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The dev diary of the guy porting Lemmings 2 to snes was fascinating as well. That was only in print though. He had a short period to complete it, only guy doing it, panicked, then started working things out. Fun read.
Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster
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If there ever was a series that could use a modern day revival and have it also represent modern day LGBT demographics, it would be Lemmings.
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0Ding with Dr. Mario:
This is entirely pointless to actually do, but memory prodding is fun and has plenty of shitposting potential
- start up Mesen
- load Dr. Mario (JU).nes
- press Start to get to the game setup menu where you choose your virus level + speed + music
- press Esc to freeze emulation
- open Memory Tools (Debug -> Memory Tools) (CTRL+M)
- set View to CPU Memory
- go to $96, it's this one:
- click it
- type AA
- highlight it
- right click and select Freeze or press CTRL+Q
- click back on the game screen, press Esc to unpause emulation
- press left or right on the virus level slider and the little number will turn into 0D
- start the game
- Mario won't even throw the first pill 'cause your dumbass just 0D'd and now you're fuckin dead lmao
This is entirely pointless to actually do, but memory prodding is fun and has plenty of shitposting potential
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Despite continued progress, the signs were not good for Mikage in 2020: Our Patreon campaign wasn't running too well, various Android-builds of Citra pulled most attention away from us, and then there was that whole pandemic thing (woops). Even our biggest milestone to that point, Mikage running Super Mario 3D Land, couldn't change that people were (understandably) occupied with other matters. And thus we had to admit that continued development could not be funded in a sustainable way.
But forward to 2022 and the tables have turned: Citra's shortcomings have become more present in people's minds, and its various Android builds have not been as actively developed as many hoped. Is it time for another contender after all? Maybe! Canceling all the exciting work items that had been in the pipeline in 2020 never quite felt right anyway.
Which is why I'm happy to announce: Mikage development has resumed! We've silently (or not so silently for the Twitter folks) been picking things up again back in February and made big leaps forward already. Curious what's in store for you? Superboosted performance (allowing 60 FPS gameplay in many titles!) and a new port of the emulator to PC! Here's a sneak preview of the new shader recompiler and other goodies:
Of course we also worked on game compatibility, thus extending the set of compatible titles a lot compared to the limited selection supported previously! Here are just a few of them:
And all that is just the tip of the iceberg. In 2022, Mikage is going full in on preserving the full experience of the 3DS platform. There's so much to talk about, and you're probably asking yourself: What does it all lead up to? Right now we just wanted to say we're alive and kicking again, but we'll have more announcements for you in the future. To stay in the loop make sure to follow our progress on Twitter and YouTube, and spread the word that the 3DS emulation landscape is once again changing big time!
But forward to 2022 and the tables have turned: Citra's shortcomings have become more present in people's minds, and its various Android builds have not been as actively developed as many hoped. Is it time for another contender after all? Maybe! Canceling all the exciting work items that had been in the pipeline in 2020 never quite felt right anyway.
Which is why I'm happy to announce: Mikage development has resumed! We've silently (or not so silently for the Twitter folks) been picking things up again back in February and made big leaps forward already. Curious what's in store for you? Superboosted performance (allowing 60 FPS gameplay in many titles!) and a new port of the emulator to PC! Here's a sneak preview of the new shader recompiler and other goodies:
Of course we also worked on game compatibility, thus extending the set of compatible titles a lot compared to the limited selection supported previously! Here are just a few of them:
And all that is just the tip of the iceberg. In 2022, Mikage is going full in on preserving the full experience of the 3DS platform. There's so much to talk about, and you're probably asking yourself: What does it all lead up to? Right now we just wanted to say we're alive and kicking again, but we'll have more announcements for you in the future. To stay in the loop make sure to follow our progress on Twitter and YouTube, and spread the word that the 3DS emulation landscape is once again changing big time!
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So is there any reason to use this over Citra? Genuinely asking.
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At the minute no, but Citra improvements have slowed down to pretty much none with the devs of it spending most their time on Switch emus. Citra is also far from prefect with many games not working very well, so if this emu has a good stream of support no reason it shouldn't be able to pass Citra sooner than later.
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If your playing a rom of breath of fire 2. Dont use the GBA one as itll most likely crash at a certain point quite late in the game.
I'm sure there's a romhack SNES rom around that has some QoL improvements but I can't be bothered playing all the way through it again.
I'm sure there's a romhack SNES rom around that has some QoL improvements but I can't be bothered playing all the way through it again.
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Space Invaders for the Famicom is still a pretty good game. I used to get goosebumps every time trying to fire the lasers at the incoming invaders as they turn even more red to be both funny and nerve wracking at the same time.
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iirc FC Space Invaders is one of the more exact legit ports, there's also unofficial stuff like TI Invaders that narcs it but it's still not as "uhh yeah, sure that's the same game, for realz" style of 2600 SI
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That's good news on the 3DS emulation front, that platform had a lot of good games that Nintendo hasn't been remastering. A lot of the New-tier models got bought up due to the 3DS concluding right before Coronavirus, so we didn't even get that post-sunsetting period where you could buy one on the cheap like with other consoles.
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A pretty big update in the world of PS2 emulation. PCSX2 had a GUI overhaul finally and also now offers the ability to tweak setting on a game by game basis.
If you use duckstation or dolphin this should look pretty familiar. Actually, I might be wrong but I think this is being driven by the guy that made duckstation now he stopped working on that.
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It's like they took Dave from Dave's Garage, removed the autism and made him into a robot with a beard.
The UI overhaul sounds great though, PCSX2 have long been stuck in "it's just like that" territory for better or worse.
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I hope they add in better support for action replay codes to these new builds. It's a big long winded and complicated process on old PCSX2
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Guys, do you own any of cheap aliexpress retor consoles?
My yt recommendations are currently flooded with those. They look nice enough, so I'm kinda curious.
Pros: I sometimes need to kill a bit of time
Cons: I don't like buying useless stuff that's just cluttering my place
Pros: I sometimes need to kill a bit of time
Cons: I don't like buying useless stuff that's just cluttering my place
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Why are emulator makers always such drama whores?
I was browsing the Retroarch page on Reddit looking for a way to get this Neo Geo core working. I found a year old post by some dude with the same issue loading the game roms:
It seems like an understandably confusing situation. You got the game, but the emulator is saying you don't got the game. So of course you go on Reddit and ask for help (I was looking for the same answers in the same place, after all). But I was much more intrigued by one of the emulator's developers getting real uppity in the comments section about where this guy had sourced his roms and bios files, whether he was a pirate, why can't he understand the error (even though the dude is a self-described newbie):
This seems to be a recurring pattern in the emulation scene. The socially inept nerd with a chip on his shoulder gets to act like god because he made a piece of software. He prides himself on writing erudite tomes of documentation, then expects people with an actual life outside of the enthusiast scene to have the time and patience to sift through it all. Joe Sixpack here just wanted to drag and drop a couple files so he can re-live his youth with some rounds of Samurai Shodown, but couldn't quite understand what had gone wrong. Fair enough, perhaps the process is not as simple as that - but surely it would be easier to just explain nicely to the guy, in simpler terms, how he can go about fixing the issue?
Keep this attitude up, BarbuDreadMon, and I can see you Byuu'ing yourself in a few years time.
I was browsing the Retroarch page on Reddit looking for a way to get this Neo Geo core working. I found a year old post by some dude with the same issue loading the game roms:
It seems like an understandably confusing situation. You got the game, but the emulator is saying you don't got the game. So of course you go on Reddit and ask for help (I was looking for the same answers in the same place, after all). But I was much more intrigued by one of the emulator's developers getting real uppity in the comments section about where this guy had sourced his roms and bios files, whether he was a pirate, why can't he understand the error (even though the dude is a self-described newbie):
This seems to be a recurring pattern in the emulation scene. The socially inept nerd with a chip on his shoulder gets to act like god because he made a piece of software. He prides himself on writing erudite tomes of documentation, then expects people with an actual life outside of the enthusiast scene to have the time and patience to sift through it all. Joe Sixpack here just wanted to drag and drop a couple files so he can re-live his youth with some rounds of Samurai Shodown, but couldn't quite understand what had gone wrong. Fair enough, perhaps the process is not as simple as that - but surely it would be easier to just explain nicely to the guy, in simpler terms, how he can go about fixing the issue?
Keep this attitude up, BarbuDreadMon, and I can see you Byuu'ing yourself in a few years time.
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>taking a moral high ground on piracy when you're a developer for an emulator
There should have been some sort of "...oh wait" moment that should of clicked in this guy's head the instant he typed that rant on a keyboard. The fact that he didn't worries me.
There should have been some sort of "...oh wait" moment that should of clicked in this guy's head the instant he typed that rant on a keyboard. The fact that he didn't worries me.
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The same reason pokemon communities are full of faggots and mentally stunted children. You have to be properly autistic to write a good emulator.
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Out of curiosity, does neo geo need a bios? I thought it was a cartridge based thing.
I just use FBAlpha for all my snk neo geo games. That works really well with them. Dont think bios is needed.
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Sounds like you're missing bios files.
This has the exact BIOS files for just about any core: https://github.com/Abdess/retroarch_system
Arcade emulators are always super autistic about ROMs.
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I have a Retroid Pocket 2+ (the purple one above the GBA) and am really enjoying it. Was surprised at the button quality, not spongy at all. Don't like the right stick though its one of those sliding analogous. Not sure why they did that when the left is a regular analog.
Use it for GBA, PS1 and SNES emulation mainly when I am in boring meetings that don't require face cam.