Most of the library already ran pretty good, but a few games like SOTN stuttered quite a bit. Tried SOTN last night with the latest version of Retroarch for 3DS and it seems to play at full speed. Great news for me and the three other people who care who still give a shit about emulation on 3DS in 2025.
Nice, I love tinkering with my shit (and then never playing anything on it). I'll look into it.Cheers my melanin-enriched friend.
>>11509939christ what the fuck happened to that bottom screen. there's a massive dent in it
>>11510153That's a reflection of a light fixture on the ceiling, buddy.
>>11510157no it's not
>>11510164Ok
Do injects run at full speed yet?
>>11510171No; I injected your mom last night and there was definitely some lag.
>>11509939Pretty cool. Now, is there a SNES emulator that runs full speed and doesn't have dogshit sound emulation?
>>11510169It literally isn't dude. Who are you trying to fool? The screen of the bottom 3ds screen is made of matte glass and LCD, it isn't capable of reflecting something as far away as a ceiling unless you're house is 2 feet tall. Are you a hobbit? No.
>>11510283Ok
It's cool that PS1 made progress, but they broke Neo Geo a long time ago and just refused to address it.You either have to muck around with forwarders and an outdated version of RA, or use NeoDS and play everything at a crushed 256x192. Pretty dumb problem to have, frankly.
>>11510598biggest first world problem I've ever heard
>>11509939i'm actually stoked for this news, thanks op
>>11510726>the program got worse but uhh so what lolHush, pseud.
>>11509939I'd give a shit about PS1 emulation on 3DS in 2025 had I not owned the o3DS (basically the native GBA machine) and the Vita (basically the native PSP machine, native PS1 included).
I moved on and got a ps2
too late. the battery on my 3ds has already bloated
>>11510797change it baka
>>11509939What emulator and which version of said emulator, anon? I’m extremely interested in giving this a go
>>11510726you think the first world became the first world by celebrating problems or solving them?
>>11509939How does Ridge Racer 4 run now? I remember trying it a while back and it didn't run at full speed
Still shit screen and build quality.
>>11510803with what? another used battery or a chinese counterfeit?
>>11510815you mean it doesn't just use triple As? shit company
>>11509939Is it good for O3DS or just N3DS?
>>11510028i've seen that 3ds before. were you posting on the 3ds threads on /v/ right before the online shutdown?
>Hmm... which of the thousands of devices that can emulate the PS1 effortlessly should I choose? I know! The large, uncomfortable brick with a vestigial screen that struggles to run it at full speed!
>>11510881No man, not me. It's just a galaxy theme 3DS with grips. It was a special edition (which is apparently worth a decent chunk now).
The games looks as good as in psp or just blurry like ds games?
>>11510883yeah no idea why people think the steam deck is a good portable.
>>11510992Looks good, the 3DS screen is 240px tall so it will accommodate all non-interlaced PS1 games
>can play ps1 games>struggles to play snes gamesi don't get it
Daily reminder that the New 3DS doesn't have good replacement screens, so if it breaks you're screwed.
>>11511113Chrono Trigger worked just fine via SNES9X on my O3DS.
>>11510815I've never checked into these. Is there a specific problem with chinese batteries? I imagine if you could, the system would just be done for and no homebrew would come out?
>>11511132>Is there a specific problem with chinese batteries?just that they're less reliable than real ones, but considering real ones aren't being made anymore you're outta luck on that front
>>11510283Fucking idiot. I'll take a photo of my 3DS reflecting the light fixture on my cieling if this thread stays up by the morning.
>>11511113PCSX-ReARMed uses a recompiler core and is highly optimized for ARM devices such as the 3DS. SNES9X, however, is written in C and does not use a recompiler as it's meant to run on basically any platform, so the newer, more compatible versions with accurate sound and graphics are too much for it, which is why the only versions that run somewhat well on it are old versions with highly inaccurate sound emulation and lots of hacks and workarounds. The fastest version (SNES9X for 3DS) can play most games at full speed by utilizing the 3DS GPU for rendering, but this is pretty much a massive hack and colors often look wrong in games. As such, I prefer the SNES9X 2002 core in RetroArch, which is probably the least compatible and doesn't have the best sound emulation, but it's quite fast and the games that do work at least look right.
>>11511118Stop doompilling me and let me enjoy my 3ds..
>>11510986Bretty sure that was the last model they made before discounting them for good. The GameStop near my had a few still on the shelf for a long while, glad I picked one up on impulse all those years back.
>>11509939Now just get this shit working on Old 3DS
>>11511167So what you're saying is, we need a SNES emulator with a recompiler core optimized for low-end ARM devices
>>11510832Probably just N3DS, because that's what all the homebrew devs focus on. It pisses me off.
>>11510598What was the last Neo Geo emulator that worked?
>>11511217>>11511236The O3DS's CPU is hilariously slow. Even the PSP's processor is faster in terms of general performance. The N3DS's CPU is three times faster with double the cores, and it has twice the memory. It shouldn't be surprising that homebrew devs much prefer to target the hardware that is far less limited.
>>11511256Sadly, that comes at the expense of all the people who only own O3DS consoles, and aren't willing to pay an ungodly amount of money just to obtain a N3DS. If they optimized for the O3DS hardware, then their software would work well for all 3DS owners.
>>11511256>The O3DS's CPU is hilariously slowAll the more reason to optimize for it. Why optimize for something only a fraction of the userbase has?
>>11511246The FBA core used to work just fine, but I couldn't tell you which version of retroarch broke it on 3DS. The program itself now takes up too much space in memory, so it can't load the rom.The forwarder uses FBA 2012 (0.2.97.29).
>>11511269>>11511326When the hardware is this weak, unless your game or software is made from the ground up for the platform, "optimizing" basically means cutting back on features and/or using all kinds of hacky shit to make it run acceptably well. Now, some still do the work. For instance, there's that Virtual Boy emulator with fully working 3D effect that still works full speed on a O3DS, but that's an emulator made from the ground-up specifically for the 3DS, and one which most likely only exists because the 3DS is uniquely poised for playing games from such a system. Most emulators on the 3DS, meanwhile, are merely ports of already existing emulators, and making anything above the NES work full speed on the O3DS requires either using very old inaccurate and incompatible versions or doing something like using the 3DS GPU for graphics rendering, which will not have the best results.
>>11511326>just press coal into diamonds for free
>>11511337That at least points me in the right direction. I'll have to test some old versions of RA and see what works.>>11511353I mean, I don't mind speedhacks when it comes to getting something to work on underpowered hardware. I used to play tons of games in ZSNES, and that emulator was riddled with speedhacks. It'd be unrealistic to expect a BSNES level of accuracy from a SNES emulator running on an O3DS.
>>11511432ZSNES didn't just use speedhacks - it was also entirely written in x86 assembly, which is really the reason it was so performant. The majority of the SNES9X 2002 core is actually written in ARM assembly, and it STILL doesn't run well on an O3DS. Only SNES9X for 3DS does run at full speed due to it utilizing the 3DS GPU for graphics rendering, and that comes with some big drawbacks, and even then it won't play SuperFX or SA-1 games at full speed unless you have a N3DS. You'd have to write a whole new SNES emulator made specifically for the 3DS, entirely (not just partially) written in ARM assembly, for it to have any hope of working well and playing most games at full speed, and most people just cannot be arsed to. Shit, they didn't even do it for the PSP when that was the big dick emulation handheld around.
>>11510998>implying steam deck cant run ps1 at full speednigga please
>>11511490I remember how terrible SNES emulation was on the PSP. Do you think a properly optimized emulator would be possible for it? It's something I've been wanting for almost 20 years.
>>11511490>>11511256How far apart are the PSP and O3DS CPUs anyway?
>>11511269>t. thirdie
>>11511523It's possible in theory, but highly unlikely at this point. Again, one would have to be written from scratch targeting the PSP's MIPS hardware, and I highly doubt that's going to happen now. The SNES9X port we have is about as optimized as we're ever gonna get, being based on a very old version with every speedhack available, allowing you to utilize the PSP's full 333 MHz clock speed, and even utilizing the PSP's Media Engine, and it barely works to a semi-acceptable degree.>>11511530Not super far apart, but still enough that the PSP is better able to run a wider variety of emulators than the O3DS can. The N3DS beats it handily, and funnily enough is actually about on par with the Vita in terms of raw CPU performance. Where the Vita has a big edge is in its GPU, but that is basically irrelevant for emulation as it currently stands.
>>11509939before i die i want to be able to play sega saturn on my psp, 3ds or vita. something. anything. the steam deck is too big for my little hands.
>>11512245look on the chinkhelds side.
>>11511164wow those are some strange dents
>>11510157This has been debunked
>>11510229You need more minerals and nutrients as well as a healthier lifestyle.
>>11509939What's with the Pewdiepie keyboard? lol
>>11510028>Tfw got a used N3DSXl that has the galaxy top, but the bottom plate is a random red plateI mean, I'm glad I have the cover, but I'm a bit sad it's not a complete Galaxy N3DS. Top does look fucking great, though.
