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[Calamari41]

Go to the gsdx plugin use dx11 hardware mode and uncheck the use native res button. Then set it to whatever resolution you prefer.

You need to select the hardware renderer in the settings of the graphics plugin. You can select the rendering resolution in the same window.

Go into emulation settings and window and click the default to full screen button.

Wow, I am a total moron. Turns out I was judging it based on the intro to DQ VIII... which I guess shows up in SD no matter what, because as soon as the scene with the little mouse thing switched to what I now realize is in-game footage, its outputting in glorious 1080p.

Hope you get a kick out of that one...

 

[bomblord1]

Wow, I am a total moron. Turns out I was judging it based on the intro to DQ VIII... which I guess shows up in SD no matter what, because as soon as the scene with the little mouse thing switched to what I now realize is in-game footage, its outputting in glorious 1080p.

Hope you get a kick out of that one...

Yea it's a pre-rendered cutscene lol. Glad it's working for you though!

 

[Stereogatari]

This is the main reason I want a Gaming PC. Not for new games, but for enhanced memories.

 

[elhav]

List dem specs. Also what emulators are you playing on?

6870 HD 1 gig
8 gb ram
i5

Dolphin was the last emulator I used, but I don't remember the one I've been using for PS2 games. I think it was pcsx2.

Either way a lot of games had tons of problem. Some games worked fairly ok though, like Mario Galaxy 2.

 

[Random Painted HIghway]

Favorite emulator ever was nesticle, the icon was a pair of hairy balls. My college roommate was weirded out by it but didn't object to the lan games of blades of steel. 1997-1998ish

 

[bomblord1]

6870 HD 1 gig
8 gb ram
i5

Dolphin was the last emulator I used, but I don't remember the one I've been using for PS2 games. I think it was pcsx2.

Either way a lot of games had tons of problem. Some games worked fairly ok though, like Mario Galaxy 2.

i5 what?

 

[elhav]

i5 what?

2320 3.00 GHZ

 

[sublimit]

Emulators are for kids. Real men play on their original systems like true bosses.

 

[fester]

For some reason I've always found myself playing around with emulator settings, tweaking and experimenting, way more than I've ever played a game with one. In fact, I can't think of a single game I've ever played to competition with an emulator.

 

[Rodney McKay]

Emulators are wonderful, of course, and are nicer now than ever due to Gsync, but I do prefer real hardware on a CRT screen in most cases.

After getting into the HD generation with the 360+PS3 (pretty late actually, I didn't buy an HD TV for about two years after getting my 360), I tried and failed to go back to a CRT with my PS2 and Gamecube.

I know that some older 2D games were sometimes made with the blur of CRT displays in mind so things like brick patterns actually look better on them than being pixelated on a modern display, but it honestly hurts my head to use one for too long anymore, especially for 3D games or ones that are text heavy.

 

[Ivan Amiibo]

when i first started building gaming PCs I loved them, now I play original console through a scaler. I mostly play PS1+2 and the emulators for those are a bit too hacky.

 

[bomblord1]

2320 3.00 GHZ

That's ok should work fine for dolphin and most PCSX2 games. You might run into issues in really demanding ones though.

 

[Ysiadmihi]

That's ok should work fine for dolphin and most PCSX2 games. You might run into issues in really demanding ones though.

3GHz is actually pretty slow for Dolphin, at least in my experience. It doesn't get really smooth until you go 3.4 or higher.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

3GHz is actually pretty slow for Dolphin, at least in my experience. It doesn't get really smooth until you go 3.4 or higher.

How do I foind out my specs? I want to know why I have a hard time playing a DS game.

 

[antitrop]

I have been singing the praises of emulation since the days of Zophars Domain and Daves VG Classics.

 

[Timu]

2320 3.00 GHZ

You might need a stronger/higher clocked cpu.

 

[chemicals]

As many gamers out there who love emulators, there is a smaller segment who can't stand to play a game on an emulator. I am of the latter - I can't stand it. and yet back in my college days (early 90s) playing snes and nes games on emulator was our thing.. I played so many games.

But there is something inherently janky about emulators. It just doesnt compare well with the original experience. I don't enjoy it. Lots of people do, though.

 

[Awakened]

when i first started building gaming PCs I loved them, now I play original console through a scaler. I mostly play PS1+2 and the emulators for those are a bit too hacky.

PS2 is a bit, but Mednafen has excellent software emulation of the PS1.

 

[KHlover]

How do I foind out my specs? I want to know why I have a hard time playing a DS game.

Press Win+R. Enter dxdiag. You'll see your processor and RAM on the first page, graphics card on the second.

 

[brainpann]

Because emulators are a gateway. Then you decide to buy that SNES you had as a kid. Before you know it, youre skipping a lunch here, not buying socks there, just to pay for a Battletoads loose cart on eBay. It's not a road I recomend going down, my friend.

 

[IAmRandom31]

Yeah playing Monster Hunter Tri with 3x native resolution, AFx16 and and clean IQ overall is glorious. Can also change d-pad movement to right analog stick for dual analog movement! So good being able to roll with the analog and not the dumb D-PAD. Hope they emulate Wii U soon so I can play 3U with clean IQ. Looked so bad on Wii U. My emulated Tri looked LOTS better

Emulators are awesome. Mario Galaxy 2 is just ridiculous

 

[Mr. Nice_Guy]

Because those people may miss a better experience for the games that run and look better on emulators.
That's unfortunate.

Prettier isn't always better. Example, I wouldn't want to play a higher resolution Silent Hill 2. The noise filter and that exact level of graphically fidelity makes that game for me. If the emulator replicates that perfectly than great, but some people might consider the lack of noise filter to look "better", and chose to emulate it like that, then we would have a preference difference. No one is right or wrong, so nothing unfortunate there.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

Press Win+R. Enter dxdiag. You'll see your processor and RAM on the first page, graphics card on the second.

1.5GHZ
4096MB RAM

Is this ok?

 

[Justinh]

2. Install the Homebrew Channel on your Wii and download "CleanRip" or similar programs to rip the games from the disc to a HDD or SD Card. If you've never installed the HBC before I'd recommend you to google "ModMii", it is a PC program that download anything you need to mod your Wii and guides you through every step of the process.

Thanks, I'm gonna have to bookmark your post to remind me to look into this.

 

[Spukc]

i used to use emulators.
But emulating it on a pc is just not 1:1

i can honestly tell that running my legacy snes on an old crt tv.
is the best way to play it.

"but how do you play those romhacks? starocean in english and tales of phantasia?"

it's basically a flashcard called an sd2snes.
and yes that is 1:1

stick it in your snes and boot it up
be sure you own the original game now..

anyone here willing to tell me about an emulator that runs 1:1 ?
no controller lag etc?
i know some guys here go really hardcore about this on these forums

only one i know is bsnes.. still lags ugh

 

[Ivan Amiibo]

anyone here willing to tell me about an emulator that runs 1:1 ?
no controller lag etc?
i know some guys here go really hardcore about this on these forums

only one i know is bsnes.. still lags ugh

I was gonna say bsnes but it still has input lag, eh? well, that's the closest an emulator comes to perfect, right?

Emulators are awesome, but they're still an approximation built by some guys in their free time.

 

[jonno394]

When I built my gaming pc I dabbled in gamecube and wii emulation. Though pretty, I didn't enjoy it as much as I did playing on the legit console. I think the collector in me must like owning the games more than playing them in hd.

 

[brainpann]

I was gonna say bsnes but it still has input lag, eh? well, that's the closest an emulator comes to perfect, right?

Emulators are awesome, but they're still an approximation built by some guys in their free time.

Why is my name in that quote?I never wrote that, lol.

 

[May16]

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What I saw:

 

[KHlover]

1.5GHZ
4096MB RAM

Is this ok?

Amount of RAM is definitely ok. It's the processor that makes me nervous a bit. What's the name of your processor? dxdiag should show it right next to its clockrate. 1.5 GHz is extremely low. How old is your PC? NDS emulation is suprisingly resource intensive, or at least it used to be a few years ago.

 

[Spukc]

I was gonna say bsnes but it still has input lag, eh? well, that's the closest an emulator comes to perfect, right?

Emulators are awesome, but they're still an approximation built by some guys in their free time.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/

here is some nice read for you my man.
the link is a little older.

but perfect emulation seems to be far away

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

Amount of RAM is definitely ok. It's the processor that makes me nervous a bit. What's the name of your processor? dxdiag should show it right next to its clockrate. 1.5 GHz is extremely low. How old is your PC? NDS emulation is suprisingly resource intensive, or at least it used to be a few years ago.

Intel Celeron and it's a year old. I got it for only $200 came with a mouse and a case.

 

[KHlover]

Intel Celeron and it's a year old. I got it for only $200 came with a mouse and a case.

Googled a bit and it seems Celeron processors are just about the most low-end CPUs Intel sells. Depending on how old the processor was when you bought your PC it might be possible that it's actually too weak to emulate NDS at full speed.

 

[protomouse]

So can I legally download ROMs of games I already own without having to worry about e-SWAT banging on my door?

No. Under our copyright law, you're only allowed to make backup copies of media that you own. It's not legal to get them from somewhere else, even if you happen to own an original. Even if it's a byte-for-byte replica of your copy, it's still considered illegal. I tend to let my morals guide me here, because the dumping process can be complicated/costly depending on the format.

 

[Brofield]

Long story short there: Proprietary Nvidia hardware + very little to no documentation = a PITA to get anywhere with. You're going to need someone who's more than simply good at programming, you need people who are going to be willing to pay to have chips on the system itself dissected and examined with an electron microscope and then use that information to reverse engineer in hardware.

In short, I'm never going to be able to play Metal Wolf Chaos...

 

[Ivan Amiibo]

Why is my name in that quote?I never wrote that, lol.

i think I had you quoted, then him after, then decided not to respond, deleted your quote and accidentally deleted his name and yours was left over lol

i was just responding to say i agree it's a gateway drug.

 

[Jotamide]

I should really set up Dolphin properly to play my copy of Sin and Punishment 2.

 

[visiblemode]

Surprised nobody told you because it seems like people are constantly talking about emulation.

 

[Awakened]

anyone here willing to tell me about an emulator that runs 1:1 ?
no controller lag etc?
i know some guys here go really hardcore about this on these forums

only one i know is bsnes.. still lags ugh

Running one of the BSNES cores through RetroArch with the Hard GPU Sync option enabled helps a lot with display lag on standard 60hz or 120hz displays. 120hz halves the lag. If you turn off Vsync completely you get even less lag, but also tearing and stuttering. The best experience would be on a high refresh Gsync or Freesync monitor, which take care of the tearing/stuttering with Vsync off.

 

[Pewpewlazors99]

Edit: figured it out

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

For the Sega Genesis, my pick would go to Kega Fusion. What would be the advantages of switching to Genesis Plus GX?

To be honest unless there are games you're having problems with it's probably not worth it as kega is a very good megadrive emu as well. Better off just keeping an eye on Exodus and waiting for that to supersede them both. The author still has some hardware testing left to do though.

Good list, but I still prefer the RetroArch version of many of these. Supposedly they are less laggy than the originals (at least that's what I heard with Nestopia) and let you use awesome shaders to get a very similar fee of using a CRT, handheld LCD or even the GameBoy dot matrix screen.

I despise CRT shaders almost as much as the "enhancement" shaders like supersai and so on lol. I do not have nostalgia for the old days of peering into a tiny screen with scanlines, Quite happy to have those days behind me.

Can't say I ever noticed the lag on nestopia myself (though to be honest I tend to use nintendulator more these days as it's more accurate). I know retroarch has its fans but the project has never really appealed to me.

 

[Awakened]

Better off just keeping an eye on Exodus and waiting for that to supersede them both. The author still has some hardware testing left to do though.

Since you're interested in accuracy, you should check out mGBA; it's pretty close to superseding VBA-M. There are VBA-M bugs in Mother 3 with the English translation and FFI+II I noticed that aren't there in mGBA.

I despise CRT shaders almost as much as the "enhancement" shaders like supersai and so on lol. I do not have nostalgia for the old days of peering into a tiny screen with scanlines, Quite happy to have those days behind me.

I'm don't really either, but I do notice how 240p games appear to have more color depth and detail when I use them, so I've taken a liking to them. Even if you want raw pixels, the Pixellate shader is great since it allows you to scale games to any resolution without uneven pixels. In most stand alone emulators you have to run at integer scale (black bars on top and bottom) or use blurry bilinear filters to fix the unevenness. MAME, MESS and Mednafen do have similar scaling methods to fix that problem though.

 

[To Far Away Times]

Check out retroarch. It makes emulation across multiple platforms so seamless, and you can enable CRT filters with little effort.

 

[Tenebrous]

Just nudging this thread to ask an emulator question of my own. I hope that's alright.

Is there any chance, further down the line, we'll have a Dolphin-like setup for PS3/X360? Is the hardware configured in a different way that makes it impossible, or is it just a case of cracking the software and working on an emulator to match it?

 

[Kinsei]

Just nudging this thread to ask an emulator question of my own. I hope that's alright.

Is there any chance, further down the line, we'll have a Dolphin-like setup for PS3/X360? Is the hardware configured in a different way that makes it impossible, or is it just a case of cracking the software and working on an emulator to match it?

People are working on PS3 and 360 emulators. It'll happen someday.

 

[Tenebrous]

People are working on PS3 and 360 emulators. It'll happen someday.

Good stuff. Hopefully my PS3s still work by the time they come out.

 

[dubq]

Tell who?

 

[emag]

Favorite emulator ever was nesticle, the icon was a pair of hairy balls. My college roommate was weirded out by it but didn't object to the lan games of blades of steel. 1997-1998ish

The sad bit is that Nesticle (even on a 486 running DOS) was easier to get properly working then most modern emulators.

 

[JoeyJungle]

SNES = BSNES-Higan
Mega Drive = Genesis Plus GX (though keep a watch on Exodus for the future)
N64 = Mupen64(though probably Cen64 by the end of the year)
Saturn = SSF (Yabause is an open source alt for non-windows)
GB = Gambatte
GBA = VBA-M/Higan
DS = Desmume
NES = Nestopia/Nintendulator/Higan
GC/Wii = Dolphin
PSX = PCSXR/Xebra (PCSXR has more options and is easier to use, xebra is more accurate)
PS2 = PCSX2

Great list!

I was wondering what the best CRT filter is for older consoles (PSX era and earlier)? Is there one filter/shader that's good to use with every emulator? Or do different emulators use filters differently?

Also, does anyone use the Supereagle HQ2X filter? It makes everything look disgusting, but every emulator seems to include it by default for some reason.

 

[Robin64]

I was wondering what the best CRT filter is for older consoles (PSX era and earlier)? Is there one filter/shader that's good to use with every emulator? Or do different emulators use filters differently?

Also, does anyone use the Supereagle HQ2X filter? It makes everything look disgusting, but every emulator seems to include it by default for some reason.

For the first question, easy-crt

For the second one, hell no. Anyone using that needs to be SHOT.