Emulation central - recommendations in 1st post

[tet666]

Continuing with Koudelka (PSX). Did not know this game actually used motion capture tech, no wonder the character movements are so natural in dialogue scenes: https://streamable.com/qjff4

Great game, be sure to check out the Shadow Hearts games as well if you have not allrdy.

 

[Puukko]

Here's something cool: I booted up SMT Nocturne Chronicle Hardtype - that is, a promotional version that never got released in the west, using a fan translation patch, the hardtype difficulty mod and a fan patch to enable that mod to run on this version of the game. This is very likely the most obscure version of the game to date. All that, and it can still load my old saves for the base Maniax version, with Raidou replacing Dante in my party, should I wish to for some reason.

 

[sullynathan]

Now with Cemu 1.16.1 I get 55 - 60 fps at 1080p everywhere in BOTW except when there's a shit ton of explosions. Good job. Now if only they have a way to return to main menu and not quit the program, and if they implement a pause and rewind feature.

 

[Puukko]

False alarm, men. I found a backup of my Citra folder I had made just recently and somehow completely forgotten about it. I do intend to replay IVA and SJR at some point so having the NG+ option is welcome.

 

[spekkio]

BROs,

I just wanted to let you know, that the "black eyes" bug, which Jak series had been suffering from since forever, has been fixed as of 1.5.0-dev-3250.

So, game looks like this now (native internal res):

Then I cranked the internal res to 3x & enabled a "deblurring" fix:

Go to config>video>plugin settings, tick enable HW hacks, open advanced settings and hacks, texture offsets set Y to 200.

Outcome:

Framerate is rock-steady 60 FPS, OFC.

 

[IceyD]

playing some Mana Khemia on PCSX2:

 

[Reinhardt]

I miss Flay.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

I got tired of waiting on "good" PS2 emulation and bought a phat for ~$30. Apparently, it's even one of the good revisions. Drive still works and everything.

 

[Vorark]

Try to find a network adapter too.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

Try to find a network adapter too.

It came with one. And two controllers. And a memory card. It was a SCPH-39001N.

 

[Reinhardt]

I got tired of waiting on "good" PS2 emulation and bought a phat for ~$30. Apparently, it's even one of the good revisions. Drive still works and everything.

What's the problem with ps2 emulation? It already worked almost perfectly years ago on any toaster.

 

[JDR13]

Now with Cemu 1.16.1 I get 55 - 60 fps at 1080p everywhere in BOTW except when there's a shit ton of explosions. Good job. Now if only they have a way to return to main menu and not quit the program, and if they implement a pause and rewind feature.

I haven't tried BotW in awhile, but it ran fine for me on Cemu close to a year ago. How do you emulate the parts that use the gyroscope function of the Wii U controller?

 

[Terra]

playing some Mana Khemia on PCSX2:

Gust's spritework was pretty nice back in the PS2 era, made me sad when they rolled out that craptastic 3D aesthetic for Ar tonelico 3. Even with their later 3D efforts being technically superior in terms of model aesthetics, I still miss the sprites - none of their post-PS2 titles ever really grabbed me.

 

[Reinhardt]

playing some Mana Khemia on PCSX2:

Gust's spritework was pretty nice back in the PS2 era, made me sad when they rolled out that craptastic 3D aesthetic for Ar tonelico 3. Even with their later 3D efforts being technically superior in terms of model aesthetics, I still miss the sprites - none of their post-PS2 titles ever really grabbed me.

First Mana Khemia and second Ar Tonelico are still ones of my favorite games ever.

 

[Reinhardt]

And i REALLY miss their early music. PS2 era Gust games had great soundtracks.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

...almost perfectly...

You answered your own question. Then there's all the cancerous plugin fiddling.

 

[sullynathan]

Now with Cemu 1.16.1 I get 55 - 60 fps at 1080p everywhere in BOTW except when there's a shit ton of explosions. Good job. Now if only they have a way to return to main menu and not quit the program, and if they implement a pause and rewind feature.

I haven't tried BotW in awhile, but it ran fine for me on Cemu close to a year ago. How do you emulate the parts that use the gyroscope function of the Wii U controller?

There's a cemu wiki with instructions. I did mine with a PS3 controller.

 

[JDR13]

Now with Cemu 1.16.1 I get 55 - 60 fps at 1080p everywhere in BOTW except when there's a shit ton of explosions. Good job. Now if only they have a way to return to main menu and not quit the program, and if they implement a pause and rewind feature.

I haven't tried BotW in awhile, but it ran fine for me on Cemu close to a year ago. How do you emulate the parts that use the gyroscope function of the Wii U controller?

There's a cemu wiki with instructions. I did mine with a PS3 controller.

Thanks. I have a DualShock 4 so I guess I should be fine. I plan on doing a full playthrough of BotW eventually, but I want to play Skyward Sword via Dolphin first.

 

[Puukko]

I got tired of waiting on "good" PS2 emulation and bought a phat for ~$30. Apparently, it's even one of the good revisions. Drive still works and everything.

What's the problem with ps2 emulation? It already worked almost perfectly years ago on any toaster.

Really depends on the game. A bunch of JRPGs required me to fiddle with pixel offsets and VP2 I couldn't get right no matter what. Shadow Hearts Covenant has prominent black screen effects during battle and doesn't play nice with widescreen.

 

[Reinhardt]

I got tired of waiting on "good" PS2 emulation and bought a phat for ~$30. Apparently, it's even one of the good revisions. Drive still works and everything.

What's the problem with ps2 emulation? It already worked almost perfectly years ago on any toaster.

Really depends on the game. A bunch of JRPGs required me to fiddle with pixel offsets and VP2 I couldn't get right no matter what. Shadow Hearts Covenant has prominent black screen effects during battle and doesn't play nice with widescreen.

Don't remember any problems with SH when i played it years ago. VP2 is speshul case - i agree.

 

[sullynathan]

Now with Cemu 1.16.1 I get 55 - 60 fps at 1080p everywhere in BOTW except when there's a shit ton of explosions. Good job. Now if only they have a way to return to main menu and not quit the program, and if they implement a pause and rewind feature.

I haven't tried BotW in awhile, but it ran fine for me on Cemu close to a year ago. How do you emulate the parts that use the gyroscope function of the Wii U controller?

There's a cemu wiki with instructions. I did mine with a PS3 controller.

Thanks. I have a DualShock 4 so I guess I should be fine. I plan on doing a full playthrough of BotW eventually, but I want to play Skyward Sword via Dolphin first.

Follow optimized video instructions

Get shaders for the game.

Follow guide for enabling Gyro for whatever controller you're using. There's a decent amount of shrines you'll need this for.

All things considered, it works great on AMD now.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/commit/a16fea7e0f872f6e1f6bb461fd96b2d518cabcf9

"Self-deprecation"....What wonderful euphemisms these insufferable faggots use! So glad I grabbed the shit I wanted from them when they began acting like high-and-mighty fuckholes years ago. And really, that's the lesson to be learned here: if you don't trust a developer anymore, GRAB ALL THE SHIT YOU NEED OFF THEIR SERVER (before they memory hole it). I'm still mad I didn't think to archive old RA versions until long after I discovered their buildbot just disappeared any shit they felt was "too old" (and never did keep pre-built cores around!).

 

[Viata]

I'm 100% ok with open source as in "we can see the code", but not in the "let's help develop it".

 

[aweigh]

Tried out the January 17th build of Xenia CANARY with Lost Odyssey at 2x Resolution (1440p)...
Rig: intel i5 8400 (6-core / 6-thread), nvidia gtx 1060

2x res(i assume 720p times 2? I guess that means 1440p), gives an average of 18-22 fps when moving around beginning area map:

1x res (720p I suppose), runs at 100% speed, or full-speed or however you want to term it; means 30fps in the field and 60fps in the menus in this case:

Full speed in menus, in this case that means 60fps:

Verdict: it's already playable enough if you're desperate for it, but it looks fugly in native rez. I'll wait until Xenia can run it at 2x resolution at full speed on my rig before diving in, i think it should be possible especially considering how close it already is at doing so... i don't mind waiting a few more months or whatever to be able to play the game without jaggies everywhere.

EDIT: I did notice in this current Xenia Canary build that the music was cutting off randomly and then coming back on, which I don't remember happening the last time I tried one of the builds.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I got tired of waiting on "good" PS2 emulation and bought a phat for ~$30. Apparently, it's even one of the good revisions. Drive still works and everything.

What's the problem with ps2 emulation? It already worked almost perfectly years ago on any toaster.

Really depends on the game. A bunch of JRPGs required me to fiddle with pixel offsets and VP2 I couldn't get right no matter what. Shadow Hearts Covenant has prominent black screen effects during battle and doesn't play nice with widescreen.

If you can suffer the native resolution, you can always use the SW renderer. As far as I know it fixes any glitches everytime.