Emulation central - recommendations in 1st post

[flyingjohn]

I hope vulkan doesn't disappoint so we can get this and xenia on windows 7.

 

[CryptRat]

SMT: Nocturne alone is worth buying a PS2.

 

[Karwelas]

SMT: Nocturne alone is worth improving a PS2 emulator.

Fixed it for you, my friend.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I'm not sure if it's worth enduring glitches on twenty year old games when the console is both easily available and dirt cheap even in thirdworldia nowadays. I use emulators for convenience.

On another note, that Android display bug on Retroarch persists. I wish Squarepusher would stop shitposting on /vr/ for a day or two and fix that.

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS DOING LOTS OF THE BORING WORK ON MY CAB PROJECT

USING CONTROLS.DAT TO EDIT CONTROLS.XML SO I CAN GET A CONTROL PANEL LABEL IN THE FRONTEND FOR EACH MAME GAME

FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED THESE TWO SITES MAKE MY JOB EASIER

http://www.arcade-museum.com/
http://gamesdbase.com/

ALSO GAMEFAGS FOR SOME

THEN I AM GETTING ALL THE INTERFACE OPTIONS FOR MY OTHER EMULATORS MAPPED OUT TO MY CONTROL BOARD

 

[Great Deceiver]

Does SMT: Nocturne work well on PCSX2 yet? I remember it having various graphical glitches.

Works perfectly, the only visual glitch was with shadows but that's completely removed if you play in software mode.

 

[yes plz]

At Long Last Women Run the Shadows too!

Or just, you know, play one of the three newer and arguably better Shadowrun games.

 

[Karwelas]

Jesus Christ, how no one even talk about this shit. Either I'm retarded or those all old info, probably. But I will share it anyway, maybe it is something new.





Also, WiiU emulator.

 

[SCO]

We don't have supercomputers that's why.

 

[spekkio]

Plus most of it is DX12 and many people here are either on Loonix or Win7 tops.
We're less of hardcoer emufags ("OMG it works!!!) and more of simple gamers ("Can I play games on it?") here.

 

[Karwelas]

To be honest, I also never would get on win 10. Hej.

 

[Dreaad]

So quick question. Since I finaly decided to get a phone.... fucking work..... is there any decent iphone emulators that don't require you to go through bs updates and certificate agreements every other week? Or do I have to jailbreak the fucking thing.
(I should've gone for android )

 

[Karwelas]

So quick question. Since I finaly decided to get a phone.... fucking work..... is there any decent iphone emulators that don't require you to go through bs updates and certificate agreements every other week? Or do I have to jailbreak the fucking thing.
(I should've gone for android )

I think you may have a problem, D. Most of emus are on android, but I suggest checking iphone store first.

 

[tuluse]

So quick question. Since I finaly decided to get a phone.... fucking work..... is there any decent iphone emulators that don't require you to go through bs updates and certificate agreements every other week? Or do I have to jailbreak the fucking thing.
(I should've gone for android )

Pretty sure you need to jail break to get any emulator that needs JIT.

 

[Dreaad]

Got it working after jailbreak. Best part is playing Tactics Ogre: Let us cling together (snes version) again.

 

[spekkio]

BROS, how about a little bit of testing?

Yabause 20151031, software renderer + bilinear filtering, no bios

Albert Odyssey - Legend Of Eldean (U)

Works fine in soft:

Missing sprites in OpenGl:

Dark Savior (E)

Crashes after "New Game".

Devil Summoner - Soul Hackers (J)

Looks and works fine.

Dragon Force 2 (T)

See above.

Mystaria - The Realms Of Lore (E)

Looks fine, but suffers from visible slowdowns (3D).

Shinobi Legions (U)

Looks and works great.

Story Of Thor 2 (E)

Majestic.

Wachenroder (J)

10 minutes of unskippable cutscenes?

Verdict: Quicksaves, no bios, bilinear filtering, retroarch core = win. 3D games still run too slow.

 

[spekkio]

Bros, added info about Cemu, Citra, Rpcs3, Xqemu & Xenia to the 1st post.

Glory to the mass!

 

[SCO]

So quick question. Since I finaly decided to get a phone.... fucking work..... is there any decent iphone emulators that don't require you to go through bs updates and certificate agreements every other week? Or do I have to jailbreak the fucking thing.
(I should've gone for android )

I(closedgarden)phone is a terrible device for emulation because Apple is a terrible monopolistic company you shouldn't give money to. This bug report on PPSSPP explains what is actually happening, which in short, is that they're disallowing JIT emulators by disabling the ability for running self modifiable code AND checksumming the kernel to prevent hackers turning it on again.



Don't buy Apple.

 

[deuxhero]

bilinear filtering

 

[Lyric Suite]

Jesus Christ, how no one even talk about this shit. Either I'm retarded or those all old info, probably. But I will share it anyway, maybe it is something new.





Also, WiiU emulator.

So it's happening? Can we test those yet?

 

[flyingjohn]

So it's happening? Can we test those yet?

The only emulator which could be called functioning is citra for 3ds,you can even run some games on it.(no sound yet)
For the rest wait for a couple of years(1-2) and you will probably see a lot of progress.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Did anyone manage to run God of War games on PPSSPP at full speed? I can play literally anything else with all bells and whistles but both GOWs run around 10 FPS.

 

[SCO]

Did anyone manage to run God of War games on PPSSPP at full speed? I can play literally anything else with all bells and whistles but both GOWs run around 10 FPS.

There is a hack specifically for GoW to limit its max FPS to 60. Might help. Although recent versions of ppsspp (as in git) got the ability to have hidden 'per game' hacks, so it's possible the option is hidden and always set now.
You can also set configs per game, including overclock of the emulated PSP cpu. I just did that for Legend of heroes SC (from normal 233 mHz to 250).

 

[A user named cat]

BROS, how about a little bit of testing?

Yabause 20151031, software renderer + bilinear filtering, no bios

Verdict: Quicksaves, no bios, bilinear filtering, retroarch core = win. 3D games still run too slow.

Yabause is still a piece of shit despite being updated much more regularly than SSF. You didn't need to test, it rarely progresses. That emulator has sucked for ages. If only SSF had save state support.

I think you might need a new rig though. I checked a few of those games like Blazing Heroes (US version of Mystaria) and there was no slowdown. Tried in both SSF and Yabause, same performance with no framerate dips. I haven't encountered really any emulators recently that don't run at 60fps since upgrading to Haswell. Even PCSX2 and Dolphin at 8x rendering don't result in any slowdowns. Optimization has come a long way the past couple years.

Also bilinear is an absolute eyesore, embrace the pixels. It's like taking an image, upscaling it, downscaling, then upscaling again for the hell of it. So ugly and blurry. Like a Beamdog HD enhancement but worse.

 

[Excidium II]

Also bilinear is an absolute eyesore, embrace the pixels. It's like taking an image, upscaling it, downscaling, then upscaling again for the hell of it. So ugly and blurry. Like a Beamdog HD enhancement but worse.