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3DS Emulator Citra Boots First Commercial Game
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KojiKnight
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This high compatibility means great things when they eventually start work on a recompiler. In the long run, this is actually a good thing, they aren't trying to maintain interpreter and recompilers at the same time so are theoretically able to get updates out faster, but boy does it make the wait to play these games in full speed all the harsher.
No amount of shitty Zora fuck-ups will diminish how great MM3D will look in 1080p with anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. The visuals are the one thing in that remake that I totally adore.
Jesus. That is incredible progress.
I look forward to someday playing Mirai DX without the jaggies...
Is there any footage of Pokémon games with 1080p rendering? I know they are working on getting the game to work properly, but I'm dying to see a battle in HD.
A pull request has been made to add audio emulation to Citra.
Video of it in action in a test build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwrQXwQmnM
Video of it in action in a test build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwrQXwQmnM
This is crazy, this means they'll have a playable emulator within a year.
Heard the music, closed the video, and went to listen to Dearly Beloved from Dream Drop Distance.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Man I love Dream Team nightcore.
Heh, I like the Ace Attorney footage. Sound is super sped up but it makes it sound kind of electric. Small issues aside, I cannot express how amazed I am at the progress of this thing.
Huh, ace attorney somewhat works? It's the same engine as MH games (which only blackscreened so far); I think I should grab the most advanced build and throw them at it to see if there was any progress for them in the past months
NYCmetsfan
Banned
How intensive of a pc should this require?
I know it takes while to optimize it but shouldn't it be less than dolphin if it eventually gets that kinda support?
I know it takes while to optimize it but shouldn't it be less than dolphin if it eventually gets that kinda support?
If you check his specs:
OS: Windows 10 64bit
CPU: Intel i5-2500k@3.3Ghz
GPU: AMD R9-280x 3GB GDDR5
RAM: 8GB Ram.
That's a pretty standard CPU nowadays, and 8GB is a normal standard too. His AMD card is sub-290. So I think as long as your PC is reasonably modern, when this emulator finishes in a few years, you'll be in good shape.
To follow up on this post: OMG MH4 plays crackling sound <3
It seems the ace attorney game in the video doesn't use geometry shaders unlike the MH games (they are still unimplemented in Citra as of now), so still blackscreen. But hey, sound
KojiKnight
Member
We're still running this emu on interpreter aren't we? Eventually we're going to get a recompiler and those specs are going to drop pretty drastically.
Citra has a new website: https://citra-emu.org/
They look to be doing articles like the Dolphin team now too. The first two are up:
Welcome to the New Citra!
Citra Progress Report - 2015 P1
They look to be doing articles like the Dolphin team now too. The first two are up:
Welcome to the New Citra!
Citra Progress Report - 2015 P1
Looks great, they have "official" nightly builds available as well!
artsi
Member
That's nice, the previous one was lame, there's actual content here now.
New pull request by tfarley includes a resolution scale setting (remember the 1600x960 screenshots of OoT3D a while back?): https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/pull/1436
Branch for comfy compiling: https://github.com/tfarley/citra/tree/hw-tex-forwarding
Some footage of MK7 running with the resolution scale setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nDJOHKZKM
Branch for comfy compiling: https://github.com/tfarley/citra/tree/hw-tex-forwarding
Some footage of MK7 running with the resolution scale setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nDJOHKZKM
oh my god I forgot about those shots
oh man. at some point I will be able to play OOT3D and MM3D in full HD on my 3DTV with a Dualshock 4 complete with gyro controls. it will be the best day ever. I mean, just look at this:
Would you mind uploading that build? I'd be interested in playing around with it.
Here you go: https://dropfile.to/Wxmec
Imagine when the enhancements start rolling in. Hopefully it ends up like Dolphin with options for AA, AF, per-pixel lighting, ambient occlusion (in Ishikura), etc.
Thanks.
New article: Citra Progress Report - 2015 P2
Citra has now managed to run a New Nintendo 3DS game: Xenoblade Chronicles 3D.
https://twitter.com/yuriks/status/710379442573414400
https://twitter.com/yuriks/status/710666165173882880
https://twitter.com/yuriks/status/710379442573414400
https://twitter.com/yuriks/status/710666165173882880
KeyChainDude
Member
Very nice! I'm really excited until I can play OoT and MM on it. I don't even really care about supersampling and such, I just need them to be playable at 30fps and I'm set.
Dang, paper jam looks like it's running at/near full speed already. That's super impressive.
Why would you do that?
Member
Impresive progress. Is the emulator using JIT? I assumed it was, but one of the tweets implied that it's not using JIT as of yet.
I love the "audio". PIIIIIIKACHUUUUUU
I love the "audio". PIIIIIIKACHUUUUUU
Simbabbad
Member
This.
Cut that idiotic shit out.
Nightmare fuel.
That said, is anyone else amused by the fact that this emulator emulates a 3DS running an emulator which emulates a GBC?
I believe (my memory isn't the best!) that there is a great post by aenea (I think) about conflating emulation and piracy.
KojiKnight
Member
It's using a JIT recompiler for the shaders, the hardware itself is still in interpreter.
With how easy it is now for legitimate 3DS owners to dump their own games who may also want to be able to play those games with enhancements like savestates, HD resolutions, etc this is a very stupid thing to say.
I could use the shopping cart at Walmart to fill up with a bunch of things and run out the door, maybe Walmart should remove shopping carts from their stores.
nkarafo
Member
So, what would the specs be after the emulator reaches a reasonable state?
The real question is how powerful/complex the 3DS is compared to something like PS2/Gamecube/Wii. A fairly modern i5 with a mid-tier GPU can easily emulate these systems at full speed now. I assume the 3DS should be about as complex/powerful as a Gamecube?
So can we expect the same performance at some point or is it the kind of system that you will need a "future" PC to emulate?
The real question is how powerful/complex the 3DS is compared to something like PS2/Gamecube/Wii. A fairly modern i5 with a mid-tier GPU can easily emulate these systems at full speed now. I assume the 3DS should be about as complex/powerful as a Gamecube?
So can we expect the same performance at some point or is it the kind of system that you will need a "future" PC to emulate?
GrantDaNasty
Member
We should stop everything we're doing now that serves to preserve the legacy of games and making sure they will always be available, for a 5 year-old system that (seemingly) will see a successor by the end of this year/early next year.
Emulation ≠ Piracy. Stop playing the strawman card.
I say this as someone who bought a 2DS not 2 months ago.
KojiKnight
Member
The majority of the emulator is still interpreter, it actually runs slower than RCPS3 (The PS3 emulator) in a lot of games at this point because of it. I don't know anything about the whens, wheres, or hows... but I imagine they'll get to it when they're ready, or maybe even not at all.
Their main goal right now seems to be worrying about accuracy and adding new features.
nkarafo
Member
Ok thanks for the reply. One last thing i forgot about... how many cores does the emulator use? Will you get better performance from an overclocked dual core or a stock speed quad core?
That depends on what you define as "reasonable". If you mean a state where the emulator is as efficient as, say, PPSSSPP, then any decent gaming computer will run most any 3DS game. The question is whether it will ever reach such a state.