Emulation

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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.

A General Discussion will be stickied for the community to chat in about whatever. Staying on topic isn't important in any GD stickies.

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Rules

#1: Obey our domain rules first and foremost.

• TheDude abides. Try to be like The Dude here.

#2: Mundane Tech Support/Game Sourcing Questions need to be kept to the stickied 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.

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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.

Myrient for data hoarders. Here you can get full sets of PS3/360 era games: https://myrient.erista.me/files/ A Download Manager is recommended. JDownloader2, for example, download the clean installer here: https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=54725

Another aggregator: https://shakil-shahadat.github.io/awesome-piracy/#roms

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page The wiki dedicated to all things emulation.

https://www.readonlymemo.com/emulation-101/

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Fiddly Switch Shit

Prod Keys for Switch

Switch Firmware

Currently probably maaaybe the good yuzu fork: https://git.citron-emu.org/Citron/Citron

Ryubing probably the main Ryujinx fork: https://git.ryujinx.app/ryubing/ryujinx

Mirror of the last release of the original project: https://git.axenov.dev/mirrors/ryujinx

Switch games: https://nsw2u.com/

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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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Hax

Account Required Pre-Patched ROM/ISO hacks and fan translations here: https://retrogametalk.com/repository/

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/

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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

DM me if you'd like to mod. Please be over the age of 25, provide your country of origin (Canadian/friendly countries), and give a reasonable description of what your intentions are. l'o'l funni c'o'l'o'urs.

MODERATORS

The app was constantly rejected for over a span of about a year.
The app was rejected as "spam" for much of that year, and was overturned after 2 appeals to App Store Review. They called me on the phone out of the blue to say they considered the appeal and deemed it as "not spam".
The app was then in a "we need more time to review" state for over 2 months.
I "vibe-coded" an NES ROM from scratch and included it in the app, just to have a demo that the App Store Review team can use without having them download a ROM. It was also in response to a review comment that said that the app can only run ROMs created by me. It was my first time developing for the NES/Famicom and it was a lot of fun!