Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

It’s literally called Core Options in the default quick menu, come on man.

That's actually bizarre, you can change the options for games while in the actual games but not through the actual menu itself.

This is what I see from the main menu, nothing there but that's fine.

I go to settings instead, there we go cores. That should cover it. Cores->Manage Cores->Emulator

Except here we are in the Gameboy Advance emulator and there's no ability to change settings. I go to Dolphin and the same applies, I go to the PS1 emulator and same applies.


I'd never have actually thought of going to the menu mid-game to tweak settings until you mentioned it. Really strange behavior for an emulator as every single emulator I've used before you typically tweak the settings before pressing play.

 

[Glory To Arztotska]

Pardon the rookie question, but is this thread for retro games in general including modern ports and collections, or purely for emulators/ROMs/vintage hardware and actual physical media?

 

[LifeAlert]

I'd never have actually thought of going to the menu mid-game to tweak settings until you mentioned it. Really strange behavior for an emulator as every single emulator I've used before you typically tweak the settings before pressing play.

It's probably because the core settings differ depending on the game (for example in FBN, the core settings has a "DIP switches" menu for the particular game you're playing) and you can set core settings on a per-game basis

Pardon the rookie question, but is this thread for retro games in general including modern ports and collections, or purely for emulators/ROMs/vintage hardware and actual physical media?

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[Glory To Arztotska]

In that case, Armored Core 1 (PS+ port) is giving me a healthy ass-kicking and I'm loving every moment of it (even if having only one thumbstick to work with for controls is a pain).

 

[Samuel Fuller]

That's actually bizarre, you can change the options for games while in the actual games but not through the actual menu itself.

This is what I see from the main menu, nothing there but that's fine.
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I go to settings instead, there we go cores. That should cover it. Cores->Manage Cores->Emulator
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Except here we are in the Gameboy Advance emulator and there's no ability to change settings. I go to Dolphin and the same applies, I go to the PS1 emulator and same applies.
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I'd never have actually thought of going to the menu mid-game to tweak settings until you mentioned it. Really strange behavior for an emulator as every single emulator I've used before you typically tweak the settings before pressing play.

Your mistake is thinking RetroArch is an emulator. It is not.

RetroArch is a unified front-end that runs multiple emulators, so if you haven't loaded a core, the front-end has no idea what the options would be in the emulator you are going to run from it.

 

[Two Dollars]

That's actually bizarre, you can change the options for games while in the actual games but not through the actual menu itself.

This is what I see from the main menu, nothing there but that's fine.
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I go to settings instead, there we go cores. That should cover it. Cores->Manage Cores->Emulator
View attachment 7118937
Except here we are in the Gameboy Advance emulator and there's no ability to change settings. I go to Dolphin and the same applies, I go to the PS1 emulator and same applies.
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I'd never have actually thought of going to the menu mid-game to tweak settings until you mentioned it. Really strange behavior for an emulator as every single emulator I've used before you typically tweak the settings before pressing play.

Oh yeah, that’s a weird behavior that I’ve just gone numb to. But as others have said, options can indeed change on a per-game basis for stuff like arcade. Still, it would be nice to have universal core options that appear when you’ve loaded a core but haven’t loaded any content yet.

Also, friendly piece of advice: You don’t have to load a core then a rom, you can select a rom directly and it’ll ask which relevant core you want to load (so a GBA rom will give you a list of any core that can play GBA). And if you create playlists, you can set a default core for each playlist.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Has anyone here played Wasteland? As a fan of the Fallout series, I plan on playing it.

I only played the modern game (Wasteland 2?). Didn't think much of it, but then I hated classic Fallout as well.

 

[Glory To Arztotska]

Has anyone here played Wasteland? As a fan of the Fallout series, I plan on playing it.

If you want a trip through a piece of gaming history, go ahead. If you want to actually have fun, probably better off just watching a Let's Play so you don't risk falling asleep.

 

[Calandrino]

Pardon the rookie question, but is this thread for retro games in general including modern ports and collections, or purely for emulators/ROMs/vintage hardware and actual physical media?

This thread is a text adventure in which the choices that you, the player, make, will determine the outcome.

 

[Glory To Arztotska]

This thread is a text adventure in which the choices that you, the player, make, will determine the outcome.

>xyzzy

 

[Gingervitis]

Is Dinosaur Planet any good? I want to give it a shot, but I’m seeing that furries are working on fixing the game up, so it’s 50/50 on whether or not the game will actually be any good.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

In more RetroArch woes I've just seen how it handles cheats and I'm spellbound. So it downloads cheats tables automatically so you think they'd be loaded to each individual game so you can select them when playing right? RIGHT?

Nope, you have to use the in game cheat menu to go to the file browser to find the specific cheat file from the cheats folder and then enable them manually. It also doesn't save once you leave the game so you have to do it all over again if you want to cheat again.

Compare this to Dolphin where you can just download cheat files from the ingame menu or PCSX2 where you can just download a stack of PNRCH files and boom, you can select them before playing each game.

To top it off, I've discovered that it checks games against an internal database and only displays them if they match. Even ROMS that work are unable to be found if they don't have the correct metadata.

It's amazing. It was hyped up as a massive emulation station that JUST WORKED but so many things seem to be put out of harms way in order to be retard proof. It's the Mac of Emulators, locked in junk that requires fucking around in illogical ways to get what you want done.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Can someone explain the appeal of retroarch to me? I've always thought of it as a scam, a mainstreamed retro streaming service for free sounded too good to be true. I've been doing rom stuff since I was 14 and I always had different folders and emulators organized properly for roms and isos, never once have I come across something like retroarch which seems to be held together with cellotape and cardboard. The closest I did was wii u usb helper which is an application used to collate and download/update wiiu 3ds games with appropriate emulator updates. That was good though, retroarch seems to be just bad.

Also I've had this experience with mame bro. Hunting down specific sound and system drivers for mame just so one game can run is a nightmare at times.

Unified frontend for everything and shaders. I would also say that the "scan" options are good for MAME ROMs instead of shitfuc.zip you have SHIT FUCK THE ARCADE GAME show up on a playlist title.

 

[Two Dollars]

In more RetroArch woes I've just seen how it handles cheats and I'm spellbound. So it downloads cheats tables automatically so you think they'd be loaded to each individual game so you can select them when playing right? RIGHT?

Nope, you have to use the in game cheat menu to go to the file browser to find the specific cheat file from the cheats folder and then enable them manually. It also doesn't save once you leave the game so you have to do it all over again if you want to cheat again.

It's the option called "Auto-Apply Cheats During Game Load". It's right there in the cheats menu...

To top it off, I've discovered that it checks games against an internal database and only displays them if they match. Even ROMS that work are unable to be found if they don't have the correct metadata.

No? I'm able to load any cheat file for any rom, even unverified, just fine.

 

[Never Scored]

I got the Sonic Origins+ collection for Xbox brand new for like $20. While the execution leaves something to be desired because lol Sega, I love the concept of porting a collection of 16-bit titles instead of relying on emulation. I wish more companies would attempt it. I would pay full game price for a remastered, wide-screen Super Mario All-Stars + World that ran natively on the Switch.

 

[Mr. 0]

I got the Sonic Origins+ collection for Xbox brand new for like $20. While the execution leaves something to be desired because lol Sega, I love the concept of porting a collection of 16-bit titles instead of relying on emulation. I wish more companies would attempt it. I would pay full game price for a remastered, wide-screen Super Mario All-Stars + World that ran natively on the Switch.

Think of the money they'd have to pay to actually do that. Those ports on Sonic Origins? Already existed for a decade (the mobile releases of Sonic 1/2/CD). The port of Sonic 3 was something being toyed around with as a proof-of-concept by the same dev when Sega said no. Until they said yes.

 

[Calandrino]

I got the Sonic Origins+ collection for Xbox brand new for like $20. While the execution leaves something to be desired because lol Sega, I love the concept of porting a collection of 16-bit titles instead of relying on emulation. I wish more companies would attempt it. I would pay full game price for a remastered, wide-screen Super Mario All-Stars + World that ran natively on the Switch.

That sounds like the exact sort of thing that Nintendo would ever do. We already got jacked-up versions of Space Harrier, Shinobi, Outrun etc from Sega. The execution on those didn't leave much to be desired, imo.

 

[Pee Cola]

This is a fun watch. Just under a year ago Spanish dude named Alejandro Martin announced that he was releasing an FPGA powered console called the SuperSega. The first alarm bells started to ring when he claimed that the SuperSega would be able to play Dreamcast games from original DC discs... and the story gets a whole lot crazier from there.

Irrespect of your opinion of DJ Slopes, this is well worth spending a couple of hours to watch.

How Alejandro Martin has escaped the attention of our Agricultores españoles is beyond me. He's prime lolcow.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

This is a fun watch. Just under a year ago Spanish dude named Alejandro Martin announced that he was releasing an FPGA powered console called the SuperSega. The first alarm bells started to ring when he claimed that the SuperSega would be able to play Dreamcast games from original DC discs... and the story gets a whole lot crazier from there.

Irrespect of your opinion of DJ Slopes, this is well worth spending a couple of hours to watch.

How Alejandro Martin has escaped the attention of our Agricultores españoles is beyond me. He's prime lolcow.

Not only is Alejandro seem like a prime lolcow, at times it feels like he’s an absolute shitposter with how he posts to Slopes and other people, drunkenly.

 

[HexFag]

Dropped. My immersion is ruined.