Discussion and News forum for all things video game emulation related, or tangentially. Platform agnostic. Mobile is welcome too. We'll keep it loose, but more focused on emulation. Piracy discussion is allowed, that's one reason we're on this domain.
A General Discussion will be stickied for the community to chat in about whatever. Staying on topic isn't important in any GD stickies.
Rules
#1: Obey our domain rules first and foremost.
#2: Mundane Tech Support/Game Sourcing Questions need to be kept to the stickied posts, unless it's something novel/interesting others might want to see.
#3: Unless it's at least tangentially relevant to emulation, no politics. Don't get your toque in a knot.
#4: Be nice, and consider reporting an offending hoser of #4 instead of responding to mean people to begin with.
Inspired by negative impressions of /r/ROMS:
#5a: Strive to be polite & patient with noobs asking questions.
#5b: Doesn't mean be a doormat.
Helpful Links
Good shaders for stuff like retroarch: https://github.com/RetroCrisis/Retro-Crisis-GDV-NTSC
https://docs.libretro.com/shader/crt_royale/
https://r-roms.github.io/ Get all your games here, retro and up. r/ROMs reddit community's game link aggregator.
Myrient for data hoarders. Here you can get full sets of PS3/360 era games: https://myrient.erista.me/files/ A Download Manager is recommended. JDownloader2, for example, download the clean installer here: https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=54725
Another aggregator: https://shakil-shahadat.github.io/awesome-piracy/#roms
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page The wiki dedicated to all things emulation.
https://www.readonlymemo.com/emulation-101/
Fiddly Switch Shit
Current prime Yuzu continuations:
1st: https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden
2nd: https://sudachi.emuplace.app/
Ryubing probably the main Ryujinx fork: https://git.ryujinx.app/ryubing/ryujinx
Mirror of the last release of the original project: https://git.axenov.dev/mirrors/ryujinx
or
Switch games:
Speaking of which...
For more fiddly emulators, their wiki sites provide tweaks/fixes/hacks, and explain any bugs that are still known issues.
https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Category:Games
https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Category%3AGames
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Nintendo_GameCube
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Wii
Hax
Account Required Pre-Patched ROM/ISO hacks and fan translations here: https://retrogametalk.com/repository/
DIY ROM/ISO patches: https://romhackplaza.org/
Browser based ROM patchers: https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/
https://www.hack64.net/tools/patcher.php
https://www.ff6hacking.com/patcher/
Good Programs
The good (standalone) N64 emulator: https://github.com/Rosalie241/RMG
Quick and Dirty shaders in a window you can overlay on other windowed emulators: https://github.com/mausimus/ShaderGlass
DM me if you'd like to mod. Please be over the age of 25, provide your country of origin (Canadian/friendly countries), and give a reasonable description of what your intentions are. l'o'l funni c'o'l'o'urs.
Well, people who create emulators have really deep knowledge of not one, but two systems. The one they're emulating and the one emulating it.
They are Chris Sawyer type "I do everything in ASM" level programmers. I can do some low level shit in Zig and C too, but these people scare me.
still use ZSNES to this day, hell it's the only SNES emulator I've used for some 20+ years. nothing can top it. works on everything. the netplay was amazing. playing fighting games with friends from IRC and ICQ was peak.
My 5 digit ICQ number went offline a year ago or so finally, some Russian company had ICQ until recently and shut it down after the Ukraine invasion.
I fondly remember playing Gundam Wing: Endless Duel with my friend online in ZSNES. Oh, the deafening silence after he rage quit. People don't forget, Alex, you fucking coward
Dude I loved that game! The game has so much movement and awesome super abilities.
Some of the gundams were op af. I remember playing online through an early matchmaking service in the early 2000s where the game was pretty popular. Like a good player could totally dominate you with shenlong using only jump kicks o.o
Word. Shenlong and Death Scythe were my go-tos. And of course Epyon if that was allowed
Epyon could just keep spamming that super and win 😅
Heavy Arms could get some redic 20+ hit combos if you could link a missile hit at range with vulcans
ZSNES is the GOAT. I have so many good memories with it.
Hahaha I remember Nesticle. That fucking icon was legendary.
What was the icon?
It was legitimately a hairy pixel art scrotum.
Adult me knows how dumb that is, but 90’s high school me made it a core memory lol. It was peak 90’s. The pointer was also a like severed hand with the bone sticking out the back.
I found an image. But, remember… hairy pixel art scrotum should say NSFW all by itself: https://i.warosu.org/data/vr/img/0009/43/1375451168991.jpg
I love it.
Thanks, shitman!
According to Wikipedia, it was a representation of a pair of testicles, but a cursory search isn't finding any immediate results and the website on Wikipedia appears to be down (perhaps not surprisingly).
I still use zsnes on PC.
Same! It still works great and I just got used to the interface
I used to have a copy of ZNES on my college network drive so I could play it in any of the department computers. Doubt they’d allow such a thing today.
