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/ROM Sourcing Questions should to be kept to the sticky 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.
A Download Manager is recommended. JDownloader2, for example, download the clean installer here: https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=54725
Play ROMS online within your web browser emulators here, no setup required: https://vimm.net/vault
Myrient is shutting down unfortunately :( You can read about it here and about the rescue mission fan torrents:
More aggregators: https://shakil-shahadat.github.io/awesome-piracy/#roms
https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/emulators/
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 https://git.ryujinx.app/kenji-nx/ryujinx
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/repo/
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
I use RetroArch for everything 16-bit and older these days (unless there's no RA core for the system on the platform I'm using). Haven't played SNES for a while, but I have been using the SNES 9x cores. For most games you can just use the most recent core, but there are a handful of games that work better with one of the older cores.
The first F-Zero I played was the GBA version, which I also recommend.
I've used zsnes for like 25 years and I'll use it for another 25. :)
I swear I had a Japanese version (Super Famicom) with better hover cars back in the day although my memory is shaky about it.
Are you thinking of the more detailed vehicles from BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 perhaps? If so, they can be added to F-Zero with a ROM hack. As explained here, you can also apply a MSU-1 patch on top of that for CD quality music in any emulator that supports it (i.e. ares/bsnes/Mesen/Snes9x).
I will check it out. ty.
Bsnes/higan/ares. These three came from the same Dev (rip byuu/near). Not sure which one is the best, I'm a little lost in the history of them. Maybe Ares if you want easy of use.
Project64, ares (I know this one is windows only but it covers a lot), and I think you can play f-zero on the browser too. https://vimm.net/ might have it (Vimm's Lair) but Nintendo hit them a bit ago with some takedowns.
Now if someone could make a modern version..
https://decomp.dev/inspectredc/fzerox-expansion-kit?sort=updated
"F-Zero X (Expansion Kit) is 97.10% decompiled"
One day there will be a PC port of the N64DD expansion of F-Zero X at least, and a decompilation (human readable) makes modding far easier than a recompilation. I'd also love a new game entry in the series though lol.
With F-Zero SNES you can use the bsnes-hd fork which makes Mode 7 run in HD widescreen resolutions:
Project64 is Nintendo 64 lol, but ares is a very accurate emulator for SNES yep. Can see the community sidebar for rom site links.
Oh shit I glazed that in my reply sorry. I mentioned Vimm's Lair cause you can play stuff in your browser there specifically.
Oh that's a cool update, Vimm has one hell of a long history online.
Honestly one of the best places on the Net