i love the autism in the emulator community

You fags cant help but sperg over worthless shit, i envy your "energy"

>>714985147
Idk why people get so twisted up about it. I use retroarch for some stuff, stand alones for others. These things are just tools at the end of the day.

>>714969680
That just means it has a gay license. It is still open source (as in you can audit what it does, compile yourself, etc.) just can't redistribute.
Saying it is closed source is misleading.

>>714951198

>>714950984 (OP)
yea but can it run good games?

>>714981764
>https://retrogamecorps.com/2023/02/06/the-ultimate-rom-file-compression-guide/
reading as we speak

tldr?

>>714985064
You can't even connect a Wiimote to Retroarch without buying a Dolphinbar. Dolphin itself allows you to connect a legitimate Wiimote with just anything resembling a sensor bar. The Nintendo DS is worse too. melonDS has managed to include screen splitting, allowing you to put one screen on each monitor. The only thing Retroarch having over it being the fact that you can use the right stick as a sort of makeshift stylus.

>>714950984 (OP)
It went to shit when they made it closed source, games that played perfectly fine on it suddenly are a broken mess. Another emulator dev crashing and burning.

>>714985641
If you have 100GB worth of isos, imagine if you could turn that into ~60-70GB worth of isos

>>714985782
>games that played perfectly fine on it suddenly are a broken mess

This literally never happened. Name literally one single game, with screenshots.

>>714984428
>>I NEED NURSING HANDJOBS FROM MY MOM FOREVER

>>714981764
Tempting, but almost all my roms are compressed in .7z when I'm not playing them, and after a little testing it seems I can save more space keeping them as-is.
>game.iso = 3,235,552 KB
>.iso compressed in .7z --> 1,946,668 KB (39.8% savings)
>.iso converted to .chd --> 2,162,392 KB (33.2% savings)
>.chd compressed in .7z (highest compression setting, Ultra) --> 2,161,326 KB (<0.01% savings)
So .iso seems to compress better, but .chd is better if you want access to all your games at once without having to decompress each time you play something new, which is understandable.

>>714986093
i can't, because i made it up, but i'm going to keep posting in every thread, hoping you don't show up in at least one of them and somebody takes me at my word

>>714985356
>oops I guess you need to manually ousource an extrenal file to change the touch-screen contols
>oooops I guess you can't really use that option unless you jailbreak your device and manually edits .cfg file in your root directory
>ooooooooops I guess all of your save files are gone now, should have read entire bug, issue and report section on github you stupid retard
Real tools are the "developers". RA fags are leeches who can't fucking program anything by themeselves. So they resort to "borrowing" others' souce code and somehow make it worse.
Then they resort to shilling their garbage all over the web, fooling nomalfags into thinking it's the only avaliable option left.
Reason why RA has awfully backwards design is because the faggots who made it, can't code anything for shit by themselves. It's even funnier when you realise that the chinase librero fork has better HUD and performance then the cores on RA itself.

If they stop shilling their garbage as "muh best compilation emulator avaliable", then they will lose the good faith of all the open source monkeys, who do all the shit for them.

>>714986228
.chd and other rom compressors are do not have linear scalling. Some roms can be trimmed by even 96% while others 0.6%. It averages at around ~40%.

Also I am not sure what your point is. You can just compress .chd format further by .7z, it's not mutually exclusive.

>>714959987
>PS Emulator
>Rhythm games working properly
Pick one exclusively

>>714986015
Does it increase load times or other performance issues?

>>714987287
Not at all in my experience. I compressed my collection months ago and have come across absolutely no issues.

>>714967135
They hated anon because he spoke the truth

I used it to play Legend of Dragoon earlier this year, it's great!

>>714987438
why not the pc port lad, it's a lot better

>>714961495
>it doesn't need to run correctly
why do you retards hate video games

>>714987350
Did you do any side by side comparisons?
I am hesitant to do this to my colelction

>>714987816
The accuracy autism goes beyond "running correctly". Do you notice how these threads never have any actual side by side comparisons? Because these accuracy discrepencies are either so minor that you would not notice them unless you were actively looking for them, or are just straight pulled out of their ass for argument's sake. They are not graphical glitches that would lower the quality of your experience.

>>714987643
i had my reasons, though i don't remember them now kek

>>714988108
No, but I am telling you. I've played like dozens of games since doing so, including rhythm games like DDR. Again, absolutely no problems. No long load times, no performance drops, no texture bugs, no flickering, nothing.

For the record, .chd is a LOSSLESS format, meaning you lose absolutely none of the original data by converting to it. You can even convert a .chd back to an .iso/.bin+.cue and it would work fine, even on original hardware.

>>714988124
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THERE'S ONE SINGLE PIXEL THAT'S MISALIGNED AND IT ABSOLUTELY RUINED THE ENTIRE EXPERIENCE AAAAAHHHHHHHHH

>>714970167
>>714970210
Playing FF7
>On the lookout for Enemy skills and new enemies.
>because collecting them is fun
>in Coral prison and getting nothing but bandits (who can permanently steal your items) and 2-face RNG bombs.
>Run past a small area before the dyne boss fight and don't even encounter a battle or suspect that single screen has different enemies than the rest of the prison.
>realize there was a unique enemy THAT ONLY APPEARS IN THAT 1 SCREEN
>you can't revisit there again.. for NO FUCKING REASON AT ALL.
>You can not lean Lazer again until the final area of the game and you will never ever see that content you missed.
Absolutely insane game design. I hate missable shit so much. this is why this game needs a real remake but not by Square. They made some movie game fanfic trash that's way worse.

>>714950984 (OP)
any idea whats causing this in the prerender backgrounds for ff7? the floating sprites that show interactive points and exits are also a bunch of glitchy pixels. Had no issues until I reached the canyon and this Red cutscene

>>714989225
you can make save backups but yeah i agree

>>714951198
>>714963909
TwinAphex.

>>714989407
Have never had that issue before, but it's always a good idea to close the emulator and try again if it continues.
That is if you are being sincere because you're filename says you saved this from 4chan and not a screencap.

>>714990775
since it started happening even closing the emulator and then starting the rom, not loading a save state, has it present .
4chan x renames my uploaded pics

>>714963909
>complete trash ui
>you were le filtered XD
The ui in Retroarch is the biggest piece of steaming shit I've ever used in emulators and I've used dozens over the years. It's biggest issue is that there are endless menus made for using with a controller instead of a proper mouse and keyboard setup.

>>714990939
filtered

>>714967628
>reddit

>spacing

Hello new faggot.

>>714991174
Why was oldchan so redd*t?

>>714950984 (OP)
Amazing emulator, too bad he doesn't also make a ps2 emu

>>714991319
Pre-irony poisoning

>>714959987
It plays fine on ps3

>>714991319
Post that stuff on re ddit and see how long before you get banned. Now stop it.

>>714991174

Election tourists hate this screencap.

>>714960524
Not if you're going for 100%, btw Crash 1 now has a patch to give it parity with N. Sane so 100% is now a breeze

>>714991516
Answer in a way that makes sense next time dipshit.

>>714991575
ESL?

>>714991570
Why would people make the game easier for no reason? It was deliberate design, not a bug.

It's funny to see people seethe over crt shaders. I have a CRT sitting right next to me and it's great, but I'm not going to pretend something like CRT Guest Advanced isn't almost equal. Playing raw pixels is retarded.

>>714991575
Post that stuff on re ddit and see how long before you get banned. Now stop it.

>>714991319
Because at one point Reddit was just ripping off 4chan. 4chan changed, Reddit didn't. (other than stopping the use of 'le' )

>>714991545
>t. election tourist
you are not tricking anyone Jose

>>714991174
that's not reddispacting, retarded newnigger, that was 4chan's retarded formatting back then because jewt was a 15 year old retard and it was just copy pasted futallaby, nigger
all those lines are single spaced, not redditspacing doublespaced, they pressed enter once, you press enter twice, you a pretentious faggot, get some help

>>714993105
lol the last reply in that image proves you wrong.

>>714994605
Sexotoro

>>714951198
>Retroarch
lmao great bait mate, I would rather stick my dick into blender than use this pajeet trash

>>714950984 (OP)
it's the best psx emulator with tons of optional features. I kinda preferred original UI though, it had more soul. pcsx2 is also much better now but still has some ways to go.

>>714990939
brainlet

why is xbox emulation still shit?

>>714991368
Didn't the DuckStation guy completely overhaul PCSX2's UI?
PCSX2 is still a piece of dogshit though.

>>714996024
Yes. And PCSX2 team still kicked him out despite his skills, he is THAT insufferable.

>>714996024
Does anyone know how to fix the input lag with PCSX2? It's very noticeable to me especially in menus. Duckstation doesn't have this issue.

>>714995898
Because nobody cares about it like they do ps1 or nintendo games

>>714995898
The only games you would need it for are Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 and both are pretty playable now
Maybe if Halo MCC never released on PC they would be further along

>>714994838
kinda wish that manga had nipples and a nude scene with baby bunny.

>>714989407
update your drivers, try switching renderer from vulkan to dx to software. update the emulator, also try downloading different ff7 ISO, this one might be bad.

>>714950984 (OP)
but can it run grapes?

>>714997062
bum bum bum

>>714996849
needed more neetoro

>>714961770
CRT shaders are dogshit. real CRT only have the lines if you shove you face close to the screen which only a mouth breather would do

>>714996849
That ending was so laaaaame

>>714957221
it's already perfect, making it open source would just allow big corporation like sony to reuse it for profit.

>>714978875
>it took YEARS for Retroarch to get a UI that wasn't complete aids
it's still absolute garbage, I only have it installed for panzer dragoon saga

>>714996593
For me its panzer dragoon orta

>>714998421
That's not the reason you stopped licensing it as free software, stenzek.

The reason you did this is because you were seething about completely legal forks.

>>714951198
>I don't want to use a standalone emulator ever, none of their frontends match the features and consistency of Retroarch.
FUCK retroarch.

>>714990939
>>complete trash ui
I absolutely hate Retroarch's UI. Especially because people praise it so much.

>but it's just like muh xcross media bar on muh ps3/psp!!!
YES AND IT WAS FUCKING TRASH THERE TOO

>>714999412
>YES AND IT WAS FUCKING TRASH THERE TOO
soulless automaton PC

>>714999134
and mechassault
and phantom crash
and phantom dust
and jsrf

>>714999412
The PS3 XMB interface hasn't been default for several years

This is what it looks like now: >>714966440

Note that it can be fully used with a controller

>Retroarch

Nah. Got all I need right here.

>>714999286
>stenzek
rent free

Retroarch gatekeeping out normgroids is so cash.

>>715000079
Crying and pissing yourself that someone isn't using your platform is the opposite of gatekeeping. And that's what this entire thread is.

>>714950984 (OP)
Retroarch mogs because the steam version has cloudsaves. Just pump the buildbot cores into steam edition retroarch and you've got everything you need

>>714960273
I just opened the thread for more PSX recs on the level of Omega Boost, Internal Section, Tempest 2000, Viewpoint and Mad Panic Coaster
Trippy arcade games are so fucking good

>>714998184
Yeah it really was. Hitomi-san's ending was better. Shorty fucked.

>>714960442
>download a front-end like launch box or ES-DE
>make everything a portable file
>now you have everything available off one icon, and can transfer it to other computers

Play Rising Zan before the remake comes out in a few years.

Does anyone have any experience with Arkadyzja, does that shit work or is it better to just slum it up with Parsec for netplay

>>714999526
and gunvalkyrie

I love upscaling bros

>>714951198
Faggot

>>715005084
3rd is fake as fuck.
They are not even trying to hide it.

>>714985584
Amazing graphics its all that maatters love my donkey kong in 8k, look at that beautiful image, no need for crt, just upscale till oblivion

>>714960273
Since no one seems to mention them, I would say Alundra and Wild ARMs are pretty good too.

>>714960273
I played medal of honor for the first time last year and it was honestly very fun once I got used to how it plays compared to other shooters.

>>714952930
That looks terrible, do people actually think this is coming close to a CRT experience?

>>714960273
Threads of Fate*
(*) Play as Mint only since sequel was cancelled due to low sales + Square enix merger. The game was ahead of its time

>>714951198
Absurd amounts of based replies. I'm glad this board came around to shitting on Retroarch

>>715006819
Nah that looks like a pretty shitty one. You can get it to look much better than that.

>>714951764
z-buffer is an anti-feature. And the point at which 3d started going wrong.

>>714965639
retroroach has killed emulation.

>>714967253
I don't know how anyone ever used ePSXe. Probably the worst emulator in the history of the human race.

>>715008150
I used it way back in Pentium 4 days

>>715008150
>Probably the worst emulator in the history of the human race.
that would be project64

>>715008742
Is that the one that asks for money every time you open it?

>>715005084
>Upscaling sprites

retard

>>715008150
Nah. It was never the best option, but it did the job. Early days PCSX2 was a lot worse.

>>714960273
vandal hearts

Whats the best PS2 Emulator FOR ANDROID PHONES right now ?

>>714985565
no, its not open source, its source available. They are two different things. Open source means you can distribute, use and modify.

>>714966440
I'm not unfamiliar with Retroarch's menus. The issue is that it's a fucking russian nesting doll which has some weirdly arbitrary organization and configuration is absolutely something that should have both a suitable desktop UI. It doesn't mean you can't have alongside a UI that you can navigate with a controller.

The unfortunate part is that RA has been coopted by handheld manufacturers as a default way of doing things, so they have a massive android focus for development. The core system, while generally a good thing, leaves a lot to be desired with respect to some features that their standalone nightlies tend to have.

Emulation as a whole is fucking obnoxious to navigate if you ever expect to have a one stop shop. The best thing RA is for is fucking around with filters and low latency, otherwise you're honestly almost better suited with setting up some steam shortcuts or using some other aggregator.

>>715009420
brainlet status: filtrated

>>714991174
That's just normal spacing. Learn the difference, it could save your life.

>>715009420
You're absolutely right, but there's a number of (or just one) schizo that follows all these threads and goes absolutely apeshit if you criticize the UI in any way.

>>715009675
>things could be better than they are
>nuh uh you're just dumb

I choose to take this bait. It's mine and mine alone

>>715009842
Emulation, even as far as nerdy hobbies go, attracts the most deranged and mentally ill, antisocial recluses. It's a bizarre scene. You have to be eccentric to obsess just the correct amount to develop these tools as a fucking passion project.

That said, there's a QT UI for retroarch but it has a fraction of the options available. If they just fleshed that out a bit more it would probably at least help the grognards feel a bit more comfortable with the system.

>Filters Zoomers and Gen Alpha

How did they do it? Is Retroarch too hard to navigate or are these kids just really low IQ?

t. millennial

>>715010437
im a zoomer and it thought it was the opposite

>>715010437
zoomies and alphoomies are too dumb to emulate anyway
it’s good they get gatekept from the superior experience

>>714963909
>if you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it, he's gonna think you're a god, cause you made it so complicated nobody can understand it

>>715010176
Oh no doubt. I've been paying attention to the scene as far back as 2002. I was there for Byuu's public bed-shitting moment over the first Bahamut Lagoon translation patch. It's funny how up until Retroarch came along, he was probably the biggest spaz in the entire scene.

The current big drama is between the two biggest niggerfaggots in the scene though: Twin Aphex/Square Pusher and stenzek.
TA/SP is the guy responsible for the Retroarch UI, and has constant meltdowns whenever standalone emulator devs don't contribute (for free) to the cores so they work in the project that they get money for from donations. And stenzek is the Duckstation dude who's a massive schizo himself, but unlike TwinPusher he's an actual emudev. Which causes AphexSquare grief to no end, as he suffers from a major inferiority complex.

>>714980254
>steal source code base
It's literally open source.

>>714951198
Retroshart is horrible but there's no alternative for a Genesis emu on Android since the others are all btfo'd by scoped storage. I reluctantly use it but I would gladly jump to a better alternative if one appeared.

>>715011026
Wow. I guess nobody cares about coding Genesis emus anymore. Those things were like NES emulators in that everyone and their mom was coding one for every platform imaginable. They're the Doom of emulators.

>>715011331
saturn emulation is also shit and it breaks my heart

Bros how is a CRT shader supposed to look?
There are so many options.

>>714981764
Nah, if I 7z my roms, the rom manager will still be able to recognize them. Converting them to a different format makes rom manager helpless.

>>715011391
all of the good saturn games were arcade ports you could just play on mame anyway

>>715011453
Like a Sony Trinitron's aperture grill.

>>715011391
Saturn and N64 exist in a special level of Hell they should have been uplifted out of a long time ago. N64, at least.

>>714950984 (OP)
No retard it only runs playstation 1 games

>>715011757
>people will reverse engineer individual titles before making a fully accurate n64 emulator

WHY, GOD?

>>715011584
I disagree with your statement. Carry on

>>715011757
I seriously cannot believe that the N64 emulation is only slightly better than in 2000.

>>715011912
It was just completely given up on. The handful of titles people wanted to play were simply in a "good enough" state so nobody bothered improving things.
I just want to play Gauntlet Legends, man. :(

>>715011887
Recomps > emulation for N64. It was ahead of it's time in how much of a holy shitmess it was in terms of performance. Recomps allow you to run the games at reasonable framerates.

>>715012171
so is there a fucking tool that can 100% recompile ALL n64 titles or is it just going to be the same core games that you could fucking reliably emulate ANYWAYS?

HMM???????????????

>>714968441
I develop homebrew for the Famicom and can say with certainty that Mesen is the best emulator for that platform. It has the largest mapper support of any Famicom emulator, and it performs better on accuracy tests than any other emulator (including FPGA hardware emulators). It has the most powerful debugger of any emulator I've ever used, and it has support for every official and unofficial hardware revision and accessory.

>>715012279
Sadly? Those same core games we could already reliably play. N64 really does seem like the black sheep of the Nintendo console family. Even Wii U got a lot more love than this thing.

>>714952930
>picrel looks like the worst crt shader in the fucking universe

>>715012459
my point exactly. Why even fucking bother.

As for the Wii U, I have no idea how they managed to pull CEMU together like that but BoTW was a massive, massive motivator and funding source for those devs. It was such a massive motivator that it also basically funded Yuzu until they god murdalized

>>715011912
The N64 is a chimaeric monstrosity of hardware. I can see why devs dreaded developing games for the thing.

>>715013248
The hardware was actually only moderately the issue. It was the fact that Nintendo, in some retarded Jap "wisdom" decided to cuck all third party devs with shitty dev kits.

>>715013248
>tfw the fucking SATELLAVIEW has more support in 2025 than n64 emulation

>>715013324
What the hell, why? Were they afraid of devs reverse engineering the tech and selling it off or something?

>>715012391
your opinion is worth nothing

I will never use Duck Station solely because it's being shilled here.

>>715014128
>talk positively about something: shill
>talk negatively about something: contrarian
/v/

>>714970615
I didn't care about playboy bunny suits/leotards until the japanese fucking put them in everything Genuinely,
>thing
>thing, japan

>>715010437
I'm 30 years old and I don't know what "core" means in the emulator kiddies slang, what the fuck is that? I just wanna play old game.

>>715011391
>>715011584
>>715011757
Beetle Saturn you dumb niggers
>>714951198
FPBP getting all the fags to reee about cuck station's superiority lmao

>>714978875
>I don't want to fuck with every single game in one clusterfuck program
Lol you're retarded.

>>715009268
>>714985565
Would you rather have some hack company create a "PC port" of old PlayStation games that's just PlayStation games in a DuckStation wrapper?

>>714980195
Crt shader on a gameboy game??

>>714969960
>I like CRT shaders
OK

>>715014515
the "core" is just the emulator. The configuration is buried in 3 different menus and requires you to use a controller.

It's not difficult, it's tedious.

Which emulator doesn't crash near the end of Legend of Legaia? There's a scene in Noa's hometown that crashes/freezes on most emulators and even on the PS3.

>>714951198
I never EVER get retards that ask for "accuracy" when it comes to emulators.

Why wouldn't you want to increase resolution, improve performance and remove texture warping? Like, even on games were increasing resolution makes them look like shit (ie Panzer Front or something), you can still have some improvements and keep your "sovlfvl" mashed potato graphics.

>>715015650
ideally you have
>pure autismo accuracy mode
then, building off of that you have
>improvements, higher fps, etc
Obviously there's a lot of issues with increasing framerates due to physics being directly tied etc but there are ways to mitigate it.

There's a place for both experiences. The hobby is just filled with insanely opinionated weirdos

>>715015526
The PS3 emulator is pretty shit anyways, but it looks like the only real workaround is using the save on ePSXe then transferring it back to your original emulator.
Doubt it would happen on something like a MiSTer either.

>>714996356
I just turn on Optimal Frame Pacing and call it a day.

>get into emulation few months back
>playing all these olds games
>realize they are all on steam but remastered and worse off than what im playing
>realize that PC and modern consoles have almost no games that arent remakes/remasters except for soulslop and other B tier garbage.
>realize no need to ever buy those remasters on steam because they are inferior products(Klonoa and soul reaver for examples) and better off playing free emulators.
>get sad that the golden age of innovation and risk taking in gaming

>>714996356
That just comes with the territory. PS2 emulation isn't as mature as PS1 emulation.

>>715016538
fucking this. i played 1440p on final fantasy X-2 and realized i have absolutely no need to play the steam version as the version im playing is better. so many cases. Klonoa, Soul Reaver, Final Fantasy 3,4,V,X,X-2,XII, resident evil etc.

i can play pic related at 1440p while actual paying customers are fucking struggling at 820p 30 fps

>>715016708
I've been using Steam to play Elden Ring, Yugioh Master Duel and Against the Storm. I realized long ago that many games on modern systems are just remakes and no need to play em with the power of emulation.

>>715016538
Native PC versions are usually fine, especially because they always have fan patches if something is really wrong.
Remasters are always terrible because the nu-devs always fuck up something without fail, doesn't matter if you play it on console of PC.
Remakes are cash grab skinwalker games with zero soul.

emulatorlet here, whats wrong with Retroarch?
from what ive been reading itt all this sounds like using GZDoom or Chocolate Doom

>>715017842
it's not just new blood, it's genuinely done outsourcing sweatshops full of contractors.

>>715018573
>GZDoom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UtTtrwMQHI

Retroarch is a fucking disaster. I can't believe people actually use that shit.
ZSNES set the standard for an emulator UI in the fucking 90s, and every single good emulator has roughly the same interface. Even more modern stuff like PS2 and PS3 emulators.

>>714952930
I can't fucking stand CRT filters like this.
I swear these people have never seen a real CRT in their lives and only simulate what a PHOTO of a CRT looks like, which is not the same at all.

>>715019940
There's only one CRT filter that looks even remotely like a CRT, and that's royale. Unfortunately, if you are playing on a desktop, it is really unpleasant, because much like sitting 1 foot away from a real CRT TV, it is extremely rough on the eyes at that distance.

>>715016538
>realize they are all on steam but remastered and worse off than what im playing
Except they aren't.

>>715017842
>Native PC versions are usually fine
Not unless the PC version is the original.

>>715011026
I hate Retroarch and never touch it on PC but I have to use it on Android because it's the only distribution of the best emulators. I have never gotten used to its trash UI.

>>714963909
>thats

>>715019940
I've been ignoring all the replies saying this as I'm used to phone posters and idiots

But you're viewing the image scaled, if you see rainbow colors you're viewing the image wrong.

>>715018573
There's a small learning curve that filters brainlets

Anything other than PCSXReArmed is simply unnecessary.

>>715015650
>I never EVER get retards that ask for "accuracy" when it comes to emulators.
some games may exploit quirks in the system, or race conditions. if you can't adequately reproduce those, the game can malfunction (from visual glitches like artifacts and flickering to broken physics and AI, etc.), or even worse, lock up outright (e.g. that one speedy gonzales that freezes in a level unless you're on accurate emulators like bsnes and mesen)
only brainlets bitch about "too much accuracy"

>>715020462
I'm on a desktop....
You're missing a huge point anon, on real CRTs viewed with your own human eyes, you don't see the spaces between the phosphorus on the tube. When its illuminated it slightly scatters and fills those gaps, making them inconceivable by human eyes unless you get really close (like your nose touching the tube). The image should be consistent all the way though. But, it does show up in photos. This is because the extremely short momentary exposure of taking a photo of a screen unless you manually set an exposure time (with a low ISO so it doesn't blow out). But this is rarely done. The vast vast majority of photos you'll find online of CRTs don't actually represent how they look in person, but now we have retards that are making CRT filters based on these photos and its changing the general perception of what people think they looked like. False memories.
Same thing goes for scan lines, you don't actually see them IRL. They only become notable if the tube is extremely worn out or the gun is unable to illuminate the board properly (flyback is going dead, etc).

>>715013982
Nintendo was taking a very hostile approach towards third party devs back then. It nearly cost them everything but Pokemon saved them. Nintendo has been just one long string of stupid decisions getting saved by their handhelds or the Wii.

>>714951198
This REALLY made the shitbrains mad.

>>715020863
I have real CRTs

The developers of the most advanced CRT shaders have obviously seen real CRTs, do you have any clue how advanced some of these are? They're complex GPU programs meant to emulate CRTs, they're not just filters based on some dude looking at an image of a CRT, stop being dumb.

>but you can't see lines irl

You can if you're close enough

I don't strongly see lines from these shaders on my 1440p monitor from the distance I view them, how you view that image on your screen, resolution, and viewing distance may be different

>>715021350
>You can if you're close enough
Like I said, nose on the glass. You're still missing the point.

>>715021420
you're not supposed to notice the scanlines you sperg. if you do, you've set it up wrong

>>715021524
I agree on that.
Either you didn't actually read my post or you fundamentally misunderstand it.

>>715021350
The scanlines in that shit is so excessive. All you need is some blur, and maybe a little more gamma/contrast. Fixating MUH LINES, MUH ACCURACY is autistic.

>>714951471
>Fuck your accuracy nigger,
your pic looks like blurry crap. i seriously hope you don't play games like that.

>>715021350
>The developers of the most advanced CRT shaders have obviously seen real CRTs, do you have any clue how advanced some of these are? They're complex GPU programs meant to emulate CRTs, they're not just filters based on some dude looking at an image of a CRT, stop being dumb.
You're assuming those devs aren't mentally ill retarded trannies (which they are) and that they aren't delusional crtfags in addition to that (which they also are).

>>715015895
I guess. I'll be honest, I still prefer this kindergarten slap fight level autistic debate about emulators over the "current year goyslop game has brown troops in it" kinda discourse that infests this board these days.

>>715021739
congratulations, it looks like shit

>>714960273
Parasite Eve, the Resident Evil Games, Chrono Cross, Silent Hill 1, Legend of Dragoon, Legend of Legaia, Final Fantasy VII/VIII/IX, Dino Crisis, etc...

Is there a way to connect to a TV that isn't pic related for cheap? it kinda works but the input lag feels shitty.

>Whole thread is just people console warring over fucking emulators of all things
grim

>>715022347
not really, honestly

>>715021739
gonna try that game out. hope it's good

>>715021964
>these days.
Welcome to 4chan. Been like this for years retard.

>>715021739
What blur? I use the composite blurs a lot and agree they usually do the job.

>>714952930
That looks almost exactly what CRT's actually looked like over composite, these people are retarded zoomers. Particularly the stairstepping on the wing edge or whatever the hell it was called.

>>715014981
It's a CRT shader with a snes game (super gameboy)

>>715014965
they wouldn't use a GPL emulator

i hate duckstation and nonwhites

It's the ePSX for zoomers. And that's a good thing, ePSX was the "default" for a long time and it sucked shit.

>>714951471
>playing silent hill 1 without dithering
lmao

>>715021861
you don't really play FF7 like that, do you?

>>714951198
>MUH OPEN SOURCE commie
>retroonarcher
>CRTranny
the retardation trifecta

>>715027720
me when i have no argument:

>>714968607
I use it to try to emulate systems I don't want to bother researching over what's the best emulator but it feels like it's not always up to date with some of these cores

How do you emutrannies feel knowing that the switch is the last emulatable console? You'll never be able to play console games ever again.

>>715029339
you can't emulate what doesn't exist :p

>>714951198
I'll use both Mednafen standalone AND DuckStation sooner than return to Retroarch, you little faggot.

>>714964002
kym filename

also anyone who bumps this shit thread is a nigger and a chink and you deserve to get shot

bump

>>715022347
Culture war board
Making fags seethe to death is objectively fun and le peak

*farts*

>>715030091
filtered

>>714965639
>install retroarch
>everything runs perfect first time using it all the cool shaders and shit
>close it
>decide next day to play games on it
>none of the setting saved
>the emulators don't fucking open anymore
>it crashes for no fucking reason despite me not doing anything but opening it up again
Fuck this faggot trash

>>715018573
It's mainly interface issues. If it works for you, do it, but there's a lot of cases (especially PSX and PS2 where I have to do a lot of per-game tweaking) where it's vastly inferior.

>>715023268
Yes really.

>>715019776
ZSNES has a good UI for mouse, retroarch focuses on a UI good for pads.

>>714989407
>>714990932
Why do people still emulate FF7?

>>715036721
What field background pack is that?

>>714951198
accuracy is the biggest autism in emulation scene together with CRT.

if the game runs fine and fun to play, then nothing else matters

>>715036457
retroarch's UI sucks for pad
>no section separators and no buttons to quickly skip between them
>you scroll to input numbers instead of having a figure selector. needless to say it's beyond retarded
>right and left sometimes toggle options, other times they take you up and down a level in the menu. it's inconsistent
>search takes you to the first result only iirc. this greatly reduces its usefulness
>the touch overlay's scrollbar is among the least responsive I've ever had the displeasure of testing
>configuring new controllers is shit. you need to open text files to map stuff to retropad
>configuring an overlay is shit. you there's no visual tool for it. furthermore, for optimal results, you need to define a ton of zones (action radius, active radius, overlap zones for button combinations, exclusive radius that expands when you're operating a control)

>>715036721
I want to play the original. Why wouldn't I?

>>715041143
SYW on the PC version is much better than the PSX version.

>>715041316
I don't need a sloppy upscaling to enjoy a game.

Rate my upscaler

>>715041702
>pedophile game
0/1000

>>715025414
>>715014981
its actually my crt

>>715041851
Huh?

So are CRT shaders a meme? Or does it depend on the game?

>>715008967
yeah, 0.0.0.0.1 builds are sometimes not fully featured

>>715042668
It's game dependent, and mainly 2D stuff (or at least stuff with static 2D backgrounds) benefits.
People who play full 3D games with CRT shaders are mentally ill.

>>715042668
It's not game dependent, any 4:3 SD game (up to PS2/GCN/Wii) looks better with CRT shader

>>715042668
I prefer them far more than the alternatives when it comes to low resolution games. What else are you going to use? Some shitty AI upscaler? Some smoothing algorithm that blurs all the details to shit?

>>715043006
The point is that 3D games aren't "SD," but they scale properly to whatever resolution you run them at. That's why you should be cranking up 3D games to as high a resolution as you can run.

>>715043131
>you should be cranking up 3D games to as high a resolution as you can run.
It just makes the lack of polygons stand out when you do this.

>>714950984 (OP)
Hell yeah I played MGS 1 on that thing for the first time last year. idk what emulator I played 2 and 3 on shortly after. Retroarch sucks, even as a linux user

>>714971765
Hes also the one who sperged out about Aethersx2 so PS2 android emulator after some spic called him a faggot lmao. He stopped development and pushed in tracking shit and ads into his emulator. Stenzek always was retarded faggot he knows his shit but yeah dude is clearly pussy ass bitch.

>>715043131
Honestly I think SH1 looks better at native res. I think a lot of those textures aren't mean to be seen at full detail.

>>715043131
Increasing resolution doesn't make the 3D models better

Do you know why pic related looked acceptable?

CRT

>>715016538
Pretty sure The Zodiac Age for FF12 is the best way to play that game.

>>715043354
I've never played FF7 but I must ask, why are the models during battle so much better?

>>715043354
I think this is why I like CRT/CRT shaders.
It reduces the disparity between different resolutions of assets.
Even if it looks "worse", the unity it provides is a form of quality itself that more than makes up for the loss in clarity.

>>715042668
I'm samefagging, but check out https://imgsli.com/Mzk2Njk1
The CRT shader obscures detail like a CRT did, and sprites were drawn with that in mind. Look at stuff like the skulls on the shelves, Guybrush's clothes, and the baskets to see where they feel a little more properly displayed due to the goofiness of CRTs.
>>715043354
That literally looks better than picrel (the 3D part, which is what I'm discussing. I already conceded that 2D backgrounds cause issues with scaling). Even with CRT hiding it, it's still obviously low resolution and a shimmery, jaggy mess. But to imply Cloud's model doesn't instantly look better with the benefit of a high resolution render is silly.

>>715043604
It seems best with games that have prominent pixel graphics.

>>715043438
Stylistic choice to do super deformed stuff in the field, and realistic (comparatively) in battle and cutscenes. FF8 changed direction and had the same models for both (as well as allowing you to see party members following you, instead of the typical "everyone merges with the party leader").
>>715043669
Agreed, which makes that prerendered BG era a weird outlier to my preference for cranking up 3D.

>>715043604
That's a really sharp CRT and you're not using composite video

The blur at a distance on composite turned FF7 model's weird block arms into almost normal arms and hands (in imagination)

>>715043935
I would never use composite on a system with S-Video or better capability. The color bleed and fuzz is ungodly. "Worse is better" is not how I play games. I'm nearsighted and I can just take out my contacts.

>>715043739
Pre-rendered background games seem to be in a weird spot from my testing. I'll admit I don't have much experience with this stuff but I did a simple test:
>Castlevania SOTN with crt-royale
Looked pristine.
>Resident Evil Director's Cut with crt-royle
My eyes started bleeding.

>>714950984 (OP)
Doesn't run on Mac so it doesn't run on "everything" lmao

>>715044931
>Mac
OH HOH HOH NO NO NO NO...

>>715036721
Because getting an old shitty PC port of an old game is a pain in the ass on modern Windows. It's also why folks play the shitty Gamecube ports of 6th gen games as they're easier to emulate.

>>715044931

>>715046287
>install game from Steam
>install SYW
>run launcher
>set whatever you want
>play
So difficult.