Emulation central - recommendations in 1st post

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

!EXCITEMENT!

!SUSPENSE!

!PASSION!

!BETRAYAL!

IT'S...

EMUDEV DRAMA HOUR!!!



















https://kiwifarms.net/threads/byuu-byuu_nyan-setsunakun0.43056/

Highlights include:
- byuu finally realizing what a poisonous shithole twitter is.
- byuu finally realizing most of his "friends" are actually deranged furry pedo trash.
- byuu finally realizing his politics are borderline insane and should be kept far far away from his preservation work.
- byuu finally realizing....Say, is anyone else noticing a running theme here?

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Gotta say, the impending retirement putting the kibosh on any further Wonderswan or NeoGeoPocket work kinda bites. But wadayagonnado, eh? Autists gonna aut.

 

[sullynathan]

What am I supposed to do with this information?

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

What am I supposed to do with this information?

Marvel at its beautiful insanity. And maybe lament the retirement. Or not. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

 

[flyingjohn]

I am sorely disappointed in the lack of chad/virgin memes about cemu/byuu.

 

[aweigh]

got muh first horsie. riding Incel around... hehe:

the jerkiness in the video is from the capture, don't know why. It's pretty smooth in the emulator:


EDIT: the point of uploading this short clip was to show that Cemu works great w/ BotW; i mean it has for a long time now but I'm only now getting into it.

Still, not all games run as well as BotW. I also have Xenoblade Chronicles X downloaded, uh i mean "backed up", and while FPS-wise it runs better than Zelda (I can reach 60fps, whereas on Zelda I top out at around 45fps and it hovers around 35, which is why I locked it down to 33fps)-- so, XCX runs better FPS-wise but in terms of smoothness it's nowhere near as polished. BotW will rarely drop frames, but XCX drops frames CONSTANTLY and it's annoying.

And with XCX it really doesn't have to do with overall performance from the gpu or the cpu, as it will frame-drop the same way on 720p or 4k, doesn't seem to matter, so that tells me it's an overall emulation problem. BotW is fine, tho. Oh I forgot to mention i'm on OpenGL there, but Cemu has vulkan now which runs better on AMD hardware.

I'm on i5 8400 / gtx 1060 / 16gb ram / ssd. BotW-specific options being:
- resolution set to 1440p,
- anti-aliasing set to FXAA
- and the FPS++ pack set to 33fps
- Cemu itself set to VSYNC ON
- precompiled shaders DISABLED (have to for NVIDIA)
- Dualcore-Recompiler cpu option
- gsync-Draw-Done option ENABLED
- shaderMulAccuracy set to TRUE
- bufferAccuracy set to LOW
- NVIDIA/OpenGL-specific workaround graphicsPacks all enabled.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Is there any way to get rid of those terrible slowdowns in Soul Fuckers on Citra? I don't belive this geam is much more demanding that SMT4.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Is there any way to get rid of those terrible slowdowns in Soul Fuckers on Citra? I don't belive this geam is much more demanding that SMT4.

Soul Hackers works smoothly without slowdowns on my computer. However I have noticed in citra that some games have dramatic slowdowns during the reproduction of videos, while during the game itself the fps are consistently at 100%. Resident Evil Revelations is an example.
I verified that this happens no matter how much computing power is available and for different high-tier gpus and cpus. The cpu and gpu aren't either at 100% when these slowdowns happen.
Anyone experienced anything similar?

 

[Sreggin Etah I]

Lately i've been trying several DS emulators on my old pc,i found them all to have terrible performance which is strange since the psp emulator PPSSPP runs fine with much more graphically demanding games.So,back to ds emulation:

DeSmuME: worst performance of them all.

NO$GBA: a bit better than DeSmuME but still bad and you can only play with a really small screen.

MelonDS: in sofware mode is the best performance so far but still bad,audio cracking and some really bad framerate drops in Metroid Prime hunters(possibly the most demanding DS game??).

So,the best option for me so far may sound retarded but is playing on a android emulator(MEMU in my case)with a DS emulator(Drastic).unfortunately drastic is android only,but performance-wise is the best DS emulator.I've played metroid prime hunters on Drastic with MEMU and there's no audio cracking and no framedrops.

Here's what looks like:

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DQ4:

I admit,it doesn't look that good,but at least is playable.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

DS emulation just isn't there yet, unfortunately. Depending on when StapleButter (or whatever the fuck they're going by now) an hero's it may be quite a while yet.

 

[Puukko]

Soul Hackers was the smoothest running 3DS SMT for me, possibly tied with SJR.

 

[spekkio]

Running a new emu for the first time is always a great moment. Unless it doesn't work, OFC. Fortunately, it wasn't the case...

 

[Puukko]

I'm yet to try Yuzu out, the only game I seriously want to try out is XC2 and that's still far from being playable, though there is apparently another emulator under development:

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I found this in the 3DS Alliance Alive:

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Running a new emu for the first time is always a great moment. Unless it doesn't work, OFC. Fortunately, it wasn't the case...

its playable now? or is it load with 10 fps kinda works?

 

[d1r]

Is anyone actually working on a PSP Vita emulator these days?

 

[spekkio]

InD_ImaginE

Well, it goes ingame and is slow. But my rig shouldn't be the judge, as it's clearly too old for this shit:

 

[flyingjohn]

InD_ImaginE

Well, it goes ingame and is slow. But my rig shouldn't be the judge, as it's clearly too old for this shit:

Seeing a haswell cpu in 2020:

Been using a 4460 for 5 years and it still holds up for emulators and games.

 

[spekkio]

Yeah. Last year I planned to upgrade my rig to "current" CPU, MB, RAM & GPU (I do this every 4-5 years). But I quickly learned that all modern CPUs and MoBos support Win10 only.

So I've bough used i5 CPU, 16 GB DDR3 RAM and new GPU for less than a half of what the new components would cost. And jammed it into my old MoBo. Was able to complete games like Nier - Automata, Dishonored 2 or RE2 Remake on this rig without problems (medium or high details).

I don't get what's wrong with Intel and Microsoft, but we're reaching the situation described in old cyberpunk novels, where hackers were scavenging old hardware because it was better than the newshit.

Age of

 

[flyingjohn]

Yeah. Last year I planned to upgrade my rig to "current" CPU, MB, RAM & GPU (I do this every 4-5 years). But I quickly learned that all modern CPUs and MoBos support Win10 only.

So I've bough used i5 CPU, 16 GB DDR3 RAM and new GPU for less than a half of what the new components would cost. And jammed it into my old MoBo. Was able to complete games like Nier - Automata, Dishonored 2 or RE2 Remake on this rig without problems (medium or high details).

I don't get what's wrong with Intel and Microsoft, but we're reaching the situation described in old cyberpunk novels, where hackers were scavenging old hardware because it was better than the newshit.

Age of

There are pirated windows 7 version that have support for modern cpu's and motherboards. Most of the problems come in usb support during installation.You can use a old ps2 keyboard to bypass that if you don't like pirated stuff.
Almost all motherboard manufacturers have windows 7 drivers,even on their newest boards.

 

[spekkio]

I've had serious problems with a new Lenovo laptop (was able to install Win7 with USB 2.0 support, but some drivers were MIA). So when I saw that new MoBos sometimes lack official Win7 support (same way as new Intel CPUs), I just went with: "Fuck Yuo!".

Plus used "high-end" CPUs have similar performance to brand new "budget" CPUs.

 

[spekkio]

BROS. OP is faggot has been updated.

Changes to the list of recommended shit:

• Atari XL/XE: added Atari800,
• Snes: added RA - bsnes-hd and RA - bsnes cores; removed RA-bsnes-mercury-balanced and RA-higan cores,
• N64: added RA - Mupen64Plus Next and RA-ParaLLEl cores; removed m64p (old, authors went Patreon and shit),
• Wii: added Primehack,
• Switch: added yuzu (Ryujinx sadly failed a physical with me),
• Dreamcast: added RA - Flycast core; removed RA - Reicast cores; same shit, new name,
• Vita: added info (no emu yet).

Also removed some broken links and shit.

DISCUSS! / bitch / moan.

 

[newtmonkey]

I know people tend to prefer playing PS2 on PCSX2 these days, and PCSX2 has EXCELLENT compatibility. However, here's a fun option/project if you want to play on original hardware (PS2 slim) plugged into your giant ass living room TV, with no worries about emulation inaccuracies for whatever obscure game you want to play. Here, we use a Raspberry Pi 3 (NOT 4) to function as an external hard drive (i.e. emulating the optical drive of the PS2) to load ISOs from your PS2.

1. Get a Raspberry Pi 3 (must be 3 and NOT 4) and a 256 GB USB stick.
2. Get FreeMcBoot on a PS2 memory card one way or another (you can buy one on Ebay for 10-20 USD SHIPPED on Ebay, and it will open up a world of opportunity for your PS2). Plug this into slot 2 of your PS2.
3. Load your USB memory stick up with as many PS2 ISOs you can find; DVD games in a folder called "DVD" and CD games in a folder called "CD"... use a tool called OPL Manager (https://oplmanager.com/site/) to rename your ISOs so that they will be recognized and also to download cover art for all your games.
4. Write the psx-pi-smbshare (https://github.com/toolboc/psx-pi-smbshare) image to the SD card you'll put in your Raspberry Pi. This is a customized version of Raspbian.
5. Plug your raspberry Pi into the LAN port of your PS2 with a LAN cable.
6. Launch Open Playstation Loader from FreeMcBoot, configure the network settings as described in the psx-pi-smbshare instructions at the site in step 3. Save settings.
7. If you did everything right, you'll get a menu of all your ISOs. Enjoy!

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

(I do this every 4-5 years).

Decade would be enough.

Soul Hackers was the smoothest running 3DS SMT for me, possibly tied with SJR.

Soul Hackers works smoothly without slowdowns on my computer.

I can play SMT4(A) at full speed with exception of shopping districts and last dungeon of Apocalypse, SJRedux runs witouth a single problem but Soul Fuckers turns into crawl during Vision Quest of Urabe. CPU is Ryzen 5 2600, 8 GB RAM.

Damn, it one off the very few of worthwile SMT titles I haven't finished yet. I wish someone just translated PSX or Saturn port.

 

[aweigh]

u probably just need more ram maybe? 3ds emulator in general is extremely well-performing. Very good emu.

maybe try one of the other builds that don't use MINGW, i forget their name. There's different builds that use different build methods and provide different performance on different games.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I remember playing SH to completion about two years ago without any issues. Indeed it was one of the less demanding 3DS games to emulate. While I remember the slowdowns of SMTIVA ending levels (it was unplayable on older PC).
Maybe this is another case of citra regression? I am starting to have problems with some games that I have already played without issues few years ago. An infamous case of regression is Devil Survivor 1. It was perfectly playable in older citra versions, while now it doesn't even start the game. Another case is the Alliance Alive that I stopped playing a year ago, and that I restarted recently. Now it has annoying graphics glitches that were not present a year ago. I found also other games that I tried recently, which are completely umplayabke due to graphics glitches, while on the official site were tagged as "perfect" by more than one user.