Can we take the time to appreciate Mednafen

[Anonymous No.5698887]

Think of all the shit that would be boarderline unplayable without this team. Not only are their Virtual Boy, Saturn, PlayStation and PC Engine emulators highly accurate, some of them (PSX, PC Engine) actually surpass original hardware like higher resolutions, increased loading speed and removal of colour limitations. Mednafen is the best thing ever.

Honorary mentions go to MAME as well. Without these two, we’d be at the mercy of scalpers

[Anonymous No.5698901]

>>5698887
is this the bullshit emulator with no UI? Then fuck it. Typing commands to play your kiddie games from 25 years before does not make anyone more intelligent or special. It's Linux equivalent for /vr/. "Oh look it's so much better than any other emulator that comes functional out of the box because setting it up takes half an hour!"

[Anonymous No.5698903]

>>5698887
>boarderline unplayable
Can you name at least three titles that are "borderline unplayable" on any other emu than mednafen?
>actually surpass original hardware
using custom filters and plugins does not "surpass" the original hardware since emulation is all about the most accurate imitation of the original hardware.

[Anonymous No.5698906]

nice bug

[Anonymous No.5698912]

>>5698901
It is functional out of the box. Customizing it takes about a minute. Being a mongoloid and needing a GUI to hold your hand adds latency too. Stay dumb

[Anonymous No.5698971]

>>5698901
Use retroarch

[Anonymous No.5698973]

>>5698887
It’s a nice emulator but the lack of a UI makes unbearable to use. Not to mention having to rebind my keys each time I open it. Was it really that hard to save the last configuration? I’ll probably use it more once someone develops a good UI, but until then I’ll probably keep using other emulators for most consoles.

[Anonymous No.5698978]

>>5698903
What I mean by boarderline unplayable is the difficulty in physically acquiring rare games to play on ageing systems. Seriously how easy is it to get a virtual boy?

Apart from input lag, some cores are pretty damn close. SNES and Genesis emulation has been near perfect for years.

[Anonymous No.5698979]

>>5698901
You can just launch them from your file manager.
Why would you need to go through an extra hoop to play your games?

[Anonymous No.5698981]

>>5698973
Use retroarch and just download the cores. A much nicer UI with insane customisations depending on the core.

[Anonymous No.5699002]

>>5698901
Typing commands is not difficult. Mednafen is the best and most accurate emulator for the Saturn, PlayStation and PC Engine. Yes, it would be nice if Mednafen had an official GUI, but you'd have to be a serious brainlet if you used a worse emulator just because you couldn't type a few words into a terminal. You can also just use the Mednafen/Beetle cores in RetroArch.

[Anonymous No.5699021]

>>5698973
>Not to mention having to rebind my keys each time I open it.
It's not supposed to work like that. Set "Read only" flag on the config file to off, you dumb cunt.

[Anonymous No.5699025]

>>5698901
>>5698973
>Typing commands
>Unbearable lack of UI
It's literally just a good old drag&drop. It's the most accessible function ever.
And it does have UI, just press F1.
Are you people actually retarded?

[Anonymous No.5699042]

>>5698901
There's several 3rd party GUIs available.

[Anonymous No.5699063]

>>5699042
Those are launchers, not a GUI.

[Anonymous No.5699082]

>>5698901
I'm using MedLaunch as a GUI, it is decent enough.

[Anonymous No.5699319]

>>5698971
For whatever reason retroarch sounds like shit on my machine compared to stand alone mednafen. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

[Anonymous No.5699324]

Does Mednafen have an actual git repository you can keep updated with pull?
The main one is just a bunch of archives.

[Anonymous No.5699358]

>Tries to make emulator
>Doesnt make it usable
>Whine people keep using inferior emulators
>When people ask for help they get stonewalled by elitists
>Continue to whine

[MeowDangsh !!0vovlO1OQTw No.5702040]

>>5698887
Mednafen is great. I use it with medlaunch and everything works perfectly.

I find it much easier and better than retroarch. I have nothing but problems with ra, but people assure me it's great.

[Anonymous No.5702081]

>>5699358
>doesn't make is usable
>literally drag a rom over mednafen.exe and it plays the game
Is mednafen the ultimate retard filter?

[Anonymous No.5702087]

>>5699319
>settings - plugins
>settings - audio

[Anonymous No.5702207]

>>5698887

Mednafen sold out to Polymega and took out CD support at the same time as Polymega bribed them

https://mednafen.github.io/documentation/#Section_security_includes

"CD Emulation
Mednafen can load CD-ROM games from a dumped copy of the disc, such as CUE+BIN. Physical CD support was removed in version 0.9.38."

Meanwhile the RetroArch fork will let you play games from real CD very soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofsu7DLsGNk

[Anonymous No.5702213]

>>5702207
How low of them, this is ridoncoulous

[Anonymous No.5702270]

>>5702207
Wow, I really don't fucking care.

[Anonymous No.5702401]

>>5698887
honestly its a disaster to use. the in-game options are anti-user and majority of your time spent will be editing a gigantic text file for basic options. like everyone else i use it in core form but retroarch adds more problems due to how bloated it is.

still, mednafen compatibility is amazing. it's saturn emulation can run majority of the library.

[Anonymous No.5702424]

>>5702087
>implying
It still sounds worse than standalone

[Anonymous No.5702486]

>>5698887
How accurate is the Saturn core?

[Anonymous No.5702487]

>>5702081
The only thing i'd consider hard to use about mednafen is that it can get quite picky with dumps.

[Anonymous No.5702996]

>>5698887
SSF is still far superior but mednafen PS1 is superb.

[Anonymous No.5703003]

>>5698978
>Seriously how easy is it to get a virtual boy?
Two seconds on google and I already found Ebay and amazon listings.

[Anonymous No.5703006]

>>5698887
We cant. There is important shitposting at hand

[Anonymous No.5703162]

>>5702401
splitting up the config file for every system would be so much better

that, and having some more global options that can be overriden. i hate how i have to set the aspect option for every system.

[Anonymous No.5703624]

>>5702207
Polymega uses mednafen?

[Anonymous No.5703839]

freefag opposition to GUIs is hilarious. The main "it's a waste of time and resources" argument falls apart when they spend hundreds of times the amount of time it would take to just make a GUI defending not making a GUI (and also crying about people using more pleb-friendly closed source software). Anything to get that teeny chub out of gatekeeping the plebs I suppose.

[Anonymous No.5703852]

>>5698901
No it really doesn't make you more intelligent, but honestly it sounds like it might be hard for you anyway. I'd be frustrated if I was too stupid to type without a GUI.

[Anonymous No.5703854]

>>5698901
Mednaffe

[Anonymous No.5703872]

>>5698887
It's good design not to have a GUI. It means they focus on developing core functionality. All you have to do is use a separate frontend if you want a GUI. I use MedLaunch and it does the job quite well.

One thing that annoys me, though, is the button assignment forces you to specify a turbo button for all the face buttons. I just use the '.' key on the keyboard and assign them all to that key, but it's a bit annoying. Still, I can understand why they did it, because it keeps things simple.

In software design, it's best to keep design simple and not try and handle a wide variety of user differences. When developers try to do too much it quickly turns into unmaintainable bloatware. It's a sign that the developers have a clue that they don't package their own GUI.

[Anonymous No.5705229]

>>5703872
>medlaunch
this is a truly great fe. my machine can't handle it very well, but it's easily the most comprehensive for mednafen.

[Anonymous No.5705260]

>>5703854
doesn't help one bit if you wanna play Saturn games and it doesn't find any correct paths and you need to convert files.

[Anonymous No.5705276]

going to shill this here because it has a superficial ui for mednafen and may be relevant
http://romjacket.github.io/skeletonkey/index.html

[Anonymous No.5705458]

>>5705276
cool music.

[Anonymous No.5705602]

>>5702207
>Mednafen sold out to Polymega and took out CD support at the same time as Polymega bribed them
I smell bullshit... version 0.9.38 was released in 2015, years before that retroblox/polymega emubox was even announced (and likely planned).
https://forum.fobby.net/index.php?t=msg&th=1145&start=0&

>Meanwhile the RetroArch fork will let you play games from real CD very soon
LOL

[Anonymous No.5706572]

>>5705602
>>5702207
Also, based on the Digital Foundry video, the way physical CD support works on the polymega is to rip it to internal storage, likely as a bin/cue and emulate from that.
However it IS a bit clever because they said you could start playing "instantly." So they must have some kind of union filesystem set up so it can read through to the physical disc in some fashion.
Emulating from the CD directly is possible, but translating one consoles drive access to your PC's drive would more often than not be painfully slow. Like trying to play a scratched PS1 game on an old console.

[Anonymous No.5707474]

>>5706572
Using a physical, optical drive to emulate CD-ROM drives from old consoles is a thing that has existed for decades now and isn't any slower compared to real hardware. I know SSF does it, perfectly, and I'm pretty sure there are other examples.

[Anonymous No.5707849]

>>5698901
>is this the bullshit emulator with no UI?
here it is

[Anonymous No.5707991]

>>5699319
>on my machine
and on my machine it works absolutely fine. I would recommend it to everyone interested in emulation on pc.