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Emulation central - recommendations in 1st post

lightbane

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Damn, why is Switch so popular? Exclusive-wise is something almost nothing more than WiiU portable (which was considered a bad console or ??? reason).
Because Soyny is fucking up by pissing off indie devs that try to make games for the PS4 with the SJW-friendly arbitrary restrictions, the PS5 is a mess, and the new XBOX is even worse, making Nintendo winner by default.
 

flyingjohn

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Switch is selling well because you can play skyrim on your couch and go tho the toilet and continue playing.
The wii-u was just a wii hd with a shitty tablet.

Sony doesn't give a fuck because they are in different worlds.Sony gets the aaa shit and Nintendo gets Nintendo aaa.
Indies are irrelevant to both,and especially to any average consumers.
In fact i feel sorry for anybody using their online web shops. Sony is expensive as shit and the switch ui is designed by blind man with three arms.

As for ports.Most wiiu to switch ports offer some extras so they are not just vanilla ports.
 
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The Switch is an amazing little piece of hardware, it's well-built in most respects, resistant to children, the handheld/docked transition is seamless 99% of the time and nothing beats playing games while taking a shit. Sure there aren't that many exclusives for it, but Nintendo games are still amazing and there are ports of everything.

Contrary to enthusiasts' opinion, most people don't really give a flying fuck about the latest graphical advancements. I loved owning one, but have since gifted it to my niece (it was one of the early models too and is jailbroken with about 120 games on it, she absolutely loves the thing). If you manage to get an exploitable unit, it also makes for a great emulation box.

You can just buy one for 300 bucks or however much it is now and play. No frills. That goes a long way these days.
 

mogwaimon

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Nintendo is the only company making consoles at the moment that understands that if consoles are little more than underpowered PCs in today's market, many people will just buy a PC instead. That's not to say there isn't still a market for consoles or that there aren't good games out there on console only, but if consoles keep being just shitty PCs then eventually everyone will move on. That's why they try to have gimmicks with each of their consoles even if it's sorta shitty like the 3D on the 3DS or the Wii U gamepad; they know they need to provide functionality that a PC can't, and with the Switch they pretty much pulled it off. I mean, yea, you could argue that a laptop does the same thing that the Switch does but then again show me a laptop with enough power to run a modern game that also fits in your pocket.

Personally, I love my Switch. PS4 is aight, there's still some games I prefer to play on it over PC or can't play on PC at all, and my Xbox One...well that pretty much collects dust until my friends want to play something. As for the newer consoles I have no interest in the PS5 until some interesting games come out for it and I can't even remember what the new Xbox is called because Microsoft is fucking terrible at naming consoles (seriously, did they learn nothing from seeing what happened to the Wii U?). Then again my priority when considering a gaming platform is the library over anything else, don't give a fuck about the teraflops or blast processing or whatever.
 
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Nintendo is the only company making consoles at the moment that understands that if consoles are little more than underpowered PCs in today's market, many people will just buy a PC instead.

You could make this point a couple of years ago, but given how ridiculous the PC hardware market is right now, it just doesn't fly anymore. You can't "just buy a PC" because there are extreme shortages and price hikes everywhere. You basically have to luck out to buy a recent video card at anything resembling a reasonable price.
 

mogwaimon

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well right now there's general electronics shortages so that's to be expected. You can't 'just buy a PS5' either. Rona gonna rona after all
 

moraes

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Project: Eternity Wasteland 2 Codex USB, 2014 Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
Nintendo just gave up on curation and trying to keep some level of quality. The Nintendo Shop looks like a deposit of Steam and Play Store shovelware, Unity asset flips and games that arrive with poor performance or simply broken.
 

Perkel

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Well those are favorite games to play according to kids. Only 30-40 year old losers play mario and Nintendo wants to be company for kids.
 

Don Peste

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Everquest Online Adventures test server
http://eqoa.kiekko.tv/

Status
What basically works:

  • creating account
  • logging in
  • creating characters
  • moving around
  • rudimentary combat, 1 melee attack, 1 NPC heal
  • friendly pet and healer NPC
  • a few test NPC's placed near Darvar Manor
  • now also using a database of over 15,000 NPC's from Dustin Faxon
  • simple combat AI
  • chatting, who list, emoting
What doesn't

  • the rest
Notes

  • talking has infinite range, anything you say is heard by everyone
  • NPC heals have infinite range too
  • the NPC orcs don't aggro players unless you attack
  • snowman NPC's don't move at the moment
  • classes are identical and nobody has abilities; The protocol of sending abilities to the client seems to differ between vanilla, Frontiers, and even between patches. Any wrong byte will usually crash the client so it's better not to send anything at this point.
  • ogre sometimes shows up in character creation, sometimes not, reason unknown
 
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Nintendo just gave up on curation and trying to keep some level of quality. The Nintendo Shop looks like a deposit of Steam and Play Store shovelware, Unity asset flips and games that arrive with poor performance or simply broken.

They try to fight it and set minimal price for E-Shop titles:

Switch eShop Game Prices Can No Longer Be Below $1.99, Says Death Squared Dev

Nintendo is supposedly putting a stop to small-time developers gaming the Switch eShop charts with dirt-cheap deals by placing a limit on pricing.

This information comes from SMG Studios via Reddit. In a brief reply message, it's highlighted how a 99 cents sale on the game Death Squared would be its "lowest price" ever on Nintendo Switch, as "new rules" in place on the Switch eShop now apparently prevent developers from pricing games below $1.99 USD. Obviously, this excludes free-to-play titles.

"This is the lowest price it will ever be. New rules on the eShope mean no game can be below $1.99 and this is 99c because I planned this sale back in Aug! haha so I beat the system!"

Although Death Squared is no longer on sale, a quick look at the Switch eShop reveals there are still a number of games available for less than $1.99 (99 cents, to be precise) - they include titles like Plague Road, HoPiKo, Knight Swap 2 and Ant-Gravity: Tiny's Adventure.

Perhaps the developers of these titles locked in sales well before these new rules came into play, like SMG.

According to a story over on Polygon, Nintendo recently stopped games that cost a single cent from making the "best sellers" list on the Switch eShop. There's also apparently a rule in place now preventing developers from providing 100% discounts if a user alreadys owns a game from their catalog. This information was shared by Simon Carless’ GameDiscoverCo newsletter.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2...onger_be_below_usd1_99_says_death_squared_dev
 

Duraframe300

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How do you use external shaders in PCSX2 1.7.0?

Put them in the shaders folder in the pcsx2 folder, then select them in gsdx. There's a pcsx2 forum thread that collects shaders made for pcsx2.

Alternativley use reshade. You have to use OpenGl, but you should anyway.
 
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Herzog

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What PSX emulator do you guys use? I use DuckStation and it seems to be working well. I used ePSXe for the longest of the time until I got tired of having to restart the emulator everytime game pad accidentally unplugged. That and not being able to change options real-time.
What PS2 emulator do you use? It has been some time since I have touched PCSX2: is it still considered ass?
 

aweigh

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What PSX emulator do you guys use? I use DuckStation and it seems to be working well. I used ePSXe for the longest of the time until I got tired of having to restart the emulator everytime game pad accidentally unplugged. That and not being able to change options real-time.
What PS2 emulator do you use? It has been some time since I have touched PCSX2: is it still considered ass?

Used to use retro arch's Beetle PSX HW core but now I use Duckstation because it offers the same features, so no need to put up with retro arch anymore.

Duckstation is the best you're gonna get in regards to PS1 emulation, there's nothing that tops it currently, unless you want access to CRT shaders and filters in which case you will be forced to use retro arch.
 

Duraframe300

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What PSX emulator do you guys use? I use DuckStation and it seems to be working well. I used ePSXe for the longest of the time until I got tired of having to restart the emulator everytime game pad accidentally unplugged. That and not being able to change options real-time.
What PS2 emulator do you use? It has been some time since I have touched PCSX2: is it still considered ass?

Used to use retro arch's Beetle PSX HW core but now I use Duckstation because it offers the same features, so no need to put up with retro arch anymore.

Duckstation is the best you're gonna get in regards to PS1 emulation, there's nothing that tops it currently, unless you want access to CRT shaders and filters in which case you will be forced to use retro arch.

Duckstation is also the only psx emulator that can reasonably be described as in *active* development. There's even some improvements to PGXP the usual implementations don't have.
 
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Herzog

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Do you ever get locked in a black screen when you do ALT+F4 when running in fullscreen? That's the only issue that I have noticed with Duckstation. There is absolutely nothing that I've found that fixes it besides having to force a restart. There are also some minor issues with some of the save states becoming softlocked, but I take it as a heavenly sign that I shouldn't be savescumming in the first place.
 

flyingjohn

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A video about pcsx2:


What to expect for 1.8:

  • No Plugins
  • 64-bit support (mostly done)
  • Reduced Input lag
  • A new shiny IPC protocol
  • ...and much more (read our progress reports)
What might be ready for 2.0:

  • A New QT based GUI along with support for pluggable & community GUIs
  • Rework of our Infrastructure/Website
  • Work on a pluggable JIT backend
  • A full cleanup of the codebase
  • And hopefully other nice surprises ;)
 

Duraframe300

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A video about pcsx2:


What to expect for 1.8:

  • No Plugins
  • 64-bit support (mostly done)
  • Reduced Input lag
  • A new shiny IPC protocol
  • ...and much more (read our progress reports)
What might be ready for 2.0:

  • A New QT based GUI along with support for pluggable & community GUIs
  • Rework of our Infrastructure/Website
  • Work on a pluggable JIT backend
  • A full cleanup of the codebase
  • And hopefully other nice surprises ;)


Adding to that Texture replacement is currently on the horizon. It's actually so far along that its not a matter of if (as its author is clearly dedicated to it), but when:

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/4199

Other interesting pull requests

Gaussian interpolation for the audio backend

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/4195

CHD Support

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/4045

GSDX improvements solving some long standing issues

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/3895
https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/4094
https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/3114

Auto-Updater

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/3121
 
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Improved latency is a really big deal for PCSX2. Despite most people apparently being oblivious to it, it's incredibly obvious and makes it impossible to play shmups seriously, which is bad because the PS2 has some really good ports and even original games like Gradius V.

G-Sync stuff

I finally got a new videocard that can do G-Sync through HDMI and it's been a real game changer for me in many ways. With emulation especially, since there are many games that I really enjoy that run at non-standard refresh rates (for example, the Raiden series runs at 54hz, DoDonPachi runs at 57hz, Mortal Kombat and a lot of Midway games run at 53-54hz, etc.), and they were either choppy or sped-up on my previous 60hz display.

Now they all run flawlessly at their native refresh rates with Retroarch. It's amazing. Of course, the other benefits of VRR are obvious for high refresh rate games, too.
 
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BROS, the new Yuzu Early Access build with the new cache improvements is the real deal. This is the *FIRST TIME* I can legitimately say, "yeah I can play a game on Yuzu". Just spent like two hours blasting through Mario Odyssey with zero problems.

Also tried out Xenoblade Chronicles 1 Definitive edition remake and it's also the very first time I think that game is even playable on Yuzu, however unlike Mario Odyssey it did not run that well. Make sure to change the Accuracy setting to 'High' for Xenoblade (default is 'Normal' and it's what's best for most games), and make sure everything is on OpenGL and all the options are enabled, and lastly and most importantly: you need to set your Windows page File to be at least 15 gigabytes or more or else most 3d games will crash quickly (Yuzu has problems with memory management). Personally I have a 32gb page file.

You will still see some stutters as you play the games, unfortunately. On OpenGL it has dynamic shader creation on-the-fly and it does work but it's not seamless, there are still mini-stutters as the game creates the shader pipeline as you play, but it is bearable. It's nothing like how bad it was on CEMU before they implented their dynamic system. Alternatively you can try to seek out pre-made shader caches but you'll have to wait a little bit before they show up again as the last few builds broke previous caches.

EDIT: Oh, also tried Link's Awakening and that one runs decently too but with missing graphics on OpenGL; for Link's Awakening it's recommended to use VULKAN but the downside (aside from Yuzu's vulkan implementation being worse-performing than its OpenGL) is that Vulkan doesn't support dynamic shader creation so the pipeline creation is the bad one, like in the old CEMU days. If you can bear that, or find a pre-made shader cache someone made (will probably start showing up soon on emulation/piracy reddits) then it's basically 100% playable.

Gonna torrent 3 Houses next and give that a try next.

EDIT 2: Also tried Astral Chain and it works pretty well. Actually, probably the 2nd best performer after Mario Odyssey! However it did crash occasionally, every 20-30 minutes of gameplay, and every cutscene it was 50/50 whether it'd crash or not. Probably has to do with some memory leakage as not even the 32gb pagefile alleviated the crashes like it does with other Yuzu games. Besides the crashing, though, the actual game itself runs just fine and is perfectly playable.
It had been about 6 months since I tried Yuzu and it used to be unplayable. Gave it a try tonight and I was very surprised. Playing through M2's Esp Ra. De port now. Awesome!

Edit: there appears to be a massive memory leak. Getting to the title menu of Link's Awakening used up all my 16gb RAM and started caching the page file. Seems like a Vulkan issue with this game in particular. Played some Cadence of Hyrule and it was fine. Cute little game.
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As for ports.Most wiiu to switch ports offer some extras so they are not just vanilla ports.

It's not nigh and day difference. From the emulation perspective, Switch is propably worst Nintendo console. Third party games are available on PC anyway, WiiU games are better to be run on Cemu and there's very little left. I'm waiting for SMT5 (plus Project Re Fantasy if it gets Switch port) and that's all.
 
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As for ports.Most wiiu to switch ports offer some extras so they are not just vanilla ports.

It's not nigh and day difference. From the emulation perspective, Switch is propably worst Nintendo console. Third party games are available on PC anyway, WiiU games are better to be run on Cemu and there's very little left. I'm waiting for SMT5 (plus Project Re Fantasy if it gets Switch port) and that's all.
Although this is true, you're ignoring the main appeal of the Switch for many people - the fact that it's also a portable console. This can't be overstated.
 

Nifft Batuff

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Still, from an emulation perspective the Switch make little sense. Maybe one advantage of emulating a Switch game that has also a PC port is that it could be easier to manage and to backup (no need of installation, just one single compressed file for the game that you can put where you want, unique configuration and save system, no virus, etc...). This obviously assuming that the emulator works flawlessly.
 

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