/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7913270
Should have gone with a Vita.

>>7913270
Just emulate DS games on it and GBA games on it. The library is huge AF

>>7913302
I definitely will. I'm planning to have it as an all-in-one (sort of) retro emulation console. I know that retroarch is a bit janky, so I'm looking for dedicated emulator for each consoles, the ones that work pretty well at least.

>>7913278
Agreed.

>>7913270
Retroarch can do pretty much everything up to PS1 fine, but SNES is janky. You want the standalone SNES9X for that.

For GBA games you want rom injections over emulation, and for DS you want Twilight menu, unless you already had a flashcart.

Deadalus supposedly can run N64 at acceptable performance, but I haven't tried it.

>>7913463
I would recommend just getting a flashcart for DS games, theyre like 10 bucks

>>7913463
Cool thanks. Quick question though, are the PSX Retroarch core and PCSX Rearmed the same?

>>7913535
The core is based on PCSX ReARMed yes, dunno if there's a standalone. It used to run like ass, but then some guy made some crazy optimizations and now almost everything is playable at full speed.

>>7913270
retroarch doesn't work that well in my experience, the same exact emulator will run fullspeed in the standalone version and run at sub-fullspeed in RA (ie. genplus)

The other pain I noticed is that there isn't really good file management in the standalone emulators. You can't easily scroll through lists or search quickly in gen plus for example. Be sure to break your games down into many folders so that you don't have to scroll a lot.

>>7913584
that's for the core or for the standalone? I remember horrible performance the one time I tried it, but that was somewhen I can't remember.

why would you emulate on a 2ds? even ds games look like shit on it.

original hardware or go fuck your mother

>>7913624
He seems to be confused about DS; It's pretty much all native on there.

As for anything retro, the screen is 240 so it means every home console it emulates can be done at native resolution.

Add this to the huge library with the DS/3DS support and you get a good supply. As you point out, one might prefer to see DS games at native res (in which case a DSi or DSiXL is pretty much your best option) but I also know why you would prefer just having one device.

>>7913621
>hat's for the core or for the standalone? I remember horrible performance the one time I tried it, but that was somewhen I can't remember.

RA core. Again it used to suck, but then some guy came up and did some wizardry and now it runs most things full speed. Give it another try

>>7913278

Not OP but I bought a Vita once for $50, never got around to modding it in favor of just updating my old PSP and buying it an extended battery, sold the fucking Vita for 50 or less, and now my PSP has a bad stick and the screen is beginning to die.

I’m a retard and I remember it every day

>>7913809
that's a pretty small-time mistake anon, you could have done much worse. Imagine having bought a Jaguar at launch for example.

If you want to get another vita, you can buy them from Japan for about 100. Sure, it's not 50, but hey, that's life.

>>7913278
Vita is the best pocket emulater. Great screens, great controls, easy to hack, has a PSP mode, and plays PS1 games officially. Even has ports of PS2 era games. I just wish mGBA got better support and non-crackly audio.

>>7913624
The 2DS line lacks the 3D bullshit in front of the screen, so games shouldn't look too bad. Both my New 3DS and XL have worse screens than my beat to shit DS Lite.

>>7913278
>slim

>>7913848
>Not having both
Are you poor or something?

>>7913478
>buying a flashcard and 32gb SDcard when you can just play from Twilightmenu and use a forwarded
idiot

>>7913852
>having shit vita and good vita
for what reason nigger
>>7913270
retroarch sucks.
GB,GBC,GBA with VC from hshop, SNES/nes/genesis/PCE whatever with their respective emulators (snes9x, virtuaNES, picodrive, TemperPCE).
DS - twilightmenu

>>7913824

Retard question but can Japanese vitas be hacked and operated in English?

>>7913864
The OLED Vita can occur burn in when running emulators at native resolutions.

>>7913848
It's objectively the best model.

>>7913910
only in extreme conditions and you know it.
>>7913912
it's objectively a downgrade in everything except for battery life, even loading times are slower on slim for some fuckedup reason

>>7913934

Out of curiosity what’s the battery life comparison?

>>7913831
ds games look crappy on the 3ds and 2ds. they look amazing on the dsi xl. once i got a dsi xl, i never played a ds game on any other device.

>>7913958
Sony claims slim has around 2 more hours of playtime than fatty

>>7913993
>crappy
it's the same, just no black bars

>>7913854
why does everyone just recommend a flashcart then?

>>7913864
are snes9x and virtuaNES better than than injecting roms to the nintendo made VC emulators on the new 3DS?

>>7914113
because they're idiots who already wasted money

>>7914115
yes better, it has more functions

>>7914113
flashcart tends to be a little more compatible and suffers from fewer bugs and performance issues. it's still not worth buying one, as twl works well enough

>>7914102
Everything looks like shit on the 3DS systems' top screen unless you run the console with 3D on and the game supports it. The pixels are rectangular and you have the shutter assembly in front of the screen.
Games that mostly use the bottom screen, like Picross, are fine though.

>>7914272
games don't magically look worse in the same resolution on a bigger screen. The only complaint you can have are black bars.

>>7914308
Lower PPI says otherwise

>>7914367
nah

>>7914113
Flashcarts are still better than twilight but free is free. Personally I like having something to use in the game card slot and having all my DS games in their own SD card

>>7913854
flashcarts still have higher compatibility than nds-bootstrap. not by much, but it does.

plus another minor advantage is you don't need to hack the 3ds to use recent ds-flashcarts, which is nice.

primary advantage of nds-bootstrap is it being free

>>7914482
why did you reply to me by repeating the same shit, idiot

>>7914491
flashcarts still have higher compatibility than nds-bootstrap. not by much, but it does.
plus another minor advantage is you don't need to hack the 3ds to use recent ds-flashcarts, which is nice.
primary advantage of nds-bootstrap is it being free

>>7915613

>>7914102

What are you talking about? DS games on 3ds are stretched out and blurry unless you hold select when starting them, in which case they are teeny tiny but integer scaled.

>>7913867
Yes, out of the box. You can also change the O to X confirm button choice with homebrew.

>>7914113
idk, i already had a flashcard from my old ds lite but if i didn't id use twilight

>>7916206
https://gbatemp.net/threads/twpatcher-ds-i-mode-screen-filters-and-patches.542694/

>>7916367
This doesn't fix the problem, it just makes the problem slightly different.

>>7916383
Yes, it slightly fixes the blur you're complaining about.
There are a lot of problems of getting a DSi LL, like for instance the wear since console is old, the gamble low quality panel (backlight bleed), and price.
It's your choice If you want to buy a separate device just to play DS games with a probability of slightly better visual experience than on N3ds, but generally speaking it's a bad idea.

>>7914404
are you just a ips retard? oversaturation=gooooood

try comparing one of the castlevania games

>>7916460
both screens are IPS you goddamn shit-eating reddit tourist, don't talk to me

>>7916397
>There are a lot of problems of getting a DSi LL, like for instance the wear since console is old, the gamble low quality panel (backlight bleed), and price.
dsi xl isnt expensive, it costs way less than a 3ds. what is even your point?

>>7916468
anon what's your problem, why did you memearrow my post but only read half of it

>>7916480
i dont know why youre so emotionally invested in defending the decision to play ds games on an objectively inferior system

games were designed for ds, they look best on a dsi xl. period. end of discussion.

>>7916493
at this point I feel like I'm being trolled, conversation is over

>>7916503
or you could keep posting reaction images, nice cope

>>7914115
snes9x runs terribly on 3ds (horrible audio emulation), its best to inject your games into the vc emulator

>>7914115
don't listen to>>7916946 lying retard, it's good.

>>7916946
>>7914120
hmmm so no one knows

>>7916505
Kill yourself

>>7917001
he's a retard because snes9x ran bad on OLD 2ds/3ds but it's good on a NEW with updated hardware, which is what OP bought

>>7916206
>in which case they are teeny tiny
(almost) same image-size and dpi as a nds (minus dsi xl)
unless you're not using a 3ds/2ds xl, but by that point I just feel sorry for you.

>>7913934
enjoy your OLED degredation.

>>7913270
I'm definitely thinking of jailbreaking my N3DSXL. If they shut down the eShop then I'd definitely do that.

>>7916397

I use TWL Patcher, it still looks like shit on all the settings I've tried. There is no fixing the problem of trying to stretch something 192 pixels tall into something 240 pixels tall, it will just never work. It is obvious if you ever play on a real DS that it is 10x better visually. When I am forced to play on my new 3ds xl I will always hold select, I actually patched my system so anything in DS mode will automatically launch in letterboxed integer scale, because the stretching was so awful. The DSi XL is the vastly superior option.

>>7918562
>There is no fixing the problem of trying to stretch something 192 pixels tall into something 240 pixels tall,

>>7913278
>kriss kross
idk if you are extremely based or extremely wiggity wack

>>7918463
too bad you already missed the freeshop extravaganza

>>7913270
snes9x and twilightmenu++ is all you really need. twilight runs ds, gba and gbc natively. never used retroarch once.

>>7916946
bullshit.

>>7918823
The wha-?

>>7918865

Have you tried playing Metroid Fusion on gbarunner2 for more than 2 minutes? Let me know if you notice anything...

>>7918872
Until about 3 years ago, you could literally download free games directly from Nintendo eshop

>>7913463
I cant play tomba, medievil, or syphon filter. 3ds cannot handle psx. I wouldnt count on 64 either.

>>7918680
>building catches fire
>see idiot run outside to safety
>stay in place

>>7920362
idiot

>>7920362
teenagers(or the dumb fucks, same shit)+internet is the worst that happened to the humanity.

>>7918823
>>7919325
omg yes Freeshop/CIAngel was the shiiit

>>7913270
use that loader program to make gba and ps1 cias. ps1 games run really really fucking well if you look up the correct loader settings online. theres also a native port of diablo for it