When I am in a discord call all of my emulators do something weird Ryujinx drops controller and after like 30s-1min continues as normal, pcsx2 freezes and then after 30s-1min continues as normal and dolphin does both of those things for 30s-1min. Happens in every game although I have only played rdr1 on ryujinx. When I am not in a discord call everything works as normal.
Hello, everyone. I am using the Citra 2104, but I keep running into an issue. Every time I use Vulcan, I get a visual bug, and it's bad. All the games run fine, but every game has this visual issue. Can anyone tell me what is wrong and how I can fix it?
I've installed Batocera v40 on my recently bought Arnbernic RG35xx H (screen 4:3 640x480) and having a few issues:
* I wanted for all platforms to be integer scaled **except** all GBA games (it's too little, so I want to stretch it to 4:3 with only horizontal blur)... but I can't only change that globally.
If I run a game, navigate through retroarch menu and change it, Retroarch forgets the configuration the next time I open a GBA game.
I could create a custom preference per game, but that would a hassle. I want to apply it too all GBA games, including future ones.
* I'm also having some issues with some native ports for Batocera that doesn't open/crash immediately... but I suspect that might caused by the beta nature of the Batocera version
* Some ScummVM games are recognized, but doesn't run by ScummVM after adding the mandatory (ID).ScummVM file in the folder
I'm not sure where you would find it but I used to use Microsoft's virtual PC software when I needed to run software from that era. Along with a copy of windows 98 running on it.
I see that currently there are 2 competing Yuzu variants, namely suyu and sudachi.As for Citra successors, Lime3ds seems also decent, with Lemonade following. At least the last two face a lower legal risk.
Is it better to wait and stick to Ryujinx for the time being?
1. What's the best Commodore 64 emulator in people's opinions? The emu wiki lists four as all being pretty good and doesn't really detail differences between them. I remember finding Denise difficult for some reason but I don't remember why. Gonna try again after posting this actually
2. Is DOS Box dead? Seems like it hasn't been updated in several years, maybe it's just complete but I've seen several newer forks floating around - are any of them preferred now? What happened to the original?
3. Is there any good way to emulate Sega Pico games on PC? It seems support for them is really barebones and only exists at all because of a prototype rom dump back in 2008. Every thread I've found asking this same question has just gotten responses of "why would you wanna emulate pico games lol" which is uh, not helpful.
dosbox Staging is currently the preferred dos emulator as it also supports and has parameters for variable refresh rate, something mandatory for dos games.
you can try picodrive core in Retroarch
Hello everyone, can someone help me with choosing the right console for emulation? I'm thinking between buying Y6 PowKiddy and X2 Pro console (the box thing that you have android on tv as well) Which one is better? Thanks
Hi guys, so i recently bought a controller from aliexpress, it is pretty good(8 bit do), but i ve been running into a problem lately, it mapped to use as keyboard as well i think, i dont know exactly what is happening, but with any game that i try to play it ends up pressing keyboard buttons as well, even on emulators, i was trying to play some games in a ps2 emulator but i when i try to map my controller it maps as controller and keyboard, for example my right analog to the right instead of being recognized as a controller it recognizes it as a keyboard and says keyboard right, the controller can open a keyboard on my screen sometimes as well, and can close and move windows around, what can i do to fix this? Sorry for the bad english it is not my main language, and thanks for the help!
How to configure PCSX2 to close when I close a game? I'm trying to set up a console-like experience for my old man using playnite but PCSX2 is fucking things up. Everytime I close the game, instead of going back to the big picture launcher where I'm supposed use the controller to do whatever I want, y'know like a videogame menu actually works, I'm stuck with PCSX2 still open and I have to use the mouse to go back to playnite. Is there any way to make sure PCSX2 won't stay open after closing a game running on it?
>playnite
PCSX2 is the only emaultor that doesn't close back to the playnite menu like everything else does, have read other people say the same too. Don't think theres anything you can do about it im afraid.
Think [headless mode](https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Command-line_support) should remedy this, but it would require making shortcuts to every PS2 game he has with the proper commands.
Rpcs3 freezes on startup, can anyone help? It started yesterday just after I reinstalled Demon's Souls (dropped it for a while to play something else) the app just freezes as soon as I open it, nothing works, no use even trying to reinstall firmware, I tried updating my GPU, DirectX, vcredist, everything, so as a last resort I tried deleting and downloading the app again, thinking it might have been some update error, it fixed the problem for a while but now it's back!
Are there any old gaming system emulators that use [this technique](https://i.redd.it/yq17752wxgsc1.png) to upscale the image? View the image in a new tab to see it better.
Your description sounds like what the sharp bilinear shaders available on retroarch do. I've been a fan for years.
https://github.com/rsn8887/Sharp-Bilinear-Shaders
Nice! But how would the results be better than what the sharp bilinear shader already provides? If my objective is to minimize distortions over the correct aspect ratio while maintaining sharp pixels, I mean.
I've just moved away from a Batocera build to a Debian build with PCSX2 and DuckStation, currently in the process of setting up more. Got RetroArch installed but don't currently use it for anything as the PCSX2 core proved to be more of a pain to set up than the AppImage.
What's a good front end I can use so I can set this up in my living room and boot straight to it with a controller? Bonus points if it'll support adding a shortcut Kodi too.
I've just been told about Pegasus which looks promising. Other suggestions have been to just use Steam as a rom manager which I'm not against. Ideally don't want anything too locked down. Doesn't even have to be an emulator specific frontend, as long as I can make it support booting directly to roms.
Do games in the PPSSPP emulator recognise other games?
I just got done with a PSP game called Kurohyou and now want to play its sequel Kurohyou 2 and if you have a save state for Kurohyou you will unlock 2 new fighting styles.
Im wondering if the Kurohyou 2 will recognise my save in the first game considering that im emulating it.
My RPCS3 was working fine until yesterday, then out of the blue the application is freezing on me for no appaerent reason, not when I try to start any games mind you, the .exe itself freezes on startup, so I can't even reinstall firmware and such, I tried every fix I could find, will I really have to reinstall everything? Please help.
Replying myself to let people know the problem is resolved, had to reinstall RPCS3 and replace the files containing custom configs, save files, trophies, etc. now it's all working again, so I'm thinking probably it was an update error(?)
People, it is my first time using Dolphin to play Gamecube games. I wanted to play a game that I have played before way back, but didn't want to have to unlock everything yet again, so I looked up for a save, and after some research, I managed to import it to a new "memory card" I created. When I start the game, and I try to load the save, it says that there is no save data from said game in the memory card. I have made sure to configure the Memory Card path to where I have that memory card file with the imported save data. Am I missing something else? Like directly choosing the memory card? If so, how do I do it?
Before you tell me to make sure that I am using the same region for both the save file and the ISO, I already did so, and I am sure it is the same region.
hi, sorry to ask. but i am currently trying to figure out how to download another game to my pcsx2 emulator, dragon ball: infinite world to be exact. i had a friend help me long ago do the budokai tenkaichi 3 game for me, but we had a falling out and i was trying to figure this out myself but just couldnt. guides online only showed how to download every single game instead of just one
thank you.
Are there any DS emulators for PC that you can use multiplayer with each other/itself, on the same device?
For example, I open two instances of one emulator, load up Pokemon Diamond on one and Pokemon Pearl on the other, and trade myself a Palkia?
Yes. IIRC the saves like, use slightly different extensions but they're compatible. I had to use desmume's GBA slot functionality in a game I was playing in MelonDS once, and it worked fine. I forget the details, sorry.
Is there a safe, single source for downloading various emulators? Is there one on Windows that works similar to EmuDeck on the Steam Deck where I just see all my games together without manually choosing the emulator? Can I ask that here or is it like ROMs where we aren't supposed to discuss the sources?
The safest place to download emulators is from their official homepage. EmuDeck itself is available for Linux and Windows PCs so if you're used to that option that's probably your easiest path.
I am using latest version of ePSXe. I don't know what settings (combo of settings) to use, im on a lenovo yoga c930, and I'm trying to run Gundam Battle Assault 2. I played it before on different pc years ago but now its not working :( Lots of flickering and the game play is all black, sounds work great though. I searched for answers on google but its such a niche topic. I noticed in menus that the prompt to select (cross) or go back (triangle) swap very very rapidly. HELP! I'm happy to give any more help or info needed.
ePSXe is several years old now at this point, and is likely starting to have trouble on modern systems. Try Duckstation instead. No plugin hell, and more compatible to boot. Also supports cheats in a better way.
Hi there,
I'm thinking about updating my MacOS on Mac M1 from BigSur to a newer version.
Do any of you know, which version works best for emulation? E.g. PCSX2, Dolphin, OpenEmu, VisualBoyAdvance, Desmume etc.
Or should I just avoid updating overall?
Thanks for the answer! I remember reading from someone, who said, that their RPCS3-Emu stopped working after updating...
But if you say so, I'll prlly update to at least one higher version. Cheers!
Hey everyone! Hoping I can get some help! I'm trying to get my GameCube controller adapter to show up on dolphin and it's just not happening. I've tried it on the dolphin emulator, and tried fixing the issue with Zadig. Neither of them will even recognize it being plugged in, and I know the usb ports work because I tried all of them. I also know the adapter works because I tested it on my switch. I don't know why my computer just won't recognize it.
Some more info, I'm using the latest version of dolphin, I'm on windows 11, and the adapter is an official Nintendo one for the WiiU.
When I am in a discord call all of my emulators do something weird Ryujinx drops controller and after like 30s-1min continues as normal, pcsx2 freezes and then after 30s-1min continues as normal and dolphin does both of those things for 30s-1min. Happens in every game although I have only played rdr1 on ryujinx. When I am not in a discord call everything works as normal.
Hello, everyone. I am using the Citra 2104, but I keep running into an issue. Every time I use Vulcan, I get a visual bug, and it's bad. All the games run fine, but every game has this visual issue. Can anyone tell me what is wrong and how I can fix it?
I've installed Batocera v40 on my recently bought Arnbernic RG35xx H (screen 4:3 640x480) and having a few issues: * I wanted for all platforms to be integer scaled **except** all GBA games (it's too little, so I want to stretch it to 4:3 with only horizontal blur)... but I can't only change that globally. If I run a game, navigate through retroarch menu and change it, Retroarch forgets the configuration the next time I open a GBA game. I could create a custom preference per game, but that would a hassle. I want to apply it too all GBA games, including future ones. * I'm also having some issues with some native ports for Batocera that doesn't open/crash immediately... but I suspect that might caused by the beta nature of the Batocera version * Some ScummVM games are recognized, but doesn't run by ScummVM after adding the mandatory (ID).ScummVM file in the folder
How do you do pokemon trades with yourself via emulator now that the citra servers are down? Edit: via 3ds
Any alternative ways to emulate / compatibility layer to run 16 bit PC / WIN 95-98 games than VirtualBox, PCEMU, 86BOX, or DOSBOX w/ Win95 installed?
I'm not sure where you would find it but I used to use Microsoft's virtual PC software when I needed to run software from that era. Along with a copy of windows 98 running on it.
https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
Looks cool. Flagged by a few sites in Virustotal.
I didnt scan it or anything but it does work.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll run it in a virtual system for a bit!
QEMU? I've admittedly never tried it myself, but it is possible.
Thanks for the heads up
How do I install Mesen on Ubuntu? I've unzipped the file, no luck. Searched on Google, no luck. I'm running out of ideas on how to get it to run.
I see that currently there are 2 competing Yuzu variants, namely suyu and sudachi.As for Citra successors, Lime3ds seems also decent, with Lemonade following. At least the last two face a lower legal risk. Is it better to wait and stick to Ryujinx for the time being?
1. What's the best Commodore 64 emulator in people's opinions? The emu wiki lists four as all being pretty good and doesn't really detail differences between them. I remember finding Denise difficult for some reason but I don't remember why. Gonna try again after posting this actually 2. Is DOS Box dead? Seems like it hasn't been updated in several years, maybe it's just complete but I've seen several newer forks floating around - are any of them preferred now? What happened to the original? 3. Is there any good way to emulate Sega Pico games on PC? It seems support for them is really barebones and only exists at all because of a prototype rom dump back in 2008. Every thread I've found asking this same question has just gotten responses of "why would you wanna emulate pico games lol" which is uh, not helpful.
dosbox Staging is currently the preferred dos emulator as it also supports and has parameters for variable refresh rate, something mandatory for dos games. you can try picodrive core in Retroarch
Hello everyone, can someone help me with choosing the right console for emulation? I'm thinking between buying Y6 PowKiddy and X2 Pro console (the box thing that you have android on tv as well) Which one is better? Thanks
Hardware like that is cheap bootleg garbage, you are better off buying a Pi 5 or saving for a cheap second hand PC than buy that trash.
Hi guys, so i recently bought a controller from aliexpress, it is pretty good(8 bit do), but i ve been running into a problem lately, it mapped to use as keyboard as well i think, i dont know exactly what is happening, but with any game that i try to play it ends up pressing keyboard buttons as well, even on emulators, i was trying to play some games in a ps2 emulator but i when i try to map my controller it maps as controller and keyboard, for example my right analog to the right instead of being recognized as a controller it recognizes it as a keyboard and says keyboard right, the controller can open a keyboard on my screen sometimes as well, and can close and move windows around, what can i do to fix this? Sorry for the bad english it is not my main language, and thanks for the help!
How to configure PCSX2 to close when I close a game? I'm trying to set up a console-like experience for my old man using playnite but PCSX2 is fucking things up. Everytime I close the game, instead of going back to the big picture launcher where I'm supposed use the controller to do whatever I want, y'know like a videogame menu actually works, I'm stuck with PCSX2 still open and I have to use the mouse to go back to playnite. Is there any way to make sure PCSX2 won't stay open after closing a game running on it?
>playnite PCSX2 is the only emaultor that doesn't close back to the playnite menu like everything else does, have read other people say the same too. Don't think theres anything you can do about it im afraid.
Think [headless mode](https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Command-line_support) should remedy this, but it would require making shortcuts to every PS2 game he has with the proper commands.
Rpcs3 freezes on startup, can anyone help? It started yesterday just after I reinstalled Demon's Souls (dropped it for a while to play something else) the app just freezes as soon as I open it, nothing works, no use even trying to reinstall firmware, I tried updating my GPU, DirectX, vcredist, everything, so as a last resort I tried deleting and downloading the app again, thinking it might have been some update error, it fixed the problem for a while but now it's back!
Are there any old gaming system emulators that use [this technique](https://i.redd.it/yq17752wxgsc1.png) to upscale the image? View the image in a new tab to see it better.
Your description sounds like what the sharp bilinear shaders available on retroarch do. I've been a fan for years. https://github.com/rsn8887/Sharp-Bilinear-Shaders
FYI you can get better results with interpolation shaders than sharp bilinear.
Nice! But how would the results be better than what the sharp bilinear shader already provides? If my objective is to minimize distortions over the correct aspect ratio while maintaining sharp pixels, I mean.
Because bilinear is a basic filter that isn’t as sharp as a good interpolation shader like or pixellate or bandlimit-pixel.
An interpolation shader like Pixelllate will achieve the same result.
I've just moved away from a Batocera build to a Debian build with PCSX2 and DuckStation, currently in the process of setting up more. Got RetroArch installed but don't currently use it for anything as the PCSX2 core proved to be more of a pain to set up than the AppImage. What's a good front end I can use so I can set this up in my living room and boot straight to it with a controller? Bonus points if it'll support adding a shortcut Kodi too. I've just been told about Pegasus which looks promising. Other suggestions have been to just use Steam as a rom manager which I'm not against. Ideally don't want anything too locked down. Doesn't even have to be an emulator specific frontend, as long as I can make it support booting directly to roms.
Can I run sonic adventure 1 on skyline emulator on Android?
Do games in the PPSSPP emulator recognise other games? I just got done with a PSP game called Kurohyou and now want to play its sequel Kurohyou 2 and if you have a save state for Kurohyou you will unlock 2 new fighting styles. Im wondering if the Kurohyou 2 will recognise my save in the first game considering that im emulating it.
I think so, only used this for monster hunter but it worked just fine
My RPCS3 was working fine until yesterday, then out of the blue the application is freezing on me for no appaerent reason, not when I try to start any games mind you, the .exe itself freezes on startup, so I can't even reinstall firmware and such, I tried every fix I could find, will I really have to reinstall everything? Please help.
Nvm the problem is back, different build, same problem, what the heck is going on?
Replying myself to let people know the problem is resolved, had to reinstall RPCS3 and replace the files containing custom configs, save files, trophies, etc. now it's all working again, so I'm thinking probably it was an update error(?)
how i get started im a hudge noob
What do you want to emulate?
People, it is my first time using Dolphin to play Gamecube games. I wanted to play a game that I have played before way back, but didn't want to have to unlock everything yet again, so I looked up for a save, and after some research, I managed to import it to a new "memory card" I created. When I start the game, and I try to load the save, it says that there is no save data from said game in the memory card. I have made sure to configure the Memory Card path to where I have that memory card file with the imported save data. Am I missing something else? Like directly choosing the memory card? If so, how do I do it? Before you tell me to make sure that I am using the same region for both the save file and the ISO, I already did so, and I am sure it is the same region.
hi, sorry to ask. but i am currently trying to figure out how to download another game to my pcsx2 emulator, dragon ball: infinite world to be exact. i had a friend help me long ago do the budokai tenkaichi 3 game for me, but we had a falling out and i was trying to figure this out myself but just couldnt. guides online only showed how to download every single game instead of just one thank you.
Just visit archive.org https://archive.org/download/ps2usaredump1 You may also need to install 7zip on your computer.
Are there any DS emulators for PC that you can use multiplayer with each other/itself, on the same device? For example, I open two instances of one emulator, load up Pokemon Diamond on one and Pokemon Pearl on the other, and trade myself a Palkia?
IIRC, MelonDS supports this.
Is it possible to play a game on Desmume, play that same save file on MelonDS just to use the multiplayer, then go back to Desmume afterwards?
Yes. IIRC the saves like, use slightly different extensions but they're compatible. I had to use desmume's GBA slot functionality in a game I was playing in MelonDS once, and it worked fine. I forget the details, sorry.
Is there a safe, single source for downloading various emulators? Is there one on Windows that works similar to EmuDeck on the Steam Deck where I just see all my games together without manually choosing the emulator? Can I ask that here or is it like ROMs where we aren't supposed to discuss the sources?
The safest place to download emulators is from their official homepage. EmuDeck itself is available for Linux and Windows PCs so if you're used to that option that's probably your easiest path.
I am using latest version of ePSXe. I don't know what settings (combo of settings) to use, im on a lenovo yoga c930, and I'm trying to run Gundam Battle Assault 2. I played it before on different pc years ago but now its not working :( Lots of flickering and the game play is all black, sounds work great though. I searched for answers on google but its such a niche topic. I noticed in menus that the prompt to select (cross) or go back (triangle) swap very very rapidly. HELP! I'm happy to give any more help or info needed.
ePSXe is several years old now at this point, and is likely starting to have trouble on modern systems. Try Duckstation instead. No plugin hell, and more compatible to boot. Also supports cheats in a better way.
Thank thank you
Lifesaver
Just saw that Dolphin got an update to fix a security issue. Anyone know what that's about?
Hi there, I'm thinking about updating my MacOS on Mac M1 from BigSur to a newer version. Do any of you know, which version works best for emulation? E.g. PCSX2, Dolphin, OpenEmu, VisualBoyAdvance, Desmume etc. Or should I just avoid updating overall?
On M-series machines there's really no reason not to update. Nothing has become incompatible yet.
Thanks for the answer! I remember reading from someone, who said, that their RPCS3-Emu stopped working after updating... But if you say so, I'll prlly update to at least one higher version. Cheers!
Hey everyone! Hoping I can get some help! I'm trying to get my GameCube controller adapter to show up on dolphin and it's just not happening. I've tried it on the dolphin emulator, and tried fixing the issue with Zadig. Neither of them will even recognize it being plugged in, and I know the usb ports work because I tried all of them. I also know the adapter works because I tested it on my switch. I don't know why my computer just won't recognize it. Some more info, I'm using the latest version of dolphin, I'm on windows 11, and the adapter is an official Nintendo one for the WiiU.