Worst emulation experience(s)?

[bliss_freak]

I remember trying to emulate Dreamcast on a fairly weak laptop in the early 2010s and having all sorts of slow-down and constant rendering issues with transparency, which made certain areas in games with a lot of water unplayable.

 

[m5m5h]

I remember trying to emulate Dreamcast on a fairly weak laptop in the early 2010s and having all sorts of slow-down and constant rendering issues with transparency, which made certain areas in games with a lot of water unplayable.

there's a certain mission in driv3r you cannot pass it because it glitches with pcsx2 emulator till this day this mission piss me off so much

 

[Maresia]

Emulating NES and Sega Master System on original PS1 hardware:
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However, the disc was still useful since you can access all the ROMs on PC and play them on a proper emulator.

I had one of those too. At the time I didn't have a PC so that was the only way I had to play older systems. The NES emulator was playable for some games, I remember beating Rockamn 4 on it.

The sound in the Master System emulator was horrible, but at least you were able to turn it off.

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[R66-Y]

My old laptop trying to run Super Smash bros Melee in the Dolphin emulator

 

[Ikagura]

My old laptop trying to run Super Smash bros Melee in the Dolphin emulator

Which model? I played on an old Compaq Pressario and while it was slown-mon I still ended up appreciating it.

 

[cjl8336 cjl8336]

early days of CPS-2 emulation, getting kawaks to run was a pain in 2006
I finally got sega saturn games to run with bizhawk after years of fussing with mednafen's command line interface
The worst one by far was final burn alpha - that POS software never worked for me, but good old MAME always does the job

 

[secreto7]

early days of CPS-2 emulation, getting kawaks to run was a pain in 2006
I finally got sega saturn games to run with bizhawk after years of fussing with mednafen's command line interface
The worst one by far was final burn alpha - that POS software never worked for me, but good old MAME always does the job

How odd, maybe it was due to the types of arcade roms you had?
Since most arcade roms are made specifically to work on MAME and the MAME specification for the files change over time, and the other arcade emulators might have diverged on the type of rom they worked with?