Emulation & ROMs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month ago

PS5 emulation has gotten an AI turbocharge. So what now?

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PS5 emulation has gotten an AI turbocharge. So what now?

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Emulation & ROMs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month ago

Also this issue: Praise for the all-human Ar Tonelico 2 translation patch.

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Time to find a new one without ai.

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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.

Vibe slop AI decompilations, recompilations, vibed front-ends are BANNED due to being inundated by them now. Slop spam and they’re not really emulation anyway.

Actual emulators I give up and allow. I’m not censoring Switch 2 emulation news for example.
Flair tags for Pylova/Piefed users (wish Lemmy devs would add support) are now changed from “AI Assisted” to a green “AI Free” tag because that’s become the exception instead whether we like it for not.

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/

Boxart

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:

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/385tb-video-game-archive-saved-by-fans-myrient-has-been-100-percent-backed-up-and-validated-torrents-being-generated

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

Prod Keys for Switch

Switch Firmware

Current prime Yuzu continuations:

https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden/releases

https://github.com/suyu-emu/suyu-main

Ryubing probably the main Ryujinx fork for now:

https://git.ryujinx.app/Ryubing/Canary/releases

There’s also:

https://git.ryujinx.app/projects/Kenji-NX

Switch games (Use adblock for the love of gods):

https://nxbrew.net/

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

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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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