Two Dollars
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Will you accept a release of the remaster’s source code? Because that happened two months ago.
Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster
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Bruce LaLiLuLeLo
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Nah, when it comes to EA and CNC the only thing I'll accept is the OpenRA devs being given a bigger budget and official endorsement, probably rights to remaster red alert 2. The remaster is ass, inflated filesizes, little to no gameplay improvements, texturework imported to a Malaysian sweatshop, whatever else. OpenRA is near perfect with filesize compatibility gameplay everything, those guys are like much smarter versions of the people working at nightdive. They're currently remastering tiberian sun I think.
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Retroarch has shader support for each console. You can sort of get a similar effect with ReShade but it's not as good for emulating CRT bezels.
Retroarch has shader support for each console. You can sort of get a similar effect with ReShade but it's not as good for emulating CRT bezels.
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Dude, if you're just playing arcade games, then just download FightCade 2 and get the json rom downloader. It's so simple and convenient.>"can't wait to play some arcade games again today! They worked perfectly last time so I expect they'll also work perfectly today!"
>fire up retroarch
>select game
>select finalburn neo
>"SORRY NIGGER YOUR ROMS DON'T WORK ON THIS VERSION ANYMORE HARHARHAR"
>mfw
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Just go FPGA, it's so much easier. In just another 12 months I'll have mine working.
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average piracy enjoyer five seconds after saying that buying roms is for dummies
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I don't do emulators anymore but I never understood the point of updating unless something was broken while im playing. SNES9X from 15 years ago was perfectly fine.
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It makes no sense for emulators that are more or less established such as SNES9X (even then some games can benefit from the improved compatability), but for emulators like PCSX2, its absolutely necessary as hardware emulation is only really perfect with a handful of games.
Also is there a website for finding FPGA parts? I was planning on building a MisTer somewhat soon.
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There's a bunch. In the US I like "MiSTer Addons"
Basically a MiSTer is just: an FPGA board(DE10-Nano. Mister Pi or similar), a stick(or 2) of RAM, an I/O board(not 100% needed but has some quality of life improvements like lights and buttons), and a USB hub. And probably a case. The MisterPi is just a different DE-10 Nano board at a lower price point, but often out of stock, then add the same accessories. I think the official place for that is RetroRemake dot co.
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Alright on the topic of RetroArch, I've found it only really exceeds with emulators without any GUI as you don't have to fuck about with a terminal in order to fucking play video games. Everything else past Dreamcast is an absolute chore to play on compared to standalone launchers like PCSX2 and Dolphin, then you have the weird fucking thing where they don't allow certain emulators like Xenia and the PS3 emulator. By chore I mean it's messy as hell to configure Dolphin in RetroArch (on a game by game basis) than just having the standalone emulator right there. For all the flashy options they have you can't just go to a core and edit the options in RetroArch without finding the config file and tweaking it with notepad (I'll admit I might be retarded and missed a very clear option but I can't seem to figure it out).
However, and a big however, if you don't really care about enhancements and literally just playing games as they played on your old console then it's fairly good to just shove the entire GB/GBC/GBA/Mega Drive/NES/SNES/PS1/N64 library in a roms folder and boom, you've got a fairly decent emulation box that you can run off any shitty PC you have lying around or as a folder on your gaming rig. As a bonus, as those old emulators are so old and not really progressing anytime soon the RetroArch GUI is significantly snappier and just better in general to switch games on the fly.
It also has the ability to load it in portable mode, which I do because I figure in 10 years time I'll be able to just drop the entire folder in another PC and it'll save a billion manual saves I've made over the years without any fucking around.
However, and a big however, if you don't really care about enhancements and literally just playing games as they played on your old console then it's fairly good to just shove the entire GB/GBC/GBA/Mega Drive/NES/SNES/PS1/N64 library in a roms folder and boom, you've got a fairly decent emulation box that you can run off any shitty PC you have lying around or as a folder on your gaming rig. As a bonus, as those old emulators are so old and not really progressing anytime soon the RetroArch GUI is significantly snappier and just better in general to switch games on the fly.
It also has the ability to load it in portable mode, which I do because I figure in 10 years time I'll be able to just drop the entire folder in another PC and it'll save a billion manual saves I've made over the years without any fucking around.
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Anyone know where I can track down the latest product/title key files for Switch? I downloaded XBX and the emulator Citron because it apparently runs it the best right now, but I've been out of the Switch emulation game so long I dunno what sites are trustworthy anymore.
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This appears to be for a custom fw rather than a PC emulator, unless I'm mistaken?
Two Dollars
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They don’t “allow” certain emulators because no one has ported them. Cores don’t just come into existence on their own, someone has to make them, and more advanced emulators required more specialized hardware/architecture are going to be more difficult to adapt to something as platform-agnostic as LibRetro.
Case in point: the Dolphin core used to at least be close to standalone, but standalone got a lot of updates, and for whatever reason the core just got left behind. But some others like MelonDS DS are specifically designed to work upstream from the original.
It’s literally called Core Options in the default quick menu, come on man.
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Searched this thread for someone to mention Terranigma but surprised no one has. Pretty great SNES game. Just finished it today, has some jank here and there but overall was a pretty great gem that didn't get released in burgerland. If you haven't checked it out and like Illusion of Gaia and action RPGs check it out, it is made by the same people as their last game. Not too long of a game but it's got it's cryptic shit at times. I don't know if there is a balance hack but it would benefit greatly as it becomes too easy to over level or be under leveled if you speed through it. Soundtrack is a fucking banger though. Hope you frens enjoy.
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Bruce LaLiLuLeLo
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It depends on the console and the library. Dolphin despite being the primo best emulator for gamecube and wii for like 15 years at this point, still doesnt have compatibility for everything. They added compatibility for castlevania chronicles in 2022 I think in one of the dev versions. The last official release of dolphin was in 2015 and is compatible with 90% of the Wii and gamecube library. So reason 1 for updates - compatibility
Reason 2 - Improvements. PCSX2 can run mgs3 from start to finish with no issues, near perfectly and was able to do so since I think version 1.2.0. Despite that it still can't render the light textures in dremuchij properly and has framerate/rendering/sound issues during the chase sequences, some of which were only recently changed in 1.6.0 I think over a year ago (the most recent version probably is much better at those). Project64 has introduced new methods of rendering to improve the framerates, new texture mapping capability, new plugin support and stuff I think as of 21 22, it's another emulator which has been functional since 2005 but still nice to have. Mames rom and compatibility list expands with each release with minor texture and sound improvements. Etc etc etc I think you get the picture. This doesn't apply that much to things like mesen and snes9x which are practically abandoned at this point, old console emulators in general don't require fine tuning beyond limits (bsnes does have minor improvements like hd mode 7, hd textures, there will probably be cycle speed and widescreen at original aspect ratio enhancements in the future once those dedicated projects are done) but it's nice to have emulator updates which give us nice stuff.
If you just want a functional game then no problem, play with old versions. For newer consoles generally it's going to be a bit of the hassle to get everything running just right, cemu still isn't perfect for the vast majority of wii u games without third party enhancements.
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Its alright if you like dungeon crawlers, from older stuff I played with SMT games, it scratched that "fuck everything up and explore" itch , just don't expect the story or setting to be as interesting as the first 2 fallouts.
if the idea of making a small group of retards together, and being dropped into a open world and being told by the game "go be a problem" appeals to you,
you'll have an alright time.
Two Dollars
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One other thing about RA I forgot to mention that’s often overlooked despite being one of the main selling points: its platform-agnostic-ness makes it easy to port large amounts of things at once. When a new device/chip/etc is released, all someone has to do is port RetroArch itself and the new thing can suddenly emulate a ton of systems without each one needing to be ported individually.
There are some individual games that have gotten cores, and it makes them way more accessible. Super Mario War’s core not only makes that game playable on far more devices, it quickly became the definitive way to play it on systems that already had a standalone version due to things like performance improvements. Cave Story (or at least the vanilla version) was the same way due to nx-engine’s core, but the much better Doukutsu-rs just got a core that’s already appearing on more devices.
There are some individual games that have gotten cores, and it makes them way more accessible. Super Mario War’s core not only makes that game playable on far more devices, it quickly became the definitive way to play it on systems that already had a standalone version due to things like performance improvements. Cave Story (or at least the vanilla version) was the same way due to nx-engine’s core, but the much better Doukutsu-rs just got a core that’s already appearing on more devices.
Last year, they reworked their release system to have stable releases every few months, with the most recent being just last week. Even ignoring that, Dolphin has always had such a rigorous code review process that even the frequent “beta” releases were considered stable in everything but name; enough so that the current downloads page retroactively refers to them as stable.