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3668235 No.3668235 [Reply] [Original]

>get pic related
>ui is stupid
>won't recognize translated roms unless you force it to load one
>everything looks blurry and most shaders are shit
>go back to snes9x and play some ff4
>everything feels and works perfectly

What's with the retroarch circlejerk?

>> No.3668241

>not turning off hardware bilinear filtering

Retroarch takes effort because the UI is full of submenus upon submenus that don't explain fuck about what they do

It becomes a single smoothly running system once you figure it out, it's pretty cool to be able to emulate multiple systems in one singular UI and a controller-based menu

>> No.3668245

>>3668235
whats with the "i'm too stupid to use retroarch" circlejerk?

>> No.3668247

>>3668241
>>3668245
I guess I don't see the appeal of working with a program a while just to be able to emulate more than one system

>> No.3668251

>>3668247
thats why they made consoles, for people like you. if you consider emulators too difficult you should go back to real hardware.

>> No.3668253

>>3668251
What's eating you?

>> No.3668262

>>3668235

>I'm too dumb to use this program so it's bad

Cool thread.

>> No.3668285

>>3668235
It's pure garbage and there's no reason to use it

>> No.3668318

use Higan instead.

>> No.3668590

>>3668235
It's a great software, you just came 5 years too early.

>> No.3668619

>won't recognize translated roms unless you force it to load one
This is the only problem I have with Retroarch.

>> No.3668627

>>3668619
Learn more languages and the problem become a nonissue.

>> No.3668628

once you configure it it's probably the closest to console you can get on pc, just click and go sit on a coach to spend 2 hours fiddling with shaders

>> No.3668650

>>3668627
>all romhacks are translations
no, it doesn't

>> No.3668719

>>3668628
Sounds more like a PC gaming experience with modding than a console experience, except it's even worse because you're doing everything via controller.

>> No.3668729

>>3668719
This. It sounds more like poorfags going "if we force ourselves to put up with configuring through a poorly implemented UI, emulation will be just as valid as the real thing!"

Why people think retroarch is worth it when you can just download another program that instantly works is beyond me. It's like the sushi apprentices in Japan who have to put up with washing rice and chopping vegetables for years before they're even allowed to touch the fish, as if earning it that way is supposed to mean something.

>> No.3668809

>>3668235
>What's with the retroarch circlejerk?

Shills and / or a few dedicated autists who need to force everyone to use their emulator waifu

I mostly keep these RA threads filtered. Not sure why this one showed up, unless I haven't worded my filters carefully enough.

>> No.3668830

>>3668719
you don't have to fiddle with shaders if you don't want to, just read the manual holy fuck, the fucking thing can be configured in 2 minutes. get the fucking core through the "online updater", get the fucking games through the internet, configure the gamepad, the video options if you want to disable blur and here we fucking go and all of that can be done from your fucking couch.

>> No.3669101

>>3668241
And this is why it needs a proper UI, not the consolized shit it has now.

>> No.3669147

So, disabeling bilenear filter will get rid if the 'blurriness' that comes stock with a new install of retroarch?

>> No.3669187

Does anyone else think the new UI is rubbish? I have an old install I use with the old green UI and while it's ugly it works really well and is easy to use.

Having an emulation setup with a good CRT monitor and a Dualshock 1 (most compatible + my favourite D-pad) is the next best thing to real hardware.

I do still use my actual consoles when I get the chance though because I'm very sensitive to input lag for whatever reason.

>> No.3669213

>>3668619
>>3668627
What the fuck are you guys doing, the best and simplest means of using the program is just loading content (and then picking a core if it autodetects more than onem) by picking a file. There's literally no purpose to using other methods, which should just be removed.

>> No.3669215

>>3669187
>needing to use an old install to just change the menu driver

>> No.3669228

>>3669187
No, I actually found it much better than the old green AI even if it's a little more demanding.

>> No.3669238

>>3669213
Retroarch is literally autistic. If I try to load a rom, it refuses, but if I try to load that EXACT rom from the history, it works.

>> No.3669524

Retroarch question:

When I play zipped ROMs in retroarch, it extracts the ROM to the containing folder, so I have megaman.zip AND megaman.nes, and two copies of every game I play. How do I make retroarch stop doing this?

>> No.3669707

>>3669187
You can switch back to RGUI by changing the menu driver. RGUI is what you need to use on CRTs anyway because XMB doesn't support low resolutions and because XMB's TTF fonts will not scale correctly with superwide modes.

I just maintain a config template for each CRT mode and just switch between them when I want to change resolutions.

>> No.3669713

>>3668729
Uh, most of those standalone emulators are missing critical things like custom resolution support to make them usable for CRTs or don't have the dynamic rate control synchronization so there isn't micro-stutter.

That's why people use it despite an imperfect UI.

>> No.3669717

FYI, the main dev of retroarch is developing a WIMP gui:
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/tree/master/ui/drivers

Until then, you can use Skeleton Key which addresses most of the issues in this thread and does other cool stuff too.
http://romjacket.mudlord.info/SKELETONKEY

>> No.3669727

>>3668809
>getting triggered enough by a software to filter it on /vr/

Why is this? Do you filter MAME too?

>> No.3669732

ps1 emulator is slow as fuck for me in retroarch but when i use epsxe it works fine. also the core shit is frustrating, and that fact that i have to unzip all of my roms to play it just makes me not like retroarch

>> No.3669759

>>3668235
retroarch is for lazy people who don't know how to organize their own emulator/rom/iso folder structures efficiently and can't be bothered to set up per-game settings for maximum compatibility.
or they installed it to a console or pi in which case that's stupid.

>> No.3669769

>>3669759
but anon, retroarch supports per-game settings.
>or pi in which case that's stupid
have to agree with that. arm devices are shit.

>> No.3669770

>>3669524
You don't because Retroarch is too retarded to even read zipped roms.

>> No.3669774

>>3669524
>>3669770
the "cache_directory" is where ROMs are unzipped.
by default, it is the same directory as the ROM

>> No.3669780

>>3669759
>>3669769
Yeah honestly I've found that if you really want to get that easy relaxed console-like emulation experience you set up your roms through steam with Ice so your emulator auto-runs the game. Use big picture mode and it's the exact same experience that retroarch promotes with the added benefit of not being restricted to retroarch.

>> No.3669787

>>3669774
This doesn't stop Retroarch from unzipping my roms and making a second unnecessary copy though

>> No.3669792

>>3669787
just set it to the temp directory

>> No.3669807

>>3669792
That STILL does not solve the problem inherent with retroarch. Why is it that every other emulator out there can read zipped ROMs just fine but retroarch can't despite it using those very same emulators?

>> No.3669818

>>3669807
it's reading them just fine. you're just being a bitch. if you can't be bothered to set the cache directory to the temp directory, or can't deal with the fact that it's temporarily extracting a rom, then by all means, use something else. fact is that other emulators ARE often extracting the zip, but use the temp directory by defulat.

>> No.3669830

>>3668235
The UI is pretty simple if you get used to it. It also works the exact same across devices and that's pretty nice. And it can be fully controlled by joystick which is pretty cool.
And when I tried it on windows it eliminated all the screen tearing that I thought happened because my monitor was bad. Also the pixellate shader is all you need, and that's nice since there are a lot of emulators that don't provide such a simple "make all pixels look the exact same size and shape and not blurry as hell" option (I really wish MAME had it).
The only bad thing are those auto generated lists that don't detect all roms unless they come from a specific dump set. Just get used to load the core first and load the games manually.

>> No.3669907

>>3669830
>and that's nice since there are a lot of emulators that don't provide such a simple "make all pixels look the exact same size and shape and not blurry as hell" option (I really wish MAME had it).
integer scale

>> No.3669938

>>3669818
I'll just stick with emulators that pre-configure this shit.

>> No.3669948

>>3668235
>i'm too dumb to use an emulator with more than 3 options
Cool thread bro.

>> No.3670037

>>3669759
What if you want to use CRT-Royale for every emulator?

>> No.3670062

Mostly it just needs much more thorough documentation.

>> No.3670208

>all these shills itt
>inb4 BUT IT'S FREE!

Don't even try shills I know you're just trying to make it sound like some sort of amazing thing to trick people into praising it to fit in here so the creator of your stupid fucking moronic emulator can get more money from jews who make clone consoles that wanna use its shitty ui.

Everyone, I repeat, EVERYONE sage and report this shill thread. Shilling is against the rules and I implore you to put these faggots in their place.

Thank you.

Signed
Shadowblade96

>> No.3670220
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3670220

I have a new pi and retropie install. I went to enable sahders and there were none.

I checked the retroarch.cfg and the path to shaders was blank.

Isn't this normally set by default on a new install? I checked a sample dfg file on the wiki and it shows the path set.

Did I fuck something up during install or miss a step? ican type in a new path, but I am worried something else is fucked.

Pic related is what it should be. mine is blank.

>> No.3670232

>>3670220
does that thing even have a powerful enough GPU for most shaders?

>> No.3670253

>>3668235

Good filters.
Like the GB screen shader.

>> No.3670259

>>3670232

People say a lot of good things about CRT-Pi.

>> No.3670446

>>3670208
wat

>> No.3670453
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3670453

>>3670232

I watched some videos of pi specific shaders and they look decent (as far as you can see from a video). Frame rate was still good on most capcom arcade games.

>> No.3670479

>>3669524
>>3669774
>>3669787
>>3669792
>>3669807
>>3669818
>>3669938

Just wanted to say I'm the guy who asked initially and that your responses were helpful. The guy(s) bitching about your helpful responses were not me.

>> No.3670586

>>3668235
>Try it on a Mac I got from work
>UI breaks horribly and it's unusable.
>Try OpenEmu
>Just Werx.

>> No.3670710

can i somehow adjust gamma in retroarch?

>> No.3670871

>>3668235

>emulates
>uses filters
>too stupid for the programm

sheesh boi, enough internet for you today

>> No.3670878

>>3668235
Get Lakka, uses Retroarch in it's own environment and just werkx

>> No.3670938

>>3670586
I didn't know homosexuals were into retro gaming.

>> No.3670945

>>3670938
Low resolution rockets firing lasers on a black-and-white display can provide some wonderful imagery to those with sufficiently powerful imaginations.

>> No.3670957

>>3670945
hehe. dicks.

>> No.3671068

>>3668235
>>3668619
Just soft patch it. Means you can keep a clean set of roms but still use hacks/translations.