DUCKSTATION

[DUCKSTATION No.8210662]

DUCKSTATION

[Anonymous No.8210672]

1st for mednafen

[Anonymous No.8210674]

it's true. i will never use ePSXe again

[Anonymous No.8210675]

>>8210672
Medfan is solid, good emulator if you want to just test things out. But for user friendly and best UI i would take duckstation.

[Anonymous No.8210678]

>>8210674
>ePSXe
>plugin hell
so happy this is over

[Anonymous No.8210681]

>>8210678
If you can't dedicate a weekend or so to downloading plugins and testing which ones work well on your system then you're beyond help. Try out Retrotard, it's more up your speed.

[Anonymous No.8210686]

>>8210678
Not here, unironically anywhere, but I still see people recommending ePSXe with specific plugins needing to be used

[Anonymous No.8210689]

>>8210681
>dedicate a weekend or so to downloading plugins and testing
>update once in a while
>other game need other settings
>search up error code xyz
>why does ff7 have green shadows
>ff9 has copyright protection downloade this file
>wobble texture
>gt2 needs special settings
>use this mgs4 patch
>there is a different version of opengl P.E.O.S
>laggy audio use another pllugin with specail setting only for this one game
>rename your bios

Duckstation
>double click the game and have fun

[Anonymous No.8210690]

Wii port when???

[Anonymous No.8210719]

>>8210689
God, don't fucking remind me of this shit. This all was before the wikis existed too or were more known.
>install fucking different audio plugin for this game
>uh oh your buttons don't work? install different controller plug in
>have you checked if it's the latest version of the plug in
>works on my machine, be grateful you can play anything at all
>"problem with X plug in, any help? - - - nevermind, fixed it :)"
The amount of times I've had to delete the fucking thing all together and reinstall it all and it was still a laggy horse shit.

[Anonymous No.8210734]

>>8210662
I'm enjoying it too

[Anonymous No.8210737]

>>8210662
Love how easy it is to use. Already beat parappa, been playing wipeout 3 and ff7 for the first time. Can't believe I never explored ps1 before now

[Anonymous No.8210738]

>the newest Pete's OpenGL2
>no not the Pete's OpenGL2 2.00.2
>take Pete's OpenGL mod 3.1
>Eternal's sound plugin to fix laggy sound in ff games
>no use the old eternal's sound plugin
>start the exe in admin mode
>and compatible mode
>do not change this setting
>do not change that setting
>this plugin doesn't like this plugin
>you have to create the mem folder yourself
>you have to create your mem file yourself
>strech to windowsize
>keep aspect ratio
>still strechted image
>valkyria profil? some plugins don't run it.

[Anonymous No.8210748]

>>8210689
How did they do it?

[Anonymous No.8210749]

>>8210681
No one wants to fuck around with plugins at this point. There's no benefit.
It made sense back in the early 2000s, with wildly varying graphics support and CPUs that couldn't reasonably emulate the PS1 without compromise.
Duckstation has all the relevant visual enhancements, it's configured so that by default, everything should just work out of box, has a database of relevant configuration changes that need to be set for any games that do have issues, and was written with modern hardware in mind.

Twenty one, almost twenty two years past 2000, there aren't any advantages to plugins. You end up just sorting through a bunch of shit that doesn't even work right despite pretty much every PC from the last 5 years being fast enough to deal with the PS1 accurately (eg, with Mednafen -- still annoyed that the dev is still the sort of cunt who won't even bring up a file open dialog if you just double click it; interactive graphical programs that only start up when passed arguments are pure fucking AIDS, there's really no excuse).

[Anonymous No.8210756]

Duckstation is good but stenzek is a bitch. Retroarch is a trashfire and plugin emulators are outdated.

[Anonymous No.8210757]

>>8210737
I'm gonna try out every single game that ever released on it, that should keep me busy for a while

[Anonymous No.8210765]

>>8210672
Fpbp

[Anonymous No.8210768]

>>8210748
black magic

[Anonymous No.8210802]

>>8210662
I dropped ePSXe years ago in favour of Beetle PSX HW before switching to Duckstation.

[Anonymous No.8210805]

>>8210678
>>8210674
why didn't you just use PSXfin or PSXeven?

[Anonymous No.8210809]

>>8210662
Wasn’t this laughed at like a year or so ago? Am I mistaking it for something else? I was shocked to see this be so popular after being away from emulation for a while.

[Anonymous No.8210826]

>>8210809
>dude shaders
>don't you wanna pllay ps1 games in HD XDDD
>playing on my smartphone dude
>look how we totally improved this finished game

[Anonymous No.8210829]

>>8210809
People probably wondered why they'd need a new PS1 emulator.
Then they actually realized why -- the existing emulators suck ass. Duckstation is fast, quite accurate, has a nice Dolphin-style UI, and has shit like geometry and texture correction built in if you want.

>>8210805
psxfin has horrible internal timing problems that lead to softlocks (like in threads of fate) or "softlocks" (where the emulated system seems like it gets stuck, and then like a minute later, it unfucks itself)
the only use I ever had for it was a netbook that had some issues with ePSXe

[Anonymous No.8210836]

>>8210675
>>8210749
UIs are for babies who need big colorful buttons in their face or they will cry and drool and shit their pants.

[Anonymous No.8210908]

Raspberry pi

[Anonymous No.8210918]

>>8210748
>How did they do it?

It doesnt' create anything new, instead it just builds upon the past emulators and then just tries to do it faster and more conveniently.

[Anonymous No.8210920]

>>8210918
Ah of course, I should've known

[Anonymous No.8210928]

>>8210738
>have a version of ePSXe from 2014
>have on old socket 775 DELL with a P4
>it just works

[Anonymous No.8210935]

>>8210836
Real programmers used to make programs that made things easier and as automated as possible. Not having an UI means you're a lazy hack.

[Anonymous No.8210952]

>>8210829
>Then they actually realized why -- the existing emulators suck ass.
Mednafen is still more accurate and it works perfectly fine on low-end rigs.

[Anonymous No.8210959]

>>8210935
Command line interface is the fastest and most efficient

[Anonymous No.8211190]

why can't I combine all the disc? like right click and than select a disc it just takes space like this

[Anonymous No.8211191]

>>8211190
It's called not using big thumbnails like a goober.

[Anonymous No.8211193]

I uninstalled Duckstation permanently after it forced that faggot dark theme on me.

[Anonymous No.8211194]

>>8211191
It's still ugly you smelly man

[Anonymous No.8211195]

>>8211190
each disc is an independent program. the only thread of commonality between them is the save data. duckstation will associate a blank card with every disc, however it also includes a "change disc" feature that enables bridging the game discs while the system is running so you can save your data to the fresh card

[Anonymous No.8211196]

>>8210662
>>8210672
I like both

[Anonymous No.8211205]

>>8210681
>dedicate a weekend
Are you people genuinely retarded? It takes an hour at most to set up.

[Anonymous No.8211209]

>>8211205
You're lying.

[Anonymous No.8211215]

>>8211209
even if they aren't, duckstation takes 1) downloading 2) executing 3) mapping controls 4) pointing it at your favorite game 5) enjoying your game. it takes 2 minutes

[Anonymous No.8211221]

>>8211215
For worse performance, compatibility and QoL than with ePSXe? No thanks.

[Anonymous No.8211227]

>download ePSXe
>start getting a really short urge to suck penis
>delete it
>it's gone

Do epsxe fans really live like this???

[Anonymous No.8211230]

>>8211227
You probably left some traces of Cuckstation in the registry, triggering your dysphoria. Happens to the best of us, don't worry.

[Anonymous No.8211268]

>>8211221
i just played ff7 and couldn't spot a difference between the emulator and hardware. as for QoL, pick related

[Anonymous No.8211270]

>>8211268
>i just played ff7 and couldn't spot a difference between the emulator and hardware.
Why yes, ePSXe power users do tend to enjoy such advantages.

[Anonymous No.8211295]

>>8211193

[Anonymous No.8211301]

>>8210920
PlayStation emulation was solved by Mednafen, and other devs reverse engineering the playstation. The Duckstation devs know nothing about how to reverse engineer the system, but they know how to code a fast efficient convenient emulator. So they're building upon the work of others.

[ITT No.8211304]

why is there no mac os release?

[Anonymous No.8211305]

>>8211304
use it via retroarch.

[ITT No.8211313]

>>8211305
thanks fren

[Anonymous No.8211687]

>>8210672
I recently switched to duckstation from mednafen, it's not a massive improvement but it was still a noticeable improvement imo.

[Anonymous No.8211701]

>>8211190
Create a new text file and then type something like this:
>Koudelka (Disc 1).cue
>Koudelka (Disc 2).cue
and so on, just make sure you get the filenames exactly right. Then save that text file as Koudelka.m3u and add it to Duckstation, after that you can just exclude the individual discs.

[Anonymous No.8211702]

>cuckstation