Worst emulation experience(s)?

[Sfjeov]

Running vita3k was the worse with extreme lag and graphic glitches on even games deemed "playable." At least, I managed to get super meat boy working at the lowest resolutions and gpu settings tho.

 

[Deleted member 898720]

I'm having problems with the N64 emulator. I don't know if there's a device that can handle these emulators. I haven't found any yet.

 

[Yurokashi]

I remember using PCSX2 trying to emulate FFX-2 and it ran like dogshit, getting 3fps in the opening FMV The other thing that was hell was trying to play one of the God of War PSP games on my old-ass BlackBerry phone... worse experience lol

 

[Guinea]

Harvest Moon 64 for me. No matter the emulator, rom, or device, it's mad buggy. The fucking dog bowl always flickers when I run and it pisses me off!!!

 

[Goshikk]

One of my first experiences with emulation was trying to play Super Mario World on the PC and not being able to stand the input lag
So yeah, my worst nightmare is... anything that isn't retroarch so I can't have a frame of runahead

 

[petran79]

trying to run Bleem on a p233 mmx when it required p2 at least.
SOTN was slow so I only got till Death scene. Wanted only to see how it plays. Would have enjoyed it on a real Ps1.

 

[SeventhSon]

Sega Saturn emulation for years was impossible for me

Here's my best emulation experience

 

[csanjuro]

Sega Saturn emulation for years was impossible for me

Here's my best emulation experience

needs more emulators into emulators

 

[SeventhSon]

needs more emulators into emulators

Emuception

 

[Mopeybloke]

Retroarch.

this, I don't know how people can use this convoluted mass of things
also Mednafen

Yes, let's find a way to play old games using the most convoluted way possible! How people can actually recommend this shit is baffling

EZ

 

[Zergling666]

SC 3 on PCSX2, I first tried to do it in late 2009. Nowadays it emulates just fine but that for sure took a while.

 

[DjQuick2008]

N64 has to be the hardest still.works 100% on my retrobat hard drives though

 

[RandomHajile]

• PS1 to emulate, for me, was pure chaos with BIOS and finding the right ones. I did got the gist and made work ePSXe even in my first smartphone ever. Duckstation then made everything so much easier.

You too?? I struggled for a decades with ePSXe and hated the plugin system. What was the other one? Started with an F? I hated both. Tomb Raider always looked and sound so crappy on them too. Thankfully, I discovered Duckstation a couple years ago and haven't gone back. It's not perfect, but it's incredibly simple and "just works". You can't say that about ePSXe, good lord.

 

[Mopeybloke]

Started with an F?

pSX Fin. It was abandoned about as soon as it came out and it kept on being used for over a decade.

Thankfully, I discovered Duckstation a couple years ago and haven't gone back. It's not perfect, but it's incredibly simple and "just works".

Ducky is better, but later versions of ePSXe came bundled with the good plugins by default and you didn't have to choose anything. It was like that last time I used it.

 

[John Cruelty]

Setting up Mednafen and the inputs to play Trauma Team on Dolphin
Nightmarish, but worth it

 

[Graw]

Emulating ps1 games back in the early 2000's. I remember it being a huge pain in the ass and even when it worked games ran at like 15fps if I was lucky. Pretty much every game needed its own special configuration or plugins to work properly. I remember having presets saved for just about every game I played. That was how I first played through the ps1 Final Fantasy games, Chrono Cross and Xenogears. i remember Chrono Cross was the worst. It ran slow as fuck and crashed semi regularly. Turn based games were really the only ones that were even close to playable for me. I never owned a ps1 growing up so I've never actually played much of the ps1 library outside jrpgs.

 

[DaveTheMan]

try sff or ssf

What makes it the Best? say over Yami and Beetle/Medafan Saturn?

 

[dr grim]

Before ? Ps1 with Bleem!

it was a chore trying to run anyting on it on my old computer and with some frequent crashes and graphic issues.

Now ? Saturn.

I love saturn but it's still a pain to emulate on anything else than a computer, i like to play a lot of games on my phone + gamepad or on some raspberry, but saturn have always been a problem on those.

 

[CheesyExplosive]

What makes it the Best? say over Yami and Beetle/Medafan Saturn?

well ssf is a "plan b" that is more useful than any existing saturn emulator plus you don't need any saturn bios to play them. i can show you demos if you want.

 

[secreto7]

What makes it the Best? say over Yami and Beetle/Medafan Saturn?

I think that it was one of the most performant or light to run of the Saturn emulators, so it was the most used on low-end hardware or old computers.

 

[Morgan Katarn]

PS2 honestly games never run well at all and there is many settings it´s a pain in the ass fiddle with to get it to work the best. Honestly it was simpler and cheap for me to just buy a fat PS2 put in a hardrive and slap on FMBC on a memory card and call it a day.

Hell even PS3 was simpler to emulate only issue is allot of games don´t work at all still.

Another system that´s pain to emulate is PC-98. Most PC-98 emulators often gets abandon sure I can still get it to work decently with Neko Project II. But yeah it´s a lot to fiddle with to get an EMU that´s in English so you can bloody read what your doing.

 

[NeonKnights]

Trying to play the Zelda CDi games using Retroarch cores and free CDi emulators. Nothing worked. I downloaded multiple versions of the games and messed with the settings but could never get it to load. In the end I was able to try "Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy" but the Zelda games wouldn't or couldn't load. Eventually I gave up on CDi emulation altogether and just played the Remastered versions for Windows.

 

[RandomHajile]

Even though I loved it as a young emu nerd in the late 90s, I'd say MAME with it's stupid little thing where every time it updated, half your arcade roms would no longer be valid for the new version. There used to be a site called MAMEMIA (mame missing in action) that had the missing files older rom sets needed to work with each new updated mame release. Back then when you were on 28.8kbps modems, you couldn't re-download a 5mb rom and would rather download 45kb of missing files. Hated that. It's why I still have a complete MAME set and MAME itself from 2006 and still use that as my mame install on every PC

Though 2nd worst experience is running Gauntlet Legends on Project 64. Maybe it works nowadays, but for a decade it didn;t. I use ARES for it now.

 

[Heku]

The way that worked for me with the vast majority of arcade games on the M.A.ME emulator was by downloading different versions of the emulator with a 64-bit operating system; the 64-bit version and the 32-bit version.

 

[Mopeybloke]

PS2 honestly games never run well at all and there is many settings it´s a pain in the ass fiddle with to get it to work the best. Honestly it was simpler and cheap for me to just buy a fat PS2 put in a hardrive and slap on FMBC on a memory card and call it a day.

Have you tried the emulator since 2.0? Most game specific settings are applied automatically now.