/emugen/ - Emulation General

epsxe works perfectly for what it matters, so you're obviously and objectively wrong.

So.. it's that like a Classical GUI for Libretro Cores?
The idea sounds nice, it looks also prettier than XMB.

... ¿?

Didn't affect anything

MPV is an external media player but it has the neat feature of handling Youtube videos and playlist really well, with the added bonus of not murdering the resources like playing from a regular browser.
If you're playing playlists or don't mind manually loading videos one by one you should be using that instead.

OK, silly question, but is it possible to use a DS3 pad for DS4Windows?

oh i have mpv installed as my main video player but i didnt know it could do that

i'll try that thanks. assuming it still shits the bed i'll preemptively ask if anyone knows of any other possible fixes

Nope.

Shit. Can you recommend me any decent DS3 drivers then?

to stream youtube on mpv
>download youtube-dl
>download python to even use youtube-dl
>all this shit rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
might as well just deal with the fucked audio i guess

If on windows you literally just drop the precompiled youtube-dl executable in the same folder as mpv.

If on linux I'm pretty sure it's only a series of commands to your package manager then sitting on, your ass until it's done.

github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/pull/9938
github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/pull/9938
github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/pull/9938

ok i dropped in it a folder and it opens and closes. where do i put in whatever command to play a video?

Open an mpv window, it should look like pic related
drag n drop the url directly from your browser onto the mpv window
to note that playlist only work with the actual playlist url and not the url of a video inside that playlist

ah right, got it working but still have the same fucked audio as when streaming from chrome, even with priorities changes

The problem exists with Retroarch.

It's mudlord's libretro loader. It actually has dynamic rate control like RA does.

youtube.com/watch?v=DNjeEiWgZ_w

i figured. it plays perfectly without video running, but then audio distorts with any video. i guess its maybe something that cant be fixed

Either your CPU is just borderline able to support the software renderer (a 3570K or better in STP is more than adequate), or you're having DPC latency issues. Run a DPC latency checker in the background while you play and watch your faggot let's plays, and see what kind of numbers you're getting when those audio dropouts occur. If you're getting huge spikes when the drops occur, pinpoint the devices/drivers that are causing this and get rid of them (there's some handy guides online to walk you through that process), and the problem will go away.

>epsxe works perfectly
Brain problems.

would this work with any video even porn? some porn videos are a bitch to stream

No it doesn't you fucking bullshit artist. Why are you sitting here and lying about shit you clearly don't understand? This level of petty disinfo and petty bullshit sounds like it's straight out of byuu.

Doesn't happen here on Windows 7 with Firefox running a Youtube video. RA still runs Beetle-PSX fullspeed while the video plays.

Go away, SP.

would you be able to tell if its my pc based on this?

im able to simulataneously play modern games in windowed mode while streaming 1080 videos from youtube in a browser without issue, as well as with n64 and ds emulators. i guess ps1 emulation is just that much more intensive?

What is the difference between Beetle PSX and Beetle PSX HW

Honestly I don't have that issue so I'm not sure it could come from and I never had to deal with that issue
I could throw you a bunch of random ideas to try out but I doubt you would have the patience to try them out, easiest would be to try and swap the drivers inside RA around especially tghe resampler, audio and video one.
I mean sometime ago I had audio distortion issues related to internet browser I fixed by switching my RAM timings from 8-8-8-21 up to 8-8-8-24

>RAM
>9-9-9-24
Ok that might sound completely crazy and retarded but what if you force either 8-8-8-24 or 9-9-9-27

It works with url from any of those sites or with urls that lead to the content directly (aka anything that ends with a file extension)
rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

Looks nice, I hope that it's compatible with Windows 8.1 if he ever releases it.

>Brain problems.
I agree. Accuracy autists have some serious brain problems.

im all three of those posts btw

How would I force the ram to 999x (whatever that means because im not at knowledgable about this stuff)

Also said it was OpenGL 3.3 and up.

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>How would I force the ram to 999x (whatever that means because im not at knowledgeable about this stuff)
Requires you to go and fiddle inside the BIOS, if you don't feel like you can don't bother but the issue feel similar enough to the one I had sometime ago that I thought I would mention it.

That's unfortunately way the fuck down there on single thread performance, but in theory it should still work. A quick test, set the affinity of RA to cores 2 and 3, and set (((chrome))) exclusively to core 0. If that doesn't work, run the DPC latency test.

HW includes some additional features, chief among them being hardware rendering, although the software renderer can still be used.

He's probably complaining about imgui being a non-native, immediate mode GUI.

github.com/ocornut/imgui

I've been saving up to buy a 1080 card, but would you say the CPU is out of date too? Messing with the affinity didnt change anything.
By BIOS you mean I'd have to press F? on boot to get to that option?
I'm too lazy to download a dpc latency test until the last bit. I'll try to fuck with the drivers and RAM
Fucking with the affinities didnt change anything either, along with priorties.

>By BIOS you mean I'd have to press F? on boot to get to that option?
Yeah.

So, I'm playing MGS2 on PCSX2 right now and it all runs fine and dandy, but I've got one problem with it that I can't seem to solve, the button pressure/sensitivity.

Is there any way I can get it to work? It's a feature that was used very rarely on the PS2 aside from a handful of games, so I assume it's not that big a priority for most programs.

Buying a 1080 and keeping that CPU would be really dumb. Not only would it be useless for emulation, it would be bottlenecked by the CPU even during normal gaming.

Can you map your analog triggers to the face buttons?

>but would you say the CPU is out of date too?
Heavily, and since your socket is 6 years out of date, you're going to need a new motherboard, memory, and you might as well get a new PSU as well because a quality PSU is the cornerstone of your build. If you're interested in emulation (especially Dolphin and PCSX2), get a 7700K.
>By BIOS you mean I'd have to press F? on boot to get to that option?
You're clearly not tech literate, and I mean that in the nicest way possible, so I wouldn't bother fucking around with your memory timings.
>Fucking with the affinities didnt change anything either, along with priorties.
Changing priorities is Steam forum tech voodoo-tier, but if it was just chrome hogging your CPU, locking it to a single core away from RA should have fixed it. That leaves us with DPC latency as the most likely culprit for said audio dropouts, and thankfully that's not difficult to fix.

So what bits of my PC are fine then? I assume the RAM (which i can easily/cheaply upgrade using 8gbx2 with two open slots), DVD drive, and storage (considering I don't put very much on my pc at all).

As a relatively tech illiterate person tell me why the motherboard makes a big difference and why i'd need a new one?

I'd love to learn about stuff like timings and get more "tech literate" but my job and life never call for it so i dont know how to learn all the different things, or what priority to learn

Stupid question, none of the retroarch cores emulates Super Gameboy right?, the colors and borders on Gameboy games like Pokemon.

At no point in the main game is pressure sensitive stuff needed, even the VR stuff is easily doable without up until you get to the last set of Hold Up missions where you will need to fuck with the sensitivity.

>So what bits of my PC are fine then? I assume the RAM
Newer intel platform need DDR4 so no not even that, pretty much just your SSD and disc drive, although I would advise agaisnt a 7700k and recommend you just go for a 7600k or wait for the 8350k (you're going to have to buy almost everything anyways so it doesn't make much difference), HT isn't that useful in emulation

I haven't tried that yet, I'll give it a go.

It may not be absolutely necessary or anything, but I like it. Plus, I'm just used to it after years of playing MGS2 and 3 on the PS2.

>RAM
Unfortunately, you're going to need an LGA1151 socket motherboard, so you'll need DDR4 RAM.
>DVD drive, and storage
Correct, you can bring that over.
>As a relatively tech illiterate person tell me why the motherboard makes a big difference
The short answer is that every generation or two of new CPUs (from a given manufacturer) has a different socket (where the CPU is "plugged in" to the motherboard), which means you need a new motherboard that has that socket. You're rocking LGA1156, while Kaby Lake uses LGA1151, and Coffee Lake is going to use a new socket.

Whats wrong with 7700k? Just a price thing?
I'm not trying to build my pc around just emulation but getting the best that is affordable. Besides my ram and ssd everything i bought in 2010.

Still dont know what different a MB makes

so basically mb makes no difference in performance at all, just whether or not a cpu fits. that fucking sucks

>Whats wrong with 7700k? Just a price thing?
Pretty much, you're gonna pay 100-150 more for very situational performance boosts, it rarely that worth it, even for regular gaming although it's starting to become less true.

>so basically mb makes no difference in performance at all
Pretty much but with Intel Overclocking is locked to only some MB rocking the right chipsets (all those that start iwth the letter Z)

The 7600K is very slightly better bang for your buck, but overall lower performance. For Citra, CEMU, PCSX2 and Dolphin, you want that performance. If you don't care about any of those, fuck Intel, get a Ryzen 5.
Low-tier motherboards often lock you out of key bios functions, which would definitely impact your performance if you're into OCing, but yes, it's mostly about the socket type.

>For Citra, CEMU, PCSX2 and Dolphin, you want that performance
The 7600k has pretty much the same single core performance as the 7700k and only one of those emulators cares about more than 2 threads

Not that I can or will buy this right now, but does this seem well enough for several years? What sort of MB or PSU should I look for?

MB you should go for the cheapest Z270 you can find
PSU I would go for a Seasonic with 550watt or something close to that.

Asked about this in the last thread but didn't get an answer, in retroarch on android with slang shaders, the crt royale preset doesnt load for some reason. Additionally, for some reason bsnes crashes instantly on android.

I mean, it's "pretty much the same" in the same way that a 7600K is "pretty much the same" as an 4770 which is "pretty much the same" as a 3770K, with nearly identical margins in the perf increase.

Use logicalincrements.com/

wow, psus range from like $40 to $200
seems like the one i have would be fine but if not is like a $50-80 one a bad choice?

You really don't want to cheap out on your PSU, but you don't have to go crazy either. Around $100 with a good brand (EVGA, Corsair @ 650-750 watts) will get you where you need to go with a 1080, with plenty of headroom to spare.

Try disabling this.

that...actuaaly worked

>I mean, it's "pretty much the same" in the same way that a 7600K is "pretty much the same" as an 4770 which is "pretty much the same" as a 3770K, with nearly identical margins in the perf increase.
Well except the part where there's no real IPC increase between Haswell and KabyLake and most of the actual improvement come from it running at much higher frequency whereas Ivy Bridge is much slower than Haswell at the same frequency especially in emulation where it's about 20% faster at the same frequency in most cases.
Not only that but I was comparing two CPU from the same gen where there is no practical difference at the same frequency in single core performance, maybe the L3 cache difference makes the 7600k a bit slower in some cases and maybe the binning means your 7700k has better chances of hitting 5Ghz than your 7600k but in practical terms yeah there is no difference unless you're running something that is properly multthreaded which is rarely the case when it comes to emulators and games up until recently.

Yeah like I said go for a Seasonic one in the 550-650w range, shouldn't cost you too much and it's the most reliable you're gonna get at reasonable prices.

Looking at that site,i guess dont have to go too crazy on fan either. I don't think I'll ever need water cooling.

As I understand it performance is mostly based on CPU and GPU (and RAM but thats relatively cheap) while everything else is just trying to be compatible with them

Not him but is EVGA really a good brand of PSUs? They seem to be a lot cheaper than Corsair and Thermaltake so I always thought they were mediocre.

I'm having trouble with PCSXR, when I want to increase the game speed by removing the fps limit it works all well until any cinematic occurs which plays at normal 60fps. Is there any way around this? The game I'm playing is digimon world 2 if that has to do with anything

Yeah CPU/GPU is the main thing that decides how well your shit is gonna run, RAM can factor in but not in a really major way as long as you don't cheap out completely.

FSP rebrands iirc, so not bad but not great.
As long as it's not ColoerMaster / Heden / Advance / Cougar / Lepa / OCZ (and rebrands) you're not ging into "blowing your shit" territory.

Cougar make some good shit though (mostly fans), are their PSUs really that bad?

Most PS1 pre rendered videos run under 20 fps, when the emulated CPU run without limit, you will suffer from this kind of situation. afaik, there is no "solution", because this is not a problem to begin with

There's an awful lot of qualifiers there, famalam. As I said earlier, if you aren't going to make use of that STP, just get Ryzen 5.

>They seem to be a lot cheaper than Corsair and Thermaltake
EVGA and Corsair are very similar (identical, for certain models) in pricing for equivalent PSUs.

amazon.com/EVGA-SuperNOVA-Modular-Warranty-220-G2-0750-XR/dp/B00IKDETOW
amazon.com/Corsair-RM750x-Modular-Supply-Certified/dp/B015YEI9NQ/
amazon.com/Thermaltake-TOUGHPOWER-Modular-Supply-PS-TPD-0750MPCGUS-1/

can you give me some tips on this build? it's been a while since I built my last PC

Something about them cheaping out on capacitor in some models, not as bad as Heden / Advance though (aka no 300w rated PSU sold as 480w rated)

Closed loop watercooling is a fucking meme, for less money you can get a good radiator and two good relatively silent fans for a good push pull which won't break within your builds lifetime and will have only slightly worse cooling.

A 1080ti really is interesting only if you're using a monitor that is over 1080p unless you're going for a 144hz+ monitor

3200mhz DDR4 isn't pricy enough to not go for it, the performance difference isn't that high but the price difference isn't either so might as well That's mostly an habit of mine to always go for twice the frequency each RAM gen.

With the price of your build just spare the extra 20-40 bucks and get a gold rated PSU

Alright, thanks mate, I'll look into CPU fans then, by the way I have a 144hz monitor, it was a cheap Acer model but it's good enough for me, would a regular 1080 be enough for gaming at 1080p 144hz?

>meme case
Get a full-tower.
>meme water cooling
Get a Noctua (mind your socket)
>Z270M-PLUS
Get the Z270-A instead.
>CX650M
Get an RM750x instead.
>1080 TI
Questionable, but if you REALLY don't want to upgrade for a long time, I guess that's your best bet, especially with prices being what they are. I'd normally recommend picking up a 1070 at ~350, and upgrading in 3 years, but those prices are long gone.

>1080 be enough for gaming at 1080p 144hz?
Better off going for too much that too little if you care about high refresh rates honestly and the ti is well worth the extra if you can afford it.

Not so stupid.
Option is there in bsnes-RA, but command line only (which defeats the point I guess)

>Get a full-tower.
I found the Corsair 600Q for a good price, is it good?
>Get a Noctua
Noctua is impossible to get where I live unfortunately, last PC I built I wanted to get one but couldn't find anywhere.
>Get the Z270-A instead
Is there much that of a difference?
>Get an RM750x instead
I could get that one but from research people were saying a good 650w was enough for 1080 Ti + i7 7700K

I can definitely afford it, and comfortably even, been saving money for a new PC for a long time.

>Is there much that of a difference?
The Z270-A is ATX, while the M-PLUS is microATX with gimped specs (compare asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-Z270M-PLUS/specifications/ to asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-Z270-A/specifications/), and with a price difference of like $6, it's a no-brainer.
>650w was enough
It probably is, but we're comparing bronze vs gold certified here. If I was dropping 700 dollarydoos on a 1080ti, you bet your ass I'd spend that extra $40 for the better PSU.
>Noctua is impossible to get where I live
Bummer. How about something from Cryorig?
>Corsair 600Q
It's fine.

>The Z270-A is ATX, while the M-PLUS is microATX with gimped specs
Alright then, I'll keep that in mind.
>It probably is, but we're comparing bronze vs gold certified here.
Would a gold certified 650w PSU be enough then? Because I found this one from EVGA.
>Bummer. How about something from Cryorig?
Nope, the only brands of CPU fans I can find are Thermaltake, Deepcool and Cooler Master and also some other less known ones that I suspect might be chinese.

>650 GQ
That'll do.
>Thermaltake, Deepcool and Cooler Master
Consider the Cooler Master Hyper D92

Alright man, thanks.

I've always been curious why widescreen mods to 4:3 games stretch the 2D graphics. Are 2D graphics like in pic related on the same level as the camera view meaning that stretching the camera view horizontally changes the X coordinate of the starting position? Couldn't someone just program it so that 2D graphics ignore the X coordinates on the outer side (determined by where the graphic is placed in relation to the middle of the screen), thus preventing the stretching?

Because most "widescreen mods" are crude hacks.

Yes, but that takes more work. swiss-gc's widescreen hack for Windwaker does it btw.

Actually, scratch that, I managed to find a Noctua NH-D14 for sale on a different store but the thing looks massive, I'm kinda scared to buy it separately and the thing doesn't fit or clash with the ram heatsink.

Oh it IS massive. You'll shit bricks when you unbox that thing.

It'll fit though (corsair.com/en-us/carbide-series-quiet-600q-inverse-atx-full-tower-case max cooler height = 200mm, NH-D14 = 160mm). As for your RAM clearance, vengeance lpx uses a very low-profile heat spreader.

There's no chance to bend the MB right? A few years ago I heard some rumors about big CPU fans bending MBs, I didn't believe it but it kinda gets me worried if it's a possibility.

>I managed to find a Noctua NH-D14 for sale on a different store but the thing looks massive
I've got one. It's super hard to install, I recommend having another person to help get it in.

That only happens if you over tighten stuff these days. Most MBs are built to be ready for masive heat sinks.

Could happen if you didn't secure it properly and then took your case to a LAN party or something where it was getting bounced around in your car, that's about it.

It's because widescreen hacks usually just simply edit the horizontal fov of the camera which is just an integer somewhere in memory. So the emulated system is still outputting a 4:3 image with the HUD unaffected but with skinny ass people, and then the emulator/software loader/TV scales that to 16:9 so you get normal people and a stretched hud.

When compared to the widescreen hack itself, fixing the stretched HUD is pretty complicated.

Is there literally any reason to buy an AMD graphics card? Is there anything they're better at than nvidia? I mean, I can see a few reasons why someone would get a ryzen, but not a graphics card.

No.

CRT_emudriver and that's about it.

If you fell for the FreeSync meme, you're pretty much locked in at this point. From a gaming perspective, there are no advantages (and some significant disadvantages, like getting shitter-shattered on increased power costs) to going with Vega at this point.

Yeah, now that's the look I like.

I feel like there should be a mod that works system-wide and acknowledges 2D graphics in the "forescreen" for aspect ratio hacks that have a 3D "backscreen", or whatever it is I'm trying to say. Extending the FOV unconditionally just seems like a lazy thing to do. I know all games are programmed differently, but there has to be some common guideline and function in the developer's manual or SDK for 2D graphics in the foreground.

So, redpill me on the GPD Win. Where can I buy it for a good price (reliably) and how well can it run low-end PS2 games? I'm looking to play some of the less demanding games like Nocturne and Soul Nomad on it as well as the usual stuff