/vr/ - Retro Games

you don't need to do any of that retard
simply drag the .cue to mednafen.exe and done, you are ready to play

>>8182050
retroarch user here
don't have any of those problems, sorry.

>>8182050
work fine on my rasberry pi. buy rasberry pi

retroarch takes like five minutes to setup and then it just works dude come on you're better than this

>>8182050
>actively updated
That means they're done, and the finished ones are all good.

Moron.

>>8182050
>doesn't know how to use retroarch
>pissing and shitting pants without watching any tutorials
>"Why do standalone emulators trigger you fucks so hard?"
pure definition of cope

here you go, dummy.
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Using_RetroArch

for PC Engine, use Ootake

Retroarch exists

Also you're retarded

The only problems I have is that Retroarch's Saturn core is outdated compared to Mednafen but Mednafen doesn't support CHD files. Getting either of them to work has never been a problem.

>>8182050
im not reading all that

>>8182050
while you're complaining (like a woman), I'm playing Saturn and PC Engine CD games through retroarch

Sorry you're computer illiterate, anon. Must suck.

Just buy a Saturn you dumbass

>>8182050
>TurboGrafx CD game
>no individual emulators that are actively updated or good
Whats wrong with ootake? Last update was Ver3.02 (2021.06.21)

>>8183720
I searched up videos on Ootake and it looks pretty good. OP is a retard that can't into google searches

>>8182050
this is why I just use Retroarch

Mednafen + Mednaffe chad here, I'll not use Retroarch and I'll not eat the bugs

>>8182050
If you really must use mednafen without touching a single text file then just use mednaffe as a GUI instead of MedGuiR.

>>8182050
>>8182582
Retroarchs biggest downfall is the autoscan for roms.
Checking against a fucking dataase to see if the name is in the right format is a fucking joke.
When you have programs that exist for the sole purpose of renaming rom files so retroarch lists them correctly you know you've fucked up.
But that's linux in a fucking nutshell "my way or fuck you."

>>8184234
just use manual scan, organise your folders first and pick the file type (usually a cue file) and scan the system per folder

>>8184240
>manual scan
Then you have to tell it what core to use for every game for one console you selected.

>>8184234
Don't bother with scanning. Just set your default rom folder path and use 'load content'.

>>8182517
naw son, thatd not what RA usets truly look like.

>>8184274
>Ill Monstruo di Z0ya!

>>8182050
You are a subhuman piece of shit if you cannot just setup mednafen and start playing right away

>>8183901
can't do per game configs with mednaffe

>>8182050
The only thing I like Retroarch for is the CRT shaders.

The actual UI design is fucking ATROCIOUS and every minute I spend struggling with it is a living hell. But once you get past that and have a decent shader, it works well enough for generic emulation purposes, and it saves me having to set up shaders on standalone emulators where they often take a lot of tweaking or just straight up don't work right.

>>8184234
I use Big Box as my frontend over retroarch. When you get it working right, it's magic.

>Saturn
>No good emulators

>>8182050
>Why do standalone emulators trigger you fucks so hard?
It sounds like you're the one who is triggered

Based OP. Retroarch is a pile of fucking garbage made for trannies by trannies.

>>8185915
to be honest, you need a 150+ IQ to use retroarch.

>>8182050
whats crazy is macos has openemu and
>just werks lel

i tend to avoid emulation but its worth getting a toaster i5 mac mini from 2010 for this very purpose imo

>>8184234
What does Retroarch have to do with Linux?

>trannyarch shills

>>8182050
they are just madman trying to justify their madness just that.
Bizhawk is a better multiemulator in more points then mednaffen and use libretro cores yet is hated by those fags due to simple facts
>you don't select cores since are loaded automatically
>setup is simple and convenient
>you can use shaders
>unknown dumps you need to select the core but besides that is good and simple.
Sadly multisystem emulators are the problem so i avoid them like the plague and i don't mind using old emulators that haven't been updated since there is no need (if you are so carefull about updates just use linux and you get way more updates not only that linux has emulators that work on hardware mode only on linux due to windows being shit and the only way to get it working is through software mode.)
Most anon will lie through their teeths so you use their retroarch or mednafen without telling you shit like
>did they fixed the bug that didn't allow you to use nintendo roms (general either snes,n64,gba etc) i bet not.
>ps3 ripoff retroarch UI was removed time ago and still is a fucking mess to setup.
>you (the user) has to select the core before loading the roms because even if the emulator has the hashes for each rom to know which game is and the title they want to show it won't load automatically.
>ps1 games with multitracks have to be unpacked using certain software and sadly the emu has problems reading multitracks (no sound)
And will try to shit saying lies like using outdated emulators is insecure,they aren't accurate (tell me when the emulator use the same resources as the original hardware and same assembly language for me that's accurate) someone can put ransomware,and so on despite some people using those because of the filters they have with cero performance impact which isn't achievable on retroarch,mednaffen or bizhawk.
The best if you want something like multiemulator you could aim at linux and use
https://www.lakka.tv/get/
https://batocera.org/

>>8182870
Okay, if you HAVE to use a fucking guide to START EMULATING, maybe, just MAYBE, your emulator isn't nearly half as good as you're suggesting it is. Because if you need a guide, that suggests that it's not intuitive at fucking all.

>>8183027
He flat out acknowledges and dislikes Retroarch.

>>8186047
saturn/dreamcast/ps2 youre gonna need more horsepower and use windows

but i the gui is actually very nice for openemu check it out sometime

>>8186124
>get thing
>thing requires setup
>throw out instructions
>try putting it together yourself
>thing breaks
>"it's the manufacturer's fault"
fucking retard

>>8186160
Seriously, fucking VBA, DeSuMe, and Mesen is just
File>Open ROM
It is literally that fucking simple and intuitive.
If you need a fucking guide to set your shit up to play ANYTHING, then you're not doing emulation right.

>>8186176
with all the shit you can do inside retroarch, of course you're going to need a guide, dumbass.

>>8186227
Okay, I'll concede that for more advanced settings, you'll need a guide.
But to get fucking STARTED!? Are you fucking kidding me!? What's next, a tutorial for Super Mario Bros and the mechanics are all fucking jumbled up!? Starting the emulation shouldn't be this hard!

>>8188009
anon, your screeching at a guide that says in its first steps how to do pretty much what the emulators you listed do.

>>8182050
use retroarch for emulation
use Launchbox for all your HUI needs

>>8189204
GUI*

Sounds like emulator fags are retards and BTFO

>>8186227
>with all the shit you can do inside retroarch, of course you're going to need a guide, dumbass.
If the program was competently designed, you wouldn't need a guide.

I don't know how to do anything in Retroarch, because it isn't properly explained and I can get things working just well enough that I don't care.

How do I run a new game? Well, I have to go down to look for content, search through my drives for my rom folder, select the rom, and add it as a favorite. Why? because I don't fucking know how to create a neat layout for each core that auto populates with set folders. There's probably a way to do it, but it's locked down behind 80 sub menus.

So, after booting into a game, I then have to open up the quick menu with F1 and turn on my shader. Why? Because I have no idea how to set a shader as global, the shader menu isn't even seemingly accessible before you boot into a core. At least this one remembers the base folder, so I just have my shader in that folder.

Any program not made by mongoloids would have this shit made incredibly obvious on boot. If your UI design is dogshit and you have made no efforts to improve it, have a fucking tutorial prompt pop up to show you how to add games to the menu, that's what most shit UI designers do. Instead, all they've done in the past few years to "improve" the UI is switch it from PSP style to Switch. Wow. So useful, shame you can't add things like drop down menus and tabs.

>>8189220
which is your program that failed to get popular?

>>8189227
I don't code, dude. I just use a lot of software, and it's pretty trivial to recognise garbage design. The more you have to rely on outside resources just to get a program barely working, the shitter the design is. Good design is when everything is either in the first or second place you look. Bad design is when you don't even know where the fuck you should be looking to begin with because all the options are cryptically named and disappear depending on the alignment of the moon.

Maybe if you're emulating 20 games each for 5 minutes a day, it makes sense to work out how to use Retroarch properly. Personally, as someone who uses it occasionally for JRPGs so I can use fast-forward, because I have a real setup for the other 90% of games I play, it's like pulling teeth.

>>8189245
Uh huh sure, takes a minute to understand it, every option has a description under it, I find hard to believe that anyone has as much difficulty as you portray
Your talking points are of that of someone with a competing platform

>>8189264
it's a common complaint
Hot garbage
separate emulators for everything

>>8189346
They are separate emulators
With easily customisation on even a per game basis

>>8189264
Go on, tell me how to fix my issues then.

I click "import content". I select my rom folder. It reads it, then does nothing. How is this useful? A quick google tells me that PC Engine CD games might not even properly populate a playlist (an issue that's at least 3 years old and unfixed, if true).

If it's so easy to use, how do I get my PC Engine CD games to pop up? Do I have to manually create a playlist and link the files with the desktop menu? Struggle through the glacial controller oriented menus?

Next, how do I get a shader to just auto-run on everything? I can't even see shaders until I boot into a core, so I'm guessing I have to set this shit up for every single core at best? This program is a bad fucking joke.

>>8189350
The shader is easily set as global setting when you save it
As for the import thing, maybe it has to do with sub folders or the format you’re using for pce
If you don’t like how it sorts your games there are many other front ends you can use anyway

>>8189358
>The shader is easily set as global setting when you save it
See, this is the kind of shit I mean. What are you on about?

I go into the shader menu, I LOAD the shader, it works for that session. Why would I need to SAVE a shader? It's already saved on my system. The menus are nonsense.

>>8189367
>why would I need to save settings
What?
Are you being facetious?

>>8189370
Why is the "save settings" button located directly below the "load shader" button, and also called "save shader"?

>>8189376
Ah, you are being facetious

>>8189381
>load a shader preset
>save the current shader preset
Wow, these really tell me about how the save button will globally update this as my preferred shader. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would assume the "save" button here is used to save changes to a shader preset, if you use the dogshit shader parameters below to adjust it.

>>8185862
>bigbox and RA
It takes some fiddling and googling to get set up right but once you do there's no reason to use anything else. Also the LB forums arent dogshit and there are a TON of good instructional videos floating around that get right to the point.

>>8189383
Proving that you are lying yet again, thanks