Bros just use RA and learn how to use it as you go. After you become a pro you will never go back. Shaders are so good I threw out my crt, just need to get a light gun.
Filtered- the emulator
Bros just use RA and learn how to use it as you go. After you become a pro you will never go back. Shaders are so good I threw out my crt, just need to get a light gun.
This thread needs some screens
>component shaders
Why?? You have an LCD/OLED motherfricker, you have razor-sharp pixels already
Sharp pixels sux! Not intended by 8/16/32-bit era developers.
why would you care about dev intentions fool, and why do you assume you know them
just pick what looks good to you
Developers made games using rgb monitors moron, lol.
Yeah I made a grilled cheese sandwich in the oven therefore I should use the fricking tray as cutlery to consume it with
>food analogy
Would've been a good point if I didn't subjectively enjoy the filtered look
And do you think they were so stupid to think that the people at home were also going to be using those?
Jesus, you have NO IDEA what you're doing. Awful, just awful.
Yeah!? Show something better. Don't waste your time showing shit square pixels.
There's always this one guy in every shader thread who makes this post.
No u. You don't know what you're talking about. You think every CRT looks the same.
The post you replied to was using a shader that looked quite similar to a mid-2000s consumer shadow mask television with the component input being utilized.
This reads like a bad dub directly from the game.
>kega is old and struggles with modern windows
>BlastEm's UI is broken
>Genesis GX and Picodrive only exist as RA cores
RA is the least worst way to emulate genesis games on PC.
>can't think of any valid criticisms of BlastEM so she had to make one up about UI
That's how you know it's good.
Being unable to map your controller because it thinks you're holding left because your sticks drift 0.000000001% is a good enough reason to drop it.
Works on my machine.
That’s because you configured the controls wrong, dumbass.
Works on my machine
NTA but having more than just MD support would be nice, so GX drastically wins as a Kega alternative.
RA runs the same emulator but with a UI made for people, not bugmen
i dont need ui when running emulators. i just need alias and variable for rom select
BlastEm's UI is broken?! Did you email the developer? He is fairly responsive, and the UI in BlastEm is literally a Genesis ROM. BlastEm is the BEST Genesis emulator, period. It has the biggest compatibility list, and can even run wild weird demoscene stuff.
Plus the dood who created it rules.
Use Gens then moron
Use Bizhawk.
>>kega is old and struggles with modern windows
this fixed it for me (tldr use dgVoodoo2's ddraw.dll):
https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/16f1bny/how_to_play_kega_fusion_at_5060_fps_in_windows/
it's still exceptionally laggy
i don't mean it slows down. more frames pass between input and action compared to Genesis Plus GX without run-ahead
Kega does implement Blargg's correctly though
Blargg's filters have been superseded by modern NTSC shaders at this point, though.
Openemu is easier and better.
>Openemu
That's Mac only.
Unrelated, but does retroachievements work offline? Like something retroarch can do without internet.
It's been brought up time and time again for years but always gets shot down because of muh cheaters. The mentally ill freaks in charge and their sycophants can't fathom users just enjoying these little milestone messages just for themselves, it's always got to be about bragging to your mentally ill "friends" on discord.
No.
Say I found an i5 Dell 7020 and want to turn it into a n emulation workhorse. I intend to use this in the living room. Is RA the best route?
I tried Batocera and it runs like shit. All the israelitetubers who say to download box art may as well be shilling subscriptions to those services.
Follow up: how much ram do you recommend?
Launchbox/bigbox is easily pirated, just find a key in the archive and use that.
>Launchbox/bigbox
How come there are no decent free alternatives? Emulation is all about enjoying games for free.
Pirate it, dumbass. The dev made it easy to pirate for a reason, you only pay for it if you want to help out.
>Pirate it, dumbass.
Maybe I'll use EmulationStation
Desktop Edition or Attract Mode. Launchbox doesn't seem to support Linux.
>How come there are no decent free alternatives?
Emu Devs still need to eat.
>Emulation is all about enjoying games for free.
No you poorgay. Emulation is about preservation. Stop being a greedy little pig and enjoy what's given to you. Be happy you can play anything at all.
As if thousend little shitters decided to preserve some videogames. Cut the bullshit, anon. We all know better.
Weak bait.
You should feel grateful that you got any (You)s at all.
If all you wanna do is play games up to Dreamcast, Lakka is the easiest and simplest thing to setup on such a PC. All it does is load RetroArch, so it boots up super fast and there's no stupid bells and whistles, so it's nice and responsive. Just scan your library, pick a game and core, and play. If you want shaders, they're all there. All the cool shit like run-ahead is there, too, so you get super low latency.
The problem? Well, if you want GC/Wii or PS2, the cores are shit for those. If those are must-haves, then you pretty much have to look elsewhere.
I use this shader for upscaled 3d games, looks cool
Looks bad.
Ignoring the dumbass border, how fricked is your monitor calibration for you to think this image is acceptable?
I like how it washes out dreamcast/naomi games which are all super saturated
My monitor is srgb accurate
I use real hardware
Why is SNES so slow? Every time I play a game, something as simple as Super Mario World, I see what looks like lag or stuttering yet the game runs at 60fps constantly. I cannot even explain what it is, it just doesn't feel smooth. It feels like the animations chop. I have played with VSync and FrameSkip, makes no difference. ZSNES on the other hand is butter smooth.
retro arch is most likely running snes/nes games at the appropriate 60.10 frame rate, so every now and then you get stutters in the video on the display
you can use gsync/freesync to fix it or use an inaccurate core that just does 60fps, if one exists in RA, i have no idea
thats why zsnes seems smooth to you
>retro arch is most likely running snes/nes games at the appropriate 60.10 frame rate,
How did that work on CRT?
Crts dont give a shit as long as its within their range, the magic of CRTS
But CRTs refresh at a fixed rate, eg 60 Hz. So if the frame rate from the console is 60.1 Hz then there would be a hidden frame that is not displayed by the CRT once every 10 seconds.
>But CRTs refresh at a fixed rate
They don't.
I try to avoid using RA at this point because it's fricking shit at handling multiple monitors (with only 2 it might be okay) and having it randomly do things like launch at 1920x1080 on my VGA CRT that can't display that resolution then change my main LCD it's not even on to 640x480 when I try to fix it because it gets confused between Windows' and its own monitor IDs and resolution settings is not cool.
Interesting. ZSNES chads win again. Too accurate cores could explain it, because the GameBoy games I have tried on the other hand ran fine.
You have an incorrect configuration or your PC is not up to spec for using the core you have selected. Try using SNES9x current.
Useless post full of misinformation.
RetroArch has a myriad of sync options including syncing to precisely 60 fps.
Properly configured RA settings enable perfectly smooth scrolling with the SNES cores.
>You have an incorrect configuration or your PC is not up to spec for using the core you have selected. Try using SNES9x current.
I'm using whatever is default on Retroarch. Downloaded multiple SNES cores, including BSNES and SNES9X. Made no difference. Meanwhile I can run Wii U, 3DS, and Switch games at 60fps no annoying stuttering using Vulkan.
Alright, I found the solution. I didn't use my 8bitdo controller this time and SNES runs fine. I found someone saying on Github and Reddit that if you're using that controller it can result in FPS going all over the place and sound issues.
Great emulator!
the only reason to use this shit is for the shaders, not some complex program, its shit for morons who don't really care about how emulators work
RA is very easy to use but I didn't like it for desktop PC use for a variety of reasons. Now I just use standalone emulators and my Mister.
launchbox and big box fricking blow I cannot understand why people shill that turbo garbage
>be an appreciator of Retroarch features
>don't want to be associated with shadergays
that is my dilemma
>trying to appease CRT trannies
take your meds
Does it support diagonals yet?
you mean like for 16-way joysticks?
Sure.
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is it ok to like shaders
That looks terrible.
what doesn't look terrible
>just spend six months learning how to configure your emulator to get close to what Mister does out of the box
>spend 6 months getting hyped for the Mister homosexuals to add support for a game any normal emulator could run 20 years ago