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

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Has anyone played an emulated version of Haunting Grounds? I use PCSX2 and have been wanting to replay that game for ages but the performance of that one game is absolute shit for me. I keep reading about workarounds if you have problems with this game but I've yet to actually find someone that says what I can actually attempt to do to fix it.

It's almost laughable that out of all the games I've played on PCSX2 that one I actually really, really want to play is the only one that gives me hell.

Is it right from the start or does it start at a certain point in the game? I tested it right up until getting the clothes(just a couple of minutes in) and it runs at 60fps on modest hardware.
I use PCSX2 1.4.0 - I'll check plugins and settings later, it was a while since I used the emulator but I think I tweaked it pretty hard.

 

[Pissmaster]

So I hacked my PS3 and installed Retroarch and the NES controls were mapped to X for B and O for A, so I tried to remap [_] to B and X to A, but then that changed around the global controls, so I tried to figure out how to change the controls for just the NES cores, so I tried browsing through one of the control menus where it maps what control you'll be using, and upon scrolling to "Disabled", it immediately disabled the controller, softlocking me, and even plugging in a keyboard and restarting Retroarch left it completely locked up, so I'll have to reinstall it, and failing that, FTP into my PS3 and edit an INI file or whatever to fix my controls.

The Retroarch Experience™, ladies and gentlemen.

 

[Stasi]

So I hacked my PS3 and installed Retroarch and the NES controls were mapped to X for B and O for A, so I tried to remap [_] to B and X to A, but then that changed around the global controls, so I tried to figure out how to change the controls for just the NES cores, so I tried browsing through one of the control menus where it maps what control you'll be using, and upon scrolling to "Disabled", it immediately disabled the controller, softlocking me, and even plugging in a keyboard and restarting Retroarch left it completely locked up, so I'll have to reinstall it, and failing that, FTP into my PS3 and edit an INI file or whatever to fix my controls.

The Retroarch Experience™, ladies and gentlemen.

Sounds about right. In theory its a great idea, all your emulators in one place, built in tweaks and all that good stuff.

I've used Retroarch on android, linux and windows and it has always been a huge ass pain. Nothing just works, you need to bash your head against a brick wall to get it working and set up and even then some things either don't work or randomly break.

I also remember reading that the guy that runs the project is a massive sperg?

Why cant everything be like Dolphin or PPSSPP. Nice interface and, at least in my experience, work great with minimal fuss.

 

[Trashfire Garbagefuck]

whoever runs retroarch should be tried for crimes against humanity. certain emulators only exist as cores in it too so you'll eventually find yourself fucking with it. it's awful.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I really get the feels when using RetroArch and for a split second I forget that I'm using Retro Arch and press escape thinking it does what escape does in every other fucking program and emulator that exists in this world. Nope, SHUT IT DOWN! It happens so fast that when I first started using RetroArch I thought that it abruptly crashed for some reason.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Funny, I have Retroarch for Android and it's a pain in the ass for certain things.

Load core, select emulator, then load content. But sometimes I go to load content, load emulator, and it's some variable SNES emulator that doesn't work. Same with PSX. Why so many emulators for the same system? I could see 2-3 but not 10.

Genesis emulation worked fine. Doom worked fine on PRBoom. SNES is still a struggle to find an emulator that works and I found one that works for PSX but it runs the games at like 20 fps.

Glad I'm not the only one having issues with this.

 

[Bread Fetishist]

So, I’ve recently taken an interest in emulation. Can anyone tell me how to get games on Dolphin to run well on a laptop with 4 GB RAM, an i3 processor and an Intel HD 4000 graphics card? Or is there a GameCube emulator more suitable for me?

 

[Coolio55]

Funny, I have Retroarch for Android and it's a pain in the ass for certain things.

Load core, select emulator, then load content. But sometimes I go to load content, load emulator, and it's some variable SNES emulator that doesn't work. Same with PSX. Why so many emulators for the same system? I could see 2-3 but not 10.

Genesis emulation worked fine. Doom worked fine on PRBoom. SNES is still a struggle to find an emulator that works and I found one that works for PSX but it runs the games at like 20 fps.

Glad I'm not the only one having issues with this.

That app is a fucking pain. I remember when I tried emulating GBA it wouldn't save my game unless I messed around with the "How often should we store the save EEPROM?" settings.
Oh, I dunno. How about whenever it's fucking written to?

 

[Trashfire Garbagefuck]

So, I’ve recently taken an interest in emulation. Can anyone tell me how to get games on Dolphin to run well on a laptop with 4 GB RAM, an i3 processor and an Intel HD 4000 graphics card? Or is there a GameCube emulator more suitable for me?

dolphin is the only game in town and your laptop might have some trouble with it if you try to crank the settings up even a little, and some games take more to run to begin with. just keep everything at native resolution and see what works.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

So, I’ve recently taken an interest in emulation. Can anyone tell me how to get games on Dolphin to run well on a laptop with 4 GB RAM, an i3 processor and an Intel HD 4000 graphics card? Or is there a GameCube emulator more suitable for me?

Try the Ishiiruka fork of Dolphin and test which build runs best.

Here's Mario Galaxy running on the HD 4000 using that particular fork(not sure which version though).

edit: @Bread Fetishist some games will still wreck your shit, F-Zero on Gamecube comes to mind. Remember that you can also right click on the games in Dolphin and go into properties to apply tweaks and speed hacks for that specific game.

 

[AveraDiane]

I've been playing some N64 games again, mainly Ocarina of Time, Perfect Dark, and GoldenEye. I also want to buy Majora's Mask from eBay at some point.

Nintendo made a mistake with ending the virtual console.

 

[Gingervitis]

I've been playing some N64 games again, mainly Ocarina of Time, Perfect Dark, and GoldenEye. I also want to buy Majora's Mask from eBay at some point.

Nintendo made a mistake with ending the virtual console.

Yeah. I think the subscription thing for the switch is okay, but they’ve been releasing games at a glacial pace. By this point, we already had the N64. There’s no reason why, with the switch’s more advanced hardware, we can’t have gamecube games in the works.

 

[Pissmaster]

Yeah. I think the subscription thing for the switch is okay, but they’ve been releasing games at a glacial pace. By this point, we already had the N64. There’s no reason why, with the switch’s more advanced hardware, we can’t have gamecube games in the works.

Super Mario 64 was a launch game for the Wii VC, and it was only 10 years old at that point

By that same length of time, we should have, like, Punch-Out!! Wii and Xenoblade Chronicles as virtual console games. Or hell, Super Mario 3D Land is turning 10 years old next year, port that already.

Yeah, I just had a fucking moment just now when I realized the 3DS is almost ten years old, jfc

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Shit, I'm still salty about the fall of Emuparadise. Granted, I responded by downloading archives of the entire NES, SNES, and Genesis libraries, but it's still a major inconvenience whenever I wanna find something outside of those few consoles, like Playstation or the Gamecube.

You can still download from Emuparadise with a Tampermonkey script.

r/Piracy - A script for easy downloading of emuparadise roms!

803 votes and 351 comments so far on Reddit

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[TaimuRadiu]

If it all really goes to hell we're all going to be playing vidya on Android devices. Why is RetroArch both a cobbled together piece of shit and pretty much the only option for a lot of things?

 

[Marissa Moira]

I had no idea Wisdom tree was still around and still making Genesis, NES and SNES games.

 

[Vapewizard]

Sometimes I'm hit with a huge nostalgia wave for the time when I was pretty young, like early primary school aged, and I attempted to play Loom even though I barely knew english at the time. I didn't actually know what was happening or what I was supposed to do but I did gain a fascination for this old PC game artstyle that I still love to this day, especially of the night scenes.

It's so pretty and moody.

 

[Marissa Moira]

N64 still seems to be real cheap to get shit for.

Although I still don't have a copy of mario 64, I have every major title for the system and I've collected all the RPGs for the system. That and I've been collecting the colored carts and have the majority of them like I've got all the Yellow Carts, all the Gold Carts, and I'm missing like 1 blue, 2 red, and a few blacks. There's like 42 in total which means colored carts have something to do with the meaning of life.

 

[Pissmaster]

I had no idea Wisdom tree was still around and still making Genesis, NES and SNES games.

More or less. Some company that's been buying up the rights to abandonware by the name of Piko Interactive bought them out and released some of their games on Steam, and started printing new cartridges of Super 3D Noah's Ark and multicarts for their NES and Genesis games by way of Kickstarter.

Before that, though, they released goofy NES-on-a-Chip consoles like this:

I really wanna get one of those.

N64 still seems to be real cheap to get shit for.

Although I still don't have a copy of mario 64, I have every major title for the system and I've collected all the RPGs for the system. That and I've been collecting the colored carts and have the majority of them like I've got all the Yellow Carts, all the Gold Carts, and I'm missing like 1 blue, 2 red, and a few blacks. There's like 42 in total which means colored carts have something to do with the meaning of life.

That shouldn't be hard if you've already got the gold carts out of the way. Most of the colorful cartridges were late-era trash, like 4/6 of the red ones were sports games so if they hold any value at all, it's purely for the cartridge color. Fun fact, Tony Hawk 1 came on a blue cart while the PS1 version was on a blue disc, and Tony Hawk 2 was on a yellow cart, with a yellow disc on PS1. (disc colors being the label, not the back)

And speaking N64, there bizarrely aren't many multicarts out there. Like, the only one I've seen a lot of is a Mario Party 3-pack, with a bunch of random emulated NES games to pad it out. I might get one at some point, all the N64 Mario Party games are fairly valuable, though it's weird that you can't just get some kind of crazy multicart with like 50 games. Nooooooope, I guess they make proper multicarts now. No way in hell am I gonna pay like $70 for one on eBay but I'll keep an eye out elsewhere.


(sorry about the image quality of the list, I pulled this off of eBay)

 

[MysticMisty]

More or less. Some company that's been buying up the rights to abandonware by the name of Piko Interactive bought them out and released some of their games on Steam, and started printing new cartridges of Super 3D Noah's Ark and multicarts for their NES and Genesis games by way of Kickstarter.

Is there any incentive to even buy them on Steam? Like, I can sort of understand the multicarts for collection reasons (or taking advantage of the well meaning but out of touch religious relatives/parents as originally intended), but why Steam? Who the hell is paying real money on a mediocre at best product they can download and play for free?