/vr/ - Retro Games

imagine you have to show up to work to build an emulate to play games you may not even like or care about. now imagine you love something so much that you dedicate your free time and money to making it for 0 profit. which do you think is gonna turn out better?

>>8940524
POPS is legendary and the original PSP remains one of the best ways to play PS1 games. Sony's emulation solutions only got worse when they started licensing hobbyist emulators lol.

Company-made emulators have to be just good enough so that the average player won't notice any problems (very low bar) and only has to support whatever games they have the license to rerelease. Unofficial emulators, meanwhile, are constantly tested by the entire internet using all kinds of obscure software or homebrew.

>>8940524
Because why would you give a shit when you know your retarded fans will buy it up regardless?

>>8940524
>Why are official emulators made by Sony/Nintendo inferior to the ones made by hobbyists?
Console emulators have to support extremely limited hardware for several years.

>>8940559
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modern game companies are profit over anything. Normies don't give a shit about emulation accuracy so they don't bother to put more ressources into it. They could develop perfect emulators if they wanted to

Xbox emulators made by MS tend to have issues because the original Xbox has a highly proprietary chipset by Nvidia that does shit in weird ways and apparently Nvidia isn't all that interested in helping
Nintendo emulators are shit because Nintendo doesn't make the consoles. If you look at the files in the gigaleaks you'll see that after SGI downsized a workstation to become an N64 that some of the engineers involved founded their own company. It has many names but the most commonly known ones are BroadOn and RouteFree. They alongside the partners for that particular console ATI, ArtX, IBM, Nvidia and many many others end up doing most of the design work. Nintendo ends up mostly specifying what it needs to achieve for what price and designing things like the controllers. So Nintendo's doing the best it can with in-house emulators but they just don't have the expertise required.
As for Sony? They're just lazy. They've made amazing emulators in the past but these days just can't be arsed to port them or make new ones so they just license open source software instead.

>>8940524
no one was able to replicate POPS emulator on psp to this day, because it was really good, and only sony knew the inner work of psp system so they made a perfection from it. POPS unironically has less input lag than even duckstation

>>8940610
it seem like Nintendo don't really worry that much about obscure unlicensed Famicom games that use weird mirroring schemes

>>8940559
Add in that the hobbyists don't have deadlines either.

Wasn't the virtual console stuff on Wii actually pretty good? I don't remember any issues with it.

>>8943167
I have read here on /vr/ that psp plays PS games natively that it had the Playstation hardware, is it actually emulation?

They have different priorities, like implementing frame blending so nes games that do full screen flashing effects don’t do that anymore since that could cause a seizure

>>8945723
and do you think why psp went to 333mhz clock speed? no official game meant to be played at this speed, so they all were developed for 222mhz in mind. but if you were to get ps one classic from official sony store for example. this is where clock speed would be unlocked just for that emulator. sony didnt want you to know about it

>>8940524
they're bad on purpose retard, they don't want it to be good, they want to do the bare minimum and get quick cash from 30 year old games

>>8940563
that shit sucks on ps2

Because they've done the projections and determined that they have the best economic return if they made a passable product and sell it for middle of the road money instead of putting in extra effort and having to raise the price.

>>8946360
PS2 POPS is trash but it was a leaked unreleased beta iirc, so it's excusable.

>>8946385
>Because they've done the projections and determined that they have the best economic return if they made a passable product and sell it for middle of the road money instead of putting in extra effort and having to raise the price.

That has nothing to do with the real answer. Corporations have free money since 2008.