/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

>>419441
It seems a little late to be posting flash-based files.
Unless there's an emulator for it.

>>419443
You can still download it and run it on the flash projector or even media player classic.

>>419448
>PS2 game
You either used a toaster of a PC, or you misconfigured the emulator. I was playing PS2 games on emulators as far back as 2007 or so.
I remember the huge jump in speed when they made it multicore capable, after the first dual core Athlon 64 X2s came out; Disgaea finally ran at full speed.

>>419449
I played other PS2 games on the same emulator but just RAD didn't work.

>>419440
Metal Max Returns is another good SNES rpg from amongst them.

https://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=mmr
https://cdromance.com/snes-rom/metal-max-returns/

What consoles do other people emulate? I've always stuck to the older ones.

>>419497
yeah, same here, although apparently Xbox OG can be now emulated. That could be pretty neat.

>>419440
>since particular companies go out of their way to remove Roms
theme of thread
As Nintendo I Forbid Emulation - /v/ The Musical VI

>>419497
In the future I will emulate PS1, PS2, PSP and PS3. Right now however, I need to emulate none of those.

>>419547
One day I will listen to the full /v/ The Musical.

>>419547
I remember back when you could get peoples site deleted by forwarding legal complaints to the host about the Nintendo roms they hosted.

>>419549
You might find that pretty difficult, they don't seem to have been stored in any ordered fashion?

Its shameful how companies treat their consoles nowadays, when obsolescence is basically built-into the machine mechanically and via software to fuck over the customers when they've run their course.

Praise emulation!

>>419449
Isn't it the case that there are some games that simply don't emulate well?

Or was this more a case when videogame emulators were in their infancy and was more a fault of the program.

>>420272
>Isn't it the case that there are some games that simply don't emulate well?

That's inevitable given that the PS2 library is thousands of games, but as far as I know most titles already emulate perfect. Worst case is that you have to use software video modes, meaning no upscaling but in return much less video bugs.

N64 and Xbox emulators are the ones still shit, PS2 is near perfect by now.

>>419440
Speaking of unusual old Japanese games that received fan translation patches as their only exposure in the West this rates

Grimbeard - Mizzurna Falls (PS1) - 100th Review

>Deadly Premonitions before Deadly Premonitions

>>420273
And on this note, Xbox OG emulation seems to be progressing a lot nowadays, many games are now playable.

>>420435
Ps4 emulation is a thing now.
Though its still early days and in-development.

>>420455
That's pretty cool actually.
Does that need to be emulated though? I'd guess it would only need some simulator/wrapper that handles the custom sony parts and then runs everything else natively. It's not like the OG Xbox where it uses pc derivative hardware parts - the AMD console SoCs were actually released on PC motherboards.

>>420127
It needs to be said again, fuck Nintendo.

Specifically because of the 3ds/Wii-U store going down; their anti-emulation fanaticism combined with their refusal to actually sell legacy content legitimately.
Literally the only way to get access to some stuff is piracy because they just won't let you p[ay them for it to begin with.

Is Yuzu a good Switch emulator?

>>420273
>N64 and Xbox emulators are the ones still shit
Have an important question, is there a good Xbox 360 emulator?

Interested in tracking down a rom for a game I never got to play back in the day Operation Darkness, not sure what to do in terms of emulation for anything newer than a PS1.

>>421380
apparently there is one called Xenia which can play games well.

>>421381
Seems like someone managed to get the game I want playing on Xenia, might be worth checking out
Xenia Canary c0244eab8 | Operation Darkness 4K UHD 60FPS FSR | Xbox 360 Emulator PC Gameplay

Interesting emulator news.
https://twitter.com/trashbandatcoot/status/1516111117642252288

Basically a Switch dev kit was dumped and the files were posted onto 4Chan of a previously unknown GBA emulator developed by NERD. The emulator is named 'Sloop'.

>>421530
Interesting, but if it's just a GBA emulator, aren't there a dozen of those already?

>>421536
Its more everything surrounding this official bit of kit being dumped on 4chan and it seemingly being one designed specifically for the Switch that makes it worthy of attention.

>>421537
Were there any hardware documents in the leak?

>>421539
Not that I've seen.

>>420430
Found something similar to that recently.
Someone hacking a jap-only drama game to localize it for the west.
Sony's Aconcagua PS1 English Patch Releasing July 11th

Emulation, the Law, and You: Where the Hobby Ends and Crime Begins

A group on Reddit has just released their Persona 2 Eternal Punishment PSP romhack to give it a translation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Megaten/comments/w8rjrt/persona_2_eternal_punishment_psp_eng_release/

Seemed relevant to the thread topic.

re-played Metal Slug 3 on Mame. Couldn't even finish stage 2 from the first credit. It's been so long I played it, most likely because without autofire it's rather painful on my hand.

But I think Mame can set up autofire now? I should look into that.

>>422549
also, score of 4.93 million, despite not really finishing any of the levels with POWs, only the first one.
Managed to beat the Aztec God boss without getting hit, so there's at least that.

I still need to 1cc metal slug 1 on survival mode on my Saturn, to get the highest rank in combat school mode, and unlock the dragon mode.

>>422930
I'm noticing alot of old but just rereleased rpgs on Steam at the moment, possibility they suffer from the same issue.

>>419551
>>420127
People in charge of Nintendo are so out of touch its insane.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Patterrz/status/1571446537531625472

https://twitter.com/kandowontu/status/1590330701886689280

Rom hacker made their own modification of Star Fox.
Looks pretty cool.

Seems most relevant to post it here.
https://twistedvoxel.com/the-legend-of-dragoon-decompiled-disc-1-fully-playable-pc/

>>424031
was The Legend of Dragoon a good rpg?
remember people saying it was just a cheap attempt to jump on the popularity that ff7 brought to the genre, much like Shadow Madness

>>425542
Yeah, it's too bad that the game sucks. It's a huge chore to play and there's no save function to make it easier.

>>425543
If you're playing it via emulator presumably you could just use save states?

>>425544
I have it on original disc, and have a modded saturn to play translations on.

>>419497
Same for the older ones being some of my favorites. I've heard people back in the 2000's saying they mod their Xbox and could play all sorts of wacky games but never got a chance to figure out how.

Playing SOTN and I still have yet to get use to the controls after an hour of playtime. I like the game and remember some secrets though but I'll probably just try to play it with 99 luck to see what happens.

>>419547
>>419551
>>420127
I'm surprised Nintendo never did anything about Palworld. Guess it falls under parody or something rather than being an actual Nintendo property.

I've got the sudden desire to play Backyard Wrestling 2, what's the best PS2 emulator nowadays?

>>426069
PCSX2 is still the only good one, and it just got a new stable version with a really ugly new UI.

After experiencing a serious downtime of our internet service provider decided to go out and download a bunch of Roms so I've got something on the PC to do without it being related to an internet connection.
Primarily GBA stuff, with a focus on old turn-based strategy games and rpgs.

ROMhacking.net is shutting down

https://www.romhacking.net/

>>426171
Apparently the owner got doxxed by discord trannies and decided to pull out.
The threads on /v/ and /vr/ are under constant surveillance by jannies, half the posts in them got deleted after this was pointed out.

In my younger years relied on translation patches on roms played via emulation to experience various japan-only games (primarily rpgs, where being able to actually understand the text was more important to being able to play the game).

Nowadays they are remaking and remastering all such old rpgs, and thankfully they aren't always dogshit like when devs 'remaster' more modern games such as the grand theft auto series (and then proceed to fucking delist the better older versions from all marketplaces).

>>426231
FFV was my first final fantasy thanks to translation patches. All the later games in the series sucked dick compared to it. FFVI felt like a romhack where they turned every class to a boring character.

And FFV in particular is a prime example of classic RPGs being remastered in dogshit ways.

>>426107
There's no other good PS2 emulators? Pretty sure I've used a couple of them back in the day, couldn't remember any real issues.