Emulation central - recommendations in 1st post

[Riumedis]

I'm not even sure what to make of it.
It looks like MAME hardcodes a game database of sorts that verifies some data being correct or not?
Surely you could still run the rom though?

I don't think that is possible without changing the source code of MAME. MAME likes to check the signature of each rom before it tries to run something, if it fails the check it will not boot the rom. You can test this behaviour by using a old MAME rom and trying to run it in the newest version of MAME.

I don't see how the copyright holder has any legal right for what they asked for.
The code basically says: I recognise this rom with checksum 613fd380, this is Akai Katana!
And then applies some hacks (of which there aren't any for these 2 games) to make it run faster.

Or am I missing something?

Trademark is probably the best angle, but even that is a massive stretch and extremely legally dubious.

You are not missing anything, because the MAME devs themselves think the C&D is baseless request. Unfortunately it is MAME policy is to comply with any request from a licence holder.

 

[Hirato]

So PCSX2 just checked in a new HUD with detailed stats.
You can also change Graphics settings without the emulator pausing now.

I've enabled all of the bits in this screenshot, so you can see it in action.

 

[mck]

So PCSX2 just checked in a new HUD with detailed stats.
You can also change Graphics settings without the emulator pausing now.

I've enabled all of the bits in this screenshot, so you can see it in action.

What game?

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

So PCSX2 just checked in a new HUD with detailed stats.
You can also change Graphics settings without the emulator pausing now.

I've enabled all of the bits in this screenshot, so you can see it in action.

What game?

Metropolismania.

 

[Hirato]

So PCSX2 just checked in a new HUD with detailed stats.
You can also change Graphics settings without the emulator pausing now.

I've enabled all of the bits in this screenshot, so you can see it in action.

What game?

Metropolismania.

It's specifically the PAL version, with an md5sum of 9b6fd4641e0c04b79f89d04728c3599a which I ripped myself.
I mention that because according to both reddit and the pcsx2 wiki, it would seem that roms you can commonly find on the net are corrupt in some respect, and will crash after about 15m of game time.

The only special setting you'll need for it is setting Texture Filtering to Nearest; any of the bilinear settings (even the PS2 style one) will make the font bleed, and it looks awful.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Been poking around with C64 Dreams, a beautifully curated collection of two or three thousand of the best C64 games and demos, all meticulously configured with retroarch (using, for once, a proper disk swapping option), launchbox and controllers, including in-game manuals and box covers, all put together by some wonderfully sperggy C64 nut. But I'm being punished for my piracy since using an Xbox emulated DS4 controller with DS4Windows here will cause your PC to become a mass of horrifying instability when you exit a game, forcing you to log off then on again. Serves me right. Plus, you have to configure C64 custom color palettes with each game individually instead of by VICE core so are stuck with the ugly C64 default color palette that looks like two strip technicolor from the dawn of cinema. So, yeah, more eggfarts than rainbows but man does it look and play great.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

So PCSX2 just checked in a new HUD with detailed stats.
You can also change Graphics settings without the emulator pausing now.

I've enabled all of the bits in this screenshot, so you can see it in action.

Maybe I am wrong, but based on the screenshots it looks like the same hud you have in AetherSX2.

 

[Duraframe300]

So PCSX2 just checked in a new HUD with detailed stats.
You can also change Graphics settings without the emulator pausing now.

I've enabled all of the bits in this screenshot, so you can see it in action.

Maybe I am wrong, but based on the screenshots it looks like the same hud you have in AetherSX2.

Not exactly, but yes. Code and ideas are shared between the projects.

 

[infidel]

I've realized the obvious errors of my aspect-related ways, described in this post.

Sadly, they turned out to be influenced by the backward republican views and thus totally wrong. After all, seeing the right way shouldn't be that hard (check circular elements):

Erm, the circle got circler but you've traded that off with the letters becoming uneven. Look at that capital B in Blast. The highest and lowest lines are the same in shot 1 but on shot 2 the lowest line is slightly thicker. And these are supposed to be single white pixels. So essentially everything that was pixel-perfect is now slightly stretched and uglier imo, even if their proportions are more correct.

And this one from the other post is in JPG and all the white letters are blurry. Or were they blurry in Dosbox too? Bro, if you 're gonna show off per-pixel scaling then do it in lossless format.

 

[flyingjohn]

Trying out Xenia on a friend's win 10.

Operation darkness(ww2 vampire srpg),crashes.
Culdcept saga(best game in the series),crashes.
Blue dragon,works but unknown if if it will work all the way.
Lost odyssey,conflicting reports about crashing mid game.

2/4 games i have any interest don't work and the others require hours to complete and may be unable to be finished.
Removed any interest and nothing of value was lost.

 

[Morenatsu.]

but bro you can play sonic 06 with gotta go fast loading

 

[Duraframe300]

Vulkan has been merged into PCSX2.

Download here:

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/releases/tag/v1.7.2209

That's another step done for Stenzek towards the new QT UI.

 

[Puukko]

Wow, that was fast. Question is, how is compatibility?

 

[Duraframe300]

Wow, that was fast. Question is, how is compatibility?

So far on par with OpenGL for me.

 

[Puukko]

Wow, that was fast. Question is, how is compatibility?

So far on par with OpenGL for me.

Tested out any known bad cases? I think I'll take it for a spin with KFIV for starters once I get to it.

 

[Duraframe300]

Wow, that was fast. Question is, how is compatibility?

So far on par with OpenGL for me.

Tested out any known bad cases? I think I'll take it for a spin with KFIV for starters once I get to it.

I only took a short look, but I didn't see any additional issues other than the obvious known ones. (White lines etc.)

 

[Duraframe300]

So PCSX2 just checked in a new HUD with detailed stats.
You can also change Graphics settings without the emulator pausing now.

I've enabled all of the bits in this screenshot, so you can see it in action.

Wanted to add to this as the same commit has now near eliminated Input Lag, thanks to the new host window, for a lot of people (a lot of other reasons have been eliminated prior in the past 2 years).

Noticed it, because predictably people have been attributing every PCSX2 improvement to the Vulkan renderer. Doesn't matter if their last experience with PCSX2 was half a decade ago. It just needed that sweet, sweet Vulkan which fixed everything, even things it has no relation to.

There's some hilarious exchanges in there too. Like one user ranting at refraction about how the old PCSX2 team would never have done this because they were *too arrogant*. All the while not realizing that refraction himself has been around since 2005.

 

[Puukko]

Vulkan cured my impotence. Thanks Vulkan!

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I'm not sure if the Konix was ever mentioned. Why did I look this up? I have no clue. Random youtube video:

Starglider games (not konix)
Rotox info
Attack of the Mutant Camels
Mutant Camel Inquiry

Games that Weren't


SLIPSTREAM - THE KONIX MULTI-SYSTEM ARCHIVE

Of note: the Speedking controller and later EPYX 500xj.

A bad ass controller I wish had a usb port.

Vintage Computers

 

[Nifft Batuff]

You can also change Graphics settings without the emulator pausing now.

This is great. They just need to add an "Apply" button to the Graphics setting window and then you can finally change the setting with a real time feedback, without the need to go back and forth from the the game window and the graphics setting window (and alas, in PCSX2 you need to do that a lot, for every game).

 

[Hirato]

You can also change Graphics settings without the emulator pausing now.

This is great. They just need to add an "Apply" button to the Graphics setting window and then you can finally change the setting with a real time feedback, without the need to go back and forth from the the game window and the graphics setting window (and alas, in PCSX2 you need to do that a lot, for every game).

There's still a conversion to Qt in progress; Parts of the work are already merged (this, and the vulkan backend), but there's more coming.
UI work like that will probably come then.

 

[Puukko]

Reshade doesn't seem to work on Vulkan.

 

[Don Peste]

Aether also added basic Vulkan support for devices that didn't have it on previous builds (Mali).
I tried Drakan, which is glitched in OpenGL, and seems to run fine in Vulkan.

Spoiler

It also cured my fatness.

 

[aweigh]

I tried out DQ8 on PCSX2-Vulkan but unfortunately it ran exactly the same as always, i.e. runs fine but you need to enable two different hacks to fix dialog boxes and fix the character outlines, and more importantly: it still has random frame-drops in heavy areas, so the renderer change didn't do anything there.

EDIT: Mind you, I want to clarify that the game is more than playable. When I say "it still has random frame-drops in heavy areas" what I mean is that it drops from 60fps to 55fps and goes back up quickly when you're running around towns. The game is 100% playable and many people have played it for many years on PCSX2, I'm not saying it doesn't run well. It runs well, it just sometimes has frame drops.

I wanted to see if Vulkan fixed those frame drops, it did not. That's all.

 

[Duraframe300]

I tried out DQ8 on PCSX2-Vulkan but unfortunately it ran exactly the same as always, i.e. runs fine but you need to enable two different hacks to fix dialog boxes and fix the character outlines, and more importantly: it still has random frame-drops in heavy areas, so the renderer change didn't do anything there.

EDIT: Mind you, I want to clarify that the game is more than playable. When I say "it still has random frame-drops in heavy areas" what I mean is that it drops from 60fps to 55fps and goes back up quickly when you're running around towns. The game is 100% playable and many people have played it for many years on PCSX2, I'm not saying it doesn't run well. It runs well, it just sometimes has frame drops.

I wanted to see if Vulkan fixed those frame drops, it did not. That's all.

To give some context: The dialog boxes will always be a hack, that's just an upscaling thing. And DQVIII is one of the most demanding games on PCSX2 to keep your fps steady, both for your CPU and GPU. The best you can do is enable MTVU (Which I assume you did) and lower internal resolution a bit.