/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6049576
>zoomers shitp-

>>6049576
-erface
Seriously that looks awful. Barely better than the default XMB shit but only because you can use the mouse.

>>6049576
XMB is miles better than this

>>6049576
I fucking hated XMB at first but now I have to say, using emulator menus with just a controller and not having to switch between mouse and keyboard and controller after launching the program is pretty damn comfy. It really helps if you customize the appearance.

>>6049576
>download a rompack
>97% of the games are shit

>>6049638
You shouldn't have downloaded the N64 rompack then

>>6049607
Kino. I never thought of checking the User Interface section. I've begun removing stuff I never used.

it didn't recognize half my saturn games. very uncomfy

Would be neat if somebody made an xbox360 blades theme.

>>6049607
>i FUCKING HATED xmb but now i realise actually pretty good haha
and this is why you shouldn't take the opinions of the masses seriously

>>6049582
If you're using words like 'zoomer' then you have no right to accuse someone else of shitposting.

>>6051265
Your tears are delicious zoomer

You mean all I had to do was press F5 this whole time?

Theme name? Is it built in or a seperate add on?

>Not knowing how to change Retroarch's UI and complaining about the PS3 UI anyway
It's called RGUI. Change to it.

>>6052628
>PS3 UI
That's the PSX UI.

>>6049576
How do you change it that shit. I'll admit it's an improvement from the disgusting thing that is >>6049607

>>6052709
Just press F5 when in the program and you get the Desktop mode.

>>6049607
Agreed. I can fly through the menu and modify shaders fast and efficiently without putting down my DS4. It's ultra comfy.

I really don't get why people complain about the default interface like you can't change it though you actually can. Just because complaining about Retroarch is fun or what.

>>6052920
>because complaining about Retroarch is fun
indeed it is

i dont get why you people are so retarded that they cant navigate retroarch's braindead easy UI

>>6049576
It's more clunky than KEGA Fusion, yes.

>>6053158
Zoomers are used to pretty limited things like smartphones, think that many of them haven’t used an actual computer

>>6049576
>-elligence

>>6053158
i tend to fiddle with the settings a lot when im trying to run a game and spamming the d-pad until i got carpal tunnel got old real fast.

>>6051189
>it didn't recognize half my saturn games. very uncomfy
"recognize" how, like trying to scan games into a playlist or downloading thumbnails? Retroarch's built in thumbnail downloader is completely useless and nobody seems interested in making another one for it, all the custom scrapers are for Emulationstation

>>6053158
it's not hard to use, but the way it works makes it feel like it's wasting your time, even with mouse control enabled. it's just a lot slower to use than almost every other standalone emulator interface. and it doesn't feel like it offers me anything that makes it worth it compared to the standalone emulators i already used.

>>6055031
>Retroarch's built in thumbnail downloader is completely useless
Nah, you're probably just too stupid let's be real here - that, or your ROMs are shit.

http://docs.libretro.com/guides/roms-playlists-thumbnails/

>RetroArch Playlist Scanner

>RetroArch incoporates a ROM scanning system to automatically produce playlists. Each ROM that is scanned by the playlist generator is checked against a database of ROMs that are known to be good copies.

>In order for content to be correctly scanned, you must:
>Have a compatible core already downloaded and installed
>Update Core Info Files via Online Updater
>Update Databases via Online Updater
>Restart RetroArch if any of the above was just done

>Finally, the content must match existing databases from the libretro-database README

https://github.com/libretro/libretro-database/blob/master/README.md#sources

>>6055356
>that, or your ROMs are shit
Hey fuck you, anon's dirty emuparadise roms are too good for your elitist CRC faggotry.

It's shit, just give me a standard open file dialog. I don't need all the bullshit, i keep my files organised.

>>6055032
GPU sync and runahead are reason enough for me to near exclusively use Retroarch. Every other standalone emulator I've used has either had screen tearing/microstutter issues from improper sync rates, or input delay. Or both. Retroarch cores have neither

Hell even the dolphin core which is pretty shitty runs smooth as butter once it's up. Trying to play 30fps games on standalone dolphin is a fucking nightmare, have to manually switch my monitor to a 30hz refresh rate just to get video to not shit itself with skips

>>6055361
How much more organized do you need to be than a complete no-intro set?

People complaining about RetroArch's XMB interface weren't around for the days when the interface was entirely text-based, looked like shit, and you had to go through a sea of submenus just to get to the option you wanted.

>>6055367
I just meant i don't want my emulator to scan my rom folders and to group them by system/year/devs. I do that myself with folders/textfiles.

XMB was fucking ugly, like the shit interface Sony is using these days.

>>6055375
You can create your own playlist files.

Sshhh, don't tell him. He's made up his mind.

>>6055386
Or I could use programs that use standard open file dialogs. I don't understand the need to display your library of games anywhere else than a file manager.

>>6055453
I like being able to start RA, pick up my ds4, and never have to put it down unless I'm done, regardless of what game or system I want to play, while having the best sync and the least input lag of any emulator setup.

If you have a WIMP fetish, that's okay too.

>Not spending a few bucks on launchbox
Why? It's practically perfect.

No emulator would lack a simple "Load ROM" command, no emulator would be autistic enough to force you to either make playlists or drag and drop ROMs into the emula->>6049576

>>6055494
Retroarch has a basic load rom command and allows you to browse any directory for roms, you dont have to create playlists

These threads are worthless. Should be banned.

>>6049576
you still have to use the shitty one. i dunno why you are pretending you dont.

>>6055470
I get what you're saying, I don't mind that there are frontends that allow you to do that. I would find it handy if i played in front of a tv away from a keyboard.
What I don't like is when it's forced upon you. The retroarch built-in interface is designed to be used with a controller, all of its frontends i know are either the similar or library display type like in OP's screenshot.
Whenever i fire up an emulator, it's to play one or two specific games i have in mind, not to play 400 for a minute or two like i would with a music playlist.

>>6055531
>Have to
You definitely don't know what that means.

>>6051189
>it didn't recognize my bad dumps that i downloaded one at a time from some shitty romz site
At least you're too young to have had to fill out a survey each time

>>6049576
Making UI less ugly does not magically make it more practical or less badly designed. RA will make a big step forward when its crazy 'main dev' would realize it's not the visual aspect people are criticizing but its ergonomy and usability i.e the way it is badly organized and overcomplicated for doing even the simpliest thing...

>>6049607
>It really helps if you customize the appearance
How do you get different backgrounds?

>>6057162
I spent 30 minutes fucking with its settings before I eventually just went back to Gens. It's not worth the effort.

>>6058067
>>6057162
Ok boomers.

>>6058067
Should have just told emugen roughly what you wanted to accomplish and had them tell you exactly what settings to use. Wouldn't have taken you longer than five minutes to do it all.

>>6057162
>click console
>click game
>play game
wow

>>6049576
It's still a bad interface. It's never going to be as comfy as the Sega Genesis Mini or SNES Mini interface.

>>6058529
A list of games for my chosen emulator and easy access to options I can change on the fly. Oh wait, literally every emulator except retroshit accomplishes that.

>>6057162
cmd >> retroarch interface

and i mean it

What is it that people seem to struggle with when it comes to retroarch? Go to 'load content', pick rom, pick core, done.

Is it the separation of global settings vs core settings people get hung up on? I can see that being confusing the first time you use it once you figure out they're seperate it's smooth sailing from there.

Either way runahead and GPU sync and the way it handles synching makes retroarch the best way to emulate most things by default

>>6058740
But retroarch can do exactly that. I understand that you're frustrated and emotionally taxed over the issue, but if you take a step back and listen to reason, you'd see that you're acting like a retarded hole. You don't want to be seen acting like a retarded hole, do you, anon?

>>6058795
Less effort than that. Scan in your collections, go to the playlist settings, and manually flag the correct core for each collection, and then use your playlists or the history tab for recently played. No more navigating through folders or any such bullshit.

>>6058795
>Go to 'load content', pick rom, pick core, done.
No.

>>6059036
Or I can just open an emulator and it's already working out the box. I don't have an interest in shaders, reverb, netplay, or any of that shit.

>>6055361
>>6055375
Then just drag the ROM file and drop it over Retroarch's window. It's not that hard.

>>6059045
You don't have any interest in reducing the horrendous input lag present in every standalone emulator? Weird flex, but okay.

>>6059045
You don't need to mess with any of those settings though. The only thing you actually must do when you boot up Retroarch for the first time is download a core, which shouldn't take more than one minute.

>>6059048
You use USB don't you?

>>6058604
enjoy the brainlet tax

>>6059048
snes9x has a "reduce input lag" option since the more recent versions. not sure about any of the others. i always turn vsync off so i'm not sure if that has anything to do with it, i usually notice input lag pretty quickly in anything but it feels fine to play psx/n64 games unless they have low framerate problems.

>>6059047
>>6059048
>>6059051
>>6059053
>>6059060
Listen you little faggot,
you're going to have to tone it down a bit over there. That was an unacceptable amount of annoying posts in a very short time. "Just do it like this! Tryyyy iiiiit! Pleeeeaase! It's so good!" isn't going to convince anyone, okay? Accept that some don't like using RA.

Even so, you're seriously suggesting to drag & drop games onto the executable? Why? No one who uses RA does that. Do you want people to use it at any cost? Again, why? If someone can't be bothered to scan their ROMs directory for playlist generation like so >>6059038 they might as well not use it at all.

>>6059247
>low iq zoomer makes another anti-retroarch shitpost
truly baste

>>6059247
No need to sperg out, I only made two of those posts. I don't care if people want to use RetroArch or not, literally all I did was counter the bullshit you pulled out of your ass.

>>6059298
You got it all wrong, though. You didn't counter anything, you see. Certainly not "my bullshit." That webm >>6059038 was made by me and it is my only other post in this thread. I use RetroArch all the time but unlike your kind I not only do not care whether others use it or not, I also know how to use its most basic basic features.

Neither of these things can be said for you guys. You and the likes of... that >>6059265 are in here, calling people dumb, throwing around terms like "global vs core settings" but then proceed to advise others to diregard some of RetroArch's most useful features like, oh I don't know, assigning a fucking emulator to platform??? If someone was to actually follow that advice >>6058795 , how could you possibly plame them for thinking that RA was no more convenient than a standalone? And drag & drop, dude? Really? You are something else.

>>6059298
You got it all wrong, though. You didn't counter anything, you see. Certainly not "my bullshit." That webm >>6059038 was made by me and it is my only other post in this thread. I use RetroArch all the time but unlike your kind I not only do not care whether others use it or not, I also know how to use its most basic features.

Neither of these things can be said for you guys. You and the likes of... that >>6059265 are in here, calling people dumb, throwing around terms like "global vs core settings" but then proceed to advise others to diregard some of RetroArch's most useful features like, oh I don't know, assigning a fucking emulator to platform??? If someone was to actually follow that advice >>6058795 , how could you possibly blame them for thinking that RA was no more convenient than a standalone? And drag & drop, dude? Really? You are something else.

>>6059453
What I'm getting at there with that last bit is, as unbelievably sad as it may be, I think you barely have a grasp on things and are trying to show off with your very limited knowledge of an emulator frontend. At least some of you are. Crazy, I know.

>>6059449
Anon, it's all good. You might co sider that byuu or what not emudev i here hate RA. They dont like it when you just use their core enginee, whg ra bascilly does.

From a objectiv viewpoint, RA is perfect for couch emulation but when it comes to bigger emus it struggles in compatiblity. Even N64 emulation wih the RA cores are somewht shit.

>>6059475
>It wasn't me, it was byuu
Right. I'm done.

>>6049576
Wow it stole the mameuifx interface,and even that isn't original

>>6059475
>From a objectiv viewpoint, RA is perfect for couch emulation but when it comes to bigger emus it struggles in compatiblity. Even N64 emulation wih the RA cores are somewht shit.
Wrong. RA has the best N64, PS1, Saturn, and Dreamcast emulator.
If you have a supercomputer and can use Angrylion that might be better for N64 but RA is the all around best by far. You just have to use the right core and not be a retard, something you fail at.

>>6049607
This is why xmb is the default for retroarch, it's meant to be an emulator launcher that's installed onto a console or TVPC, but it's also one of the biggest weakpoints about it since you also lose all the finesse and flexibility afforded from having a mkb oriented ui.

>>6060770
no that would be demul for dreamcast, SSF for saturn and PJ64 for n64. Angrylion already runs in retroarch but it's shit and not updated. PJ64 + angrylion is the best.

What is the best frontend for accessing ROMs located elsewhere on the LAN (on a NAS)? My buddy gave me a bigbox (launchbox) license, so I feel obligated to use that but if there's something better then I'll go with that. I'm relatively new to this, so apologies.

>>6051265
Fuck off zoomer

Friendly reminder that retroarch's problem is NOT the UI which is a strawman meant to detract from its real problems of awful video and audio performance compared to stand alone emulators like mednafen, that no amount of tinkering with the settings can fix.

Also their interface for six button controllers is a fucking joke and loaded with bugs and glitches where stuff like a Saturn controller pressing C will trigger both R2 (R) and R1 (C) at the same time because they didn't put the bare minimum effort into six button compatibility.

>>6061131
windows explorer

>>6061153
>awful video and audio performance
you mean correct?

>>6061156
Well, yeah, but I need this to be as needless complicated as possible otherwise my cock won't chub up when I'm trying to apply translation patches to Dragon Force 2.

>>6059060
>b-b-brainlet
t. Seething RetroArch fag

>>6052847
what filter?

>>6061565
https://pastebin.com/qKdNd6JC

>>6049638
Even so, downloading a complete rompack and searching for the game you want, whenever you want is MUCH less of a headache then constantly searching for and downloading individual games. This is especially true if you can find a massive rompack that includes multiple consoles. Storage is also hardly a consideration for basically every console prior to the 5th gen.

>>6061131
Retroarch can read from SMB shares.

Why is the meme always centered around zoomers who would fail at basic computer skills? There are millennials who won’t wipe their ass with arch’s UI who came up with PC emulators that were not user-friendly to the 'average' pc user at the time. Case in point, I set up Zsnes on a lot of people’s pcs in my college dorm in late 90s and only a minority were able to make it work on their own without being walked through every single time. Sometimes the graphics get fucky but it’s way easier to find google results on forums to fix.

Legit question;

if you buy a GoG game or manage to pirate a defunct rom originally on a DOS box, is it possible to get them working on Retroarch?

I've got a copy of Diablo but I want to run it through Retroarch for the filters.
Except I'm running into difficulties and the game closes anytime I try getting it to start.

Can someone help out?

>>6062668
Diablo was never on DOS, it was win95. You can run dosbox shit in RA with the dosbox core though.

>>6061153
>awful video and audio performance compared to stand alone emulators
???

>>6062862
>real problems of awful video and audio performance compared to stand alone emulators like mednafen, that no amount of tinkering with the settings can fix.
The PS1 and Saturn cores are literally upgraded versions of mednafen.

>>6062862
He has a CPU with very poor single thread performance.

>>6062668
play the psx version

>>6049607
Some stuff you can do if you poke around:

Remove almost any menu or element.
Change wallpaper
Activate menu sound ambient or add your own, such as from ps2.
Change menu transparencies, icons, fades.
Deactivate dynamic elements for potato menu performance.
Activate thumbnails, double thumbs of covers plus screenshots.

Honestly there's enough to make it your own.

>>6049607
I didn't "get it" until I installed it on my vita and learned how to customize it.

>>6062785
What? Really? Am I out of luck with Diablo if there isn't any win95 emulators? I've got Commander Keen, Myst, Prince of Persia and Warcraft as well as a couple of indie games that I would like to try and run through but it seems like it all depends if there is a Core supplied or not.

I have Myst, and Warcraft. The Diablo GoG file I still have and I want to play multiplayer with my friends on it along with Warcraft as well. I can't seem to find any tutorials that tackle something this specific and checked all over the place so I'm in a bit of a rut trying to fiddle with this thing but no luck has come up so far.

Also I would like to just be able to run pretty much every GoG and Steam game through this thing since it seems versatile in shaders but the cores are the main problem atm.

>>6064186
Reshade has some CRT shaders that will probably work with those games.

>>6064189
Will that definitely work with any of the games in my library? Would it be better to use that instead if I also wanted to ROM PS1 and SNES games?
Retroarch seems cool but it looks like an absolute pain in the ass to deal with but ReShade sounds like it might be a better option.

>>6064207
It seems like you're mistaking retroarch for something like steam where you can just launch games through it, that's not how libretro works at all.

>>6064306
sounds like it apparently.

is ReShade more up my alley then? looks good enough desu but it seems to be having an issue overlaying filters over Warcraft 1 for some reason.

>>6064320
Reshade needs new(ish) D3D or OpenGL, but lets you use shaders on literally anything that has those backends.

>>6062668
>>6064186
>>6064189
Dude, you're really jumping in at the deep end here and need to work on your basics. You seem a little confused and also want many things all at once. I'll try to clear some things up though.

1. Yes, you need to install a suitable core (which is an emulator) to play games on a certain system in RetroArch. Duh. Cores are, by and large, ports of standalone(!) open source emulators to the Libretro API - of which RetroArch is the offical frontend. There are a lot of different cores, so you can have RetroArch be your one-stop application for... emulation. That's the thing. It is an emulator frontend. It wasn't designed to run launch and manage your Steam games (and to a lesser extend your GOG games).
2. DOSBox is one of the available cores and you can play Diablo (which is a Win95 title) in it, since you can install Win95 in DOSBox. Evidence A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsGUZqCnI2A DOS games won't require this naturally.
3. If you use the DOSBox core to play games in RetroArch, you can apply shaders - probably to Win95 games as well. Evidence B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFCKlvPvaEQ and Evidence C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk5BDNRlI

>>6064368
Those are the good news. The bad news are that I think you shouldn't do it. At the very least not right now. I'm not sure you know your way around DOSBox but to be frank it doesn't seem like it. That thing in itself is complicated enough that several graphical frontends have been written for it. It is a flipping x86-emulator simulation an entire OS and the PC hardware of its era. Running that thing through as a port through another multi-emulator frontend is... challenging. It's possible. I've done it - because I wanted the same thing that you want: shaders. It's neat but it didn't stick. It starts with things like, you need to set up a hotkey in RetroArch to disable all RetroArch hotkeys so you can type freely in the command-line interface. You need to run the installation and audio setup after all before you can play DOS games. So I recommend baby steps for now. There are other frontends out there. Check out Launchbox. It's cool. Also, steer clear of MAME core as well.

PS for completion's sake: Many GOG games use DOSBox - they each come with their own self-contained and preconfigured DOSBox installation. Hope this helped.

>>6055356
>letting libretro scan your computer

>>6064396
>it's open source and you can see exactly what it's doing

I heard that somewhat recently a PS2 core called Play! has been added to the core list. How is it, is it good for PS2 emulation?

>>6066185
http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Play!
http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PlayStation_2_emulators

>>6066185
Tried it on a couple of games and it was shit desu

Wait you can actually change the UI? I mean I don't mind XMB because I'm used to it from years of PS3/PSP but I didn't know you can change it.

I just like retroarch becasue I don't have to fiddle with graphics and sound plugins like old ps1 emulators did. For 99% of games it just works.

>>6066586
None of current PS1 emulators require you to fiddle with graphics and sound.

>>6066591
Yes but for over a decade all I had to work with was ePSXe and that's forever burned in my brain.

>>6066580
>How do I press F5? Where is it on my keyboard? I'm so confused right now guys. Help.

>>6066593
Why would I think to press F5 on an emulator where you do everything with a controller? For what reason would I think it would do something?

>>6066592
That's the one I'm talking about

>>6066592
Fuck that man, P.E.Op.S. Plugin crew where we at?

>>6066591
>None of current PS1 emulators require you to fiddle with graphics and sound.
yeah, if you're fine with unfiltered and noisy 240p, which eliminates the whole point of emulators.

>>6066924
>unfiltered and noisy 240p
That's unironically the best way to play PS1 games though, filtered low res textures never looked as good as unfiltered.

>>6049576
So is there a decent summary of retroarch for someone that's been out of emulation for a few years? I have my individual setups for N64, Saturn, PSX, etc assembled from different plugins and programs over the years. Is retroarch an all-in-one works with everything sort of project? Is there any need for individual emulators anymore?

>>6067863
RetroArch is the offical multiplatform frontend of the Libretro project. Basically, open source emulators get ported to the Libretro API as dll files, making them multiplatform while also stripping them of their GUI and such. Only the core emulation aspect remains. Then you run them via the frontend where you access to their features via an overlay, along with new features that stem from the Libretro project. You can download cores, cheat files, cover art etc. from within the frontend itself. Generally speaking you have several cores per system to choose from and you'll find the absolute majority of your systems on the list.

The Libretro API introduces some of its own features into the mix that are mostly available across all cores, like runahead (reduces latency), shaders (think of them as advanced fiters that can drastically change the look of your games), unified control schemes, save states, cheat files, rewind gameplay, recording etc. etc.

Finally RetroArch as the frontend has several interely different looks. One is the XMB (PS3, Vita), one looks like the pic in OP and there's more.

>>6067898
Appreciate it friend. I'll probably start playing around with it and see how it compares to what I've got already.

>>6067863
>So is there a decent summary of retroarch for someone that's been out of emulation for a few years?
the summary is don't emulate. Use real hardware + flash

>>6067863
It's an all-in-one solution for most things, but not all. For gen 3-5 it's very good.

how the fuck do i run zipped SNES roms on this thing
no matter which core i pick it just boots me back to the menu or black screens

>>6067863
>>6067898
If you take a close look at >>6059038 that can give you a pretty good idea of what it's like. But the recording software has a bit of trouble with the quick switching of platforms so it looks a bit off. But you can see some menu points there if pause and read. There's a bit more in there though. It's pretty granular.

>>6067863
>Is there any need for individual emulators anymore?
Well, it doesn't support every console ever (the core for PS2 is still a bit buggy, and there's no xbox for example). However most cores available in Retroarch are really good, but there's so many for so many platforms that obviously I haven't tested them all myself.

>>6049586
You can use a mouse on the XMB too you retard. Maybe if you learned how to read you'd have no problem with the XMB interface either.

>>6066594
>Why would I use a shortcut?
>How would anyone ever find out which keys are used for shortcuts?

anytime I load up dosbox on this thing it seems to think Im trying to record or that my keyboard is registering directly to retroarch.
cant get the games to start either and i dont know why

>>6053158
The UI itself isn't the problem, it's that every useful option, like hiding the mouse during gameplay or enabling button remaps, is buried underneath dozens of menus. I find it easier to just open retroarch.cfg instead of trying to wrestle with the UI

>>6055361
Nigga, use a command line prompt then

>>6068940
Firstly, for the DOSBox core to be usable you need to set up a RetroArch hotkey that disables all Retorarch hotkeys so it stops interpreting keystrokes hitting hotkeys as being commands directed at the frontend. There's a menu point for that in the RetroArch XMB under Inputs.

Secondly, do you know how to use DOSBox? Have you used MS-DOS before? Because if you're this guy >>6062668 I told you some things in these two posts >>6064368 >>6064374 that you didn't even reply to. One of them was that, similarly to modern PC games but unlike most other console(!) emulators you need to install DOS games before you can play them. That's because they're PC games too. Old PC games...

>>6049576
The absolute worst is trying to run MAME in RetroArch because it has it's own interface on top of that and ROM list is very finicky.

>>6070603
The MAME core is one of the worst, yes. It's basically just a regular MAME installation crammed into your RetroArch setup - directories, file structure and everything. It's control shemes also are at odds with those of RetroArch. It's simply not fully integrated and I don't think it ever will be. Don't run one multi-system emulator through another one. That's just unnecessary.

>>6070102
yeah, that was me. sorry i didn't respond to you. im grateful for your tutorial. just got nervous at all the details.
ive got the dos games installed already but im wondering if it isnt working correctly is because i did so before installing retroarch.

would i need to install it again to get it working into retroarch?

current setup; warcraft 1 + 2 and diablo gog games installed. dos box is too. retroarch came afterwards. installed a dosbox core in hopes it would open the source warcraft file but the keypad isnt working. come here

next setup (?): uninstall the gog games and dos box plus retroarch. install retroarch first then gog games plus dos box. they then work seamlessly (?)(not sure but would like the confirmation incase i break some registry in the pc).

>>6070623
I had the best luck with older versions like 2003 and 2003 Plus. But I still ended up loading the .zips directly like some sort of barbarian. MameUI is like 200 billion times better.

>play pokemon on retroarch android
>80% of the time the game will say the savefile is corrupted even if I don't use save states

>>6059038
Oh neat - they've added specific systems? When'd they do that? Are they built in or can you add custom ones?

>>6070791
Oh boy, where even to start with you...
Look man, I said earlier I just wanted to clear some things up for you. I didn't give you a tutorial. Nothing even close to that. What I gave you clearly wasn't enough - maybe even led you to make some erroneous inferences.

One thing is clear by now however - the answer to the question you have been avoiding until now, even though I asked twice: "Do you know how to use MS-DOS / DOSBox?" Evidently, you have no idea. This is the root cause of your problems and I recommend you to download DOSBox - the standalone OG DOSBox, from it's homepage. Not the RetroArch core. Learn to use it and once you're comfortable enough to ACTUALLY install a DOS game, then you can start wrapping RetroArch around that.

(1/2)

>>6070791
>>6071437
I say this because installing a GOG game that runs on DOSBox is not the same experience as manually installing a DOS game using DOSBox itself. GOG games? You install those like any other modern PC game. They are preconfigured and wrapped into a modern installer to run on current operating systems. So that you don't have to deal with the ACTUAL DOSBox stuff at all. But MS-DOS is not like that and the RetroArch core of DOSBox does none of this for you either. It requires a manual game install like in the old days. You need to install from within MS-DOS. It's a command line program. There are no graphics. It's white lines of text commands on an otherwise black screen. There are no Windows™. It predates that stuff. Unless you know what "cd.." or "dir" do, you're going to have a difficult time getting this whole thing off the ground.

Because of what I just described, every GOG game using DOSBox comes with its own self-contained installation of DOSBox. You're installing a new DOSBox every time that lives inside that game's directory and that only that specific game will use. Do you see how that is not what you're trying to achieve right now? You need to download unaltered copies DOS games, not GOG releases, and learn how to get those running in DOSBox. Once you reach that point, you will never have to rely on GOG to release a DOS game on their store ever again and do the work for you! And you know, you can do the RetroArch thing too if you must...

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>>6071379
>Oh neat - they've added specific systems?
Yes. They're called playlists. You can learn more through this post >>6055356

>When'd they do that?
I have no idea.

>Are they built in or can you add custom ones?
As far as I am aware, there is no feature that makes creating a custom playlist an easy or automatic task. Though I figure it's not impossible to do manually. Just not fun. You'd probably have to edit several files every time you add a game. No thanks.

>>6071445
Beautiful, thanks Anon

I tried Retroarch and it felt unintuitive as hell. Why should I force myself to use something that just feels wrong? If that makes me a dim-witted boomer, so be it. It's unfortunate that I'm missing out on the best PSX emulator, but I'll live.

>>6071467
Don't then. Why chime in? You can't even contribute to the thread because you never tried it. You're an INSULT to Boomers for not even trying to better yourself.

>>6071472
>because you never tried it
I literally said in my post that I tried it, the fuck is wrong with you. I messed around with global settings, shaders etc. for hours before coming to the conclusion that I dislike it as a whole. Man, why are Retroarch fanboys this fucking sensitive and autistic?

>>6071475
Listen fatso I couldn't give a fuck how you go about limiting yourself in life so don't flatter yourself. From your post I figured you tried for 30 secs, couldn't just drop a file on the .exe and gave up. Turns out it's even better: you tried for "hours" and couldn't work it out. This says all there is to say on the matter. Enjoy your life, son, best you can, at least, because it's clearly a struggle.

>>6070791
>>6071437
>>6071440
You know what? Rereading your last post and half the novel I put down so far, I've come to realize something: I was being too nice to. Too nice for your own good. I wanted to help. BUT there is no help...

I just realized you're still going after Diablo 1 - which is a Win95 title as someone already pointed out to. A game for a platform RetroArch does NOT support. So let me say this as clearly as I can right now: What you're trying to do is MADNESS. You're wasting your time.

This is what you're trying to do:
Install an old OS (Win95 / LAYER1) inside the libretro port of an emulation of another old OS (MS-DOS, DOSBox / LAYER2) inside a multi-emulator frontend (RetroArch / LAYER3) which itself is running on yet another, modern OS (Win7,8,Vi,10 / LAYER4). And all of that just to play one game... with shaders if I understand correctly. For shaders? Really dude? Do you not realize how complicated that is? Are you so ignorant that you can't even see how little you know about this stuff? Even writing it down in a sentence is nuts. What you're trying to do is INSANELY nerdy. Stop it.

All you have accomlpished so far is trying to install a game made for LAYER4 and then foolishly tried to run it from LAYER2. If you want to play some Diablo, here, let me actually help you >>6046837

Just let it go, man.

>>6055371
That's how it was when I first checked it out. Then I kept hearing people bitch about the menu and thought it was still that so I didn't give it another try for way too long.

It's still shit though, the fucking "muh couch experience" autism from the dev is insane.

>>6049576
I didn't knew Street Fighter Alpha 1 required the 1M cart.

>>6072558
>It's still shit though, the fucking "muh couch experience" autism from the dev is insane.
no one wants to sit hunched over their keyboard like some incel

>>6053158
The UI is alright if you leave everything default, but if you want to configure anything it's a real pain in the ass to figure out how to do it

>>6072632
This but unironically.