Emulation central - recommendations in 1st post

[Tse Tse Fly]

I don't know if anyone care but EmuParadise no longer provide ROM downloads.

This is most unfortunate, I don't mind paying for older games provided via legal services, but only if the price is adequate (for example, I'm not going to pay fucking $8 for mesozoic shit like that arcade donkey kong game for switch) and the emulation quality is decent (level with or better than just using free emulators with pirated roms), but the big problem is that there are far too many games that are NOT officially available for purchase and for many there's no convenient way of getting them apart from piracy, and the rightholders themselves don't seem to hurry to make them legally available. I don't care for their legal shit, I just want to play a game, and so long as they through their indifference make me resort to piracy to play good old games I will pirate.

 

[Hirato]

https://rpcs3.net/blog/2018/08/08/eliminating-stutter-with-asynchronous-shader-implementation/

 

[aweigh]

rpcs3 banned me from their discord just cos i spammed gang weed and gamer girl pee memes

 

[Vorark]

Demon's Souls is now running way worse than one year ago. The bridge at Boletarian Palace runs at 5fps when it used to be around 15fps...

 

[lightbane]

the thing is nintendo can only go after sites with nintendo published games, so rom sites just need to not carry nintendo-made games if they're worried.

Easy to say when pretty much most good old games were made by Nintendo and were fine until the sudden behaviour change due their newest CEO. Of course, chances are that many of these ROMs will reappear in their overpriced virtual market at some point.

 

[Tse Tse Fly]

chances are that many of these ROMs will reappear in their overpriced virtual market at some point.

Which hasn't been even introduced for their most recent platform, Switch (I mean their Virtual Console service), and Nintendo Switch Online subscription is going to give you only NES games at this point... There are also NES mini and SNES mini retro consoles, but I'm not sure if they can run games other than those they're supplied with. Sad, there were quite a few good old games for ps1 and ps2 and snes I wanted to play (and EmuParadise was such a convenient place to get those), fortunately there are other sites that continue to provide downloads for them. Probably should already start (should have started, long time ago) collecting roms and isos of older games for myself before it's too late.

 

[Vorark]

chances are that many of these ROMs will reappear in their overpriced virtual market at some point.

Which hasn't been even introduced for their most recent platform, Switch (I mean their Virtual Console service), and Nintendo Switch Online subscription is going to give you only NES games at this point... There are also NES mini and SNES mini retro consoles, but I'm not sure if they can run games other than those they're supplied with. Sad, there were quite a few good old games for ps1 and ps2 and snes I wanted to play (and EmuParadise was such a convenient place to get those), fortunately there are other sites that continue to provide downloads for them. Probably should already start (should have started, long time ago) collecting roms and isos of older games for myself before it's too late.

I've read the SNES mini emulation, besides the games it comes bundled with, is hit or miss.

People could grab a fullset for 16bit era consoles, SNES one is around 3gb, not much if you consider games these days are 30gb+.

 

[aweigh]

i honestly don't get why people still buy "hardware" gimmick emulators like the SNES mini or whatever. (Though I understand at least in that case it is an official product).

Just put whatever is the current best emulator of choice in a raspberry thing or whatever the fuck. No emulator is going to match a fan-made reverse engineered one that has had years of work done on it.

 

[Tse Tse Fly]

Just checked which ps2 games you are able to play on ps4 -- it showed me 53 results. Wow, like 1/50 of the total number of games released for the platform... (not related to the nintendo's recent jewish act of villainy, but still quite illustrative of how bad things are for many retro gaming enthusiasts who are now being compelled to use only legal and official yet quite unsatisfactory options to get to games from past console generations)

 

[newtmonkey]

The nes/snes classic is a waste of money. The emulation is worse than even second-tier emulators on PC, and if you want a little box to plug into your living room TV, you can spend a fraction of the money on a raspberry pi with a nice enclosure and get access to every emulator ever.

Or, get a Super NT for a little more than the snes classic retail price, jailbreak it, and load it with the entire ROM set for lag-free actual hardware-accurate emulation, a beautiful HDMI picture, and a true plug and play experience complete with wireless super nes pads.

 

[aweigh]

game sack has good reviews of most of the popular third-party emulators-in-a-box products


they have more videos on this topic than those 3 but no need to post more

 

[DJOGamer PT]

THE PC MASTER RACE STRIKES YET AGAIN!!!

NINTENDO SWITCH EMULATOR BOOTS UP GAMES AND IS PROGRESSING AT AN ASTONISHING RATE!!!

https://ryujinx.org/#/





NINTENDO FAGS ON SUICIDE WATCH!!!

Bu-but... the human eye can't see more than 15fps...

Feels good man.

 

[aweigh]

did you drink an extra liter of gamer gurl pee today?

 

[yes plz]

cool

might actually be able to play Octopath Traveler after all

 

[aweigh]

 

[Hirato]

RPCS3 guys have posted this for some upcoming not yet merged changes: https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/4973


I'm somewhat amused they've been prepared some stuff for the August report whilst the July one is presumably still being written.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Any idea how to make GBA games don't look/sound like utter shit? I've never touch original hardware so dunno if that horrible, messy colour palette and awfully compressed sound are native or just connected with emulation issues. I used Visual Boy Advance emulator.

 

[iZerw]

Never had a gba but i believe sound is not so good even a on real console.

 

[newtmonkey]

GBA pretty much looks and sounds wrong on anything but actual hardware. The color palette for most games was chosen so that the game would be visible on its low quality non-lit screen, which makes them look absolutely retarded on anything else. The sound was never good—a major step down from even the SNES—but it wasn't quite as noticeable over the built in speaker.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Aaand IsoZone is gone, no download links.

HOWEVER - That stated - Times are changing. There are now growing ways of obtaining these retro titles through avenues which DO benefit the copyright holders and it seems clear due to recent events, that there are a lot more avenues in development.
This is why we decided to throw in the towel of our own accord. It was a good ride and it was a just ride, however it is clear that in the not so distant future, distributing retro titles could be a serious case of copyright infringement.

We would like to explicitly state that we are not re-branding or moving, despite the general consensus.
There is a new project underway by retro gaming enthusiasts to rebuild our original archive. And we wish them well.

kappa

 

[flyingjohn]

Aaand IsoZone is gone, no download links.

HOWEVER - That stated - Times are changing. There are now growing ways of obtaining these retro titles through avenues which DO benefit the copyright holders and it seems clear due to recent events, that there are a lot more avenues in development.
This is why we decided to throw in the towel of our own accord. It was a good ride and it was a just ride, however it is clear that in the not so distant future, distributing retro titles could be a serious case of copyright infringement.

We would like to explicitly state that we are not re-branding or moving, despite the general consensus.
There is a new project underway by retro gaming enthusiasts to rebuild our original archive. And we wish them well.

kappa

Well it is over.
Anything older and rare is gone completely now.Also anything from 2002-2010 pc stuff is gone as well.You ain't gonna find that stuff floating around.
Private torrents mostly carry tosec which misses a lot.

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[aweigh]

thanks to TigerKnee for informing that isozone database was moved to retrozone.co

I made sure to grab wizardry chronicle, empire 1, empire 2, gameboy versions of empire 1 and 2 (completely different from the PC versions), and prisoner of the battles and wizardry asterisk and the ps1 remakes of wiz 1-5. oh, also the gameboy (not color) wizardry gaiden 1-3 games. I've actually never bothered to play through them.

i recommend grabbing whatever obscure shit you're not sure you'll be able to easily download when/if retrozone goes down too.

EDIT: speaking of also need to go download the Sega Saturn version of wiz 1-3 remakes, as supposedly the Saturn versions have an extra dungeon floor and I've never played that content. the gameboy color ports of Wiz 1-3 feature additional items, around 15 new items, and also feature an extra floor. I don't know whether the extra floor on any of these ports is 1 single floor added to each title or if it's one secret floor hidden inside only one of the 3 titles; i only know that such extra content exists due to reading japanese wikis.

 

[Roqua]

thanks to TigerKnee for informing that isozone database was moved to retrozone.co

I made sure to grab wizardry chronicle, empire 1, empire 2, gameboy versions of empire 1 and 2 (completely different from the PC versions), and prisoner of the battles and wizardry asterisk and the ps1 remakes of wiz 1-5. oh, also the gameboy (not color) wizardry gaiden 1-3 games. I've actually never bothered to play through them.

i recommend grabbing whatever obscure shit you're not sure you'll be able to easily download when/if retrozone goes down too.

EDIT: speaking of also need to go download the Sega Saturn version of wiz 1-3 remakes, as supposedly the Saturn versions have an extra dungeon floor and I've never played that content. the gameboy color ports of Wiz 1-3 feature additional items, around 15 new items, and also feature an extra floor. I don't know whether the extra floor on any of these ports is 1 single floor added to each title or if it's one secret floor hidden inside only one of the 3 titles; i only know that such extra content exists due to reading japanese wikis.

Aweigh - Is there a way to for me to get the PlayStation Wizardry game that you can only get through and download from the PlayStation store thing for on a PlayStation console? I'm not buying a console for one fucking game. I have no issue paying for the game itself, so if I can play it some other way I have no issue buying a key for it online - I just have a huge issue buying a filthy console for one fucking game. We have an old PS1 and PS2, just not the newer ones. MY kids use the Xbox for new consoles.

 

[aweigh]

If you mean Wiz: Labyrinth of Lost Souls, for PS3/PSN, then you can just buy/download it off the PSN service from any working PS3 or PS4. (however this particular game isn't very good... it's a servicable Wizardry crawler, sure, but it could've been much better).

If you mean the PS1 ports of the classic scenarios then those never got a release outside of japan, even though they offer English language option in the menus. You'd have to eBay/yesAsia/etc and buy them over from Nippon to play on your (modded) PS1. In this case I would recommend simply downloading the ISO's and burning them to CD-RW and playing them on your (modded-so-it-accepts-CDR) PS1 console.

For PS2 the only Wiz game made in english was Tale of the Forsaken Land, which did get localized, so you would be able to buy it anywhere that sells PS2 games (I imagine).