/v/ - Video Games

>>16668915

You have to wait to see how it performs becaue they are not out yet(ryzen 3000 comes out on the 7th and is a big improvement of the 1000 and 2000 series).

>>16668915

no. however intel-aviv cpus can clock higher than amd cpus if you overclock.

I'm doing a bunch of Nintendo games at the moment. Currently on Ocarina of Time. After a little bit I will switch some PSX games like Croc.

>>16668915

Intel processors always had much better clock-per-clock performance for emulation (exception being maybe the P4 vs Athlon era) and I doubt that will change anytime soon. I wouldn't count on Ryzen's new gen.

>>16668915

Many emulators just use a single thread for emulation, for various reasons. With the exception of the Ryzen 5 3600 and Ryzen 7 3700X, most AMD processors get trounced in single-thread benchmarks by even 4th gen i5's. The Ryzen 5 3600 is the new king of single thread performance though, so things could be changing.

>>16668895

I'm trying to emulate Demon's Souls, but I keep having frame issues and fucked up audio despite using the recomended settings

RetroArch is ok. It brings a lot of really good things to the table, like unified shaders, unified save states, and simple controller configuration, but has a lot of retarded decisions like the RetroPad abstraction being insufficient for many controllers, a shitty labyrinthesque series of menus, and terrible handling of filesystem abstractions making simple things like selecting a hidden folder on a Unix/Linux system impossible.

It gets the job done most of the time, and it does most things better than most stand-alone emulators, and a few things a lot worse. It's worth using when it's the best choice, but don't try to make it your only emulator.

What kind of PC does one need for

>Saturn

>Dreamcast

>PS1

>PS2

>Gamecube

>Wii

emulation?

>>16669099

One that has parts from the last 3-4 years.

>>16669101

Anything in particular though? I've read AMD is better for certain emulators/consoles but I have no clue if it's true or not

>>16669099

With Gamecube it depends on the game really. I'm on a laptop with: AMD A10 apu (w/ radeon R6 graphics) and 8GB of ram, and it can run windwaker just fine on Dolphin, but the F-Zero game and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 are both almost unplayable, for example.

>>16669344

I have a Pentium 4 at a 2.0GHz clock, although with a dedicated GPU, and I can reliably play most 5th generation games from the

PS1 and a decent amount from the N64. Without a dedi, and with just an L2400 at 1.6GHz, you could try out the 5th generation, but I wouldn't expect smooth or glitch-free gameplay from the N64. As for PC games, try out

most games from the 90s might suit you well, you could definitely go and run dosbox and PC-98 games if those are your style.

>>16669344

Wait is that a core duo and not a core2duo?

>>16669344

ps1,gba and anything below those. 90's pc games, some indie titles, and maybe stuff like Scribblenauts and Limbo.

>>16669653

The laptop is for 4th gen and down, plus some arcade games.

>>16668915

Dolphin bench has an heavy intel bias and isn't representative of real world loads

clock for clock ryzen gen 1 matches haswell.

RPCS3 is the one emulator where intel still has a massive advantage because TSX until that shit gets nerfed into oblivion because it's not secure

>>16669344

I have an HP laptop from 2006 with identical specs. Probably same GMA 950 integrated gpu, too. Unfortunately your options are a bit limited.

>Emulation

Basically you're stuck with 4th gen and earlier, but even then you'll have to choose emulators carefully since nowadays most go for cycle accuracy and demand a lot more CPU power than 10 years ago.

For SNES for example, you'll have to use ZSNES or some very old build of Snes9x. PS1 might be doable if you use psX or some old version of ePSXe.

>PC games

I remember when I played the 6th gen GTA games on that thing. SA would run at around 20 fps with dips to 10s, with most graphic settings dialed down. VC and 3 are more playable, reaching up to 30 fps with dips in the 20s.

I tried Far Cry 1 on it, it was unplayable. Got single-digit fps even with all graphic settings on very low + AA disabled + texture filtering disabled.

GZDoom runs perfectly fine and can give 60 fps as long as you turn down / disable most of the fancy effects. I've also played Deus Ex, NOLF1, Daikatana, Max Payne 1 & 2, and a few Touhou games on it, these ran well.

This should give you an idea of what games it can run. Most PC games made until 2003 should be playable.

What is the name of that red and black rom site? I had it bookmarked but I lost it when reinstalling windows.

>>16670402

ZOE 1 and 2 require a pretty good CPU to emulate at full speed in PCSX2

Just pirate the PC port which got cracked recently.

>>16670375

Better than no UI.

>>16674405

Vi##'s La## :^)

>>16674405

Vinnie's Larder

>>16675442

>>16675403

Danke schon tbh fam

>>16675776

At least you aren't retarded, be thankful.

>>16676132

>PAL version

>d3d11

lmao

>>16668915

Yeah, Intel is probably your best bet for Emulating consoles like the PS2

>>16676132

>no specs

>not demonstrating an actually heavy part of the game

>>16683462

>How do I get Super Mario Sunshine working on Dolphin?

download latest version here: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/list/master/1/

dont worry, it always fucking works

use the wiki and dont be a faggot: https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Super_Mario_Sunshine

now dont fucking touch anything in the fucking config. if you broke it, go to \Documents\Dolphin and go through and delete everything except the saves folder. if you didn't save any games yet, just delete the whole fucking Dolphin folder in Documents. now never touch anything ever except the resolution and everything should work. sunshine in particular appears to have a crashing issue, so right click the game in your game list and hit properties and enable Synchronize GPU. you're done.

oh and one more thing you piece of fucking trash, right click the game in your game list, go to the confirm tab, and calculate the md5. now check it here: http://redump.org/disc/1873/

if your md5 isnt exactly 0c6d2edae9fdf40dfc410ff1623e4119 then promptly consider suicide and find another iso.

check every fucking md5 or you're nigger-tier.

>>16683540

>download latest version here

Downloaded the software yesterday. So that's not the issue.

>now dont fucking touch anything in the fucking config

Haven't had the software to even do so. But I'll keep it in mind if that's even remotely the issue.

>so right click the game in your game list and hit properties and enable Synchronize GPU. you're done.

Go in more detail on this. Where do I actually have to browse here? I hit properties when I'm in Dolphin I hit "File>Open>" I then select Properties when I right click and I'm fucking lost as there's no option for synchronize GPU. I can understand if this is something only a newfaggot wouldn't comprehend but cut me a break here. I've followed your list up to now and I've even searched the issue to no luck. Where is this glorified option in this fucking mess off a UI?

>>16683722

Latest version of Dolphin should recognize it needs gpu sync automatically, but it's a little checkmark box, you can click it on and off after right clicking the game in the list and hitting properties. It should be on the first tab that pops up.

>>16683794

>after right clicking the game in the list and hitting properties

Ok this its what I'm asking. Is it window's properties or the software's properties? Because I don't know where this "list" originates. So far I see nothing stating GPU sync.

>>16683802

press the config button at the top, then go to the "Paths" tab, then hit the "add" button, then add the directory to where you keep your gamecube/wii isos. then go back to the main window and hit "refresh". all your games are now listed alphabetically in a nice list. then you right click the game in the list and hit "properties" on the dropdown to open the place for gpu sync. it's right in front of you on the main tab in properties. but like >>16683794 said that shouldnt be the issue because it's automatically set most likely.

your issue is probably an issue with having a bad dump like i said. this means that when the game was ripped from the original disc, it didnt copy properly. you check this by right clicking the game in the list again, hitting properties again, then look at the top of the window that pops up and go to the "verify" tab. then hit the big "verify integrity" button at the bottom. in the box for MD5, check that it's exactly "0c6d2edae9fdf40dfc410ff1623e4119" and report back. if it's not it's a bad dump.

if it matches that exactly, the next thing to try is updating your graphics drivers. dolphin uses every feature of your fucking graphics drivers because the developers snort mad meth, so you need to keep your drivers updated to use dolphin.

>>16683883

i cant help you with whatever mangled version of dolphin retroarch chooses to use. i dont know anything about retroarch. i can only help you with dolphin for windows/mac/linux for desktop use. you should not use ANY of my advice with retroarch as a whole, only the desktop version of dolphin.

>>16683819

Thanks for spelling it out for me. The MD5 is incorrect so that's likely the issue. What's weird though is every game I'm playing has an incorrect MD5 according to redump and they all work fine.

>>16668895

I'm currently playing Digimon Aventure for the PSP on my Vita. Fun game, although I'm currently stuck at the rebattle with Piedmon. Sucks because I really don't feel like having to grind right now.

>>16684511

ive played nearly the entire library of gamecube games and all of them matched redump's md5s, and all of them were playable. so from personal experience i can say that redump's md5s are all trustworthy for gamecube games, and also all the sources i used on the internet give good dumps with a matching md5. so i can assure you that there are valid dumps floating around for every gamecube game, just change the site you use. if your md5 doesnt match (and you aren't using dolphin's compression which changes md5), dont play it.

>>16687610

Antimicro and xpadder both support button toggle mapping, just set the analog button to the keyboard key selected for the analog function in Dolphin.

>>16687672

cheers, i've tried that + pinnacle game profiler but it seems dolphin can only have either the controller or keyboard enabled at once

i'm playing the sims on dolphin and to speed up time you have to hold the right trigger as opposed to just toggling it, i feel like a retard not being able to figure this out lel

Ok no really though. I need a retards guide on Dreamcast. I don't want to pull a P64 bloatware.

>>16694795

demul

nulldc on a craptop

reicast if you hate yourself

>>16694813

Isn't that last one on a paywall? Thanks for reminding me. Which one's showing the most progress in the long run?

>>16694828

None, demul gets updates whenever russians feel like it, nulldc is dead. Juse use demul or MakaronEX (more advanced than nulldc but also dead, less requirements than demul).

How much of PCSX2's "playable" list not actually run like ass or you have to brute force in software? I'm just glad I'm only seeing minor glitches with Shadow Tower Abyss, only tested a couple few others so far.

>>16694828

The guy working on demul accepts bug reports on github and seems to be responsive to them.

Nulldc is dead and reicast is a meme.

>>16695866

Some of the playable list you cannot actually complete because they relied on a community report system where mouthbreather playing 10 minutes of a game and not seeing major issues thought it was playable.

See Stuntman for example.

There's actually not that many games that are straight up fucked relatively speaking though.

>>16694828

Reicast isn't behind a paywall, you're thinking of ReDream.

Would only recommend Reicast if you can handle RA because standalone is trash and if Demul has issues you cannot work around

Now that reicast has both order independent transparency and Windows CE support it's pretty much the only other sane choice with Demul.

>>16695966

That's a bit troubling but suppose I'll keep hoarding ISOs, some of the compatibility wiki comments at least give some idea of what settings to use. The worst I've run across so far is Mercenaries as far as supposedly being "playable" but most of the games I've been looking at mainly have trouble with upscaling which I don't much care for anyway.

>>16683536

Nig if you'd played it on original hardware or the ps3 / 360 port you'd know that is the part of the game with the absolute heaviest load and potential slowdown

>>16698289

Not relevant

In PCSX2 the heaviest parts of the game is the opening, the first Ardjet fightb (mostly when you get close if she's firing her laser), cutscenes in general and the second Anubis fight, now scram also technically unleashing a flurry of homing attacks straight into walls especially rock / ice ones but that's not very gameplay relevant

For a frame of reference the large battle part runs at around 70-90fps on my build, whereas most of the other parts I named range closer to ~45-55fps, the second Anubis fight however dips all the way down to ~35fps or lower.

Also as for why that is it's because PCSX2 has a few bottlenecks in the renderer that makes it very CPU dependent for a few tasks even on HW rendering, one of those is handling many palettes, ZoE 2 uses a trick where there's a single megatexture for many objects but it applies different palettes to small parts of that megatexture so you have have several thousand palettes in a single scene, heavy scenes usually use more palette than others.

>>16698359

Fair enough

On my old rig that runs pscx2 poorly from what little I've tried, the PC port runs smooth as fuck anyways. The PC version is definitely the definitive one. Too bad the first game isn't there.

>>16698488

>Too bad the first game isn't there

The first "game" is an awful demo that was just an excuse to sell the MGS2 demo.

You're missing nothing by not having it.

>>16698491

Also, the story is complete and utter dogshit, and the protagonist is one of the strongest contenders for the shittiest vidya protagonist in history.

>>16698488

>Too bad the first game isn't there.

Yeah but the first one emulates surprisingly well in comparison so you can always do that, but it's kinda meh

Are there any decent emulators out there yet for Xbox, Xbox 360, or PS3? There's some interesting system exclusive games I don't feel like shilling out $100+ for.

I typically emulate for SNES, PS1, and GameCube, I've been trying out PS2 emulation with Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne. It's not perfect, but it's suitable for RPGs like that one. Haven't tried any action games yet, but I also own a fair bunch on the original hardware, so that's what I prefer. I only use emulation as a means for games I don't own, but I've also stopped buying video games unless I can find them for reasonably cheap.

How is emulation of 6th generation consoles like playstation 2, gamecube, and xbox?

>>16698527

XBOX emulation is making progress but it's really fucking spotty right now, you can play a few games if you don't mind more or less major issues

x360 is a bit farther along, and some games do work insanely well, provided you have a Win10 computer and some decent hardware to back it up as only the DX12 renderer is worth using right now.

PS3 has RPCS3, it's still work in progress but the requirements are really high for now and it's also really work in progress, but it's getting there, you can play quite a few games if you really want but most of the high profile exclusive aren't gonna work well.

>>16698543

PS2 is meh, most games work, but you have a ton of small issues (that aren't always fixable) that will shit all over your experience, if you can quell your tism about small graphical bugs it's usually fine enough, requirements are all over the place from 2007 toaster to 2019 top of the line

NGC works decently on first party titles minus a couple, when you go third party though is where shit gets really bad sometimes

XBOX is very very WIP in comparison, it'll get better once the XQEMU people get their thumbs out of their asses and actually finish implementing the performance fixes and sound emulation like they said they would because CXBXR is a nice effort but it's always gonna be a dead end.

>>16698801

If you have a beefy computer, citra can run it smoothly at native resolution. I have no promises about going to 1080 or 4k, however.

>>16698527

>>16698543

Looks like I underestimated just how far along they were with XQEMU

Shit's pretty impressive for running on a laptop and when the same program barely ran at single digit with no sound not even 6 month ago.

i just finished MGS3 in PCSX2 a couple of days ago planning to move on to MGS4 that i thought was playable at the time but then realize it's not playable.

I know MGS4 is more a movie than a game but without it i can't play the entire MGS franchise which was the point.

Is Peace Walker worth it?

>>16701716

>Is Peace Walker worth it?

Yes

>>16701716

You'll either love or hate Peace Walker.

>>16701654

It's going to be posted anyway, might as well do it myself.

Someone should really webm it. Won't be me though.

>>16701654

>>16701796

Apparently it can also be modded to fix something.

>>16701797

I just happened to stumble on that as soon as you posted it. I guess I'll hold off on it until this is ready.

>>16669072

Got hyperthreading enabled on your CPU? It will run like dogshit without it.

>>16669634

Yeah got a small pc hooked up to a crt

>>16670375

It has like 17 different ones. Including a WIMP one that all you retards requested.

If you can't work out RA you wouldn't survive outside.

>>16702775

>It has like 17 different ones

If that was about LibRetro, rather than just RetroArch, that is a great exaggeration in any practical sense, as I have previously noted:

https://8ch.net/v/res/16375973.html#16425654

If that's about RetroArch's various flavors of Sony XMB knockoff ("XMB", RGUI, Glui, Ozone), all of them are absolute shit.

>Including a WIMP one that all you retards requested.

Development of the new Qt WIMP GUI is a good start, but it's still extremely incomplete in terms covering RetroArch's features. I want something that allows me to turn off the XMB trash, use the WIMP GUI, and never, ever have to use anything else for any reason. Ever.

Just like literally every other emulator with a graphical frontend back to the 90s.

>>16702834

>If that's about RetroArch's various flavors of Sony XMB knockoff ("XMB", RGUI, Glui, Ozone), all of them are absolute shit.

None of those outside of XMB are XMB knockoff.

>I want something that allows me to turn off the XMB trash, use the WIMP GUI, and never, ever have to use anything else for any reason. Ever.

Not gonna happen, not without sacrificing the ability to change some settings midgame anyway.

Otherwise CLI / Skeletonkey

>>16668895

Retroarch has its problems but it's as good as the core you use. It's memory card system is retarded, for one. Each disc has its own memory card, so you have to jump through a bunch of hoops for multi disc games, it's especially bad if you have to go back and forth between discs.

>>16703339

> so you have to jump through a bunch of hoops for multi disc games

You always want to make a playlist

Basically just a plaintext file (.m3u extension though) with either a relative or absolute path to the files you want to be part of the playlist, that way it uses a single set of savestates and memory cards.

>>16703347

Oh that's a lot easier than my caveman rename memcard file to disc 2/3/ so on

Anyone know or have any experience with emulation on the wii u? Is it a good option to go with if I plan on playing older gen nintendo titles (N64, Gamecube etc) with multiple people?

Does it do N64 well enough to be playable? I read wii u is best for emulation purposes due to being able to use nintendo peripherals to play certain console titles using the classic controller or gc controller

>>16668895

>What are you emulating right now?

Mansion of Hidden Souls, Metal Slug Phantasy Star II, Super Mario Bros, and Syphon Filter.

>What your preferred emu for which system?

Might as well also list filter/shader settings. Everything not listed is turned off of left with it's default settings.

Arcade: FinalBurn Alpha (Fightcade)

<Blitter: Enhanced; Enable bi-linear filtering; Rotate scanlines and RGB effects; Enable Pre-Scale; Pre-scale using SoftFX; SoftFX algorithm: Double pixels; Enable Scanlines; Enable phospor feedback; RGB effects; Auto size scanlined RGB preset; Force 16-bit emulation; Use DirectX texture management; Enable gamma correction; Gamma correction settings: Lighten midtones

GB(A/C): mGBA

<Shaders: GBA Color (Darken screen: 1.5) or LCD (Bound brightness: 0.9)

NDS: DeSmuMEX432R

<Filter: Bilinear

PSP: PPSSPP

<Texture filtering: Auto; Screen scaling filter: Linear

NES: puNES

<Filter: NTSC S-Video (Optional); Shader: CRT-Lottes-Fast (Mask type 2.0, Curvature 0, Corner Round 0, CRT Gamma 2.1); Palette: RGB

Genesis/Sega CD: Kega Fusion

<Scanlines: 25% (Optional); Shader: MD NTSC (Blargg); Filtered

SNES: Snes9X

<Filter: Blargg's NTSC (S-Video); Enable NTSC Filter Scanlines; Shaders: CRT-Lottes-Fast (Curvature 0, Corner 0)

Saturn: SSF

<Bilinear Filtering

PS1: Xebra

<Use OpenGL; Progressive

>Is retroarch truly shit?

It's decent. Aside from the UI, the program is more bloated than other emulators, but it won't seriously impact performance unless you emulate anything more demanding than a PS1 (And/or start enabling filters/shaders).

I'm using two identical PC controllers but when I'm playing on epsxe they keep being recognized as just one, meaning the second player can't use it unless I boot up Joy2Key. Is there a way to work around this? Or to rename the controllers to something else so they don't match in the emulator's eyes?

>>16698830

>>16698801

Been meaning to ask, why exactly do some of these emulator need this much computational power? I mean, I realize they're emulating the underlying hardware, but upon getting the game to run (even at 2 fps) what's the biggest hurdle stopping people in optimizing the engine? Do console hardware devs make some purposefully intricate way of handling minor shit that results in a more complex architecture?

>>16705193

>when I'm playing on epsxe

There's your problem, Anon.

>>16703321

>sacrificing the ability to change some settings midgame

You've already been able to do that in practically every emulator's WIMP GUI for decades. Unless you mean pausing the game to bring up a menu that can be controlled using a controller, not to mention RetroArch's heavy reliance on opaque keyboard shortcuts that commonly recommended modern console gaypads don't have any spare buttons to map to.

>CLI / Skeletonkey

One of the primary reasons for LibRetro giving emulator authors free frontends was supposed to be eliminating the need to resort to CLI as well as editing/creating opaque undocumented .cfg files in opaque undocumented invisible directory trees, all of which must perfectly comply with opaque undocumented syntax.

>Skeletonkey

…and the need to rely on launchers that don't actually integrate tightly enough with frontend-less emulators to configure them properly.

>>16703406

Wii U has 2 main advantages for emulation:

>native interlaced NTSC/PAL/SECAM SDTV & analog EDTV/HDTV component for CRTfags

>runs GCN/Wii software flawlessly on hardware using hacked loaders, including homebrew and ROM injected VC

>reasonably powerful for running emulators

The downside is that no homebrew SDK ever gained features like hardware accelerated OpenGL, and the homebrew scene was overall pretty meager, so you're mostly going to be running Wii homebrew (though faster than on an actual Wii, since vWii can be run at 60% higher clockspeed than a real Wii).

>Does it do N64 well enough to be playable?

Yes, both injecting ROMs into the Wii U's VC, and a good Mupen64 port for the Wii. As for the rest of 5th-gen, there's a reasonably decent PCSX port (PlayStation emulator), but the Yabause port (Saturn emulator) isn't up to snuff.

>>16705193

>what's the biggest hurdle stopping people in optimizing the engine?

LLE vs. HLE, that is, actually attempting to recreate the original console in software for games to run on, instead of creating abstractions that trick games into running more like native PC ports. The former approach (LLE) is less buggy and easier to design but much slower, while the latter approach is much faster but harder to debug and design.

In particular, Citra is still mostly reliant on static interpretation rather than dynamic recompilation, and its graphics are done using an outdated OpenGL subsystem rather than a more elegant Vulkan one. Also, there is the issue of shaders, which Citra does not precompute, and provides no mechanism to share between versions.

>Do console hardware devs make some purposefully intricate way of handling minor shit that results in a more complex architecture?

Multiprocessor designs present in all modern consoles are much more demanding to emulate, yes, because of difficulties in synchronizing emulated components, and difficulty in synchronizing multithreaded access to physical hardware in modern host PCs. This is why the few older consoles that used complex multiprocessor designs (Saturn, PS2, PS3) are so much harder to emulate than their architecturally simpler competitors.

>>Had GBA Version of DOOM II as a kid

>>Same with Metal Gear Solid Ghost Babel

>>Interested in buying em' again

>Copies for DOOM II are 70 bucks

>Metal gear Solid is upwards to 300.

Fuck me.

>>16705761

If you don't want to emulate it on your phone, GBA flashcarts are like $20.

>>16669161

>Xenoblade Chronicles 2

You mean X, right? Xenoblade 2 is Switch exclusive. And, assuming you do mean X, do you have version 1.02 of it? I'm trying to get X going on CEMU but I can't find the most recent version of it… and if I don't have that I can't put the uncensor/undub mod on it.

>>16705304

Since my post i watched a couple vids regarding emulation on wii u and seems to be a good device for this use. However one thing Im not sure about is that recently its able to run n64 emu overclocked but im not clear whether or not titles such as conkers, diddy racing or tooie will run fine. Along with being able to run mame titles at least capcom cps3 titles.

I guess since im not fully convinced would the wii u be a purchase you or anyone else would make? It seems as if pricing for said peripherals like the gc controllers and adapters have gone up so it wont be a cheap investment either.

>>16705304

> not to mention RetroArch's heavy reliance on opaque keyboard shortcuts that commonly recommended modern console gaypads don't have any spare buttons to map to.

How are they opaque when they are all configurable right from the interface? and all have a description or explicit name?

And it doesn't rely on htem any more heavily than any tehr emulator for the same functions

And it's not like not having enough button s to map all commonly used hotkeys isn't a problem you're going to have on every single emulator for a console with many buttons anyways except for the part where RA has a modifier key system that allows you to just use one key and have 24 hotkey right on your standard x360/dualshock layout controller which as far as I know isn't a thing anywhere else

>One of the primary reasons for LibRetro giving emulator authors free frontends was supposed to be eliminating the need to resort to CLI

Wrong, the interface is the smallest part of what RA handles for you if you use it

>as well as editing/creating opaque undocumented .cfg files in opaque undocumented invisible directory trees, all of which must perfectly comply with opaque undocumented syntax

I'm not eve sure what you're referring to, most cores just use the base config file (retroarch.cfg) for generic setting and another for core specific option (retroarch-core-options.cfg), maybe you mean whatever happen when you use per game / core oveerrides but that does not make it obscure or invisible since those are just a copy of the above two config files

All of which is documented

>and the need to rely on launchers that don't actually integrate tightly enough with frontend-less emulators to configure them properly.

Skeletonkey literally has every single setting you can touch from the regular interface in the launcher and maybe even the few CLI only ones like video recording, what exactly are you talking about?

>>16706139

Pretty sure you can use other bluetooth controler on the WiiU now (think DS3/DS4 etc) and regardless a WiiU pro controller isn't that pricy

As for N64

https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/WiiU_VC_N64_inject_compatibility_list

Although that doesn't cover homebrew emulator which have slightly different compatibility.

Usually you can alsop refer to Wii homebrew, it the Wii has it the WiiU has it and I'm pretty sure the Wii has CPS3 running fairly well.

As for it being worth it, it's gonna come up to

>do you have a Wii

>do you care about WiiiU games

>do you care about DS VC game injection

>do you care about the small difference in emulation potential compared to a Wii

>do you care about HD output / playback (to use the WiiU as a local network media streaming box for example)

>is the price right considering the above (including a pad and a DS VC game for CBHC)

>>16705897

>you mean X, right?

Yeah, I think it was X, or just the Wii one 'Xenoblade Chronicles'. Check the-eye for the iso.

>>16706172

Wii u guy here, thanks for the info. That gba site led me to other wii u compatibilty sources. Seems like a neat console for these uses to play with others while using official nintendo controllers such as the gc adapter and classic controllers for nes/snes titles. Thanks again

>>16709107

>>>exclusives

>>great games

>pikmin 1 and 2 (my vote best exclusives, two of my favorite games)

>super mario sunshine

>eternal darkness

>f-zero gx

>animal crossing

>paper mario: ttyd (it picks up the further you go)

>melee

>radirgy generic (japanese bullet hell with enough english to be easily playable without speaking nip)

>>good games

>wario world (hasn't aged too great but it's fun)

>tube slider (it's like f-zero gx but not quite as good)

>warioware (slightly worse than the gameboy version)

>>unique/weird games

>odama (you use your mic to play an rts, it's kind of awesome and it works in dolphin with any computer microphone if you set the right port, i think the second memory card port, to be a mic)

>star fox adventures (this game's just an odd action rpg with talking dinosaurs, i dont even know what the fuck)

>baten kaitos origins (card based rpg, it has fun combat)

>cubivore survival of the fittest (you play as a box animal that eats other box animals and gains their skills)

>>garbage

>lost kingdom (dont be confused by from software developer, it's SHIT)

>>have not tried

>wind waker

>mgs: twin snakes

>PN03

>fire emblem

>star wars games (these are near impossible to emulate at full speed, they use insane features of the gamecube)

>ultimate muscle

>bomberman

>metroid 1+2

also note that the latest development versionsof dolphin from this link is BY FAR the best, with insane features like pre-caching shaders for the prime games, automatic updates, and actually has plug-and-play netplay where you can create your own lobby on a master server like any early-mid 2000s pc game, it seems sweet but i've never tried it: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/list/master/1/

ill probably post more, i've no lifed the shit out of dolphin's gamecube library

>>16709107

>>16709131

>>more great games (no longer just exclusive)

>luigi's mansion

>soulcalibur ii

>capcom vs snk 2 eo

>beyond good and evil (though, don't actually emulate this because it has black bars on the sides sadly, you'll have a much better time if you pirate the remastered version)

>burnout 2

>def jam: fight for ny (rappers beating the shit out of each other like ice cube and eminem)

>hitman 2

>ikaruga

>lego star wars 1+2

>sonic games

>>more good games

>gauntlet dark legacy (bare bones arcade "rpg" but it's fun for what it is)

>18 wheeler american pro trucker (it's a short, surprisingly good little arcade game but nothing more)

>mortal kombat: deception (i think soulcalibur ii is better in every way)

>super monkey ball games (i dont think these are that good but i also think the sonic games are still good so sue me)

>>the rest i havent tried

>viewtiful joe

>killer7

>resident evil

>baldur's gate

there's also some random fun games, like the movie tie-in spiderman 1 game, 007, gun was kind of cool, the splinter cell games, tony hawk… that's the entire library that's worth a damn beginning to end.

>>16709157

>>beyond good and evil (though, don't actually emulate this because it has black bars on the sides sadly, you'll have a much better time if you pirate the remastered version)

No such issue on Dolphin.

Playing killer7 right now. Lot of style. Creepy as fuck though. Need to play it when I have a bit of booze in me.

>>16709157

>>16709131

I'll definitely give some of these a try. I recommend you try out Zoids Battle Legends even if you aren't a fan of the animated series. I had a buddy who introduced me to the game way back and it's a highly under rated title. You can completely customize your Zoid and fight other Zoids. It has a fuck load of content from what I rememeber and very smooth controls. I can't speak for the story, or how long it takes to progress because I only played 2 player battles with him, and he had almost everything unlocked with probably over 1k hours in the game. The main thing I am worried about emulating GB games is getting used to button queues. I use a 360 controller, and PS buttons are engraved in my mind, but the gamecube controller is it's own beast.

>>16710180

i've never heard of it, i'll try it out sure, why not.

oh and i forgot one game: doshin the giant. it's just a tech demo god sim but it's kind of interesting as basically a wallpaper to put on in the background. fits with the weird/unique games. technically it's not an exclusive because it came out for the 64 disk drive, but who the fuck has played anything from that?

I am currently emulating Etrian Odyssey 3 with a Desmume (>>16704111 mentioned it) build that can render higher resolutions.

http://shikaver01.webcrow.jp/desmume_x432r/index.html

Not much of a change since the game is almost entirely 2D sprites, but I'm glad everything isn't blurry and shit.

>>16711554

I'm currently playing through the second one on desmume also. Only on the second floor as I just started recently, but it's pretty damn fun.

>>16668895

Out of Game Cube, Dream Cast, and PS2, emulators which has the best framerate for Capcom vs Snk 2?

>>16711554

>build that can render higher resolutions.

That build has been outdated for years and the mainline already has that feature.

>>16711948

I've had no issues with Mario 64 with Project64. Donkey Kong 64 is a bit worse in comparison, with textures stretching out beyond the screen occasionally and sometimes having to pause while climbing a tree because of some weird collision going on.

Maybe I should lurk more. It seems that people are emulating n64 and DS games without much issue. Now I just need to find that one txt file which has ROM download links and I'll be off.

>>16711955

>>16711951

i remembered liking 64ds when i was a kid and bought a copy of it and now i despise it because of stylus analog or trying desperately to use the dpad. dunno how much worse it would be with an emulator trying to click for the stylus while jumping with the keyboard. maybe you can do some tricky mapping of buttons to the touchscreen, idk, but it seems pretty awful. i'd stick to n64 personally.

>>16711649

dont know about console comparisons but dolphin has online multiplayer and i dont remember it slowing down at all ever. just dont use gc-ism on that port whatever you do, it's casualized controls with random outcomes meant to compensate for the shitty gamecube controller, and it's beyond worthless when you can just use an arcade stick on dolphin.

>>16711948

For SM64 DS there are scripts which can map touch screen analog movement to your controller.

Retroarch is coming to Steam

>>16710866

>>16713214

>emulation on a good goyphone

Disgusting

>>16713370

Would that fit an LG V20? Dimensions on it say 3.07 wide, but I haven't practiced my decimals in years.

>>16713398

It should, I had a similar grip some time ago and it fit with no issue.

Anyone got a proper crack for DamonPS2? I want to play PS2 games on my cell phone but I'm not giving those chink faggots 10 dollars and I'm certainly not giving them permission to access my phone's location or phone calls.

>>16713344

Can you connect a DualShock 4 or Switch Pro to it?

>>16702775

Hyperthreading is enabled. That definitely isn't the problem.

>>16669344

>>16669373

>Core (trademark)

What the fuck? Where do you get this? Do intel tried to trademark fucking word "core" at some point or you get a fucking bootleg cpu somehow?

>>16717091

It's the successor to the Pentium M. Pre-Core2Duo.

>trying to play Ocarina of Time with P64

>get into the game without problems

>get error when trying to go into start menu

>supposedly fixed years ago but clearly not true

Sometimes emulation is a real bother. Anyone know anything about this? Should I just try Mupen?

>>16734259

try an older version

>>16734831

Just got myself Mupen. Works fine now.

>>16735945

Saria looks good with an UwU mouth.

Hey guys.

Whats the best possible way to emulate N64 and PS2 games on a handheld device?

Is it even possible?

>>16736033

>Is it even possible?

Yes, it's called a laptop.

I keep trying to play ps3 games with my ps4 controller but the connection keeps cutting out, could it be the batteries in the controller itself being dead? the wire?

>>16736042

I said Handheld device anon, like.

a PSP/VITA or 3DS or phone for fucksake

>>16736033

>>16736055

You might get PS2 with some good phones, haven't tried, but N64 is pretty doable now on medium range android devices. Vita and PSP have an N64 emulator, and ports/remakes of PS2 games, but it's not the same as having them emulated.

>>16736055

You will never have a good experience emulating anything on a phone. Trust me I've tried.

>>16736066

I've actually been noticing that, even with console games on handhelds like the PSP and 3DS, something just feels "wrong" when you play home console games on a screen smaller than 10".

>>16736112

With the PSP and 3DS you at least have physical buttons and people who knew what they were doing when they designed the hardware. Every flagship Smartshit will destroy its battery, burn your hands, and throttle back severely as the poor little ARM SoC not designed to be abused this way struggles for life if you have it do anything other than browse the internet and make phone calls. Emulation on any Smart device is a meme

I'm playing Wild Arms 1 on ePSXe. Game gets an unknown opscode at 54000002 at 000000B4 error (everyone on the internet is) and its probably linked to this terrible iso from emu paradise. This happens after beating the boss giving the Tear Drop, at Adelhyde Castle town. Different video config plugins do not fix this issue. So much for playing a great game eh? No other versions of this iso exist on the internet?

>>16737876

http://redump.org/discs/system/psx/letter/w/

try comparing its md5 to here, emuparadise historically was pretty shitty but nowadays it actually has redump verified isos (at least for gamecube it does)

>>16737876

>ePSXe

There's your problem.

>>16703339

>memory card

Why the fuck wouldn't you just use savestates?

So has anyone gotten F-Zero GX running smoothly on Dolphin with anything other than a top-end rig?

>>16738486

Savestate corruption

>>16738490

use vulkan or d3d12. it's the only game in dolphin that needs those backends to run faster than 50% on nearly anything. the backend doesnt matter for any other game besides this one in particular. though, it's supposed to have gotten much better since all the video backends were merged this year, so if you're using the latest dev build ( >>16683540 ) and vulkan and it's not performing, try this.

right click the game in your list, and hit properties, then it'll have two sets of tabs at the top. on the lower set of tabs, change over from "general" to "editor", then add the following to the "<ID>.ini" that has more characters:

[Video_Hacks]

EFBAccessEnable = False

this does the same thing as checking "skip efb access from cpu" in settings but wont fuck up other games in case you forget to turn it off again. that should help the framerate.

>>16738507

>>16738490

F-Zero GX runs 60fps@1080p for me using the dx11 renderer, but it has lots of random, occasional stuttering that ruins the experience. Random stuttering is more often related to cpu or ram bottlenecks rather than gpu rendering, and changing the renderer really doesn't help in my case when I tried.

I remember it running better (with much less stuttering) on much older versions. If I was going to play it serious I'd try some version from 2017 or even 5.0.0.

>>16738666

have you tried enabling async ubershaders and enabling "compile shaders before starting"? "stuttering" is usually the shader cache, and ubershaders was designed to fix that. you can entirely rule out the shader cache if you run it with async skip drawing along with precompilation. it's right on the front page of graphics settings under backend on any version of the emulator released in the past two years or so.

if those dont work then it's a cpu issue. i'd even try running in single core too to see if that fixes the stuttering.

>>16738682

>assign numbers

>roll 1d[numbers]

<???

>play geimu

>>16738507

>>16738490

>>16738666

>>16738679

Vulkan + Asynchronous Ubershaders = smooth as butter for me.

>>16737898

The md5 matched, so that's nice.

>>16738417

I will attempt a bios change, thank you. Nope, that did not help either! I guess not enough people have played Wild Arms 1 to voice their concern to get a fix.

>>16738227

Can you suggest which emulator?

>>16740247

>Can you suggest which emulator?

Xebra, mednafen, PCSX-R-PGXP, in that order.

>>16709131

>have not tried

>PN03

It's shit. Score attack game marred by awful controls.

>>16740308

Thanks. I found a way past the error is to just load the next save file from gamefaqs. Will try those emulators though.

>>16740634

That doesn't stop it from being a boring low-budget linear corridor shooter. PN03 is the definition of mediocrity.

>>16740847

Most things in life are basically mediocre things that could be amazing if you pretend they are. All those video games people claim are classic are somehow dumbed down from their true potential. You can stop playing games now, they're only going to get worse.

>>16741688

Stop buying new games then, all I've ever played is old shit since I grew up poor.

>>16741767

Old games are also mediocre.

>>16669101

I'm pretty sure my 2013 mid-tier range PC can run all those.

>>16742161

What romhack is that?

>>16742184

alyssa's unlikely trap (demo 2)

>>16742191

>no kaizo blocks

It's okay in my book.

>>16738687

Alright so I re-wrote the script so that it now works again with the newer playlist format (ie. I just lazily used string manipulation)

Now I'm stuck here

retroarch.exe -v -L "DETECT" %_randomrom:~8,-1%

The ROM file parses successfully, however, Retroarch is being retarded

[ERROR] RetroArch is built for dynamic libretro cores, but libretro_path is not set. Cannot continue.

There is currently NO WAY to pass no-core to the command line and just have it bring up the core select screen. This level of oversight is kind of shocking but I can't program worth shit so I guess I have no room to talk but it's unbelievably frustrating since the functionality does exist. the following is what a default playlist entry looks like;

    {
      "path": "D:\\Games\\ROMs\\No-Intro 2018\\Atari - 2600\\Zoo Keeper Sounds (USA) (Proto).zip#Zoo Keeper Sounds (USA) (Proto).a26",
      "label": "Zoo Keeper Sounds (USA) (Proto)",
      "core_path": "DETECT",
      "core_name": "DETECT",
      "crc32": "AE15C45D|crc",
      "db_name": "Atari - 2600.lpl"
    },

Notice the "core_path" entry. Why can't I pass that to the command line? Why is this shit so complicated?

>>16669577

Have you thought of replacing it with Linux?

Just saying…

>>16683540

>md5

Is this 1964?

I could replace the ISO with gay porn and still make the hash sum match.

>>16743096

Why are you constantly trying to look better as if it means anything? I enjoy preserving culture as a hobby. Everybody will die one day, including you. You are not special.

>>16744375

Are you bipolar or something? All I did was post screenshots of a rom folder. No matter how much you improve yourself, you will still die just like everyone else.

>>16744421

Mind I don't get the kind of retard that thinks backing up data is hoarding when sites die every other year, that's cuckchan /v/ for you though.

>>16744476

Go back in time and tell euros not to use a retarded video standard because they felt like being special snowflakes.

>>16744492

well shit, what about adding scanlines and removing black bars, can I do something about those without time travel shenanigans?

>>16744518

To be frank I always thought they chose less frames since they wanted smoother looking video due to film being shot at around half of 50fps instead of shitty signals due to shitty weather.

>>16744518

They are both based on the frequency of the AC power you get from the wall.

>>16744559

These standards were made way before home consoles or even resoluton concerns were a thing.

Their specs are just a consequence of how they were built out of IRL concerns, their limitations and flaws like any tech, came around much later on.

>>16744594

Naturally, practicality is what anyone prefers, consumer technology has a lack of that nowadays.

>>16744584

IIRC 60Hz in North America was chosen because in the early days Westinghouse was marketing AC to industrial clients and most AC was generated from coal or hydroelectric which are slow to respond to increasing/decreasing load on the line and industrial clients typically used electrical power for motors in mills and factories to replace steam engines thus were more sensitive to changes in AC frequency. The target frequency was basically 50Hz plus a 10Hz overhead to account for frequency losses. Nikola Tesla also believed 60Hz at 120v was much more efficient and light bulb manufacturers liked it because it resulted in less flicker than 50Hz. It was a perfect storm that came together. Europe stuck with 50Hz likely because they had no real international grid back then and 50Hz was just easier to specify.

>>16736066

The only things I've had moderate luck with while testing mobile emus is GBC/GB games. I suppose it's the pacing pairing up well enough with the shittiness of on screen controls.

>>16751554

>Is this how the game is supposed to look?

See: >>16704111

>Genesis/Sega CD: Kega Fusion

<Scanlines: 25% (Optional); Shader: MD NTSC (Blargg); Filtered

>>16736130

That being said, what is the best way to emulate 3ds in a phone?

>>16752011

Simple answer:

You don't.

Either play it on an actual 3DS or emulate it on your computer. Buying a phone for anything beyond calling and texting people (And, possibly, listening to music and/or taking pictures) is a waste of money.

>>16668895

>Is retroarch truly shit?

It's a decent emulator you only need for a handful of hard to emulate games with a godawful UI and a "community" of autists to lecture you on the TRVE EMVLATION EXPERIENCE

7/10 would play pier solar again

>>16752018

I'll let you know how I split it up, I can upload the NES and GBC shit right now though; I'm also huntin' for my old collection of /v/'s recommended GBA roms and PSP Isos though I'm pretty sure those might be gone-gone iunno, I think one of my Pis might have a bunch of "all game" collections I can pull from

Playing the old Resident Evil Outbreak with a couple of friends, the game is really great and I'm surprised at how much it holds up. It was definitely a game ahead of its time though and I really hope that capcom gives it another try. Felt like the game just released at the wrong time and judging it solely on it's single players aspects makes it seem more mediocre than it actually is.

>>16758311

Not trying to be a cunt but if you don't want to get jewed just pirate that shit? You can spend hours upon hours to look for something slightly cheaper but is your freetime worth that money? If Google can't find you the cheapest price possible for any product given, what makes you think this place can? It's 200 bucks and none of it will go to the creation of anything you care for. So it's just a waste of money. Am I wrong?

>>16758340

I do still have a fat PS2 boxed away somewhere, I could probably get that going. Emulation is still pretty spotty with the stuff I want to play.