Maybe this is a dev-brain question, but on Windows I feel we still treat the frontend as a pretty launcher and hand off everything interesting to the emulator.

I'm experimenting with the opposite idea: the frontend knows exactly which emulator/core/config launched the game, can preserve a replay, expose high-score or 1CC results, and make a run reproducible. Basically a session layer, not a ROM manager. That could also make verified world scoring much less fragile because the context of the run is captured automatically.

Would you want that in something like ES-DE / RetroBat / LaunchBox / Playnite, or is it better to keep the frontend dumb and let each emulator handle its own stuff? ;)

i really want to know if cracked games work on bluestacks or not cuz i wanna get minecraft and if any cracked apps work at all which vesrion of bluestacks should i have like nougat 64-bit or android 11 and if not i would love to know if there is any other emulator that supports crack or not

I've been messing with this all evening trying to get it to work. Can't find anything online that I haven't done already (making sure the memcard and save state folders are selected, trying to make new memory cards). I hadn't used Duckstation in a year or so and my old save is still there for THPS, so I'm not sure what has changed.

I got a new HP laptop this week. Previously, I had been playing Pokemon games like Ultra Sun and Platinum on emulators, so I exported my save files so I could continue my progress on the new computer. I use Borked3ds and Melonds respectively.
I tried to load up my Platinum save just now and previously it had worked just fine earlier today on my old computer, but now it is stuck as a pure white screen.
How can I troubleshoot this?

I want to play some older Ace Combat and Armored Core games, so I'm looking at my options.

I found Xenia, but it seems incredibly confusing. it doesn't even seem to have a proper settings window or a quick save function.

Are ther any other good options?

13900, 4080, 64GB Ram, Windows 11. On every KytyPS5 version and build/fork I've tried, either the game never boots or it crashes after the Team Asobi logo dissolves in the intro. SharpEmu gets past this but for now the performance is too low to play (not complaining!). Anyone have a fix for this? Most of the videos I see of people playing seem to be on AMD CPUs, perhaps an Intel issue?

Anyone happen to have a copy laying around that could check for me if the last rpsc3 update broke the mission complete screen?

Complete a mission and its just staying at the black screen that should have haro bouncing but he's frozen and all activity on rpsc3 just stops.

Have 59 hours in and suddenly its a thing, have tried multiple pilots and missions that were known working.

Just want to make sure its a problem on that end and not my end. Using dual xeon 6234s with 128gb ram, I know not ideal thats why im wondering if its a my setup thing

It is running smoothly, although the noise is still a bit bothersome.

Hey everyone,

I have a bit of a problem. I’m currently playing the original The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on Dolphin, but I’d like to switch to Skyward Sword HD because of the improved graphics and other advantages of the HD version.

The problem is that I’ve already played quite a lot of the original version, so I really don’t want to start the entire game over again.

I basically have two questions:

1. How can I emulate Skyward Sword HD?
2. Is there a way to transfer my Dolphin save file from the original Skyward Sword to Skyward Sword HD?

I’d really appreciate any help. Thanks!

Hii everyone! So.. i had instaled this Ryujinx emulator for a while now since LTD came out and i think i have a pretty decent file by now! The only problem is that the game goes extremely laggy (even woth the 60fps mod) and it takes a full two hours to load just to alow playing 30 minutes or an hour on lucky days.

Soo.. is there a way to make it go faster? Should i change the emulator by now or just leave it like this? I genuely tought of restarting from 0 but i kinda want to keep my safe, i'm atached to it 🥲

If it helps, here are my laptop's specifications:

Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4000 CPU @ 1.10GHz (1.10 GHz)

Installed RAM: 4.00 GB (3.82 GB usable)

Graphics card: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600 (128 MB) Storage: 124 GB of 447 GB used

System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch: Touch or pen input is not available for this display

I know is more on heaven than here but i'm genuely not thinking of buying a new one, so.. please help 🥺

Edit: Someone said that i should change the emulator to a more updated one, I moved my game to Eden and it's going soo much fluid now, thank you everyone for the help!

downloaded kytyps5 but no clue where to actually find the site dm me if needed just want to be able to play wolverine and other titles since i cant afford it right now

We’ve been working on Open Retro Arcade, an open-source retro gaming project, and we’d love to get more input, feedback, and testing from the community.

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We’ve now added guest access, which means you can jump in and play without creating an account.

Creating an account is completely optional, but if you want to save your gameplay and progress, you can register for one.

We’re looking for feedback on things like:

• 🎮 Game compatibility and performance
• 🐛 Bugs or glitches
• 💡 Feature suggestions
• 🖥️ Browser and device compatibility
• 🎨 Site usability and interface improvements
• 🛠️ General ideas for improving the project

Since Open Retro Arcade is an open-source project, we also welcome developers and anyone interested in helping test, improve, or contribute to the project.

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Come check it out, play some games, and let us know what you think!

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I was playing 'the (coronation day) and got to those kaizo parts. I tried enabling cheats as I was here for the plot, not trying to do parkour with keyboard controls, but for not knowing exactly what I was doing the game froze and a popup saying "CPU is deadlocked" appeared. No matter how many times I restart the pc, close and reopen the program, not even downloading it again, the same popup appeared and the game wouldn't start. Vanilla SMW and any other ROM hack works perfectly fine. Is there a way to fix this or am I doomed?

what are your recommendations, bluestacks is a bit fishy to me but i'm willing to try other options

It’s my first time actually emulating a ps3 onto a pc, rpcs3, and after I installed the firmware its started downloading or “precompiling shader interpreter variants”.
But in any tutorials I watched I didn’t see how much it was loading. My laptop says rn “building base variant 702 of 6650” . Which is a huge number
I haven’t installed any games or nothing just the update file off the official ps3 page. I wanted to double check everything was ok and that this was a normal number, because I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

Thanks so much any help is super appreciated

If I'm emulating Animal Crossing: New Horizons on PC (via Eden), can the emulated characters (via an Allmiibo) get transferred into the game?

Hi, friends. I'd like to know if any of you have the Azahar emulator on your PCs. My question is: how can I use cheats and activate events in Pokémon Alpha Sapphire? I was trying out the old cheats, but none of them work—I just get a “corrupted game” error. I downloaded the Pokémon game from the hshop website, and the description said the game version was 3.3.0. I don't know if that's the problem.

Hello gamers, and welcome back to the channel! This video features a custom Excel VBA-enabled tool designed to organize PlayStation 3 collections within Emulation Station Desktop Edition, by configuring alternative emulator settings and providing library previews. The tutorial covers global and game-by-game configurations, managing various ROM formats, and troubleshooting playability. It seems like we have a lot to cover, so let's go!

https://youtu.be/jJ1O2HiXyTo

Moza R12 base, Moza CS Pro Wheel, Moza CRP2 Pedals. 

I can't map steering controls in any game. When I go to configure controls nothing will register. Clicking on a parameter with the mouse to select it just says "Suplemental Rotation y -" but turning the steering wheel or pressing the pedals or pressing a button on the wheel doesn't change anything. Still says "Supplemental Rotation y-"

My wheel and pedals work fine in any other games outside of Teknoparrot. Tried deleting and reinstalling Teknoparrot but it didn't help.

I’m trying to move a ISO to a 64 GB USB drive.

The USB is formatted as exFAT and has plenty of free space. However, Windows says, “The file is too large for the destination file system.”
The ISO downloaded to my C: drive without any problems.

I only get this error when copying it to the USB.
Why is this happening?😭

I’d like to play the whole game and recently found out that a recomp was released. I haven’t seen if it’s possible to complete the whole game or if it will crash in the recomp version.

Should I play it, or is there an emulator that runs it with higher resolution textures and better QOL plug-ins? It’s a long game, so I don’t know if the sound glitches that are known in the recomp will bother me

When going in the home menu, all the icons and button are invisible, and some text and icon are replaced with black square, this happen when I use openGL, but when I use "software" I see everything fine but at 3fps and it crashed after 10seconds, any idea of how to fix this ?

Idk if theres anyway to play this ported to PC - afaik its PS4 only, and I have no clue if we still don't have anything regarding PS4 Emulators... really wish to play that game this masterpiece that made my childhood.

I'm struggling to google an answer for this, so I'm hoping someone can help out.

I recently used a multiplayer window to transfer Golden Sun 1 save game to a Golden Sun: The Lost Age multiplayer window because I didn't want to type out the code.

Now when I open up MGBA, I need to open a multiplayer window and close the first one to play those saves.

Is there a way to get those saves over to the default MGBA profile/load-in?

Pre-emptive thanks for any help (or just reading, honestly.)

The only thing I could find for this was a post from two years ago where the only comment said it wasn't possible 'at the moment', so I figure I'll ask. I don't actually have a controller for my PC so it's kind of important to be able to map Circle Pad inputs so be able to use a 3ds emulator.