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Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster
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So SourMesen has throw in the towel and archived Mesen and Mesen-S. Both Nintendo emulators for the NES and SNES respectfully. No one knows why. He just up and did it. Rumor on /r/emulation is because the SameBoy dev was mad at SM for taking SB code for Mesen-S and using it without credit. But who knows.
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It's funny, Retroarch refused to play nice with any computer or phone I've ever used, but on my new rig it's just fine. What the hell? Why is it working NOW? Whatever jackasses are in charge of this must test things on one computer and that's it, I guess I got lucky. It sure is nice to finally emulate some of this shit there's no standalone emulator for, and now that it's working right some of the ones that do are easier to deal with here. Every core was fine except one I needed a bios for, so I just downloaded someone else's system folder and I haven't had any issues like that since.
The only thing I couldn't solve with a quick google was consistently getting my imitation saturn controller and widescreen Dreamcast emulation working. But then the Saturn controller started working when I had it pretend to be a switch pro controller. Again what the hell? Flycast is still being weird about what games will go true widescreen and which will just stretch, but idgaf they were meant for 4/3 and this is the most accurate Dreamcast emulator I've ever seen. Oh and the MAME implementation is bullshit, not the core just the way it's integrated into Retroarch.
The only thing I couldn't solve with a quick google was consistently getting my imitation saturn controller and widescreen Dreamcast emulation working. But then the Saturn controller started working when I had it pretend to be a switch pro controller. Again what the hell? Flycast is still being weird about what games will go true widescreen and which will just stretch, but idgaf they were meant for 4/3 and this is the most accurate Dreamcast emulator I've ever seen. Oh and the MAME implementation is bullshit, not the core just the way it's integrated into Retroarch.
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Are people saying that a comb effect should be visible for it to be 'retro'?
No, they want some advanced deinterlacing algorithm to "convert" it.
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In a little over a month from now I'm gonna call the Xbox One a retro console
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MVG made a video about PS2 emulation on the Xbox Series S with Retroarch running under dev mode(one time fee of $20).
Stasi
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Anyone else have issues with the Beetle core in retroarch?
I've been wanting to mess around with some of the graphical tweaks for the PS1 emulator to play at higher resolutions but Beetle runs fucking awful with even default settings for some reason on multiple systems. I refuse to believe a Ryzen 3 and an i7 6700hq aren't powerful enough to run a PS1 emulator in 2020.
I assume its some retroarch retardation where some default setting buried in the menu is tanking performance for no reason but I can't figure out what it is.
I've been wanting to mess around with some of the graphical tweaks for the PS1 emulator to play at higher resolutions but Beetle runs fucking awful with even default settings for some reason on multiple systems. I refuse to believe a Ryzen 3 and an i7 6700hq aren't powerful enough to run a PS1 emulator in 2020.
I assume its some retroarch retardation where some default setting buried in the menu is tanking performance for no reason but I can't figure out what it is.
Hongourable Madisha
You see, some of us don't know English properly.
True & Honest Fan
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I've been enjoying the old BBC Acorn text adventures from my childhood. There's various emulators for it, including a browser based one here: https://bbc.godbolt.org/ and lots of old games here: http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/
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That's the Mednafen PSX core, correct? I only use that for the 2D games on the PS1. For the 3D shit, use PCSXR-PGXP. Works great for me.
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honestly, if the Series S had a disc drive, I'd be all over it. But it doesn't. Thus is life. But kodi is available as a regular download for it, so BD rips are possible.
I still think a SBC will match most of what the Series S can do.
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REEE @ Retroarch, but you could do this with any old Xbox One, too.
You know, the Xbox One, that old retro console released an entire SEVEN years before Corona-Chan took over the world
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I love everything which is related to Nintendo and Dreamcast, and games like Streets Of Rage, especially those, where we could play along, three or four players at the same time. I could find a video on Utreon recently ( weblink ) with the full gameplay of Streets Of Rage 4. I wish we could have such graphics those days in 2000's...
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download Beetle HW or another core that allows hardware upscaling. Regular beetle only supports software rendering which is why it's so slow at higher resolutions
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I did try with HW before and had same issue.
Updating the AMD drivers to the latest version appears to have fixed it and runs fine now even upscaled. I guess I'm stupid and it wasn't retroarch after all.
I'll try updating the intel/nvidia drivers on my laptop later and hopefully it fixes the issues on the i7 machine too,
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Unrelated to what you're saying, but I think Pocket Bomberman is a really neat Gameboy game and your pause screen avatar makes me smile.
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I finally caved. I was unsatisfied with N64 emulation, so I bought an N64, an AV2HDMI, an Everdrive, and an 8 GB SD card. I even got the N64 version of 40 Winks out of it.
Afterwards, I downloaded a curated archive of N64 games consisting of NTSC games, PAL exclusive games, and easily playable Japanese games.
This leads me to several observations.
1. After deleting roms of cheat devices(?!) and of redundant games (Gauntlet: Legends, Animal Forest, and the 40 Winks prototype), I have a little under 3 GB worth of space. Does anyone know any good romhacks that I can use to fill the space? I already got SM64 Split Screen and Waluigi’s Taco Stand.
2. They made a rom out of this fucking thing.
I havent tested if it works, but I kind of want to.
Afterwards, I downloaded a curated archive of N64 games consisting of NTSC games, PAL exclusive games, and easily playable Japanese games.
This leads me to several observations.
1. After deleting roms of cheat devices(?!) and of redundant games (Gauntlet: Legends, Animal Forest, and the 40 Winks prototype), I have a little under 3 GB worth of space. Does anyone know any good romhacks that I can use to fill the space? I already got SM64 Split Screen and Waluigi’s Taco Stand.
2. They made a rom out of this fucking thing.
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Dude...replace that bargain bin HDMI converter with a RetroTINK 2X. Get an S-Video cable too.
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Noted on replacing that converter, but I don't have all the money in the world. I spent 270 dollars on this already (the everdrive was $204.00), and I still need to buy controllers. So I bought this instead.
While we're on the topic of controllers, I'm looking for a good N64 controller. Are there any good 3rd party ones that look and feel like the original three-prong, but with a better joystick? If not, I'll just get original controllers and replace the joysticks with gamecube-style ones.
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Seconding this, I'd like to know too. I just bought up whatever controllers I could find for cheap over time for replacements, though they got scarce after a while. I just ended up with a bunch of grey ones, didn't even manage to collect every opaque color. Blue N64 controllers are weirdly rarer than they should be.