Emulation central - recommendations in 1st post

[flyingjohn]

Codex favorite emulator pcsx2 has a new progress report:
http://pcsx2.net/283-q1-2017-progress-report.html
Highlights include:
-VU0: fix for Street Fighter EX3 and R: Racing Evolution.Now you get proper street fighter skirt graphics and psychics.
-An actual osd for various gs stuff.
-Skylake performance fixes.
-Improved software rendering.
-gsdx has only 3 builds now:

• SSE2 - compatible with almost all CPUs.
• SSE4.1 - compatible with most CPUs (requires Intel Penryn / AMD Bulldozer or newer). Faster hardware renderer performance.
• AVX2 - least compatible (requires Intel Haswell / AMD Ryzen or newer). Fastest hardware and software renderer performance.

-Better detection of button pressure for games needing it.

All of these thing are only available in the development version of pcsx2.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Playing Dororo (Blood Will Tell in the west). It's very clunky as a character action game (can't hold a candle to DmC, etc.) but it's got an interesting story and a nice variety of enemies and scenarios.

 

[Great Deceiver]

I haven't played this since it was released all those years ago. It has such a slow start, but it's a cool game.

 

[Great Deceiver]

I think Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth is based on the Japanese version of Valkyrie Profile, which is worse than the American version (there are some improvements in the US revision of the game that weren't kept in VPL - like inventory sorting, equipping shit on inactive party members, etc).

VPL has CG cutscenes in place of the animu scenes of the first game, though. In any case I wouldn't use PCSX2 for PS1 games, why not use BeetlePSX (Mednafen) or something more accurate?

 

[spekkio]

Lenneth has undub available, while the original PSX version comes only with the legendary english dub:

 

[Vorark]

Interesting news on the 3DS font: 3DS-FUSE. Seems like it's a utility to mount .cias on the PC, which could eventually lead to good things on the Citra front.

 

[flyingjohn]

Another cemu version another small increase in accuracy toward Zelda.
Maybe in 10 years time we will get actual non zelda stuff.
Luckily the patreon is not going up.
Oh and xbox emulation is a thing now it seems:

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Oh and xbox emulation is a thing now it seems

About fucking time.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Where's the X360 emulator

I've been wanting to replay Operation Darkness

i just want lost odyssey

Liar, you want to play Too Human.

 

[Great Deceiver]

I actually played through the entirety of Too Human. What the fuck was I thinking

 

[Hirato]

I'm only a month late, but it looks like Citra started posting some progress reports again. It's pretty short though.
https://citra-emu.org/entry/citra-progress-report-2017-p1/

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Where's the X360 emulator

I've been wanting to replay Operation Darkness

i just want lost odyssey

Liar, you want to play Too Human.

Bullet Witch (CAVIA!!!!).

 

[flyingjohn]

https://rpcs3.net/blog/2017/06/04/progress-report-may-2017/
Persona 5 is fully playable and can be completed with broken bloom on a beefy machine.
Sengoku basara 4 is playable with 30 fps.

Oh a bonus picture :

Spoiler

 

[ghostdog]

I think Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth is based on the Japanese version of Valkyrie Profile, which is worse than the American version (there are some improvements in the US revision of the game that weren't kept in VPL - like inventory sorting, equipping shit on inactive party members, etc).

VPL has CG cutscenes in place of the animu scenes of the first game, though. In any case I wouldn't use PCSX2 for PS1 games, why not use BeetlePSX (Mednafen) or something more accurate?

Yeah, since I tried them both recently, I can confirm that those quality of life improvements make the american version superior, undub or no undub.

 

[flyingjohn]

For anybody interested there is a game boy emulator for TempleOS.

https://github.com/tramplersheikhs/cherub

 

[deuxhero]

But can it run Pinball Deluxe?

Also: Anyone have a .sav or PCSX2 memory card file with a fully completed Digital Devil Saga 1 save?

 

[spekkio]

^
Yes. Only some optional bosses killed, though (bro snowman, butthurt fly):

https://www.mediafire.com/?j6zbab96thlb4t8

 

[spekkio]

If you want anything else (PAL version, etc), just look for ps2 save in any "cheat device" format (.max, .psu, .cbs), good source is gamefags:

https://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/920605-shin-megami-tensei-digital-devil-saga/saves

And import such save into your pcsx2 memcard with this:

http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca:11068/mymc/

Works like a charm.

 

[yes plz]

Any recent unofficial builds of Citra that support the geometry shader? The latest official builds no longer support it for now making games like Fire Emblem: Awakening unplayable due to the glitchy graphic effects that cover the whole screen and the older builds that did support it are fairly unstable and crash every few minutes.

 

[deuxhero]

^
Yes. Only some optional bosses killed, though (bro snowman, butthurt fly):

https://www.mediafire.com/?j6zbab96thlb4t8

Does that include the dialog options to recruit Heat and the "we will help them without betrayal" bonus? I knew about Gamefaqs's save list and wouldn't have asked if they had one that wasn't in PS3 format.

 

[spekkio]

Does that include the dialog options to recruit Heat and the "we will help them without betrayal" bonus?

I didn't get Heat in the end, so I screwed sth up, not sure if in 1 or 2, though. As for the "betrayal": yes, AFAIR.

Maybe try describing what you really want in more detail next time?

 

[LJ40]

^
Yes. Only some optional bosses killed, though (bro snowman, butthurt fly):

https://www.mediafire.com/?j6zbab96thlb4t8

Does that include the dialog options to recruit Heat and the "we will help them without betrayal" bonus? I knew about Gamefaqs's save list and wouldn't have asked if they had one that wasn't in PS3 format.

GameFAQs has 2 saves for DDS1, and only one of them is for PS3 (Not sure if the other is 100% though).

Also, http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-PS3-to-PCSX2 these people seem to have a way to just use the PS3 save anyway.

 

[deuxhero]

Maybe try describing what you really want in more detail next time?

I asked for a PCSX2 memory card file or a .sav file. A PS3 format one is in .psv.

 

[spekkio]

Maybe try describing what you really want in more detail next time?

I asked for a PCSX2 memory card file or a .sav file.

And that's exactly what I uploaded.
But I didn't know about you wanting "dialog options to recruit Heat and the "we will help them without betrayal" bonus", and that's what my post you cited was about, not the file format.
I hope you got it this time. If not, re-roll with higher INT.

 

[deuxhero]

Oh. Those are two bonuses you can get in DDS2. There's a bonus skill DDS2 if you selected the "we will help them without betrayal" dilaog option early on in DDS1. Thought you would know that.

Also converted the PS3 save and it doesn't work. Shows up on the PS2 bios but neither DDS sees it.