Another day another RPCS3 regression.

>>558016341
even with presets, you miss the quick response and instant feel of a CRT, and the way it refreshes the image will be different than an LCD
you can try to make it seem similar visually but it will still act very differently when it comes to how it creates the image on screen and how it refreshes

>>558033983
It's crazy how they simply refuse to port this game properly. I imagine we'll see a decomp within the next year or two. It shouldn't have to come to that, though.

>>558058186
Why do you think lost odyssey wasn't ever ported to other platforms?
Modern lazy incompetent devs can only handle ps3 ports.

>>558062256
I guarantee you a 360 game is easier to port on average, especially one on UE3 like Lost Odyssey. The 360 at least has an API in common with PCs. Neither are a cakewalk to port to PC with their proprietary unified GPU+RAM setups + PPC CPU, though. Sorry man, your post is kinda stupid.

>>558057543
>quick response and instant feel of a CRT
What did you expect from ‘post-processing’ and emulation/simulation, bro? Doing your laundry? Giving you a blowjob?

That said, CRT beam simulation actually has some potential if your display has a high refresh rate and decent pixel response time.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Shaders,_presets_and_filters#Display_Hardware_Requirements

I imagine Itagaki's team just didn't preserve the source very well for 2 and Sigma 2's is just more accessible or better documented somehow.

>>558063727
>What did you expect from ‘post-processing’ and emulation/simulation, bro?
i wasnt the one bringing it up. im just pointing out you cant ever 100% replicate how it feels to use a CRT.

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>>558064516
>you cant ever 100% replicate how it feels to use a CRT.
Literally nothing in life is 100% replicable bro.

People run CRT shaders precisely because they're the closest thing we've got until something actually beats old tube tech shows up at sane prices. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We're still basically stuck in the AH-IPS / "OLED is the future bruh" era from ~2014. Motion clarity, blacks, response, phosphor decay, zero-lag analog feel, impulse scanning, etc. Modern panels still suck ass at several of these compared to a good Trinitron or PVM.
MicroLED? QD-OLED mass-market prices? Wake me up when it's not $10k+ for a tiny panel or some gimmick watch display. We've been hearing "next year" for a decade now.
Until then, shaders (or ShaderBeam) + high-refresh HDR LCD are what people actually use to chase that feeling.

>>558067192
if you want to build a retro setup from scratch it will always be cheaper to buy a CRT than to buy some high refresh rate 4k monitor

>>558067384
My PC is my retro setup bro, I'm not buying anything *specifically* for retro

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>>558067384

Another day another RPCS3 regression yes, but this sounds cool
https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/18113
what are some games where this would work? playing shooters with kbm (or gyro) would awesome

>>558068154
>can't make Gran Turismo 5/6 playable for 10 years
>let's add a bunch of random shit instead

jewish emulator

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>>558068154
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/List_of_console_games_that_support_motion_controls#PlayStation_3

>>558068256
stop noticing bruh :)

>>558068538
It was progressing when that Russian guy was in charge

>>558068731
That guy's corpse must rot somewhere in a Ukrainian trench.

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>>558068256
They're still not playable?

I played both GT5 and 6 a while ago, 5 was practically perfect to me.
6 was allllmost there but could crash and it doesn't sounds good at all to me which is kind of a big problem (but I dunno if that's the game itself or just poor emulation, I never had 6 on my actual ps3)
Pretty bad games regardless, really.

>>558068538
oh thanks

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>>558068731
Yeah, as always, Slavs (and Japs) are the based ones. Westoids are the fags, JJs the rats.
At least they improved RPCN in the meantime. Hope they fix the crashes and shieeeet soon.
Z-culling fixed too: https://x.com/rpcs3/status/2023485091318735348

>>558068256
It is actually not random shit. You can't even play killzone without sixaxis stuff. Adding this would be great, if it worked.

>>558063475
>I guarantee you a 360 game is easier to port on average,
Every single 7th gen port to modern stuff was the ps3 version. There Is something about xbox 360 stuff that just doesn't' work for modern unreal.

>>558072418
Oh right KZ2 had those shitty forced minigames, people couldn't get past them?

>>558072887
You have to turn a valve at the beginning using sixaxis. You can't skip it.
There Is also sly cooper forced minigames.

This may be a stupid question, but is there some kind of scrobbler for playtime from emudeck?
I want to keep track of my playtimes from there, so I can then keep playnite up to date.

>>558068256
>>let's
It was done by a random guy who has never contributed before.

Did RPCS3 break MGS4 again

the title screen FMV's are almost unplayable, have to skip them. the actual ingame cutscenes are fine however

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Do shaders for VGA/2000's PC monitors exist?

>>558083080
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Shaders,_presets_and_filters#Shaders_on_real_CRTs

>>558083456
No I mean, shaders to get the looks of those emonitors in modern screens

What shaders are you guys using for gba?

>>558088489
crt-royale

crt-quarter-pounder-with-cheese

I've done the research, there are only 2 shaders worth using on SDR, I don't use HDR
for crt emulation: CRT-Royale-Kurozumi
for old lcd emulation: pixel_transparency-lcd3x
that's really it, now if someone could translate those from slangp to hlsl so we use it on shaderbeam instead of retroarch, that'd be good

>>558089797
>for crt emulation: CRT-Royale-Kurozumi
you're retarded bruh
royale looks like shit
PVMs look shit

>>558089797
>shaderbeam
another shit project that adds multiple frames of latency to everything
3rd party shaders for interactive media aren't worth it unless the program supports them as part of its internal rendering process

>>558089869
then no sdr shaders look good, because that's the bes tone

>>558090239
>then no sdr shaders look good
wrong
>because that's the bes tone
wrong

>>558090379
then whats teh best

if your monitor has enough brightness for hdr why even use a shader? it looks worse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQqk2RguAQg

>>558090532
>enough brightness for hdr
brightness has nothing really to do with it, you need local dimming
you can shove a 1000nit backlight into a normal crt and all you get are bright brights and bright darks

>>558090437
the shader you used as a kid

You can't tariff an emulator.

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Does anyone know how to go about setting up mouse look for AC Nexus on PCSX2? I tried the most recent guides I could find on settings up keyboard and mouse controlbut they didn't work.

>>558089797
>slangp to hlsl
anon, slangp are basically metadata while hlsl is an implementation, do you mean slang to hlsl? do it yourself, 99% of converting between glsl/slang/hlsl is just swapping between naming conventions

Fun fact: You can insert any song into Journey, so long as it's named "sepways" and is a wav file. (It also has to be zipped under the name "journey".)
https://files.catbox.moe/lwmlnq.mp4

>>558105080
I have no idea what you're talking about but lots of old games used absolutely no obfuscation or advanced asset packaging and just had stray assets in the game directory that you could modify or replace.

>>558105525
Huh, I assumed MAME (and its derivatives) tend to hardcode the game itself, with only the samples remaining modifiable.

>>558105525
>>558105735
The reason you can do this with Journey is because it uses a cassette player for music playback, and MAME emulates that by just playing a wav file.

Most old games don't have a file system at all. Old games did more often than not have some sort of compression for at least some of the assets. And even if they aren't compressed and you can find them in the rom, replacing a file is often often more complicated than just replacing it, because the binary is already linked.

>>558109468
>Old games did more often than not have some sort of compression for at least some of the assets
unless you're talking about random compression schemes devs pulled out of their ass in the 8/16 bit console era, most compression was just zlib and standard video/audio codecs
once you get to cd media and pc games shit was literally just thrown in random folders, either raw or basically just zipped

>>558109468
Clearly we're talking about games in a file system context since the premise was that there's a file to replace.

>>558112156
the Journey arcade game came out in 1983

I'm building a home server and was wondering if anyone here runs most/all of their emulators on a server and then streams over network? I've used Steam link and am quite happy with the experience but wanted to know if there is a better method?

Additionally, is there anything similar to hShop for a modded PS4? Was planning on playing through the entire FF series of games that I don't have on steam and yeah I can just download all the games manually and then transfer over USB but was wondering if there is a better solution?

>>558112368
File systems have existed since the 60s.

Does anyone use a Dualsense as their main controller? I've ran into an issue where emulators are essentially stealing it from my PC. I like to use OBS and antimicro to map the mic button to take screenshots. But what's happening now is as soon as an emulator turns on, that's the only thing it can communicate with. It still shows up in the controller list but none of the buttons do anything on anything except the emulator.

>>558089869
>PVMs look shit
Yeah. High-TVL on PVMs just makes everything too sharp and separated, turns 240p into obvious barcodes with black voids everywhere. Real '90s kids played on low-TVL consumer shadow/slot mask slop (~350-450 TVL) where pixels blend properly into that soft, glowy mess devs actually targeted. PVM sharpness is pure broadcast autism for richfags, not the living-room soul most people actually experienced.

>>558090437
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Shaders,_presets_and_filters#Quick_Reference

>>558120682
You're missing the point. It's not relevant on what actual hardware those games were mainly played on. It's not relevant on what hardware those games were developed on. What matters is that games on PVMs look like shit artistically and aesthetically.

>>558114232
>antimicro
>what is this? google it
>website literally tries to make you open windows cmd
My sides. I would quit using whatever that is and use DS4W instead you can use that to map any buttons you want and also turn the controller into xinput.

>>558097427
I don't think it's supported on any of the mousehooks available. you'd have to add support manually

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>>558127585
>games on BVMs and PVMs look like shit artistically and aesthetically.
Yeah bro? I’m already with you 100% on that one. <-> >"High-TVL on PVMs just makes everything too sharp and separated, turns 240p into obvious barcodes with black voids everywhere"

>It's not relevant on what hardware those games were developed on.
Back in the 80s/90s/early 00s, the average dev was staring at a consumer-grade TV or cheap CRT monitor every single day while tweaking sprites, palettes, effects and shiet. bloom-smooth dither, bleed to hide aliasing, gamma crush... because that's what 99% of players would see.
Mobile devs today still test on actual phones instead of just their 4K dev monitors for the exact same reason: you design for the target display, not some fantasy reference setup.

>It's not relevant on what actual hardware those games were mainly played on.
Nah, nostalgia isn't some optional bonus bro, it's literally the core reason most people bother with emulation + shaders or hunt down CRTs in the first place. Preservation is cool, but 95% of the scene is chasing that fuzzy, warm back at mom's house in '98 feeling. If you strip away the consumer-CRT softness and slap on clinical PVM sharpness, you get something technically impressive but emotionally dead for those people.

>>558129973
You operate on the presumption that
1. You know exactly what hardware game devs were developing and testing on
2. That the devs know best what their game should look like

I don't subscribe to either of them. Devs just work on whatever hardware is available to them and if I happen to possess something that exceeds its capabilities (say, a display with larger color volume or CPU that can runahead to the point of less input lag than the original hardware), then I see no point of limiting myself to those confines.
As far as shaders are concerned, just choose what looks best to your eyes and don't get hung up on what others have already experienced

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most of the devs were looking at a crt monitor writing code

>>558131927
>presumption 1 : that the devs know best what their game should look like
Yo, but they literally built the game around how it looked on the shit they actually owned and tested on. You can argue they don't always pick the objectively best settings/combo, sure. But that's a completely different conversation.

>presumption 2: you know exactly what hardware game devs were developing and testing on
Yeah… and they showed that hardware constantly during dev?
I'm in mobile gamedev myself, we test on whatever trash phone is sitting on the desk, not on some reference 4K OLED. Same logic applied back then.

>Devs just work on whatever hardware is available to them
Exactly my point. Most of the time it was some random consumer CRT hooked up to a devkit in the corner of the office. They weren't color-grading on a 15k$$$$$$ Flanders broadcast monitor lmao.

>I see no point of limiting myself to those confines.
Go for it bud, sky is the limit. But don't pretend you're playing the original game at that point (or "as intended") when you're running it at 4× native res with ray-traced ballsack reflections. :D

>As far as shaders are concerned, just choose what looks best to your eyes
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
At the end of the day shaders (and all post-processing) come down to your personal taste. If something doesn't look right to you, you just turn it off or swap it out, no one's holding a gun to your head to keep it on.

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>>558133168
>Yo, but they literally built the game around how it looked on the shit they actually owned and tested on. You can argue they don't always pick the objectively best settings/combo, sure. But that's a completely different conversation.
Sure thing. Now tell me, do you think the top image or the bottom image looks better?

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>I pointed the camera directly at the sun and there was bloom!!!

>>558133354
top looks better
>>558133168
> But don't pretend you're playing the original game
why would I
>or "as intended"
I don't pretend to know developers intentions, I'm not even sure they had concrete intentions to begin with, refer to >>557970468

>>558133591
>top looks better
>>558133506
>wojak
Yeah feels like the argument is over.

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>>558133354

>>558133354
that's 8th/9th gen, bro.
couldn't care less about post-HD era and shieet.

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>>558133917
>that's 8th/9th gen, bro.
But the image is still 100% true and happened in the past. There are people who play GBA games with a greying shader just to emulate the GBA not being backlit, pic related.

>>558133591
I'm not autistic about devs' TV white points bro.
"Similar enough" output is fine by me. Some folks are just terminally obsessed with every little detail lol. That wasn't what I was getting at. But anyway, I think we're talking slightly different things here. I see where you're coming from though.

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>>558134197
>There are people who play GBA games with a greying shader just to emulate the GBA not being backlit, pic related.
Eww brother, whats that?
I'm the Duimon preset guy for handhelds

aaaaaaaaaaaa just beam the video directly into my brain and release the endorphins so I think it looks good

>>558134691
sure thing, sir. would you like the complimentary "hand relief" while the dopamine drip installs?

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>>558134691

In the 00s people were actively praising the sharp pixel look.

>that anon who keeps deleting and reposting multi-paragraph postings because of a typo

>>558135615
The plastic hoarders are still doing it. They are simply retarded.

>PGO: These are built with Clang, and use PGO. PGO (profile-guided optimization) uses data from prior compilations
to determine the "hotspots" found within the codebase. Using these hotspots,
it can allocate more resources towards these heavily-used areas, and thus generally see improved performance to the tune of ~10-50%,
depending on the specific game, hardware, and platform. Do note that additional instabilities may occur.
I dont believe any of this

>>558139069
>I dont believe any of this
based

>Nov 12, 2024
>force-pushed the soft-float-int branch last month
https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/12001

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>>558140447

Apparently Xenia Edge now runs NG2 without issue? I have to try it..
but it sucks that Xenia manager doesn't support the Edge fork, unless I'm missing something

>>558142020
>Xenia manager doesn't support the Edge fork
Edge has its own built-in Qt6 frontend + some nice quality-of-life improvements. Just use Edge from now on.

>>558141126
>>558140447
That, plus having to deal with per-game GS upscaling and deinterlacing hacks in gameindex is probably another huge pain for the devs.
I think they should just switch to ParaLLEl-GS with SSAA instead of sticking to their custom GS emulation: https://github.com/Arntzen-Software/parallel-gs?tab=readme-ov-file#features

>>558142861
Floating point emulation has nothing to do with the GS component. Even with ParaLLEI-GS, these rounding problem will stay. Also, P-GS is far more demanding on the hardware and the image is more blurrier than with GS.

>>558143443
>Floating point emulation has nothing to do with the GS component.
Of course, what I meant was they could focus more on other stuff like FPU/EE/DMA issues instead of GS upscaling hacks if they switched to ParaLLEl-GS + SSAA. But yeah, you're right about the performance hit.

>>558083080
VGA monitors weren't nearly as distinct as 15khz TVs. If you throw double-scan (two scanlines per row of pixels) at 240p, normal scanlines at >=480p, and some phosphor decay (light trails when things move in dark backgrounds) you're about 95% there.

>>558133020
World of difference between 31khz high res monitors with far fewer artifacts, meant for actual work, and a blurry-ass 15khz TV. Realistically they had each nearby.

>>558144183
Except most of PCSX2, especially Refraction, know only of GS, it's years they are on it and they dev what they know. P-GS is a black box for them and any bug with it will have to wait when TheMaiester decide to work on it again.
Also, they are retarded so they think it's some sort of RA exclusive thing, where RA were simply less hesitant to put it in.

>>558145331
>they are retarded
Oh, that explains their stance against the project. Thanks

just found out my eldest brother (big age gap) did have game consoles, but my father crushed a few of them in one of his outbursts so the SNES doesnt work at all and i think the master system doesnt either

>>558051724
More and more X360 recomps are popping up. What a beautiful sight.
https://xcancel.com/Hinzoto1/status/2025228597535879406
https://github.com/rexglue/reblue

>>558146381
>xcancel

tranny

my GPU can't handle xenia at 4K, and at 1440p image is jaggy on my 1440p screen
what is the absolute best post-processing AA I can apply with Reshade?

>>558142861
>Edge has its own built-in Qt6 frontend + some nice quality-of-life improvements.
I see ty, interesting, gonna try it right away!

>>558146381
>NG2 Recomp running
holy shit, that's amazing. I thought it was gonna be one of these meme recomp projects that don't actually get any work done.

>>558146719
Xenia should have fxaa built in, if you don't want that then SMAA on reshade will work. It's been a while since I last checked all the snowflakes AA shaders for reshade but iirc nothing was magically working all that much better than SMAA+FXAA with 0 subpixel option.

>>558147910
Xenia has some mix of fxaa, fsr and RCAS, like the rest it's all hidden in the .toml. But with manager or edge you should be able access it.

>>558146381
>>558147910

Still waiting for the early EA Sports HD Xbox 360 exclusives, Fable 3, XBLIG, Doritos Crash Course and Full House Poker to actually run properly on Xenia… :/

>>558148929
>early EA Sports HD Xbox 360 exclusives
Madden NFL 06
NBA Live 06
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup
NHL 07
FIFA 07
NBA Live 07
2006 FIFA World Cup
UEFA Champions League 06-07
NCAA Football 07
NCAA March Madness 07
Pro Evolution Soccer 6 / Winning Eleven 2007: College Hoops 2K6
NHL 2K6

https://archive.is/1WLBH#p550987982

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>>558144183
>>558140447

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I'm a retard, does Dolphin have any setting that allows you to prevent the framerate from suffering during slowdown without just increasing the CPU speed (which would make the game run faster overall)? Like if I'm playing a game at 30fps and it starts to dip, I want it to hold 30fps but not go beyond that.

>>558145331
Refraction in the only one left that know shit. The others are just posers that only update useless deps and translations to boost their stats

>>558160938
>which would make the game run faster overall
does it now? did you actually try?

>>558162048
Huh, weird, AR codes that increase the framerate make everything run faster yet overriding the cpu clock doesn't seem to do anything at all. Still the same slowdown, yet it doesn't run faster.

DuckStation now supports CloneCD images, but does it also handle LibCrypt protection via .sub files?

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Ripping_games#Comparison

https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/commit/dcb3e3624e32c9c73f249ee370679b85a9ef277e

>>558161132
>>558145331
>>558145997
I thought the PS2 emulation scene was popular, unlike Xbox's. What happened? Why isn't there greater interest in improving it further? PS2 isn't a target like the Nintendo Switch or 3DS either.

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>>558146381

so many recomps coming out it's hard to keep track, I'll have to make a .xlsx with all of them so I don't miss anything
I think we're getting like 1 per month at this rate

>>558171656
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Game_engine_recreations_and_source_ports

>>558172032
thanks

>>558083080
Yes. Lottes can be setup to to look like a VGA monitor.
Or a BVM.
Or an arcade monitor etc.

>>558120682
Even sony consumer TVs look shitty.
I have one for emulation via component transcoder, but i use the GTU shader to lower the vertical signal bandwidth, because otherwise the image is far too fucking sharp and it looks awful.

>>558174027
Digital 576i or 1080i ones?

I actually think they look better than even high-end VGA CRTs in many cases, though I still love Sony’s CPD series, those look absolutely magnificent.

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>>558174509
Good shit for sixth gen, wii and early x360

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>>558173839
eg final fight snes if it were running on a VGA monitor (1/2)

>>558146719
FXAA preset 39

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>>558173839
same game running on a Sony BVMEME monitor (2/2)

>>558174828
Lotte's mask, right? (PCSX2's got that same shitty "mask" replication too.)

That Lotte's mask simulation has always been awful and still is. I genuinely don’t get why people keep using it. It doesn’t look remotely like a real mask, not even in a cool stylized way if you ignore realism. Why?

>>558174828
>>558175012
blurry or too pronounced scanlines, pick your poison
if only someone would make a shader like the second but dialing down the scanlines thickness

>>558175398
The scanline thickness isn’t even that bad desu.
That’s basically what a 15 kHz arcade cab looks like, right? Plus the dude’s probably going for a high-TVL CRT sim, so it’s pretty normal.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Shaders,_presets_and_filters#Display_Hardware_Requirements

>>558175760
it doesnt look good bro, it just doesn't, just a tiny little slimmer wouldn't hurt anyone

>>558175760
>>558175161
(cont.) Grabbed this from my SyncMaster 1100MB (224p@165Hz), those scanlines are normal for 15 kHz mask sims.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZjqCDXqkPHw

>>558175846
>just a tiny little slimmer wouldn't hurt anyone
A slimmer one could wreck your triad budget though, if your display resolution doesn't leave enough pixels for the TVL/mask fidelity you want. That's why I linked the wiki: specific hardware setups are required for accurate CRT sims. -> >>558175760

>>558146381
https://x.com/Dreamboum/status/2025241711488745823

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>>558177965

>>558166038
The low hanging fruit have been fixed many years ago, a significant percent of games which includes the most popular titles are emulated good enough for most people and the original console is still sold for close to nothing. The remaining problems are really challenging. Why would someone invest many months of work to fix one of the remaining problems just to have his work rejected in the end by trannies for no reason as it happened many times in the past?

>>558177965
Some N64 ports/recomps use gliden64 or RT64, which are essentially emulator plugins. The question is how they are using Xenia.

>>558172032
some things in this list don't make much sense, memoria is not a ffix remake or port, it's an overhaul mod, perhaps things should be more segmented

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Today I saw a 27in CRT just sitting in someone's front yard. I considered knocking on their door and asking if I could take it, but they had a couple of no trespassing signs and like five shopping carts and other random trash in their yard too, I was scared they were going to be weird and just get mad at me.

Do you guys think I should go back and ask for it? I already have a 32in CRT and no place to keep another one, but I feel bad letting it sit outside and get destroyed.

>>558177965
>>558178791
>>558179716
That's usually how recomps work. Sonic Unleashed is the outlier.

>>558180452
Yes, why not? Just ask.

>>558180809
in amerikkka? where there's a non-zero chance of getting shot for knocking on someone's door?

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>>558180937
I'm in Texas even. Not really though I'm in El Paso, it's only technically in Texas.

I think I'm going to go ask. If I'm not back in an hour, they got me.

>>558161132
>Refraction in the only one left that know shit.
And LightningTerror, and TJnotJT.

>>558181745
Just offer them 20 bucks or something if they find you weird for asking lol

>>558180682
How does sonic unleashed work?

>>558140447
holy shit

>>558164028
Any benefit to clonecd images?

>>558181745
>>558180809
>>558180937
>>558181971
Okay I'm back and un-shot.
The doorbell was broken and covered in electrical tape, so I used the knocker and a dog that sounded big started barking like crazy and then no one answered. There was a security camera over the door too.

The TV remains in the yard. I'm just now realizing I should have tried to get a better look at it to maybe find out the exact model. I didn't even see the manufacturer. Oh well, too late now.

>>558183256
They made their own Sonic Unleashed specific Xenos to HLSL static recompiler.

>>558185060
Did you try shouting hello or were you too autistic?

>>558185392
No, I'm too autistic.

>>558185625
Could have been just some old guy in there who didn't hear you knock.

>>558185778
Yeah I was kind of thinking the dog would have made them come look though, but maybe not.
I was actually thinking I might go back on Monday and try again if I have time.

>>558141126
There's always going to be differences between FPUs but there's literally a FPU register where you can configure a whole bunch of settings to get the behavior pretty similar, especially if you do some pre- and post-testing in software.

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>>558180682

>>558178791 Anon here, yeah i realized when i saw the answers to the post that the dude was full of shit, i posted the picture just to illustrate, if the recomp is doing something that the regular xenia doesn't do them is axiomatic not the same thing.
Twitter guy is probably jealous or has some other stupid reason to try and put down something good.

just forked retroarch
what do I fix

>>558194027
You don't have the manpower for that.

>>558194027
First off, give it a proper Windows GUI.

>>558194027
ffmpeg core: AV1 video decoding

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>remember when the screen sucked? lets recreate that

>>558194027
delete the UI and start from scratch

>>558195581
yeah, that's a disease
I get it using a crt shader to emulate the artistic intent of the game designer because they built the image with crt limitations in mind, but this nostalgiaslop is just cringe af for real for real no cap

>>558194027
retroarch needs more useless option settings and more convoluted menus, it needs drop down menus that open new drop down menus into new drop down menus, it needs a maze of settings that you can't escape, forget about the emulation

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>>558195581

>>558195941
ive dusted off my GBA SP recently and the glare is almost a dealbreaker for me, but i try to play with it because the alternative is taht awful frontlight that washes out all the colors
I end up preffering GB colors on my GBA because the graphics are simpler and readability is way better
>>558196414
whats with the scratches?

>>558179716
>>558180682
>>558192682
Recomps basically are fancy emulators. It's like there's three levels of emulator: Interpreter, JIT, recomp. These are just ways of emulating the CPU though, and normally they all emulate the GPU the same way, often using literally the same graphics "plugin". Actual decomps can potentially emulate the GPU the same way too, but usually don't afaik, since having proper source code makes modifying the rendering code a lot easier.

The thing with static recomplilation though, is you have to do some manual work on a per game basis to make it work, and since you're making an emulator that only works for a single game anyway you can do funny stuff with the GPU emulation or even put in the work to modify it like Sonic Unleashed.

>>558194027
>forked retroarch
Speaking of, whatever happened to Little Juan's fork?

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Anyone know how to fix this in PCSX2?

>>558197024
>whats with the scratches?
anon, gameboys were made to be tossed into your backpack

Updated

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Shaders,_presets_and_filters#SDTV_Experience_Preset

>>558198874
issue with upscaling, nothing you can do about it other than using native resolution

>>558194027
give it a nesticle-style interface

>>558198874
doesnt it get fixed with integer scaling

>>558198874
looks like the typical issues with bitmap fonts where characters bleed into each other when blurred, maybe fixable through a texture filtering option or a game-specific hack

>>558200604
>>558200943
>>558201125
Thanks, friends.

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>>558196414
>with a 4k monitor you could literally play Link's Awakening while viewing the ENTIRE world map
imagine...

>>558203250
There's a recreation of LA that came out a few years ago that lets you do just that thing.
LA DX HD

>>558203250
>>558203524
Seems like it'd just make the game even easier?

Could be a cool premise for an indie game tho, especially if the world is fully populated with NPCs doing their own things.

>>558083935
>>558083456
>>558083080
No.
You need like an 8k screen to emulate fine 1200p crts

Face it, you can't really emulate a CRT without a 16k 1200hz monitor.

>>558204241
What you really need is *per-pixel* variable refresh rates. That way you can scan along a line drawing each pixel one at a time in sync with the simulated electron beam the way a real CRT would.

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>>558204241
>>558204471
>zoomzooms actually believe you could see the electron beam with the naked eye
all you need for "perfect" crt simulation is
>fast pixel response times for motion clarity (i.e. high end oled, microled)
>hdr with local dimming (i.e. miniled, oled, microled)
>at least 60hz refresh rate to match consoles (adaptive sync preferred)
>enough resolution to create a believable shader effect at a normal viewing distance free of moire patterns and other artifacts (4k+)

if you have fast pixel response times you don't need 23984729hz refresh rates to fake motion clarity through bfi

you can buy a monitor that meets all those criteria right now for like $800 dollars with prices dropping every year

the entire crt shaders need to die or it needs an authority that will say "this shader is for 240p consoles" "this is for 480pi consoles" and that's it, 1 shader per resolution and that's all

>>558205842
>please sir, I'm too blind to make my own decisions on what I think looks good, please tell me what to use and then make everyone else use it too so they can't laugh at me!
also what about consoles that mix 240p and 480i?

the problem with this whole debate is the crusty nostalgia nerds who don't want to emulate the artistic intent of the game designers, they want pure nostalgiaslop from playing games in mom's old television so they mud the conversation with their terrible poverty simulator shaders

>>558205956
they get nothing

are there any standalone snes emulators under development at this point?

>>558207598
Why would there be? It's a solved problem.

>>558208751
I guess we're stuck with retroarch for nes, snes and mega drive then

>retroarch is an emulator

>>558146510
Not the point.

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Is this bug still in MAME?

https://youtu.be/H-krhtJqgNU?t=635

>>558194081
STOP HARASSING ME

when people as for standalones is because they want alternative to retroarch, dumbo

nes, snes, mega drive - retroarch
n64 - gopher64
saturn - ymir
ps1 - duckstation
gamecube, wii - dolphin
ps2 - pcsx2
xbox hueg - xemu
ps3 - rpcs3
xbox360 - xenia
bloodborne - shadps4
-
gbc, gba - mgba
ds - melonds
psp - ppsspp
3ds - azaharplus
vita - vita3k
switch - eden

I'm going to use AI to vibe code a replacement to MAME.

>>558210260
I feel like karnov is the biggest fuck you in arcade history, it uses checkpoints so even if you coinfeed you aren't guaranteed progress, and 99% of the time you're dying to offscreen shit that you need to know about in advance and preemptively already be firing at before they're even visible

>>558183256
They replaced the game's renderer to be native instead of emulating the Xbox 360 GPU. Think of it like how DXVK works.

>>558215135
considering how xna games pretty much just werked on the 360, I'd figure they'd be pretty trivial to port after a decompilation

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I'm playing FFX international and this happens every time i try and revisit Besaid village.
All i came across online are power tripping forum mods locking down threads because 'this bug is invalid and can't be reproduced" so i'm kinda stumped. Is there an actual human being with a soul here that can help me out? Is this even a main story important event? If not, i'll just completely ignore the village.

>>558205842
>>558205956

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Shaders,_presets_and_filters#Quick_Reference

How hard would it be to make something similar to Kingdom Hearts Melon Mix for other games?
I would love a single screen version of Dragon Quest IX

>>558220349
just get a little portable monitor for the second screen

>>558218770
works on my machine

Does anyone here have an account on this website? It requires an account to download the file, but when I try to sign up it says I don’t have permission to register.

https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/41528-glass-dust-reshade-preset/

which emulator has the most coomer games?

>>558225993
Do mahjong games that show you softcore images illegally scanned out of Playboy count?

where do I download the Bloodborn ROM?

>>558218770
what's the bug? dark valefor spawning out of monk is the expected behavior

>>558232398
The bug is that the game completely freezes there.
The sound is going off in the background but the game stops completely.

>>558209864
> we're stuck with retroarch
Wdym? Retroarch is the go-to for emulators.
>>558232481
try different EE clamping options

>>558209864
Ares exist.

>>558210783
nes, snes, megadrive - Ares
n64 - Ares
gbc- Ares
gba - Nanoboyadvance (Maybe Ares too)

Retroarch:

NES - Mesen
SNES - bsnes
MD/SegaCD- Genesis Plus GX
PC Engine - Beetle PCE
Saturn - Beetle Saturn
PS - Beetle PSX
N64 - Mupen64+next
GBA - VBA-M
NDS - Desmume
3DS - Citra
Arcade/Neogeo/NeogeoCD - FBN
3D Arcade - MAME
X68000 - PX68k
NEC-98 - Neko Project II Kai
NGC/Wii - Dolphin
Dreamcast - Flycast
PS2 - LRPS2
PSP - ppsspp
Out Run - cannonball

>>558210783
>nes, snes, mega drive - retroarch
Nope.
Messen,kega fusion and ares are perfectly fine.
>n64 - gopher64
Nope.
Ares is better.
>saturn - ymir
Ymir can't compare to mednafen.
>ps1 - duckstation
Nope.
Xebra or mednafen are the go to emulators. Even epsxe is better than failstation.
>switch - eden
Ryubing is a perfectly fine alternative.

The rest are true.

>>558237403
damn I forgot the bsnes-hd core I use for F-Zero exclusively

Is Citron better to Yuzu? I still have an EA version of Yuzu that i've not used in about a year but got an urge to play totk.

Is it worth it going to Citron when my Yuzu build was working fine?

>>558237524
>Ymir can't compare to mednafen.

>Starts failing to boot for no reason

>>558238684
from my experience yes, citron is just smoother, especially with cpu astc decoding. I have a good system, though.

>>558240042
> for no reason
Let me guess? Linux or windows 11?

>>558244862
Linux.

>>558051724

>>558247657
Epic.

>>558244915
Linux is a meme os. Switch to windows. Even xp would work better.

>>558240551
I mainly mean in terms of bugs both graphical/audio etc.

Performance i'm not worried, got a 4090 7800x3d

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>>558256910
The biggest problem with switch emus is still stuttering problems from shaders and texture decoding, no matter what your cpu is, I also have the same one, and Citron is a lot smoother than the others on the games I've tried. bugs wises they're all about the same too I think, although Citron is now dead so it won't get any more bug fixes. Ryujinx and it's forks should be more accurate but I don't like them, they stutter and have a lot more input lag.

>>558210563
Bizhawk.

>>558257719
>they stutter
That is a understatement. They make the dolphin metroid meme gif look playable.

emu

bump

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It's a small world.

>>558186314
Yeah, you should. Hopefully it doesn't get rained on, if it hasn't been already. Tick tock.

>>558257719
Fantastic game. Detective bits are kinda AIDS, but outside of that.

>>558281787
as yes, the old "silence is violence" trope

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Cool easter egg.

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MAME sucks
>skill issue
I KNOW!!!!!!

maybe if you're doing something that you know your friends and family would be disgusted by if they found out, you should consider not doing that thing

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>>558298072
Emulation isn't that shameful... r-right?

>>558298373
Only the most out-of-date emus are shameful.

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>>558298373
I told a girl that I emulate and she asked if I was too poor to afford real games

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>>558281787
Small indeed...

>>558302356
Well yeah it's pretty established he worked for Digital Eclipse. He's definitely a dev-for-hire. BigP is uncharacteristically charitable of him.

>>558303013
>BigP is uncharacteristically charitable of him.
IKR? Kinda makes me wonder if BigInstinct was only just a demo and that it'll be public soon.

https://github.com/crueter/Anylinux-AppImages

>>558144183
the performance hit is too great

games don't usually break because of floating point error between gpus, if they did no pc games would work...

What if I just steal every open source emulator and put it inside my emulator and then have one emulator that emulates everything?

>>558308510
The devs have already given you explicit permission to do that by making the emulators open source.

>>558314634
actually being open source doesn't mean you have permission to do anything besides look at the source code unless the license specifically gives you permission to do more than that

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Well this was shit. The concept of having to grind with weaker low level weapons than the one you're currently using so you can fuse them into something stronger is the sort of brain dead idea that could only have come out of a soulless bughole like japan.

and the rate at which their level increases doesn't change by fighting tougher enemies. So you find the ice breaker of Death that does 100 damage, and have to grind with the level 1 dagger before you can fuse it.

>>558315936
congrats, you just realized that in jrpg terms difficulty = time investment
it is not a skill-based genre

>>558308510
Realistically they can't do anything to stop you. Past events have shown that orgs like the EFF or FSF don't give two shits about emulator licenses being violated and most emudevs wouldn't dox themselves to file a DMCA personally.

The creator of Dandy for the Atari computer threatened to sue because of how similar Gauntlet was. They sent him a special cabinet with a personalized screen thanking him and crediting him for the inspiration. This version has never been dumped though screenshots were posted by a MAME contributor on their forums in 2015 so someone has it.

Not sure if I've missed something in this process. Trying to install the update and DLC for SMT4 on 3DS.
Managed to get the files on Myrient but they're encrypted obviously.
Got and put the aes_keys and nand stuff in the appdata folder like the wiki mentions, still says cant run encrypted
The decryption tool from gbatemp thats mentioned everywhere doesn't work on DLC/Updates, tried it anyway for sanity and yeah.
Other solution that has worked for some people but not others is to install FBI on Citra, install from cia, but that gives an error for the update and crashes citra for the DLC.
Even tried installing 3hs on CItra thinking maybe that might be a solution, but it doesnt boot.
Not sure what else to try, the DLC for SMT4 is kinda whatever in the grand scheme of things but theres other games I'm going to want to patch and get DLC for in the future.

>>558051724
I am playing forza horizon on xenia and no matter the settings it always looks like shit. It looks low rez and it has low fps in the distance far from the car.
Could my hardware be the problem? I have an i7 4790k.

How bad is call of duty 3 without grass?

>>558319131
>"noooo you can't just copy my game!"
>literally named his game D&D

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>today we will weview the twim ui bwick pwo

undulation general

>>558319878
I tried xenia edge, I tried bringing the saves from canary/manager to edge and now not even canary runs forza horizon.
Xenia is the shittiest emulator.

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>Why is one of the most demanding emulators around struggling on my 12 year old PC?

emulation should be efficient so people in russia can play good games

>>558329591
>Opens his mouth way too wide when laughing, like he's already prepping to suck dick
>Pink-ass white boy who looks like a hot blonde chick
>No muscle, prob. zero body hair
>Still has a full head of hair
>Blonde with those bright colorful eyes

Laugh like that in the Middle East and you'll get gay-raped, anon.

>>558324382
God, who the fuck is still watching this normie corpo eurocuck slop?

>>558303095
>>558303013
You guys talking about Rich? Back when I was in his Discord couple years ago, the dude was dealing with some serious real health problems (cancer and shit, from what I remember). No clue on the latest situation though.
I do know for a fact he's super anti-capitalist, which is based af (hope he's not some lib or cultural Marxist type though :P)
Anyway yeah, BigPEmu is hands down one of the best emulators out there, but nobody gives a fuck about Jaguar/Jaguar CD emulation lol.

>>558329265
>Xenia is the shittiest emulator.
Both xenia and xemu are pure shit.

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>>558334269
Xenia (Edge) and Xemu aren't in the same category. Xenia is comparable to ShadPS4 in terms of compatibility (though Xenia has way more games goes in-game to some extent), Xemu is comparable to PCSX2 (aka the hacks master), and PCSX2 is obviously better, but still comparable.
95% category: Flycast, DuckStation, BigPEmu, Ares (SNES), Mesen (NES), Genesis Plus GX, Dolphin, mGBA, SameBoy, melonDS etc
70-90% category: PCSX2, Ymir, Ares (N64), PPSSPP
50-70% category: Cemu, RPCS3, Azahar, Eden, Xemu
<40% category: Xenia = ShadPS4

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Support_emulation_projects#Notable_projects_and_people

I'm tired of emulation. Can't an AI just port all known games to native Windows binaries? Preferably in 4k uncapped fps, upscaled graphics, narratives changed to fit the modern audience, and achievements.

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>>558334975
>using ai to recreate lost or undumped games in some loser's personal collection from gameplay footage

is xenoblade 2 still impossible to get running well? last time I tried I kept running into lighting and sound even some glitches that couldn't find solutions for

>>558336913
Works fine with Vulkan renderer in Eden apart from some glitchy cloud rendering on AMD. Use the lib_nx.ini method to unfuck the blurry rendering primarily and only use 2x emu scaling if you still have GPU reserves.
Increase lighting render resolution (bloom around light sources etc., keeps them from flickering/wobbling when moving around):
red_sclX=2.0
red_sclY=2.0
Increase general rendering resolution:
red_AtMinX=2.0
red_AtMinY=2.0
The game still outputs 720p and thus with 2.0 resolution (the maximum you can set) it's 2x supersampling. With FSR window adaption filter at 33% sharpness it still looks better this way than with just 1.0 rendering resolution and 2x emu scaler imo. Disable emu SMAA or otherwise UI text might start to flicker.
I never had audio issues.

I tried playing xenoblade but by 10 minutes in I could tell it was going to be one of those games

>>558339021
You didn't know Xenoblade was a JRPG?

>>558340494
no I like jrpgs

>>558340859
wrong opinion

Is Xenia good enough to switch from rpcs3?

The Xenoblade sounds like something that the king of racists wields.

>>558342293
Didn't play rpcs3 but no.

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>>558343187
no but I do own a katana

>>558334919
>https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Support_emulation_projects#Notable_projects_and_people
Eden is 50-70?Same as azahar?
And yet there is no compatibility list to actually base this on?
Oh, they just used the really OLD original yuzu and citra lists?
Wow, that is lazy.

>>558178791
Funnily enough, I found the DBZ Budokai 1 recomp yesterday.
https://github.com/WistfulHopes/DBZ1
This guy is the guy who enabled mods in Sparking! Zero, I think.
(They're also working on a Raging Blast 2 recomp.)

>>558345442
50-70% is a fair guesstimate.

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Eden and Azahar belong in the Cemu/RPCS3 category, it makes sense. They're not that different from Yuzu and Citra.

>>558348057
>it makes sense.
I didn't have a single problem with multiple games using eden and azahar( pre ai bullshit changes).
Rpcs3 always has some issues compared to cemu/eden/azahar.

>>558349347
You're lying or just didn't play many games. Citra/Azahar has terrible compatibility.

>>558349908
Name a single game that can't be completed minus small graphical glitches that isn't called kingdom hearts?

>>558349908
>Citra/Azahar has terrible compatibility.
No, they don't?
NTA, but the Pokémon games, the Zelda games, the Mario games and the MegaTen games all work just fine.
The eShop port of FF1 works too.
Project X Zone works fine.
The Dragon Ball games work fine.
SSB4 works fine.
Citra has solid compatibility.
The pre-April versions of Azahar are fine too.

>>558353906
>MegaTen games
BUT BUT MUH VULKAN ELEMENTAL MAGIC CAUSING LIGHT GRAPHICAL GLITCH!!!!
LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE.
BTW, bear no mind to xemu listing splinter cell as playable and yet having broken shadows.

>>558330381
>anti-capitalist
>BigP basically only exists because 90% of the work was commissioned by Digital Eclipse
>you have to pay him like a common whore to try BigInstinct
haha okay richard. He's a talented dev by anti-capitalist he is not in practice.
>muh cancer
>still fine 5 years later
The ol metokur gambit.

>>558330381
>didn't even see your brown-handed gay fanfic
Your based and traditional Muslim, sir. Now I feel silly for responding about Rich, you disgusting towelhead slime.

>>558315936
I love this gimmick.
>spends 50+ hours in the ciggodeck to finish a task he hates
>in bilinear filtered software mode on a digital panel, the shittiest looking way you can possibly experience a PS2 game
>'owns' the nips with a hard hitting review in the asshole in the internet's asshole
Do your parents bother telling you to get a job anymore, thelastangryman?

>>558315936
>I didn't like a game that was made way before I was born because it doesn't play like modern slop.
Why don't you just find an actual purpose to life instead of cluttering a thread made in the butthole of the internet with your stupid reviews and commentary?
Come on anon, go out, meet people, live a life.
At least make the effort of making a yt channel out of it.

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>>558355670
>you disgusting towelhead slime
thx for noticing :)

>>558360474
I hear y'all have the craziest DBZ Budokai bootlegs LOL. (Or am I thinking of brapzillians?)

>>558363973
idk bro
my Arab friend was always super into Pokemon and Dragon Ball shit growing up
meanwhile I hated both of them as a kid and I'm not Arab
but yeah, you're probably right lol

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Fuck is going on with the site?

Where would emulation be now had Retroarch never existed?

>>558367737
Runahead would still exist, just on every individual emu. (Which, now that I think about it, would be a great thing.)

>>558367860
Lol, no it wouldn't. Like one weird ass Genesis had it before. Retroarch popularized it.

>>558368983
Technically the most beloved emu, ZSNES, implemented runahead in its netplay. I understand that RA popularized such a thing, but I also think other emus would've popularized it around the same time.

>>558369139
I simply don't think so. You can say what you want about RA's dev relationships and extremely questionable UX, but it meming shaders and runahead have been a net gain and now standalones tend to have them more.

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>>558367686

>>558367686
>>558370164
Updating.

I see Hector Martin has become an even bigger lolcow since the last time I paid attention to him.

>>558371593
Asshockey Loonix was a meme the whole time? Go figure, I've heard MoltenVK solved this problem.

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theres progress being made on the PS2 recompiler thing!
https://x.com/SenhorLinguica/status/2025973728450908222

>>558374878
>Senor Linguine

My expectations are low

>>558371593
I can't believe he got away with what he did to byuu.

>>558376326
You're thinking of gligar13vids, right?

>>558237403
snes9x is good enough for SNES.
BSNES is only useful if you're playing air strike patrol, which works in snes9x but the shadow doesn't appear correctly.

The resources that BSNES requires can be better put to use on things like run ahead and other features. It's completely pointless wasting your cpu on accuracy that literally cannot be seen.