/vr/ - Retro Games

Is there any reason to not use it for everything up to and including gen 5?

How can I use Retroarch shaders with other emulators (Supermodel to be exact)? I try ReShade but it crashes right away.

RetroArch doesn't have this problem.

>MAME core now has support for run-ahead, rewind, and RetroArch save states with preview/undo even for games that standalone MAME has no save state support for
MAMEbros.. we're going home...

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>Mednafen is the most accurate but also by far the most pain to set up and doesn't even come with a front end

making an emulation machine ps2 and under how many tb should i get.

https://vsrecommendedgames.fandom.com/wiki/V/'s_Recommended_Games_Wiki

making an emulation machine ps2 and under how much space do i get. got a 500gb hd for os and saves

>try to play mame with it
>the assigned control conflict with the ones built in with the mame core, even if a xbox controller
lol

Why do the Retroarch devs shill so hard for themselves on their website? Why does a free emulator need testimonials?

Is this the absolute best way to play fifth gen and earlier?

Is there any actual legitimate argument to play on fifth gen and earlier original hardware when pic related exists?

Going to be on a 5hr car ride. What are some grindy older games I can play (pre-Dreamcast preferable)

i only use this cause mednafen doesnt let me map the same input to multiple buttons

Do you have to be sadomasochistic to use this thing?

What is wrong with this?
Why is RetroArch so unpopular?

Why did they stop developing RetroArch? They used to regularly release new versions almost every other week, but now there hasn't been a new release in over half a year.

wat can i emulate up to. 1.7GHz up to 2.7GHz AMD Quad-Core A8-5545M APU

4MB L2 Cache

8GB DDR3L SDRAM (1 DIMM)
AMD Radeon HD 8510G graphics with up to 4224MB total graphics memory

wat can this laptop emulate yup to on retroarch https://support.hp.com/ca-en/document/c04348150

I'm fucking sick of this program. I don't have the time or patience to learn what all of the settings do and my ps1 and n64 games keep running slow. I have no issue with standalone emulators! I just wanted some sweet upscaling.

What am I on for?

Retroarch's got a bunch of features, like DRC, runahead and multipass shaders that are uncommon or poorly implemented in standalones. If you know what you want, RetroArch is often the best choice, and you always want good DRC when you're emulating on a PC. There's also a bunch of good emulators that require RetroArch, like Parallel N64, Mupen64Plus Next, Flycast and Genesis Plus GX. The problem that RetroArch solves is that emudeving is a really specific skill that doesn't translate to modern systems programming or graphics programming, so a lot of good emulators have bad graphics or input code. It's much better to have one good implementation of all the shit you need in an emulator that isn't specific to a certain console, so it doesn't have to be reimplemented poorly in every standalone, and that's what RetroArch is.

RetroArch filters a bunch of people because it has a slightly unusual interface, and some of them get really sour grapes over it, but you can tell those people because they never have any technical criticisms. It's always about the UI, or about how one of the devs said a rude thing, or about how not using standalones "feels wrong" or something like that. Honestly, if you can't use a program with an unusual UI, what the fuck are you doing on /vr/? Retro computing comes before the era of UX design. Every second program in the 90s had an unusual UI by today's standards. If RetroArch filters you, you're probably a zoomer. Seriously learn how to use a fucking computer.

>zoomer: the zoomulator

>clusterfuck: the frontend