I can also corroborate the effectiveness of SSF. In the past, I've tried playing an obscure Japanese-only RPG on other emulators, only for it to feature some graphic issues and, more critically, hung the game when you go to save your game. SSF on the other hand seems to play it just as well as when played on a console.
Virtual Drives being the more common method, but even then you have to jump through hoops.
HAVE A NICE DAY I know that's from the crappy SNES version shut up
Nah they seem to gravitate to things like Jap RPGs and there was never enough focus on areas like that for Sega consoles. TBH if you rate software libraries, Nintendo has Sega btfo every time.
Sega's hardware is relatively simple compared to most, except for the Saturn. Saturn was just a clusterfuck due to Sega scrambling to keep up with everyone else when low-poly 3D became the hottest thing on the block. That is why even Dreamcast is more or less flawless. I think. I never really dipped into Dreamcast emulation much.
Yeah I resolved the issue with the Mednafen core since Mednaffe was giving me trouble with my Dualsense. The cores must've not been updated in a while because a simple update fixed most of the visual glitches I was having with the core. The game runs perfectly fine now.
It only has to go wrong once to erase all supposed convenience of not having to click on individual icons and in my experience, it actually went wrong on a surprisingly regularly basis.
Been emulating since the mid 90s. The big problem with emulators is the wildly different approaches they all have to UI. The thing about Retroarch is you learn how to use it once, and then all the weirdness is (mostly) abstracted away. Not that the Retroarch UI is great, or even good, but it is consistent.
Byuu's emulator is one of very few instances where I deleted the entire thing without trying anything because the UI was straight up nonsensical.
Assuming you’re on Windows, RetroBat is the answer to all your emulator woes. I can’t shill it hard enough; everything Just Works
and it’s easy to customize settings as you like. There are a few very specific things I had to go into config files for like changing audio latency in Xenia Canary for 360, but that’s it. I’ve tried a few different frontends and even got LaunchBox Premium, but RetroBat destroys everything. Just pray you don’t need any sort of tech support. Their mods are all ESL and go out of their way to be the biggest assholes possible no matter what, on both their Discord and standalone forum.Doesn’t Lakka have worse performance than something like Batocera?
Batocera is a front-end around separate emulator packages running on a Buildroot chassis. It's an evolved version of the RetroPie approach. Lakka is a fork of LibreELEC focused on running Retroarch instead of Kodi. I don't expect there would be a substantial amount of difference between the two in terms of performance. Lakka appears to have broader hardware support, like for my rk322x-box TV box.
That makes sense. I just remember doing a deep dive a few years ago because I was trying to decide between RetroPie/RecalBox/Lakka/Batocera and thought I remembered Lakka being the worst for N64. But that was a long time ago.
Steam ROM Manager allows you to add your ROMs to Steam with categories based off each console/emulator you're using. It takes the custom art from SteamGridDB and it's pretty useful and allows for steam custom input if you have a DS4/DS5 like what I have.
I started using LaunchBox fairly recently. It does everything I wanted it to do without much tweaking. Can't speak for the needs of others.
If you happen to be on a Mac, OpenEmu is really nice. On Linux and Windows I just use the individual emulators.
I always had a pain in the ass experience if I use Retroarch or Batocera on Windows. About the only time I use those now is if I'm on an Android system.
