Emulation & ROMs
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.
- TheDude abides. Try to be like The Dude here.
#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.
- if the community grows, the stickies should be renewed monthly.
#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.
- We all start somewhere.
#5b: Doesn't mean be a doormat.
- Report rude, unjustifiably entitled, or ungrateful users asking questions too.
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 continuation:
https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden/releases
Ryubing probably the main Ryujinx fork for now:
https://git.ryujinx.app/Ryubing/Canary/releases
Switch games (Use adblock for the love of gods):
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
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๐ค one can experience problems with wine, certainly. but that exaggerates so much ๐
Fair. I just hate damn thing. Been using linux since 2010 and till like, 2016 nothing ever worked in wine for me. It was always some weird library problem which was hellish experience to install and like, after that process you could hit roablock like "net4.5" which just wasn't supported. And all of that just to launch installer, not even the program itself. Proton meanwhile just works.
But yeah, even if it works, it will take a hit performance wise. Considering PS5 have somewhat fresh zen2 cpu with relatively high IPC, any additional layer can cause a problem. Not like, a problem for top of the line CPU with something like zen4 or zen5, but for anything weaker than that - absolutely.
I get what you're saying, but saying nothing works under wine is a bit disingenuous ๐ I wish I had the skill set understand what it is that breaks when wine doesn't work. Unless someone has figured it out before hand I would have no clue bow to figure out what libraries to override or additional dotnet versions to install etc.