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.
#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.
#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.
#5b: Doesn't mean be a doormat.
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
Thank you for this article because I would have had no idea. I would have seen that console and not know who tf Palmer Lucky is. But, I do know what Anduril is. There's just too many war crimes CEOs for me to know/remember them all.
Side note, related. Stop supporting Mark Roper/CrunchLabs too. He loves Anduril and frequently features them.
Can these people please stop using names from LOTR and stop ruining the things I love?
All of those are owned by thiele
He's selling you an n64 and selling the department of war weapons.
He also looks like an absolute dipshit. Lol.
Ah, but would an absolute dipshit say something like this, on the occasion of winning a US military contact?
For Luckey, the contract transition is his own watershed moment. In his blog on Tuesday, he wrote that the announcement is "deeply personal."
"Everything I've done in my career — building Oculus out of a camper trailer, shipping VR to millions of consumers, getting run out of Silicon Valley by backstabbing snakes, betting that Anduril could tear people out of the bigtech megacorp matrix and put them to work on our nation's most important problems — has led to this moment," he wrote.