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RetroArch
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>>12850790
Not to sound like a contrarian or anything, but RA's UI is easily navigable in my experience. MAME by itself is where the Hell begins.
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>>12850781
what's wrong with it? that looks great
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looks like SCUMMVM
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>>12850790
fpbp
/thread
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Do official emulators count? I don't know how they do it, but some of them are even worse than hobbyist emulators.
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>>12850781
every Java emulator UI suck ass
also there is no GB/GBC/GBA emulator with a good UI
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>>12850781
stella is a GOAT emu tho. gtfo here. i bet youll aint even ride beams
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>>12850792
I hate the weird PSP interface and it looks ugly.
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>>12850981
Stella is great... as a libretro core.
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>>12850781
MAME is near unuseable
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>>12850993
Bro, that UI has been deprecated for years.
You can still use it, but it's not the default anymore as it lacks mouse support.
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>>12850781
This was so good damn ugly and disorienting. Was using Win32 that hard?
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>>12850781
MAME has by far the worst UI.
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>>12851104
That's an emulator for MSDos, anon.
Win32 API wasn't even an option.
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>>12851104
Shut your mouth
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>>12850781
mednafen :^)
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>>12851170
It's so terrible that you need some kind of launcher for it.
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>>12851093
Average RA hater is stuck in 2015
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>>12851170
OP said emulators with shitty UIs.
Mednafen is worse than that, it doesn't even have a UI at all.
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>>12851226
>anon never learned what sarcasm is
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>>12850781
So, which emulators do you think they have a good UI, OP?
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>>12851370
Ares and BizHawk.
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>>12850781
it's not just that it's bad
>have 2 monitors
>MAME starts on 2nd screen, instead of main screen
>no option in the UI to change which screen it starts on
>google my issue
>a million different solutions from old forum threads and non work or are properly explained
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>>12850993
>>12851093
Not only that - one can easily just change the UI driver. Personally I use rgui because it's just the most non-bullshit one, imho.

>nooo, why I am forced to change the settings to make program work the way I want it to work! Why devs cannot cater to my super special needs! Aaaargghh!

Skill issue.
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>>12850792
Your experience is wrong.
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>>12851370
DuckStation
PCSX2 (Modern Qt Releases)
Dolphin
PPSSPP
RPCS3
Mesen
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>>12850792
mame is easy, just give it your rom directory and start typing the name. configure with tab
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>>12851093
>using a mouse
I seriously hope you guys don't do this.
But really, none of the interfaces show more than one option in a row so you might as well use the PSP interface.
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>>12852480
>PCSX2
I shouldn't have to switch to windowed mode everytime I want to load state from backup, just sayin'
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>>12851212
When something is shilled as the most revolutionary technology since silicon and it's a pain in the ass right out the gate, can you blame people for writing it off?
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>>12850790
low iq problem

how about no ui at all
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>>12851561
the RGUI still has a bunch of unnecessary menu options you have to disable, and there's just too many features, too much bloat from useless features I'm never gonna use. every time I try to use RA it's too much of a hassle and I end up going back to regular emulators. the only thing I really like from it is the refresh rate vsync stuff.
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>>12851561
I'm not going to do that, I'm just going to use an emulator that functions and looks better as is
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>>12852950
No one uses Mednafen without a front end.
Right?
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>>12850790
/thread

>>12850792
>when you're so fucking stupid that you get filtered by MAME
fucking embarrassing
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>>12850790
Based so heavily that light itself bends around him.
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>>12850792
Is this how trannification in males begins?
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>>12850993
PPSSPP was always a great emu for PSP games for me, I don't see ANY kind of a reason to make an entire frontend which only makes sense if the cores are up to snuff. It's also completely unnecessary in the first place.
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RetroArch UI makes me sick.
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>>12853479
RetroShart's UI isn't complicated, it just has a million settings and submenus
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>>12853501
Finding the settings you want isn't simple, and you have to find these settings in the first place because the defaults are fucking retarded.
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>>12850790
came here to post this
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>>12850781
video games before the nes sucked
i don't know why people play video games this old. they don't look remotely fun
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>>12851370
i play emulators via retroarch

i don't use emulators outside of retroarch. i see no need to
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mednafen also plays saturn games and genesis games

i just saturn beetle to play saturn games and psx beetle to play psx games now
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>>12854697
i just use*
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>>12854629
>before the nes
Putting it that way makes it seem like you are unaware that arcades existed. I bet you don't like arcade-style games on the NES either.
In reality arcades were the biggest sector of vidya until the mid-90s. The basic idea of improving and beating a high score is actually pretty fun when combined with a social element. And the 2600 is very much a home arcade experience. The main achievement of River Raid was to score 15,000 points, take a photo, print it, mail it to Atari and they would send you a cool badge.
Not trying to convince that you should find it fun, but it's not that hard to understand why other people do, especially ones who were there.
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>>12854745
you are right. i hate arcade games
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>>12854635
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>>12854697
What's the point when Ymir and Duckstation exist
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>>12852980
i used to build my own with shell scripts. hell on linux you just need to run fzf to select a rom.
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>>12854629
What a retarded blanket oppion you have there.
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>>12851104
>This was so good
true
still is
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>>12854836
Realistically, how many commercial games did this thing run?
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>>12854983
Probably none
https://web.archive.org/web/20010404045124/http://personal.riverusers.com/~ka5ste/
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>>12850790
/thread
FUCK retroarch.
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>>12850781
>Select game
>Play game
The fuck is the problem here?

>>12850790
RA is perfect. So many features and options like run ahead.
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if you cant figure out how to use retroarch you are a retarded faggot
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>>12855147
Stella's perfectly functional, but it looks ugly as sin.
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>>12850781
This UI is better than anything that has been released by any major software developer in the past decade.
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>>12856914
When compared to James Pond "Legacy", you're not wrong.
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>>12850981
Love this game, but I think the 8 bit computer versions are better.
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>>12851104
Perfection, it was all downhill from here.
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>>12854697
>copy pasting with the mouse instead of autocompleting with tab
fuck off poser.



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