/emu/ or /emugen/ - Emulation General

You can play Pokemon Stadium 2 GB Tower on PJ64 2.x, using nrage input plugin. You have to set cpu to interpreter though.

Don't forget to add me!

steamcommunity.com/id/the_randomizer1889

Also anyone from Utah? We should get together sometime and hang.

My friend is trying to play games on a Raspberry Pie 0 and he has RetroPie. Is that a variation of RetroArch? He needs help getting emulators that actually work on it.

Yes.

How many times has this joke failed to land? Just stop.

Don't you like foxies? I think they are cute and I wish I would be one.

Sweet.
Now if only it ran well.

Any word on when are we getting PCSX2 1.5?

I mean, you're literally running an emulator inside of another emulator. That's like having a Mac and running Bootcamp for Linux and then running Wine in Linux. It's just a mess

inb4 Wine isn't an emulator. Technicality

1.5 is out. 1.6 will be the next stable.

Oh, I thought they were going to release a stable 1.5.

So any word on 6?

At this rate

Never

Sorry, I forgot that the audio is terrible. It doesn't help that there are some vocal minority end-users who are delusional and believe Fixed audio timing is perfect. I'd check back in a few months to see if there's any progress regarding GB Tower.

Probably pretty soon. They're in a feature freeze (some PRs are being postponed until after 1.6), and here's the current todo before 1.6:
github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/milestone/2

>91%
Seems like it will be in a couple months, or maybe a couple weeks you just never know with this.

Looks like Klonoa will still have broken sounds for another few years.

Here we go, I hope this live up to the expectation.

it was revolutionary for the time, but treat it like you would OoT: respect it and enjoy it for what it did, but don't expect it to change your world

also, very slight spoilers, when you get a job in game, you should probably find something to do while playing. Not sure if the devs decided to emulate the utter displeasure of having to work for the players, or if that's just how it happened. Thank god that doesn't last very long

Using NullDC for shenmue huh? Use the shenmue NullDC version then

shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46995

Is this an HD texture pack?

libregression :)

Did the last thread up and die? I could have sworn there were less than 600 posts last night.
Or did we suddenly become popular?

Well, I really liked OoT. I Played it around '06/'07 for the first time, and I thought that it age just fine in the gameplay department. It could come out today with nice new graphics and it would be just as fun to play as any other Zelda that came out after.

Thanks, I downloaded it.

No, vanilla. To be honest I didn't expect it to looks this good.

When they've fixed this, hopefully: youtube.com/watch?v=MZkrS8IqXQY

Are the new Vulkan beta driver of any use for RA or Dolphin?
From what I can see they add support for
>VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2
>VK_KHR_maintenance1
>VK_KHR_shader_draw_parameters
>VK_EXT_shader_ballot
>VK_EXT_shader_group_vote
As well as
>Vulkan beta drivers with experimental API interop features
And
>Bug fixes
Without any details

GUI developer looking for a side project. Are there any tools or anything that the emulation scene is lacking? Like launchers, or ROM managers, or stuff like that?

A PCSX2 launcher with per game config support that isn't metro cancer.

Well, that seems pretty doable. Looks like there's a few launchers already in existence, they're all garbage? The ones I could find looked pretty bad.

Hey anons is there a "best" way to root your Bluestacks 2? I want to be able to root and unroot because I keep getting 3001 on Fire Emblem Heroes but I have some games that wont work with root turned on

Unironically kill yourself for playing that """"game""""

> they're all garbage?
Spectabis is metro cancer and PCSX2 bonus is abandoned and has a couple issue I don't remember off the top of my head.

Something for having multiple easily swappable control binds for both EPSXE and retroarch with a nice GUI would be cool, given that EPSXE stores the binds in a registry file and remapping in RA is stuff of the nightmares given that it has an utter shit GUI.

I think they're trying to get some stuff not mentioned here sorted before that though.

Get the 60FPS cheat code for it from the PCSX2 forums
You can't run it at 60 without them.

stop stocking him ffs

Thanks byuu

I thought they weren't released?

snescentral.com/pcb.php?id=0301&num=0&side=front

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me on the right

Shinmoo?

You know what the emulation scene is to me? Or at least the Veeky Forums emulation scene?

It's Kyle's Cousin Kyle from South Park.

Turns up outta nowhere, at first we figure sure, okay, it's another place to discuss emulation related things, won't be that big of an inconvenience. Then the complaints start. "Oh we don't emulate on modern sysssstems because they don't output at 240p. Pack them away, we need Wii consoles." "Oh we can't use regular screens because there's input lehhhhhg. Can you hook up some heavy CRTs for us?" "Oh that developer is a Jew, so we just shitpost about him and everything he does. Why don't we talk about Squarepusher and RetroArch?" "Oh we can't eat anything with beef in it, it gives us bag gehhhhs. Do you mind if we have fish?" All these little niggling things that compound into major headaches, and it gets to the point where you can't help but feel resentment for it, and you'd rather not see it come back. Then comes the guilt trip. "Oh why do they hate us? They never gave us a chance, they're all a bunch of fucking bigots."

Oh look this shitty pasta again, is it summer yet?

I don't watach South Parkk

What's the deal with that gba-colors shader? it looks NOTHING like a backlit sp. Afaik only the micro had dull colors, but it's still nothing like that shader makes it to be. And the fact that people blindly accept this as accurate is just sad.

It looks pretty close to an OG GBA. I know because I have one right next to me.

I don't think it's intended to be super accurate though. It's just an approximation of the desaturation that the GBA screen definitely had, and they developers clearly compensated for.

Is there a filter to make things look like if they were captured through an el gato card OR if they were recorded through a vhs and then digitalized?

....Wow, that nicely sums up exactly how I feel about reddit and other places. Nicely done analogy.

You're welcome

Its pretty much the reason why I had that haitus. I grew tired of the "Cousin Kyle" like endusers...in fact I still hate that.

Granted, not all people are like that, but it seems a majority sadly are.

redream

To be honest, as a developer you're better off staying the fuck out of any sort of emulation community. It's always going to go down like that.

Or you could pull a byuu and create your own circlejerk safezone I guess.

reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/5sfkfd/melonds_a_new_ds_emulator_by_ustaplebutter/

gib mony plox

His circlejerk safezone is #retroarch.

I thought it was #foobar2000

and #x64dbg

Who need yet another DS emulator?

Desmume = Shit
NocashGBA = Shit
Drastic = Android only

Yes we do sir

what other stuff besides games do you wish you could emulate

I'm hoping StapleButter's NDS emu doesn't go the direction desmume does with cycle accuracy and just does enough accuracy as actually needed.

And has a decent dynarec and optimized software rasterizer.

>I'm hoping StapleButter's NDS emu doesn't go the direction desmume does

>doesn't go the direction desmume does with cycle accuracy
Lel
Desmume is less accurate than Drastic

'DeSmuME_X432R' is fine, man.

Doesn't Desmume have everything DeSmuME_X432R has now

>Nintendo DS
I know you're going to joke and meme in replies, as you always do in this general, but can someone name a couple of must-play titles for DS?

>must-play titles for DS
rofl

So if ishiruka is better than vanilla dolphin and uses less memory, why don't we always use that?

Because it's not always better

Send yates my best regards and ask him how he ended up working for Securom

>Drastic got a free retropi port but not a libretro port

damn...i know i shouldn't have mentioned that channel.

Playing Fire Emblem for GBA on my cellphone. Gotta kill that train commute.
Good or bad idea?

Sounds cool

Should check out

I did a complete playthrough of zelda the minish cap on pic related during my freshman year of college. You should be fine

Thanks! Cheat engine straight up refuses to run for me, but I managed to nab the code. Renamed it to a .pnach and enabled cheats, but I'm thinking I need the cheat engine. Any chance one of you could run it through the engine? Don't know why it refuses to run, but oh well

gametitle=Dragon Quest VIII - Journey of the Cursed King (USA)
comment=60 FPS

//60 FPS
patch=1,EE,203E4B20,extended,00000001
patch=1,EE,2016E2D4,extended,3C023F00
patch=1,EE,201DE148,extended,3C023F00
patch=1,EE,202FB1C4,extended,3C023F00

thanks a ton.
ill set up everything.

I saw him in the chat logs and got curious, I'd really like to know about someone who was in the scene it its prime and then started working for the other side, no offense meant because I understand there comes a time in your life you need to quit shady stuff and start supporting yourself

fair enough. #x64dbg has a lot of people like that, people that even now work for AV companies. no doubt some Denuvo employees in there. Rockstar Games even had some job openings advertised that specified experience in x64dbg as a job requirement (i think it was for their anticheat and DRM).

example: jobs.jobvite.com/rockstar-games/job/oE0b2fwB

I read in a reddit AMA about a cracker who got busted during Fastlink and stroke a deal with Securom to work for them. Might be a different person though. From what I read Securom got really good around that time - version 5 was a joke, then suddenly they release version 7 (omitting number 6) which was a whole other beast

Anyway, I think these days experience in cracking is seen as a negative thing, unless you're insanely good I suppose. Especially considering the AAA game protection cracking scene is almost dead so most people start clean instead of gaining experience releasing game cracks. Though game protections have always been the toughest targets, second to dongles, but these employ hardware so if you can prove you can do these then you must be really skilled

I know the person that writes ProtectionID did some cracking on Securom and Starforce back in the day..

>Anyway, I think these days experience in cracking is seen as a negative thing, unless you're insanely good I suppose.

Yeah, that's why I tried to get jobs that completely unrelated to programming and things. Though I did some work for a particular DRM doing some compression stuff.

>Especially considering the AAA game protection cracking scene is almost dead so most people start clean instead of gaining experience releasing game cracks.

Yeah, CPY and RLD are pretty much the only decent ones left.

I don't have a clue to be honest.

pc related 1/2

2/2 (some are the same, tho)

Yes, I know of that guy as well, he's kind of a dick sometimes (not surprising given how many third world retards visit RE boards asking for tools these days) but he seems to know his stuff. I'd really like to read some sort of an article on the history of game protections with an emphasis on the technical stuff, how they evolved, how complex they are compared to each other (really would like to read a Denuvo vs. Starforce), etc., I know there are docs about SR, SF and Safedisc (none for Tages though) but they're for old versions and probably incomplete. What I really don't like about the game scene is that they kept their knowledge private, except for RLD. Nowadays if you wanted to read about how this stuff works, you won't find anything except ancient shit and you pretty much have to spend months learning and reversing these yourself, no wonder there's no new blood in the scene.

Yeah but when is RLD gonna start cracking Denuvo

I mean sure, their releases are better than pretty much any group, aside from CPY, but I haven't seen them do anything really important like, well, again, CPY.

>last PCSX2 dev build was 5 days, 3 hours ago
What is taking so long

These days, groups are as good as their crackers and testers are (I assume they have people doing menial work like playing through the game, catching hidden triggers, etc), it's entirely possible RLD's superstar crackers are long retired. The only non-standard protection they cracked recently is Arxan which doesn't seem to be on the same level as Denuvo (even that Voksi guy on cs.rin cracked it and he doesn't seem super skilled to me) and someone even claimed they still left a lot of stuff in Mafia 3 so it wasn't even a clean crack like they claimed, it doesn't even look like the scene has people who bother nuking such releases, this and stolen Skidrow cracks, such a sorry state it's in. Now, CPY's method isn't complete removal either but it's more of a keygen - from what I understand by google translating the russian board and reading the patent, Denuvo executables come with empty spaces for some game constants, the license server sends you those pre-encrypted awith your hardware info in the license file, the loader fills them in and they get decrypted during gameplay. CPY probably wrote some logger for those to grab them unencrypted and discover encryption scheme or key for each such constant (still it requires to play though the game and catch them all) and made the dll that grabs your hardware info, encrypts them, generates the license file and feeds it to the game.

Oh look this shitty pasta again, is it summer yet?