Remember when people did this shit for free?

Remember when people did this shit for free?

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It's Patreon mate. Shit's basically a tip jar.

>ePSXe and No$ were both shareware with paid versions with more features
>PPSSPP has the gold version
>Most other emulators have donation links

No.

good thing you don't have to do it

they just want support, you don't have to buy the software, retard

they still DO IT FOR FREE

It's the same as a paypal button on every previous emulator's site. Don't be retarded.

If a couple NEETs want to spend NEETbux on letting them spend all their time making the emulator better, then whatever.

Don't make me post it ...

Financial incentive makes everything better, you fucking communist

Just look at how much progress they've made in such a short time. Some retro consoles are still emulated poorly to this day because some hobbyist spends 2 hours on it once a year. Fuck that shit.

>Shit's basically a tip jar.


Depends on how people are using it mate

Some people hide their stuff behind a paywall

Are you literally retarded?

Emulator developers have asked for donations since the dawn of time.

Most freeware devs do.

Luckily there are more people with disposable income that like to stretch their ego than people who pay money for free goods.

But yeah, money corrupts everything.

There'll be a SkiDRoW patreon next.

The only reason paid mods didn't take off was because a bunch of neckbeards threw endless shitfits about losing something they thought would be free forever. They're okay with this because they'll be paying for something that will be free eventually. The moral of this story is that neckbeards are flip floppers who will gladly suck dick if they like the moisturizer you used beforehand.

Fuck off you self-entitled cunt. I love donating to mods when hard work is shown. You don't deserve anything for free you dumb fuck.

Don't like it? Don't support it, and also don't get the stuff hidden behind the paywall.

>Only way to get the latest version of the Emulator is to pay.

Only fags will defend this.

>There is no difference between freely available content with optional donations and content that has to be bought

>I love donating
May I ask why?

PPSSPP Gold is literally the exact same thing with a gold icon. It's a donation thing, there are no extra features whatsoever.

...

Remember Bleem!, OP?

So just like project 64 they'll work on it till it plays like 10 games and then just keep scrapping in the money.

It's not the same thing as hiding your emulator behind a donation wall.

That wasn't implied.

My Project64 must be made of magic then because I have over 50 games working on it.

>to only way to eat is to pay

only faggots will defend this. stealing FTW! Roofles!

I had a NDS emulator on my phone but now it's paying so I removed it.

You mean like N64 DC and PSX emulation that still doesn't work right after 15 years?

I don't understand why is it not okay to ask for donations? The updates are still free though.

wow it's fucking nothing

fuck off op

Because I care and when someone works hard I believe they owe a little respect and there's people out there who genuinely care.

>Hiding new versions behind a paywall

Hey reicast is pretty damn good.

ePSXe has a paid version? I've been using it for ages and wasn't aware of that.

>for a single week
are you that much of an impatient fuck?

Heaven forbid you have to wait a week to get it anyway.

so, ego?

It's not a bad thing, just say you're doing it to feel good about yourself.

>using epsxe

>Pii U! Pii U! Pii U!
>why isn't the emulator free? I wanna play all the games for free, fucking devs

Like do you want Wii U games, or no?

>get your name listed on the website and about menu
No thanks I prefer not being hacked

Even if suddenly overnight everyone started making emulators as a commercial product how entitled to you have to be to find yourself pissed off about it. I would certainly be sad, I like my free shit, but it's obviously understandable.

I mean they are real people working on something, they're putting hard hours into these things just so you can enjoy it. These people don't live in a vacuum, be grateful you little cunts.

Capitalism? More like Crapitalism

Fuck off, I use whataver I want. And Mednafen sucks.

>I'll eat shit and you can't stop me, the actual competent alternative is bad probably because I'm too stupid to run it

Oh wow user you're so smart, your parents must be proud of you.

Money is an incentive. If they did it for free they would have no reason to hurry development.

competition
as is the driver for most things

>Have to pirate mods and piracy tools


Good times

Even the other plugin based equivalent, PCSX-Reloaded is better than ePSXe

Emulation developers then

>link to Paypal of devs on project site

Emulation developers now

>Patreon page

Hardly different

>Hiding latest version behind paywall

Oh, I didn't see that. Yeah, they can fuck off then

>What is No$

These guys don't.
Granted that I don't agree at all with using Patreon and similar systems for donations, because they abuse the set-it-and-forget-it system of recurring payments, if dumb people are careless with their money it's their own fault.

Remember when people weren't entitled to what other people made?

Does Mednefan/Retroarch support rendering at higher resolutions? Trying to replace epsxe.

It does with Mednafen, but it's extremely intensive once you go past 2x.

I know they've thrown another PS1 core in there recently but I forget which one.

>2005 internet
>people routinely mocked flash animators and artists that asked for more money
>2016
>it's "problematic" and "unfair" to suggest that people shouldn't try to pay all of their bills with donations from fans of your 2-3 minute shorts that involve monkeys farting or something

>pay $5 a month to have access to updates a week in advance even though they'll be free the following week

What the fuck? That's an awful bonus. This isn't like beta testing with a game where you can possibly test out newer mechanics, items, etc. They're just updates to an emulator.

So running at 1920x1080 will be nearly impossible? That extra bit of accuracy isn't worth having to play at 480x360.

At least it's not the Alison Rapp Patreon

>>only way for an impatient fuck to get the latest version a small bit of time earlier than its normal release to the public

fixed that for you buddy.
learn a lick of patience you ungrateful fuck.

You wouldn't be running any PSX games at 1080p in any emulator without fucking up the aspect ratio.

*whatever the equivalent with black bars would be. 1440x1080 then.

There's nothing to stop you from running games in fullscreen in mednafen, or at various windowed sizes.
Internal resolution options are no different to those offered in PCSX2 and obviously won't do much to help games that are primarily 2D.

>>emulators as a commercial product
youtube.com/watch?v=HLWY7fCXUwE

as a side-note on the topic, emulators were already commercial products since ages ago.

some of them were even commercial products before the console in question had peaked.

i personally would actually love for CEmu to be a commercial product, but the devs don't seem interested in that idea.

im also a bit salty that they've chosen to hold back on networking capability until the WiiU's online servers/presence dies, the games I want to emulate are mostly all multiplayer ones that I just wish to play with keyboard/mouse.

>People are so against buying a Wii U for the risk of someone thinking they like Nintendo that they'll pay money to get an emulator a week early
>Just to prove they don't like Nintendo yet want to play their games

Jesus fucking Christ, Sup Forums.

You're assuming a lot.

It's Sup Forums, user. The same people who shit themselves because Bayonetta 2 wasn't on PC.

They'll pay to be able to say they're emulating Bayo 2 on PC, like it's some huge achievement.

>>without fucking up the aspect ratio
there's plugins to correct this.
doesn't work in all games of course, but in ones such as Spyro it's a simple camera hack and re-positioning the UI.
there's an ePSXe package somewhere all ready to go for widescreen HD.

>there's an ePSXe package somewhere all ready to go for widescreen HD.
>ePSXe
Now that mednafen has the same widescreen hack along with internal resolution and other graphics options along with the shader settings it's had for years there is literally no reason to use the piece of shit that is ePSXe.

>you're doing it to feel good about yourself

First day in Earth, xeno?

>until the WiiU's online servers/presence dies
It's so they don't get Nintendo lawyers bearing down on them with the force of 10,000 suns.

Except mednafen is slow as shit also

>piece of shit that is ePSXe.
So, how long have you been into scat fetish?
ePSXe is fucking awesome and basically you are a faggot.

>this persecution complex

>Except mednafen is slow as shit also
Mednafen has a speedup function that actually works, so it's actually much faster than ePSXe.
>Implying the person who doesn't eat shit is a scat fetishist

Remember when people used to do videos on youtube for free? Or when people made flash games/animations for free on Newgrounds?

>ednafen has a speedup function that actually works, so it's actually much faster than ePSXe.
Nope, with epsxe I can go highest rendering resolution and it will still work smooth as fuck.
Mednafen (at least in Retroarch 1.32) just cant compare.

this would only be a problem if they were hosting their own servers though.

if it's just distribution of server emulation, and not hosting of private servers, the courts can't do anything about it. this is why things such as the educational diablo 3 server emulator can still exist (mooege).

of course, if nintendo wanted to make a scene about it, they could take them to court anyway and likely cause enough legal costs to put them out of business. this is what happened to bleem, the ps1 emulator that won a court case against sony but then went out of business due to the huge amount of legal costs spent in court.

I would donate a decent amount of money each month the bring pSX back from dead.

best girl

>pay emulator developers monthly for something that will take like, 4 or 5 years to reach 90% compatibility instead of buying the original hardware and games
I hate neo-nintendo as much as the next guy, but this is so stupid. It's not like other person won't do it for free someday.
But whatever, it's not my money.

Who cares? It's released for free anyway, and commercial emulators was actually pretty prevalent in the past.
We're objectively in the golden age of emulation.

Maybe you should get a computer that isn't shit, then.

>>there is literally no reason to use the piece of shit that is ePSXe
except that it also works fine for what i want it to do, and i don't care which one you think is better, friend.

>it works fine
So does ZSNES.

>The only reason paid mods didn't take off was because a bunch of neckbeards threw endless shitfits about losing something they thought would be free forever. They're okay with this because they'll be paying for something that will be free eventually. The moral of this story is that neckbeards are flip floppers who will gladly suck dick if they like the moisturizer you used beforehand.
You don't know wtf you're talking about. If they get paid for mods they can't use trademarked shit without getting sued, they have to support the content they do make but have no incentive to do so.
It breeds a degenerate environment of idiots like you who should be taken out back and put out of our misery.

>>a computer that isn't shit
but they just mentioned that ePSXe successfully achieves the exact same task without any problem....that means it's a problem with Mednafen, not their computer.

you don't need a super computer to emulate PS1, heck even my shitty mobile emulates it perfectly at 720p, and that's a severely primitive version of ePSXe compared to the PC version.

why do you care so much about whether or not someone uses the same software as you?

Patreon is doing it for free dumbass. You aren't buying anything when you donate on Patreon.

>the exact same task
It doesn't though. It produces an inferior result that requires less processing power.

>you don't need a super computer to emulate PS1
Yeah, that's right. My computer was mid-tier back in 2011 and it has no problems running games in mednafen, so what's your excuse?

You're not making any sense, that's not even a PS1 emulator...

>epsxe works flawlessly on a shit computer
>mednafen doesnt work nearly as well on the same shit computer
>this is a proof that mednafen is somehow better

Anyway, if you actually check discussions on mednafen its higher res and speed up function you will notice that it chokes computers that are very far from being shit.
Its just much more resource hungry than epsxe with all its bells and whistles.
And keep to yourself "muh superior compatibility, you mednafenfags like to use when you have no real argument why mednafen is better than anything else"
Unless I'll see there is actually issues with compatibility, like water not being transparent, AI behaving weirdly, crashes and what not, there is no superior compatibility.

WHEN WILL WIND WAKER HD WORK ITS A FUCKING PORT NO I DONT WANT TO PLAY THE GAMECUBE VERSION

The point is that ZSNES "works fine" in the same sense that ePSXe "works fine", that being that it actually runs games like shit but the idiots who defend it don't know any better.

>>this is a proof that mednafen is somehow better
And higan runs like shit because it requires more resources to accurately emulate the SNES than ZSNES and SNES9x's patchwork jobs, yes.
>Its just much more resource hungry than epsxe with all its bells and whistles.
How ironic when the entire point of ePSXe is to have the bells and whistles that mednafen lacks.
>Unless I'll see there is actually issues with compatibility, like water not being transparent, AI behaving weirdly, crashes and what not, there is no superior compatibility.
Well it's a good thing you'll get all of that in plugin based emulators then isn't it?

Why is N64 emulation still garbage?

>> It produces an inferior result
please provide a source to this, including a comparison, otherwise i have no reason to believe this matters, epsxe still appears to achieve this in a manner that is perfectly fine for the task and playable.

>>less processing power
nothing wrong with that, it can either mean its more optimized or that its taking intelligent shortcuts that achieve the same result.
again, you need to clarify on the relevance of this fact.
this would be like saying it's a bad thing that PPSSPP uses a JIT compiler, rather than the alternative method that would gain the exact same results but would need more processing power. if you're going to bring up processing power, at least understand what you're talking about.

>>and it has no problems running games in mednafen
>>so what's your excuse
Excuse for what? I never said my computer has any problems running mednafen.
Stop putting words in peoples mouths. Also inb4 you don't realize there are multiple people talking to you.

Paid emulators have been around forever, faggot.

And at least the PS1 was a simple console in terms of hardware, the Wii U is a clusterfuck by comparison.

Yes. Yes I do.

how playable is N64 majoras mask on PC? I want to play it but the gamecube version I have it glitchy as fuck and the 3DS one ruins muh nostalgia thanks to shit features like swimming fast drains magic for literally no reason

It's a Nintendo 64 game that everyone has heard of, therefore it works perfectly.

>people haven't heard of Gauntlet Legends
>it'll never be playable again, even the N64 version is crippled with needing a memory pack that you can't get anymore
a literal dead game, such a shame ;_;

>want to play a game
>doesn't work in mednafen because of reasons
>works perfectly in epsxe all the time

I don't give a shit about accuracy and sperg shit like that I just want to be able to play the game.