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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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#1: Obey our domain rules first and foremost.

#2: Mundane Tech Support/ROM Sourcing Questions should to be kept to the sticky posts, unless it's something novel/interesting others might want to see.

#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.

#5b: Doesn't mean be a doormat.

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.

A Download Manager is recommended. JDownloader2, for example, download the clean installer here: https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=54725

Play ROMS online within your web browser emulators here, no setup required: https://vimm.net/vault

Myrient is shutting down unfortunately :( You can read about it here and about the rescue mission fan torrents:

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/385tb-video-game-archive-saved-by-fans-myrient-has-been-100-percent-backed-up-and-validated-torrents-being-generated

More aggregators: https://shakil-shahadat.github.io/awesome-piracy/#roms

https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/emulators/

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

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

Fiddly Switch Shit

Prod Keys for Switch

Switch Firmware

Current prime Yuzu continuation:

https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden/releases

Ryubing probably the main Ryujinx fork for now:

https://git.ryujinx.app/Ryubing/Canary/releases

Switch games (Use adblock for the love of gods):

https://nxbrew.net/

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

Hax

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

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/

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

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Release GBE+ 1.10 (github.com)
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DMG/GBC/GBA emulator and experimental NDS emulator. - Release GBE+ 1.10

Ain't nobody got time for jokes today! There are some pretty sizable additions with the new GBE+ 1.10. Here's a breakdown of all the developments over the past year.

Notable Changes:

  • Added support for the Wave Scanner, for use with Ryuusei no Rockman on the DS.
  • Added support for the Wantame Card Scanner, for use with Wantame Music Channel: Doko Demo Style.
  • Added support for the unreleased Vaus Controller. Allows you to use joysticks to control the paddle in Alleyway on the Game Boy.
  • Added support for the unreleased WorkBoy. Allows you to use a QWERTY keyboard to emulate the WorkBoy's keyboard.
  • Added support for sending and receiving Nectaris maps. This brings GB KISS support to 100%.
  • Added support for the Bayer Didget. This is mostly a copy of the Glucoboy, but for the NDS.
  • Added support for file fragmentation when running dumps of AM3 SmartMedia cards.
  • Added stereo support for the GBA core.
  • Completely reworked networking in DMG/GBC and Pokemon Mini cores. Allows for easier disconnects and resets (without segfaults!)
  • Save States are now versioned. GBE+ will refuse to load incompatible versions. Everything from 1.9 and before will not work, so consider booting up from a .sav file and making new ones for 1.10.
  • Save States now have Time & Date metadata in format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. GBE+ will display this in the GUI, letting you see which save states you've used and when you last used them.
  • The Qt GUI now displays FPS in the titlebar.

Other structural changes have been made to better facilitate GBE+'s transition to SDL3 once a stable release of SDL_Net 3.0 comes out. GBE+'s architecture should be able to accomodate a Vulkan backend in the future as well.

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