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Armored Core? More like Armored Bore.

for gta 3, vc and sa
it is better to emulate the ps2 versions or just play the pc versions (the old ones not the garbage definitive edition)

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Finally got done with MK:DA konquest, Felt good though these combos were a pain with some of the timings being so weird

>>562680039
PC versions with mods (silentpatch, widescreen fix, skygfx, and ginput if you want to use a controller).

>>562681992
Why would you play the GC version? You do know 95% of the games that gen were developed with the PS2 in mind, right? Despite the GC being more powerful in some ways the difference in architecture and being a second class system resulted in lackluster ports most of the time. If it wasn't an exclusive or developed for GC first, it wasn't worth playing on it with scant exceptions. Why does everyone on emugen do it wrong? Why are zoomers so obsessed with engagement? I engaged. Are you happy?

>>562690767
Works on my MiSTer. What's the point of posting Ymir's fuckups? It's known to be in development and still in its first year. He's still fixing issues, right? You're just jonesing for an excuse to make a snark reddit tier tracker, aren't you?

>>562685028
Neat game, the real HOTD3 in my opinion.

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>>562693814
It's a long established /emugen/ tradition to post funny garbage graphics.

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>>562670216
is the Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 on SWITCH emulator 100% playable ? I see on Fitgirl website theres unavoidable crashes at certain parts of the game

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stop harassing me

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>>562693650
desu, Xbox usually took the crown for visuals back then. PS2 had the exclusives (and a few titles like True Crime: NYC that actually looked the best), but the hierarchy was generally Xbox > PS2 > GC (on visuals)

You're right about that 5% margin though; the GameCube outperformed the PS2 on certain titles.

Regardless, the SNES-to-PS2 run was the objective peak of the industry.

>>562704518
>Xbox > PS2 > GC (on visuals)
Ps2 loked like dogshit visual wise compared to the cube. Resident evil 4 shows it perfectly. Ps2 was the weakest console of the 6th gen.
>Regardless, the SNES-to-PS2 run was the objective peak of the industry.
4th and previous gens were too limited for most genres.
5th and 8th were simply the best in terms of genre diversity.
6th and 7th gen were typical aaa bullshit with indies being nonexistent.

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I remember loving this game as a kid but jesus christ is it harder than I remember, you spend almost every level getting knocked around like a pinball/getting stunlocked. Is the ps2 version harder or something? I only ever played the gc version as a kid but decided to check out the ps2 version as it has more content. I must have had a lot more patience back then because I know for a fact that there's no way in hell that I didn't struggle on some of these levels.

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>>562705197
>genre diversity
I kinda see your point but I don't fully agree.
The 8th gen only "feels" diverse because the indie explosion (XBLA/PSN etc.) happened during the 7th gen (braid, limbo, 'Splosion Man etc). It wasn't the whole industry suddenly getting creative you know.

>6th and 7th gen were typical aaa bullshit with indies being nonexistent.
I agree about the late 7th gen, but early-to-mid 7th (roughly 2005-2011) was pretty solid AA/AAA stuff. The real nosedive became obvious in late 7th and especially 8th gen (obama era, soros shit etc), when the political injection, censorship, and agenda shit started ruining everything in gaming industry (same as the rest of entertainment).

>4th and previous gens were too limited for most genres
True, but that limitation is exactly what forced devs to actually be creative. It's the classic "engineer's dilemma", constraints breed ingenuity. You see the same thing in every other industry.

>5th was simply the best
Yeah, it was one of the last eras before the cultural stagnation really kicked in. Peak vibes.

Anyway, objective truth is that SNES/Genesis to PS2/GameCube era was the golden age of the entire industry.
I hope the West gets a proper cultural revival at some point, but honestly it doesn't look likely.

Cheers mate.

Is teknoparrot malware? It makes you install it and sign a bunch of weird eulas and waivers about how it's going to steal your data, it's alleged made by a company in Eastern Europe that doesn't seem to exist, and after all that it doesn't even work. I just wanted to play House of the Dead 4 and it instantly closes itself.

so which is it
if a game has both which version should i play, ps2 or gamecube?

>>562709784
Check the compatibility list first, as always.The one with the least problems is the one you want. No point in playing something that has issues.

>>562695503
Emulate the Wii versions, you'll have no crash and if you can run a Switch emulator, you can run the Wii one.
>But muh motion controls
Map the pointer motion on the right stick and and the shake on the triggers of your choice, here, you covered 95% of the gameplay case of the first game.

>>562709784
Purely from emulation standpoint, LRPS2 w/ Parallel-GS offers superior experience to Dolphin. Some games are natively better on GC though.

>>562709784
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/List_of_notable_ports

and the compatibility list of emus.

>>562710480
>rely from emulation standpoint, LRPS2 w/ Parallel-GS offers superior experience to Dolphin
Nope. Lrps2 doesn't even offer a better experience than pcsx2.

>>562712105
skill issue

>>562710460
Its a hassle so no thanks

>>562712160
-Worse performance if you want anything than native blurry mess.
-Worse compatibility
-Worse features than standalone or dolphin.
-Tied to retroarch.

>>562713554
>-Worse performance
buy better hardware
>-Worse compatibility
it just werks for 99% of ps2 library, inaccuracies may stem from inaccurate EE float emulation that is also present in pcsx2
>-Worse features than standalone or dolphin.
what features
>-Tied to retroarch.
that's a positive

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I can't seem to get disc swapping to work in beatmania. No matter which disc I choose, it just stays on Arcade 2ndMix (which is disc 1). Am I doing something wrong? I'm using retroarch and using the eject disc, select disc from disc index, then insert disc options.

all the game cube games on myrient were on rvz format right?

>>562713657
>buy better hardware
Use better emulators, much simpler.
>it just werks for 99% of ps2 library
It's compatibility is below pcsx2 since updates are way behind. Ratchet games still have issues while pcsx2 auto applied patches.
>what features
Like the ability to go for 3x native with stable fps.
>that's a positive
Retroarch fag being delusional as usual.

>>562714054
just be honest for once and admit you can't figure out how to get retroarch to work

>>562713834
Okay I just had to make it so Retroarch didn't pause content while the menu is open. Now it works.

>>562714110
The only thing i will admit is my small d, ups, meant that retroarch is shit.

>>562716378
You would be wise to refrain from giving opinions on emulators on platforms that you're incapable of configuring, it's evident that your criticism stems from the lack of exposure rather than expertise

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>>562717235
Good, you're beginning to see the light. Now choose an appropriate CRT shader, Parallel-GS was made with them in mind.

>>562717341
Crt for 6th gen, ughhhhh.

>>562717403
please anon, don't discredit yourself further than you already have

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This is the third time I've seen that giant fist coming through a portal attack in Jap media. It was in the DBZ movie with Janemba, and it's in this, and it's in Bayonetta.

>>562717487
1080p monitors kinda suck for crt shaders.Need a minimum of 4k to get something good.

>>562718113
Depends on the mask. Aperture grille is pretty easy to emulate even for 1080p displays

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>>562717235
Use SDTV experience preset on emugen wiki for sixth gen+

>>562718729
Emugen wiki is compromised. They recommend ymir for saturn for crying out loud, that buggy piece of shit

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>>562718835
>Emugen wiki is compromised
Always has been.

>>562718835
>They recommend ymir for saturn for crying out loud, that buggy piece of shit
I just fixed that. What else is "fucked up" in your opinion?

>>562718186
>Depends on the mask
true

>Aperture grille is easier to emulate
yup

>even for 1080p displays
for 480p content, no. 240p? sure.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Shaders,_presets_and_filters#Display_Hardware_Requirements

AGI will save edge-smoothing

>>562712364
Show'em the shitty textures in the Switch version, schizo-kun.

>>562709784
Typically PS2 unless it was developed for GC first, which is the case for Killer7, Viewtiful Joe, or RE4. Same goes for Xbox as lead to PS2, the Xbox version will be a lot better. Lead platforms matter for that gen because the archs were so wildly different. USUALLY PS2 vs Xbox means you should pick the Xbox version (if emulated properly) for west-slop, but Jap games dev'd on PS2 first have some effects missing or fucked up on Xbox. MGS2 and Silent Hill 2 come to mind.

>>562709784
check out metal arms on ps2. shit looks like a ps1 games lmao. the xbox version has higher res textures but insanely nasty screen tearing. gc comes out on top.

>>562728874
Yeah, some of the later simultaneously-dev'd games did start leveraging the GC's GPU more to come out ahead of the PS2.

fuck y'all fake emuniggers you'll be cowards don't even smoke crack

>>562729126
Pixel slop.

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>when the political injection, censorship, and There's no soul in any of this shit anymore.
Used to be you'd fire up some random old game, and it just hit different. The music, the pixel work, the little janky quirks, it all felt alive, like it was made by actual humans who poured their heart into it. Now? Everything feels sterile, corporate, focus-grouped and sanitized by a committee of HR folk who’ve never touched a real controller in their life. And the worst fucked up thing is, I'm not even a boomer. I'm just a younger guy. I shouldn't be sitting here feeling like some nostalgic oldfag mourning the death of something I barely got to enjoy in its prime. Yet here I am. It's honestly depressing as fuck.

https://youtu.be/ZVgq8609LKE

Can I emulate love?

>>562740254
Every relationship you thought you had was that.

>>562714054
Who the fuck uses RetroArch for PS2 emulation?

>>562747042
Anyone who wants to use PGS without a weird build, baking it themselves, or using troonux

>>562680039
Games from that generation almost always had atrocious PC ports.
You're gonna have to mod the fuck out of them just to get basic functionality happening, like graphics options and controller support etc....

Just emulate.

>>562690156
Excellent, underrated game. Gamearts were one of the best...

If you're after more, check out Psychic Killer Taromaru on the Saturn - it plays very similarly.

>>562693814
>Works on my MiSTer.
Worked perfectly on SSF when i emulated it in 2008.
And it was free.

Can't believe you people waited 20 years and paid hundreds of dollars just to emulate the saturn when you could have been doing it already for nothing.

>>562709784
Gamecube. Better graphics, better frame rates, better load times.
As for the actual state of Emulation, it's basically equal these days. A year or 2 ago i would have said Dolphin is miles better but PCSX2 has fixed up so much stuff it's excellent now.

>>562735998
I'm 45. I've seen video games go from something unique and interesting with shitloads of potential, to just another form of mainstream entertainment.
The word that describes it perfectly is Homogenisation.
All forms of media are getting squished together, to the point where there's barely any difference now between video games and TV shows - they're all chasing the same audience (middle aged women coz they spend the most money), they all focus on the same components (story) etc....

It's so sad seeing what happened to games, and it's why many people, myself included, almost exclusively just emulate older stuff. Coz there's more good games from generations 3 to 6 then i have years left in my life to actually play them.

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>>562680039
yeah, I’d recommend sticking to console emulation for all GTA games prior to GTA V

Grand Theft Auto 2 and Grand Theft Auto London 1969 + 1961 : PC emu
GTA III, VC and SA : PS2 emu
GTA IV : X360 emu, or PS3 emu if you have AVX512 cpu

>>562757883
Thanks for the perspective, old-timer. Wishing you health and a good life. May your journey be blessed even in the afterlife.

>>562708053
>he actually fell for the teknoparrot meme
ngmi

>>562719870
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>>562708053
Just play the PS3 version

>>562757284
I bought it for the fuck of it, and the MisterPi isn't that costly. I resulate on my PC 99% of the time. It was fun for a minute, though. It's still the best Saturn emu, and runs edge cases SSF, Beetle, and Ymir won't. I wouldn't recommend it unless you have a CRT and emu testing is something you do for fun, but we all buy stupid shit for fun now and then. Don't you? Ah, it must be a disposable income thing.

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>>562735998
this is Knight Online btw

>>562759935
RPCS3 works?

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>>562735998
Yeah, those mid-2000s regional MMOs. they were janky and grindy as hell, but the way they dominated specific parts of the world is a total anomaly. It’s interesting how a 'mediocre' game can become a cultural cornerstone just by being accessible enough.

https://youtu.be/o2Bm0uKLqmU
https://youtu.be/j5oumDaVXQc

This is what untreated mental illness looks like:
https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx/issues/171

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>>562757465
i guess im going to have to decide on each individual game

so there is no drawback in compressing ps1 games to chd?

>>562778331
Neither of these pencil necks have ever thrown a punch in their lives. In real life they'd be too afraid to even make eye contact with each other.

>>562778331
I don't know who's more nuts, obattler for honestly trying to debate with killjew or killjew himself. This fucking issue thread...
>someone's so buttmad he basically threatens to soft-SWAT killjew with a wellness check
Comedy platinum.
I hate it when he and his thralls (probably just him) shill on here, but he's absolutely hilarious. He's like the Francis E. Dec of emulation.

Are Ymir and PCSX2 the only major emulators with active and interesting development now? Everything else either moves at a slow pace, is in maintenance mode, or is simply dead now.

>>562779953
>He's like the Francis E. Dec of emulation.
More like an ESL Terry Davis.

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The True Analogs hack for the Armored Core games without dual stick aim are great, recommended.

>>562781963
No way, Terry didn't have this level of intensity. Killjew does.
>*FOOLS++RETARDED*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNgyyd0Z2KA

>>562783205
Game almost has a horror vibe with the dark fog and industrial textures, esp with the CRT shader.

>>562779953
He's just a chink* pretending to be American and completely hooked to Gemini. It's only a matter of time before his IA wife ask him to kill himself.

*He just take QEMU and Wine-3DFX, bolted the two together with to Gemini vibe-coding and hide the result behind a paywall so no one could find the true. Typical chink tactics.

>>562783792
>Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God
GEG, he's so close to calling it Cultural Marxism.

>>562784092
>CRT shader
Is it true that they're worthless or broken for 1080p plebs? I rather not replace my TV or monitor. That and I can't fit two 4k of the latter on my desk.

>>562785226
I think geom-deluxe is fine-enough at 1080, but the less resolution you have the more likely you'll see moire and similar nastiness on solid colors, esp with more complicated grills and geometry applied.

>>562775720
Come on, just google or jewtube it. It looks like it works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcB0tNCQz54
I'd play it if I had a gun.

Huh, so bleem! can't run on 86Box at all? Bummer, I was hoping you could somehow force it to run on modern HW like you could UltraHLE. (Yes, UltraHLE does in fact work on Win11.)

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I'm playing Ocean Hunter in the Model 3 emulator and the reticle doesn't line up with the mouse cursor on screen. I can't find a calibration option in the game's service menu. Does anyone know how to fix it?

>>562778892
>i guess im going to have to decide on each individual game
yeah basically. even in cases where it was specifically optimized for one system still have issues.
Sonic Heroes for GC is a great example; 60fps with no slowdown, but fmvs, audio, and textures were compressed due to less disc space.
Simpsons Hit & Run is blurrier on PS2, and GC can play it in 480p, but it looks like it has no anti-aliasing.
GTA on Xbox should be the best, but so many effects and design choices were made with the PS2 in mind that the lighting and fog are ruined on Xbox. It's a gigantic departure from the PS2's look and feel.
Spider-Man 2 sometimes looks better on PS2, sometimes on GC, again due to the compressed textures (and audio). Xbox should be the winner, but it altered the lighting/shadows so much it looks very different.
Silent Hill 4 Xbox has lighting and fog differences over the PS2, and it was used as a basis for the PC port.

and that doesn't even begin to cover xbox emulation likely being shit vs GC/PS2 for whatever game you're looking at.

>>562790538
Why not just ignore it and go by the reticle instead of the mouse. Isn't that why there's a reticle in game?

>>562793009
It's distracting.

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how the fuck do you configure a wheel controller for yabause? I try to set the wheel and rather than wait for an input for the different parts of the wheel it just instantly marks it, but I cant make any inputs or cursor movement ingame

>>562794874
Oh, stop.

>>562795337
help me

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>everyone glazing the new rpcs3 performance update
>it only adds 2-3 fps on the most demanding game
Lol.... lmao even, still. better than xenia

https://www.mamedev.org/?p=563

>>562799402
>eliminates the massive frametime spikes
seems pretty good.