I'm curious what you guys use for emulation. I've always used a soft modded Wii with homebrew. I mainly play Snes, GameCube, Ps1, N64. I've been thinking about switching to a mini PC hooked up to my TV with wireless controllers so my setup is cleaner and i would be able to play Dreamcast and PS2 games
Can mini pc devices output in 240p? pretty cool if so
you would probably need some sort of vga adapter/splitter? they probably make something like that. I'm using a AUX to HDMI for my TV. I'd prefer to play on a CRT but don't have the space
Desktop PC connected to PC CRT.
what brand CRT? Is it frickhuge?
just buy one of those usb rf broadcasters for your computer, then you can just set your tv to channel 3 and play your games without needing any video adapters
>illegal broadcasting
Solid plan senpai
>usb rf broadcasters
I love this idea, any recommendations on where to get a good quality one?
that would be illegal
FRICK OFF homosexual Black person I WANT ONE
>ThAt WoUlD bE iLLeGaL
shut the frick up boomer
>certain wavelengths of light are illegal
idk maybe im a cucked statist but i like my home wifi not getting fricked up by my neighbor and his 100kW pirate radio station or w/e
Then just invest in a 200kW wifi router
That would probably introduce a fair amount of latency though right?
i mostly dont emulate, but if i do i use chink handhelds to play in bed.
I'm skeptical of those things cause I see that alot of the games just don't work and are shit optimized
Retroid and Anbernic and generally pretty good from I've seen, I'd stay away from the other chinkbrands.
I have only ever bought Anbernic handhelds. They seem to be good quality from my experience. I have an RG351v and an RG405v. Both work flawlessly with zero issues. I've had the 351 for a couple years now and played many games to completion. I've never had issues with emulating any consoles that the devices can handle given their specifications.
depends on what systems, if you want ps2/gc then you probably shouldn't buy anything less than a retroid 4 pro. i have a $50 chinkshit that plays through ps1 fine
second hand Xbox Series S w/ Devmode Emulation set up[spoiler].
I am thinking of eventually getting something else though but in the meantime.[/spoiler]
I couldn't get dev mode to work for me. I got all the way up to getting the i.p. and when I tried that i.p, even the XBOX: i.p on any device(2 different laptops, phone) it just hangs forever and won't let me in. I tried disabling my firewall, updating everything. it just didn't work and I got pissed and gave up. any ideas?
I'm really sorry anon I wish I knew how to fix it, mine worked right away and I didn't have to mess with any settings. I followed this guide step by step when I did mine. https://youtu.be/Ur2lMnzwCPc?t=412
Their discord is in the description maybe you'll have better luck there, the solution might be simpler than you think who knows.
Stop abusing the spoiler tag you disgusting cretin.
a computer
my phone
cool phone. what's the mpg on that bad boy?
I use oneof these. I mostly use it for arcade games, and old PC stuff including dialing into a bbs.
My phone or an NVIDIA Shield tv Pro
My XBOX. (2005? OG? idk)
meant to double arrow OP, my bad
uhhh, i just open the internet and play it on the archiveorg page?
Original Xbox does a pretty fine job at emulating most things in MAME up through the mid-90's as long as they're 2D sprites and not 3D.
Mister for stuff hooked up to a CRT
Desktop PC for literally everything else
I got a usb-to-component adapter for my phone and never looked back
I still have a modded psp slim. And modded og Xbox.
how good is N64 and ps1 on it these days?
N64 works about half the time. mario and starfox work fine for me. as for ps1, most games work but have weird audio issues sometimes. like the audio overlaps over and over 1000x and gets progressively louder until the next loading screen or something
I have no idea why you would want to play emulated N64 games on the wii when you could just play the superior emulated VC versions
How can you get them and how is the input lag? I remember it being atrocious for NES games, to the point that playing them in GCN animal crossing was a superior experience.
wiiVC versions of N64 games have more input lag than console but its not noticeable imo. Its also the best way to emulate N64 games since N64 emulation is still bad. The only downside is it doesn't have everything.
>How can you get them
homebrew channel installer
>wiiVC versions of N64 games have more input lag than console but its not noticeable imo.
The WiiU VC and the Switch versions of N64 games have much much worse input lag where its actually noticeable. Theres comparisons online somewhere.
> Its also the best way to emulate N64 games since N64 emulation is still bad.
It’s 2024 and people are still this clueless, imagine thinking that WiiVC is actually the best emulation of the N64, the state of this site.
If it's PS1 and below, I use an Anbernic RG351MP, anything above that I usually do either real hardware or PC/Steam Deck emulation. I won't lie I kinda want to go back to the RG280M I used to have due to its form factor, but I hate dealing with OpenDingux nowadays.
I do wanna get a MiSTer but each time I'm ready to swallow the price tag, it's sold out. That, and I'm wondering if there'll be a 2.0 project that uses a different chip to combat the DE-10 Nano's power limits and availability.
'puter.
just ordered the RG35XX-H. pretty stoked to be able to play some vidya in my hammock while drinking beer this summer
I'm trying to slowly build a flashcart and ODE collection since I have most hardware I could reasonably care about, but since I so far only have one for GBA I rely on a few different machines.
I've got a PSP-3000 from 2012 or so that I like to use for PS1 eboots - especially JRPGs. I just prefer the handheld format for those. I also have a modded Wii, but I only use it for GameCube and SNES. Before I got the GBA flashcart last Black Friday, I had recently brought my original 3DSXL out of retirement for the Game Boy family libraries, since the screen size at original resolution seemed to be the same size as the original handheld screens, unlike my normal sized N3DS. Beyond that, any platform I either don't have, don't have a flashcart for, or don't currently have a way of hacking, I emulate on my PC. I vastly prefer using an existing device though, and the ones I use typically have native or near-native support for the libraries I play on them.
PSP can output 240p over Component. It's actually a fantastic way to play PSX games if you ever feel like you want the TV experience alongside the portable experience.
I've heard, but I never looked into what cable you'd need for that. I probably should, since that's a lot cheaper and easier at the moment than any solution for my PS1.
Thanks.
Lg Premier pro lte with gamesir x2 bluetooth
Been playing Imperium, Goldensun, ygddra, and baldurs gate
LG stylo 5 with Galileo G8
Been playing apocalypse, persona 1 (psp), amd Ridge Racer (psp)
I don't emulate anymore but back in the day I used my PSP to do it. Was it perfect? No. Accurate? No. Could it run everything fine? No. But I played the shit out of GBA and Neo Geo on that fricking thing, and it ran them way better than the household computer ever did.
It's crazy how nowadays everything under the sun can run emulators out the wazoo, though now the issue is that people will spend days loading up their chosen devices with terabytes of full romsets and having their frontends set up to look pretty for social media, and then they don't show anything beyond title screens and first levels because they don't fricking play any of the games.
setting it all up is really the funnest part for some reason. I think we get all of these games to re-live that place and time we played those games but it doesn't hit the same because you aren't 12 and have seen pretty much everything gaming has to offer. pure nostalgia
Xbox Series S for Xbox/360 via backcompat
SNES Classic for SNES
Wii for NES (and for Wii/GC but not emulation)
DSi XL for Game Boy / Color (and DS)
New 3DS XL for GBA (and 3DS)
Covers everything I give a shit about
$15 Walmart stick + Bluetooth Genesis controller
Lately all I really use is my Famiclone handheld though. Back to minimal gaming for me
What can you emulate on that?
Everything up to and including Dreamcast and PSP, but I mainly use mine for 16-bit and PS1
I dont emulate cause im not a poorhomosexual moron piece of shit pirate scum actually I think emulation is cool and I like how more people are enjoying classic games while the barrier to entry has been lowered, no thanks to resellers who are the actual scum of the earth homosexuals
all the companies have to do is sell the games in the store for 5$-10$ and people would buy them. when the only option is a 300$ physical copy off ebay for a 30 year old game people aren't going to be happy
Had a old s9+ laying around, and slapped a kishi to it... can run pretty much anything i need from gc/ps2 down. As well as run stupid shit like pizza tower.
jesus christ that aspect ratio. there is no hope for humanity
Is the fact that most phones use 21:9 somehow news to you?
dont reply to me you psycho
Different person, schizoid.
>there's 2 of you people
thats even worse anon
Granted i couldve at least put it 16:9 but my ass got the whole screen ima use the whole screen damn it. Tho for gba i did put it on 16:9 cuz its a lil too long lol
dumb Black person
>isn't a black bar bar
not gonna make it dude
Can you charge your phone while using that controller?
Yes it can, tho it seems to be slow charging from what i can.
wish everything still just used AAs
nothing beats a good set of rechargeable AA batteries, things last forever and if they die you just swap them out ezpz
I remember the battery pack for my Game Boy I had as a kid was lucky to last 2 hours and was fricking massive sticking way out the back. Now I just put in 4 rechargeable AAs and you can get like 40 hours out of them, plus they add no bulk.
Nice, thank you.
Doesn't really matter when you have a 5000 mah battery. I don't often play for 4+hours and I have never needed to charge my stylo 5 during gameplay.
Razer is on my blacklist after dropping support for th V1 and both controllers I bought just STOPPED working. Hope that doesn't happen to you anon. Based phonegamer. Recycling his ewaste and saing money like a chad.
oh man i hope not.... ive been lovin how this feels, buttons all clicky n shit. though i guess my only complaint about the kishi so far, is that theres 2 little buttons between the shoulder buttons that i cant seem to map to anything. they seem hard mapped stuck as extra A&B buttons. but other then dat... been playin sunshine and the like just fine.
PC attached to a Tv or steam deck because it makes me feel like I have a Game gear I didn't have when I was a kid.
Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra and a PS5 controller. It's glorious.
I have a 27'' CRT with a Component cable plugged to the Wii, also running WiiFlowLite with Rhapsodii-Shima (SD version 4:3)
It is superb to play retro games and watch old 480p media from the 90s and 00s, like Beavis and Butthead and South Park in their original 4:3 formats...
If I pulled that SD card out, would you die?
Wii is absolutely perfect for NES, SNES, SMS, SMD, Sega-CD, etc. Apparently GameCube isn't emulation on a Wii since it is basically built-in/native. You can even plug in the NES and SNES controllers from the Classic Edition consoles into your Wiimote for that extra authenticity. I wouldn't have ever been able to play some amazing games like Chrono Trigger and Snatcher in 240p on my CRT TV without my softmodded Wii.
rpi can do it
Softmodded Wii is a million times easier. RPis are overrated as frick and have shitty 240p output unless you use a mess of different adapters.
As easy as softmodding a Wii is these days, claiming that it's easier than flashing an SD card and sticking it in a RPi is a little moronic, senpai.
It's easier if you want to use it on a CRT and get good 240p and working audio. I fell for the RPi meme years ago and I regret it every time I dig that damn thing out.
lol no your just dumb
the only inconvenience is that all the 1-click rpi emulation builds that target 240p require a vga addon board and don't work directly with the jack
>lol no your just dumb
>your
You can't spell and you don't even know what the frick you're talking about.
/r/eddit called, anon, they said its time for you to go back
Why are you Reddit's first contact for getting a hold of another anon?
>flash an SD card and stick it into a Wii
waow…
>SNES
Bullshit, all 3 Snes9x versions om wii, (gx,rx,tx) had annoying issues like performance, lag, glitches, and none of them properly handle the graphics fade in and fade outs in comparison to the original hardware.
Retroarch on Wii is also pretty much worthless outside of 1.7.9 to the point that they are hacking newer cores to it.
Ps1 emulation keeps gettin updated and recently they FINALLY fixed the scratchy sound by adding gaussian interpolation, but playrate is still stuttery as hell in recent builds of Wiistation.
FCEUGX and Genesis Plus GX are genuinely great, but yeah SNES and forward are middling to terrible experiences
Hey, GBA is great with mGBA, and GB/GBC is alright with VBAgx, just that pixel wide scaling is at 720 and not 640p.
Ah yeah forgot about those. I generally play handheld games on handhelds so I haven't messed with those in a very long time. I can't speak to mGBA's quality on Wii but I remember VBA wasn't great.
mGBA is actually good for GBA
oh and also, the p is only used for vertical rows of pixels, not horizontal. The funny thing is that GBA's 240 wide pixels actually fits neatly into 720 wide at 3x, but because the Wii's 720 wide output results in pixels that are slightly skinnier than wide on a 4:3 TV, and far too wide on a 16:9 TV, there's no good way to scale them. that was also a nonstarter for me, personally. I know there's some hacks for the Game Boy Player on the GameCube people swear by but I have no idea how they tackled that problem as the GameCube has the same output resolution of 720x480
I loaded up snes9x gx and it says it supports xbox 360 controllers but I guess it doesn't support just any x-input since my 8-bit do doesnt work. Are there wii homebrew emulators that support any x-input/d-input controllers?
If I'm not mistaken there are alternate input types to x? Have you tried them? Double check the instruction manual.
When I check the github theres just a line that says
>Retrode/Xbox 360/Hornet controller support
The RX fork apparently has "Experimental DualShock 3 support" but I haven't tried it since I heard RX is worse than GX. I might have to give it a chance though.
I don't have a special emulation device, I just use my PC. It seems better than any of the specialized devices, especially if you're using a LCD monitor, variable refresh rate is a practically essential feature. Runahead and frame delay let you have better latency than other devices. You have the most video output options for CRTS as well, either VGA or 15 khz with cheap hardware. For multiplayer you can use any combination of controllers. With a decent CPU you can even emulate the xbox, ps3, 360, and switch.
The only thing better for emulation might be the mister, but even then it's only for certain systems that it provides questionably small benefits. Sure my pc cost more than am mister, but I use it for other things too.
This may be a LOOONG shot, but I've return to play some shit on my pc long after updating my rig, it has a 4670k and 4060gpu and I don't remember dolphin doing this shit, every second or so there is a spike causing stutters and I don't remember this even using an old hd4870.
Anyone has experienced something similar?
Looks like shader compilation. Go into the graphic settings and play around with the shaders options (read the tooltips). The games will stutter when they create the shaders for the first time but if you set "compile shaders before starting", all the created shaders will load up before the game and will reduce the stutter to the minimum. Games will stutter every time the find a new graphic and create a shader out of it, what I usually do is if the game has an attrack mode, I let the game running for like 10 minutes so it creates as much shaders as it can without me even playing. That way it doesn't run like shit when I actually start playing.
I already have the "compile shaders before starting" enabled, I've let the game sit still for 5+ minutes not doing anything in a closed room and the issue persists, pretty weird, suspecting some new shit on the latest version of the emulator or something on my system but everything else is closed.
Will try a different build, ancient builds and even other pc around to see if I can pinpoint the exact issue.
Thanks anon
yeah i've also experienced this. you have to go back to a much older version of dolphin to fix it. I have no idea how they made performance this much worse with the shader compilation, you can play a 10 year old build that runs most games near perfectly... and if you bring it up, well no, you're wrong, it's always been like that etc etc. it's weird gaslighting from the devs
Change the renderer from Direct3D to Vulkan and select Hybrid Ubershaders, also don't compile shaders before staring as that takes a while to boot. Dolphin can also overclock the GC's CPU to remove native slowdown.
>something on my system
That graph looks as if some background activity is causing latency spikes, look for >LatencyMon< and a guide in solving DPC latency issues.
Using a cheap ass tablet. Touchscreen controls suck, but it's still better than 95% of the games actually made for mobile.
just get a Bluetooth controller for cheap bro. I would never use touch screen
I use retroarch on my PC...
As do I, and have for years. I'll use a standalone here and there.
personally I just watch youtube videos, it's just like playing the game but you can skip the boring parts
just werks
>for the low, low price of a new car
What kind of car can you get for $350?
Why is it marketing to mention using a mister in a thread full of people talking about the devices they use?
>Why is it marketing to mention using a mister in a thread full of people talking about the devices they use?
'cause it's too often damn obvious? Just buy an ad ffs
>it's not emulation it's fpga!!!!
>oh if you want an emulation box try the mister 🙂
You marketing goons need to make up your mind.
Nintendo Switch with retroarch. Mainly for SNES game.
Notable for being the only hackable system that can run Yoshi's Island perfectly.
windows 7,1964 emu,gens32 surreal,zsnes hack and nestopia.
i would use linux if the bastards at libretro didn't promote their shitty emu.
>want to use just bsnes on linux : you can't there isn't a pacakage
>want to use snes9x : there isn't one available but hey we have libretro snes9x,we don't have the needed files for most distros.
>want to use fceux : was removed because...???? is old??.
>want to use vba-m : we have mgba available for our 2024 distro,we don't have the latest build but we have mgba version 0.8
>want to use pcsx-r : sorry was removed because is old
>want to use duckstation : we can't because we received complains of developer so we can't include it.
>want to use desmume : we don't have latest build on our updated distro but you can still use one of our builds is version 0.9.11
windows is shit when it comes to modern versions,and linux can't even be used for emulation like in the past because ???? .
forgot this one from a distro i got working with that libretro
> want to use libretro : sorry you need to use the same roms that we used verfied by hash so you need to dump it yourself otherwise it won't detect the roms.
Wii (since 2009-10), now exclusively with my Wavebird I got from my dad for my 14-15th birthday, but I'm thinking of switching to my Steam Deck once I get a screen protector for it.
How stable are the ps1 and n64 games? I tried some n64 ones and they were either awful or just couldn't play them. I guess that ps1 games are even worse.
Playstation emulation on the Wii is quite decent at this point besides a few games not working, but it aint cut and dry, ita divided between WiiSX and Wiistation, the later has introduced 240p, interleaced mode for games like Tekken3, Force NTSC, many video filters and even Soumd interpolation, but sadly since a couple of versions has made the framerate (not gamespeed) become stuttery, and game compatibility is divided between Lightrec and new Dynarec, CHD files may crash the emulator, and certain games still dont work.
WiiSX has better compatibity but lacks all the video updates and interleaced games run worse.
N64 is worthless outside of VC.
I can't believe I had no problems with playing sin and punishment some years ago. Tried it again last week and it felt really weird.
Which one, the wii versiom of you tried to emulate the n64 original?
Emulated the original.
there, the n64 emulation outside of VC is catshit
PC & MiSTer
I got my old PSP 3000 out of my attic recently and I've been using it for GB/SNES/PS1. It feels very strange to use it again because of the size of it, my phone is bigger than it is. I also can't help but treat it like a valuable artifact or some shit because I've got a ton of good memories with it. Kept me entertained on so many journeys on public transport.
wish mister wasn't $600