Emulation central - recommendations in 1st post

[Unkillable Cat]

Armstrad cpc.
Well,it has a pretty big chuck of the spectrum library but with better graphics.If you have a favorite speccy game and want to play it in actual graphics,the cpc has you covered.

Not completely true. It's true that a lot of CPC games released after March 1986 were lazy Spectrum-ports, to the point that not even the graphics got upgraded. But even though the CPC can display more colors than the Speccy (and without color clashing!) it has a huge problem you didn't address: Scrolling. The number of CPC-games that can pull off scrolling on a competent level can literally be counted on one hand, they are that rare. The Spectrum actually has a few games that are better than on the CPC because it can do scrolling properly. The greatest achievement in Amstrad-scrolling is the CPC-port of Pinball Dreams (2019) which in and of itself is nothing but a coding masterpiece. Also, any game with 4+ moving objects on-screen is going to slow the computer down to a crawl. It's a jack-of-all trades machine, but master of nothing.

The CPC-port of Contra (named Gryzor for some reason) is one of the best ports of the game out there... except it has this weird "push-scroll" mechanic instead of normal, smooth scrolling.

And that's before we get to the fact that the Spectrum often sports crisper-looking sprites than the CPC... even though they're only monochrome.

Also it mostly used disks so loading ain't a problem.

Again, not completely true. The original 464-model had a tape deck when it came out in mid-1984, and it took a year for the new 6128-model (with built-in disk drive) to surface. By then the 464 had established its market, and for legacy purposes all new Amstrad-games were released on cassettes (a few titles even needing more than one) until about the time the Plus-range of CPCs appeared in 1990. By then a few disk-exclusive titles were coming out (Sid Meier's Pirates! for example) but then again the CPC's lifespan was on its last legs.

Emu:
Caprice32 is the recommended one.

Agreed, even though it's a far older emu. WinApe is a more recent one, but people are advised to have both on-hand due to compatibility issues.

Games:
Lots of french only games.

France was the only country that had a bigger Amstrad-market than Britain, and it's there (along with Spain) that you'll find the largest supporters of the CPC today.

Rpg:
Le diamant and le maitre seem interesting and have the best graphics of the ports.
There is also lords of midnight and its sequel but they are pretty much identical to the speccy version.
Shadowfire looks worse then the speccy version,which is a first.And you have the original bard's tale.Very similar graphics tot he apple ii.

The CPC (and Spectrum) have a very small selection of RPGs and most of them overlap. Two notable exceptions/mentions on the CPC are Black Flag (1995) and The Shadows of Sergoth (2018), which has an upcoming Amiga-conversion.

Edit:Also don't use myabandonware for cpc games,there are problems.
Emuparadise has the most complete collection.

If you can tackle a French website, then CPC Power is pretty much the go-to site for all things Amstrad CPC. The real trouble starts when you try to find a proper rompack for it...

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Games:
Lots of french only games.

To expand on this, there are some interesting French adventure titles on the CPC. Including, but not limited to some of Coktel Vision's lesser known titles and Ubisoft's unlicensed adaptations of 70s/80s horror films, like Dawn of the Dead, The Howling, and Hellraiser, though I forget the exact names they took.

Edit:Also don't use myabandonware for cpc games,there are problems.

I suspect the reason why you're suggesting this is because they just put games into zip files, correct? I know that the only game I got from there was like that, not a floppy or cassette file but a literal zip of the contents.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

To expand on this, there are some interesting French adventure titles on the CPC. Including, but not limited to some of Coktel Vision's lesser known titles and Ubisoft's unlicensed adaptations of 70s/80s horror films, like Dawn of the Dead, The Howling, and Hellraiser, though I forget the exact names they took.

The bolded one is easy to answer, as "Zombi" was Ubisoft's first published title, and they published it first on the Amstrad CPC. (Later converted to other platforms, including the Amiga and the PC.)

Humble beginnings, non?

 

[mogwaimon]

wait so you're telling me that ZombiU, that FPS zombie game launch title for the Wii U back in the day, is actually a sequel/reimagining to an obscure computer game from antiquity that was the first product of a young Ubisoft? interesting

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

wait so you're telling me that ZombiU, that FPS zombie game launch title for the Wii U back in the day, is actually a sequel/reimagining to an obscure computer game from antiquity that was the first product of a young Ubisoft? interesting

Kind of? Allegedly its not, but that fools about as many people as Zombi being an original idea.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Yeah, even most game reviewers twigged on to the fact that Zombi is an unofficial game adaptation of Romero's Dawn of the Dead from eight years earlier.

Zombies. Shopping mall. Bikers. Helicopter. Both have those.

 

[flyingjohn]

So i reached the dos portion of my emulated collection.
Been wondering,is there anybody here that is using the exodos collection?
I am wondering,can i just rip the games and delete everything else and still have functioning games? Everything seems to be working for now,but i have no idea if that applies to cd based games and games with fan patches.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

So i reached the dos portion of my emulated collection.
Been wondering,is there anybody here that is using the exodos collection?
I am wondering,can i just rip the games and delete everything else and still have functioning games? Everything seems to be working for now,but i have no idea if that applies to cd based games and games with fan patches.

I haven't had a proper look at eXoDOS myself, but one notable fact is that the curators have made numerous changes to various games in the archive, but couldn't be arsed to note down what they changed, or in which games.

But at a glance, you can often let eXoDOS 'install' the game, and then copy the game away to somewhere else and everything should still work. I'm not sure eXoWin is so kind, though.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

For who's interested. I finally managed to play The Last of Us for about 5 hours without crashes and only minor graphical glitches, with one of the last versions of RPCS3.

I capped to 30 fps, but in some point it could go beyond that value (I personally don't mind too much, preferring constant fps.)

RPCS3 now has an integrated patch manager (you can download automatically all the updated patches). For TLOU I am using:

 

[Puukko]

Is that patch manager universal? I couldn't get the 60 fps patch for Drakengard 3 to work no matter how much I tried. If I click a box and it just werks(tm) then that's great.

 

[flyingjohn]

Is that patch manager universal? I couldn't get the 60 fps patch for Drakengard 3 to work no matter how much I tried. If I click a box and it just werks(tm) then that's great.

Should be as long as the patch version matches your game version.Your game version is listed in the game list.

 

[flyingjohn]

Speaking of rpcs3 a friend is playing ratchet using a reddit rec settings and he ain't having any problems.And this on a i5 7600.
Gonna list the settings :

CPU tab:
Preferred SPU Threads (Auto): 3 or 2
Lower SPU Thread Priority (Disabled): Enabled
Enable SPU Loop Detection (Enabled): Disabled
Note: Some games do get better results from SPU Block Size =
Mega, but in 4c/4t CPUs most games perform better with SPU Block
Size = Safe.

GPU tab:
Shader Mode (Async multi threaded): Async w/ Shader
Interpreter
Number of Shader Compiler Threads: 2
Audio tab:
Audio Buffer Duration (100 ms): 150 ms

Emulator tab:
Max LLVM Compile Threads (4): 3
Afaik these tweaks are completely safe stability and compatibility
wise. Now, the following optimization tweaks on the Advanced tab
might cause some games to have crashes, show glitches or not boot
at all. In most games they cause no harm, and can bring huge
performance gains. If you experience problems with some game try
reverting these following settings to defaults.

Advanced tab:
Relaxed ZCULL Sync (Disabled): Enabled (safe for most
games, will cause a few games to not boot or crash in the title
screen)
Maximum Number of SPURS Threads (Unlimited == 6): 4 or 3
(if a game breaks increase it by +1 until it runs stable)

This is for people who have only 4 cores or a very weak i5.

 

[Duraframe300]

So i reached the dos portion of my emulated collection.
Been wondering,is there anybody here that is using the exodos collection?
I am wondering,can i just rip the games and delete everything else and still have functioning games? Everything seems to be working for now,but i have no idea if that applies to cd based games and games with fan patches.

I haven't had a proper look at eXoDOS myself, but one notable fact is that the curators have made numerous changes to various games in the archive, but couldn't be arsed to note down what they changed, or in which games.

But at a glance, you can often let eXoDOS 'install' the game, and then copy the game away to somewhere else and everything should still work. I'm not sure eXoWin is so kind, though.

You don't even need to install it. *Installing* here just means extracting from zips. Go into the *exo* folder and then click on the relevant subfolder.

 

[yes plz]

byuu's retarded ass is suicide baiting (or possibly actually killed himself, who knows)

 

[iZerw]

byuu's retarded ass is suicide baiting (or possibly actually killed himself, who knows)

Why does he look like a female?

 

[yes plz]

byuu's retarded ass is suicide baiting (or possibly actually killed himself, who knows)

Why does he look like a female?

he's a tranny

 

[Puukko]

Programming, not even once.

 

[Lutte]

Programming, not even once.

More like programming attracts autists and autists end up in various marginal subgroups seeking virtual validation.

As one of the kiwi put it :

the fact he said " I'm not involved with the fandom or non-binary scene and haven't been for years, I was just desperate to fit in somewhere. " is 100% the reason why it needs to be much harder for people with autism to get any of this troon shit done, clearly in most cases it is just masking trying to fit in with any group which will take them and ends up just doing more harm to them.

(also byuu himself stated once he had "no real life friends")
Trannydom is 1% a real mental illness of its own and 99% an internet fad propagating like HIV among autists. It's clear at this point most trannies wouldn't have been trannies if they hadn't been in contact with this internet shit.

 

[flyingjohn]

Programming, not even once.

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[Morpheus Kitami]

I guess it is true when people say money can't buy happiness. Dude had over 100k in the bank. Should have found a hobby that takes him outside, but if more people had that thought society wouldn't have as many problems as it does these days.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Programming, not even once.

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[gerey]

One less tranny polluting the gene pool.

 

[Lutte]

I guess it is true when people say money can't buy happiness. Dude had over 100k in the bank. Should have found a hobby that takes him outside, but if more people had that thought society wouldn't have as many problems as it does these days.

Savings != true wealth. I mean, someone who owns a large house he spends much of his earnings toward paying in a loan versus someone who doesn't understand finance and just saves the money somewhere without 1/ investing or 2/ taking a loan (so that his money doesn't end up just losing value by itself to inflation), while spending the money not saved in a stupid monthly rent, which of the two do you think is wealthier and lives better?

 

[Don Peste]

Some of you dumbfucks really don't have respect for anything, right? I shouldn't be surprised.

 

[Duraframe300]

Some of you dumbfucks really don't have respect for anything, right? I shouldn't be surprised.

Yes and no.

You can’t rescue people from themselves.

And Lord knows people tried to rescue him. But every positive comment, how he should appreciate everything he accomplished, that he has plenty worth being happy about, that he should ignore the negative voices and cut them. Everything good he ignores, everything bad he amplifies.

Furthermore now he has gone over onto trying to drag people down with him as evidenced by that Kiwifarm thread. That entire *I’ll give you my life savings* and then trying to pressure him via twitter. That’s crossed the line into malicious manipulation.

I wish nothing more than that Byuu finds hapiness. But the roads he has taken only lead to a dark path.

There’s nothing bad about calling this shit out. In fact more people should have called him out earlier. Maybe then we wouldn’t have to witness a fucking tragedy.