/vr/ - Retro Games

CRT Geom halation with some distance looks pretty close to the original.

Review of the PS1 emulators.

psX is okay for the games it works for, especially since it has such low resource requirements. You got a shitty laptop from 2005? This is the ps1 emulator for you.

PCSX-R has a lot of problems and needs to be completely reformed before I think we should recommend it. My ideal PCSX-R:

>Moves away from plugins
>New HLE video
>higher accuracy audio
>massive reduction in options (most of them are to gain speed on low end pcs from 2005 and are not relevant anymore)
>simplified design and options
>config saved in a simple config file not registry
>two video rendering modes: hardware and software

Right now, it's a glitchy inconvenient mess with too many otpions and nonsense.

epsxe is everything above with:
>Can't use GTE accuracy,
>Can't use lillypad or other plugins
>closed source
>no true widescreen option
>possibly stealing code from pcsx-r

For years epsxe lagged behind the others. They only started updating it again because they have a paid Android version. And the PC version is really about advertizing the Android payware.

Xebra is an accurate software renderer, at native resolution. Closed source. Bad confusing GUI. Audio/visual output and synch issues.

Mednafen is clearly the premiere PS1 emulator right now. It's the only one with any hope of being able to play 100% of games with no issues. The standalone has some synch issues, so use the Mednafen psx core in RetroArch. Plus you can use shaders, which can make it sorta look like how it originally looked quality wise. Sorta.