>emulation is dying because zoomers are corporate slaves who only believe in buying $70 remasters
what the FUCK went wrong?
>emulation is dying because zoomers are corporate slaves who only believe in buying $70 remasters
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Emulation is in a better place than it's ever been
>oomers
>???
just a generational shit flinging bait thread move on
Being able to play games from console on PC is great right now yeah but emulation is dying. Its practicaly become just Wine for new systems.
Can that even be helped these days? Consoles continue to become more like computers every generation.
Wouldn't that make emulation easier then? If anything you'd think emulation would speed up.
In terms of their UI, sure. But the architecture is the hard part.
>brings emulation back from the dead and better than ever
holy based!
RetroArch are thieves and they killed DuckStation.
>D*ckstation
Swanstation*
>killed DuckStation.
wut?
Last time I used it last year it was considered the best ps1 emulator.
Dev had a fit because people took his open source emulator and put it into a retroarch core, quit working on it but the community picked it back up on their own under the name swanstation.
Only by idiots.
The dev quit the project, and PCSX2 and Dolphin and AetherSX2, like half a dozen times because he's an unhinged schizo. RetroArch is just one of many things he's blamed his mental breakdowns on.
And Swanstation is the RetroArch fork of it.
He is not a schizo at all. He is right and retro arch grifters keep trying to make money off him.
The guy is a narcissistic psycho, that's all there is to it. First things first: don't release open source projects into public if you don't want other people to tinker with them. That guy is a huge hindrance to any civilised discussion and progress. Just a cunt.
Ahem, you must be knew to the scene so here's a friendly tip from someone that's been around the block a few times.
Open source=good.
Closed source=bad.
You must be a fucking retard because you cant comprehend what you read.
Flying off the handle over what someone else is doing with open source software=bad
>emulation is dying
>PS3 can finally be emulated
>Switch emulated ~1 year after the release
Nah. Still waiting for Vita though.
I never call video games, anime, etc. "reddit", but for Retro Arch, I need to make an exception. The way it works, the "I need to have platform in one program" way of thinking, the flashy game libraries with covers and all, it's just all the quintessence of "reddit" to me.
My copy of DuckStation still works, I can upload it for you, if yours was killed.
Both Switch emus work surprisingly well. Finished a couple of games, like Metroid Dread, Zelda: Skyward Sword and Triangle Strategy, all in 4k/60fps and with zero problems. Tested Live a Live as well, works perfectly.
Only Crash Team Racing had some sound problems, but I haven't tested it since 1,5 years ago.
>the flashy game libraries with covers and all
I've never used RetroArch but that sounds kinda cool
I'm still mad that vita emulation is basically non-existent. It pretty much just works for Persona 4 golden and that's it. Everything else I tried barely works if it works at all.
Where is PSP emulation at? I haven't tried it yet but there's a couple games there I might be interested in, if the emulation scene is developed enough.
everything works with psp emulation, even 4k with netplay.
vita has gone nowhere in a year. i keep trying it with muramasa and acts identical.
Oh cool, I'll have to try it out then. Speaking of which, what's the latest console generation that's emulatable? My understanding is that switch emulation is pretty advanced but only for BOTW or something? I've literally never seen people bother emulating anything else, not even shit like Mario Oddessy or whatever
switch emulation is retarded good thanks to nintendo autists. switch games run better emulated than on actual hardware. botw 2 is going to run better on steam deck than switch.
ps3 emulation is super good and 360 is somewhat decent but slow to improve. og xbox is great now.
ps4 emulation has started but only plays sonic mania really.
>Sonic Mania
....Why not just pirate the PC version or something then? The game's already fucking on PC, what does emulating it add?
Also fuck I hope PS4 emulation makes Bloodborne playable at a higher frame rate.
>....Why not just pirate the PC version or something then? The game's already fucking on PC, what does emulating it add?
You don't make an emulator for a game, you make an emulator for a system. Sonic Mania is just a very simple game that doesn't need much of the system to be emulated to run so it (and a few other simple shovelware titles) happen to work while the emulator is in its early stages.
PPSSPP is absurdly good and lightweight
Even my older brother's office notebook can run PSP flawless (Lenovo, 8GB RAM, Core i7 6th Gen, 4GB VRAM). I've tested GTPSP and it runs like butter in a bread. Now I need to fiddle with AutoHotKey and get to run a script that makes the throttle button to work like the analogs in GT4.
>butter in a bread
What the fuck does that even mean. Is that like, not smooth like butter because bread is coarse with crumbs? It runs like shit?
Pay no mind to ESLs
Sorry, it's like "knife in a butter". It runs fine, at least using Vulkan rather than OpenGL.
the expression is hot knife through butter
I constantly see these threads about zoomers supposedly being unable to emulate, but I never see any posts from zoomers about how they don't emulate.
>retardarch
For me, it's standalone.
I can't remember what it was, but I heard a certain emulator dev went "fuck all of you" and had a meltdown
>Emulator for PS1 on mobile phones I think?
>But only for android
>People kept harassing him to make an iphone version but he literally couldn't
>He got so sick of it he went "fuck it" and deliberately made the emulator app worse and filled with ads just to piss people off
AetherSX2, same guy as
but under a sudonym.
Nothing went wrong. I say keep letting retarded consoomers purchase the remasters and let emulation go unnoticed.
How come any post mentioning "zoomers" is pure garbage full of strawmaning?
Are there any games that are improved by emulation? I know switch games tend to work better due to not being limited to a glorified Nintendo DS
Many emulators/RetroArch cores support overclocking the emulated CPU
It makes megaman 3 much better for example
Basically every game in existence is improved by emulation. Upscaling, shaders, filters, save states, rewind, CPU overclock, remove sprite limit, romhacks, uncapping framerate, etc.
I gotta be honest, I just emulate to play games I want to play again but can't for whatever reason. I have no idea what any of that shit means except for rom hack and save states.
Actually, what the fuck IS overclocking? I literally don't know anything about it except it might damage your hardware so I never looked into it at all.
In the case i said, the emulated CPU is ran faster than normal, not your real CPU
Old games would fail to reach the fps target and run slower than usual when too much stuff is on screen, or when the coding is poor, or when it's a SNES in general
With a faster virtual CPU, the games manage to actually always reach the target and no slow occurs
Finally an emulation thread
Is Ryujinx gyro broken or something? Been playing Skyward Sword but I don't think Ryujinx is recognizing BetterJoyforCEMU.
Worked fine with my DS4 and DS4Windows.
How does Skyward Sword work without motion controls? Do you like, use the mouse or someting?
Works perfectly fine with a normal controller, I only used gyro for aiming, but you can use an analog stick instead.
how can it be dying when I was able to play n64 and ps1 games perfectly on my shitty laptop 15 years ago? we lost the technology??
if you mean emulating modern day consoles then yeah thats probably gonna be harder to do but is there even a game that came out in the last 5 years worth emulating?
Zoomers emulate shit on their phones all the time
No emulation is dying bc devs are fucking garden gnomes, see the swtich
>emulation is dying, please stop playing these games for free and buy the 70 dollar remasters
Is there a way to get emulation playable with a controller? Sometimes the control schemes get so awkward with just a keyboard.
I'm not sure if every emulator has a controller remap feature, but Retroarch has it
Simply plug your controller and go to Setting > Input > Port 1 controller to rebind your controls
Best part is that it applies to every emulator you use on Retroarch
Oh, now that's mighty handy. I'll have to give it a shot next month, got a long public holiday so I'll be able to settle in for some nostalgic gaming. I wanna see if I can play Phantom Crash again
>Phantom Crash
>Xbox game
That one won't work on Retroarch since there is still no Xbox emulator added to their database, but xemu, a working xbox emulator, does have controller support. I know that because I remember playing one of the games on the emulator with an xbox controller
Ah right, thanks for the heads up. If that doesn't work then I'm sure there's something else I can play anyway.
Gen A is fucked.
I seriously don't get the point of these 3-in-1 videos. Like I get its for people with short attention spans buy why the fuck did you even click on it if you aren't even interested in the main content? It's only a matter of time before companies realise you can have an entire 25 minute ad playing next to a video because of zoomer ADHD
I just find it fucked that I could play OoT in a 2GHz single core laptop in 2010 and the same emulator now has issues on a modern system.
Every standalone 64 emulator I've tried gives me horrible screen tearing that doesn't go away even with Vsync on.
What's really weird is it doesn't happen when that same emulator is running in RetroArch.
>What is interlacing
> grrr zoomers are wagies who only want remasters so tht means emulation is dying
You serious OP?
moron all i do is emulate games i missed growing up. i will literally never run out of games to play, which is great because everything after 07-09 is gay and pozz'd.
again i will literally never run out of things to play for the rest of my natural life.
emulation is dying because rippers and crackers make everything a pain in the ass to DL.
Can I emulate 360 games? I want to play Crackdown 1 + 2.
Yes you can with https://xenia.jp/
Check to see games that are compatible with the emulator https://github.com/xenia-project/game-compatibility/issues
Crackdown games don't run very good
Emulation is dying because zoomers don't have nostalgia for the games you grew up playing
they unironically had Reddit parents in love with their PS3s, I remember a friend of mine buying multiplats for his PS3 even though he had a beast PC and knew how to pirate games, literal sony brand loyalty changed everything