RetroArch

[Anonymous No.7478504]

What is wrong with this?
Why is RetroArch so unpopular?

[Anonymous No.7478527]

>>7478504
Because it should just autodetect the game and load the "core" silently instead of making me do it. Might as well just have 12 different emulators installed because I'm already selecting the "core" in the goddamn start menu.

[Anonymous No.7478550]

>>7478527
>Because it should just autodetect the game and load the "core" silently instead of making me do it.
It already does this, I go to load content and pick a rom
>Might as well just have 12 different emulators installed
It is supposed to be 12 different emulators.

[Anonymous No.7478572]

>>7478504
Because Danny didnt update his cores

[Anonymous No.7478580]

>>7478504
a lot of people are irrationally angry at sp. they also say that retroarch is stealing off emudevs and is bad for emulation in general, even though emudevs usually make their shit open source and emulation was in a limbo before retroarch came around.
he's been pushing for some... odd things though, like the steam release and cartridge reader. a paranoid person might say he's trying to "legalize" emulation for his own profit.

[Anonymous No.7478652]

>>7478504
Screeching weirdos who probably have bullets with Danny's name on it along with everyone else who slightly annoyed them. It's messy but it's the best way to go about emulating many platforms.

[Anonymous No.7478676]

>>7478504
Interface designed for controllers. Libretto "exclusive" emulators so you're basically forced to use it.

[Anonymous No.7478683]

>>7478504
It's soi, that's why, and you're soi for using it.

[Anonymous No.7478686]

I still have no idea why RA blows so many anons' fuses. Like I honestly don't get it. It's a great collection of emulators in one GUI shell with almost everything automatically set up for you. If you don't like something, like the GUI for instance, you can just change it. For the GUI I changed it to RGUI.

[Anonymous No.7478690]

>>7478504
I tried to use that recently to play some arcade games because I didn't want to bother figuring out which arcade emulator is the best since the shmup community is autistic about them

This was the worst thing I ever used in my life, ended up installing fb alpha and called it a day

[Anonymous No.7478693]

Poor interface, poorly updated.
Using stand-alone emulators gives you better emulation, more options, and better interface (unless it's a garbage fire like Mednafen).

[Anonymous No.7478696]

>>7478693
>(unless it's a garbage fire like Mednafen).
If changing lines in a config file is too scary for you just use an external GUI, anon.

[Anonymous No.7478701]

>>7478693
Use mednaffe

[Anonymous No.7478716]

>>7478696
If the emulator isn't as easy to use as mesen/dolphin/duckstation/snes9x/fba then I'm not going to bother with it
half the emulation scene has a huge problem with absolutely mental decisions, not being able to rebind the arrow keys however you want in retroarch, m64p dev who refuse support anything below windows 10, in-line commands emulator
Sorry but nobody want to play hackerman with you, good thing there is always an alternative to those emulators

[Anonymous No.7478720]

>>7478716
Alright anon, I won't force you.

[Anonymous No.7478725]

>>7478696
I don't give a fuck about config files, having a decent GUI is the bare minimum nowadays, and even the external ones suck ass.
I'm not hypocrite enough to be mocking RetroArch for its interface and praising Mednafen for having literally nothing.

[Anonymous No.7478726]

OpenEmu is just far superior.

[Anonymous No.7478727]

>>7478683
>low input lag is for FAGS, bro!
Get this consistently in your stand alone. You fucking can't.

[Anonymous No.7478729]

>>7478504
I use it. But the UI is complete aids. It's so hard to even remember how to launch anything after not doing it for a while

[Anonymous No.7478734]

>>7478727
Why does it look like there's a storm door in front of it?

[Anonymous No.7478736]

I dont hate it, but it can certainly be annoying. I only use Retroarch to play roms on my SNES classic, and I basically have to watch YouTube videos or just guess what cores will work, and then I have to look up on YouTube what BIOS are needed for what cores because there's nothing to tell you. Still have ROMs that don't work, and I don't feel like trying to figure out why.

[Anonymous No.7478739]

>>7478734
Had to quickly squish a shader'd image to fit, I knew instantly someone like you would pick at it which is beside the point I was trying to make. The point is, your shit is laggy. Test it. You might cherry pick a lucky shot, but I bet you'll average around 12+

[Anonymous No.7478746]

>>7478504
Retroarch is amazing because it's so configurable. Anyone who shits on it is too stupid and/or lazy to use it. They want muh stand-alone executable and to double-click rom.

[Anonymous No.7478750]

>>7478746
You can double click rom, though it's a bit painstaking per core. Or you can drag a ROM to an open RA session.

[Anonymous No.7478761]

>>7478686

It isn't though. That's the problem. It's a terrible UI that makes you struggle unless you're lucky and land on the right configuration easily by random chance. Congratulations, you were lucky.

[Anonymous No.7478769]

>>7478761
you have to config literally any emulator for best results though

[Anonymous No.7478776]

>>7478701

Yeah. I use Mednaffe whenever I can and it's easy and good. Not perfect, but more than good enough, which is more than I expect from free software. Then I wanted to try some Game Boy games and so I needed a good Game Boy shader because that platform has such distinctive display hardware that the standard shaders didn't feel remotely right. Mednaffe didn't offer this so I had to try RetroArch. The setup took hours. It did work in the end, but wow what a pointless hassle. Most nerds cannot understand how to make a friendly UI. Making one that's ugly but straightforwardly functional is okay, though not ideal. Making one that tries really hard to be friendly and horribly fails at it is nasty. Too many nerds cannot recognize that UI design is a complex discipline in its own right and that most of them are very very bad at it. I feel contempt for them.

[Anonymous No.7478779]

>>7478769
On most emulators, you don't have to fight the UI to do the configuring.

[Anonymous No.7478781]

>>7478769

Yeah, and it's easy and fast with other emulators, except maybe a few bad ones here and there. It should be easy and fast because it's a simple task.

[Anonymous No.7478783]

Reminder that "runahead" is cheating and this is why the Tetris NES leaderboard refuse any score with it enabled

[Anonymous No.7478792]

>>7478783
Oh... no... not my autistic communities... stop...

Tetris hardly needs it anyway. There is nothing to dodge, quickly aim at, or ledges you need to jump at the last pixel.

[Anonymous No.7478795]

>>7478504
Shitty coding and autistic dev. Danny is basically the YanDev of Emulation

[Anonymous No.7478802]

>>7478792
Any 1cc or no-miss you do with runahead was done with cheat, just don't forget that

[Anonymous No.7478872]

>>7478776
>The setup took hours
It helps having more than two brain cells

[Anonymous No.7478889]

>>7478504
I don't use cause it won't run roms that it doesn't recognize apparently
"What? That's the pal version of a rom you say? And a modded? Can't play it, fuck you"
I was capable of forgiving the interface but not recognizing my roms is super dumb

[Anonymous No.7478895]

>>7478889
It's not good for anything other than software for your shitty raspberry pi "console"

[Anonymous No.7478904]

I get the sense that people don't like the 'branding' of it. And I kind of get that, I think getting attached to a brand runs contrary to what the emulation scene is all about.

[Anonymous No.7478914]

>>7478802
It literally isn't unless your run ahead is cutting out animation frames or skipping ahead of where it should be, or if your setup is somehow less laggy than hardware + CRT, but whatever I guess. I don't make the rules there.

[Anonymous No.7478943]

>>7478802
How? Literally how unless your run-ahead is cutting beyond the game's input buffer? That's like saying turning vsync off to reduce the buffer is cheating in PC games you utter sperg.

[Anonymous No.7478983]

>>7478904
That might be part of it. Some people think Retroarch is the emulator itself and that probably annoys some people. But I think the main thing is just the bad interface if you're on PC. Not sure why so many people still try to defend the bad interface because even the RA devs are trying to implement a better desktop GUI. It's not unusable but I don't see any reason to use it over a standalone emulator with a proper GUI and that really pisses some people off.

[Anonymous No.7479027]

>>7478889
It doesn't recognize modded roms if you use the libretro database because the CRC doesn't match. You can use the manual scan for those or change the directory of file browser to your rom/iso folder.

[Anonymous No.7479030]

Openemu is way better and more user friendly.

[Anonymous No.7479031]

>>7478983
I wonder why they didn't improve the already existing desktop menu

[Anonymous No.7479037]

>Top threads on /vr/ right now are seething threads about Retroarch and MiSTer, the two most accurate and lowest latency methods of playing old games bar using real hardware and a CRT

This board is fucking atrocious, jesus christ.

[Anonymous No.7479081]

>>7479037
Amen. I've been saying that creating RetroArch threads should be a bannable offense. They bring out the absolute worst in posters and consist of completely worthless ranting 100% of the time.

[Anonymous No.7479089]

>>7479037
You can always make a different thread yourself.
>muh top threads
/vr/ is slow enough that doesn't really matter.

[Anonymous No.7479108]

>>7478504
It depends on the game. The shaders are my favorite part about it, and some games run better on RetroArch than they do using the same emulator as standalone, but the reverse can also be true, and sometimes standalone emulators have better options and support for more hardware addons (GBA link cable, N64 game boy support, etc.). EasyRPG is better on RA all around.

Some anons just hate on it because it's popular and makes emulation more accessible to normalfags.

[Anonymous No.7479115]

>>7479037
So accurate that its cores are outdated, just like original hardware

[Anonymous No.7479141]

>>7478504
RA is awesome. The purists just want to be angry

[Anonymous No.7479153]

>>7479115
Enjoy your 5 frames of input lag on standalones, retard

[Anonymous No.7479162]

>>7478504
It is unnecessary.

[Anonymous No.7479170]

>>7479153
Enjoy your shitty bloated frontend, asshole

[Anonymous No.7479172]

>>7479162
Just like aor conditioning, socks, and fluorescent lighting.

[Anonymous No.7479180]

>>7479170
MAME runs better on RetroArch for me than it does standalone on some devices. "Bloated" isn't a word that I'd use

[Anonymous No.7479192]

>>7479180
>"Bloated" isn't a word that I'd use
Yeah, it manages to be worse than Bloated

[Anonymous No.7479215]

>>7479170
I can set it up in 5 minutes tops and never have to worry with anything besides opening it and selecting a game. Sorry if you're a braindead retard and has to settle for less.

[Anonymous No.7479216]

>>7479170
Not him but ohhh noo I'm mildly inconvenienced to start the game. That's TOTALLY worth fucking up the ingame experience!

[Anonymous No.7479220]

>>7478504
Well I like it but if I'm being honest, it's given me tons of problems over the years that standalones don't.

>Playing SNES games on bsnes mercuy. Works fine.
>Load it up again alter and my framerate has slowed to a crawl. I'm using the best hardware money can buy this makes no sense.

I never figured it out and had to reinstall.

>Copy my retroarch folder to another hardrive. Try to load it in another computer but same exact OS.
>RA crashes upon trying to load any games.
>Download fresh RA. Same issue.

Never figured it out. Had to download a standalone emu which worked immediately.

>Random settings buried in the shit UI are causing issues despite me never touching them.

>Load cheats for Secret of Evermore for fun.
>Not a single on works despite mine being as legit and widepsread as you can get.

I used to recommend RA but I can't anymore. There's too much bullshit going on in the background that should never be affecting the user but constantly does.

I only use it for things like BSNES mercury or parralel or beetle. Things unique to RA. For anything else, what it brings is not worth the trouble that comes with it.

[Anonymous No.7479231]

>>7478889
>>7479027
pic related

[Anonymous No.7479235]

>>7479220
>Using cheats
Fuck off autist

[Anonymous No.7479243]

>>7479215
>>7479216
>only the UI is the problem
Thanks for recognizing how messed up your front end is. Also the UI is not hard to use in the slightest, after you get past that, you stop thinking that the RA might be shit to be 100% sure that RA is shit. You better off with 12 standalone emulators and 12 shortcuts than use that piece of shit lmao

[Anonymous No.7479258]

>>7479162
Except if you want decent shaders. Except if you want 240p out over switchres/crtemudriver. Except if you want to mitigate lag as much as possible. Except if you want binds and settings per game and system even down to overscan. Except if you wanna play N64, Dreamcast, Saturn, and PS1 in the best ways possible. Except...

[Anonymous No.7479267]

>>7479258
>and PS1 in the best ways possible
Beetle PSX HW is horrible. You better off with DuckStation Standalone, you can do the same thing Beetle does, and even better at lower specs.

[Anonymous No.7479268]

>>7479243
Except scaling, frame pacing, shading, low lag, and binds per game/binds getting fucked with if controllers change aren't fucking guaranteed per emulator. It might 'suck' but I need it. You're just undiscerning.

[Anonymous No.7479271]

RA is really good because it makes people mad

[Anonymous No.7479273]

>>7479267
The standalone is a bit janky last I used it. Crashed when I fiddled with settings mid-session. Hope it gets better but even that still seems better in RA.

[Anonymous No.7479279]

>>7479267
Duckstation also lacks downsampling + shading at the downsampled resolution. An autistic preference maybe, but Beetle HW in Vulkan will do it.

[Anonymous No.7479281]

>>7479037
>Muh runahead
It's per-frame savestates. Zoom harder.

[Anonymous No.7479282]

>>7479273
It gets better everyday. Its doing so great, Danny is still trying to bring the standalone down, lmao

[Anonymous No.7479289]

>>7479282
This fucking discord tranny drama. How does he have any leverage to do that anyway, schizo?

[Anonymous No.7479292]

>>7479281
Dismiss it all you want fag. You're gonna say you'd rather not use it? To what fucking end? I keep it on with 1 frame in all games and nothing has gone wrong.

[Anonymous No.7479293]

>>7479289
I didnt mention any discord drama...

[Anonymous No.7479296]

>>7479267
I don't get it. They worked about the same for the games I played.
All this stupid fighting just seems like a fucking wankfest

[Anonymous No.7479298]

>>7479281
Even without runahead, Retroarch still provides lower latency and better audio/video sync than your shitty standalones would ever hope to achieve.

[Anonymous No.7479301]

>>7479293
everyone already knows it's discord drama
don't play dumb

[Anonymous No.7479304]

>>7479292
I tried it in mame 2003 plus and it totally shit itself.

[Anonymous No.7479306]

>>7479293
You know what I mean, hair splitting fag. Whether it's discord or not you're bringing up weirdo personal shit no one cares about. I still don't know what Danny could do to stop standalone development even if he didn't like it.

[Anonymous No.7479309]

>>7479296
It's just that when RA's dev tries to shill
>inb4 lmao open source
his shitty frontend, people reject it and he takes it way too personally

[Anonymous No.7479313]

>>7479304
To clarify, in the cores that do support it. FB Neo is the only arcade core worth using in RA. I use Arcade64 standalone for MAME.

It's like, get this now... YOU CAN TOTALLY USE BOTH DEPENDING ON THE SITUATION.

[Anonymous No.7479315]

>>7479309
>people reject it

Who, you? Seethe and dilate.

[Anonymous No.7479319]

>>7479296
Welcome to /vr/, newfriend.

[Anonymous No.7479320]

>>7479301
>>7479306
It's still funny to see how defensive you fucks got about it. Are you with a heavy conscience or something?

[Anonymous No.7479323]

>>7479319
You say that but I was here when this board was created, and it used to be the comfiest board.

[Anonymous No.7479325]

>>7479309
I don't spend any time asking for the dev opinions on anything or what hurts his feelings.
This all just looks like he raped your family or something.

[Anonymous No.7479328]

>>7479320
I literally don't know what you're talking about, and I have no conscience involving software. As an end user I only care if I gets mine, and don't care how the sausage is made.

I use many standalone emulators along with Retroarch. It just depends on which works better. Fucking freak.

[Anonymous No.7479331]

>>7479320
Do you want to try that again?

[Anonymous No.7479339]

kek
as usual the haters are always the greatest tool for marketing

[Anonymous No.7479342]

>>7479323
I've been on /vr/ for the past three or four (4chan since I was a kid), and, for as long as I've been a regular, it's been filled with raging autists giving themselves stress-related cancer over which emulator is best or muh original hardware or whatever.

Still leagues better than /v/, though. Don't go there at all.

[Anonymous No.7479347]

>>7479339
Ranting and defending an emulator on the ass of the internet isnt really what I'd call marketing

[Anonymous No.7479358]

>>7479347
but it is

[Anonymous No.7479362]

>>7479358
Yeah, BAD marketing kek

[Anonymous No.7479369]

>>7479362
>it's not marketing
>uhh actually it's BAD marketing
>he doesn't know

[Anonymous No.7479378]

Alright, lets make peace then, for the sake of /vr/. Retroarch is a very good frontend, and I recommend for everyone to try it.

[Anonymous No.7479387]

>>7478726
>>7479030
Seems nice, but
>Only for MacOS
Fuck that

[Anonymous No.7479397]

>>7479378
You haven't been here long, have you?

[Anonymous No.7479398]

>>7479397
Yeah, nope. I came here after the rules change.

[Anonymous No.7479407]

>>7479398
We don't make peace here. We rant and hate each other over things that don't really matter until we have brain damage and cancer.

There are really going to be people dying in hospital beds decades from now over the stress they caused themselves ranting about stupid shit on /vr/.

[Anonymous No.7479408]

>>7479407
Yeah, I kinda noticed that with the 6th gen being retro vs not discussion. Eh, it's fun and games.

[Anonymous No.7479441]

>>7478504
Let me configure core options in the UI without having to start a game first. Other than that it's nice, bit a learning curve to get the same functionality as a standalone UI.

[Anonymous No.7479445]

>>7479313
I just had to jump through 20 Hoops just to figure out how to get run ahead disabled only in Mames core. Pain in the ass this entire thing is.

[Anonymous No.7479447]

My biggest issue with it is that now a lot of cores don't have a standalone and only work with Retroarch. Fuck that

[Anonymous No.7479478]

The collectorfags assume RetroArch is synonymous with Raspberry Pi and seethe over it

[Anonymous No.7479690]

>>7479445
MAME in Retroarch in general is a big dry hole full of regret and despair. Went that route a long time again, but with FB Neo being as good as it is, and MAME's standalone having some more latency mitigation, it's super not worth it.

[Anonymous No.7479702]

[Anonymous No.7479770]

>>7479702
>spent time setting up all his cores, scanning folders, downloading boxart
>opens game in a shitty border, for 5 seconds without playing
typical retroarch user I see

[Anonymous No.7479786]

>>7479770
t. seething

[Anonymous No.7479862]

>>7479702
I hate borders but also hate that OLED means I absolutely cannot use them

[Anonymous No.7479887]

>>7479862
>OLED means I absolutely cannot use them
not sure i follow

[Anonymous No.7479903]

>>7478580
Open source is terrible for emulation development. It encourages cooperation instead of the kind of competition that drives real technological advancement. A couple of talented devs can do more than an army of mediocrities.

[Anonymous No.7479906]

>>7478504
nothing, you only need a few minutes to figure out some shit.

[Anonymous No.7479909]

>>7478739
As long as its less than 16ms you're less laggy than real hardware when you use 1 frame of runahead.

[Anonymous No.7479943]

>>7479887
Burn-in

[Anonymous No.7479995]

>>7479943
Oh. Yeah, I guess. That makes sense. Since you'd be using them for all titles of a specific system they'd be on screen way longer than in-game HUD.

[Anonymous No.7480046]

>>7478504
Its unstable at times if you mismanage or change some of its options, and you have to hard delete it and then re-install its cfg.

[Anonymous No.7480102]

>>7479690
I put fbneo in there since I already have it standalone.

[Anonymous No.7480249]

>>7478504
Because it fucking sucks

[Anonymous No.7480254]

>>7479770
Based

[Anonymous No.7480308]

All right I put some more time into retroarch and it still seems to have some stupid issues. like if I load content then core it disables run ahead but if I do it the other way around it's fine. Same content and core.

[Anonymous No.7480331]

>>7478504
they should update the beetle core already its literally a year or more out of date

[Anonymous No.7480397]

I like it. It makes things easier when I want to play some old console games in Linux.

[Anonymous No.7480428]

>>7479702
Make one that shows how simple it is to setup and edit controller keybinds, like if you wanted to use a flight stick or something.

[Anonymous No.7480435]

It's the swiss army knife of emulation, and as we all know the scissors in army knives are damn near worthless.

IMO, it's tried so hard to streaming everything and get everything into one place that its kind of a cluster fuck. UI is a nightmare and setting up controllers that aren't xinput is a pain.

[Anonymous No.7480525]

>>7480435
UI is great, ps3 xmb is the best ui
then get controllers the are xinput. I use a switch controller and sn30pro
it has the best n64 core ParaLLEI and ogre battle 64 looks perfect on it
I played King's Field vanilla, then again 60fps and widescreen
It also has the best crt shaders

[Anonymous No.7480961]

>>7480525
>crt shaders

[Anonymous No.7481092]

>>7478504
Because of the toxic project lead TwinAphex / Danny boi.

He's had so many controversies in the past with emu developers.

Recently he has been harassing the DuckStation developer to the point where the dev wanted to quit working on it so the core in RetroArch was renamed to SwanStation as the dev doesn't want any association with RetroArch.

[Anonymous No.7481096]

>>7481092
When did it change to swanstation? Around christmas time I got the core, and it was duckstation.

[Anonymous No.7481098]

>>7480961
>crt shaders
Yes, there have been advancements in the past decade or so. Imagine that.

[Anonymous No.7481193]

>>7481096
After that and before your post, obviously.

[Anonymous No.7481307]

>>7481098
They don't look remotely like a CRT

[Anonymous No.7481338]

>>7478504
>>7479702
I like how it constantly flip fops between "the dogshit UI is too hard to use" and "zoomers are too retarded to use standalone emulators so they need a frontend"

[Anonymous No.7481347]

>>7481307
Not the same guy, but they look pretty damn close.

[Anonymous No.7481480]

>>7481347
If you put your nose on the glass, maybe.

[Anonymous No.7481502]

>>7481338
Retroarch is like trying to cut a log with a steak knife, and the retrotards go
>"You're too stupid to use a steak knife?"

[Anonymous No.7481504]

Fellas, what's worse? Console warrior retards or emulator warrior retards?

[Anonymous No.7481539]

>>7481504
emulation especially mister vs software emulators is the gayest shit ever

[Anonymous No.7481546]

>>7478504
too hard to use :(

[Anonymous No.7481631]

>>7478504
Have you even seen the menu?

[Anonymous No.7481885]

>>7478504
>Why is RetroArch so unpopular?
A) extremely unintuitive UI
B) the cores behave like 20 year old mame, with all the bugs and glitches
C) you are better off using standalone mameUI

[Anonymous No.7481973]

I've been using RA for about three years now and I have no issues with it. I mainly play snes/gba games with RA and use standalone emulators for some other consoles games, like PPSSPP and epsxe. UI sucks but setting everything up so I can just load game and play was not hard at all, and I'm a brainlet when it comes to stuff like this.
All I want to say is that you don't need to be brand loyal, just use whatever works best for you.

[Anonymous No.7481989]

>>7478504
bloated mess

[Anonymous No.7482013]

>>7478776
>the setup took hours
It took you hours to just press f1, scroll down to "shaders", load shader preset, handheld, console borders, select which gameboy shader you want, then save it for the entire gameboy roms folder? It only takes a few seconds.

[Anonymous No.7482015]

>>7481504
Neither. It's the misterfags, all of whom are convinced their magic snake oil box is a "100% accurate console that just, like, becomes the chips of the system" and is totally not an emulator of any kind. They couldn't actually give a fuck less about the technology (or its accuracy). They just can't afford actual vintage hardware but due to falling for idiotic board memes can't bring themselves to use a software emulator because "those are bad for, well, reasons and stuff. It's really complicated and you wouldn't get it. Something, something, input lag. Can't put a PC in muh living room."

They really are in a completely separate category of autistic loser, even by /vr/ standards.

[Anonymous No.7482021]

>>7479235
>for fun
Do you know what that means?

[Anonymous No.7482028]

>>7481480
If you sit farther away from the screen, the scanlines and shit aren't super visible.

[Anonymous No.7482138]

I use retroarch for emulating consoles, Mame for arcade. I hate how i can't assign b+c into one button for neogeo games in retroarch. So mame it is. I use an old mame version (0.214) and wouldn't care if it was older i have a 2010 laptop that get super slow if I use last mame builds, but run perfectly with mameuifx, even with the shaders turned on. Idc for weird handhelds and 2 player pacman.

[Anonymous No.7482293]

>>7478504
the devs or if rumors are to be believed just one dev, a higher up, are trannies who can't accept valid criticism and lazily gets money from patreon retards while pushing useless and irrelevant updates.

[Anonymous No.7482370]

i tried out retroarch because of the crt shader feature and it's pretty slick, also beetle is a decent playstation emulator. the interface can be annoying because it feels like it's made for dedicated emulation systems like a raspberry pi rather than as a desktop application.

[Anonymous No.7482460]

>>7482370
But they've had a desktop menu that looks like a normal window for years now

[Anonymous No.7482480]

>>7482460
still doesn't have everything available that's in the default menu

[Anonymous No.7483483]

>>7479027
I've tried everything, even when when it detected my chrono trigger ds rom, nothing, shit was buggy as hell for me, maybe I'm just a retard but melonds works fine as is

[Anonymous No.7483504]

The only good thing with meme arc are the CRT Shaders, who sadly no one wants to port it for Reshade out of spite ever since Reshade got a better version of Lottes CRT recently on its main installer.

[Anonymous No.7483756]

I've only used RetroArch once on a laptop, and it just wasn't for me. I remember in one instance I found that running FCEUX with Wine had less latency than using an NES core on RetroArch. I'm also a special kind of autist who likes to have debugging / RAM viewing features, so for me standalones are the way to go when it comes to emulation. I don't give two fucks about shaders, if I wanted to play the game with a CRT "look" then I'd just use a flashcart on real hardware. No comment on the whole UI thing.
Also, I've read somewhere that RetroArch is more optimized / better developed for ARM devices (e.g. Raspberry Pi), is this true? Maybe that might have to do with why it wasn't running so great when I tried it on my laptop.

[Anonymous No.7483805]

>>7479770
>scanning folders
Or just set the start directory as your main roms folder.
>xmb interface
Not even the default any more
>he doesn't download box scans
You probably don't download manuals either zoomzoom

[Anonymous No.7483815]

>>7482138
>mame for arcade
Retroarch would be a nightmare for arcade considering how it's core updates work vs mame rom sets being tied to a specific version of mame.

[Anonymous No.7483817]

>>7483756
I’m on windows with a high tier pc and retroarch is absolutely flawless on a CRT monitor regardless of core. Immeasurable to zero input lag.

[Anonymous No.7483819]

>>7483483
Dunno if it was the case, but the desmume core works without the need to add anything while the melon ds core needs the nds bios and firmware to work
I downloaded the portable version without changing anything other than adding the bios and firmware for the melon ds core and the ds version of ct seems to be running fine.

[Anonymous No.7483826]

>>7483756
I'm not sure what OS you were using, but I use retroarch specifically -because- of the input delay mitigation features. Properly setup cores in retroarch have much less latency than standalones in my experience, and in fact is one of its biggest selling points

[Anonymous No.7483828]

>>7483815
How does mame work? Do you have to download a new romset+mame when they add more games?
I've been using fbneo standlone and the core on RA for some arcade games.

[Anonymous No.7483835]

>>7481307
Mine do

[Anonymous No.7483901]

>>7483828
It depends on the game. If a better dump of an arcade rom is available, mame will switch to using that dump and the old rom won't be supported in new versions of mame. Your choices are to keep using the old version of mame or download a new rom.
It's not the type of emulator you want to auto-update just because a new version is out. People who use retroarch for mame are less likely to be aware of this, and tend to download a random version of the game from coolrom which further complicates things.

[Anonymous No.7485073]

I really only use RetroArch because of its integration with zTranslate. Visual Novel OCR is dogshit and the translation sucks. If there was some way to get it to work with DuckStation or Ares I would stop using RA.

[Anonymous No.7485158]

Does anyone else have an issue with android retroarch where it will play some games off the sd card(gb, mame) but not others(snes, saturn)? What would cause this

[Anonymous No.7485185]

>>7478504
they ditched the sony controller ui ages ago, so its weird to see so many complaints in this thread about it.

i guess people just want to hate it at this point because they don't know how to use it or can't comprehend all the options.

[Anonymous No.7486010]

>>7483819
I used that one too, didn't work, was a problem with retroarch reading the rom, works well on standalone

[Anonymous No.7486021]

>>7478504
It's the 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' of the emulation world

[Anonymous No.7486068]

I dl'd sega bass fishing.
Do I need this shit to play it, or..?
Also, I'm on linux.

[Anonymous No.7486383]

>>7486068
>downloads rom
>yo vr, what is an emulator?
Not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.7486503]

>>7486383
It's my first time, gotta be gentle.
Still dunno what a rom is, only remember playing gameboy roms some 15 years ago.
The directory is picrel, I just don't know what dependencies there might be.

[Anonymous No.7486510]

>>7486503
You can't possibly be this stupid.

[Anonymous No.7486513]

>>7486503

nevermind, wining it actual game works, wish me luck

[Anonymous No.7486526]

>>7478726
>no arcade, just consoles

[Anonymous No.7486540]

>>7479903
>muh competition
So you'd rather factions of developers working independently at a snail's pace, each one working from scratch every time, rather than them being able to share ideas and code, vastly speeding up and streamlining the process?

[Anonymous No.7486557]

>>7486010
where did you get the rom?

[Anonymous No.7486651]

>>7478504
Because retards still think it's 2015 and the shitty XMB menu is the default interface even though it's been sidelined. This is coupled with retards thinking their 10 year out-of-date standalones are better than any of the other cores (especially when it comes to PS1, N64, Dreamcast, and especially Saturn). This is coupled with morons who autistically screech it doesn't do shit like their standalones and are too lazy to figure it out.

That doesn't mean it doesn't have problems. The libretro database for auto scanning in roms is a disorganized shitheap, and the way runahead works on some cores but not others is annoying. And let's not get started on the dogshit arcade/MAME cores. Still that's a small price to pay for near lagless emulation.
>>7486068
>>7486503
You should probably get another hobby, like learning how to tie your shoes.
>>7478693
>>7478776
>being too stupid to use RA or Mednaffe
This is the type of mongoloid we need taken out of the gene pool.

[Anonymous No.7486667]

When people say RA has less input delay, is that because of runahead or is there just inherent input lag with other emulators? I know PCSX2 has some input lag that's supposedly finally getting taken care of, but I've never really notice it in Snes9x (which has a reduce input lag option too) or the others I've tried and I'm usually pretty sensitive to that kind of thing.

[Anonymous No.7486668]

>>7486651
You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retard.
kys.

[Anonymous No.7486670]

>>7486667
It's a combination of runahead and gpu sync. It's an option in there

[Anonymous No.7486681]

>>7486651
Even the other interfaces aren't that great.

[Anonymous No.7486682]

>>7486651
>Because retards still think it's 2015 and the shitty XMB menu is the default interface even though it's been sidelined.
XMB was worse but the new interface is still ass compared to a proper desktop interface. And the desktop menu still needs some work too.

[Anonymous No.7486712]

>>7486668
I'm sorry you're a nigger.
>>7486681
>>7486682
The Switch UI isn't that bad. If the "advanced features" scare you don't use them.

[Anonymous No.7486779]

>>7486651
Mame is the only decent thing in RA. Mainline Mame is autistic crap that isnt for playing games.

[Anonymous No.7486783]

>>7486779
That is THE dumbest opinion I have ever read.

[Anonymous No.7486790]

>>7478504
>Why is RetroArch so unpopular?
Your vision is biased because 4chan and r/emulation.
This thing is REALLY popular.

[Anonymous No.7486794]

>>7486540
Yes, because the factions will make innovations. That the mediocrities can do the grunt work I dont deny. Its why you don't see any quality software come out of India.

[Anonymous No.7486826]

I don't hate it, but the interface is hard to get used to and generally unintuitive. But once you know the basics it's great.

[Anonymous No.7486876]

>>7486779
MAME is fucking ass in RA. Until they can find some way to not have the MAME UI pop up when you stop a game it will always be shit.

[Anonymous No.7486912]

>>7478504
>unpopular

it is very popular

[Anonymous No.7487025]

>>7478504
It's unironically a poorly programmed piece of shit emulator compared to using a standalone emulator that typically works without a huge fuss. If I wanted to spend hours diagnosing why I can't get a game to work, I would just mod Fallout: New Vegas with five hundred different random mods and fuck around with that instead. I don't care if someone calls me a zoomer or retard, there's a general rule in coding or programming that a program or application should generally be easy and seamless to use. Only reason why programs like this are happily accepted is because you don't have to pay money for them.

[Anonymous No.7487036]

>>7478504
It's unironically a poorly programmed piece of shit emulator compared to using a standalone emulator that typically works without a huge fuss. If I wanted to spend hours diagnosing why I can't get a game to work, I would just mod Fallout: New Vegas with five hundred different random mods and fuck around with that instead. I don't care if someone calls me a zoomer or retard, there's a general rule in coding or programming that a program or application should generally be easy and seamless to use. Only reason why programs like this are happily accepted is because you don't have to pay money for them.

[Anonymous No.7487304]

>>7479903
/g/'s Jonathan Blow circlejerk is leaking...

[Anonymous No.7487385]

i love it, almost every libretro version of an emu is better than the original, i have no idea what the autistic drama around it is and i refuse to find out because i'm not a virgin

[Anonymous No.7487392]

>>7487304
god stfu up about this guy
can i go one day without being reminded he exists fucking kill ourseld

[Anonymous No.7487395]

>>7487025
>>7487036
doubleposting retard thinks retroarch is an emulator and literally can't use a program that does everything for you automatically

[Anonymous No.7487467]

>>7479235
>he never used a game shark
sorry your childhood was gay anon

[Anonymous No.7487786]

>>7486779
>Mainline Mame is autistic crap that isnt for playing games.
Use MameUI then. If you don't like it, that's fine. If you haven't heard of it you're a retard because MAMEUI/MAME32 has been a proper windows interface for mame for over 20 years, dating back to when Mame was command line only autism.

[Anonymous No.7487814]

>>7487786
I think you meant Arcade MAME. Gets rid of all the crap. And still has a nice interface.

[Anonymous No.7487823]

>>7487395
it fucking sucks and the interface is tiresome

[Anonymous No.7487824]

>>7478739
>Had to quickly squish a shader'd image to fit
You could just not use a shader because they're inaccurate without an absurd display resolution.

[Anonymous No.7487846]

>>7487824
i like that someone wrote this once and people just parrot it

[Anonymous No.7487890]

>>7478580
This is my main gripe. Legalizing emulation ruins it for me. If he’s trying to get publishers into emulation then goodbye free games

[Anonymous No.7487892]

>>7487814
>fail to google any frontend/version called "arcade mame"
>find something formerly known as "ID4 mame" now called ArcadeMame
>last update some forum post from 2013
>spanish everywhere
Am I being retarded or are you actually suggesting we use huehue jankshit that hasn't been updated in 8 years?

[Anonymous No.7487904]

>>7487892
No, and I don't know why it's so hard to find. It's basically a continuation of MameUI FX. https://arcade.mameworld.info/

[Anonymous No.7487930]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with run ahead for as long as it's configured properly. For games that have >2 frames of lag, Retroarch would provide a snappier experience than mister/real hardware w/ CRT. You'd have to be a total moron to dismiss that technology.
more here:
https://byuu.net/input/run-ahead/

[Anonymous No.7487957]

>>7478504
Another strawman.

I'm starting to suspect that there are shills on this board

[Anonymous No.7489321]

>>7478580
>emulation was in a limbo before retroarch came around.
lol no