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.

 

[Heinzu]

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.