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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You got a what for your 360? I assume you mean some kind of exploit like JTAG. If not, you should look into ABadAvatar. It's an Xbox profile that exploits the system via the avatar system, so, as soon as the Xbox tries to load that avatar, it exploits itself. You should absolutely take the Xbox offline before doing this, for obvious reasons. It runs with, what they call 95% efficiency, so there's a 5% chance it won't work, in which case it just tries again.
You ever been to a convention where they were playing Rockband in the game room? Ever notice it had some "different" features, like showing the time elapsed/remaining above the score? That's not some obscure setting you missed. They're running a modded 360 and they're running Rockband 3 Deluxe on it. There are some videos on YouTube showing what it's all about... here's the 1.0 trailer. I'm sure they've added stuff since then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA6gn1TbmyE
Emulation is always going to be a bit behind in latency, so I'm not too sure about that. I think I was able to hook a mic up to my Mac and sing a song, but the instruments were always gonna be a problem because RPCS3 is a PS3 emulator and I only have Xbox instruments. I didn't try any. All I could ever do was sing anyway.
I'm aware of Deluxe. Roll limitless is a fan made controller + midi drums adapter based on raspberry pi pico, that works with Xbox 360, and was made in part because of limitations of the official midi pro adapter. Notably, it couldn't handle fast drum rolls, among other things. I was just wondering if console emulation was good enough that I can leave the 360 in the closet
Ah, okay. I'm not that big on hardware, especially when it comes to drumming. For example, would you agree that We Will Rock You is the easiest drum track (that has a drum track)? I can't get through that on any difficulty, because of endurance, and it isn't a long song, either.
My wife can do drums, but not on a level where we've ever thought about additional hardware beyond the cymbals (which she does use and plays Pro Drums on Expert and typically gets 5/Gold stars, but isn't topping any leaderboards).