Emulation Thread
ITT talk about the old shit you're trying to emulate, or the recomps of old shit you're trying to play.
Nostalgiafaggots and thirdworlders are welcome.

has anyone figured out how to backport the Switch 2 zelda upgrades to switch emulators or do you just bruteforce resolution and FPS?

>recomps
Is ship of harkinian still the best zelda recomp? What other recomps are there? Last i heard we got starfox 64 recomp

>>715566932
wait for oot decomp
mm decomp > recomp

>>715567242
what’s the differance? just who made it?

>>715566932
There's the OoT recomp by the guys who did Majora's mask. Both OoT and MM have recomps from both those dudes and Ship.
Ship to my knowledge is the easiest to mod.

>>715567414
just trust me

>>715567519
>just trust me bro
explain why. soh can't be that bad

>>715566586 (OP)
I really hope the decomp scene gets to Vita someday because Vita emulation sucks ass

>>715567561
it's not bad but decomp is better

>>715567451
>that UI

What I'd LIKE to emulate is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uke_69ARpFY

but unfortunately it works absolutely perfectly on Xenia up until you get into the first battle, then the enemies/player never appears and things basically crash/you cant continue. We'll never get a fucking fan translation until this one gets fixed and fully playable emulated.

>>715567630
I agree but at least I can play the Muramasa DLC. My vita died not very long ago and I lost my P4G save data and my abillity to play Muramasa.

>>715567703
I agree on the health bar it looks awful, but the red of the icons for items and weapons actually came from the HD item scans we got from the Zelda leak several years back so I think those are fine.

>>715567630
how would you even properly play games like tearaway without a vita?

>>715567817
Is Xenia still the worst fucking thing ever? I want to play Gears of War 2 so bad, but I don't wanna tweak shit on Xenia. It's so ass.

I bought a Trimui Smart Pro a while ago for emulating stuff and it's been great. Runs PS1 stuff nearly flawlessly, unfortunately not so much dreamcast which is what I was really hoping for. I can't remember which one it was but I tried one of the 2D Sega consoles as well and it didn't run that great either.
Worth the money I'd say

>>715567909
Is this chinkshit?
Is there even trustworthy chinkshit like this these days?

>>715567652
yes but WHY, anon do you know why?

>>715567986
yes chinkshit straight from aliexpress
I dont really know what you mean by trustworthy but at least theres nothing to give a password to I guess

>>715566586 (OP)
awakening mod resisting the urge to marry Tharja again. its not going well
>>715566932
SoH is great, idk if the other is better but i have no complaints with ship.

>>715568040
Like does it get overly warm, or break easily

>>715567843
>P4G
Well, at least this one is native on PC now
>Muramasa Rebirth
I thought its emulated on Vita3K really well these days?

>>715567902
I..dont know. Awhile ago I played Lost Odyssey that way (and even did a bit of The last Remnant because some faggotron thought I was faking the fact I have it on Steam. No, it WAS available on Steam and those who bought it can still download and play - you just can't buy new because SE decided to be a major fag about the remastered version and decided to cut out Steam/PC because it had all the upgrades that Remastered did, and cheaper/came before). and it was pretty smooth without issue? I hear that it takes a long time to be updated though.

>>715568065
>Awakening mod
I have a soft autism spot for Awakening. What the fuck is this?

I played Last of Us today. The intro was so fucking boring that I'm not going to give the game a chance.

>>715568075
it does get warm when emulating dreamcast and some more intensive PS1 games I've found, but not uncomfortably so. it feels like a sturdy enough product.

>>715567817
looks interesting
downloading the iso and going to play on my modded xbox thx

looking for something to emulate on the deck, what am i playing today /v/?

>>715568280
Advance Wars
Minish Cap

>>715567909
How big is this lil nigga?

>>715568156
It is, senpai. That's what i meant by at least I can play the DLC now. Vita3K is a bitch to get up and working though. i had to write a readme reminding myself the process of how I got games and set the fucking thing up in case I ever go back to it.

>>715567703
MEGA TRUE

>>715568170
You emulated The Last of Us?
Why

>>715568165
Project Thabes/Thabes Overwritten
rebalance-ish with new weapons, classes, characters like Phila and Raimi, extra supports and shit, been pretty fun.

>>715568170
desu i'd argue the intro was the only interesting part of it then it turned to slop

>>715568170
The last of us literally ruined videogames forever. It was the catelyst for AAAA cinemaslop with $1bill budgets and 15 year dev cycles that we see today. I refuse to even pirate it out of principle. Fuck you Neil fuckmann.

>>715568386
its pretty much exactly the same size and shape as a vita

>>715568561
Can I force Chrom to Chrom inside of Cordelia now?
>new supports
explain this because this could be really fucking ass if it's just "we made more gay supports!" and it's written by a bunch of freaks.

>>715568464
/v/ told me it's the best version.

>>715568561
>turning chrom into a lolicon instead of giving prime dragon cunny to donnel
donnel's genes are good on everyone but STILL

>>715566586 (OP)
How strong does your PC have to be to emulate Vanillaware games?

>>715569086
Not very. It's a 2D game.
From my understanding Corn Lord is like the easiest shit in the world to emulate on Yuzu or whatever the fuck fork of Switch emu people use now.

>>715567909
>letting chinkshit connect to your internet
outside of that, how's the batterylife and price?

>>715569312
I'm sure this device is the least of my concerns on this network.
the battery life is pretty solid, when I actually had the time to kill at work I brought this along and even with regular use throughout the day I'd still come home with it above 40%
idk what they go for now but I only paid like $50 for it

>>715566586 (OP)
>Emulation

IS GREAT

>>715568686
expanded support options, closer to anyone can marry anyone, chrom can bang basically everyone before the cut off point, there is gay but worth royal dragon pussy.
>>715568783
dragons will rule ylisse

>>715567451
>tiny full master sword in the button icon instead of the beefy cut off one
soulless

>>715568156
Here's one of the few videos from a couple years back that shows it play perfect until the crash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWFhhK71uC8

As far as I know nobody emulated gets farther than this.

>>715568274
Hope you enjoy it! Its only in JP - it apparently came within a hair's breath of coming to the US but was dropped. Its a remake of the original PC Engine SuperCD game; the first JRPG on CD media as i recall and it blew minds in the late 80s with voice clips and everything . There's now a fan translation of https://stargood.org/trans/tenma.php - the original NEC PC EngineCD version after years.

The Xbox360 version is basically the version the original devs wanted to make way back when but the hardware wouldn't let them realize it fully. It also uses some of the video from the anime series that was made before the game where the devs wanted to go back to and expand their PCEngine game. Seems really an interesting part of JRPG history and this is the "definitive" version, but it sucks there isn't an emulate capable version nor a fan translation (or an official non shitty one). The concept is pretty cool though. The subtitle is
>Tales from Distant Jipangu , Far East of Eden
and the entire concept is basically
>What if we wrote a JRPG that's set in the quasi-mystical era of what early Europeans THOUGHT happened in Japan
So its all mythological shit and stereotypes galore. They even made up it all comes from a book written by someone who saw the place etc. I think the guy who falls off the ship (wearing Western clothing) in the animated opening to the X360 version is supposed to be that guy.

>>715568395
Thanks, I'll have to give it a shot. I've always wanted to play the Muramasa Rebirth version since enjoying the original on Wii way back when

>>715570080
based full-chop master sword appreciator. I don’t know why they keep shrinking shit in UI redesigns, the old one had presence. Now it looks like Link’s wielding a damn toy sword from Korok-Mart. Every update just sandblasts another layer of soul off these games.

>>715569576
holy based

>>715568561
Is this something worth a first playthrough of Awakening? Same basic story but expanded?

>>715568591
Hard agree, anon. TLoU was the blueprint for every slow-walking, melodramatic, daddy-daughter misery sim that completely overtook western devs' brains. Every time I see a $400 million “gritty” prestige game with a soft guitar soundtrack and waist-high cover shooting, I know we’re still suffering the ripple effect. What ever happened to stylized fun or gameplay being king? Fuckman really changed the trajectory of gaming-and not for the better.

>>715570080
I didn't quite have control over what the texture back actually did but I'm fine with what it is. i do see your point on that one in particular though.

>>715569656
You didn't answer my question on the new support writing. Is it at least inoffensive?

>>715569206
>>715569086
Depends on what platform really; most older ones are easy. I would really like to see if that PS4 emu that basically does Bloodborne can do Dragon's Crown Pro , but I guess you can fall back to RPCS3 and just modd it; I don't know if Pro has anything except the graphical enhancement? Any new content?

For the Switch games you need to have a reasonably but not incredibly powerful PC especially these days. As far as forks I THINK the common ones still updated are
>Ryujinx forks = Ryujinx by GreemDev/Ryubing, and Kenji-NX
I THINK Ryubing/GreemDev's branch has the most progression - it even has dual joycon support which original Ryu never did, - but it still lacks GPU decoding of ATSC or whatnot but that affects Bayonetta, Astral Chain, TOTC and others not sure about any vanillaware titles like Unicorn Overlord or 12 Sentinels Aegis Rim.
>Yuzu forks = Eden and Citron-emu dot org (the dot pro version is a fake)
There seems to be some shitstorm in the forks now so not sure which is still most active but those seem to be those that made actual progress

>>715570342
>4090 + 19 for 60FPS only
grim.

>>715570905
I think its locked to that to avoid the kind of fuckery that especially JP games of the time did with physics and other things set to FPS. Even games like Valkyria Chronicles start having you basically put the game into super hard mode if you have FPS over 60 / refresh rate etc..because it ties enemies shooting at you in response to the FPS/refresh rate.

>>715570835
This wouldn't be a fucking problem is VanillaWare actually ported their shit to PC.
Unironically what is their problem? Atlus/Sega have even OFFERED to do it for them and they denied it.

>>715566586 (OP)
>>715571075
sex with momohime

>>715570440
chrom/nowi was pretty cute and i haven't seen anything stupid so far, sully isn't proclaiming how she's so trans and powerful or anything.
>>715570440
you could, i'm a believer of the virgin run always being vanilla though

What's the most recent Recomp/Decomp?
Is there anything for the Gamecube yet?

>>715571075
This is a constant frustration of mine. Fucking constant. Sega, who now owns Atlus is THE reason that we got Persona 4 Golden, eventually Persona 5 Royal etc... because Sega had to kick Atlus in the goddamn head and drag them kicking and screaming into the modern era with PC support...only for them to wake up and exclaim just how great it is. To their credit another Sega studio, RGG, started porting to PC and now says that PC is their primary and most dependable platform.

I can't understand why Vanillaware won't. All I can think of is Kamitani is afraid of every outsoucing ANYTHING. When they did the DCPro , he didn';t just let some random Atlus people do it, Vanillaware did it themselves. I can appreciate that, but fuck they have a huge potential audience on PC. His one letter to Justin Schreier is still legendary. All he need to do is port a handful of games to PC and release future ones on Steam at parity and he'd never have to worry about money again

>>715571432
Dragons Crown PC would be great and it would get eyes and hands on it. I don't get why not. Unicorn Lord is really fucking good, too and it's stuck on switch.

>>715571432
Japanese companies are generally just allergic to the PC market. Sega pushing PC ports so hard in recent years is something pretty unique.

>>715571653
Thank Yakuza franchise I guess.

>>715571385
Starfox 64 got one but that's the last i heard of it.
i learned the other day super metroid had one.

When is the wind waker decomp

>>715569086
you can do it on $200 pre-builts.

>>715572104
>4200 prebouilt
fucking what? what would that even make you?

>>715572090
after jet force gemini's

>>715572104
>$200 prebuilt
what the fuck would $200 get you?

>>715572301
A prebuilt PC strong enough to emulate Vanillaware games.

>>715567451
>Ai upscaled wall textures
I just hate how AI-upscaled shit looks.

>>715572459
It's not too bad when playing but I know what you mean.

>>715566852
Other than the app stuff which is cool on a tablet beside you (real time map, automatically switches air land and depths) pretty sure emulation has at least met graphically what the Switch 2 is outputting.

>>715567451
Have some deceny

>>715571536
It would. Even better if they have any new content/expansions for it. All of Vanillaware's titles will do well but especially I think
>Dragon's Crown Pro
>Muramasa Rebirth
>Unicorn Overlord
>OdinSphere Leifthrasir
>13 Sentinels Aegis Rim
would be a good start.

>>715571653
maybe in the late 2000s or early 2010s that was the case, but Capcom was onboard early, along with Sega but even Bandai Namco, Square Enix (for th emost part, they're by far the most uneven major JP publisher doing something sane for one game and completely insane for another), Tecmo Koei, to say nothing for smaller ones like Falcom and the like are all treating PC as a worthwhile platform for the most part. Even fucking Sony knows PC is the best platform but hobbles it because of their studios shitting stuff out on PS5 earliest.

Vanillaware is an aberration at this point, especially when their publisher and that publisher's owner Sega have MAJOR successes and are willing to port stuff to PC. Vanillaware I hear is treated as a tiny studio that can only do one thing at a time and..okay I guess... but I can't see why they can't make a
>Okay George you get the final review to make sure it was ported properly at your quality level
deal with Kamitani and let Sega/Atlus handle the rest and him okay it and/or create new content for it.

>>715572301
you can get a mini-pc with integrated graphics strong enough to emulate switch games. even sub-$200 tablets can emulate switch games.

you can find mini-pcs like this on sale under $200.

https://www.amazon.com/Computers-Windows-Display-Desktop-Bluetooth/dp/B0BQHBWPYX

emulaitonlet here
Is it possible to emulate games like Mario Galaxy without a Wii remote?

>>715568654
niggas packin'

how do you take screenshots in citra?

>>715572868
Yeah you can use mouse controls or even gyro if your controller has it

>>715572868
yes, just emulate the pro controller

>>715570835
I found Eden gave me a smooth 120FPS @ 4K for TOTK. Other emus struggled. Looked great. Can bag on the Switch or the game if you want, but the programming that went on to make that game work on that tablet is insane.

>>715572969
You use the shadowplay screenshot button

>>715572868
yeah, i beat it with a 360 controller.

I am currently playing Rise of the Ronin atm trying to clear some backlog, and next up will be something older.
Debating between
>Onimusha Tactics (GBA)
>Stella Glow (3DS)
>Ring of Red (PS2). I am in the mood for some SRPG action to hold me off until FF Tactics Remake.
Ring of Red has some annoying ass issues I have to solve if I go for that one which is the only reason I haven't played it yet (lines on everything when above 1x resolution or in HW mode)

>>715572868
If a controller has gyro capability to it like a Pro Controller, or a Duelsense you can assign motion stuff to that.
Or use a key to emulate motional control.

>>715573204
>>715570835
I fucking hate that there's so many forks, man.
I just want one good one.

>>715573467
I use a Dualsense on PC as my preferred controller and a lot of games support gyro but I can't use it worth shit. I wonder how people do it. It feels so unnatural to me.

How do I make PS2 emulation not a fucking chore. LAst time i use PCSX2 it was god awful

>>715567451
im annoyed at how long its taking to replace the models with the 3ds ones+keeping the lighting from the n64 ver
it would be best of both worlds
also malon is cute

>>715573553
Switch emulation does Gyro nicely. It works the way it needs to.

>>715573602
I heard she smells like shit

>>715573602
pretty certain there's already a mod that adds models and animations from 3Ds version to PC.

>>715573204
A lot of that has to do with Yuzu's excellent work. TOTK uses the ASTC (I get the acronym wrong sometimes but its a file format that only a handful of ancient as fuck GPUs have support for, aside from those like mobile Tegras that have a hard codec for it included) format. It also then needs to be recompressed to a lossless format that is equivalent. The reason that
>Bayonetta 3 (I don't think 2)
>Astral Chain
>TOTK (but not BOTW as I recall)
and a few others known to be really demanding Switch games to emulate have stuttering, cinematics where voices desync from animation etc.. is because of this issue. All the Ryujinx based emus use a emulated CPU decoding option for this and even a pretty big dick CPU will still not do this well - MAYBE if you had a latest gen Ryzen 7000 or 9000 3D Cache model I hear can do it without stuttering but everything else is fucked. Yuzu on the other hand, coded in a Vulkan based GPU ASTC Recompression (even the potential for asymmetric decode - at the cost of pop in but either setting works fine) that means you can use your GPU to decode this shit a lot faster in real time of this specific format. Eden and others of Yuzu's legacy already have this feature and its a reason why you can get upscaling and higher frame rates without shit going south in play or cinematics here.

>>715573448
Get on Bigfoot's level

>>715573574
don't be a shitstain mongoloid and learn how a computer works, all i can suggest
depending on if the last time you used it was 20 years ago, you might've used it when it was wxwidgets and it's qt now which people generally seem to agree is much easier to use

>>715573951
>$11 for 3 toppings large pizza

>>715573951
>implying I will stop playing my game to call the store

>>715573825
That makes sense, good history/info post.

>>715573658
for characters only, it was done somewhat quickly after certain updates, there seems to be just one dude working on maps/enemies/vfx, and i don't get if he doesnt want any help or what, but feel like it should be a comunnity work if he shared his method and documentation for converting 3ds models+vertex lighting to the pcport

>>715574082
>McDonalds!

>>715573574
download the nightly version, it just works

>>715573539
I know, I do too. Some of it is fear of Nintendo bullshit but other parts is discord drama. For instance, all of them pretty much refuse to help people who have issues playing pirated games and for good reason - puts the crosshairs on their back. However Citron forinstance started a https://github.com/LotP1/SwitchVerifier/
>Run this program on your modded switch and spits out a value of your secret key- until it was updated itwas your WHOLE FUCKING SECRET KEY - to prove to us you have a modded switch and are not a dirty pirate
and people rebuked the dev, Zep with somewhat good reason. Thats one reason for the Eden fork as I recall. Not sure what drama happened there recently or if any did.

The verifier thing before was only used by Ryubing if you managed to get slapped with the
>Pirate, no help
label because you came in with
>HELP WHERE I GET GAME
>TOTK DOT PIRATE_RELEASE_GROUP DOT SHITENDO ISNT WORKING HALP
and other shit, but if you didn't act like an ass you didn't need verify just to ask a question in the discord server etc. So yeah, a lot of it is drama - I think
>Suyu poked the bear, came out of it with their own hosting but didn't really have ther skills for major development
>Sudachi is primarily fixated on Macfaggotry and mobile but has contributed
>Torzu is pretty based but is only on Tor for the mainline and doesn't compile every release
>Citron has the faggotry of the verifier thing but made some real progress
>Eden basically was the breakaway from Citron because of the verifier faggotry but not sure if it has updated since.

I'd stick to Eden or Citron at this point and maybe Torzu if you're comfortable; I really kinda hope they're working together and merging each other's changes.

>>715574176
Happy to help, anon.

>>715573574
Have you tried the nightly version? It's a lot better.

>>715570835
Eden is the only real Yuzu fork, Citron is basically dead, all the real devs left for Eden

>>715574661
where do i get Eden

>>715571075
Is there a reason why you play the Wii version instead of the Vita version? Vita version has DLC.

>>715566586 (OP)
for me it's Gran Turismo 6

>>715574828
>compiling shaders
No async comp?

>>715574661
I hear that may be the case but I'll wait to see updates. Ther hasn't been an oficial update since the one around the breakaway which is Eden 0.0.2 . Now, they did have a "temporary backup of the master" lastweek because of some unspecified drama and I hope they're still good. If they keep meaningful development updates they'll be the current successor but so far neither they nor Citron seem to have added much since their split?

>>715571536
use emulators for both and have fun. it's stupid to wait any pc release anyway

>>715574826
I played the Dolphin one at first because there was a 4K upscale mod for it.
I learned the Vita3K version had it so i switched to that.
Play the Vita3K version.

>>715574960
I just tried and it crashed during the tutorial.

>>715575129
Works on my machine.
Hold onto this and download and extract files yourself

>>715568707
/V/ is so fucking retarded Jesus Christ

>>715568707

>>715575301
I meant the tutorial in the game. I know how to install games, it's the same as RPCS3.

>>715575492
Most recent Vita3K version? got all the patches and shit?
dunno otherwise.

>>715575556
Yep.

>>715568035
just trust me

I should probably just go buy Japanese Drift Master JDM but I apparently like banging my head against a wall. This game was NOT made for controllers and I don't have a wheel (only a flight stick)

>>715571536
UL would have sold extremely well on PC if they released it timely but that window is shut now. Genuinely stupid company.

>>715566586 (OP)
Armored Core 3 atm
Quite fun, the base controls aren't even that bad

>>715575617
Are you doing the actual tutorial or are you doing the opening part to the first boss? If it's the tutorial just skip it.
If not then again, works on my machine.

>>715575869
yeah, there is zero chance I would buy it now. Oh well, it's their loss, not mine.

>>715576185
Eltalinde sex

I tried emulating Mario Tennis 64 the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze. Well, I was fucking wrong, considering the game runs like I'm once again eight years old and my little brother is pulling out the cartridge. What's the SOTA for 64 emulation these days?

>>715576181
very odd this isn't on modern consoles

>>715576290
/emugen/ says one of these three

Play Metal Max (but not the PC 'new' one)

>>715576531
what's it about

>>715576426
Awesome dude, cheers.

>>715576185
how can you play in ultrawide when most things require separate ultrawide support. i couldn't stand seeing black bars.

>>715576606
this is such a stupid question
it's 16:9 whether you have an ultrawide screen or not you dumbass

>>715576606
I never have and never will understand this complaint. Do the bezels of your current monitor send you into an existential dread?
I don't have ADHD so just like when I used to go to the theater and there's bars, I don't notice them after 2 minutes of watching whatever I'm watching.

Finishing THPS1. Holy shit the framerate is fucking painful.

>>715576569
it's an open world JRPG that is light on story and, in my personal opinion, pulls off 'open world JRPG' way way better than SaGa ever has.

>>715576798
I guess i need it right in front of me because i wouldn't know otherwise. Just how I think I'd feel.

Two questions
Anyway to play oot/mm romhacks on PC with uncapped fps?
Where is that mega link with the sm64 PC port + a bunch of mods?

>>715577124
Depends on if the mod can be played on like decomp or Ship but probably not. either way why would you want to play OoT outside its normal framerate? It's beautiful that way.

>>715577124
seconding second part

>>715577197
>either way why would you want to play OoT outside its normal framerate?
probably not having brain damage is the biggest motivator

>>715577538
I consider a constant unchanging regular framerate to be peak.

Hows switch 2 emulation going? Has everyone just shut the fuck up regarding it?

>>715577604
HOW DARE YOU

>>715577757
who cares

>>715566932
it's a decomp port, dumbass. Ship trannies don't use a recompiler for their ports

>>715577604
cool, enjoy your 18fps, i'll keep enjoying 144

>>715576569
>what's it about

About how to make a good remake.

>>715577757
No one's going to tackle it unless they want to get sued into the ground by Nintendo.

>>715577905
Every boss in the game is peak

>>715574960
>play an inferior emulator because of bloat

>>715568075
They all get hot to the touch and break easily (some sooner than others). It's chinkshit after all.

>>715566586 (OP)
I played through this entire game without knowing there was a crafting system for the blades. Just never pressed select or whatever button it was.

>>715578014
No just actually play the Vita3K version, moron. 4K mod or not. It's the better way to play it.

>>715578251
anon the game forces you into the crafting menu how the fuck did you not know that

>>715578390
I know, I probably mashed through it while speeding up the emu.

>>715578473
>using speed up

Where my Flycast chads at?

>>715578932
the fug is that

>>715578932
>early 90's art with scanned picture backgrounds
SOVL

How’s pc98 emu?

>>715579080
Dreamcast emulator
>>715579206
Glad someone else has great taste in things.

>>715579763
>>715578932
>no English translation that I can see
I'll have my revenge JOPs, just you wait

Thousands upon thousands of games to emulate across dozens of systems and the only games I've played on my Steam Deck in 2 years are
-Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary Edition
-Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles/SOTN
-Sonic 3 and Knuckles (Which is redundant as I have Sonic Origins)
-Metal Slug 1-6
-Mario RPG (both SNES and Switch though Switch rom breaks after rescuing peach)
-Espgaluda
-Mario Sunshine

>>715566586 (OP)
GU runs so fucking well on ryujinx, man
you can even play online using LDN

I just wish the devs managed to fix the softlock that sometimes happens when you use the chat
almost perfect
>mfw playing at 1440p native 120fps with upscaled textures and custom FoV
z a m n

>>715580008
No English translation ever because fuck EOPs.

>>715576030
download the true analog patch if you want to completely break the game over your knee

>>715568170
Funny thing is, the multiplayer is the best part about the game.

>>715578659
who is that girl

I've been playing shit on my RG Slide. Beat Super Double Dragon the other day, played some TMNT Arcade. Currently playing Shredder's Revenge (the actual Android port in this case). Also replaying FF7. Haven't tried anything more demanding that PS1, might throw some Dreamcast and PS2 games on there sometime.

I tried emulating Ace Combat 04, 5 and Zero on my phone (Xiaomi Poco F6) and they have a shitton of slowdowns, while on my old 2500k rig they used to run at constant 60fps even with 4x internal resolution

https://youtu.be/mCjCPjWS-l4

>>715580593
He could just remind the controls using the in-game feature and break the game about as hard.

>>715578349
retard

>>715580008
Allow the third nuke to manifest

>>715582775
>some random chinkshit phone
>”whys it run like ass, bros..?”

>>715566586 (OP)
I am emulating Zelda 1.
I did finish it about 20 years ago using Nesticle but i abused the hell out of save states. So i'm playing it properly this time.

One thing i'll say - i don't know why Castlevania 2 gets so much shit for being cryptic and obtuse when zelda 1 is just as bad:
-there are multiple areas on the map where if you enter them without a guide you will get stuck in an infinitely repeating loop.
-there's a dungeon and several important items hidden in caves underneath bushes/statues you have to randomly burn down/bump into.
-the dungeons are filled with sections where you have to bomb walls, and there's no tell or audio/visual cues like in link to the past, and your bombs are extremely limited because they are the only way you can kill the dinosaur monsters in the dungeons.

Also I literally got stuck in a room in level 5 because the door closes behind you and you have to bomb your way out the side through a secret door, but i had no bombs because i used them all killing the stupid dinosaurs in the previous room.
I had to google it, turns out it's a common point where people get stuck. You have to plug in a second controller, set it up in retroarch, then save the game using the controller 2 trick and then reset and start all over again.

>>715574943
Since we are on the topic, which emulator should I use for Dragon's Crown? Never really looked into emulation Playstation stuff outside of the PSP for MonHun.

>>715573574
Software mode.
Problem solved.

>>715578932
>Flycast
Frame Pacing in 30FPS games still broken.
They know how to fix it.
They won't coz they don't give a flying fuck.

>>715573574
genuinely mind boggling how people are still struggling with it in 2025 even after parallel gs

>mk64 recomp
>hd texture mod
life is good, all I am missing is a hq music mod

why is gt4 so dark? it's like I'm looking at the game through multiple sunglasses

>>715577757
we haven't even gotten cartridge dumps yet, let alone a jailbreak, which are bare minimum shit to get a emulator working

>>715587498
RPCS3 worked pretty well when I tried it a couple years ago but I don't know if it can do netplay

>>715582775
It's obvious that you need a Samsung Galaxy S25 because the Snapdragon 8 Elite is extremely fast!

>>715567902
It's underdeveloped but if you get good settings for your game it works well. I played Armored Core V/VD and Ninja Gaiden 2 on it without much trouble and few crashes.

>>715566586 (OP)
Awaiting Switch 2 hack so I can play Gamecube games on official hardware. Not dropping $200 on chinkshit and touch buttons on mobile is cancer. I'll only consider PC if the Dolphin devs find a way to get the NSO GC controller to work on it.

>>715574887
Of the dozen yuzu forks since it got killed, there's been literally 0 progress made. Probably the same for ryujinx. Nintendo literally won the switch emu battle. Real experienced devs learned not to fuck with them and the only devs who picked up the pieces are all barely teenager literalwhos with not a fraction of the capability as their predecessors.

why is vanillaware so stupid and wont port their games on pc?

>>715577757
Switch 2 can't be hacked. If it can't be hacked then it can't be emulated. It's over.

>>715578932
Flycast sucks, way too many rendering issues regardless if using OpenGL or vulkan

>>715568170
>>715568707
Imagine taking 12 years to wait to emulate cinematic slop TLOU when you've all the evidence of it being dreck for retards that don't actually like video games.

>>715588413
It's so funny how literally every other Japanese company ported everything to PC except them, when back when this push started we only really wanted MGR, Valkyria Chronicles, and Vanillaware games lol.
I remember this clearly.

keep planning to replay Bloodborne on emulator at a proper framerate but it keeps falling to the wayside for other activities
one of these days

>>715567986
There's tons of good chinkshit. The one he's showing is a pretty cheap budget option that I would never buy, but there's tons of options with companies like Ayaneo even making expensive luxury-type devices that most people can't even afford, rather than your common budget chinkshit.
If you look into the in company's some are actually run by pretty hardcore gamers while others are obvious cash grabs.

>>715571653
That's not even true anymore. It's actually more common to see console gamers begging for ports or Japanese games than PC gamers these days.
Vanillaware is not normal.

>*Spill gallons of blood*

EMULATION!

I don't care about all that ! I just need to finally find a way to emulate and UNCAP the fucking enemy-on-screen-limit for Hyrule Warriors on Switch (and Age of Calamity as Well)
I BEG my soul every day to see more than 30 Gorons on screen at any given time ! Capping the number of spawning enemies (or not giving an option to set it) in Musou games post 2020 is fucking CRIMINAL.

If anyone has any emulation tips for the switch that could uncap this, I would be very grateful.

>>715587926
Is it better to use .iso files or the package ones? Been trying with an iso version but the damn thing just refuses to boot it.

Playing Minish Cap atm. I'm at the ice temple and I'm enjoying it a lot, not really sure why everyone here seems to hate it so much.

>>715588378
This really isn't exactly true. Some of those I mentioned above have progressed both in compatibility and features. Granted the original team already did a ton of work and they were mature thankfully, but pretty much all of the forks have at least done some minor benefit with others having more significant ones. Torzu, Eden (Citron had some improvement too prior to the Eden split) compared to baseline Yuzu's last version are enhanced by comparisons. As far as Ryujinx, at least one of them (Ryubing/GreemDev's fork) has some significant contributions including the ability to load update/DLC without having to install them, so you can just plop them in the same directory you make for base games without needing to install them (I'd like to see Yuzu being able to dynamically load base XCI/NSP + Update NSP + DLC NSP without need to install. I should check to see if Torzu or Eden can do this or if they could) and has Dual Joycon w/ independent motion controls allowing you to play RingFit Adventure or any of the Fitness Boxing games for instance (something Yuzu had due to a custom SDL driver, but Ryujinx nor its previous forks never had). So progress is being made. I don't thinkthis is Nintendo's win so much, rather other issues with Discord faggotry and just needing to find people with specific skillsets. Yuzu and Ryujinx won in the end being open source and even before their closures were developed and even optimized so well the vast majority of games were playable at parity without issues. The one thing that we are missing however, was a proper Nintendo Switch Online virtual emulator for online play.

I'm sure a Switch 2 CFW and eventual emulator will be coming along. Frankly in the old days Nintendo's litigious bullshit nature by itself would have been enough to inspire lots of oldfag hackers with the skill to help build an emulator, CFW or whatever else.

>>715591867
installing pkg files was easier iirc but they should both work

>>715590139
I'd look for mods? That seems like something that could be modded in perhaps? It could be done purely with a graphics mod if it was an issue of there were only so many SHOWN on screen at a time or distance based, but it may take a more comprehensive mod to actually spawn more enemies than originally intended. Given the kinds of modsthat say... BOTW get with custom enemies or items both on Switch and even WiiU through Cemu first!

>>715566586 (OP)
I emulated this game several months ago. Had a blast

>>715567242
>>715567414
What are you guys talking about? The OOT decomp SoH is ported from is 100% complete. SoH just wasn't done by peculiarly competent people. For example, there is no mouse look, and there are random frame drops that can only be semi-fixed by increasing the frame gen and using v-sync.

>>715588413
See - >>715572661 ; the only answer I've heard is that Kamitani is basically afraid their small studio can only handle one project at a time so porting means not developing something else. He's terrified of allowing any 3rd party to do the porting for them and wants to do it directly to have a certain level of quality; I can understand why he's seen shit ports in the past but still it seems like something that could be gotten around. This is especially true if he doesn't have any experience with porting to/development for PC, despite the fact that its functionally no more difficult and likely easier than many consoles especially these days.

Some anons and I were talking about sending POLITE messages to Sega/Atlus and Vanillaware directly requesting PC ports of Vanillaware games and to have Steam as a launch platform for new ones. I figure it cant' hurt if done right. If Kamitani can talk to Sega (who throttled Fatlus into finally bringing games to PC and now seem to find it very lucrative), Atlus themselves, and especially RGG Studio given Yakuza's success on PC of the "We make so much more money from PC over a longer time , even selling our games at $10 gives us a huge profit and new people keep buying and playing Yakuza 0" variety, maybe he could decide to give porting a try.

>>715566586 (OP)
Are there any PS2 games with active online servers?
I've seen videos of people still playing MGS3 online.

>>715566932
SoH is not a recomp, it's a port of the decompilation. Recomps are ports done without a decompilation, just automatically and then MAYBE tweaked.

>>715566586 (OP)
How do I switch emulate I can't get brothership to work with ryujinx

>>715588378
>Of the dozen yuzu forks since it got killed, there's been literally 0 progress made
Yeah, it sucks
I wonder if Switch emulation will ever be as mature as PS2 or GameCube emulation
Are there even Yuzu / Ryujinx forks that support save states?

>>715569576
What game is this

>>715573574
Pcsx2 is running well on my pos computer. The new version that looks like duck station is better than the old shit looking one

whats the best mini PC to keep hooked up to my TV and use as an emulation machine?

Unironically how the fuck do I get Yuzu after Nintendo JAPPED them? I've never tried to emulate anything newer than a 360.

>>715566586 (OP)
Emulating Pokemon Scarlet because I never played the DLCs

>tfw emulating ps3 games in 8k and pc not even breaking a sweat
Asura's Wrath is amazing, go play it.

Vita emulation sucks? That's sad to hear. My Vita has major drift and it's unplayable, and my other Vita has the thing where the buttons stop working for some reason, so I was counting on emulation.

>>715595213
What emulator runs it best?

>>715566586 (OP)
Emulating games on DOSBox is painful, but after much suffering, I've managed to config it to work like I wanted, I can share the knowledge if anyone needs it

>>715594207
PAPRIUM

>>715572301
I used to use a mini pc from minisforum and it was fine for switch stuff

>>715596064
I think the emulation itself is quite good, even great - parity or better for most things. Kinda like PSP. However, I hear that the Vita3K emulator is just sort of tedious to config, or at least can be. I'd give it a try especially if you want to play a Vita exclusive title or something.

>>715596876
Dosbox X is better. ECE or whatever community edition has no community support, ironically. X has a gui, the only other example of which is that ancient SVN Daum build. You can scale to whatever aspect you want and not have to use that odd forced 16:10 aspect the original forces on you, along with an easy XBRZ filter and better performance than whatever Dosbox-Pure has going on.

>>715566586 (OP)
I just download a metric fuck ton of DS/DSiware game and set up my stream layout. I'll never fucking stream nor touch these games, but the satisfaction was immeasurable

>>715598216
Thanks, this is way better, wish I knew about it before, I tried DOSBox Staging thinking it would be a big upgrade but it wasn't comparex to this
The only thing I wish this had (at least I haven't seen it) is a FPS limiter, I'm limiting it through Nvidia Control Panel

>>715587934
I have Snapdragon 8 gen 3, is the Snapdragon 8 elite really that faster?

>>715566586 (OP)

>>715566586 (OP)
I played PS2 Dragon Quest V then I played the first part of the snes game, leaving it there for now and playing Final Fantasy VI

>>715590026
game?

>>715592353
Minish cap?
I don't think people hate it, it's just not as good as most other Zelders

>>715595457
Man, it took a long time for this game to work properly in emulation

>>715574031
The Bigfoot was way bigger than any large pizza. Even if they doubled the price, it'd still be a really good deal.

>>715577757
Real talk : You have to wait for Switch 3. Devs are too scared of lawsuit.

>>715573574
??????????? PS2 has been emulating fucking flawlessly for me since 2000 fucking 8. My phones have been emulating PS2 for forever.

>>715604398
Nanobreaker.