Thread 536082321

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

Read the General problems FAQ before asking questions. If you still need help, post your specs (HWiNFO screenshot), OS, emulator version number and details of what's wrong.
Please contribute to the wiki if you discover any inaccuracies or have relevant information to append.

READ THE WIKI BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS LIKE:
>Where do I get games
OR
>What is the best emulator for...

Check out the wiki for the emulator you're using if you run into trouble, there may be a solution there too, often including recommendations for optimal game settings.

Previous thread: >>535831062

Weird.

For some silly reason, I never used both VMware and VirtualBox at the same time for Windows XP and Windows Vista. That's why I never saw them as a viable option until then. But when you use them together; VMware for DirectX 9 games and VirtualBox for older one; the compatibility is surprisingly good. I was even able to play nearly all of my games; like The Sims 2 and World of Warcraft 5-CD retail with the Elysium Project (1.12.1) on VMware without any issues.

Some of these games have a bad habit of messing with the host display, which is a big problem for ShaderGlass (it’s only compatible with VirtualBox, not VMware's KVM utility or default window). For other issues, i created Virtualization Pack section for you guys;
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Windows_NT_5.x_emulators#Virtualization_Pack
Simple scripts from that section handles nearly all cases for this Windows XP and Vista virtualization purpose.

In that pack, I also provide lots of NoCD, NoDVD, and update patches. These are crucial because both VirtualBox and VMware have limited parser capabilities for BIN/CUE CD images and lack support for copy-protected DVD images like MDF/MDS? For better convenience, I've made LaunchBox scripts that directly launch games and automate things like fullscreen and shader overlays. The one short stick in my scripts is that VirtualBox's GUI has a built-in feature for changing discs while the VM is running, but VMware's KVM utility has no option for this so i need to install software on VirtualBox before launching the VMware.

I'm also using ProtoWeb for a fun, retro web browsing experience.

I haven't tried the portable apps from PortableApps.com yet (https://portableapps.com/node/70284), but they might be a good idea to use. For now, I don't want to mess with CLI tools like VBoxManage, even though I know it would be a more efficient way to go.

If you've experienced this and want to help improve this section and the scripts, that would be really cool.

>>536082851
I have also supplied a number of wrappers in that pack that are compatible with 32-bit Windows XP.

>>536082851
Not much I didn't already have/know, but thanks. May use this pack if I ever lose my VM setups and feel lazy. You should upload a softgpu 9x machine too, or I should

>>536083698
>>536082851
Consider using Supermium in WinXP/Vista guests. It'll browse modern websites and youtube just fine, and works with those legacy systems. I get ProtoWeb for the retro feel, but just letting you know there is another way for modern sites.

>>536083739
I've mentioned the SoftGPU project in several sections of the Emugen Wiki, including the one on Windows NT 5.x emulators;
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Windows_NT_5.x_emulators#Hypervisors

I've never bothered to set up a Windows 9x VM. The IBM-PC emulators work great, and frankly, I'm too lazy to go through the extra hassle. I believe the SoftGPU project is very promising for the future though. It could be especially useful for API passthrough approach (like QEMU 3dfx), which would be a huge benefit for Windows XP and Vista "emulation".

>>536084709
And for PowerPC Mac OS X, maybe?

>>536084709
3dfx is hardly what XP/Vista need. Voodoo cards were laughably outdated by 2001. Passthrough is a giant pain in the ass that no one should go through just for games. Any other method is preferred.

>>536085012
I might do the needful for that, and my Win95/DOS Towns and PC98 setups. Just have to bundle them in a way that I'm sure is portable... some day. I feel like even getting these things to work, let alone sharing it, is a wobbly house of hards.

>>536085291
>>536085012
oh, nvm you were still talking about passthrough. Yuck. Let's just not talk about that anymore... let's try to recommend stuff people will actually want to use, lol. On the topic of MacOS X PPC emulation; it's kind of a no-go in general. I used it in QEMU a couple years ago and it was pretty rotten. Sheepshaver/PearPC 68k/PPC OS8/9 emulation seems okay-enough, though.

>>536085291
Getting old pc systems 9x to run is pretty easy these days, you've got "good enough" emulators like Tsugaru, 86Box, DOSBox-Pure, np2kai, basiliskII, sheepshaver and PUAE that make it almost plug-and-play.

The real headache starts with systems from the 2000s and later, such as macOS X and Windows NT 5.x/6.x. Trying to virtualize them with a Type-2 hypervisor is a completely different thing. While QEMU's TCG emulation is an option, its compatibility is pretty bad, and it has no 3D acceleration support.

I am aware that my current method (using the scripts that I provided) for simple start/stop services and enable/disable drivers is not an advanced approach. I am also wondering about those PortableApps packages that I shared in a previous comment and how they approach this. There are other discontinued projects?, such as vbox.me (I used this one back in the day) and PocketVBox. To me, they look like primitive launcher solutions though, but I don't know for sure.

>>536087063
I also tried using QEMU KVM with GPU passthrough back in the day using ubuntu-server with terminal, but 'too much' work and of course it is real hardware dependent, so i don't think that approach has a future for this job

>>536082851
Oh, by the way, what I mean by 'at the same time' is using the same .vmdk disk image for both VirtualBox and VMware, which is Windows XP with both guest additions and VMware tools installed.

niggers

can I emulate the xbox 360 yet

>>536110525
50%

I feel like I am losing my mind trying to get Blinx The Time Sweeper to work on Xefu on my bad update 360. I have Aurora installed, I've tried multiple Xefu versions that are known compatible and every other game I've tried works (about 10 other Xbox games). Ive even sourced the ISO from 3 different places

Reposting from a dead thread

>>536112114
>50%
That just means you get halfway through an 80 hour game before it becomes unplayable.

>>536112114
>50%
I would say it is more around 30% when it comes to just starting games and it working without fiddling.

>>536112284
Yup, you're right. Seventh and eighth-gen console emulation is still a long way from being "perfect" (other than Wii ofc). Right now, all the big players; Cemu, RPCS3, Xenia Canary, ShadPS4, and Vita3K are pretty much in the same boat, with most of them only reaching somewhere around 50% to 65% compatibility.

mednafen vs the all encompassing reddit emulator fight

>>536112696
Yeah, that's probably right. I got the 50-60% figure by filtering out all the compatibility-related labels on GitHub.

>>536112850
>Cemu
Works for me for the majority of stuff. It feels complete compared to the others.
>RPCS3
Another day another rpcs3 regression
>Xenia Canary
It feels sad to beat a dead horse.
>ShadPS4
Too new to tell how it will end up .
>Vita3K
"We introduced vulkan and added majority of missing system calls. This caused regressions in games."
I have no words.

is there a reason I'm getting slowdown in fucking original gameboy emulation? using the sameboy RA core, pc specs are upper

I'm not talking about slowdown intrinsic to the gameboy, this is emulator specific and limited to certain rooms or scripted events in some games, they just start running at ~80% speed and can't even fast forward because it's apparently maxing out an entire cpu core

>>536113780
>is there a reason I'm getting slowdown in fucking original gameboy emulation?
-Retroarch issues.
-Accurate emulators are autistic written to eat up performance
-Linux /Amd
-Windows update fuckery

>>536113780
Check if Runahead is active, he may be activated automatically and that what causing the slowdown.

>>536113369
Yeah, Cemu is definitely the most complete of the bunch, but it's not quite on the level of sixth-gen emulators yet. It's probably only about 60-65% done, which is why I'd put it in the same category as other seventh-gen emulators. But you're right, it's at the top of that list, with ShadPS4 at the bottom since it's the newest.

according to emugen wiki;
RPCS3: 69% (lol)
Xenia Canary: 61%
Cemu: 57%
Vita3K: 57%
ShadPS4: 11%

>>536114454
RPCS3 supports RPCN
Xenia Canary (Netplay branch) supports Xenia WebServices
Cemu supports Pretendo?

There's no point in using Retroarch if you're "asking 4chan broad technical questions" guy. If you can't figure it out you just need to stick to grilling and download a standalone.

habbeding
>>536082851
This, too, is based.

>>536118685
I just want Geforce and a 100% CPU efficiency boost.

>>536119292
They're barely looking into the RIVA 128:
https://86box.net/2025/02/25/riva128-part-1.html
GeForce emulation is probably a long ways off. There's just not enough documentation, and that's always been by design.
>100% CPU efficiency boost
Very unlikely to ever happen, not at this level of accuracy.

>>536120302
I don't know. Hire some troons. Fix it. It's stagnant trash otherwise.

>>536121513
It comes from PCem, which IS troonware, and while it is faster, that's because it's less accurate and uses an arcane dynarec only the troon understood, and even then it's only by like 20-30% at most. It's just not feasible, bud. Stick to VMs or PCGamingWiki, or cope with DOSBox and its buggy Windows support.

Considering how single-threaded PCem's CPU emulation is, I wonder if vulkan compute would actually deliver better results.

>>536121883
I know all that. I'm just tired of it being a Pentium II simulator. It's been a decade. It needs to get better. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the micro-improvements but it's still fucking old.

>>536119292
I'm aware of how impossible the low-level emulation of Radeon or GeForce is, but it would be wonderful if a high-level emulation project for the GeForce 6600 GT emerged for both Windows XP and Mac OS X PPC.

Just look at what's been done;
RPCS3, which imitates? the RSX GPU (a modified GeForce 7800 GTX).
Xenia, which emulates the Xenos GPU (an AMD Z430 based on the R400 architecture) with its DirectX 9.0c superset.
Xemu, with its emulation of the NV2A GPU.
The recent efforts of the ShadPS4 project in emulating the AMD Liverpool GPU.
Hypervisor's obsolete virtual GPU adapters for legacy operating systems (e.g., VboxVGA, VMware SVGA II) and API wrappers (e.g., d3d8to9, D3D9On12, or even WineD3D/DXVK)

I know there are lots of hardware for PCs unlike those "static" console hardware but this kind of project (e.g., 6600GT emulation on high-level?) would teach us a ton about emulating GPUs from that era...

>>536123490
Cool attitude, devs. So all there is to look forward to is preening of the app, good to know. Yeah, they probably should do it high-level. Isn't the 3dfx stuff high level anyway? So they're already playing with that stuff a bit.

>>536122243
I don't see what the problem with that is, when the only real reason you'd even want to set up PCem or forks is either to run certain DOS games with more obscure system configurations not covered by DOSBox, or to run 90's Windows games that are hard to get working natively even with wrappers and whatnot, and in neither case do you need a Pentium III or Athlon. Not that I wouldn't like to see those CPUs emulated, mind you, but they're hardly what's missing from the equation. More important IMO would be emulating more of the early GPUs like the Matrox cards, as well as sound cards supporting A3D or EAX.

>>536124152
There's a good chunk of 9x-ware from the late 90s that doesn't like Win7+ and newer CPUs/GPUs, and is happier running on P3/4 + GF1.

>>536124152
>>536124341
and I dunno, it's not silly to expect the project to get better, is it? I guess I know not to expect anything from them, and simply wait for a better project to come along, or as you said, just use existing solutions like wrappers/fixes/VMs.

There's also moments where PCem/86box is weirdly taxed. Certain IO heavy Windows navigation tasks or some games will hammer the virtual CPU more than others. Some games, even ones you wouldn't think aren't that heavy, cause stutter when the 350mhz-400mhz CPU is fine 90% of the time otherwise. It just needs to get better. This is still a problem and I have a Zen4. It's less excusable every year.

>>536123490
Isn't Windows NT5 source code leaked years ago?
https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src

>>536124651
It's not silly, but think for a moment what you're asking for. You want a PC emulator capable of emulating P3/4-era hardware at playable speeds on current hardware, right? That's most certainly not going to happen with the approach taken by PCem or forks, because they're aiming to be accurate emulators of many, many PC components.

The only way I could conceive of such a thing working is if someone built an emulator from the ground up targeting only a very narrow set of components (say, a 733 MHz Coppermine Pentium III with a GeForce 3, a Sound Blaster Live, 128 MB of RAM, and assorted peripherals and add-ons) and emulating them only to the degree that they can come together to get Windows 98 installed and games working. So basically, you get Xemu: good enough to get stuff working and running, but with somewhat spotty compatibility, except here it'll likely be worse because games weren't all made with one such configuration in mind, so maybe we add more cards to cover those cases, and... yeah, sounds like a hell of a job.

>>536126865
>>536123490
Yeah, I think that would be the most realistic approach in the near future, focusing on specific hardware like DirectX 9.0c GPU and SSE3 CPU. It's kind of like how Xemu works with QEMU (I guess they're using TCG emulation?)

What's the best way to record emulated games? My recordings look fine when I'm recording a regular PC game but for some reason emulation recordings always have a bit of video stutter once in a while. I'm assuming it's because NES games run at 60.0988 FPS for example

>>536128750
Yeah, that's the caveat with game recordings. They only look good on a VRR display and captured at a variable framerate too.

>>536128858
I tried recording both with and without VRR in Retroarch but both look like shit
How do people do it? There's plenty of retro game footage that's not choppy online

>>536128750
If the emulator doesn't have it (many do, including Retroarch, check that first) use ShareX, then you can use Shotcut to edit it after the fact, and I use this Fileconverter.io thing to compress it down + resize it in a pinch via rightclick/context menu. ScreenToGif is good for making gifs from still images, the gifski encoder is really efficient in it. Hope this answers your questions anon.

>>536128750
It may be best to lock the game to 60fps and deal with a very slight speed inaccuracy for recording's sake. You may just need to check your encoding settings in your capture program too.

and just an fyi 4chan will show h264 mp4s as well as webms, and in my experience the mp4s allow for higher quality and longer footage within 4mb.

>>536130078
h264 is better than VP8, but 4chan also supports VP9 webms which is much better than h264.

>>536134075
Huh, maybe it was just my luck encoding that day. I'll have to try both again with the same content.

>>536130078
bullshit

>>536137498
Yeah, it may have been. The other guy seems to think VP9's better too, so, perhaps my encoder was set funny vs h264 that day, or I was still using 8.

>>536139336
the other day i compressed a 19mb 3 minute webm down to 1.8mb vp9 webm with blender with some quality loss but i am a noob.

how decrypt ps3 save data plz?
Can't find a link to Bruteforce that actually works.

Where is the best place to find game manual scans?

>>536158261
iunno I just google "game name manual pdf" and it works every time

>>536158261
Depends
For anything Sega related (Sega games or games on Sega consoles), Sega Retro is usually pretty good

emu

I believe I am in for what the children would call "peak".

>>536123875
The 3dfx emulation code came from mame and the driver was coded by Aaron Giles

>>536182356
>not playing it through Pokemon Stadium's GB Tower
You didn't enjoy the game.

>>536183801
I do declare that I am most unfamiliar with what you are referring to

Xemu's definitely getting better. Was able to run that version of Vice City with basically no issues... except for one that seems to be in a few games: some sounds play back muffled or with the EQ or something off.

>>536184916
You can emulate it through Pokemon Stadium's built in GB emulator that worked through the transfer pak. A really wacky way to go about it. He's memin' you. It is possible to emulate it this way, though...

>>536185459
On real hardware, it did have the advantage of having a fast-forward option (or was that only in Pokemon Stadium 2? I forget), plus being able to then quickly switch over to Pokemon Stadium and use your Pokeymens in the battle modes without skipping a beat was peak comfy. But yeah, if you don't intend to play through Pokemon Stadium, it's useless, and even then emulating the GB tower is kinda janky last I checked.

>>536183383
Didn't the code for Voodoo 2 and 3 originate from PCem, which contains a lot of hacks and other things? I heard this from an 86box developer, if I recall correctly.

>>536129216
Perhaps they force 60hz? Definitely not ideal, but I guess it works for non-VRR displays.

>>536169773
gen

>>536197528
>>536183383
I'm almost positive it isn't MAME's or doing it quite the same way. Mainly because it's so relatively optimal. It's light compared to the CPU emulation.

How big of a performance difference is there between the final dev ryujinx build and the following forks afterward?

>>536219027
None.

>>536217269
(cont.)
Plus it has a dyna-recomp and multi-threading which is pretty non-MAME. So it's definitely different, anyway.

>>536182356
>not emulating it in 1999 on no$gmb for DOS and its wacky sound emulation

>no proper 240p 1x scaled version of Mega Man 9 exists
>Capcom shat it out in 480i/p on Wii and stretched HD modes on the 7th gen consoles
>it's pre-scaled in a funny way on all machines so it doesn't downsample back to 240p even if you try cropping and fucking with it
>any attempt to CRT-shade it is fucked as a result with misaligned scanlines
>the Steam version has nearest-neighbor non-integer baked
Good one, Inti. Guess we have to wait for it to get decomped after I'm dead. At least the Wii version looks decent in a sharp-bilinear way if you uprez it.
At least you can give it a decent "sharp bilinear" look by uprezzing the Wii version. Fucked for CRT shaders, though.

>>536226292
>type the same thing twice because I was multitasking
jesus christ

>the pixel game doesn't have a 1x or integer mode
>the pixel game has mixed-res elements
That's an uninstall from me.

>>536082321 (OP)
I will now pirate your PS2 ISO.

>>536082851
Batch-to-EXE compiling can be used for administrative privileged VMware scripts that interact with frontend software on top of PortableApps packages for VirtualBox (https://portableapps.com/node/70284). The editing of .vmx and .vbox path sections for portable purposes must also be handled properly.

>>536219027
No major improvements across the board, but there have been situational improvements, totk and the xenoblade games all run noticeably better, and those were pretty much the only games I have that didn't run perfectly already.

>those legs
holy shit

>>536236476
Fetishizing eastern asian valgus deformity, lol. Westoids love that shit.

>>536237253
it's about the thick thighs not the schoolgirl stance thogu now that you mention it thats cute too

Updated my Dolphin and had to let it create a new gfx.ini, now my games are slightly stretched in 16:9 and have black bars, sometimes on the sides but other times also top and bottom

>>536242067
Not sure if that's the reason but the aspect ratios it shows me look wrong, like why does it say 1920x1584 instead of 1920x1080p?

Anyone an idea what I can do?

>>536242328
You can see that the face, the 0 in the bottom right corner or the map are slightly vertically stretched on Dolphin. Setting aspect ratio to "stretch to window" to get rid of the black bars of course makes it worse

Dolphin

>>536243057
PS3 emu

>>536243057
lookin' sharp
>>536243290
lookin' good

>>536243428
Yeah but the PS3 one isn't stretched. Just for example

>>536243602
Yeah, I guess that's one of the tradeoffs. Shitty DoF with a proper aspect ratio, or no DoF with a stretched aspect ratio.

>>536243703
I'm pretty sure I only have the black bars and stretching since recently and also these weird random numbers >>536242328

>>536243973
Dolphin has always used those resolutions. IIRC there is an option to crop the output to match the aspect ratio, which might be what you were using before. Also, PS3 could natively render widescreen resolutions, the Wii couldn't and only stretched from 4:3, likelihood that aspect ratios will match between ports is low.

>>536243057
Weird, all I did was restart Dolphin and now the black bars are gone. But it still seems stretched compared to PS3 >>536243290

Interestingly, ChatGPT says Dolphin/picrel is the correct output and the PS3 one is actually stretched/squished, but ChatGPT is trash and to my eyes the Dolphin portrait and map look slightly longer than they should be. Not sure anymore

>>536243057
Weird, all I did was restart Dolphin and now the black bars are gone. But it still seems stretched compared to PS3 >>536243290

Interestingly, ChatGPT says Dolphin/picrel is the correct output and the PS3 one is stretched/squished (but ChatGPT is trash and to my eyes the Dolphin portrait and map look slightly longer than they should be and obviously the mountain is a bit skinnier). Not sure anymore

>>536249309
Just use 4:3.

>>536249309
Black bars gone is nice at least but now something I was happy the new Dolphin version fixed is back to how it was before: When I play in full-screen and press space to fast-forward there is always a stutter and black screen for like three seconds and then again when I stop pressing space. Does anyone know what causes this and how to get rid of it? Doesn't happen in window mode

just stop being autistic and you won't even notice this shit.

>>536251003
That's where I'm at now. Do you or anyone else know the fix for this shit though
>>536249710
>When I play in full-screen and press space to fast-forward there is always a stutter and black screen for like three seconds and then again when I stop pressing space.
That's actually annoying af. And I remember playing games with turn-based combat and fast-forwarding all the time without problems back in the day

>>536251003
Read the room. This isn't "good enough general", leadbrain.

>>536243057
MT Framework was a great engine.

How good is PCSX2 on android? I have a Nothing phone 2 pro and I already installed dusckstation and PPSSPP but i'm not sure if it can handle PS2 emulation.

>>536249309
>>536243057
This is just a bit of a 'thing' in widescreen Wii games. They don't really adhere to 16:9 like you expect them too, often being a little wide or thin like this. You're probably just gonna have to deal with some black bars and/or manually adjust the ratio. Retroarch has a lot more cropping/ratio options.

Are you using hacks on top of the game to make it widescreen or solely game's widescreen mode? If it's the latter it's probably just baked in wrong; tough luck. Be sure you're only use one or the other, not both wide hacks and the game/consoles widescreen.

>>536226292
I got it to downsample into 240p using RA's Dolphin core and one of Guest's shaders with properly spaced scanlines once (I forgot exactly how I did it, but I posted pics here). There's no unfucking the horizontal pre-scaling, though, so you'll get pixels that change in size with motion no matter what, but at least vertically it can get fixed.

>>536256149
Yeah I vaguely recall; I should pull them up to see just how proper they are. I got a pretty-close-to-correct look but some scanlines still go halfway up a pixel regardless of the downsampling/multiplying use.

Someone at M2/Capcom still deserves the Bill Gates pie treatment at the least for this, even if there are workarounds.

>>536243057
Just checked pictures of controller buttons in a few games, compared default with rotated clockwise once

If no one here knows a fix then it indeed looks like all the games we play on Dolphin are vertically stretched

>can't search for posts underneath certain OPs/generals (afaik)
useless-ass archives, I'll have to scour every general for this. Must have been like a year and a half or two years ago lol

>>536261215
>the games themselves are stretched
ftfy, widescreen on Wii was a bit of a mess, hell, widescreen in 7th gen altogether. You just have to mess with the aspect ratio yourself, but it can be fixed. Unless the 2D elements are stretched differently than the 3D because the devs suck, then you're just fucked.

>>536261215
i think only a few even had proper 16:9, like mario kart

Does anyone know how to get the dlc for rockband unplugged to work on ppsspp? I got it in PSP/GAME/ULUS10418/MUSIC but it's not showing up in quick play. I put the PARAM.PBP in ULUS10418 too but nothing shows up.

https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/pull/2166
>implements support for an obscure N64 peripheral used by a grand total of one game
>said game is one of the few that's currently completely broken

>>536249994
Sounds like your display mode is switching, check if enabling borderless fullscreen fixes it.

>>536267839
>Sounds like your display mode is switching
Definitely feels like something like that. My Dolphin's log is just an empty black screen the entire time sadly
>check if enabling borderless fullscreen fixes it.
Where?

>>536113780
figured out the issue, I was using an audio dsp plugin which apparently was causing slowdown issues with sameboy (and only sameboy out of the dozens of cores I use)

>>536249994
>>536267839
Vsync caused the annoying black screen when fast-forwarding. At least disabling it is the only way I found to get rid of it. And getting rid of the black bars is indeed just ticking the "crop" box. The only annoyance that remains is that Wii games have weird widescreen and seem to be slightly stretched no matter what you do, but I guess that's just how it is

>MGS3 remake is shit
Best way to play it? Tried PCSX2 years ago and it had those buggy black puddles everywhere. I feel like the game is overrated no matter what but I'm a sucker for forest and jungles.

is the vita emulator good these days? any exclusives worth getting it for?

>>536243290
>looks worse than the Wii game
Is there really no way to force 1080p or AA on 720p games in RPCS3?

>>536278480
PCSX2 is in a better state than it was years ago so give it a try again.

>>536265143
Oh yeah and I'm trying to get it to work on the android 1.19.3 version of ppsspp if that helps.

>>536287330
I'm very curious to know what he could have been playing.

>>536281198
There is resolution scale but it always just makes my games look like a mess with texture ghosting and stuff

>>536288039
his gacha pulls were popping off

The massive and still-growing success of gachashit is such an indictment on the human race. Hopefully someday some legislation gets passed against it, but I doubt it.

>>536287330
average osu player

>all the forks are garbage
which emu?

>>536297939
yuzu/ryujinx

>>536297939
That's cultural vandalism.

>>536287330
>biceps the same diameter as his wrist
wtf he has to have some kind of disease

>>536291192
>There is resolution scale
Speaking of, how come games look way worse and fuzzier on PS3 emu when I set the resolution scale to 150% (supposedly 1080p) than when it's at 100% (720p)?

Is there a commonly agreed on sweet spot?

>>536304391
you should see the hollow knight guy

>>536304482
200 or 400, you always want to multiply res by a whole number, ideally a power of 2, fewer effects break that way.

>>536304708
I mean, that's just HIV

alright which microsd cartridge thing should i buy for a nintendo ds lite?

>>536305362
I see people suggest trying different Resolution Scale Thresholds, many say 256 or 512. Problem is when I try to set the slider to 512 it just snaps to either 506 or 513 and 512 doesn't even show. Same with 256. And I don't even see a line for it in the config. How am I supposed to get the values they recommend and are there any you can suggest (Capcom games)?

>>536308170
Use the left and right arrow keys for fine adjustment.

>>536304391
Pro gamer syndrome.
>>536287330
Buddy going for the world record on project diva.

Yeah whatever I do, increasing resolution scale just makes my games uglier. Sharper but blurrier at the same time with lots of ringing artifacts

Top 100%
Bottom 400%

>>536309697
Whoops was sure that's the first thing I tried. Thanks

>>536092378
all me

Ah yes the "some joggers found her in the bushes" pose.

>>536312381
Use the fsr option and crank the shrapness to the max.

>>536315826
>>536316896
Saar please do the needful an put these webs in CRT shader to remove jaggis from bobs and vagene

>>536312381
if you take a 256x256 image and apply a 4 pixel blur, it's going to be blurred

if you upscale that to 1024x1024 and apply the same 4 pixel blur, it's still going to be sharp

so basically whatever upscaling they're doing in the emulator probably isn't playing nicely with whatever antialiasing technique is being used, not surprising, it took them years to get 2d elements to look right with upscaling with psx emulation

classic sicky

emu

>>536123490
You guys probably know this but Mac OS X uses OpenGL instead of DirectX, which is a key difference for high-level emulation? VboxVGA is a better choice for OpenGL support. The real challenge, though, is probably figuring out the guest-side drivers. I wonder if the Mac OS X source code has been leaked, similar to what happened with Windows XP and NT 5.

>>536321340
It doesn't work in Retroarch because there's no disc swapping, sorry. Works in Ymir but no shader support. I'm running photo CDs through SegaSaturn Photo CD Operator (Japan)

>>536338981
I'm using PCFX emulation for Photo CDs mostly.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Home_Media_Player#Emulators_that_support_multimedia_capabilities_of_the_system

>>536320146
>>536322247
I just threw blurrier in there because it's hard to describe, it just looks like a mess when I use anything but 100%

Best PS2 and Vita emulators for Android? vita3k crashes my phone...

If anyone is interested, I went through some crusty images of old Game Boy kiosks and created a pixel accurate replica of the border those things used.

>no inverse options for horizontal camera
I thought Rockstar games were the only ones stupid and brazen enough to try and get away with this. Without emulator this gemmy would be unplayable for me

>>536304482
RPCS3 is only good for PS3 exclusives as a last resort, don't use it for anything else.

>>536344407
Inverted camera used to be more or less the norm until like ~2010. Mario 64 even gave players a neat visual explanation why with Lakitu: If you press the left camera button, the camera will reveal what's to Mario's right but that's because Lakitu's body will naturally move to the left while filming Mario. Not sure why we moved away from that but maybe just because "normal" sounds like the more logical default setting. Definitely can't recommend getting used to "normal" if you don't want many older games to feel grating.

>>536348382
Funnily enough, Nintendo themselves changed it with this cheap port collection so Lakitu's movement no longer even made sense and there were no camera settings to speak of. Luckily, enough people complained so they at least patched in camera options sometime after release and people could play the 3D Mario games like how they remember playing them.

>>536316896
>>536315826

>>536338981
>no disc swapping
but it does have it
>no shaders in Ymir
ShaderGlass, but it has a (pretty) minor lag penalty

what emu is the coziest?

>>536352896
Meka

>>536348781
how does this version handle waggling, like to collect star bits? is its solution better than what you can do on dolphin? what's the best way to do it on dolphin anyway with a normal controller?

>>536353239
Gyro. The joycons and pro both have it, and it works better than you'd think.

>>536353362
so it has no 0 waggle way to play galaxy? on dolphin i used a creative button binding combo that worked very well but i can't remember what it was exactly

>>536353064
>cun cun cun return of the cun

Is ares still considered the best N64 emulator?

>>536354116
Never was

>>536354116
By a long shot, anything that uses Themaister's backend(s) is a contender for "best emulator."

>photo cd operating system + photo disc
Ah, so this isn't really 'Saturn' at all, beyond the launcher disc. Figured this was some weird coomer disc that booted right off the Saturn.

>>536354202
what would you say is and why?

>>536267253
>These niggers can't get fucking Tetris working

>>536297939
Yuzu, no doubt.

>>536354116
Mupen64Plus (and its shartcore/frontends with it baked in) will get you 99% of the way Ares does, and you can overclock it. Wish Ares had that, but yes, Ares is the best one technically.

>>536354601
Any other

>>536354479
It's artistic nudity. You're meant to admire the female form, not jerk off to it. It's not low class smut.

>>536354116
Never was.
If I can run fucking Tetris on Pj 1.6 whereas it crashes on Ares (>>536267253), then Ares is fucking trash.
Enough said.

>>536355417
Damn, this somehow adds more clarity.

>>536355486
The way CRT and certain signals handled things was basically an early algo that made shit up

>>536355417
>So our perp rapes, strangles and dumps her in broad daylight and nobody saw or head anything?

>upscaling games x4 but without downsampling so I no longer rape my eyes
I would still like to use a subtle CRT shader, are there any that work well for upscaling x4 without downsampling? It seems to break most of them, picrel Hylia

>>536355204
I'm sure that's what he told them before he did just that at home.

>>536356094
Think you're doing it wrong there, bud. Retroarch, or your shader implementation, should be taking the downsample factor into account and your scanlines should be much smaller.

>>536356094
I found this one which obviously looks better but it's a little bit too fine and makes 2D games look awful

Are CRT shaders just for low res and if you want high res you are fucked?

>>536356269
No dude you're doing it wrong. As soon as I get a minute I'll show you.

>>536356358
>No dude you're doing it wrong.
Not sure how
>Upscale 4x
>downsample 0
>then pick a shader
That's all I do and without downsampling they look shit. Curious what you do different if yours don't look like shit

>>536356498
I would guess you're using your shader (guest?) to downsample instead of the core itself, which is probably making your life harder. I've done it this way with KOF99 Evo as the DC core doesn't have downsampling, but this isn't necessary here. In Parallel you can set the multiplier and downsampling to match and get the desired results.

>this dumb lego game runs at 60fps locked with the "fullspeed" option set in the core
Can't do that on Ares. (yet)

>>536356498
>scanline shaders at 4x res without a downsample pass
That's a problem, none of them will look right with scanlines that fine, and is borderline pointless anyway. You're effectively having scanlines as thin as a high res VGA monitor, which were nearly invisible.

>>536357968
I don't want to downsample, I did that for years, now I want a clean, sharp image but without going full-on 4k and while still having some subtle scanlines that don't look awful. I wonder if that's possible but doesn't seem so

>>536356269
Btw PS1 version if anyone cares

>>536358568
and if your shader's the downsample pass (should be 4x to match the 4x uprez) it should come out as 240p or 480i depending on system/game) you should get the proper scanlines and resolution

>>536358879
Okay, then you want to target 480i, and you'll want a 4K monitor at the least to get scanlines, grille and geometry that don't look like liquid shit. You'd upsample 4-8x, then downsample 2-4x respectively to get the 480i/p result.

>>536359021
>>536358879
One problem with going 480, however, is that the HUD/2D elements will start to look like shit because of the disconnect with the 3D

>troubleshoot on the job and emugen at the same time
This shit's gonna give me a stroke

>>536358879
okay, clearly see that now. The N64 ROM has the same name confusingly, and that filtering through me off in the other one.

Tweaked geomdeluxe + 4X MSAA, 2X rendering, PGXP, and bilinear textures in the core, no downsampling.

>>536360148
and yes I realize there's a PGXP fuckup that I didn't fix, probably needs depth on/off.

>overclock also makes the PS1 version 60fps
neat

>upscale to make it look hd
>then downscale to make it look sd again
why even upscale in the first place? any comparison pictures to show the difference?

>>536362462
It's an antialiasing effect, seems to be more compatible/less glitchy with some games than MSAA in my experience. When you have it downsampled back to native, it will also work with scanline shaders properly too.

>>536362462
Another benefit of downsampling vs 1x, MSAA or other postprocess blurs is it'll resolve more distant elements with less blur because there's more data to draw from. Then once it's back to 240p with the higher distant details, you can apply a scanline CRT shader to it with desired results. I'll make a PS1 one later as it's more dramatic. N64 has some blur+AA baked into its image even at 1x raw.

>>536362462
I my specific, personal case i love use all the bells and whistles on swanstation for that because it make some games looks like they have a 90s pc version that use voodoo glide as a graphic acceleration api.
>justoldfartthings.jpg

>>536365592
nice

Comparing N64 and PS1 Lego Racers I finally noticed that my N64 rom runs at double speed for some reason. I always wondered why the game is so hard. I completed it this way. Using Retroarch

I tried MK64 and it runs normal. I also tried Lego Racers 64 on Ares and it runs normal there. Anyone any idea if there is a Retroarch setting that could cause specifically Lego Racers (and maybe some other games I'm not aware of) to run at double speed?

>>536242067
What game is this

>>536368054
Make sure "full speed" isn't enabled and Count Per Op is at 0. I notice the N64 game is running at 60fps and your PS1 game's running at 30.

Kind of a dumb question but I've been out of it for a while. Are 3ds roms like modern games where you have to download a patch to apply to them or are they either already updated by the uploader or just don't really need updates for some reason?

>>536368470
god of war

>>536368470
The real answer is Pandora's Tower.

>>536353593
If I remember, there's no gyro option like with Skyward Sword. Basically, the pointing is done with the right stick and the waggling mapped to a button. It's very similar to how you do that on Dolphin. No, I don't know how they deal with the mini-games that need more waggling, but surely something similiar

>>536368553
>Make sure "full speed" isn't enabled and Count Per Op is at 0. I
Already how it was. Also checked the time trial clock in Wave Race and F-Zero and both run normal. Lego Racers is the only game my Retroarch insists on creating a .pak file for in my game folder maybe it has something to do with that? Using Mupen

>>536371987
Set VI Refresh Rate down to Auto or 1500 as well.

>>536373449
Just tried that with no success

>>536373753
Next step would be to try it in RMG, since that shares a similar core. If it's the same there, then it's an issue with Mupen64Plus's timings, which can and has been known to result in some games running faster, and ares definitely emulates this better.

>>536265143
>>536282636
DLC works fine on PC but it doesn't on Android wtf!

>>536373965
>Next step would be to try it in RMG
Works normal just like with Ares earlier. Also tested a different core in Retroarch (ParaLLEl, can't see any other N64 core besides these two in the Retroarch core list) and it's double speed

>>536371987
Welp. Ares it is if all that shit ain't working and you closed out and loaded the content again.

>>536375359
Then it's a sharts regression. You DID make sure to restart the content after changing settings, right? I also noticed you're using the cached interpreter, but I doubt that could be the culprit.

>>536362462
PS1 example, as promised.

>>536376681
>You DID make sure to restart the content after changing settings, right?
No. Made the mistake to trust Retroarch telling me if I have to or not (with some settings it tells you). Turning V1 Refresh to auto is what fixed it, though I still think it's a tiny bit off when I compare the ingame clock to my Windows clock (Auto possibly a tiny bit faster and 1500 a tiny bit slower), but a nonissue compared to before

Thanks a lot. Love this game for some reason and prefer the N64 aesthetic (and loading times) over the PS1 one which I guess I would've fallen back on

>I also noticed you're using the cached interpreter, but I doubt that could be the culprit.
Is pure interpreter generally better? I honestly have no clue with some of these Retroarch settings even after watching a bunch of videos

>>536354116
The only reason it's better than mupen64plus-nx is because of a small fix in timing accuracy, which fixes various issues in DK64 (rope swing in opening start menu, music not playing at correct times in opening cutscene, probably more)

Knife's Edge still doesn't run at correct speed

Why does this get so much hate, it's better than the Futurama game at least. Feels like written by someone who would write an episode

>>536374979
Well I'm stumped I have the same settings as my PC version of PPSSPP but it won't work on my phone. I mean I guess it's cool that it works on my computer but I can literally just emulate the real Rock Band games on PC not to mention shit like Clone Hero and YARG, ya know... existing. I just wanted to play the funny Crazy Taxi song during my breaks at work fuck sakes. I mean I can still listen to All I Want with the custom soundtrack features in Gran Turismo and Crazy Taxi Fare Wars but my entitled autism says. "no I wanna also play the song too". Back to the road I guess.

>>536379096
lel, glad you got it sorted though. As for the interpreter, AFAIK you pretty much almost want to use the dynamic recompiler. Supposedly the interpreter cores are more accurate, but I'm not aware of a case where they actually make a difference in Mupen. They're more of a "try this out as a fallback in case shit's broken and/or there's been a regression" kind of thing. Where you DO want to use interpreter is in Project64 because zilmar has been rewriting the whole fucker from top to bottom and has broken the dynarec on many games, but I don't recommend Project64 at all, so it's moot.

>>536382192
The TPS developed by Heavy Iron Studios actually had people who wrote on the show itself. (This game's on PC BTW, you can even tweak the FOV to your liking.)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18156INyZObu6qjhw1kkGf1iH017xK0Px
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1656-family-guy-back-to-the-multiverse-fov-fix/

>>536365592
>it'll resolve more distant elements with less blur because there's more data to draw from
This
For some reason people are retarded and they think downsampling just makes the image blurrier. Yes, you lose a bit of contrast because because the smaller pixels inside the larger pixels you downsample to get averaged, but you also get more detail and less flickering for tiny/thin objects like the crane here

>>536396337
To be fair, as a downsampling appreciator, I don't think it looks that hot by itself, but combined with CRT shading it's something special. Especially with those 2D background/polygonal model games like PE and RE.

Ah, the halcyon days of being called a shiteater because I used downsampling + CRT shading instead of GOOD N CORRECT slop textures. I still don't know if that was Ivan or Cigster.

>>536396337
Bottom looks almost PS2-esque if you squint

>>536396337
Can I have some upscaling to compare?

>>536401235
Uprendering, of course, will look much better. It's just the expected HD look. Downsampling is good for CRT shading with proper scanlines and keeping all elements uniform. HD rendering 5th gen games creates a clash between HUD elements/2D backgrounds/sprites and polygonal objects. Basically just look at any HD render of these games and you have your comparison. I can upload a gif later anyway.

So if you upscale a game x4 what should you downsample it? 1/2, 1/4, 1/8?

>>536401235
or do you literally mean upscaling, as in a post-process scaler of the raw native res image? Upscaling is so goddamn misused I have to ask.

>>536401869
If you want to render it like a 15khz consumer TV did, with a line between every row of pixels; the divider should match the multiplier. This will also make all 2D and 3D uniform in resolution, which creates a cohesive image.

>>536401904
Uprendering

>upscaling still misused to this day
It will never not hurt, and people will never stop doing it.

>>536401869
>>536402316
Yeah, generally speaking, they should match. Of course you can experiment if you want it a bit crispier or thinner scanlines. 2D/3D will start to clash at that point, though. That may be okay with you.

For 640x480 or 6th gen stuff, you may find that MSAA's a bit more practical, if available. It will not resolve distant elements any better, though, but downsampling isn't as necessary as it is at 240p

>>536402249
>>536402594
So x4 = 1/4? Makes sense

What's the best CTR shader that's good the way it is and doesn't need to be tinkered with?

>>536404097
That's a very hard question to answer. What looks good "the way it is" to someone will look like dog shit to someone else. You really should just get into the shaders and cycle through them until you see one you like.

>>536404285
Any good one where it doesn't look too much like you actually just put black lines on your screen? And what do you guys use for Gameboy and GBA?

>doesn't need to be tinkered with
Oh boy. None of them IMO. They all fuck with the color/white brightness/contrast more than I'd like and it's a yuge struggle to fix it. I like my tweaks on them, though.
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/534722398/#534811792

>render PSX at 4x
>downsample it back to 240p in a shader
perfection

>>536407894
Yes, that's basically how super sampling works.

>>536396337
How do you even downsample PS1 in Retroarch? Can't see the option anywhere. Is it because I use the Swanstation core? Or can you only downsample it via shaders? Also anything else that's wrong with these settings? Not sure if I want antialiasing or not for example

>wiki states witch and 100knight 2 works on shadps4, with screenshots too
>0.10, 0.9, 0.7, neither managed to get past NIS logo at startup, on two different versions downloaded and extracted (also was most pleasantly surprised to realize I need to keep a separate emu version to actually extract games)
>bloodborne works, so it shouldn't be some kind of system-wide issue that just bricks whole emu
I don't want to go to discord, I'm more than sure no one will help me but people will sure find a way to make me more upset than I already am.

>>536409989
i can help you, this game looks like autistic pedo shit. just play somethin else

>>536410642
Thanks.

>>536408728
Dunno what you guys are doing but in the "downsampling" shader folder the only shader that seems to downsample and also has scanlines is "mixed res 4x crt hyllian.slang"

Is it lookin' good bros?

Shaders are such a meme.

>>536414831
Not entirely true. Sharp, bilinear shaders are great for getting rid of ugly shimmering in 4th gen/below games.

>>536408728
Here's my settings. Just put the file in config\SwanStation and rename it to SwanStation.opt
https://litter.catbox.moe/us2lh7hmrhctz302.opt

>>536414973
This
Sharp bilinear is basically necessary for any system that uses non-square pixel aspect ratios as you can't integer scale these on both axes and get the correct display aspect ratio

>>536409989
Probably missing sysmodules.

>>536414354
That's nowhere near enough resolution for a decent shader, and it's not mine, so, no... not looking good.

>>536420153
>That's nowhere near enough resolution for a decent shader
What does this mean?

>>536420581
Literally not enough resolution to render the lines on some shaders and they will converge

Like if a shader starts having "vertical scan lines", or there's just not enough space between the lines to render the pixels proper and not have a weird grid effect.

>>536421249
Proper CRT shader should look SOMETHING like this for 240p content

Obviously there's differences in opinion and way of doing things and that's fine

>>536421249
So what shader should I use when upscaling 4x? That's the only one in the downsampling folder that has scanlines and it has "res 4x" in the name

>>536422598
I'm not the guy you were replying to, just explaining what he meant

He says you need 8K to render good shaders, minimum 4K, personally I think 1440p is enough

I only think 1080p isn't, especially considering integer scaling takes it down even <=960

>>536423161
I think 1080p is sufficient if you use integer scale overscale, as that doesn't cut off anything important (provided you're emulating home console games, that is). Even so, you really only want to use Trinitron-esque shaders with such a setup. Slot masks may be too coarse below 1440p.

emu

>anon catbox uploads are temp disabled
Great, who uploaded the pizza or classified Israel docs?

>>536437231
Use litterbox if you don't need your upload to be permanent:
https://litterbox.catbox.moe/

>>536437679
I'd like them to be. Sometimes I'll download my own shit way after the fact. I don't know why I kid myself on it being permanent, though. I know they'll rugpull the stupid site in a year or three.

>>536434003
gen

>literally every other free/no-login site shekel-goblins you beyond 7 days of storage
catbox really is doing god's work, when they work, and until they get nuked for CP/bad actors uploading bad shit expressly to get it nuked. Fuck it here's a megaup link. They tend to last forever, just make sure your adblocking's good.

>>536404753
https://megaup.net/ea523e7567f99b3ee8f02f8bcf05ec42/handheld.7z
These are presets I use for GB, GBC, and GBA. Place these in retroarch/shaders. Interframe blending set to simple (core setting in MGBA and Gambatte, not a shader) can make a lot of difference in games like Castlevania II - Belmont's Revenge. The cloud castle backdrop will display in a lighter shade instead of flickering, which was the trick they pulled off to get extra colors thanks to the GB's slow pixel response. You can set pixel response in the shaders too, but I find it much more invasive and distracting than the core's interframe blending.

Ah shit, the GBC/GBA ones are swapped when it comes to color correction instructions in the filenames. Oh well. You'll figure it out.

>>536444247
The catbox guy is doing a massive favor to everyone yes, he uses his own hardware hosted in a datacenter (they rent out the space for you to put it)

>>536343209
neat looking bezel, thank you

>>536444247
Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS uses pseudo-transparency like that extensively, the clouds on I think it's level 3 especially are kino. Wish all GB cores offered it as an emulator option without having to resort to sketchy shader implementations.

OoT really benefits from a subtle gamma adjustment

>>536449424
Well, at least two do and those cover all Gameboy variants, so that's enough. Wish Sameboy had it but you only really need Sameboy for that Euroslop pinball game.

>>536459368
it's like when demoscene groups try to make a video game, really impressive visual effects for the hardware but mediocre gameplay

emu

Someone needs to make an InterActual DVD-ROM emulator

I mean, why the fuck not? Considering we got Nuon emulators and Nuon homebrew.

>>536423161
But retro games are 240p on your CRT

8x internal resolution with SMAA+FXAA, thoughts?

>>536470821
Thank you for the information; I have added it to this section;
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Home_Media_Player#Interactive_media

Is there a meaningful difference between 4x/8x/16x downsampling or is 4x good enough?

Someone should stop this retard before she completely destroys the wiki with redditspeak : https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php?title=Dreamcast_emulators&diff=124877&oldid=124435

>>536480543
She?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9-D-I0LYQE
why are normies mentally ill?

>>536479620
If you upscale 4x you want to downsample 4x, if you upscale 8x you want to downsample 8x
>>536480543
Only troons care about wikis

>>536486303
That's some Simpsons Wrestling-tier cel shading.

>>536478179
Why's the one on the left cosplaying the Australian legal system?

How can I force mame in retroarch to load a modified romset?

>>536491939
You don't. Use FBNeo, because MAME in RA is not worth it.

>>536491996
FBNeo doesn't run killer instinct

>>536486303
>why are normies mentally ill?
They want to play retro games but don't like retro graphics or gameplay. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

>>536356269
>I found this one which obviously looks better but it's a little bit too fine and makes 2D games look awful
Probably not the shader's fault. What you're using is good and what you want if your goal is to play upscaled without overly pronounced CRT masks while still softening edges ever so slightly. Used to do the same thing.

best pgxp geometry correction settings?

UwU Sowwy Pachinko fans I'm gonna hoard the rommy wom *Nyan*

>>536498238
post feetsies

>>536486441
I mean In terms of image quality after being downsampled

>>536497052
>best pgxp geometry correction settings?
Off

What emu made you feel this way?

>>536503482
retroshart

>>536503482
xenia circa 2020
Its not suicide inducing anymore, but still pretty shit to deal with

>>536478179
I will drop FXAA and possibly SMAA too. 8XRes should be enough to act as natural AA. It's a little blurry here.

>>536497052
The default should work fine on most games.

New 86Box stable release:
https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases/tag/v5.0
Roms:
https://github.com/86Box/roms/releases/tag/v5.0

>>536503482
ppsspp on fagdroid

>open retroarch
>gpu usage: 1%
>open game
>gpu usage: 6%
>open menu while game is running
>gpu usage: 60%

>>536449976
why not just play the pc port?

>>536511908
Does the PC port have 3-point texture filtering and does it have downsampling options?

>>536511908
emulating it is still good and arguably feels more authentic especially if you want to downsample and use shaders and shit

but yeah soh feels surprisingly official these days and the way stuff like boss rush is built in is awesome

>>536512154
majora's mask recompiled does if I remember correctly

>>536512591
Reddit Mask isn't the same game tho

>>536511908
Cuz autism.

>>536510578
Nigga how? The only thing you need for it is the games and the emulator itself, not to mention that the graphic settings rarely ever break anything

>>536513826
Oops, meant to>>536510367

>>536512154
>downsampling
Which is probably what you want to do given all those pre-rendered backgrounds.

>>536513994
DLC won't work

>>536508451
>the thing we needless ripped out of Sarah's build is back!
>oh, and it's slower overall now, but hey it emulates like 3 more boards; isn't that neat?
86box is basically a glorified Ryujinx fork. They don't know how to *really* improve it, just fixing the UX.

>>536514639
(cont.) and yes, some of those UX fixes are really neat and borderline essential, I don't want to say that's not appreciated. Just wish they had a real CPU emulation guy on board.

>>536504604
I'm glad it still filters faggots. It's a good feeling, when I have the lag down and everything cropped and shaded and configured how I want, that some faggot is stomping his foot and walking away to go grill. There are things *about* Retroarch that make me feel like picrel though...

>>536463174
it's decent-enough as a game, probably on the better half of the library considering the western kusoge and Japanese non-tent like mahjong, strategyslop, and sokoban type shit present on the GB. I'm glad anon pointed it out to me. It's a C+ shooter, but the demoscene tier graphics make it a tad more interesting. Makes you wonder what they'll do next each stage. Some of the bosses are interesting too.

>>536514082
There's really only two 'good' options for games made like this. Downsample or go the cursed fan-upscale texture replacement route. Some of them aren't tooooo bad anyway.

>>536514804
Admit it, 86Box is and will only be for MS-DOS and Windows 9x, the pre-SSE era. It's just for 3DNow! and MMX CPUs, and 2D, 3dfx, and DirectX 6.0 GPUs. That's it, not without changing their low-level approach...

>>536503482
While that's indeed 'good' in the Funky Kong sense, it's kind of nuts that post-processed shading algorithms can do that.

>>536515872
Yes, just as it always was before these guys gussied it up. Not admitting it for DOS, though. 0 benefit over DOSbox-X or Pure for games, and worse in several ways. It's only stagnating at P2/9x because these assclowns aren't the real deal. If they were we'd be at P3 and Geforce/entry level XP by now.

>>536515360
>cursed fan-upscale texture replacement route
Looks great in HD without that disgusting shit. If you really hate retro fidelity though, another alternative is the 3D demake

It's also *barely* good enough for P2/9x, and sometimes not good enough. You need a state-of-the-art CPU to consistently run at 300-400mhz, and even then some games/apps will mysteriously tank it. It needs optimization, you simp.

>>536516314
Yeah, I'm using DOSBox-Pure for DOS and Windows 9x, even though it currently has no MMX emulation. I don't think we'll see an SSE3/DirectX 9.0c emulation in the near future, regardless of the approach. The only option is virtualization, but that's a ticking time bomb at this point.

>>536516663
It doesn't look great in HD in the indoor scenes, that was what we were talking about. Those prerendered panning videos are like sub-240p, the 3D model clash in HD against them is hideous.

>>536516829
Yeah I guess you could use a texture pack specifically for the pre-rendered backgrounds. The ones I saw aren't amazing though

>>536510578
RA keeps rendering the game, shader effects included, even when paused in a menu. Then it does some convoluted transparency effect which probably involves copying around and resizing buffers. It's doing this at your full monitor refresh rate rather than the 60hz or whatever the game is normally being rendered at, even if you have menu opacity set to 1.

Basically, the RA menu really should have a true opaque mode that completely halts all video processing for the active game when using it.

is there any reliable full list of all ps1 games that have real analog stick support? not just the stick having dpad inputs but detecting if you tilt it only a bit or all the way

>>536516720
Is Pure the best DOSBox fork for 9x or is it just because it's the easiest to use?

>>536522525
DosBox-X actually has some proper GUI so you don't have to do everything in command lines, but it's not en retroarch.

>>536522525
Only DOSBox-X and DOSBox Staging have MMX support, but DOSBox-Pure is easier to use and comes with the convenience of being a libretro core, which offers better shader support, compatibility with EmuVR etc.

https://youtu.be/snBg45ES-II?t=228

>>536524146
Some late 90s-era games, such as Activision's Spider-Man (2000), may require MMX.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PC_emulator_comparisons#x86_CPU.27s

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PC_emulator_comparisons#cite_note-DOSBoxForksCPU-11

>>536519353
Still can't believe Sony released a 3D console without a stick.

>>536486303
I can no longer find the pics, but Danny himself used to showcase RetroArch's shader capabilities with LOOKIN' GOOD-tier shaders himself, using Street Fighter III as a showcase for whatever reason. Also,
>normies

>>536514961
>go grill
Is this some new zoom zoom speak? I've been hearing it a lot lately.

>>536525832
I thought it might've been a reference to this meme, but it's hard to tell.

>>536525576
>>normies
>wants me to say normalfags
I'm not 20 anymore

>>536524146
>>536524782
Huh, I see
I guess I'll use Pure until I need MMX support

>>536527745
did you regress to being 12 instead?

I tried using Windows 9x on DOSBox-X, and it was pure jank. I get why it might be an attractive option, but it seemed more trouble than it's worth. I'm sure it works fine for some games, though.

>>536527872
does it come with buddy holly ?

>>536528732
No I don't say fag to feel cool or fit in

If ciggy were Bri'ish, would that make him faggy?

>>536503482
snex9x on psp

any clue why RA would suddenly stop taking full resolution screenshots with shader effects and just start shitting out unshaded default resolution screenshots?

>>536546619
nm, figured it out, apparently if you set the graphics driver to dx12 it just can't do it

Any differences between project x zone 2 eu and usa? other than languages?

>>536516669
No, it needs a full rewrite by people who aren't going to spend most of their time arguing on Discord channels over the stupidest shit and think the current code is "good enough".

>>536554501
Well, They do admit at least some parts of 86Box need a rewrite, for what it's worth. For instance, they call the AWE32's EMU8000 code a "black box" that needs to be completely rewritten, and they are in fact waiting for the DOSBox-Staging guys to finish their own implementation since no one on the 86Box team knows anything about synth coding. OBattler's words, btw, not mine:
https://github.com/86Box/86Box/issues/5925

>>536533392
yes, basically

Jesus christ, it takes Retroarch like 15 years to scan a directory to make a playlist

>>536563550
and then it's all fucked up with games you deleted 5 years ago and double entries

>>536114454
%55

I'm curious, why do UI elements still visually "break" when you use integer scaling? This also concerns native PC games, those seem to break even harder than emulated ones.

>>536563550
Where do you even find the scan feature? Worst UI ever with 3 different menus and options

>>536564812
Did you mean when you DON'T use integer scaling?

>>536563550
>>536564439
>>536564950
For me it's how you have to search for ini files to change the simplest things like even removing a game from the favorites list. For some reason there just isn't an option to do that in the emu kek

>>536525832
>>536526138
It's an old, old meme and you've probably heard it a lot because I keep referencing it.

where the hell is the setting for changing JIT vs NCE in eden? link's awakening remake flickers like crazy on NCE but I don't see the option to change the CPU backend anywhere

>>536543680
YIKES wasn't that game's art made by Jon K? Problematic much?

Emu

>>536516720
>Dosbox for 9x
ISHYGDDT

So I wanted to play my favourite idol Mahjong game, Mahjong-kyou Jidai Cogal Houkago-hen, but the graphics are broken in Beetle Saturn. I thought it was meant to be the accurate option?

DO NOT UPDATE PCSX2 to 2.5.127. that version is completely broken

>>536576168
Can you at least give us pictures of rypheca and spill the tea on his family? I mean, I can't *really* care unless I have this, ciggy.

>>536577238
I don't know what that is. Does the game work or not?

>>536577436
Probably in at least one emulator. Do you really care though, thelastangryman1907?

>>536577493
Yes. Find me one it works in.

>>536577592
Maybe next time. I'm tired.

>>536577592
https://forum.fobby.net/index.php?t=msg&th=1357&start=0&
It's at least known, anyway.

>>536577628
>>536577592
Alright alright I actually tried them all. Looks like none of them run it correctly. What's funny is they all fuck it up in different ways. MAME has missing pixels in the models, Ymir flickers terribly, SSF flickers as well, but not as horribly. Same story in Mednafen/Beetle and Sanshiro. However, Kronos has the least visual glitching. The worst of it being that the background is black now and then. However, the sound desyncs and generally sounds assy, as per usual in Yaba-cores. In conclusion: You actually cannot play your favorite idol mahjong game. I'm sorry.

>>536490680
Holy ballsack those 2D elements look like sheeott, whatever you're doing to make them so smeary, you gotta fix it.

>>536579902
And the other one, Mahjong-kyou Jidai Cebu Island 96 has the same problem.

>Mahjong Kyou Jidai: Cogal Houkago Hen (麻雀狂時代 コギャル放課後編) is a mahjong game developed and published by Micronet for the Sega Saturn. The game features live-action footage of women dressed as schoolgirls, and also comes with a poster.
Where's the poster?

https://segaretro.org/Mahjong_Kyou_Jidai:_Cogal_Houkago_Hen

>>536580483
Maybe Ymir will be the hero flavor country needs.

emu

gen

>>536589673
>>536592736
stop harassing me

>>536575705
It's not that bad; most of the games I've tried work. Of course, the compatibility isn't as good as 86Box, and Pure has no MMX capability, but it's handy for the job. At least it doesn't need a latest top-tier CPU for something like Pentium II performance emulation.

>>536564439
>>536565526
I had the Drastic system folder in my DS games folder and the scanner always detected one of the overlay png files as a random J2me (phone) game lmao. Another annoying thing is that despite always getting games wrong it doesn't detect legit games if they have minor alterations, i have to manually navigate to some games (like Aria of Sorrow) because they have minimal bug or art fixes

just use manual scan when scanning for your playlists. you can also press start over a playlist and rescan to clean up any duplicates and deleted roms or add new ones

Music is weird or not playing at all in a lot of PS1 games (Retroarch Swanstation core). Anyone an idea what could cause this?

Experimented with settings the other day but I don't remember even touching any audio settings, just graphics and video stuff

>>536503482
RPCS3 after messing around with its options and realizing that beyond the GPU and Audio stuff, the only things that matter are Preferred SPU Threads and Maximum SPURS Thread.
Everything else is large irrelevant as it makes literally no difference whatsoever at best, and fucks up a game's appearance or performance at worst.

Lycoder is the Iris developer https://github.com/allkern/iris

>>536618464
>I'm starting to despise my emulator for running everything at like 10fps tops
I don't use this Iris emulator, but tell him I despise it too based on its poor performance too.

>>536618361
>Preferred SPU Threads and Maximum SPURS Thread
what you recommend?

>>536503482
Well Retroarch/PS1 right now >>536618234
It's so random and worked perfectly for years and google isn't helping

>>536580635
On the other hand, while visually pared back from the Saturn version (or perhaps less impressive because it came out first and on weaker hardware), the 3DO version runs without issues in the 4DO core. You can, in fact, enjoy your favorite idol mahjong game in some form.

>>536618234
Dunno, you overclocking or speeding up the virtual optical drive? Runahead? As we've seen the BIOS can make a difference, and even skipping it can be more stable.

>>536618591
Iris is a few months old, so its really promising actually. Making a hardware renderer just sounds like a pain.

>>536618808
I don't get the appeal of number 3. I'm not against short hair, but that style is pretty woof, she isn't much compared to the others in the face. I'm gonna guess she's done some mindbogglingly depraved shit and her dressing as a schoolgirl has tons of implications, or maybe she's something else with her clothes off.

>>536618808
That's something at least. But where's the poster?

>>536197528
yup;
https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx/issues/20#issuecomment-2945919854

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PC_emulator_comparisons#3D_capable

>>536619687
Dunno if a sharper one exists out there but found this fairly quickly.

>>536354116
Pretty much yeah.

>>536354116
>Is ares still considered the best N64 emulator?
As other Anons have said, it's a teeny tiny bit more accurate than M64P-Next at the moment, but Ares has a much inferior front end (can't even set an analog stick deadzone for fuck's sake)

>>536618234
I literally had "Mute CD Audio" on. Have no recollection of doing that, no idea why I would or why this is even an option

>>536626097
can't overclock either

>>536626097
>>536354116
There are reasons to keep Project 64, particularly the Troona fork as it's a bit more modernized and cleaned up from the original. Some SM64 hacks just like it more.
https://sites.google.com/view/shurislibrary/luna-project64

Overall though you typically wanna use a more LLE oriented one like Mupen64Next or Ares.

Of note, though, LLE N64 can be really heavy, and some older video cards/drivers just don't play well with its Vulkan compute.

>>536627330
Maybe it's handy for Redbook audio games where you wanna listen to your own music in the background without muting everything?

>>536618361
That is because elad and kd-11 fucked up most of the options. Some options have been disabled by them so it does nothing or creates bugs. Some of them reference other code not even connected to said option.

>>536627839
well, overclocking isn't accurate so.

>>536618464
If he can't get his performance higher than that on his own I highly doubt he can fix any problems that crop up with parallel-gs.

>>536633945
>>536633243
It's just a consideration, and for some N64 games it's certainly nice to have. Ares would be the one to use if that's not a factor, sure. I'd recommend it anyway because I know Retroarch makes most people break out in hives.

>>536634189
It's a 2 month old project. P-GS isn't his to fix, he's just thinking about bringing it in as a replacement renderer so he doesn't have to deal with building one himself. Look at PCSX2, it's been 20 years and they are still working out bugs and bolting on per game "fixes".

>>536635421
>P-GS isn't his to fix
When complaints come in for your emulator, yeah it is

emu

>>536524146
>EmuVR
Isn't it dead?

>>536644393
We've just begun, baby. Using ReShade with RTGI, WIGUx with its mod support, gave the project what it needed. Although it's kind of nerdy and a bit autistic.

>>536644393
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Virtual_reality#Comparison_2

>>536645702
>>536645530
I hope this shit will run on Deckard if it ever is released

>>536647024
Why wouldn't gonna work? Even your LCD monitor will do the job.

>>536082321 (OP)
you've gotta admit, that 3ds compression format is pretty cool

>>536650051
I hope Myrient updates their collection with compressed 3DS roms like they did for Wii/GCN games.

>>536650051
>3ds compression format
What is that anon?
Do u know if it works with all the 3ds forks?
Getting some storage space back for my 3ds roms would be cool.

finished my console game collection only to realize i should make a dos->xp collection for pc too...

and one for all the japanese home computers...

>>536563550
I think it literally unzips and checks the hash for each game or something

needs a "just trust me bro" option that only looks at the file names

>>536113369
is there any game you want to play on CEMU that isn't on the Switch ?

>>536563550
>using the playlist "feature"
What's the point of just adding an entire directory to a playlist when you can just load games from the directory? Would only make sense if the playlist let you filter the ROMs using a dat file or something like those MAME sorters, so you don't have to scroll through 27 different beta dumps of a game and modern homebrew slop that shouldn't be in there in the first place but No-Intro needs to find work for themselves to stay relevant I guess.

>all the Retroarch playlist talk
I only find it useful for FBNeo and Flycast+NAOMI because arcade ROMs are 8 characters long don't like to be renamed. You can give everything else humanized, long names and search for them easily using your operating system and drag them into Retroarch mid-session. Linux + fsearch and Windows + Everything makes finding shit a breeze. Not sure why you need playlist for anything else unless you just need the box art and shit.

>>536657868
you can search playlists using tags from the database using explore, but if you want to remove all the slop from a complete romset you have to do it manually as far as I know

might be 3rd party tools

>>536658803
>Explore
Seemed exciting at first because I was hoping to search for games by genre, player count, and other odd categories but it didn't seem that comprehensive or functional in practice. Maybe it's better now?

>>536658803
oh, actually, if you click on manual scan instead of scan directory there are a ton of options, might be possible

>>536656413
Devils third

>>536656413
Meme Run

>>536659045
apparently it has dat filtering but only for mame, can also rename the files to something human readable - on the bright side it does let you simply look at names instead of verifying every file in every zip so it's lightning fast

I'm surprised people don't just have curated playlists to download

>>536661534
Don't forget Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. That too is a Wii U exclusive.

At least some other dude has picked up the slack on github and it's in fact still updated.

>>536667362
What happened?

>>536667880
Dunno. Probably paranoia or a falling out on discord. The use' for these types. Could just be burnout too.

RA really needs a proper VHS shader, all the ones it currently has are lacking in various ways

>>536671594
after effects doesn't have to run 60+ times a second to generate real time video

>>536675675
You could easily do that gif in a shader without the gpu even breaking a sweat.

Now, doing a REAL vhs effect...
https://youtu.be/UBKyXNON3DE

What's the best site to follow emulation news?

>>536677867
github

>>536677867
4chan posts with links to github

>>536678220
>>536678161
I mean general emulation news

>>536678898
Honestly? This general. Emu happenings tend to be reported here before Sujano reports the news.

>wiistation was almost to the point of being usable
>abandoned again
rip

>>536671594
>exaggerated chromatic aberration
>white noise
>line noise
>some kind of rolling wobble
>weird combination of washed out but also oversaturated

>>536679516
The last commit was 4 days ago dude.

>>536682248
*months

>>536682448
https://github.com/xjsxjs197/WiiSXRX_2022

Is a 4k monitor worth it for better shader clarity? What kind of GPU requirements are we talking to pull off a decent CRT shader at 4k 60hz?

>>536695237
do you play with your face 2 inches away from the screen? you're not going to notice how detailed the shadow mask is from a normal playing distance

>>536695237
4K and a 1060/RX580 is enough, really.

>>536679516
It's usable right now. Whats the problem? If you need to you can disable dithering and get good framerates on most 3d games.

>>536695237
I never felt like 1440p was holding me back, my biggest complaint with all displays I've owned is motion clarity with vertical scrolling
with crt shaders horizontal scrolling looks fine but vertical scrolling looks like a blurry mess

maybe these modern 300hz+ monitors would fix it, idk

How do i get the OCR hook to work on Android?

>>536705769
I only have experience hooking it to a vgtranslate + ztranslate server on a real computer. Suffer, thirdie. I imagine you use an API key + google cloud or something idk.

emu

gen

Uh-oh, Orange Man is NOT happy about the crime situation in Dullsville.

>>536724579
Deploy Palantir

>>536706450
Im using the default option that's recommended. I just want to know how i can activate the hook when playing/pausing. Is there like a custom button i can add on to the touchscreen/controller?

I've read the wiki and FAQs and previous threads, but I couldn't find a guide that would explain to a retard like me how to unlock fps on a specific switch game. I am using Eden.
Obviously I googled it the fuck up, but the guides and discussions don't list all the dependences or how to install/use. Like there's a github for fpslocker and then there's fpslocker warehouse with files for each game but apparently those are not the final files and just scripts, and then there's saltynx saltynx tool and atmosphere and tesla menu and whatever the fuck...
I tried to follow discussions I've found on reddit and github but I don't fucking know it doesn't work.
But those are for a real switch, surely there is just an in-built version of an fps unlocker in the emulator, right? When I hit ctrl+U in eden, nothing changes, it's 30 fps.

>>536742870
LOL, I saw this game on /vr/ the other day.

what's the best emulator?

>>536750613
The one that imitates our reality.

https://youtu.be/6f4eP4iXawk
>if you know why Win98's mouse input feels so sluggish and jerky, please let me know in the comments
I'm not gonna username myself like ol angrycigs, but it's killing me that I can't just tell him to install the logitech driver with 120hz baked in and to raise the virtual monitor refresh rate as high as possible, and use OGL3.0 fullscreen.

Fucking seriously?

>>536761171
>it's quoite demanding
That weirdo Australian-German accent lol, and yeah, welcome to 86box pal. It won't be getting better.

>>536761171
driver link?

>>536761171
I tried out the Logitech driver on my Windows 98 VM, but IIRC it only went up to 100Hz for me, and I found myself missing the responsiveness of the 200Hz provided by ps2rate, which has worked well so far for me combined with setting the refresh rate to 120Hz.

>>536761175
The future is now, old man.

>>536761171
Heh...

>>536695237
It's not gonna look any clearer if you play with a shitty ass RF filter like in your pic

>>536700957
Trip World also uses flickering for water transparency

>>536761721
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=r15032
>>536762002
It doesn't have 120hz, but it does have 100, and 200 on my virtual machine. I have both the virtual monitor and driver set to 100hz to fit within VRR on my 120hz display. Check the low latency up there.

>>536762862
What emulated mouse hardware did you choose? I'm using the PS/2 Mouse with a wheel.

>>536763125
PS/2 Mouse, non-wheel just because I like middle-clicking out of the virtual session. I'll see if that makes a difference. The reason I'm using the driver instead of PS2rate is because PS2rate would make my mouse go haywire until reboot every other time I started Windows up.

>grab 5.0.1 to get the meme machine selector
>my shit won't boot when I merge the old cfg file in
Oh good, 30-60m I'll never get back figuring this out.

>>536763497
What's the usefulness of the softfloat FPU

>>536761171
https://86box.readthedocs.io/en/latest/settings/machine.html#softfloat-fpu

>>536764306
https://86box.readthedocs.io/en/latest/settings/machine.html#softfloat-fpu

>>536764231
That happened to me, too. In my case, it's because it was trying to look for the hard drive in the new Virtual Machines folder, and I had it in another folder entirely, so I had to go into the configuration and point it to the directory it is actually in.

>>536761171
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PC_emulator_comparisons#Human_Interface_Device_.28HID.29

>>536764954
I just made a new machine with my old drives and now it's working again.

>>536763497
Are you running Windows 95? I WAS getting that problem with the mouse going a bit crazy at bootup with that OS, but after switching to Windows 98 it's only happened once, and it was very minor (IIRC it just left-clicked once and that was it).

whats some cozy ps2 games? so far i liked nfsu2 and ssx3

>>536770201
https://vsrecommendedgames.miraheze.org/wiki/PlayStation_2

>>536768672
98SE. Driver just seems like a smarter way to go overall anyway. PS2rate is a lil hackier.

>MGS3 Delta's out and I can pirate it
>UE5
>100gb
>one of those staple-jobs like Oblivion
>3HD already looks good enough
I'm good!

>>536771615
Yeah, not him but I used PS2rate and it worked fine at first, but when I installed Voodoo3 drivers my mouse went apeshit after restarting, even clicking by itself just from moving it

>>536772402
I'm using PCI Voodoo3 3000 as well, so could be some weird interaction between PS2rate and 3dfx drivers.

>>536763125
>>536763497
So yeah, I selected wheel instead of 2button for the PS/2 mouse and the MouseWare driver indeed locked it down to 100hz max. Weird. Doesn't affect me to much, but it is of note if you want to use wheel mouse at >100hz. Reverted to 200hz max when I selected 2-button again.

>>536761175
What? The widescreen garbage?

>>536770201
Lego batman

>>536772402
>>536772636
That's strange. I'm using a Banshee in my setup, though.
>>536772951
I see. That's a shame.

>>536772018
I'd be more inclined to buy remakes if they were just the original game but improved rather than a completely new game with a similar "story". So many old games would be awesome if they were just framerate uncapped, more responsive, and widescreen. As it is, emulation and ROM patches are better at achieving that than the remakes which don't even feel like the same game.

Emu

>>536770201
Katamari
Monkey Escape
Burnout 3
SotC

>>536772018
It looks too sterile for me, you know. It's like they wanted everything to look like a perfect, clean render. That's not how the game is supposed to look like. Also the usual UE5 issues.

>>536702049
All that BFI and rolling beam shit is supposed to help with motion clarity, but even at 240hz all it does for me is massively darken the image so who knows. I've heard people say OLED has good motion clarity but I don't want to pay $800 for a disposable monitor.

What's the best scanline shader for a CRT monitor? I bought one (still waiting for my adapter to come) but I'm a retard who didn't do enough research and only found out afterwards that the monitors aren't really ideal for pre-PS2 era games and don't have prominent scanlines. Still gonna enjoy the fuck out of it but I'm slightly disappointed. Gotta get a TV eventually.

>>536794816
>shader
just do that super resolution shit

>>536770201
SSX Tricky

>stack shaders to get the effect I want
>59 passes

>>536785624
Weed
Diet Soda
Burnout Revenge

>>536794816
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Displays#CRT_monitors
A lot of good information here. The most important bit IMO is the superwide resolution stuff, as that will guarantee that games are always displayed at the proper aspect ratio. The stuff about getting it to output or fake 240p is good, but you may find 480p still looks plenty good, and that doesn't come with a brightness penalty, nor does it require fucking with shaders.

>>536794816
I also have a crt monitor, nothing you can do will make it actually look close to a crt tv. When you get your tv you will see that. Just play some old pc games on it and enjoy it that way.

Is ps3 worth emulating, or should I pull out my ps3 from storage?

>>536797878
What's worth emulating/playing on that thing?

>>536798676
ff13

>>536798676
OG Demon's Souls
Killzone 2
Folklore

>>536795452
kys junkie

>>536795415
Unironically easier to just hack a shader from pieces of existing shaders than trying to stack them like that in RA.

>>536799852
It's a Smiling Friends reference.

>>536798969
>>536799320
>What's worth emulating/playing on that thing?
>FF13
>OG Demon's Souls
>Killzone 2
>Folklore
So, nothing.

>>536802351
When I played the PC port of FF13 years ago the thing was crashing constantly so I could see wanting to emulate it if you really wanted to play it, not that you'd have much better luck with the current state of PS3 emulation.

>>536802351
you can shake the sixaxis to have boob jiggle in ninja gaiden 2

>>536795739
>pic related
Will it look like that at normal viewing distances? Not as appealing as "real" scanlines but it still gives the image a nice texture, especially the 480p example.
The CRT resolution stuff confuses me desu. For example the max on mine is apparently 1024x768 but then I see people posting about exceeding their monitor's maximum resolution. Funny how I grew up with these thing but know next to nothing about them.

>>536803224
Gonna pull out the ps3 then. Thanks anon. Was gonna play shit like Tokyo jungle or siren blood curse.

>>536805841
CRTs don't work in terms of pixel resolution like LCDs do. Rather, their limits are specified in terms of their scan rate in KHz, which is a function of the number of lines they are able to draw within a single frame times the number of frames they are able to draw in a second (the refresh rate). So for instance, in all likelihood your monitor's maximum is probably 70 KHz, which means 1024x768 at a refresh rate of 85 Hz, but if you bring the refresh rate down to 60 Hz, it can most likely output at 1280x1024 no problem.

Notice I keep mentioning lines, which are essentially vertical resolution. That's because CRTs don't give a rat's ass about horizontal resolution. To a CRT, 320x400 and 640x400 are the same thing, which is why people have taken advantage of this property to make "superwide" resolutions that can accomodate any number of lower resolutions and display them all in 4:3 (after correction on the emulator side, of course) with no noticeable scaling artifacts and no blurring.

>>536808930
Isn't that what dynamic rate control is for?

>>536808930
Wait, so the reason everything was 59.94hz is because something something audio resonance in antique broadcast television?

compositebros... we won

>>536810917
Composite's brightness level is too blown up. RGB has more shading details preserved.

>>536808771
They do have a certain resolution in when it comes to dot pitch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m79HxULt3O8

>>536815252
That's like saying a car's speed is dictated by its tires when the tires were actually designed based on the car's top speed. The dot pitch isn't the bottleneck for resolution.

>>536816164
Yes you dumb nigger, it's what the image is made of. It absolutely can be a bottleneck. Did you even watch the video? He shows clear real life example with a monitor with a shit dot pitch
Do you have examples that show how it doesn't matter?

>>536816679
I don't care about your retarded video about some obscure monitor. Do you really think that engineers designed CRTs that could handle high resolutions and then limited it with a garbage shadow mask? Of course not you fucking retarded monkey. The limitations were elsewhere and the shadow mask specifications were specifically chosen based on those.

Go eceleb worship in the YT comments section, you're not a fucking CRT expert.

>>536817125
Hmm...
Who should I trust? Some random nigger on 4chan with zero proof of his claims
Or someone with actual real life demonstrated examples and articles backing it up

>>536816164
>>536817125
The fuck are you on about? Dot pitch is literally a measure of the subpixel resolution (which obviously depends on more than just the shadow mask). If the display resolution gets too close to it, you get moire. MOST monitors supported resolutions higher than what they could actually use and looked like shit.

>>536278480
Last I tried MGS3 in RPCS3, it required a Zen 3 to maintain 60fps. So if you have that or better/newer, go with that (and try to use a Dualshock 3)

>>536781416
It seems like MGS3 is (some control, HUD, and mechanically tweaks aside) just MGS3 UE5-ized. It's more like a really bloated wrapper with hire-this-man assets. Similar to Oblivion earlier this year.

>>536785287
gen

>>536823134
Same goes for Ninja Gaiden II Black, UE5 for the graphics and Sigma code for the rest with some tweaks here and here.

>>536810917
Of course. But I still have respect for rf bros.

>>536842298
Only the 3DO is lewder than the Saturn

Emu

Anyone do much Xbox emulation? I see that Xemu has come a long way in getting titles playable but how good would we say it actually is?

when

resulation

Why are people in this thread constantly saying, 'emu, gen, resulation'? Are they schizo, autistic, or bots?

>>536868176
emu worship and resulation general

>>536848256
Just about every game I try on a lark is playable. Sound seems to be a weak point. You'll notice certain samples sound muffled. FMV is broken in some games. That said, you game's probably playable to the credits and looks the part 95%. Uprendering works most of the time. Playing through Conker Live and Reloaded with a 60fps + widescreen patch (applied to the ISO, not part of the emu)

>>536868176
It's a bump. I dunno why they don't just post a screenshot or something, anything, we can discuss, but if it's who I think it is he's a weird dude and he's said he's autistic.

>>536842298
I imagine kidnapper-rapists have only been a rarity in Japan because truly private property and vehicles are at an extreme premium.

>>536863192
why

Is Yakuza: Dead Souls playable to completion yet?

>MSU SNES Punchout port
All the Mike Tyson dick-sucking FMV at the beginning (the game barely features him) is weird, but the rest of the port is neat. Has rumble, optional guitar covers of the music, and allows you to save and continue with 8 slots.

>>536874962
Reminder: you need Ares or Mesen2 to get SNES rumble at this point in time, no RA core has it yet.

>>536871219
Because I don't take screenshots of the game I'm playing.

>>536875106
Any other romhacks added rumble yet?

>>536876904
Off-hand, Castlevania, Metroid, and F-Zero.
Kando's discord (I know) has a few in beta you can try now. Infidelity's newer ones all seem to have it.
https://archive.org/details/@infidelity
discord.gg/U4CtzqDGa5
discord.gg/U4CtzqDGa5

Whats a switch emulator with 8GB DRAM option?

>>536876329
It's like I'm really Israeli

>>536878663
All of them.

>>536878663
What an odd question.

Does Windows Me have a boot diskette?

>>536893445
Not sure if it's in the way you want, there's like an official DOS prompt thingy it can make a bootdisk of for the most bare of command line repairs. What's going on?

can't get retroarch on PC to recognize a .srm file for Pokemon Emerald that i played on a chink handheld despite having no issues with srms from GB and GBC before and making sure the names, locations, hashes, bios and stuff are all the same... only thing i can still think of is trying an older version of a core but idek how to get those

>>536896628
Try it on a standalone like Nanoboyadvance. If it work here, then, it's something wrong with Retroarch.

>>536898340
i just tried some different cores on the chinkheld itself and it turns out the file only works on gpsp (but not my updated gpsp on pc and no other cores)
so now i guess i gotta find an old version for that specific core if there's no way to somehow make that file compatible with newer/other cores, is that a thing?

>>536893445
>Does Windows Me have a boot diskette?
Yes, but the OEM Full CD is bootable so you don't need it. WinWorld has every pre-XP Windows:
https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-me/final
For XP and later, go on Massgrave:
https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media

Ares got an update. Added Mega LD support.
https://ares-emu.net/news/ares-v146-released

>>536893797
>>536899674
Thanks. I was trying to find it through TOSEC.

>>536901501
Can ares play LD movies?

>>536901920
Go ask.

>>536901501
Yeah, nice that it's official now, and they are finally preserved and playable in some state. However, they suck and the current way they're archived is bloated to shit. 33gb for these sub-CDi trash games? I'm good. I played one of them just to see if it works; it does. Then I promptly deleted it.

>>536902286
Analog video is bound to have large file sizes.

>>536902382
Fuck you. We can definitely get it lower than that. The buffer they are recording at and the way they are encoding it is overkill.

>>536902590
Exactly. At the very least, it should be compressed to fit DVD sizes. (4GB/8GB, but I highly doubt there's that much just for a shitty racing game.)

This is effectively 240p video. Don't you come at me with these apologetics. Way we can shove into less than a gig now is ridiculous.

>>536902751
*what

>>536898291
Fragmaster looks like that now?

Oh, I see. Very topical lol.

>>536902714
There's so few games for it you might as well preserve them losslessly if you can.

>>536903795
>Fragmaster
Literally who? Wasn't he the co-admin of some website nobody remembers anymore?

>>536904921
A literally who for your literally who.

>>536905030
I wonder if people still paypig for that site. 10 bucks to post? What a ripoff!

>>536905189
Couldn't be me. Someone actually gifted me a 10bux account in its day but I barely used it. Certainly wouldn't now.

>>536905293
>Certainly wouldn't now.
Obviously, I hear it's a husk of its former self. Makes sense too, because I also heard a lot of former goons moved to Tumblr...

>>536904918
No, preserve 'em all losslessly!

I get the point of a lossless dump for posterity especially for media as hard to digitize as this. I think there are lossless ways to preserve it at a smaller filesize for users, and slightly lossy formats that no one would notice at a dramatically smaller size.

If anyone wants to test home video-capable emulators, use this as a reference;

>>>/t/1377340

https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/17455
>I fix this by going back to old behavior
>elad: Ackshually you are masking a bug. I'm gonna rewrite the whole thing
https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/17455
>Performance is even worse than before
>New bugs
It would be funny if I hadn't already seen this pattern from him dozens of time. Le sigh

>>536911578
Schizophrenia is common among certain types.

>>536911578
https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/17457
Second link was meant to be this PR from elad

>>536912167
>performance: worse
>graphical issues: worse
>introduces a new crash
fixed nothing mentioned in original pr kek

>>536911578
>https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/17455
Digrant73 is a one-game-Ciggy and the unsung hero of the RPCS3 github. Basically, his sole obsession is to run the Resistance games. He already managed to crawl through 4 years of build to find the one that was making the games crash. And then put KD-11 in his shirt and forced him to fix them instead of hiding behing "Muh Nvidia drivers fault". So it finally fixed that issue... These games were broken for 4-5 years! Now, it seem he's now facing the final boss, Elad itself.
Anyway, he proves that no-one test anything, ever. We need more like him.

>>536915095
Anyone here wants to volunteer?

>>536915095
>ciggy
>trying that many builds and options
Please. I have to do half the testing for him just because I find it oddly amusing. Then he dismisses workarounds or the evidence necessary to fix the bug in his gay blog because being a whiny histrionic namefag is the point.

>>536652137
its .z3ds and .zcia, azahar introduced it so I think you can make them in azahar https://azahar-emu.org/blog/compressed-backups/

Very odd now that I think about it, that they banned the .3ds format for originating with pirates, but are now making a format that is one letter off. Seems arbitrary

>>536920906
Thank you anon, gonna look into it.

>Very odd now that I think about it, that they banned the .3ds format for originating with pirates, but are now making a format that is one letter off. Seems arbitrary

Maybe they're slowing realizing that it doesn't make a diference for a 3ds emulator?
I think the Citra team got fucked because of Yuzu not Citra.
Also i was avoiding Azahar because i read that their format autism didn't let translations and romhacks work with the emu, maybe compressing a regular format translated/hacked rom on their own new format not only help with size but also this incompatibility? One could hope.

>>536926048
Fuck that stupid Eurotrash game. Utter waste of a song.

>>536915095
>>536911578
I hate rpcs3 now

>>536933904
This is why I prefer Xenia.

>>536934143
>Still can't run NG2 with upscale or sound
Hate it too
I hate everything

>he doesn't emulate NES on his SNES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW03g7H2l1M

>>536940659
>that PAL Mega Man conversion running at 85% speed, even down to the music tempo and pitch
Imagine being European.

>>536940659
>last commit: 2 years ago
https://github.com/Myself086/Project-Nested
Yep, it's abandonware.

>>536941327
Yeah. Still neat, though. I was wondering how these NES-to-SNES MSU conversions are reproducing NES chip music as the SNES is hardware-compatible with the NES CPU, but has no way to natively play the audio. I found that these conversions are using this guy Memblers's sound emulation code which leverages both the SPC and SNES CPU to reproduce NES audio in realtime. Then I went deeper and found this whole-ass emulator, which is way more than I thought the SNES would ever be capable of.

Time to test Thunder Blade's anarog slottle controls.

>got a steam deck
>trying to set up emudeck
>got all my games on an sd card
>plug in via usb c
>have about 200GB worth of roms
>don't know how to get them copied over
do i literally need a USB drive? the program created the bios and rom folder on my sd card. i got all the games in the right folder. i got a bunch of red error messages about my bios files though.

emu

gen

>>536915095
>Muh Nvidia drivers fault".
God i hate modern emu devs relying on windows and drivers to do their work. STUFF WILL BREAK VERY QUICKLY WHEN THE NEXT UPDATE COMES YOU LAZY FUCKS.

emugen