RetroArch

[Anonymous No.7716869]

I've read that it has some of the best emulators for retro consoles, is it true?

[Anonymous No.7716872]

>>7716869
It is true. Genesis GX is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.7716875]

>>7716869

[Anonymous No.7716878]

It doesn't have Duckstation so no, it's not true.

[Anonymous No.7716882]

That is indeed true.

[Anonymous No.7716895]

>>7716869
no

[Anonymous No.7716904]

>>7716869
Get a MiSTer and use Duckstation for PS1 emulation , it doesn't get better than that and that's what most of us here on /vr/ do.

[Anonymous No.7716914]

That is true. I use Retroarch for anything 8 or 16-bit.
Some anons on /vr/ hate it because it's too simple to use

[Anonymous No.7716917]

>>7716904
>that's what most of us here on /vr/ do
lol i don't think so

[Anonymous No.7716921]

>>7716914
based

[Anonymous No.7716927]

>>7716904
the mister is way, WAAAAAY more niche than what you think
most of vr probably emulate on a laptop or android phone, those particularly fancy perhaps on a hacked vita or 3ds
me personally, these days i emulate everything on my switch
i wish it had a good saturn emulator...

[Anonymous No.7717039]

>>7716895
>>7716904
>Shilling the MiSTer
No thanks. If I wanted to a miniature PC dedicated to only emulating up to 4th gen consoles, I would build one myself.

[Anonymous No.7717053]

>>7717039
Most pathetic cope I've seen recently.
>if I wanted this thing... which I totally don't... I'd have other thing

[Anonymous No.7717074]

>>7717053
False. What's pathetic is you spamming/flooding the board with shilling the MiSTer and posting the same image over and over again, 24/7.

[Anonymous No.7717076]

>>7716869
dosbox, pcsx2, dolphin, ppsspp, mame and some others are infinitely better outside of retroarch
for everything else, yeah its pretty good, what really sells it is all the extra features it haves like run ahead, shaders, crt switchres and what not
I understand why some people absolutely despise it, but for me it is pretty useful

[Anonymous No.7717325]

>>7716927
Hey, I play on a softmodded 2ds, I must be real fancy, huh?

[Anonymous No.7717373]

>>7717325
that sounds awful to be honest
the main advantage of the ds and 3ds over the psp, vita and switch is the flip screen, so that they easily fit in a pocket without using any cover or case, without risking scratching a screen
but a 2ds....

[Anonymous No.7717405]

>>7717373
that doesn't make it horrible. portable systems can be used around your house, you don't necessarily have to take it anywhere, and most people don't

[Anonymous No.7717497]

>>7716878
Its called Swanstation in RetroArch

[Anonymous No.7717508]

>>7717405
I guess some people prefer to stare at 5" screens while laying in bed instead of browsing the web on a PC or playing vidya on a TV.
Disgusting desu, zoomer tier.

[Anonymous No.7717520]

>>7716869
If youre a transexual, maybe.

[Anonymous No.7717639]

>mentions MiSTer and Duckstation as alternatives
>tranny deletes post
>but the obvious shitpost thread is still up

And faggots on here have the audacity to claim this place is better than plebbit somehow?
It's literally worse now with deleting and censoring shit by tranny mods and all this place has left is stale-pasta shitposts from 6 years ago.

[Anonymous No.7717834]

>>7717076
You pretty much nailed it. PPSSPP for example has like 10 frames of added input lag in Retroarch, pretty wild. The UI makes me want to eat a bullet though

[Anonymous No.7717854]

>>7716872
Picodrive's new 'accurate' renderer seems to be better than PlusGX's. It nearly perfectly plays the Overdrive 2 demo where GX shit's the bed. Wasn't like that a year or two ago. It also runs that McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure easter egg perfectly where GX *and* BlastEm fucks it up.

[Anonymous No.7717861]

>>7717834
The only hardware accelerated cores one should use are Mupen with Parallel RDP+RSP and Flycast. The other proper 3D ones are pretty trash. I would say Beetle but Duckstation dwarfs it and the standalone version is much better. I don't know why the core is so shitty but it needs cleaning up.

[Anonymous No.7717874]

>>7717497
It's bad. I wish it wasn't, but it is. Something about the sound is broken in it. Seen a few little examples here and there of it not working where the standalone does.

[Anonymous No.7717932]

>>7716878
Except it does.

[Anonymous No.7717935]

>>7717874
Go ahead and post those examples.

[Anonymous No.7717947]

For whatever reason I can't program keyboard inputs for RetroArch. It just always reads my controller, even if it's not plugged in.

[Anonymous No.7718632]

>>7717639
spam is against the rules bro
mentioning those things isn't banworthy
making five threads a day for each is

[Anonymous No.7719882]

>shitty UI
>try to load game
>entire fucking thing just closes with no error message or warning about what happened

[Anonymous No.7719889]

>>7716869
saying retroarch has the best emulators for retro consoles is like saying Steam has the best collection of games.
Neither of them do anything other than host/provide other content so it's not really that good of a question.

Autists ITT will pick apart each and every core and demand a normie like you install and tweak every individual system but for like 99.9% of people RetroArch just werks for anything pre-2001
And PS2 is getting better and better as we speak

[Anonymous No.7719928]

>>7719882
Turn on logging

I dont know if it has the best, but some of the cores like beetle are definitely one of the best options, and parallel with the parallel rsp is by far the best n64 emulation available. Practically perfect

But for everything 5th gen and below its all fantastic. But really the main reason to use retroarch is for its lagless vsync implementation (or console accurate timing options of you have a VRR display, as well as shaders and input delay mitigation features like runahead

It's currently kind of weak for 6th gen device emulation though. I really wish they'd update the dolphin core because as is standalone is kind of awkward with 30fps titles and screen refresh rates, where as the retroarch core handles the syncing perfectly

[Anonymous No.7719934]

It has exclusive versions of some emulators like it's own versions of Mupen64Plus and Mednafen's modules. As an all-in-one emulation suite it's pretty great, though I much prefer the RGUI theme then the one it comes with.

[Anonymous No.7719950]

>>7716869
>>7716869
>>7716869

Some of the cores are AMAZING

But, if you are looking for specific emulators, instead of a giant compilation, then you might not get a lot of use out it. Personally the genesis GX core, and ParaLLEl for n64 emulation are great, but I use mednafen for just about everything else or Dolphin for gamecube/ wii titles

I don't really like the interface for retroarch, its not personal, I just feel like some of the option menus lead you down rabbit holes inexplicably. I also am not a huge fan of tying everything under one emulator "roof" as it were or umbrella. I think their will always be a good reason to just use specific emulators like M.A.M.E. or Mednafen or for handheld stuff as well.

[Anonymous No.7719981]

>>7716869
Retroarch is great for introducing bugs that don't exist in the standalone emulators.

[Anonymous No.7720029]

>>7717854
Does it do 32x well though? I've had issues with PicoDrive running 32x games in the past.

[Anonymous No.7720080]

It has the best N64, MD/GEN and DC emulators you can use. Also a hardware-powered fork of Mednafen's PS1 core with all the usual texture/overclocking bells and whistles added. Aside from those it's better to just use the standalone versions of the other cores.

[Anonymous No.7721071]

>>7720080
I disagree, mostly because of input delay options and shader support. Most standalones don't have those

[Anonymous No.7721084]

>>7721071
Retroarch has input delay options to fix the input delay it introduces by itself? That's nice I guess.

[Anonymous No.7721149]

>>7721084
Not him, but I tested smw and I get 2 frames of input lag both on bsnes standalone and on RA if I don't turn on run ahead.

[Anonymous No.7721306]

>update Retroarch and fire up Mupen64
>can finally run Conker's Bad Fur Day in a playable framerate on my toaster
I fucking kneel. Even with the new UI the menus still are fucking godawful though.

[Anonymous No.7721359]

>>7721306
they really need to update and properly implement the desktop menu

[Anonymous No.7722980]

>>7719889
>RetroArch just werks
Truer works have never been written. Too bad it doesn’t work good