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Anonymous01/27/26, 15:27No.555356238/emugen/ - Emulation General
PS2 recompiler edition: https://github.com/ran-j/PS2Recomp
Thread for the discussion of game console emulation, emulators, or your experiences in a game you're emulating
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Previous Thread: >>554384597 [/vg/thread/554384597#p554384597]
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Anon01/27/26, 15:28No.555356381
OP here, if you're on Debian (prolly ubuntu aswell) you need the following dependencies for building the PS2 Recompiler
> sudo apt install libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev
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Anon01/27/26, 15:35No.555356940
oh for god's sake, fuck VU1
https://github.com/ran-j/PS2Recomp#:~:text=VU1%20microcode%20support%20is%20limited
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Anon01/27/26, 15:43No.555357557
Why are we recomping ps2 games before ps1 games?
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Anon01/27/26, 15:50No.555358175
You westoids think emulation lets you escape current-day reality? Lol. Hand over your DRAM. You won’t be needing that GPU either. Here, enjoy Frame Gen and DLSS 8 Extreme. Remote compute on bloated androidslop is next, you’ll be another brown jeet soon anyway.
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Anon01/27/26, 16:05No.555359439
Never thought I would see Senhor Linguiça on /emugen/. Cool dude but looks exactly like the 56% meme
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Anon01/27/26, 16:18No.555360591
>github
Surely this will get shut down?
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Anon01/27/26, 16:19No.555360632
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Anon01/27/26, 16:30No.555361617
PSX emulator on Retropie looks so dogshit in a modern screen at 480p, its just ugly
I have a feeling it would look so much better on a CRT, but my BananaPi for emulation only has a HDMI-out and i dont have the lil converter thing
is it worth buying the HDMI to composite/scart ? How much input lag can i expect from it?
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Anon01/27/26, 16:31No.555361721
shouldn't we be doing recompilations for all consoles now and killing emulation altogether?
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Anon01/27/26, 16:51No.555363507
based nintendo is releasing two unreleased virtual boy games on the switch soon. can't wait for those to be ripped so i can emulate them.
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Anon01/27/26, 17:02No.555364542
SP must pay for his crimes.
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Anon01/27/26, 17:43No.555368325
I don't need no PS2 recompilation
I don't need PCSX2 with the latest hacky mess refraction and lightingterror has concocted
I need that Norwegian fuck TheMaister take a break from proton to finish Parallel-GS which is THIS close to perfection for emulating PS2
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Anon01/27/26, 17:51No.555369096
widescreen hacks for many emulators are very popular, but are ultrawide hacks available? I'm switching to ultrawide this month or the next and I'll finally start playing the games, hopefully I can use the entire screen
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Anon01/27/26, 18:02No.555370036
id really love to turn my PC into a media center / emulation station. Right now im running RetrOrangePi on a BananaPi M2-Zero which is quite hacky and not officially supported. Should i just hook up my i7 laptop to the TV ?
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Anon01/27/26, 18:17No.555371476
Do you guys use PC CRTs or TV CRTs for emulation? or just regular flatscreens?
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Anon01/27/26, 18:59No.555375662
Lately I've been seeing more broken PS3s and 360s than Genesis' and SNES'. In fact, a friend of mine still has a working Genesis from the '90s that sees frequent use but he's gone through, like, four PS3s. Why are those two so dogshit?
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Anon01/27/26, 19:28No.555378538
so can i disable mtvu (vu1) in pcsx2 like dolphin devs started asking people to disable dual core because newer cpus are powerful enough? im gonna start trying disabling it. already doing it in gtasa and it works fine
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Anon01/27/26, 19:33No.555378985
Thoughts on 250tvl vs 450tvl on smaller sets?
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Anon01/27/26, 19:47No.555380343
turns out i was right all along about vulkan being slower than opengl on linux and pcsx2 team fixed it. finally. afters years of posting about it here.
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Anon01/27/26, 20:10No.555382662
so it just magically converts all the system calls into something windows understands without relying on an emulation layer? wow!
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Anon01/27/26, 20:19No.555383578
Day 52 of trying to come up with a PS2 shader that looks good. No end in sight.
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Anon01/27/26, 21:24No.555390000
I'm convinced that 90% or more of the shaders RA ships with are just plain broken.
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Anon01/27/26, 21:35No.555391065
>two release candidates
>a release
>two post-release "urgent" updates
Was Citra that broken or are Azahar devs just vibe coding?
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Anon01/27/26, 22:53No.555398362
just how I remember it
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Anon01/27/26, 23:20No.555400863
>every stock video game sound in media ever
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Anon01/27/26, 23:58No.555404556
Do any CRT shaders pass the drop shadow test without adding motion blur to everything?
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Anon01/28/26, 01:07No.555410879
Thread smells like boomer shit. Go back to serving hasbara, you hippie boomers.
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Anon01/28/26, 01:08No.555410943
Is this the new schizo?
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Anon01/28/26, 01:32No.555413050
I was thinking, if at 120hz+ you can literally insert blackframes every other frame and the human eye interprets it as a dimmer image rather than flickering, couldn't you like... alternate between two slightly different versions of the same image and the eye would interpret it as one image with twice the resolution...?
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Anon01/28/26, 03:35No.555423458
>one frame for Y
>one frame for U
>one frame for V
the perfect crt shader
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Anon01/28/26, 03:45No.555424341
a recompilation can last several years doesnt it? i saw a guy on youtube recompiling sotn a few years ago and never ever seen him again
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Anon01/28/26, 04:36No.555428395
>PROJECT IS NOT READY YET, but the work has begun
so is a scam or is gonna be abandoned even before they do some real advance
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Anon01/28/26, 06:04No.555434413
Anyway, I thought of a sensible use case for this.
A recomp of DMC1 and DMC2 could be valuable since Capcom's shitty remasters from the DMC Collection has all kinds of bugs, visual and sound related.
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Anon01/28/26, 06:28No.555435821
Is there a way to manually set the Xbox 360 system clock in Xenia canary? I want to cheat for money in Fable 2.
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Anon01/28/26, 07:26No.555439175
holy shitghost in the shell on the psx with cpu boosted up to 200%no drawbacks, just raw 60fps kino
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Anon01/28/26, 07:41No.555440010
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Anon01/28/26, 08:28No.555442225
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Anon01/28/26, 10:36No.555448786
Has anyone here actually tried using a motherboard’s VGA or DVI-I output with onboard graphics (like the 780M) to drive a CRT? I mean native output only, not rendering on a modern digital only GPU and passing it through an older analog supported card.
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Anon01/28/26, 11:29No.555452161
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImigqkNQC98
this guy essentially did the universal crt I was thinking about, except for screen curvature which is retarded
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Anon01/28/26, 12:53No.555457483
How do we save Azahar?
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Anon01/28/26, 13:48No.555461323
What do you guys think of SimCity 64 (Nintendo 64DD) with Ares emulator and a CRT shader? Am I extremely schizophrenic to emulate that? Am I a lost cause? Am I one of the millions that this "system" failed? Should I hate myself? Should I hang myself?
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Anon01/28/26, 14:10No.555462878
havent messed around with emulators on my ipad since delta came out a few years back im pretty happy crapple finally is letting emulators on iOS.setup maniac EMU and it works great both controllers pair to it no problem no delay or anything and the aspect ratio on there fills so it looks quite nice. just wanted something to quickly play games on when im bored waiting around at the airport for a trip coming up or pass a controller to a friend so we can play a fighting game for a few rounds while waiting.
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Anon01/28/26, 14:15No.555463326
I can't play games with fast scrolling without Shader Beam anymore
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Anon01/28/26, 14:17No.555463470
>arson the entire preservation scene from the inside
You're right that grifters exist within the game preservation space, just not in piracy communities. (For obvious reasons.)
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Anon01/28/26, 14:48No.555465691
How do I even make this jump in kid Dracula?
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Anon01/28/26, 14:51No.555465894
Any suggestions on improving my cable management?
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Anon01/28/26, 16:06No.555472003
Anyone got a proper collection of mags/manuals/guidebooks/artbooks/newsletters/posters/comics/audiobooks/etc set up in some nice frontend?
Like Calibre + plugins, or LaunchBox/BigBox with manual PDFs, or something comfier like a custom MediaPortal/Kodi setup, or even just a big-ass PDF library in Sumatra/Okular with tags?
What do you lads use to browse your hoard without it being a total mess?
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Anon01/28/26, 16:23No.555473459
No love for gamehub/winlator on this general?
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Anon01/28/26, 16:25No.555473572
I can't wait for PS2 games to run natively on disc on Linux. My games are dying to be played but I hate Microsoft.
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Anon01/28/26, 16:33No.555474278
>alright, I recompiled this nintendo games for x86!
>*writes to memory address $4014*
>*segfaults*
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Anon01/28/26, 16:45No.555475383
jit recompilers already turn all your games into native programs
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Anon01/28/26, 16:48No.555475627
>posts off topic shit
>conplains it got sniped
Mental illness
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Anon01/28/26, 16:51No.555475915
ASI will save resulation
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Anon01/28/26, 17:12No.555477915
What's a good cheap device for streaming retroarch to my tv?I was thinking of using an Amazon Fire Stick with Steam Link, but can i use a ps4 controller with the firestick? Any other cheap options out there?
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Anon01/28/26, 17:15No.555478195
>tripfag
stream your phone camera viewfinder
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Anon01/28/26, 17:15No.555478209
In 2 more weeks you'll be able to just drag & drop any rom into chatgpt and it'll decompile it into source code even cleaner than the original thing with DX12 support and options to play in VR.
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Anon01/28/26, 17:28No.555479526
>but i don't think those details are relevant to this thread.
indeed
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Anon01/28/26, 18:11No.555483691
schizo
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Anon01/28/26, 20:03No.555494805
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Anon01/28/26, 20:04No.555494876
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Anon01/28/26, 20:05No.555494979
Are CPU clocks increasing again really the only reason why emudevs are suddenly dropping multi-threading or is there something else?
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Anon01/28/26, 20:13No.555495843
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Anon01/28/26, 20:35No.555498016
Don't forget to throw elad335 in there too (single-handedly ruined the entire rpcs3 project)
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Anon01/28/26, 20:49No.555499381
finally, with shaders I can play my old windows games exactly how I remember them looking
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Anon01/28/26, 21:13No.555501750
are there any shaders that let me play the game the way the devlopers intended - as a low quality ytmnd?
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Anon01/28/26, 21:57No.555505909
hmph talking about pcsx2 and arch and the one who integrated vulkan into pcsx2 and wondering a few things now
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Anon01/28/26, 21:59No.555506018
Has anyone been able to get the NSO Gamecube controllers to work on windows?
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Anon01/28/26, 23:28No.555514994
honestly report this autist, if you wanna be a weirdo at least try to be funny
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Anon01/28/26, 23:44No.555516538
While I was Autistically trying to get Donkey Kong (Coleco Adam) to work, I stumbled across an emu made with LLM assistance. I'm about to try it out and see if it's any good. (Not having any luck getting Adam ROMs [ddp] to run on any of the ColecoVision shart cores, so I'm going standalone.)
https://github.com/dvdh1961/ADAMP
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Anon01/28/26, 23:51No.555517278
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Anon01/29/26, 00:17No.555519787
I was scanning through last thread and kept seeing
>https://github.com/libretro/slang-shaders/blob/master/presets/crt-beam-simulator/crt-beam-simulator-fsr-crtroyale-ntsc-svideo.slangp
recommended as a shader preset, I like the look generally speaking but the lack of scanlines kind of bugs me, I thought this was considered one of the best? am I missing something?
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Anon01/29/26, 01:28No.555526398
It's weird how the RA documentation on writing shaders has massive holes in it just for basic RA-specific things, particularly in regards to all the options available in the slangp. I had to resort to digging through the shader parser code just to figure out what capabilities it had.
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Anon01/29/26, 01:49No.555528218
if you can emulate the universe then you can emulate everything inside the universe
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Anon01/29/26, 03:35No.555536837
>chatgpt do a PS2 games recompiler app, thanks
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Anon01/29/26, 03:42No.555537441
there's nothing to emulate on the ps2 anyway, all good games have been re-released and remade in newer platforms at this point
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Anon01/29/26, 04:31No.555541250
>>>/v/731819040 [//boards.4chan.org/v/thread/731797247#p731819040]
>Utterly filtered. Retroarch is amazing, you are just illiterate
kek
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Anon01/29/26, 04:33No.555541428
I'm getting real tired of retroarch and controllers. It'll say shit like "saved as wireless gamepad.cfg" then I'll go to that config and change the device name to SNES Controller or something and restart and it will still show up as Wireless Gamepad, I don't fucking understand why it's so convoluted.