/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3318982
ZSNES is the SNES best emulator available around.

Use original consoles (with a CRT screen) or nothing.

osx -> openemu
win/linux -> retroarch

done

>>3318982
Read the sticky

http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

>>3319003
I thought RetroArch was to be avoided?

>>3318982
>snes
use snes9x.

higan is retarded. even if you change the library directory from the default to something else, higan can't even save that properly and goes back to the default.

>genesis
kega fusion all the way. still the only gen emu that can emulate the yamaha synth properly.

>pc-engine
mednafen, easily. magic engine can't load cue/bins directly, and has shitty emulation of a lot of games.

>nes
nestopia is solid.

>>3319189
i don't use win or linux so idgaf what you faggots suffer with

Disregard the Retroarch shills. They flock to emulation threads like flies to shit.

There's no "/vr/ approved" list, and the emulation Wiki is disproportionately edited by shills to make their software look better.

Per platform, I would recommend you consider the following based on accuracy and features:

NES - Nestopia
GB/C - Gambatte seems to be the most accurate. bgb is another popular choice, but the interface is more barebones.
SNES - snes9x or snesgt. There's too much retarded controversy with higan / bsnes, so I can't in good faith recommend you go there. It also requires some hefty specs.
Genesis / MD / SMS / other Sega platforms - Kega Fusion
TG-16 - Ootake
PS1 - Doesn't really matter what you pick since none of them are considerably accurate. Many are plugin-based. ePSXe, Xebra and PCSX Reloaded are popular choices. pSXfin if you have a toaster oven, but most games have minor compatibility issues at the very least.
N64 - Don't bother. The state of N64 emulation is shit and is never going to improve. You're better off buying a used Wii and pirating Virtual Console emulated ports of whatever select few N64 titles Nintendo ever re-released.

>>3319239
Emulicious is better for SMS and GG. It's great for gaming and debugging/coding shit.

GameBoy is getting better in better in that emulator as well.

>>3319008
This.


The sticky has two very helpful links I feel a lot of people just gloss over.

>>3319269
Other boards have a more flashy or noticeable sticky. Few don't. /vr/ is one of them

>>3319239
ps1 emulation is pretty bad sempai

>>3319193
>still the only gen emu that can emulate the yamaha synth properly.
GenesisGX user here, proof of this?
>agic engine can't load cue/bins directly, and has shitty emulation of a lot of games.
And IIRC, they're still charging money for it too

>>3319239
>n64
Most games that don't work are on wii virtual console. The games that do work (and are worth playing) will work on project 64 1.5. Don't go higher that 1.5.

Retroarch is good and convenient but I have to admit they do pay me to write about it on the retro video games board of 4chan.

>>3319275

It is right next to three /vr/ links holding up the triforce.

It works well enough. Not our fault people are fucking stupid.

>>3319239
>ootake

mednafen does everything better and without a retarded gui. in ootake you can't even assign buttons to certain keys because they're hard-assigned to shortcuts

>sms/gg
>kega fusion
Noooope.

>>3319295
Yeah I got proof homie.

For android
Psexe
Mupen 64 plus ae
Reicast
Pppsssppp
Drastic ds

For everthing else use the .emu ones

How about something more specific:
Which emulators are good for homebrew and has good debugging tools(breakpoints, disassembler, memory viewers, etc.) for all the systems?

The few I know of are:
>(m)VBA
>desume
>no$PSX (game compatibility issues with this one)

The emus I'm looking for should have similar debugging tools to the ones I listed.

Retroarch is a pile of steaming shit and should be avoided.

ARCADE: mame
2600: stella
Apple II: applewin or mame/mess
Commodore 8-bit: vice
intellivision/coleco/etc: lolidunno
Amiga: WinUAE/fs-uae
NES/Master System /SNES/Genesis /GG/GB/GBC/TG16/PCEngine /PCCD/WonderSwan/Lynx/Virtual Boy/PC-FX/PS1: mednafen
MegaCD/32x: Gens/GS
N64: Project64, mupen64plus
Saturn: SSF, yabause
everything else: fuck if i know

>>3319334
FPSe is a much better choice for PSX

>>3319426
>intellivision/coleco/etc: lolidunno
i'd say MEKA probably

>>3319426
How so?

>>3319193
>higan is retarded
Apart from the horrible UI and narrow range of usability options, the emulation part of higan is the only one to come close to 100% accuracy on the tests. It's a pain in the ass, but a faithful one.

Snes9x is a good alternative, but some games don't work well on it. For instance, Smurfs and Speedy Gonzales often crash and Mechwarrior (The isometric one) simply won't load. Still a lot superior than ZSnes though, which is only really fit for old computers.

>>3318982
NES: Nestopia (and Fceux for some unlicensed games)
SNES: either higan or Snes9x
Genesis: Kega Fusion
Gameboy: BGB
PS1: ePSXe
N64: Project 64

emulators suck ass.

>>3319483
>Smurfs and Speedy Gonzales often crash and Mechwarrior (The isometric one) simply won't load

Implying anyone would play those steaming turds

>>3319297
Curious as to what's wrong with higher than 1.5

>>3319193
>>3319239
>>3319497
>Nestopia
Nestopia UE is what you should be using instead.

>>3318982
Avoid any and all emulators with the word "retro" in its name and you should be golden.

>>3319303
The truth comes out.

>>3319239
>Complains about "Retroarch shills"
>makes fucking retarded emulator recommendations

Sounds about right

>>3319196
Underage b&

>not using RetroArch for NES, SNES, PSX, etc.

Enjoy having higher input lag and worse synchronization. Ignore the shit eaters who hate it for no reason, it's good for what it is. Some of the cores are forks that have additions compared to the original version i.e. Beetle-PSX, and soon mupen64 with a Vulkan LLE RDP renderer.

>>3320282
if only we could ban poor and retarded people instead.

>>3318993
What makes it better than SNES 9X?

>>3319239
>>3319426
RA isn't the be all end all of emulation that much is obvious but when you see the same people unironically say shit like

>NES/Master System /SNES/Genesis /GG/GB/GBC/TG16/PCEngine /PCCD/WonderSwan/Lynx/Virtual Boy/PC-FX/PS1: mednafen
>MegaCD/32x: Gens/GS
>PS1 - Doesn't really matter what you pick since none of them are considerably accurate. Many are plugin-based. ePSXe, Xebra and PCSX Reloaded are popular choices. pSXfin if you have a toaster oven, but most games have minor compatibility issues at the very least.

They should really abstain from giving any sort of advice on emulation, and that's just the shit I actually have personal experience with I couldn't make an actual judgement on many other platforms since I never bothered to emulate them seriously.

>>3320284
>Enjoy having higher input lag
SNES emulation actually still has higher input lag than anything else for some reason in RA.

>>3320304
Technically you can throw it on anything with a x86 compatible windows OS and it would work just fine (a DOS computer would need to be pretty beefy but that's also a possibility), it plays older romhacks better sometimes (mostly SMW stuff), it has an neat UI (although ZMZ exists) and that's about it

>>3320318
>SNES emulation actually still has higher input lag than anything else for some reason in RA.

It's in the core code for bsnes and snes9x. Someone has already submitted changes to both that result in 1 less frame of lag over the original code, which is not currently merged in either upstream codebase.

>>3320318
>a DOS computer would need to be pretty beefy but that's also a possibility.
That's really cool, scalability should be an important part of emulators in general I reckon.

I think what we can all take from this thread is that there are a multitude of options and no one emulator is going to be right for every person. It's best to find the one that's right for your preferences and available hardware.

>>3319432
I was using fpse first, but what having problems with crashes and glitching. Has fpse improved in the last year or so?

>>3320397
>fpse
Not likely, if you really want to pay for PS1 emulation on android ePSXe is what you should grab.

>>3319303
How much?

>>3319239
>>There's no "/vr/ approved" list, and the emulation Wiki is disproportionately edited by shills to make their software look better.

Wew lad. I like all that proof you have.

NES - Nestopia
SNES - Higan
PS1 - Mednafen, look up any libretro cores if you want. I don't really like RA but it has its uses.
PS2 - kek
N64 - Dolphin for VC titles, others are getting there with Vulkan.
GBA - mGBA
DS - DeSemu
PSP - PPSSPP
Gamecube/Wii - Dolphin

itjustwerks

I use higan but even though when I check the CPU usage it's not at 100%, I get stuttering audio once in a while and see the fps go down to 56 or so before going back to 60. What's up with that?

>>3318982

Nes : Nesticle
Snes : Zsnes
Genesis : Kgen
Arcade : Rain
Master System : Meka

>>3319627
No one who says Nestopia actually means ancientopia, it's been deprecated long ago

>>3320471
shoulda gone with genecyst

>>3319239
Your advice is terrible desu senpai

Especially in regards to PSX and N64

>>3320464
Poor sync

>>3318993

zsnes is the worst emulator and it's not even accurate.

NES puNes
SNES Higan / BSNES
Megadrive / SMS Kega Fusion
N64 - real hardware with Everdrive 64

>>3318982
Visual boy advance is perfect

So why is RA bad again?
Really need to update my emu suite and it seems pretty nice being a near all in one.

>>3321328
Why is there so much RetroArch controversy in the first place?

(Don't have a side in the argument, just curious.)

>>3321983
>too complicated to setup
>meme filters on games
>input lag is not better than any emulator counterpart
>shitty interface

you'd be better off getting a frontend like hyperspin or maximus arcade if you want all your emulators to run in a single program

whats that emulator that has the zsnes interface but with the power and accuracy of newer snes emulators i forgot the name

>>3321995
Nice misinformation.

>>3322017
Nice shill

>>3322001
>ZNES UI
Why even?

>>3321191
Except it's non-free now because the dev wants to sell google apps. The old free versions work fine though if you're NOT autistic about features.

>>3319483
>>3319512
Der Langrisser , FM1 , Civ 1 and Sim City basically need Higan to run smoothly. DL and FM1 AFAIK need Higan to beat the game unless you like playing them without sound.

>>3319003
OpenEmu is shit though.

>ctrl+f
>No Dreamcast

Why

Anyone here /bizhawk/? It's developed by the TASvideos community and accuracy is their highest concern. I don't have a whole lot of experience with it, but it's worked well so far for my casual gaming.

>>3322036
thanks for the help asshole

http://emulation-general.wikia.com/wiki/Emulation_General_Wiki

http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

Why two almost identical wiki pages?

>>3322078
>Why two almost identical wiki pages?
Wikia doesn't want links to illegal content (like BIOSes and ROM sites) but they also own all the info that has been posted so nobody can erase it.

Only the gametechwiki one is actively being worked on, most of what happen to the other is people randomly stumbling upon it.

>>3321995
>I don't know what I'm talking about

>>3320619
So is that the software or hardware fault?

>>3322001
It's called ZMZ, grab the latest SNES cores while you're at it.
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=5681
http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/windows/x86_64/latest/

>>3322061
>>>/b/

>>3322342
Syncs aren't perfect. Framerates were never perfect consistently, as in always at 60FPS for PS1, even for original hardware. e.g. Many PS1 game had slowdown when there's lots of polygonal assplosions on screen.

Moral: Stop being an autistic faggot.

>>3322658
Are we trying to make emulators better than original hardware?

>>3319321
Well, how do you expect people who don't know how to triforce to get the sign?

>>3321995
>too complicated to setup
Not really, unless you don't know how to operate a computer
>meme filters on games
Uhhhh, turn them off? You act like it's forcing you to use filters.
>input lag blah blah
I have no problems
>shitty interface
That's subjective

I like RetroArch. As long as you select the right cores for systems and set it up correctly, it's fine. It obviously doesn't work for everything, but for what does work, which is almost every system I throw at it, I see no problems. Everyone here is underaged and retarded.

Blast em is a new Genesis emulator, and it's flipping amazing. Menu screen is actually a genesis rom it loads.

http://rhope.retrodev.com/files/blastem_changes.html

>>3318982
/vr/ doesn't know shit about emulation so I wouldn't take their word on emulators.

Go to /vg/ if you want tips on emulation.

>>3318993
Whatever you say. :^)

>>3321983
>RetroArch
>input lag is not better than any emulator counterpart

well, its actually emulation, in a small computer that doesnt take USB storage, only 80s cartridge, so its utterly laughable useless moronic piece of garbage

>>3325704
I think you got your "Retro" named things mixed up.

>>3325704
>>3325784
ooops, right

retroarch is software

retron is that retarded hardware emulator
shaped like an 80s console

>

>>3318982
>/vr/ approved emulators
I hate you so much for being such an ineffectual faggot that you need a board of pathetic fucking morons who spend their time jerking off over dirty corroded plastic cartridges without ever actually playing any games to tell you what emulators are "approved" by this grand august council.

Seriously, please fucking die. You literally lower the average IQ of the internet.