Hot take, but I don't like Retroarch that much

[Leon]

Retroarch is made for Emulator boxes connected to a television and controlled by a controller.
It's terrible for playing emulators on a PC. Maybe if they focused an ounce of effort for fixing mouse support inside retroarch it would be worth using on PC. I can't understand why the UI is so terrible on PC.

Or just make the desktop mode actually function properly, yes it has one outside of the wierd controller menu one, but good luck getting it to work right, it's like it was written by AI.

 

[NOTthatHARD]

Retroarch is trash, it performs way worse than any dedicated emulator and is also incredible hard to set up and use.

 

[DragonMals]

I wanna hear your opinions about how I'm wrong and stupid

Wrong and stupid?????? What on earth are you on lol I hate RetroArch too because of the same reasons you've provided. Standalone emulators have just enough fidelity to get ne around and about and its always something that I like doing more than just having to configure specific emulator stuff within a hub for emulators alike.

 

[raiden_dj]

I think RetroArch has it's place and is very useful for just being the centre of your emulation, but I've always loved how it's so cool that you can change settings per emulator, and I've always disliked using standalone emulators and not being able to tweak everything to my liking. That's my actual opinion.

 

[R66-Y]

Personally i prefer Bizhawk when i need a multi-platform emulator, but yeah, sometimes it's more convenient to just use standalone emulators.

 

[raiden_dj]

I've been using it for yeeeeaaaaaarrrrsss so im inmune to the "oh no too complicated" problem lol
with things like auto save state and auto load state, shaders, controller autoconfig, screen rotation for shmups, per game configurations, all in a single program i can use without using anything but my controller, i just cant for the love of god not use it un-fucking-less i stricktly have to use a standalone emulator because of performance or compatibility issues or stuff you cant play on retroarch
but aside from that, retroatch ftw

linux user btw lol