/vr/ - Retro Games

for ps1 on retroarch i use beetle psx software instead of hw the hw core seems like it has more issues

>>7302475
Emulators are not retro

>>7302571
oh?
how so

>>7302571
fake and gay. the sticky links to an emulation wiki.

>>7302483
I think that the only way to play Digimon World 2 is with an emulator to speed it up but the button on the screen only makes things just a little bist faster. Is there any way to configure this? All the options seem to change the graphics and stuff

>>7302475
No. Retroarch is cringe and people that use it should feel ashamed.

>>7302695
im not sure in options theres frame throttle where you can set the fast forward rate but i think the default is the fastest it will go 0.0 for unlimited rate but i dont really use it

>>7302701
Anon hates and fears what he doesn't understand

>>7302721
>frame throttle
Cool, i'll look for it, thanks

>>7302701
Why? And please don't give me the old "it's bad because it's not good"

>>7302603
The sticky links to an emulation wiki so that you read that instead of making a thread about emulators here. This board is for retro video games.

>>7302701
Why?

>>7303065
bad interface that's notably worse than standalones

>>7302475
there was a front end that someone here posted in a thread about 3 weeks ago and it was really cool and simple looking. Didn't have all the stupid busy shit that most emulators have, but just enough info about a rom and the ability to organize by emulator.

I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called and fucking google and youtube history didn't save the pages I visited on it. I think it was relatively new, but I'm bummed as hell that I'll probably never find it again..

I only use retroarch for its PS1 beetle core

>>7303160
i meant the busy shit that most front ends have.

It was mostly text based, and I think it was black or grey with purple accents, in case anyone here recalls

>>7302475
retroarch is for stupid people that think they are smart

>>7303179
the only reason anyone would think they're smart using retroarch is the sheer amount of dumbasses confused on how to use it

>>7303192
You are exactly what I am talking about.

>>7303202
sure dude

Yeah openemu

>>7303228
>put important settings in a menu that doesn't even exist all the time
>put skin selection in drivers instead of UI
>ignore all established software conventions
>put a mandatory bloated graphical frontend on your 'performance emulator"
>hide the actual PC menus
>use a virtual gamepad and no push to bind anywhere
>"You're dumb if you don't like this"

>>7303232
Based

>>7302475
RA being a frontend has always been secondary to the lag mitigation and shaders to me. The per game/core config stuff is very nice though.

>>7302571
They literally are, even by old sticky rules. I was using them in the 90s.

>>7303254
>put important settings in a menu that doesn't even exist all the time
Yeah this blows
>put skin selection in drivers instead of UI
>skin
Who cares just play the games.
>ignore all established software conventions
don't care lag mitigation go brrr
>put a mandatory bloated graphical frontend on your 'performance emulator"
Never affected my computers, no CPU/GPU is used for the UI in-game. I've used RA for Win98 on a P4 and it's fine (but impractical) there too, and it's fine on utter potatoes like the Wii.
>hide the actual PC menus
What do you mean?
>use a virtual gamepad and no push to bind anywhere
Yeahhh, okay, kinda sucks. Wish it would just ignore that shit and just let you push any key/button per core and it would just work.
>"You're dumb if you don't like this"
The good outweighs the bad. 2/6 see me after class.

>>7303275
>What do you mean?
You know, the good menu, that make sense and has mouse support.

>>7303281
It's not without flaws but it wraps up most shit up to DC nicely enough with low lag, non-dogshit framepacing, and shaders (not just useful for CRT memeshaders, stuff like a light bilinear filter which leaves things just sharp enough too). That shit simply is not guaranteed in every standalone program. I can see how it's probably a pain in the ass for emudevs to work with, but eh... if RA died today it would be in a great spot for most retro games. Got mine.

>>7303291
I've found literally nothing that ra does better than a standalone.

>>7303310
then don't use it?
most people like it because it's easy to set up once and just add anything to it to just play
there's more vocal people that are anti RA for no reason other than some meme shit

>>7302920
bullshit

>>7303160
>>7303164
FUCKIN FOUND IT!

https://tungstencore (.) com/emuloader/

>>7303425
does this add anything?
it just looks like a windows folder list

>>7303254
>>use a virtual gamepad and no push to bind anywhere
Worst part is that its setup for a Playstation controller and some of the choices for the buttons on certain consoles is nonsensical. Pic related

>>7303721
what's the complaint here?
that the preset is not good?
just change it

>>7302475
If you haven't already done so, when playing PS1, switch your video drive to Vulkan. Massive improvement.

>the cocky "smart boys" in this thread
I want to open an emulator and play GAMES. Not spend two hours reading error codes and downloading every single package using shell commands. Suck my 9 inch cock chinlets.

>>7305076
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>>7303075
It really is so fucking awful.

>>7305076
>I create issues where there are none
You have never use RA and have imaginary issues with it where as I do exactly what you say you want to do, it just works bro

I don't know if RetroArch COULD actually have a better interface given all of the different systems and subsystems and features it has to support.
That's why I spent time actually learning how to use it so OP I'd say to do that rather than become one of the mongoloids that goes from RA thread to RA thread talking about how bad it is simply because they could never figure it out.

If you are having issues with the RA interface you shouldn't, unless you're a mega retard than just download LaunchBox.
>inb4 front for your front
It's for the retards.

>>7305941
Retroarch is more of a backend than a frontend to be honest

>>7305832
It literally has a better interface in the program already. But retarded devs need it to look like a PSP
>inb4 you can change it to something functionally identical
see
>>7303281
>That's why I spent time actually learning how to use it so OP I'd say to do that rather than become one of the mongoloids that goes from RA thread to RA thread talking about how bad it is simply because they could never figure it out.
every time
retroarch is for stupid people that think they are smart

>>7303264
Emulators aren't video games retard

>>7306971
Emulators play video games retard

>>7306034
No, it's a frontend for multiple Emulators. If you think otherwise you have no idea.

>>7307546
Yeah they do. And you're free to use them for that purpose. But when it comes to making threads on the retro video games board, make sure the thread is about about retro video games, not emulators.

>>7307681
it's a bit more than a frontend dude, if you think otherwise you have no idea

>>7307737
better not talk about systems then or for that matter what you play them on

>>7307740
>it's a bit more than a frontend dude
You're thinking of libretro. Retroarch is just the frontend.

>>7307789
cmon now, don't be that guy

>>7307737
You can't be this stupid.

Is retroarch the best front end for an android phone? I have a really powerful one and I want to make it an emulation beast.

I genuinely don't get what problems do you have with retroarch. Iìm using it almost 6 years now and it's my choice for basically every emulator supported in it. There's literally no way I'm downloading different emulators everytime when RA does everything they do and better

>>7307892
Pay no mind, it’s probably some jaded anons who made a failed front end or can’t work the UI

I use launchbox, has bigbox mode which is nice if I'm playing on a TV.

>>7307892
Literally every time I open retroarch, I discover some new nonsense.

>>7308113
The existence of LaunchBox speakes volumes for the failure of RAs UX/UI. fuck RetroArch once again and once more.

>>7308174
>use retroarch for easy uniform settings and extra features across all platforms with easy to use menu
>use launchbox for organising games and also to keep track of what I’ve beaten amongst other things
>somehow this is bad according to anonymous on /vr/
Tell me anon where did the Retroarch touch you

>>7306971
that's like saying consoles aren't videogame related and shouldn't be discussed on the board

>>7306971

>>7308307
>easy to use menu
Any menu is easy to use, you haven't invented the wheel.
>doesn't follow any principle of input counting to access relevant configuration
>completely disregards the importance to provide the user visual information necessary to help
>endless lists of menus and submenus making it a pain to navigate

Might as well write myself an Ansible playbook where I put in the yaml all the configurations that I want to do so I get the RA experience I need out of the box and do the versioning of the configurations myself in my own git server.

You see I could do that. But It doesn't sing my balls to do so.

RA doesn't make sense on Desktop. And even non-desktop devices, PPSSPP a fucking standalone knows better how to use it's accessibility on touch-only devices. But of course PPSSPP is a well designed piece of software.
RA is a mess and it's persistence to keep building itself on top of the trash Interface they have will make things worse with each release. It's somehow worse than the implementation of the Office ribbon in Sibelius.

>somehow this is bad according to anonymous on /vr/
not just according to me, you'll find many people that hate RA because of it's shitty UX/UI

>>7308998
>everything must follow the same rules of my guidelines for a UI
You say this every time someone mentions RA, so I can only assume there is just one assmad guy that pops up every time someone even suggests using it

>>7307892
>I genuinely don't get what problems do you have with retroarch.
some of the cores are out of date like beetle psx i wish they would update it theres still issues that were fixed in standalone mednafen over a year ago

>>7310174
>only 1 person thinks this

>>7310212
no but only one person writes like you

>>7310227
It's literally multiple people in this thread you fucking idiot. But what can I expect from someone who can't understand basic usability.

>>7310245
saying UX/UI really gives you away in every thread you post angrily about it
tell me, what failed program did you make

>>7310249
That's another poster you butthurt retroarch 'dev'

I don't like its UI, but having all those features on every system is pretty nice (mainly CRT shaders)

>>7302475
I use Batocera on a dedicated emulation machine. It's very cozy, but there is some configuring with some of the systems.

>>7303281
Go to User Interface and check "Open Desktop Menu on Startup"

The existence of some of the best emulators for their respective platforms (the Sega Genesis core) is more than enough reason to learn how retroarch works

Pro tip: Just go to the user interface setting and disable the appearance of all the useless niche settings, and use the manual content adder instead of the messy automatic one. Literally no excuses anymore. This is how mine looks. No bs, no fucking random metadata thats missing on half the games anymore just games