Thread 717561789

Give me ONE good reason why i should use this over stand-alone emulators

no fuck off
just use it if you want

>>717561789 (OP)
One of the N64 cores they have is better than the current n64 emulators
Thats the only reason I used it some time ago

Using Retroarch outside of cfw consoles or handhelds is pure cringe

>>717561789 (OP)
can be easier to set up if you want to use the same or similar crt shaders across emulators

What >>717562021 said, minus the gay nigger slang. Scaling control is the only thing this pile of shit can do right.

>>717562014
Not anymore.

>>717561789 (OP)
It really depends on the emulator

>>717562014
Which one? They all suck in my experience. Paper Mario renders like shit.

>>717562014
there's ares which is probably out there in terms of compatibility and stability but it doesn't have upscaling
there's also RMG which uses the same code the retroarch core uses but with a standalone interface

>>717561789 (OP)
you have autism and dont care about staring at 12 menus to get started

>>717561789 (OP)
It's GUI works very well with a joystick,and then there's the shared shaders and not having to configure every emulator individually.

Also for CRT mangling shit it's pretty useful.
For example, my HDMI to composite adapter is a bitch that only do 1280x720 internally with a shitload of overscan, and being able to center the picture and use a pixel scale that is compatible with the device and all that trash is pretty useful, specially that it keeps the same settings across all emulators.

>>717561789 (OP)
retro achievements
steam support
overrides
custom shaders
sleek psp style interface
easy access to emulators for consoles you don't care about outside of one game like the wonderswan what the hell is a wonderswan
custom backgrounds

>>717562432
and by backgrounds I mean custom overlays
I can post my sweet etrian odyssey overlay once I finish repairing my hdd

>>717562242
I think it was the mupen64 one, at least for me it gave better performance than the actual emulators I tried

>>717561789 (OP)
Lower input lag, better a/v sync, better performance.

>>717561789 (OP)
it's jewish and the bible says to bless israel

>>717562680
You're probably talking about mupen with the parallel core.
It actually emulate the N64 instead of just emulating half of it and trying to rewrite code for the PC as shit HLE emulators do since forever.

>>717561789 (OP)
Literally doesn't work for anything past the PS2

>>717562695
>better performance.
False, every core underperforms compared to the real thing.

>>717562619
here it is. etrian loli overlay. it actually looks kinda weird atm but i haven't emulated a ds game in a while.

>>717563194
I emulate homebrew instead of ds games that get ported to PC now anyway lol

>>717563320
More modern systems like gamecube run worse on RA.

>>717563764
That's interesting but it's not generally the experience i get.
And i do use a setup where it is benefical to use retroarch as much as possible, so i just "eat the difference".

>>717563764
Citra core very much does not outperform standalone, your methodology is wrong and/or dishonest.

>>717563758
you don't have to just use ra
duckstation
dolphin
pcsx2
yuzu/ryujinx
shadps4
even vita3k

Worst UI in all of software

>>717563926
cemu as well

>>717563827
probably have some performance heavy option on in RA, like rewind, runahead, audio latency set really low or something like that

>>717563969
rpcs3

>>717563320
Wait are you seriously using FPS to measure performance in these games?

>>717561789 (OP)
If you want to couch game with an emulator it's worth the extra effort upfront, but really only for 5th gen and earlier. Anyone claiming it's a hassle to boot a game is a mouth breathing retard though

>>717562619
Is there actually a way to set a background?
I'd prefer to have my desktop background sit behind the game instead of an image on top with a rectangle cut out of it.

>>717564332
yeah but it's so much effort
i had to cut the center out of an etrian odyssey artwork and set transparency and resize it

>>717563320
What kind of bullshit faggotry is this?
You're not gonna run those games at 150+ frames.
You're gonna run them at 60.

It takes 5 minutes to set up the entire thing and to get every core working. Why in the actual fuck would you set up 40 different emulators, spending 15 - 30 minutes each time, and in some cases, even fiddling with settings on a game by game basis? You turbobrainlets always try to frame it like RA is for retards, meanwhile here you are objectively wasting your time because you're mentally ill.

>>717564062
There's so many retards on here that they do shit like this with everything nowadays, where people have no idea what they're talking about, but pretend to have some sort of proof that does nothing but make other people dumber

>>717564475
>make false statement
>get proved wrong
>REEEEEEEEEEEEE IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER
Actual brain damage.

>>717561789 (OP)
If you want to use it use it. If you don't, don't. It's just another option.

Didn't take long for the LRPS2 core to surpass PCSX2 with the parallel-GS renderer. Pretty funny.

>>717561789 (OP)
There're a lot of reasons but shaders, DRC, full control of aspect ratios and underscan cropping, and input lag reduction alone make standalones for the atari up to the dreamcast redundant.

But the fact that you can UNSAVE and UNLOAD save states if you save/load one accidentally, is an absolute life saver.

>>717562242
Paper mario renders perfectly. Use the correct LLE plugin, and then never change it again.

>>717563150
>Oh nose! i only get 1000 FPS in super mario bros if i hit fast forward, instead of 1100 FPS in standalone.
Retard

>>717563758
Yes but everything up to the DC runs better in RA.
>>717563962
Which UI? there are about half a dozen included.
Don't tell me you're a dribbling idiot and didn't realise you can change them?

>>717565143
mupen64 doesn't run very well and the audio crackles. it's definitely my least favorite core.
smash remix also needed me to update my xbox controller (lol)

BizHawk > Retroarch

>>717563758
>like gamecube
The dolphin libretro core is just ass, it was never finished being ported and is very outdated.

>>717565189
Also false, and extremest relevant to low wattage chips which are the only sane use case for RA.

>>717565523
Extremely*

>>717564861
pcsx2 has a build with the parallel-gs installed already lmao

>>717566102
Yeah, and it's inferior and lacks shader support LOL.

>>717561789 (OP)
a lot of emulators don't let you map save states to your controller.
that's the main reason i use it, also it's just convenient

>>717566214
where's the updated version then, punk?

>>717568508
What are you even talking about? The RA version has har parallel-GS for like a year, lmao.

>>717567153
>a lot of emulators don't let you map save states to your controller.
really? damn. other emus have it worse than i thought.

>>717564724
It doesn't matter, though. Those games don't run properly above 60FPS. It's a bullshit metric.

>>717568615
how is the pcsx version inferior

>>717561789 (OP)
It kinda works for what it was made for but not being able to just drag a romhack to a folder and have it appear as a selectable game is retarded. I have to manually add it by going to an entirely diferent window.
I also dislike that it's designed for controllers so it doesn't show my keybinds on the UI

>>717561789 (OP)
Because using multiple things when you could use one thing instead is always a retarded choice.

>>717575386
ok retard

>>717561789 (OP)
>reddit arch