What's Sup Forums opinion on emulation?

What's Sup Forums opinion on emulation?

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Emulation is good.
Thinking about getting a Raspberry Pi for emulation.

kys for stealing from the developers, left-leaning parrasite.

Better than supporting most publishers nowadays

Ironic shitposting is still shitposting

Emulation is great, loads of games I would not be able to play otherwise.

Emulation is the best thing and should be mandatory.

I'm more right leaning that you and i emulate everyday.

This.

It got me into retro gaming when I was a teen, but I never really played any games on emulators for more than a few minutes.

When I got a job at 16, I bought an NES and started actually playing and beating old games.

I liked it, hopefully it gets a sequel

Good for the future.

Playing old games is my favorite thing about PC gaming.

The developers take too long to impliment features. Not to mention the devs are assholes

Fuck retroarch, some of the cores are outdated too.

Emulation is great
Retroarch is garbage though

>Retroarch is garbage though

Retroarch just uses shit from other emulators, it's nothing more than a frontend.

All me

I like emulation.
Is still buy some of the games I emulate just to have them, because I'm a simple minded man who isn't able to let go of physical materialism, but I have nothing against the practice otherwise.
Games aren't going to last forever on discs, even hard drives aren't a permanent answer, but I think we should make an effort to preserve them for as long as possible.
I kinda wish Devs would keep paper copies of code and other design documents in archives.
That way this stuff can be researched and referenced in the future when needed.

Nowadays a lot of the very early films from the early 1900s have been lost because no one saw the need to preserve them, it's a real shame and I don't wanna see it happen to games.

what artist?

Uses outdated shit from other emulators and has less features*
Absolutely no reason not to use standalone versions

don't, unless you want to emulate stuff pre ps1 and n64 (not including them)

Works fine for me.

gunna need that sweet ass sauce

ps1 doesn't work? it's a 20 year old system

what the fuck op. is that a fucking xmb skin for your emulator front end? thats hot.

It's perfectly fine if you're an idiot who doesn't care about good emulation and just wants to play his shitty games.
That's not what I'm talking about

Great of course, what else is there to say?

depends on the game, some of them run fine but some stutter like crazy

open-source emulation is fantastic
If you're reading this and you're one of the >5,000 people donating to Cemu then you are a moron, please stop

>good emulation

What kind of retard argument is that? If it works it works, you don't need anything more unless you're a turbo autist.

ps1 works fine

Great. I encourage everyone to get into it

Like I said, retards like you don't care about it

Is there a good guide to follow on how to properly set up retroarch?

>but muh cycle accuracy

kys

Whatever you say, retard

>What kind of retard argument is that? If it works it works, you don't need anything more unless you're a turbo autist.

how sad you must be to keep replying to me?

>got to nightly
>download most recent version and cores
>download redist and put into folder
>learn how emulators work (some like Mednafen require games to have proper .cue sheets)

>What kind of retard argument is that? If it works it works

Tell that to Project 64 or any other inaccurate emulator

>some like Mednafen require games to have proper .cue sheets

games usually already come with cue, I know all the redump ones do

introduced me to a shit-ton of games I likely would have never been able to play otherwise

Can you do emulation on the PS4? Not that I'd try, just curious.

Yeah but some dumps (especially Sega Saturn dumps) tend to have bad .cue sheets or no .cue sheets at all.

Every time I set up and then close the program it resets all my configurations. My cores are gone and when I try to load games they don't load.

>What's Sup Forums opinion on emulation?

That you shouldn't use shitty frontends.

Is that Retroarch's UI? is it the default? talk about stealing the worst ui in gaming in the last 30 years

redump Saturn all come with cue

It alright

Alright I'll ask since everyone here is talking about it


what's wrong with retroarch? Why do you all hate it?

Retroarch's UI is made to be mobile friendly.

emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/RetroArch is a good start. It's really not as intimidating as some people make it out to be and has improved immensely from the "by neckbeards for neckbeards" thing it started out as.

As far as emulation goes, it's pretty important. Some day, all of those console will die and the companies that actually have control of that stuff have shown that they don't have anywhere near the level of concern for accuracy that people making emulators do.

We'll be past all of the issues one day if shit like this works out as well. I would be willing to pay new console price for something that runs PS2 and downwards consoles perfectly on an FPGA. Probably be some time before that's realistic though.

Look up Darkwater or Redump Saturn ISOs (a lot are on theisozone)

Mostly for NES and SNES, so I'm alright with that.

That's the mobile friendly version
THIS is the UI for PC
enjoy

If you are crashing the emulator it will not save the configurations

>My cores are gone

That shouldn't happen

Probably idiots that don't use the actual good cores that RA has

Is there a list of recommended cores somewhere? There are like 10 cores only for GBA, I have no idea which one to use.

>It's really not as intimidating as some people make it out to be and has improved immensely from the "by neckbeards for neckbeards" thing it started out as.


When I first got into Retroarch the only confusion I got was updating. and cores.
I STILL don't get why they didn't just call cores "emulators" . Really stupid desicion to rename it

RA is really buggy and unfinished. It works at a basic level but a lot of advanced stuff just doesn't work well. At least it didn't the last I tried.

>Instead of donating to RA everyone donated to CEMU

what went wrong?

Check the emulation wiki

I mean, it does require a little bit more effort to get up and running than a regular emulator. Some of the cores can be outdated at times as well.

I honestly think the main issue is that it exposes a lot of stuff that could potentially cause problems to people and idiots click the wrong thing and get a crash.

You can make it look quite good, it's very customizable. It is XBM though, no getting around that if you hate it.

They still have to add a fucking online multiplayer lobby

sauce

it's outdated as fuck

The new wiki,gametechwiki.

Then update it

look it's the same fucking faggot in these threads who can't bring proper arguments into the discussion and just calls everyone a retard
you're becoming really fucking predictable you little shit

How do I got box art in retroarch?

RPCS3 should be top priority. RA shouldn't get much at all because the devs are kind of sketchy. Even Xenia should be above them.

AND Cxbx Reloaded and XQEMU

Sauce on lewd arab girl, user.

github.com/libretro/libretro-thumbnails

follow the instructions on the bottom

That hasn't been the PC UI for years. What do you get out of lying, you fat homo?

>RA shouldn't get much at all because the devs are kind of sketchy.

details please

It is possible but the lack of Homebrew is making that impossible for non Sony shit.

>what's wrong with retroarch?

It's a frontend that hijacks several emulation "cores." What it refers to as cores are emulator binaries that were written by completely unrelated parties, and that weren't even designed to interface with Retroarch. So several emulator functions end up broken or have half-assed functionality, cores behave in completely irregular ways, and the Retroarch frontend increases overhead and wastes additional resources.

You can simply download and run these "cores" as standalone emulators. You don't need Retroarch at all. The only real advantage to Retroarch is that it might be ported to a platform that doesn't otherwise support those emulators. For instance, it can run on a Pi box. But again, you're going to get some shitty and bugged out performance from it. I don't know if that's better than nothing.

It's open source, that faggot is trying to stir shit.

YOU SHOULD BE IN JAIL

>hijacks several emulation cores
>hijacks open source emulation cores

t.MAME dev

>What it refers to as cores are emulator binaries that were written by completely unrelated parties

I'm pretty sure everybody is aware of that, the RA devs never claimed otherwise.

>mfw emulation will actually become illegal in our life times

The best shit ever. I dont give a fuck about system superiority shitposting but its the single best thing about having a decent pc. I can play a near endless amount of titles from all sorts of fucking consoles all at my desk for free

I don't have any, it's just a weird project. They fork away from the 'official' projects but don't maintain their own software well. It's not like they're doing anything for the average emulating guy, compared to people developing new emulators.

autist

I'll emulate your mom

RA still has the best Genesis emulator basically exclusive to it, all the standalone Genesis emulator are from like 2010 and are all pretty shit.

GOOD
NOW YOU BABIES CAN ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN THE WORLD

Reminder that everyone who claims that Mednefen is too hard is a retarded child and should unironically be gassed.

I'd rather play the EEL DEAL, pic related is my CRT tv. It's a composite, nothing fancy like RGB or anything. Running Crash Bandicoot 2.

>They fork away from the 'official' projects but don't maintain their own software well.
The individual cores are maintained by different people, retard.

It's easy to own real hardware.

>How do I get anons to download my software?
>I know, I'll insult them for preferring to use anything else!

Great job

How do I get this look for my gameboy games

I don't care, autist.

It's also a really good Mednafen front-end and the Beetle HW core(which is still a little buggy for me) offers some shit that the official version doesn't.

bSNES core works pretty great as well.

That's pretty much all I use emulators for anyway. Covering those three bases with the awesome shader library is good enough for me.

>buy real hardware
>get a flash cart or mod it to play roms

the best way to play

You're a compulsive liar and probably 12. Go take your ritalin.

Emulation is good, retroarch is shit.

I like that it keeps older games alive, I'm otherwise indifferent.

What's the difference between using Mednafen and using Mednafen through Retroarch?

I use the bsnes core in retroarch because stock Mednefen does some retarded rom conversion.

Emulators are coded by geniuses and used by poorfags