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>>529513639

bump

emu

Rom sites may come and go, but emulation never dies!

Hey! Where can we download some Nintendo Switch games for free? I'm just an emulation dude just like you that just want to play a pirated copy of The Legend of Zelda on my Windows PC with a free emulator program.

Cheers. Happy emulation.

why do you bump this gay fucking thread, kys

>>531016324
Nice try, glowie.

emulation

Dug out my Wii U
What's the modern equivalent to freeshop?

>>531031464
doesn't that still work for the wii u?

Just me or are github downloads pure shit lately? ~500k when my speedtests are fine.

I'll handle them Mr President

>>531041324
make ashley babli pay

does hdr improve visuals at all for emulation (mostly nes through ps2)?

>>530982603
I never liked this complaint, a lot of remasters, mods, etc always overtune all the things that never needed tuning. Usually because it's usually never the original developer who makes the "updates", but even if it was they let the corporate rot infest their decision making to appeal to lowest common denominator at the risk of the actual quality of the game. When you do shit like that, you remove the nuance or things to appreciate about something just for the sake of consuming it easier, quicker, and with less thought. Not to defend every single original port out there, there are plenty that were genuine hardware limitations (Sonic Unleashed is an immediate example I can think of) but everything else you mentioned is just autistic preferences.

Does this game just run poorly or is it the emulator? I am on retroarch with 3 different cores and it goes slow motion in a lot of areas.

>>531049048
It's the game. It was an unfinished/unreleased pile of shit that Capcom Japan pawned off on their US branch. It wasn't even meant to be a contra game.

>>531049048
It's the game. It was an unfinished/unreleased pile of shit that Konami Japan pawned off on their US branch. It wasn't even meant to be a contra game.

>The game was scheduled to be released in Japan under the title of Arc Hound (アークハウンド, Āku Haundo), with no ties to the Contra series, but was cancelled.
It's an unfinished build of a cancelled game that had nothing to do with Contra.

>>531044428
Depends, generally no because it's just postprocessing and not hdr from the engine itself like you can see on some modern games or with Renodx's native HDR mods (pic rel)
post processing HDR does nothing but make anything white or near white go full brightness, it's not real hdr, mostly useless and if anything hurts any games with white text on the UI. That is true for Autohdr/RtxHdr and also Retroarch or Dolphin's own hdr conversion options. When a game has proper HDR the UI has it's own brightness option so your oled and your eyes don't get destroyed for nothing (pic rel is an example of proper hdr, see the flames are 4000nits but the UI is at a normal brightness, this is impossible to get with postprocessing hdr methods)

Proper hdr displays are basically just OLEDs anyway and they give you 1/3 of the hdr effect automatically even on SDR content due to their perfect blacks. So there's little point in thinking about it..
HOWEVER some CRT shaders are meant for HDR and you get higher brightness through the scanlines which is great, and more vibrant colors, while likely still staying accurate. For emulation this is the best use for hdr imo.
If you have an LCD display with good FALD I would also just use HDR as much as possible, it would be an improvement in general since that'll get you more contrast and better blacks.

So if you want to use post process hdr despite the limitations you can also simply set the peak brightness to 200-300 nits in Retroarch or Dolphin, this way you get more brightness in general and better colors without getting 1000 nit text boxes.

>>529513639#p529931884
14TB disk:
Unlimited cartridges and cassette-based systems (up to X68000, Amiga, PC-9800 series, Nintendo 64, and Nintendo DS, including DSiWare).

Home Consoles:
100 Sega CD (bin/cue)
30 PC Engine CD (bin/cue)
50 Jaguar CD (bin/cue)
100 3DO (bin/cue)
Assorted Amiga CD32 and Commodore CDTV (bin/cue)
50 CD-i (bin/cue)
300 PSX (bin/cue)
100 Saturn (bin/cue)
100 Dreamcast (bin/cue)
600 PS2 (CHD for DVD, bin/cue for CD)
200 GameCube (RVZ)
250 Original Xbox (XISO)
200 Wii (RVZ)
Numerous WiiWare (WAD)
200 PS3 (BD-ROM ISO, decrypted)
100 PS3 PSN (PKG, installed to directory)
260 Xbox 360 (DVD extracted ZAR)
150 Xbox 360 XBLA (ZAR)
60 Wii U (WUA)
Numerous Wii U eShop (WUA)
70 PS4 (PKG, installed to directory)
70 Switch (NSP)
70 Switch eShop (NSP)
Handhelds:
100 3DS (decrypted .3ds)
Numerous 3DS eShop (.3ds)
150 PSP (CHD)
10 PSP PSN (PKG, installed to directory)
Arcade:
Numerous arcade games (for FB Neo)
Numerous 3D arcade original hardware (for MAME)
Numerous arcade laserdisc games (for Hypseus Singe)
Numerous arcade games converted from home console hardware (for MAME and Flycast)
Assorted arcade games converted from PC hardware (for TeknoParrot)

Web Frameworks:
Flashpoint Infinity (selective titles, not the Ultimate collection)

Mobile:
Kahvibreak
Early iOS archive
Early Android (numerous APK + data)
Numerous Symbian-based titles (N-Gage, Symbian^3, S60V, installed to directory for EKA2L1)

Home Computers:
200 Windows 9x (bin/cue)
50 FM Towns (bin/cue)
20 Mac PPC (bin/cue)
150 Windows XP (ISO for DVD, bin/cue for CD)

>>531016324
Fuck off Reggie

>>531065887
Home Media:
120 DVD-Video (ISO)
50 UMD-Video (ISO)
Assorted HD-DVD (ISO)
Assorted Blu-ray Video (ISO)
Numerous SACD and DVD-Audio (ISO)
50 VCD (bin/cue)
21 CD-i Digital Video
Numerous Audio CDs, Photo CDs, CD+G/EG, etc. (bin/cue)
Properly captured VHS and Laserdisc

Miscellaneous:
Numerous miscellaneous items, including magazine, kiosk, prototype, and demo discs for various systems (over 500 items, substantial collection).
Numerous properly scanned magazines, manga, and artworks.
Numerous 90s and early 2000s cartoons from Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, etc. (captured).
Numerous audiobooks, including fan edits.

Frontend:
Properly configured scraper setup for all systems using LaunchBox (no bloated files, no duplicate images, uses only 3D box, front cover, back cover, and disc images; missing entries manually configured).
Numerous scripts for various functions, such as dashboard execution or intro boot animations using LaunchBox Additional Apps.
Assorted shader presets, including Duimon Mega Bezel for RetroArch cores, CyberLab+TV or monitor bezels using ReShade for others.
Audio filters and simulation setups, including soundfonts for DOSBox Pure, VCN (Variable CRT Noise) Project, etc.
Numerous online service revival projects correctly configured for supported emulators.

And more...

What's the consensus on Play!? Does its future look better than PCSX2?

>>531065887
>>531066012
HAHAHAH, i am not jealous with my 4tb drive, no, hahaha.

>>531069697
It is dead Jim.

>>531069697
I still don't get why the retards at pcsx2 don't make an Android port, they already ported the code to the new ARM macs, and they have a vulkan renderer, most of the work for android is already done.

>>531069820
I shared this list as a reference for anyone considering a similar setup; 4TB should work well regardless. o/

>>531078941
I have a 24tb nas

>>531079498
noice.

>>531069697
hps2x64 is more promising

>>531070589
I'm glad they are not doing it, the Android emulation community doesn't deserve anything. They will just attack the devs with death threats if the games don't run at 4k/60fps without bugs/glitches on their 10 years old phone.

>*Render The Imperial March with S-SMP samples*

EMULATION!

Let's say I've found a fork of an emulator which might fix some issues when running on my computer, but this fork has 0 stars on GitHub, so for all I know, the fork could contain malware.

Should I give it a shot? Or do you think it's a risk?

>>531104114
I'd either go the virustotal route, or GPT the source. (I'm a retard though, so take my word for a grain of salt.)

>>531104114
Run a file compare against the original source and manually check every difference, then compile it yourself once you've deemed it safe.

>>531104319
Those could work, thanks for the suggestions. I assume most antiviruses just check for known bad files though... so if a piece of malware is not widespread, maybe antiviruses won't know about it. I dunno, maybe I should look into that more, because maybe it doesn't work like that.

>>531105347
This fork doesn't have builds so I would have to compile it. I could look at every commit added to the fork but that's tedious. I could just compile it then run the binary through VirusTotal, and hope that antiviruses would catch it, if it had something bad in it.

I'd like to personally thank everyone who's contributed bug reports to the list. Especially things like Return Fire. I'm not familiar with the game and would never have even know it was missing level music. Doing the right thing in the face of pure evil is a selfless act.

https://github.com/unofficial-issue-tracker/duckstation/issues/213

nigga it's just vidya games
pure evil hahaha
now call me a tranny

>>531108913
People that make the world a worse place for the sake of self interested greed, IE those that oppose emulation, deserve to be dragged behind a vehicle until they die. Resellers, corporate parasites and their online thralls etc...

Any good bloodborne + mods guide?

emulate or else...

>>531098147
>2d sidescroller so obsessed with sprite detail that it zooms in so you can only see 6 feet in front of your character

>>531107967
Sadly Duckstation will only improve as Matt n frenz want it to improve. It's good to know its flaws, though, just wish it was taken to heart by the devs more.

>>531098147
>shitty, imprecise Amiga-forming designed around taking hits constantly and barely mitigating it with health pickups
EMULATION

>>531137749
Forearmed is forewarned as they say. An honest person with nothing to hide wouldn't seethe about the truth being shown. But him and his cult seem to be in meltdown mode.

>>531098147
It's kinda nuts that they made a DOS version playable to the credits but they just decided never to release it. It's arguably the best version of the game, and you can easily find it online now.

>>531139336
To correct myself here, it's Super Star Wars 1, not Empire/2. Still, it's an interesting version of the game.

>>531091172
>10 years old phone
Pretty simple to solve:
>Minimum requirements:
>Android 14
>Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 or faster

Why is no one going after mattzek for illegally relicensing quackstation? Everyone is seriously just gonna let him get away with it?

>>531140858
>illegally relicensing quackstation?
There is no reason to do anything illegal, just grab the last codebase before the license change, what was it before? MIT?

>>531140858
Everyone that's not a delusional freetard knows that in practice, unless you have the time and resources to actually sue in court for breach of license, software licenses are little more than an honor system. Assholes like Stenzek who don't give a fuck about others can just ignore with impunity because he knows no one is gonna seriously take him to task over what EVERYONE knows is piracy-facilitating software, despite all pretenses to the contrary.

>>531141420
GPLv3
No one stepped up and forked the GPL code before the license change.

>>531142312
>No one stepped up
This, fags on here cry everyday over the license change but anybody could have forked the gplv3 code and continue working on it but nobody did.

Welcome to modern society where we worship at the alter of the almighty dollar. If you went to court Moneybags Matt would just outspend you. He gets paid not to go near Vermont College and is sitting on millions. He's got nothing but free time.

>>531143041
Why would anyone? Think about it. Clueless normalfags would continue using Duckstation anyway, and anyone wanting greater accuracy is using Mednafen. Only reason anyone would want to fork Duckstation is if the original got abandoned AGAIN and for good, and/or if it became broken to the degree even the average retard would consider unacceptable. As it is, forking it sounds like a recipe for endless drama.

I mean, just look at what happened with Swanstation. Damn near got Retrosharts cancelled because of schizokek's butthurt.

>>531144890
Then stop crying about the license change.

>>531145273
Yep. It's still a dick move, and realistically there's nothing to do about it, but at least it exposed him for the narcissistic faggot he is and everyone will think thrice before collaborating with him ever again. He can have his toy.

I still doubt it's Matt, but at this point the lore is just comfy. Cigs can really spin a yarn.

>>531145930
It has always been its toy since the beginning. I'm pretty sure he only open-sourced it because some of the code he put in it at the beginning must have come from other emulators.

>>531148181
literally half the code is ripped wholesale from mednafen and dolphin

>>531147769
If you want to spin yarns I found a second listing for Wondertrade. This one says it's in Portugal where his ex girlfriend/ex business partner lives. I don't know how the law in Portugal works but I'm sure they didn't list the same company in two different countries and collect tax breaks from both.

emulation ONLY

>>531148507
I really hope you're one day vindicated. Never stop posting.

>>531148743
I'd rather just emulate.

>>531049048
At least on an emulator you can overclock it. Still shit, though.

Is swanstation on RetroArch good enough for most/all games? I'd rather just not use anything by schizozek at this point

>>531149914
I use it anyway. I only use standalone when I'm testing ciggyposts.

>>531151203
I'm not entirely sure what this guy's talking about. The music in DQ7 is the wrong pitch?

https://github.com/unofficial-issue-tracker/duckstation/issues/227

>>531149914
>>531151203
If you're using sharts anyway, why not use Beetle PSX HW instead? Does that have more issues?

>*Makes up a puppy version of the Sarlac Pit Monster to be the first boss*

EMULATION!

>>531156816
The overall quality of the games aside, I at least appreciate that they managed to release a proper, consistent trilogy.

>>531163786
It better be good at that price

>>531175387
It is good but nothing's worth that price.

I used to use project64 or whatever when I was younger.
But I got myself a bunch of romhacks. And was instructed to get gliden64. But what even is gliden64? Does not appear to be an emulator, so what, how, and why do I use it?
But I also read about this Parallel Launcher. Is that something I actually want to use or should I use something else?

>>531185041
GlideN64 is a RSP (N64 graphics chip) plugin and renderer to be used with P64 or Mupen. It's the modern standard for conventional GPU HLE (translating N64 draw calls to modern graphics card ones), the real state of the art is the ParaLLEl renderer which uses that "compute" of your graphics card to render in a way truer to the N64. More like an accelerated software mode. Parallel Launcher is just a front end to launch an N64 emulator with GlideN64 (HLE) or Parallel (LLE)

I don't really bother with Launcher, just use Project64 Luna Edition for HLE or Ares for LLE.

Hacks, especially wilder ones like KazeEmunaur's, tend to run a little better on Project64, so just get Project64 Luna.

>>531185496
*emanuar, it's too early for names like that.

I actually use Mupen64Plus in Retrosharts but I think recommending it would just discourage you trying N64 emulation, and it also fails to run hacks like the RTYI demoJust use Luna for hacks, Ares for commercial games.

emulation.

>>531049048
This game is a perfect match for the Sega Genesis and should've been released for it. Of course with better graphics and sound. Even on the SNES it'd have slowdowns, see Contra 3.

>>531142312
there's always Swanstation

>>531203791
>7 commits per year
basically abandonware

>>531204801
still better than talzek's predatorware

>emugen still seething about stenzek in 2025

>>531204801
Does it fail to run any games people actually give a shit about, or just obscure ciggyware? Either way, Beetle PSX is right there.

Don't know if this is the best place to ask, but can a fat PS3 play digital ps2 games with ps2classicsGUI with its native compatibility instead of the emulator's? sorry if i sound retarded.

>new PS2, 3DS etc. emulators
>no new Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia hasn’t been updated for 5 years
Dudebros can’t stop losing

>>531216217
Yeah, I want to play Gears 1,2 and 3.

Anons, which shaders for retroarch will you recommend for android (snapdragon SM8635 8s Gen3)?

>>531216217
>Xenia hasn’t been updated for 5 years

...

>>531219379
Literal nothing burger. Name one canary update that fixed graphics, sound or performance bugs.

>>531216217
>>531223845
Really weird how the more complex and obscure console got better emulation in the end with RPCS3

X360
>Standard PowerPC CPU arch
>DirectX 9 GPU API
>Windows NT kernel

PS3
>Weird ass PowerPC CELL arch
>Whatever the fuck Sony used for the GPU API
>FreeBSD kernel?

I feel like a retard by asking, but can you reliably play a baseball game on PCSX2 using keyboard and mouse? When I used keys for the analog stick the bat would move in the extreme directions and the mouse constantly moves back to the center, making aiming impossible.

>>531225145
Yeah but Xbox killed its mindshare with the Xbox One so nobody cares about it I guess. Honestly it wasn’t that bad at the beginning because they still pushed out games but once Mattrick was gone it was over since Spencer just continued the damage Mattrick did + no gaems. Iirc the OG Xbox also uses off the shelf parts vs the Plsystation 2's custom hardware.

>>531234734
>OG Xbox also uses off the shelf parts
Yeah but at least Xemu is decent, Xenia is a complete mess.

anyone with a 9800x3d that can comment on totk performance? Are you able to get 1440p@60fps?

Maybe it's just me, but input lag-wise, latest nightly 86Box feels even smoother than before. Supposedly they made some improvements to the OGL backend, and with VSync off and sync to video on, mouse movement feels as close to 1:1 as I've ever felt it.

>>531239646
I think it's their new dynarec, those devs seem to be cooking.

>>531156729
Mednafen has its own edge cases, like Monkey Hero. Downsampling doesn't work as well in some games, like in MGS the radar's a bit fucked up. You also can't run the hardware renderer ahead like you can in Swanstation. They're pretty comparable, though. If I only need software mode I'll use the soft-mednafen core.

>>531241564
Mednafen should stop edging and start gooning.

>>531234734
>off-the-shelf
Sort-of. The custom GF3.5-ish GPU soldered into the mobo and into a unified pool of RAM was a bit novel. Allowed it to punch above many PCs (RAM amount aside) til the 9700 hit. The APIs were similar to what was used on contemporary PCs, though.

>>531163786
what even is this game

>>531163786
>1700 bucks
OH NO, anyways.

>>531256314
Survival-horror... By Fromsoftware, back before they got cannibalized by Dark Soul.

>>531239646
I've found a (somewhat) Win98 compatible mouse reaction test that can be used to compare between 86box settings and also between guest and host, as it runs in modern operating systems as well. You do need to install KernelEX w/ Win2K mode set in the program properties, but it works fine after.
https://archive.org/details/unicows (unzip to Windows/System in guest 98 install)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/
https://www.cognaxon.com/downloads/Educational/Windows_i386/ReactionTime_32.zip

When I set 86box to use the OGL renderer, fullscreen it, set guest to 100hz so it runs in VRR in my host's 120hz mode, install a logitech PS2 driver in guest that allows me to use a 100hz poll rate, I get results very close to native.

>>531261537
YOU'RE KILLING TRANS WOMEN

>>531266093
>>531239646
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=r15032
This is the driver I used in Win98, which allows you to disable acceleration and increase the poll rate within the mouse settings. PS2Rate has been janky for me, causing the mouse to go haywire when I launch it or put it in startup now and then.

>>531225145
>standard PowerPC CPU arch
Is it? It's still a custom multi-core multi-threaded PPC part not seen in many machines. The most comparable CPU is the Cell honestly.
>It's just a DX9 GPU
Not exactly, the API was extended beyond DX9 somewhat, and the GPU used a unified pool of RAM and additional eDRAM which gave it a ton of bandwidth between it and the CPU. PC ports running well weren't a given because of these differences.

Looking back the 360 was ridiculously powerful for 2005, and it would have been respectable if it didn't melt itself. Probably just needed a few more months or QA.

I'd like to play Super Hero Sakusen (Japan) but I can't because there's garbage audio that never shuts up. It's crashed so not like Scrooge Mcduck is making any money off it.

The christ does this mean?

>>531272886
It's probably okay outside of Mattstation, right?

>>531272998

>>531273146

One ticket for Mr Stank's Wild Ride, please.

>>531268862
Shit, had it not been for the RROD fiasco and the dumb Kinect focus late in its life, it may very well have relegated the PStriple to a distant 3rd place. Literally all the PS3 would've had is a couple of mostly nip exclusives (which as we all know were becoming less and less of a factor in a console's success from that gen onward) and it doubling as a Blu-Ray player. They had a golden opportunity. But Microdick couldn't help but to be their usual selves.

>>531274058
Oh and just to head the usual horseshit off at the pass here's it working correctly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNhSznn4DGg&t=475s

>>531274302
I believe it's fucked in DS but I'm not so sure about the others, and you don't sound sure either.

>>531274419
It's broken in all of them. That's why I had to track down real footage.

>>531274624
What is he even playing it on? Not hardware from the looks of it. Looks like some sort of HD loader and I would guess emulator setup?

>>531275052
I dunno maybe it's xebra or some obscure jap shit. Point is there's no noise and if it is there it's inaudible. So either fuckshitpilestation has broken audio or is in desperate need of audio filtering.

>>531272886
>>531274302
Grabbed the latest duck, got to your pictured name entry screen in safe mode, dead silent with my audio cranked up.

>>531275653
Brown hands typed this lie. I recorded it.

https://github.com/unofficial-issue-tracker/duckstation/issues/225

Wonder if this is a print issue or something. Either way I can't reproduce the noise in Beetle, Ducko, or Dannystation.

the boy who cried duck

I'm sure you did, cigs. I'm sure you did. You wouldn't close your issue if I slammed your bald noggin through my machine's speakers. Probably your settings or an issue on a different print of the game.

How is Steamdeck as an ultimate emulation machine?

>>531275828
>>531276036
>>531276114
You're poor because God hates you.

>>531275287
Definitely not Xebra, that's some XP era shit that probably wouldn't play well with that. I bet it's just some front end he has hooked into a modern emu or libretro core. Possibly Duckstation derived, because it WOMM. :^)

>>531276334
LMAO, I'm actually game for you to find issues and find your mattposting funny. Don't be a sore loser.

Yeah of course it's still broken and I've wasted my time checking it again.

>>531276780
Okay, now I'm getting it. Now I wonder if it's the BIOS.

>>531277149
You dumb fucking ape.

>>531277360
oh no I was anonymous and wrong my shame, anyway, time to find why it's doing it so you can put it in your journal that Matt will never read

aww, someone missed his yoga lessons

>>531277653
>Aww someone was born in a third world slum

>>531277360
>>531276780
Anyway fast-boot fixes it, so you can report to Unofficial or an emudev that will actually fix it as a BIOS problem.

That probably explains why that nip's emu setup works properly, but YT could be compressing it down.

yep, he skipped BIOS

>>531277945
Try it with a non Jap BIOS. The SCPH1000 is fucked six ways to sunday in shit emulators. It's broken graphically, it randomly stops reading inputs and now apparently it blasts garbage audio.

>>531278227
Oh yeah, it seems to be a bear for sure. I wonder which one's the closest to having it right.

>>531278363
None of them. Now buy a good paypig and buy a real copy.

I wonder how many of your audio problems are BIOS related, possibly a piece of that echo/decay still held by the sound chip.

>>531278969
Good Question. Unfortunately there's 6 million reasons we'll never know the answer. You don't get rich by writing checks after all.

I just dunno if I believe in intentional PS1 emu breaks done to inflate the market. There's so many emus, both open and closed source, by different dudes that get it 95% right. They each have their own 5%, and of that 5% user tweaks like fast-boot and a clock adjustment can work around most of it, or normies can live with the minor issues. I can believe this sort of thing exists in the arcade world, though, probably to a criminal extent.

Tell me more about WonderTrade though.

yes, let's feed his delusions until he decides someone has to do something about all these injustices and Matt ends up lying in a pool of his own blood

>>531280062
At least we can say we were there to witness the spiral.

>>531279857
From what I've pieced together since everything's been scrubbed, it was a retro game reselling business he ran with a woman from Portugal he was in a long distance relationship with. She's also a college professor which must be how they met. He blew it, obviously, crashed out and closed everything down. I don't know what this is about though. Search engine manipulation?

https://x.com/WonderTradeLLC

>>531280142
Yeah, well, you can talk to the fuzz when they come a-knockin' looking to see who knew what or who egged it on. I'm good.

>>531280468
I've called the Matt thing silly since day one. I merely find it funny anymore and grown addicted to the gimmick. I don't think I've ever said anything encouraging or vindicating.

I can only hope Fox does some dark side of emulation special and they facedoxx and interview me about post-Matticide cigs.

>>531278227
Happens with them all.

>>531225145
>Really weird how the more complex and obscure console got better emulation in the end with RPCS3
Rpcs3 is just a tier above in the garbage tier. At least xenia doesn't introduce weekly regressions. Oh, and you can actually play resonance of fate in xenia unlike the elad experience.

fucking kek

>>531225145
This is why recompilator for X360 was made.

>>531225145

I've been out of the loop for a bit (I go back to the PocketGo and the Retroid and all that) but did we ever get to a handheld device that can reliably run Gamecube games? Or is it just a Steam Deck/ROG Ally/whatever?

>>531225145
Turns out the only thing that matters is having a fan base. Same reason the OG Xbox emulation is still in an absolute state despite being basically a PC. No one gives a fuck. The people who would buy these consoles never cared about gaming to begin with.

>>531326262
If it was basically a PC, virtualizing or wrapping it would have been done. The hardware and software is just different and undocumented enough.

It's not about interest. The Xbox was probably more successful than the GameCube in the west yet the GC is emulated far better. Xemu is at the point now where you can bet on most things being playable with minor-to-annoying issues though.

Where's the update about it being a BIOS problem? Isn't it about informing the users and interested devs?

>>531283467
AHAHAHAHAHA
If Rpcs3 is just a tier above in the garbage tier, then Xenia is a tier below in the garbage tier.

>>531326969
Nintendo autism is always a potent force multiplier, though.

>>531331054
Agreed, I just don't think this is a CDi/Nuon situation where it just needs a Whitehouse to just do it. I think enough skillful people have given it their best shot, but custom GPU/API stuff is a bitch, especially when it's tied to the system's memory and meant to communicate so rapidly with the CPU. Otherwise we'd have something like Teknoparrot or a "hackintosh" style setup you could install on any PC with close enough specs.

>>531326804
>muh documentation
Every console is undocumented. Xbox IS basically a PC and virtualization was the first kind of emulation it got.
The truth is simply that no one gives a fuck about Xbox, it was some dudebro console that only sold in burgerland.

>>531331881
>Every console is undocumented
Not really, plenty of official and unofficial dev manuals get leaked.

>>531331881
>the non-standard GPU and API totally doesn't matter
Yeah and how good was that virtualization setup? How many games does it run?

Am I to believe people give more of a fuck about all these literally-who PCBs that run perfectly in MAME than the Xbox? Games played by literally dozens in some cases? Modern/custom GPU stuff is just magnitudes harder, you stupid fuck.

Am I to believe people give more of a fuck about all these niche games people barely know exist in Teknoparrot that run on far more powerful hardware? Hmm, it's like they're emulated because it's easier. Xbox is not a niche system at fucking all.

>>531332108
And it barely helps. And not every console gets a oman.

>>531332403
It was shit but worked well enough for what it was. Every console has non-standard GPUs and APIs, yet Xbox is the only one so close to a PC it could be virtualized. Why it didn't get better and modern emulation doesn't get better? Because no one gives a fuck. Go check how many people are trying to reverse engineer the hardware, check how many people are contributing to xemu. Meanwhile Sony, Nintendo and Sega consoles got entire hacking forums.

>>531333027
I don't know what you're bitching about anyway, Xemu has improved loads in the last year and you can probably run whatever in it now. I just played Wreckless which uses the GPU in all sorts of funky ways and Unreal Championship 2. They have minor issues each.

In a couple of years high-end FPGAs will become affordable and we will no longer have to depend on software emulation.

>>531333635
>he doesn't know it's still emulation
>he doesn't know that the existence of the FPGA doesn't mean a perfect core manifests
In 10 years, maybe. Can't wait to see what the DE10 successor costs for the first few years too.

>>531333429
Most games are broken in a way or another. And I'm not bitching, I'm just explaining why Xbox emulation is so relegated in general, despite none of the consoles being PS3 tier complex. It just doesn't have the mindshare Sony/Nintendo/Sega has.

We also don't know how fPGA-ing a modern-ish GPU will go. The closest evidence we have is the N64 core which is a hackfest. I am jealous of how close that core comes to running Body Harvest properly, though

>>531333635
>he doesn't know
FPGA cores are just emulators in VHDL, some are straight up ports or using big portions of PC emu ported code lmao
Barely any real benefits over emulation. They aren't doing gate level emulation like most tech illiterates are led to believe.

>>531333928
True, but I think it has *enough* mindshare to get the job done if it was surmountable as PS2/GC. Sega also has some never-ever gaps, like Hikaru. DC emulation was also wanky til Flycast matured a few years ago.

>>531333635
>>531333942
I would be happy with a FPGA powerful enough to emulate 6th gen and older, I already have a jailbraked PS3 and X360, got both at thrift shops for cheap.

>>531334298
We'll see how fPGAs handle advanced graphics chips like EE and Flipper, and a custom Geforce 3.5 that'll be something lol. The one thing I'll give the fPGA scene is that the interest it drums up leads to emulation improvements across the board.

>>531334298
You can still find PS2s and GCs for cheap (under 100 bucks) at thrift shops and and even some vidya stores.

>>531335047
Probably a lot cheaper to get a GC-capable Wii, or even a neutered one with virtualized controllers and memcards.

>>531334661
The flipper verilog leaked out like 5 years ago. I wonder what sort of fpga would be needed for it.

>>531335047
>>531335169
Yeah no reason not to get a Wii for GC if want real hardware, it just works and it's cheap as fuck. Also component cable costs $5 instead of whatever they charge for the GC meme one lmao

>>531335948
Did it? I thought only N64 got verilogs leaked

>>531336926
inside emeralds.7z there's a file named tako something. it's in there

>>531334661
GeForce emulation? No way...

>>531340386
Looks like it was Hollywood that leaked
https://wiki.raregamingdump.ca/index.php/emeralds.7z

>>531341491
same gpu core. idk why the dolphin devs don't just peek at it. they can make hardware tests and pretend they found the stuff that way so no one has to know.

>>531341624
Too busy fucking around with the GUI and porting to Apple shit.

>>531241402
>dynarec
Pretty cool stuff, I wonder if it could be applied on the inverse, ARM to x86_64, to speed up things like Switch emulation.

>>531344847
Yeah... they've kinda been used in emulators for 25 years. Switch emulators would run at 5fps if they were just using an interpreter.

>>531345940
This. You can't reasonably do this on anything newer than 5th gen.

>>531341624
>idk why the dolphin devs don't just peek at it
Because
>muh black box reverse engineering

Whedonfags sword to me this was good.

Whedonfags swore to me this was good.

It at least works perfectly in Xemu now. It was fucked up bad a year or two ago. Incredibly middling action game and oh god the stupid western-game "punched up" one-liners. Try to remember every fan of this show back in the day: how many of them are in polyamorous relationships or are some person of gender/sexuality? 90%?

Buffy was redd*t before redd*t. It was all there. The heckin Marvel quips, the grrl-power, sticking it to toxic masculinity, the fag shit. It was extremely foreshadowing of modern 'nerd' culture. At least Whedon liked his girls skinny, and we were spared modern beauty standards.

Jeez I dunno if Xemu needs some deadzone tweaking or if Xbox games all had syrupy right stick syndrome. Between that and 30hz how did anyone aim in these games?

>>531163786
>"I know what I have"
Many such cases.

>>531290058
>This is why recompilator for X360 was made.
...for Sega/Sonic shit. It's not really intended for anything else.

>>531352692
They didn't lol, Halo works because of the autoaim.

Now that Xemu is half-decent we need 60hz and widescreen patches.

Has vita3k improved in the last couple of years?

>>531355398
Yes, but I'd say it's worse than the likes of Xenia and RPCS3. You never know, though, YT/github your game first.

>>531355082
Some games run native 16:9.
https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:Games_with_Alternate_Display_Modes

>>531355552
>Yes, but I'd say it's worse than the likes of Xenia and RPCS3
My God, i didn't think that was possible.

Western devs got bullied by Japan's 6th gen models and animation so hard it's not even funny. Silent Hill 3 on PS2 looks lightyears ahead of this. Even B-tier shit like Shadow Hearts bodies this.

>>531355604
I'm aware. Not nearly enough, though.

>>531355604
A lot of 6th gen games cropped to 16:9 though.

emu

>>531371712
>Titan AE
Unironic kino.

When is the new Eden update gonna be out

>>531371872
The game was canned after the movie flopped despite being 100% finished according to former devs. All we ever got was a demo and the full thing has never leaked.

>>531375943
I love how this film measures distance by "keks."

>>531163786
is that yen

>>531377312
it's yen and stimpy

>>531256314
kusoge

>>531014637 (OP)
>>Where do I get games
The wiki says that? I didn't know it does, I couldn't find it. It just talks about emulator
>inb4 "here's the sites to get it"
I've been downloading games since I was a kid, I don't need you to tell me how to get it. I just thought that point was interesting.
Anyways, lol at the scumvm guys. Working hard to take it up the ass I see.

>>531378029
ctrl+f rom

>>531378302
>I've been downloading games since I was a kid, I don't need you to tell me how to get it. I just thought that point was interesting.
Yes I know now, but I'm surprised it has it. That was the point of my post, because often emulator sites would cover their asses by not revealing places to pirate.

>>531378029
>Working hard to take it up the ass I see.
Duckman from MyAbandonware WOMM on my Steam Deck. Also gotta love how they think Abandonware is piracy.

>>531378407
we don't care

>>531014637 (OP)
Fix the subject if you are going to make the next thread.

>>531371872
>>531375943
I remember being hyped for it because it looked cool and IIRC it had songs from Lit (remember them?), and I did watch it a couple of years later, and I remember close to nothing about it.

>>531378879
Obviously, though the thread itself is fine since we're talking less about Nintendo and more about Microsoft.

You ever think the US Dreamcast likes the movie 9?

For PS4 does a game need all the updates or can you make do with the latest update?

>>531382156
The game and update your just to run on firmware 11.0 or below.

>>531382918
Thanks for answering, my apologies for not being specific enough. I meant the game itself not the firmware. Does a game to be up to date need all the update files?

>>531383612
Well yeah, for bug fixes and such, but if the update needs for example firmware version 11.4 or 12 you shouln't install it.

>>531378471
Remember anons, you cannot print the Bible: it's still in copyright by God and thus you have no legal access to it.

>>531382156
Depends on the game.
>>531383612
pirate sites will usually upload all the required updates, so download the all and install them in order.

>>531384147
>>531384091
thanks guys

Neat rec today, esooooterica. I highly recommend cropping it with something like Lossless Scaling, though. Huge border otherwise, not my thing.

>>531387210
>Lossless Scaling
Is this available on Loonix? (If not, is it less of a PITA to set up via Wine?) Zoomer Tower is a shimmery mess on my Deck's 1280x800 display, and I'd love for it not to look like shit. I've gotten pretty damn close to running Shaderglass via Wine, but it's super picky about how it detects Winblows build numbers.

>>531388426
No but I think some people are working on it.

>>531388974
That's a relief, not even indies are safe from shimmering.

>>531388426
You can try it and Magpie as well, but afaik they rely on WGC or DXGI which is absent in Linux and I don't know how WINE would do it. I don't use Linux so I can't vouch. Here's one Linux-native way to do it, but you won't like it:
https://forums.libretro.com/t/official-release-thread-for-windowcast-core/40464
If you can get it to work, this can scale and crop any window to fullscreen as well.

>>531389519
neat, mine works but i refuse to file down my bcg or some bullshit

>>531389609
Yeah it's basically like a prototype, pain in the ass version of ShaderGlass. I'm glad it's no longer necessary in Windows. It works though, sort of...

Every time someone says it's time to jump to loonix, I remember how I'll lose precious autist functionality here and there. No decent scaling/cropping/shading programs? No DS4W? Fuck all that.
>inb4 the iT juSt wErX DS4 guy that always shows up
You can't program it nearly as well without DS4W. Big fucking deal it shows up as a HID gamepad, it does that in Windows too.

Linux will always be the OS you boot into to repair shit, not to use as a desktop.

>you don't need shaders chud

>>531389519
I've attempted using vkBasalt once, but it would require converting Slang/GLSL shaders into Reshade Fx ones.
https://github.com/DadSchoorse/vkBasalt
I'm hoping sharp-shimmerless isn't too hard to convert, I find that to be an essential shader.

exA-Arcadia emulation when?

>>531392639
this just looks like pairs of vertical lines are swapped or something

what are the good shaders anyways? most crt shaders i've tried look real weird with the scanlines.

>>531402412
I use crt rotale for everything.

>>531403134
*royale

* DING DING DING* MATT FAILS AGAIN MATT FAILS AGAIN STOP THE PRESSES

TechnoMage - Return of Eternity (Europe) - Start a game, save, pause and quit back to the main, load, text fucks up. Happens in Mednafen as well. If this is a game bug It's the most egregiously stupid thing I've ever seen.

It is a game bug. Unbelievable.

I'll pass.

>>531411595
Not as a woman you won't.

>>531411747
kek I KNEW, I knew what I was in for with that one. Thanks. You are correct, sir, I won't and don't aspire to.

I may just be too tired for it tonight, but it has 6 PAL versions (1 for each language) and you have to do a menu hokey pokey to even get it. I'd be tempted to at least try a few versions. Of course, the usual fastboot, under/overclocking, Xebra, no$, ePSXe, MAME on top of it... it's a lot for something easily avoided.

>>531411995
I takes 8 seconds. Start game, save, quit, load save. I made a note on the spreadsheet that it's not an emulation bug.

https://github.com/unofficial-issue-tracker/duckstation/issues/225
>still not updated with the fastboot workaround, and that it applies to other emus as well
Don't you care about the end users? You wouldn't be ignoring input from testers would you? That sounds familiar...

Oh, Ares too, can't forget that. Anyway, I'm not doing anything special you aren't doing. You should probably make a ticket for that one as the Ares devs actually fix things now and then.

*or anything that you can't do, rather.

>>531412427
I'll say for a third and final time that I have confirmed on real hardware that this bug happens. It is not caused by emulation.

Didn't stenzek say he was gonna stop working on Duckstation a couple years ago? I guess that was merely an episode. Still commits regularly. I wonder what guides his work on the project. Like what are the priorities and goals? Does he listen to certain discord buddies more? I don't get it.

>>531412762
This is the first time you've said you've tried it on hardware. The first time you blamed Matt and said it was possibly a bug. The second time you said you marked it as non-emulation. Now you've actually confirmed it to me. Words matter.

>>531410859
Oh, I presumed this was someone shitposting at you.

>>531412829
>I wonder what guides his work on the project.
Pricecharting. org

>>531216217
>he doesnt know about nightly versions

>>531333635
FPGAs are as good as the emulations code, you still need an autist to sit down and make it good. n64 on mister still have problems

>>531409510
>Techno Mage
The entire game is ruined by the lack of running.
Just play the pc version if you wanna suffer

>>531435360
Apparently it's impossible to get working. I would suggest it's ruined by being complete shit in every conceivable way.

>>531437547
I had no issue when I tried playing the ripped version from myabadonware, I dropped the game during the first dungeon because it's so fucking slow.

About half the lines of dialogue in this game end with either a burst of static or what sounds like the first letter of the next line well before they're meant to say it. I'm willing to be generous and assume it's the game and not the shitpile of an emulator. It probably wouldn't be noticeable on a CRT with color cable audio and the noise of the console. With headphones and raw audio it is. Filtering is desperately needed.

>>531442716
Retroarch.

>>531446996
I don't support elder abusers.

>>531447148
All you support is being a character on 4chan. Matt doesn't take requests. There are hardware and software solutions you deliberately refuse to use. This is pointless outside of getting (You), which I'm happy to give because it's you, me, the PCem guy, and whatever chaff straggles in here.

>>531447148
>doesn't support downloading something for free
>supports a PS1 emulator developed by someone he's had a vitriolic 5 year doxxing campaign against
Make sense of that.

Sigarettenstank, lastangryman1907, whoever the fuck you are. Get some sort of help. I don't care if it's drugs, pussy, therapy, a proper hobby. Anything. Literally anything. You're retardedly nuts, man. I make these ridiculous AI scenes to show you how petty your crusade is. If this isn't a character and this stuff seriously bothers you, you are SO fucked man.

>>531447742
Dickless Dan abuses his elderly mother and spends her welfare checks. I will not support that. Aside from killing someone by letting a tree fall on them the Lafrance family hasn't done anything that egregious that I've found.

>>531447742
It's a sexual thing.

and I wouldn't be so annoyed at you if you accepted help/workarounds, but you don't. You've shown your hand with the last game you bitched about. It's not about the issues or guerilla documentation or at all.

>>531448497
I'd buy it if he still looked like Sketch, now it's just too bald weirdos at war. Well, the other one doesn't know cigs exists yet. He probably will only when it's too late.

>>531448519
Yeah you're right I will not be posting "workarounds" or hacks or tricks. It either works or it doesn't. Maybe you should take it up with the people not fixing it instead of me for pointing out it's broken.

>>531448687
>continues to blog about an dev/emu that deliberately closed the public issue tracker
Emus are hacks or tricks.

>>531442716
>Tales of Destiny II
That's Tales of Eternia and play the superior psp version, though it's still gimped.

Would you prefer an emu without settings at all? That would mean no enhancements, and I know how you feel about that.

>>531448687
You may not want to use it, but the workaround pinpoints the issue. Why hasn't the game been flagged as a BIOS problem? You want devs to fix it, right?

>>531449101
A first year computer science student could probably "pinpoint" the issue in a lunch break. I assume Mad Matty didn't get his degree out of a cereal box?

>the channing creager of emugen

>>531449418
It's a completely fair assessment that if you can't emulate something as basic as the PS1 you shouldn't be teaching students or getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The woke competency crisis has reached emulation.

Ciggy obsession to only use a first gen, near-prototype level, japanese bios specifically fascinates me.

>>531450034
>tries to politicize the culmination of 25 years of PS1 emulation made by all sorts of people, private and corporate, open and closed source
I think at this point it stands to reason that no one can make a perfect emulator. Can you think of one?

>>531451062
not him, but in the last game the problem occurred using any BIOS. I think there's some sort of link or memory shared between it and the game that's improperly emulated or bugged. Not that he really cares. This whole thing is vanity.

>>531451157
Has anyone tried?

>>531452179
When money's on the line I'm sure people have tried to make the best computer virtualizers and emulators possible. There's also BSNES. Anything that can play 99%-100% of commercial titles to the end is a success, even with a few issues. You're right to criticize Duckstation/Matt/Stenzek for not taking input and criticism to heart and fixing things, but at that point shouldn't one move on to someone who does? No one here things Duckstation's perfect. What normies think of these projects doesn't matter. Again, I know it's not about that for you, but I can't help myself from trying to reason with you. At this point I'm the ciggy for expecting you to improve.

>>531452847
>but at that point shouldn't one move on to someone who does?
Check the PS1 tag on Ares. I'd be more than happy to jump ship if something came along that was actually promising.

I have an encyclopedic knowledge of what games are likely to be broken in any given PS1 emulator as well as game bugs that look like emulation issues that would be false positives. I'm more than eager to dump my knowledge on anyone who A: Is mentally stable and B: knows and cares what the fuck they're doing.

>>531453285
You're not mentally stable yourself. Garbage in, garbage out.

>>531453285
based

>assumes first that it's "Matt" (unproven to be Stenzek) failing instead hardware or average emulator behavior to confirm his bias
Oh yeah, who wouldn't hire this man for QA?

>>531402412
Depends on the game and console:
https://slow.pics/c/2mZLAhXh

>>531466918
and resolution, panel type, pixel structure, whether you're viewing it as a JPEG on a basket weaving site, and taste

also beware the sharpness setting on your display. It's AIDS. Set it to 0.

Tosec has to be one the biggest pieces of shit when it comes to old computer stuff.Just hoarding and releasing random cracked shit.

>>531474249
I still can't find Jesus In Space (2007). Myrient almost has it, but only the cue or some dat file, not the ISO.

emu

>>531388426
https://github.com/PancakeTAS/lsfg-vk

why is ppsspp still getting updated? psp emulation is already perfect what else needs improving?

>>531506589
Thanks, I'll definitely have to try this!

>>531507097
I think it has something to do with a proprietary audio format now being emulatable.

Not gonna lie, I'm still blown away by how Paprium became emulatable by HLEing everything the STM32F4 did. MP3 music sure is hacky, but it oddly works.

>>531507097
the input lag sucks.

LG™

>>531510298
BT

>>531507991
I bet at least 10 bucks that libretro core's gonna get stolen for the "official" PC release.

>>531523737
I dunno why he'd even bother. It's such a whatever-game outside of the context of being a Megadrive homebrew and collectard porn. There's tons of NeoGeo and CPS1-3 retro games and modern indie titles that blow it away in the pixel eye-candy department, and it's nothing special as a beatemup.

>>531510298
GSdx is known for fucked up post-processing when you uprender, ciggo. Your fingers will fall off typing up those issues. You usually have to key in specific offsets or toggle certain hacks for it to look right. Or use Dickless Dan's ParallelGS

You should just make 20,000 issues and make Refraction's life a living hell until he merges PGS in. This is something I can get behind. Fucking stupid that it isn't in there by now.

>>531530927
Looks fucked at native res?

>>531506589
Does this support lossless scaling's other features, like cropping and shaders like FSR/sharp bilinear? Or is it just the FG? Seems like it would have the rest if it does FG but idk

>>531531365
I think that's just bloom. PS2 games were filthy with it. It's definitely expanded and worsened at 2x or whatever in that other shot. This is a thing when you raise the res in GC/Wii games too, probably other machines.

I probably could actually test this on my PS2, but I'd bet my life that it's how it looks on there, and it's probably how software, GSdx 1x, and PGS 1x all look. Sadly this one's a bitch to youtube on hardware for sure.

>>531531568
Software

>>531532040
I see there's still bloom and haze on just about everything. Does seem slightly exaggerated at even 1x hardware though, at least on her. Maybe ble

>>531532185
bleh, *maybe blending modes would help?

GSdx is definitely not a great standard, always been a means to an end. Neat that it's been hacked to work on as much as it does.

>>531531409
unfortunately it looks like framegen is all that's implemented

Okay, so I'm pretty sure that software pic you posted just has her in a less obviously bloomed position. 1x in all renderers has similar amounts of bloom.

>>531534305
Lookin' genuinely hideous

>>531534638
It is a PS2 game. It's meant to be CRT'd and even then it was kinda jaggy with shitty choices like motion blur and bloom everywhere. With PGS you can bump the res up without fucking up the bloom, but it gets a little off model once you add highres scanout and SSAA textures. Not as bad as GSdx though.

>>531534638
(lmao let me try that again)
It is a PS2 game. It's meant to be CRT'd and even then it was kinda jaggy with shitty choices like motion blur and bloom everywhere. With PGS you can bump the res up without fucking up the bloom, but it gets a little off model once you add highres scanout and SSAA textures. Not as bad as GSdx though.

As you can see there's clearly a reason to bully Refraction. Where's your posts about his life? I kid, that would be mean. Just wish he would fucking add it, though.

>>531536541
He's done nothing wrong and seems sane. They just seem stymied by my more complex issues which is slightly annoying.

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/6909

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/6877

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/6987

>>531537056
Fair, just wishful thinking on my part then. PGS is superb, even in its unfinished state. It's a shame you have to use the equally unfinished and feature incomplete LRPS2 to use it.

>>531536541
Refraction retired so you'll have to complain about someone else.

>>531537798
I'm not gonna bother, I've stalked the discord and they don't wanna do it.

I'll just use larps on anything that doesn't need pressure-buttons or fancy controllers. That's a fat never-ever in Retroarch. For as much as I use it, I hate the limitations of RetroPad.

>>531538147
Same reason we'll never get proper Wiimote support in the Dolphin core.

More latency improvements for 86Box. Fucking based.

More latency improvements for 86Box. Unfathomably based.

>>531548581
Under the right conditions it's already pretty decent, nice to see in any case.

I actually have to wonder if that one latency test I posted favors how things were rendered/buffered in old 9x, even considering the emu-lag. Wonder if further PCem optimizations will result in it scoring better than native.

Is there a list anywhere explaining what Libcrypt specifically does in each game? I know a lot of them just crash on a loading screen but some are more elaborate. Lucky Luke Western Fever for example has missing graphics and softlocks you by not letting you talk to an NPC. I was trying Technomage in Ares which doesn't support SBI and I don't THINK libcrypt would bug out the graphics like this but I can't be certain and so I won't report it.

emu

Do any of you guys use the LG V60 or G8X with the dual screen case for 3DS and stuff?

I don't have a Bluetooth phone grip controller yet, but I figured I might as well just start using it with the touch screen to play 3DS jrpgs, but I can't really figure out how to get the screens setup good with Azahar and all the halfass "guides" online that I've seen are so old that they're really no help.

(The thing that's really annoying about these phones with the dual screen case is you need this homebrew app to get most applications to display across both properly, you constantly have to re-enable it, and it's very finicky with crashes and stuff.)

if i want to play skyward sword hd on my steam deck, which emulator should i use

>*Spill gallons of blood*

EMULATION!

>>531582162
*wastes gallons of your time with no checkpoints*

>>531566473
Byuu would have fixed this.

>>531586363
Honestly I might keep this build handy just so I can relive the magic after it's fixed. Because seeing that imperial officer have a glitched out epileptic seizure is the hardest I've laughed in ages.

>>531587371
I want to know how you or whoever got Silent Hill to point render in LSD colors. I mad a webm of that one PGXP glitch with the flickering textures, but not that. It honestly looks cool as fuck.

m'lation

Does PGXP + widescreen still crash at the bridge crossing or the church? I believe it was an issue both Meds and Ducko had with too much geometry or memory being used in those scenarios.

>>531550249
Dunno but does Ares boot PE2? I know that game had copy protection and didn't work on emus like pSX back in the day.

Nevermind I think libcrypt is something older and in more games. I think PE2 used a more modern scheme.

Sounds like libcrypt was more of a Euro thing, and PE2 was indeed something different, maybe proprietary/unique. I could swear 3-4 other games at the time used something similar.

I now suppose libcrypt explains why most cigposts are European gamss. Just another thing to worry about when emulating them. Luckily most Euro games are bad if their native to the region, and run at the wrong speed if imported from outside the region.

>>531603267
>https://github.com/alex-free/libcrypt-patcher
Curious to see if the problems persist even after using it.

>>531600070
237 games used Libcrypt, all euro versions of games, PE2 included.

>>531616183
I recall issues some early emus had with PE2's US release, but it could have been something other than copy protection.

Tried to look this up online and even ctrl-f'd the last few threads, but I didn't find any proper answer, so I'm just gonna ask: decided to try out some Smash Ultimate mods, but noticed that a bunch need ARCtropolis or Smashline to work. Do they need some specific setup to work, or can I just dump them into the mod folder and it'll Just Work™? The most I found were some 2 or 3 year old threads about it not working, or emulators beginning to support mods, but I can't find info on the current state of things.
I'm using Eden right now, for reference.

is the future of sonic piracy just switch emulation?

>>531626352
No. Shadow's locked to ~720p, Frontier crashes if you look at it wrong in both emus.

>>531626557
it will improve and be playable in the future cant say the same for denuvo cracking

>>531626665
... will it? Any of the real GPU savvy devs fucked off. Eden and Ryujinx are improved, but only in UX and some ini/gamedb tweaks. The core emulation's basically the same. Honestly I count on some LLM-driven Denuvo cracking breakthrough before Switch emulation is meaningfully improved.

>>531626889
>Eden and Ryujinx are improved, but only in UX and some ini/gamedb tweaks
Yes and no. They do have performance hacks but, they break a lot of stuff and the emulators would need constant meaningful updates for them to be worth it.
There ain't no meaningful monthly reports anymore since the original devs left.

resulation

>>531640720
is illegal

>>531014637 (OP)
IT'S MAAARIO

Setting up handheld retro emulator (Android 13), and need a login for Google Play.

What do you guy typically do/use whenever you need to sign into an account for gaming--do you use your main login, or do you guys just use a dummy/throwaway account?

>>531659628
Ugh.

Where can I get a switch .nci?

>>531664231
I would've suggested Switch Army Knife, but I've never heard of the .nci extension before.

>>531507097
>psp emulation is already perfect
Says who? (you)? Bitch please.

>>531014637 (OP)
Cool

>>531665968
>That whole video

>>531665968
Libcrypt is the worst accent in the UK.

Anyone know where you can find switch game update files? I found a telegram with roms but no updates https://t.me/switch_roms

whats the name of the switch hack booter that lets you usb boot form a pc?

emu

Apparently women go nuts for Inuyasha. No doubt punishing their clits to tsundure dog boy wishing they were with him instead of whatever estrogen fed beta they actually landed.

what's the best switch emulator right now?

>>531683835
It's still a YMMV situation. Ryujinx is good for compatibility, and Yuzu is good for async shaders.

>>531681526
My workplace recently hired a zoomer weeabo girl, and the bag she comes to work with is decorated with a shitton of animu (and MGS) keychains and pins. No Inuyasha as far as I could tell, though. Her husbando appears to be fucking Raiden. For all that, she's still pretty cute, and I'd hit it with the fist of an angry god.

>>531688492
Good choice

emu

best side-scroller, any console?

>>531707470
Outside of the usual Mario/Sonic fare, the original Rayman. But if you want something a little more off the beaten path, you can't go wrong with Plok.

>>531707610
You can go pretty wrong with it. The difficulty is fucked, but the music is gorgeous.

>>531718389
I presume the shadow's fine in software?

>>531719283
You know it

>>531719615
WOMPGS

I'm sure it's a discord hivemind operation and he doesn't make the calls, but bullshit on that last guy's post about him.

>>531721232
That actually hurts my eyes. It's like the effect of not wearing glasses.

>>531722257
I could render it in native. PS2's a weird beast when it comes to uprendering because the games will bake in half-assed AA mitigation and bloom. The point is PGS fucking owns GSdx six ways from sunday and those homos REFUSE to merge it.

>yikes you can actually see the game's DOF in HD vs 480potato
>thE rEnderEr's uGLy

>>531722517
and in software?

>>531722846
That is software

>>531723179
Rare software fuckup. I doubt PGS is better here then, but I gotsta know. I hate work. Do you live at home, have an inheritance? On the dole? I'm legitimately jealous of your situation where you don't have to work. I could probably quit and live for quite awhile on my savings, but still.

I wonder if there are devs so lazy that they leave graphics like this in, shrug, and say "eh the tube'll fix it"

>>531723393
One of the failed doxxing attempts from schizcucks cult claimed I lived in a public housing complex in South Carolina. Third world intellect on full display with that one.

>>531724776
100%. I found dozens of PS1 games with audio garbage that when you try it on real hardware you realize it's inaudible over the whir of the console. I've found games with straight up broken graphics that you can't see through filtering.

Here's a good example. Look how shitty F1 Circus looks with all those flickering garbage pixels with raw output.

https://youtu.be/HRl61a1heP4?t=338

Now look at an actual TV.

https://youtu.be/jcb9bPbSrw4?t=185

>>531725003
I'm just making an assumption, and you didn't answer when I once asked you if you were employed. No shame in that. I don't know if I could find it in me to apply for jobs again if I lost this WFH gig. I'd probably rather walk into the ocean after my savings run out in 5-10 years.

>>531725239
It's still a bit visible on the TV but subdued. I wonder if it's meant to be dirt flying by. It also has jailbar lines that are meant to be composite'd, though. Shaders or lofi cables/tubes really are key for 240p machines. I can't resulate without them anymore.

>>531725380
Don't give out personally identifying information on the internet.

>>531725380
Ciggy loved DeSantis, so I guess he could be our Florida Man. 100% unemployable.

>>531727309
Citation?

>>531725239
Those are bits of dust to emphasize how fast you're going.

>>531659628
Get aurora store from fdroid, I don't mess with Google logins
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/

Can you fucking believe this?

>>531733365
lol

>>531683835
There isn't one.
Yuzu is inaccurate but better performant, so it's ideal for low-end devices.
Ryujinx is more accurate but also more hardware-demanding.
The current situation with their forks is a bit of a rabbit hole.
For Yuzu there's Eden and Sudachi.
For Ryujinx there's Kenji-NX.

>>531733365
Yeah, I kinda can.
It's been developed at a snail's pace (for the past 20 years, https://purei.org/devlogview.php?id=1). Of course it's gonna look like ass.

>>531745607
That's not the point

PCSX2 software render
>>531722517

Play!
>>531733365

Is turning on HDR on RetroArch worth it? I'm trying CRT shaders with it.

>>531748028
see
>>531053936
tl:dr yes it is, if your screen is actually good at it, and you use a shader that handle it fine, and you don't blast 1000nit peak brightness just because.

>>531747803
Thank you, yes, that's why I'm trying to say. This is the one-in-a-million instance of Play! doing something PCSX2 can't.

>>531733365
ps2 games are so fucking ugly

>>531748938
Yes, great opinion, we're talking about emulating said ugliness properly or not though.

>>531748530
Am I good with a simple HDR monitor with 300 nits max?

>>531749204
If it's oled then it's enough. If not then the whole screen will be brighter including the black bars and the scanlines, so hdr makes less of a difference overall and it might not even be worth the hassle.
For retroarch I wouldn't recommend setting higher than 300 nit peak regardless anyway.

Maintains the 2D integrity in HD.

guess there are minor seams but nowhere near the problem PCSX2 software has.

The vulkan renderer ain't it, though.

>>531014637 (OP)
due to me upgrading my pc i had to reinstall retroarch and for some reason metal slug games on retroarch(spesifically ppsspp core ms anthology ans msxx)doesnt start the game proper it goes to the intro on anthology and goes to the main menu only in xx

>>531756684
also it starts normally but doesnt go fullscreen

Every other game I've tested in Play! has been an odyssey of LG cigpost material, though.

>>531756684
Retroarch has been portable for me. What's stopping you from just dragging the folders on to your new machine? You're probably missing the system or PPSSPP files you had before. You may also want to update the core system files, if available for PPSSPP, but try just dragging your shit from the old computer to the new one.

>>531706962
gen

>>531722539
>half-assed AA mitigation
So FSR before FSR? LOL!

>>531772532
Kinda-yeah, aliasing mitigation, rather.

>>531776512
Ah, so it's more like the N64's attempt at aliasing mitigation. Guess that makes sense, since both the N64 and PS2 have MIPS cpus.

>>531781949
The CPUs have no bearing on that. They have completely different GPUs. They both certainly tried to hide their shitty image quality though.

>>531767849
esis does what nintendon't

emu

A:10
V:10
Thanks Matt

>>531801247
>Cryo
True slop purveyors, MegaRace was by far their best game.

>>531801835
Oh they also made Roland Garros Tennis which is also broken in fuckstation, and 360 three sixty which used to be broken, and Ubik which last time I checked didn't work with upscaling.

>>531802554
Aw, c'mon you gotta give ol Matty a mulligan on increasing resolution. Anyway seems like a unique Stenzek moment with Dreams. Fine in Mednefen and probably most others.

What's funny is that I loaded Dreams for a minute in Swanstation, HW mode. I was fast-forwarding to the fuckup and the models showed up for like a microsecond. I imagine if I viewed the wireframe they'd be there.

Nope, they aren't there.

>You're the best looking guy here

X3

And Roland Garros still randomly crashes

>>531808941
An accurate depiction of the average britbong.

I usually use a Dualsense for all my games. Should I buy an N64 controller to play N64 games? Also, are MGS2 and MGS3 the only games to use analog buttons? Should I buy a PS2 controller for them?

PCSX2 has a major bug where if you switch from software to HW renderer while the game is running it causes graphical glitches in various games. But Jimmy Neutron it absolutely sends to the shadow realm.

>>531825540
>Should I buy an N64 controller to play N64 games?
If you emulate a lot of N64 games, sure. It's the only extra, console specific controller I'd consider buying, but I don't play enough N64 games to justify it. Plus with all the games getting decomps and PC ports with revamped controls it gets less and less worth it.
>Also, are MGS2 and MGS3 the only games to use analog buttons?
Also some racing games and games with driving like GTA. Nothing really of note though.
>Should I buy a PS2 controller for them?
Nah, just play the MGS2 and MGS3 PC ports.

>>531825686
I wonder if it's the same way in all APIs.

>>531825540
I you must have pressure sensitive buttons, a Dualshock 3 is what you want. It's much more agreeable about being connected to a PS2 and has good 3rd party software support via DShidmini and DS4W.

>>531828723
Same thing happens when I switch from software to Vulkan.

doesnt he know vulkan and opengl offer higher levels of blending and that its only directx that has problems with blending?
https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/12687

>>531831428
I thought that was fixed

>>531854991
webm your mahjongg skills

>>531828828
Christ I don't even have drugs as an excuse:
*much more agreeable about being connected to a PC

>>531859541
PCSX2 has no video capture option.

>>531860148
ShareX works pretty well. I've used it in combination with Shotcut for editing and File Converter for quick resizing/compressing.
https://getsharex.com/
https://www.shotcut.org/
https://file-converter.io/
I know you probably don't care but it's perhaps useful info for others.

Jimmy Neutron is such fucking crap. It's an unfunny ugly charmless knockoff of Dexter's Lab.

>>531861916
and no hot mom either

Lookin' Sharp

>>531863686
God the DC/PS2 era crossover games were such low-effort shit looking back. Mugen tier.

>>531863686
>that uneven groove gauge
yuck-aroo
Game's probably a good candidate for downsampling or 1x with a composite/svid shader.

>>531065887
>>531066012
Post docs with detailed list.

Hey anons, I upgraded my PC and wanna emulate PS3 games for the first time.

Read the wiki and saw the links for the PS3 firmware, but there are no downloads on that "archive" link.
There is the "official" link but which file do I need? And how do I install it, can someone help?

>>531866687
nvm found the right file

emu

gen

emugen

Does anyone know if Ryujinx will connect to a real Switch for Pac-Man VS? I couldn't find anything helpful online.

>>531896216
as a know-nothing faggot with 0 authority or experience on this directly, I'm going to presume that it's emu to emu or emu to hacked Switch at best considering that online play is a paid feature. I also don't know how much that game relies on an official server for the logic.

>>531896216
>>531897545
https://www.teamxlink.co.uk/wiki/Ryujinx_XLink_Kai_Setup
Looks like I wasn't far off, at least as of 2024.

>>531897545
It's kind of like download-play. You can purchase Namco Museum and then download a free app that allows you to play Pac-Man VS. on another switch without having to own two copies.

It at least sounds like Pacman Vs has LAN/local wifi support so maybe if you have a hacked Switch. I dunno, seems better to just use two emulators. Sounds like it's a bitch.

but hey, let us know how it goes, eh?

Someone made a fork of melonDS to support IR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EzZ1mB50lU

>>531909670
>it's public
https://github.com/Ceravia/melonDS-IR
KEK, That's a major step up from DeSmeMEfag.

>>531896216
Logic dictates that if you want to play any Switch game online, you will need to use Nintendo's infrastructure, which you're wholly bypassing while emulating. If any emulator supports online play--as you and others have alluded to, it's either from a LAN standpoint, or you and whomever, need to setup a VLAN with software like Hamachi (assuming they're still kicking around).

Bottomline, you can't have your cake and eat it too, not unless you're willing to come up with your own recipe and bake it from scratch.

Mind, this is all conjecture--I'm not entirely familiar with that particular emulator. Much of this is from past experience.

Anyone know if the other saturn cores on retroarch run Baroque better than beetle saturn? was always told this was the best saturn core but it has horrible audio latency on this one game no matter how much I tinker with the latency settings, and lag. I tried bizhawk's saturn core and immediately noticed performance is way better but I like retroarch shaders and interface

>>531914738
God I love picrel, Ratigan was one of Disney's best villains.

>>531915090
That's the best one. Otherwise, try Ymir. It's a new standalone seems to run most if not all commercial games with few issues now. Bizhawk's core is just med_sat_libretro, same one in RA. You could also check RA's audio driver settings. Try WASAPI with picrel settings. Also, is it lag, or sub-60fps chop? Have you made sure the game's running at full speed? Run-ahead is very heavy on medsat, but top of the line >=Zen4 CPUs can do it.

ShaderGlass is pretty good at stapling shaders on to anything, but with a very minor lag penalty. Works great these days, but obviously Retroarch is best where it works.

>>531922370
I'm crossing my fingers for a Loonix release, Gamemaker Studio games scale like shit on my Deck.

>higher level ennemies don't do more damage, they're actually smarter
so fucking cool
Oh and the effects are resulated properly finally

First time using Sudachi. Could someone please help me? Loading files individually works fine but for some reason when I select a games directory folder, it crashes. Reopening it gets me here before crashing again. Wont let me edit anything unless I move the games folder somewhere else.

The old Lafrance mark of quality. whether it's running a holiday park where trees kill people, a computer repair store where you're personally insulted by the staff for daring to walk through the door, or an emulator that doesn't emulate, you always know you're getting the best.

>>531941881
I can't wait for the Pirates of Silicon Valley style docudrama. Especially the twist ending where you step in.

Perhaps a Sopranos style final scene with Matt, Haze, that Asahi Linux troon, and Danny happily enjoying a meal somewhere, then Matt looks up at a mysterious smoking man approaching their table and ~fin~

>This game is broken
>YOU'RE LITERALLY KILLING ME CHUD
Talk about a masculinity crisis. Maybe amerilards should put water in their taps instead of diet pepsi.

I want you to know, it's all in good fun. I'm all for a good investigation of what's emulated or not, what's bugged. The hyper focus on Duckstation and Stenz-france is eccentric to say the least, though. I also think you're American and this is an attempt to throw us off. I don't think you've used a word like realise a once.

or maybe you're an expatriate. Either way you type like a burger 99% of the time.

Everyone here (all what, 4 now?) should also watch In The Line of Fire, it's enhanced 10x if you imagine Matt is the president and Malkovich is cigster. It's also just early 90s kino. Movies like it just won't ever be made again.

I also, more than anything, want the Matt lore to be true. A person like that honestly should have a movie. I just don't think he's the same kind of nerd to make a Duckstation, though. I dunno, just my gut.

>>531945135
>The hyper focus on Duckstation
I've mass reported for a bunch of projects. Mesen, MelonDS, PCSX2, Ares etc... The difference is the bugs are fixed or the developers admit it's beyond their skill level. Suckstation is the odd one out.

>>531945945
His treatment of the source (who's gonna call the cops if someone forks it?) and the issue tracker is definitely worth laughing it.

>>531946139
I'm not laughing. But much like the Epstein files I'm not going to stop talking about it just because the scumbags in charge refuse to acknowledge it.

>>531946402
I just sort of accept Duck/Swanstation "as-is", as anyone's using it is on Stenzek's lazy river and his ears are plugged. Does the job most of the time but I'm glad there are other projects for sure.

>>531946975
It never ends. Redump found and dumped another disc only a few weeks ago and it's fucked in everything. There are hundred if not thousands of games still on their undumped list. Even if I checked every game there are always more being added.

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/PSX_MiSTer/issues/319

>>531947905
To be fair the PSX core is far from perfect. Has that Mad Stalker bug.

>>531947905
They say it works in Duckstation though. Are you implying something with that?

>>531947997
Imagine paying hundreds of dollars for the same shoddy experience and the same "Won't fix ;)" bullshit.

>>531948181
Didn't see that. You're welcome for my service though for finding and reporting that the music in Duke was broken.

>>531948189
I've no experience with the MiSTer dev scene. I imagine it's somehow less obstinate. I just don't think the DE10 has what it takes to have an agnostically perfect PS1 core. Perhaps it could be hacked close enough, though.

I am considering a MisterPi for my CRT though. Just for shits.

>>531945135
Duckstation isn't the only emulator that he's dumped a bunch of bug reports on.

>>531948716
I know, but he's turned /emugen/ into a quasi-KF thread about him. It isn't just about the emu-fuckups, it's personal.

I don't know other emu-devs better than my distant relatives thanks to his posts.

>>531948906
I think its just a streisand effect thing. Quasi-KF is a bit far I think.

>>531949213
You haven't been around long enough. b4k "la france" and "lafrance" some time. Hell he dropped a bunch of unrelated drama just now.

>>531949358
Oh I know. But imo until stenzek actually gets harassed irl or in ways that aren't just bug reports and name calling/faux doxxing I don't think we can say we've hit critical levels yet.

>>531949709
At the same time though, I've accepted it as tradition, and god knows how many dumb ISOs I've downloaded to see if something can be emulated one way or another.

>>531918936
>tfw no loli mousegirl to feed me muffins

>>531952194
For me, it was the burlesque mice.

Simpsons reference spotted?

>>531961802
I mean, the dude working on the truck is even dressed just like Sneed (?).

don't die

harassulation

Is there someone with experience emulating fable 2 on pc? Is it playable nowadays? It's one of the only games on my backlog that needs to be emulated, I have some spare time this month and I'd love to give it a go

>>531981484
dying is for fags

directx12 was a mistake. Play 3 modern videogames at once? enjoy caching 20gb of shaders, fag

>>531996712
Hopefully Vulkan makes DX12 irrelevant.

>cxbx randomly stopped working one day
>games might throw a "corrupt hdd lul" after a xemu version update (which you can't avoid forever because it fixes performance issues)
god xbox emulation is such cock and ball torture

>>531864115
This is Sharp-Bilinear with prescale at 10, Flycast internal res was at default 480p too. Flycast core doesn't have a downsampling option like Beetle PSX has unfortunately

>>532008669
Could be the game's rendering and assets are just that bad too. Haven't tried it for myself just yet.

>>532011907
>>532008669
Turns out I still have my NAOMI set. Whether I use 1x, full frame buffering emulation, accurate sorting, bandlimit, or 4K it up, the bar is just that ugly and uneven.

>480p framebuffer
>240p sprites
Oh fuck you Capcom. Fucking hacks.

>morrigan's sprites are nearest-neighbor non-integer'd to match the size of the other characters and look extra-ass
Wow.

is project M/ project plus worth it on the series S? i haven't tried it yet and haven't played brawl mods in a decade, but i'm bored. i hate playing smash with the xbox controller but the last update trailer got me rock hard so i might try it. or i can just dust off my wii U and play it native. the xbox is my main emu machine though i'd rather just keep it there. anybody have any experience with it?

A truly ass-looking game. I tried.

>>531961802
I don't know if this deserved a thread.

>>531988815

6th gen "dude we have to make it threeeee-deeee" was such a plague on 2D fitan backdrops.

emu

>>532018220
I don't get it, I remember having it on dreamcast and it looked fine back then.

Bit of a dumb question here but I'm using Sudachi and trying to close the software/game. What is the proper method to closing/exiting the game?Currently I'm pressing 'Stop' emulation, a box prompts asking me if I want to close, and then I hit Okay.

>>532012830
Oh yeah nvm I remember that. However

>>532012830
it could look awesome in some games like KOF 99' Evo, it ran full 240p so the sprites and 3D background could blend perfectly.

Here's >>532035362 with the exact same settings as >>531863686

>>532039905
And i know this might be kind of a hot take for some but i honestly think that making a game sharper than it originally was is as destructible as using ScaleFX and xBR. if integer scale is already on i see no reason to use stuff like Sharp-Bilinear, leave the game without shaders or use a good CRT shader if you have a 4K or nigger screen

>>532040693
>nigger
bigger* LMAO

So Citron is dead? Eden is all we got?

>>531758798
im aware its way too late for it but i got it figured it out
i just underestimated how complicated retroarch is to use

>>532039905
Yeah that's 240p, on a real CRT on real hardware you get thick scanlines and it was lookin' good.

>>532046979
>you get thick scanlines
Not really.

>>532049059
Yes really. I had this game running on my DC and CRT not that long ago and clearly remember them and being surprised that the scanlines were this thick and obviously visible.

>>532049331
I don't have that game but 240p doesn't show particularly visible scanlines on my crt.

>>532049737
not all crt were the same and size matters a well, mine was really big

>>532050019
If you knew that then I don't know why you asserted that 240p gives everyone thick scanlines.

>>532050158
That's not exactly what I was trying to say? My point is that an emulation raw screenshot does a poor job at reproducing how the game really looks like in reality on the intended hardware of the time.
The game would look good regardless of the scale of the display as long as it crt, and there's way more value to crts than just displaying scanlines, there's more going on that could blend the game's assets into lookin' gud

>>532051213
Yeah, you should have explained yourself a lot better.

emu

>>532035362
Yeah, that's what I was trying to do with >>532018220
I used the original 480p framebuffer, XBR'd the sprites, then downsampled it to 360p-ish with scanlines to hide the filter-slop on the sprites. This is as close to a cohesive image as I could get out of the game. Better than the original seen here >>531863686 where it's mixed res mugen-tier crap. At least in my opinion.
>>532040693
I half-agree but integer usually means wasted screen real estate. Sharp-bilinear can fill the screen as much as possible, reserving aspect ratio and preserving the pixel grid. Some people just desire that over a subjective CRT look and it's probably better for screenshots. I'll run shaders over 240p games all day, though.
>>532039905
Even better when you can downsample and have crisp sprites with antialiased backdrops in the same resolution.

>>532034428
Well yeah on a small-ish CRT with composite cables it'll all the mixed res assets will just get blurred down. Sort of. You can still see it if you look for it. On VGA/emu it's super obvious how the sprites are lower res than the HUD and backdrops, and worse, some sprites are higher res than others (like Morrigan vs the newer SNK chars)

Can ParallelGS fix this?

Myrient, holy shit, come on lately. I'd abuse it with jdownloader but then I'd just be part of the problem and I want this site to stay.

>D3 FMV

It works in LRPS2, but only with SSAA. So it looks a bit nicer but it's not in HD. When you enable highres scanout and SSAA textures, bloom is misplaced but it's not holy-shit-fucked-up like with GSdx uprendering.

Of note, there's some FMV corruption and strobing in PGS. I've noticed this in a few titles. I'm sure TheMaieaister or whoever will fix it in 2 years, maybe.

I wish software mode would work in LRPS2. Would make comparison shots and my life easier. I don't know why it's even a core option. "Fuck you, time to externally edit your opt file, asshole"
I won't even bother reporting it. The last several issues I've made have fallen into the ether. At this point it needs its own cigtracker.

>>532082401
*Retroarch in general I mean, not LRPS2, though I'm sure it'll be dead except for the major update every year or 3 too.

The game that cannot be upscaled

>>532083048
Seems not, at least not without some hacks and offsets I'm unaware of.

>>532076861
Is the game any good?

>>532086267
I don't know I can't see it.

>>532086405
You don't have to upres dude.

>>532086445
This is just his style of posting. He knows that. He posts plenty of games in native res or PS1 games that run in lower resolutions. However, since he found an issue he will hyper-focus on that. PS2 games do look pretty rotten at 1x outside of a CRT TV, but with PGS SSAA and maybe a shader it's something you can at least stand to look at.

Didn't know about KOF 99 Evolution before today. I find ports like these with wild changes/enhancements from the arcade version fascinating. This one doesn't seem bad, either.

>LRPS2 software crashes when the Vulkan sharts renderer is selected but is fine on all the other APIs
https://github.com/libretro/ps2/issues/41
How does that make sense for a CPU driven software renderer? Only in Dannyworld.

The holy trinity of games that will never look good upscaled

Simple 2000 Series Vol. 110 - The Toubou Prisoner - Los City Shinjitsu e no 10-jikan

Chrono Cross

Torneko: The Last Hope

>>532088458
>Torneko
2D game that wouldn't really benefit. One can iron out its weird video mode issues, though. as I demonstrated
>Chrono Cross
Any game with polygons on 2D will look like shit at higher resolutions. It looks fine downsampled, though.

Shiren 2 is a better game anyway. I was wondering why Torneko didn't have Handy Dash, but it's because it was made prior to Shiren 2. That game also has better sprites. The DQ flavor is fun, though.

>Torneko 3 isn't translated
:(

>>532090124
Okay so it is on GBA, but not the PS2 version.

>>532090124
Brother the state of DQ translations in general is a horror show. There's only one translation for DQ3 on SNES and it's the busted ass one made 20 years ago that crashes if you use the inn near the end.

Can you do the same fun things that Super Mario 64 speed runners do in the DS version?

>>532090367
Good thing one can de-queer the new release. Sucks for anyone who wants that particular flavor of it. The GBC version is decent but of course, it's a GBC game with all that entails.

>>532090367
That's on hardware and up-to-date versions of SNES9x, Mesen-S, and BSNES/Ares too?

>>532091319
The hack was developed on ancient inaccurate emulators and doesn't work in modern accurate ones.

>>532091754
What about this
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8979/
or this
https://crackowia.com/dquest3n-fix.html?i=1
Spike of RGT/cdromance seems to recommend the former. I dunno. I just doubt this hasn't been fixed or isn't playable these days.

1up!

ShadPS4 deleted my issue on their compatibility tracker. And I didn't mean they just closed it with an half-assed excuse, no, they literally deleted it after having it being stuck on some pending limbo. Who on their grommer Discord did I had to suck to have an issue "approved"?
Fuck them, and fuck their Bloodborne emulator. All I've wanted was to re-add a game that was here on the previous tracker before they nuke it for filmsy reasons. So, for the curious, YS: Memories of Celcetea doesn't go beyond title screen.

How should emudevs tackle games that have a bloom implementation that breaks at higher internal resolutions? (Like the PSP God of War games and Shin Megami Tensei IV)

>>532113084
>at higher internal resolutions?
All emu's should automatically delete your system32 folder if you play above native.

>>532113084
Learn to code above the level of a retarded chimp

PA PRI UM !

>>532113084
GPU compute LLE. PGS didn't really do it in that Simple 1000 game but it's worked well with many

Unfortunately this requires lvl99 Vulkan skills and ultimately means >>532116616

>>532117425
Shit game. Got to the colonel sanders guy with a million hitpoints and decided this wasn't fun anyway. SOR2 and 3 didn't need enhancement chips and they played, animated, and sounded far better. Imagine paying.

>>532112263
Just join up and get some furry fruit passive-aggressively shooting down your serious technical question with cocksucker studio audience laughter.

>>532090594
Doubt it. Pretty much a remake and shares little in common with the original on a non superficial level. I'm sure they fixed most of the big fun glitches. You also need to hack the touch controls to get decent analog stick movement for it to be half enjoyable.

>>532121135
Is Vulkan that hard to learn? I always see people complaining about it

>>532125434
Mere speculation but I imagine making a game or having an emulator render to it is about as hard as any other API. Getting a GPU to act as an LLE renderer sounds tricky as fuck though.

I understand how devs can be a little cranky sometimes when I work with thirdies. That elevated blood pressure probably bleeds into answers to human questions.

The only good cd-i emulator is commercial and can't even run most titles.
Impressive.

>>532128140
AFAIK the MAME driver's just as good, but it has no video cartridge support so that's a big compat hit. I don't think the payware one has working support for it either. I wouldn't be surprised if Whitehouse comes along and fixes it one day. Shitty 4.5th gen era tech seems to be his thing.

>>532128140
What are some other systems in similar situation

>LARPS screenshot feature is broken, hence the AI translation feature is broken
Torneko 3 won't be very easy to get through.
I could feed PCSX2 through the WindowCast core to get this to work but jesus.

>>532130539
All those LD-Rom/LaserActive platforms. I think there was a PCE version as well as the Sega/MD-ish one people know of. It's in a far worse situation, actually, because no one's found a good way to dump the media. These discs have both analog video and CD-style digital data. It's not even preliminary like Nuon or CD-i.

Retro Mac emulation is kind of rough across the board. A lot of games just not behaving 100% like they should, crashes, weird mouse input, etc. Some of it could just be me not building a guest with the right MacOS version and hardware the software wants, and MacOS falls back to some janky back compat. Probably not as dire as CD-i though.

iOS to the point where you'd actually want it, like v4-6 / iPod Touch era, is also a no-go. I found PC versions of two of the 3 exclusive Minter games, though.

are there more indepth writeups on the various shaders (crt shaders, ntsc/pal shaders, upscaling methods like nn or bilinear filtering, etc) besides the general wiki? seems like theres a lot more shaders these days than whats even listed in the wiki

>>532130539

>>532138850
If this existed Haze would have made a driver for it.

Manual snapshot danlation in-frame, real-time MORT + EasyOCR + Google to the left. Real-time is often broken but you can infer a lot.

>>531733365
Let's see hps2x64's card.

>>532130539
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Support_emulation_projects#Notable_projects_and_people

Can I reasonably trust that game library torrents will stay up, and so I can just download whichever games I want at leisure?

Or could they be taken down in the future somehow, and thus I should download the full libraries for every console I want right now? (Honestly it would take more time to sort through the library than to just download it all)

I don't know much about technology, I know websites hosting ROMs are being taken down...but are torrents safe from that because they are decentralized?

Reason I ask is I'm a poorfag and I don't have the storage for all the libraries I want atm. I'd have to go and buy a big fat HDD. It's not impossible to buy it, I won't exactly have to miss meals if I buy it, but still given where I'm at it's not the best use of my meagre money.

>>532151059
>Windows XP
Can be virtualized or wrapped trivially, if they don't run outright. What WinXP game can one not play by these means?

>>532156853
through WoW64 and wrappers, mostly yes. Virtuaization? Nah...

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Windows_2000/XP/Vista_emulators#Other_solutions

>>532158480
What do you mean, 'nah'? I've run NTware through virtualized XP-32 and 7-32 on plenty of occasions. It's usually a last resort and a pain in the ass, but it works.

There's an argument for 9x but NT's fine.

Again what NT title puts it in the same category as the fucking CDi, LaserActive, and iOS?

Every janky NT/XP arcade game is emulated even. It's so not a troubled platform to preserve.

>>532158737
Beyond QEMU/KVM with GPU Passthrough, VMware and VirtualBox are useless for Windows XP, as the linked page indicates. Low-level emulators (IBM PC emulators), doesn't support Windows XP (duh!). Therefore, the most viable path remains relying on WoW64, hoping Microsoft doesn't disrupt it, and enhancing compatibility with wrappers. That's it.

>>532159534
They aren't useless. I've run plenty of games in them myself. Are they what you want for system pushing 2008+ games? No. They will run lots of janky/low end 2000s games that have a little trouble natively, though. Said 2008+ games 99% of the time are fine wrapped. Again I ask. What fucking game can you not run and puts XP in such need of attention? Name one game.

No, not one game? Come on. I want to shove a screenshot in your face.

>>532159534
>Low-level emulators (IBM PC emulators), doesn't support Windows XP
What? But they do. You can even install fucking Windows Vista on 86Box (a terrible, terrible idea, but it's doable). Windows XP isn't ideal, but it would run relatively well with a high-specced machine. It's less a question of lack of support and more that the hardware you'd IDEALLY want to emulate Windows XP isn't available.

All that said, I *would* like for a PCem style solution to come along that's fast and capable enough to run a P4/Geforce4 tier guest. Athlon64 + 9700 would be the peak but I know that's way too greedy.

>>532159770
I agree, VMware can run a good chunk of early 2000s games, particularly DirectX 9.0c titles, with wrappers getting roughly 65-70% of them working decently, as you pointed out. But it’s far from perfect. Some games hit snags due to the virtual GPU adapter, while others suffer from timing issues or audio glitches. VMware versions newer than 15.5.7 throws an ISB Renderer Comm error. CMR 3 is notoriously problematic on VMware. Other titles like Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, Taz: Wanted, and The Sims 2 also have their own issues. These are just a few examples off the top of my head. On top of that, both VMware and VirtualBox dropped Windows XP support years ago, and we still rely on those instead of WoW64, which I don't think has a future

>>532160846
Yeah, I'm aware of that. I'm talking about Windows XP DirectX 8.1 and 9.0c games and software here, lol.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Windows_2000/XP/Vista_emulators

>>532161413
I will say I think I've noticed them getting worse in newer versions. Do those titles run okay natively through workarounds/wrappers? Granted, some of them may have been cursed from the start and no matter what machine you run it on. Sims 2 in particular.

Anyway I just don't know if "a few of the moldiest, crustiest, NT titles under the most obscure rock have issues" puts it in LaserActive tier. MacOS is worse off.

>>532161654
I really don't want to use dedicated hardware for older Windows DirectX 8.1 and 9.0c experience at this point. It's been 15-20 years... I know we shouldn't expect a low-level approach like IBM-PC emulators, but I'm clueless about what else could be done;

https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu?tab=readme-ov-file#feature-support

There was a time a couple years ago where I tried like several dozen doujin games from 9x to NT5 (2K+XP), the weirdest software that relies on a the Japanese system locale to run in some cases. They all ran fine.

>>532162926
*using PCem, wrappers, locale changing, and VMware, but they all worked.

>>532161413
I remember now, this one was problematic as well;

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_Conquest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiRp6bB_o4Y
>zsnes
>pioneer
It's a pioneer alright, a pioneer of shit.

Good morning I hate misaligned bloom.

i havent done emulation since when there was only vba and zsnes. i got a steamdeck and just wanted to do ps2 and below and i just installed emudeck and i dont know what im doing? wtf it installs something else other than vba when i do easy install

>>532188174
>easy install
That name is misleading, you'd want to go the custom route so you get more control over your emus.

>>532186440
You're here forever with GSdx. Generally a thing with HLE uprendering though. Just depends on whether the game's original logic/engine accounted for higher resolutions.

>>532186440
I use cheats to disable it whenever possible.
But I thought that shit was fixed recently?

>>532194119
Not in that game it certainly isn't.

Anyone here use cxbx-reloaded? I never hear anyone talk about it.

>>532198760
It ran JSRF okay, and a few others. Seems outmoded by Xemu now. I dunno of any games it's still necessary for.

>>532174130
It's 1998-2005: what else do you use? SNES9x wasn't much better (yet)

and I hope you have the best CPU money can buy for BSNES now that it's 2006.

>>532204482
BSNES, it's been around as early as 2004.

>>532205000
lmao what CPU were you rocking back then? Don't answer: you weren't old enough to know. Also, it was some years til get got SuperFX and DSP, which are the real reasons it was better than ZSNES. It actually ran games like Kirby Super Star and Starfox at the proper speeds.

I'm also 99% sure it didn't have a public binary til 2005.

>>532206881
You're right, it seems the 2004 releases haven't been archived.
https://github.com/Xeon3D/bsnes-history

>>532207195
https://gitlab.com/higan/bsnes-history-kit/-/blob/master/sources/tukuyomi/emus/bsnes/bsnes021n.zip
Here's a build from 2004 anyway. Whether it was public or not, I don't know.

Nevermind, I'm dumb. That one's from 2007.
https://gitlab.com/higan/bsnes-history-kit/-/blob/master/sources/tukuyomi/emus/bsnes/bsnes_v002_ir9.rar
This one has files with 2004 dates on them. Don't know if it was public, though. IR is internal release? I dunno.

What do you think Mrs Esoterica looks like?

Man fuck that blue faggot.

>>532206881
God, I hate how paranoid byuu was, regularly nuking the shit out of everything: his sites, his forums, his repositories, all gone or barely archived in some obscure place.

People are telling me they can't reproduce this and that it must be intel specific. But I find it hard to believe that Intel would put out a shoddy driver.

>>532212139
I knew this had Katamari DNA.

>>532212908
You aren't using an Intel (i)GPU are you? Otherwise that sounds silly.

>>532213463
I am. I'm on a laptop at the moment.

>>532213747
I'd think 1x would at least render okay. I have a NUC with an 7th gen i5 and it seems to do software and up to 2, sometimes 3x hardware acceleration fine. PGS doesn't run or look well at all, though.
>Intelaviv wouldn't make a shoddy driver
Oh you jokester.

>>532213747
>pre alchemist intel graphics
Intel only gave the barest of shits back then.

>it's a proto
Of course it is. Why do you troll emudevs so hard?

>>532214608
You're an imbecile. The Jap version released, which is what I'm playing. The Euro version was cancelled and recently leaked.

It's a confusing situation. It was based on a crap French movie that flopped, so they cancelled the fully finished PAL release and dumped like 10 copies on the Japs.

>>532214949
>how could you miss that easily missable detail you EEEDIOT
oh shut up dude. Who else is gonna play with you? No one. Suck me off like you should.

>>532215506
Ego collapse aside, does it work?

fuck janny

>>532113084
Some tendie emu hacks involve just having codes to keep the bloom maintain original resolution while everything else upscales.

Oke,y rpcs3 is pure shit, but i am sure elad can't fuck up disgaea?
4 won't run with updates, a somewhat recent regression that won't be fixed it seems.
I know i can play this on pc, vita, but if fucking disgaea can be broken, nothing is safe.

This game is a neat short one.
Except, you can't replay levels until you get to ng+ to get better rating to upgrade your gear so you're stuck with subpar upgrades.
The last to levels are a massive increase in difficulty spike and the last boss is very difficult because of the frame dropping I almost quit the game because of that.
But overclocking to 300% fixed that and it took me just few tries to beat him.

I was testing games in Ymir since it's got nightly builds now and I tried a game called Mahjong-kyou Jidai Cebu Island 96 (Japan). It doesn't boot, but when I tried it in Beetle Saturn it also seemed broken. Every time the opponent has a turn their model wigs the fuck out. I was under the impression that Beetle Saturn was pretty rock solid but the second game I try has problems.

Resulation.

>>532237523
discard one pin

Honestly I haven't messed around with Ryujinx ever since the "official" death of it. Excuse the dumb question but where can I update the firmware+prod keys these days on this? it's been a long time (that's the current version its on when I booted it)

>>532230538
Any reason to play this over the completed Xbox proto?

It's fun.

>>532262192
Firmware can be still found on Internet Archive if they have not been taken down. For the keys, hilariously, a google search will be enough. Also, the wiki.

>retroarch.cfg reset itself for reasons unknown
Danny I could kick you in your dumb wooden shoe wearing ass.

>>532268445
>Firmware can be still found on Internet Archive if they have not been taken down
RIP. The link I had for it is indeed down. Any other place?

>>532269752
NTA, but this GitHub page has always been reliable for me.
https://github.com/DeaconBlood/Firmware/releases

>>532269936
thanks anon

>>532270078
NP, happy to help!

>>532264230
Working PS2 emulation exists, 360 emulation does not.

emu

The original Gungrave is short as fuck, not to mention those janky controls, still had fun with it.
Gonna try out the sequel now.

>>532152896
n-no one? ;_;

>>532303003
If it's a torrent from a public tracker, expect it not to be seeded for very long. The torrent itself doesn't get taken down.

>>532295979
gen

>>532303172
but then what happens? like let's say there's a big megapack for the entire library of one console. but then the tracker for some reason stops functioning. whether the tracker went down / got taken down / got leaned on so they yanked support for this torrent.

so hundreds of people have it on their hard drives, but can't seed/download any more. what happens? will someone come in and change the tracker? will that automatically fix things for everyone? or would everyone have to find out about it and manually apply the new tracker(s) to the torrent to revive their role in it? because that sounds like it's depending on a lot of things for it to be resurrected.

guess i should just grab what i want before the walls close in.
shit, looks like im gonna have to drive to an electronics store tomorrow and get me a big ass external hard drive. could also online order but then if it gets damaged during shipping that'll cause more hassle and delay, prolly better to go and get it myself.

>>532317395
(yeah talking about public trackers here, don't have time for getting into the whole private trackers circlejerk scene, doing fucking gay ass irc interviews and rimming some gatekeeping fucks, not to mention using my real ip, fuck that shit)

>>532317628
You can easily find megapacks on IA, no need to sign into a private tracker circlejerk or paypig for Usenet.

>>532317873
IA?

>>532319691
Internet Archive. You might have to sign in for some downloads, but it's not entirely gatekept.

>>532317395
>but then the tracker for some reason stops functioning. whether the tracker went down / got taken down / got leaned on so they yanked support for this torrent.
That doesn't matter anymore, we decentralized now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_DHT?useskin=vector

>>532285453
It's an Xbox OG game, and it should work in Xemu.

Any of you wiz kids wanna tell me how the fuck this is possible?
>short hops aren't short enough
>momentum built from prior hops drops off by the time you reach the third gap

>>532333590
You need the secret code. I know it but I won't tell you.

>>532333590
Can you not just run over the gaps?

>>532335090
On my best attempts to retain momentum I seem to fall through by the 3rd gap.

>>532335597
I guess they changed the physics from the original SMB. IIRC in that one you could just run through gaps like that without any problem.

>>532336290
Could be SNES9x is fucking me here somehow. May try the SRM in some other emus. That or I just need to get good at SMW hacks.

It's a neat hack, otherwise, some fantastic chip covers of SOTN music too.

naw same shit in Byuu-land. Guess there's a trick.

Ah nevermind, I did it. Long jump as small Mario from the blue bridge to the right. The momentum-gaps aren't nearly as forgiving as they were in SMB1 as the other anon said.

>>532338074
*to the left

Well, can't make it too easy, now, can we?

https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4/pull/3228
>Microphone support
>PT can be completed with this PR

>>532344995
Impressive, does it look as it should?

Decent hack.

>>532345878
Nevermind, looked it up. It's broken as fuck.
>dewd it can totally play this completely presentation driven game with broken ass sub-Nesticle tier graphics emulation
Thanks.

>>532346134
Those early 2000's edgy ROM hacks were something else. I remember a friend showed me the KKK SMB one back in like 2005, and we thought that was the funniest shit in the world.

Bleh, last time I post royale. Least jpeg/resize friendly shader of all time.

>>532346306
Can you think of any with that energy that meaningfully change the game, or that are actually fun? The only two I can think of offhand with that energy are Legend of Iowa and Donner Party. There's Moonman Doom of course but that's only adjacent to the topic.

The Mario /vr/os hacks are decent but they are less about being stupid-edgy and more like SomethingAwful projects from 2005 in more recent years.

why

>>532347146
why not?

I actually caught a Vinesauce stream once where he got tricked into playing a Baddest SMB ROM hack. Forgot which one exactly, but I think it started by telling him to eat shit, then proceeded to spam fag and nigger a bunch in front of like 8K viewers kek

>>532324215
Yeah, I totally forgot that there was a xbox before 360.
>>532335291
Don't see any major differences between it and the ps2 version, maybe those lie in minor detals or the framerate may be more stable during the bullethell segments.

Maybe I'm just powerful stupid but I can't interact with any of the menu options in Power Golf 97 in the retroarch Beetle Saturn corn.

>>532347146
It's a silvagunner meme
https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Dad

>>532370495
Vinesauce*

>>532360159
Yeah, I think I recall playing a demo for this on Xbox back in they day and convinced myself that was the lead platform. May in fact not be too different.

Most west-games tended to be more polished on the yuge though.

Looks like it was made in parallel per wikipedia. I imagine the process for it was "make assets that'll fit into PS2's memory, then make it run at 60fps with decent image quality on the Xbox" -- of course with emulation that's sort of moot

emu

>>532370495
triple q is a faggot

>>532372672
>I imagine the process for it was "make assets that'll fit into PS2's memory, then make it run at 60fps with decent image quality on the Xbox"
That's Sonic UnWiished in a nutshell. (The Dimps PS2/Wii version.)

>>532385261
Maybe it's the art direction and FPS cap, but I'm still impressed with how Sonic Team themselves managed to squeeze Hedgehog Engine onto Colors for the fucking Wii!

tfw too retarded to understand how to take romhacks from github and patch them

>>532387023
RetroShart can autopatch them on the fly, though not for the 5th-gen systems IIRC.

>>532387023
This site's great.
https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/

How to play Peace Walker on PPSSPP above 20fps?

FLIPS is also good for BPS/IPS patching.
https://www.smwcentral.net/?a=details&id=11474&p=section
The patching process isn't hard, but on occasion finding the ROM or ISO the patch wants is a real bitch and you have to trawl through GoodNES instead of NoIntro. Sometimes it's best to find prepatched ones on RGT and other archived collections.

>>532390348
LMGTFY
https://forums.ppsspp.org/showthread.php?pid=101940
You just need to learn how PPSSPP cheats work and follow the instructions in the thread here.

>>532390878
tanks

>>532390878
It crashes

Holy shit, no wonder this was filtered in the west! That's the tightest squeeze ever.

>>532393740
I dunno, fuck with PPSSPP settings or find another cheat somewhere. There's the PS3 version. Who knows? The 360 version may be okay now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4-L-L2aPiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f96AEI-Z4eU
Take your pick.

>>532390348
Is it actually locked to 20?

>>532395043
It's for Super Players, after all, and that's in one of the challenge worlds in an already challenging game.

>>532397302
I definitely feel like a Super Player, I've beaten it at least 2 or 3 times so far!

Eden id the future of switch emulation they tell me.
Play ace combat 7. Vulkan gives me black screen, opengl gives me half screen.
At least with ryjujinx you get a functioning game minus the stuttering.

>>532387894
thanks but it looks like no patchers seems to work for me.

>>532395043
>state from slot 0
You didn't beat the game

That game is on PC and I don't think he has Denuvo.

>>532401776

>>532401878
Referring to Peace Walker? No, it isn't. 2 and 3 dropped but not that one.

>>532402849
Ace Combat 7, I forgot the post.

>>532401776
Based.

emu

Jesus Christ, this is insane...

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Ripping_games

>>532413186
Elaborate. A lot of it is pretty sane and expected and has been done thousands of times. What part?

>>532413375
this is insane in the best possible way, lol.

>still no switch 2 emulator
It's over..

>>532395043
I wonder if anyone's made a hack of the original SMB2 that doesn't require you to beat the game several 8 times to unlock the extra worlds. It can be bypassed easily enough with a cheat I suppose, but god that sucks. Kinda find All-Stars aesthetic and instruments wack.