I didn't know that they had an emulation front end on the Mac side! I don't know which came 1st, but it's really similar to Launchbox on PC! It's also a great tool to record gameplay instead of plugging in the different consoles! I wonder if Open Emu uses Retroarch in the background to facilitate the emulation... because if it does, you can do a ton of modifications to upscale the graphics and frame rate of your games (if needed) but that involves a little bit more tinkering lol! ETA Prime is my go to channel regarding PC emulation and everything involving Launchnox since he's the one doing the tutorial videos for the application! So many options and possibilities out there in the emulation world! Great video and keep up the good work!
@@YourPlayer2I need to ask a question I was playing digimon world ds and while grinding I received a call from calamon to give me progres on the farm,however I couldn’t use the x button to skip past the dialog and neither could I use the mouse,is there any reason for this?
Hey Josh, I hope you're having a great week so far. So I decided to keep Uploading my Gameplays on RUclips because my external hard drives might get damaged some day and I don't want to lose all the Gameplays I already have. I didn't know that you could play Emulation on Mac but that's good news for those you use Mac, quick Update: I stopped recording B.O.T.W. not because it's a terrible Game but because the it was taking me forever to finish the Game and the files were huge.
Hope you're doing good too, ghost! Glad you're still at it and can't say I blame you on halting BOTW considering it's a MASSIVE game and you don't necessarily need 100 hours of footage to get the point across :p
@@YourPlayer2 Hey Josh, yeah, it's a shame because I was loving BOTW. I decided to keep recording Gameplays for RUclips just in case something bad happens to my external hard drives (hope not). By the way, did you stopped making streams or do I keep missing them?
Thanks man- I was honestly nervous about putting it out because even though I'm competent enough to get emulators working most of the time I wouldn't call myself like an EXPERT or anything. But hey, live and learn right? Take care!
@@YourPlayer2 From my experience, experts are overrated. I prefer people who are well rounded instead of singularly focused. Thus, you seem like you know your way around different emulators - so i find your opinion of significant value. 👌🏾
I've been enjoying experimenting with emulators for some years now, on different Macbooks. Since an OS upgrade I can't get Openemu to work with Neo Geo MAME and some Capcom MAME titles anymore. However, all my N64, PS1, PSP, Sega Mega Drive, Mega-CD, Saturn, SNES and most of my MAME titles work flawlessly and Openemu is a breath to work with. Just don't expect to get something like Sega Naomi running. I use Redream for emulating Dreamcast and FS-UAE for emulating an Amiga 1200 or CD32. Great stuff!
not sure if you would know, but since updating to macOS 12.4 Monterey, I can no longer use my devices' keyboard in-game. I have tried to enable and disable the input monitoring permissions, as well as completely uninstalling Openemu. I still have not been able to play the game with my keyboard. If you could offer any help, I would be very appreciative!
How to copy a complete install to a second Mac. This seems incredibly difficult. I copied all folders, the plist files and the library folder, yet it refuses to work and starts as fresh install. Very annoying. Why can't these programs run from a portable single folder without library usage.
I love OpenEmu. I feel like a lot of people still don't know about it. I use a late 2013 Macbook Pro and it runs OpenEmu great. HDMI out to my TV and I use a PS4 controller.
I can't get arcade games to run in OpenEmu! What am I doing wrong? When I download arcade ROMs, I get a folder. I try dragging the folder into OpenEmu, it won't accept. If I go inside the folder, the files have names like "31a11-2.ic42", and if I highlight them all and drag them into OpenEmu (and import them all), they just stay in that exact state (a series of files doing nothing).
I haven't encountered this myself unfortunately, but did run across this- seems others have encountered issues as well: www.reddit.com/r/OpenEmu/comments/qnw6py/arcademame_on_openemu/
i have a new macbook Air (2022) with base componants ... and downloaded several games to try out for GameBoy Advanced. Was trying to Play Legend of Zelda Minish Cap and the game lags pretty bad... the music is sluggish and kind of annoying to play :( Is that because my Macbook isn't strong enough to handle it or are there settings that can be adjusted to make it run better?
I wouldn't think it would be an issue with the MacBook air since it's so recent. Although I will say Minish Cap was kind of an oddity for Zelda since it was developed by Capcom so maybe there's something particularly taxing about that title?
Do you know how to import a saved game into OpenEmu? I'm trying to import a cleared game of Resident Evil (original) on Playstation into OpenEmu so I don't need to unlock everything in the game over again. Can you help me?
OpenEmu's UI is so good that I'm debating on whether to get a Mac again just to use it. I've genuinely never used a better multi-system emulator and it _kills_ me that it's not on Windows. I am pretty close to making a clone of it for Windows in C# / WPF, at least as a frontend for retroarch.
Right? That was a big motivator for me especially with save states and all les I wanna ONLY show the first level of some super difficult game because I am a scrub XD
I haven't used Duckstation so I can't say for sure but I can try to check it out and get back to you maybe? I'm still new to this so you'll have to bear with me :p
It does not. It uses Mednafen which has the goal of being the most accurate PSX emulator. So the visuals are like 99% accurate to the original console which includes the low resolution. I personally prefer this because I'd rather my PSX games look like PSX games and not PC games but if you do want enhanced PSX emulation, I would use Retroarch with the Swanstation core (basically Duckstation). I do recommend looking up a video guide for it as Retroarch is quite a bit more complex and less user-friendly than OpenEmu.
hey I'm having audio issues with openemu whenever I play an n64 game the sound begins to buzz and its only with the n64 games? any advice on how to fix?
Also, if you enjoy messing with front ends like this I recommend you check out HyperSpin. I used to use it all the time and you can do some amazing custom things with it. Here's a video with some cool boxart setups. ruclips.net/video/tlcjR5460vw/видео.html
Do you know how ro rename Turbo Grafx to PC Engine. We had PC Engine back then, not Turbo Grafx, that was the console for the UK. Belgium/France had PC Engine.
Games like Metroid prime 2 and f zero GX stutter and have unplayable frame rates. Is there a way to fix this? I can’t find ANY settings or core options for dolphin whatsoever there’s barely any menus
Dang, I miss quite a few options: - Console naming: I want to set the region to France, so Mega Drive, PC Engine, Super Nintendo.... impossible - Integer scaling: every pixel same size - Screen shot library instead of box art - Proper Command-S game saves, the toolbar sucks for it and gets you killed during save games. - Save game organising and overwrite. Now it becomes a mess quicky and you need to dive into the finder to fix things - No ROM duplication. Put a shortcut to the orginal location instead of duplicating everything - Escape back to menu. ESC does not work, Quit stops the whole emulator. - Control mapping memory. If you swap controllers, settings get lost. Remember mapping per controller. - Aspect ratio tweaking I might prefer buying Emulator Enhancer, installing the Richard Banister emulators and launch games fromt the Finder when OpenEmu has som many bugs/annoyances.
You might try different filters? Or I know for some ROMs there have been patches created that can manipulate text, though I think that's mainly for fan translations.
Thanks for this great video. I have been thinking about looking into emulation, as there are a ton of old games I would love to try again, and hadn’t realised it could be done this “easy” 😉😄 in the Mac. I even spotted one of those games in your video, Simpsons Hit and Run. Guess what I am going to be doing tomorrow. 👍😄👍
You're most welcome! LoL I never played Simpsons originally so I had to check it out and now wanna track down a physical some day! And yes, OpenEmu makes it WAY user friendly on Mac.
I THINK you can adjust the aspect ratio as long as you don't mind it being a bit stretched- Not a great way to make it look totally normal stretched unless there are patches for certain games I think?
Mac m1, emulating ps1 with the PSP LCD SHADER, the game screen is shifted to the left, hiding part of the game. If there is a way to move the image to the right to center it and see the entire game content, that would be perfect. Thank you for the answer
Super happy have found this program. Having fun in an emulator for the first time in a longgg time. Playing two player N64 smash on a MacBook with a ps4 controller is like a beautiful form of blasphemy 🥲
I didn't know that they had an emulation front end on the Mac side! I don't know which came 1st, but it's really similar to Launchbox on PC! It's also a great tool to record gameplay instead of plugging in the different consoles! I wonder if Open Emu uses Retroarch in the background to facilitate the emulation... because if it does, you can do a ton of modifications to upscale the graphics and frame rate of your games (if needed) but that involves a little bit more tinkering lol! ETA Prime is my go to channel regarding PC emulation and everything involving Launchnox since he's the one doing the tutorial videos for the application! So many options and possibilities out there in the emulation world! Great video and keep up the good work!
I'll check it out! Bwahaha that tinkering's gonna be fun or exhausting I'm sure depending on the work day :p Thanks man!
Second Launchbox. Been using on PC for few years and is pretty easy to get up and running
@@YourPlayer2I need to ask a question
I was playing digimon world ds and while grinding I received a call from calamon to give me progres on the farm,however I couldn’t use the x button to skip past the dialog and neither could I use the mouse,is there any reason for this?
Hey Josh, I hope you're having a great week so far. So I decided to keep Uploading my Gameplays on RUclips because my external hard drives might get damaged some day and I don't want to lose all the Gameplays I already have. I didn't know that you could play Emulation on Mac but that's good news for those you use Mac, quick Update: I stopped recording B.O.T.W. not because it's a terrible Game but because the it was taking me forever to finish the Game and the files were huge.
Hope you're doing good too, ghost! Glad you're still at it and can't say I blame you on halting BOTW considering it's a MASSIVE game and you don't necessarily need 100 hours of footage to get the point across :p
@@YourPlayer2 Hey Josh, yeah, it's a shame because I was loving BOTW. I decided to keep recording Gameplays for RUclips just in case something bad happens to my external hard drives (hope not). By the way, did you stopped making streams or do I keep missing them?
Fantastic job explaining OpenEMU. Review was genuine, straight forward and unbias. Respect 👨🏾👍🏾
Thanks man- I was honestly nervous about putting it out because even though I'm competent enough to get emulators working most of the time I wouldn't call myself like an EXPERT or anything. But hey, live and learn right? Take care!
@@YourPlayer2 From my experience, experts are overrated. I prefer people who are well rounded instead of singularly focused. Thus, you seem like you know your way around different emulators - so i find your opinion of significant value. 👌🏾
I've been enjoying experimenting with emulators for some years now, on different Macbooks. Since an OS upgrade I can't get Openemu to work with Neo Geo MAME and some Capcom MAME titles anymore. However, all my N64, PS1, PSP, Sega Mega Drive, Mega-CD, Saturn, SNES and most of my MAME titles work flawlessly and Openemu is a breath to work with. Just don't expect to get something like Sega Naomi running. I use Redream for emulating Dreamcast and FS-UAE for emulating an Amiga 1200 or CD32. Great stuff!
Yeah it's not a PERFECT solution for everything, but a lot of the big consoles work pretty great!
Thanks for this. I’m just getting started, and hope to set up OpenEmu on my old Mac Mini.
You're very welcome! Hope it goes well for you Joseph :)
Just as FYI,works only on mac mini from late 2012 and up, needs to have suport for metal.
Always wondered how well emulation runs on a Mac. Seems over time more emulators have been making Mac versions available.
I think this is dependent on the cores in use but so far so good!
not sure if you would know, but since updating to macOS 12.4 Monterey, I can no longer use my devices' keyboard in-game. I have tried to enable and disable the input monitoring permissions, as well as completely uninstalling Openemu. I still have not been able to play the game with my keyboard. If you could offer any help, I would be very appreciative!
I haven't encountered that myself but if I find anything I'll reply here!
@@YourPlayer2 I have the same problem :(
Same
Ok now im not updating my Mac 💻
I also have the same issue
How to copy a complete install to a second Mac. This seems incredibly difficult. I copied all folders, the plist files and the library folder, yet it refuses to work and starts as fresh install. Very annoying. Why can't these programs run from a portable single folder without library usage.
I haven't tried it yet but that's disappointing to hear :\
I hope they add increased resolution options in the future and anti aliasing capabilities
I wouldn't say no to that!
I love OpenEmu. I feel like a lot of people still don't know about it. I use a late 2013 Macbook Pro and it runs OpenEmu great. HDMI out to my TV and I use a PS4 controller.
I know right? Crazy reliable and get tons of use out of it ALSO using a PS4 controller!
I can't get arcade games to run in OpenEmu! What am I doing wrong? When I download arcade ROMs, I get a folder. I try dragging the folder into OpenEmu, it won't accept. If I go inside the folder, the files have names like "31a11-2.ic42", and if I highlight them all and drag them into OpenEmu (and import them all), they just stay in that exact state (a series of files doing nothing).
I haven't encountered this myself unfortunately, but did run across this- seems others have encountered issues as well: www.reddit.com/r/OpenEmu/comments/qnw6py/arcademame_on_openemu/
i have a new macbook Air (2022) with base componants ... and downloaded several games to try out for GameBoy Advanced. Was trying to Play Legend of Zelda Minish Cap and the game lags pretty bad... the music is sluggish and kind of annoying to play :( Is that because my Macbook isn't strong enough to handle it or are there settings that can be adjusted to make it run better?
I wouldn't think it would be an issue with the MacBook air since it's so recent. Although I will say Minish Cap was kind of an oddity for Zelda since it was developed by Capcom so maybe there's something particularly taxing about that title?
is there an emulation software that comes just pre installed with ALL the games? so you dont have to go out finding them
Not that I'm aware of so you'd need to dump them from your own copies or acquire them elsewhere!
Do you know how to import a saved game into OpenEmu? I'm trying to import a cleared game of Resident Evil (original) on Playstation into OpenEmu so I don't need to unlock everything in the game over again. Can you help me?
I haven't done this myself but this reddit thread may be helpful! www.reddit.com/r/OpenEmu/comments/gd3hfd/how_to_use_saves_found_online_ps1_psx/
Works on my old 2006 macpro 2,1 (el Capitan). Was surprised because I have openemu on my MacBook Pro 2012 running sierra.
Oh that's awesome to hear :D
I feel an input delay, can this be changed somewhere? Even with NES titles, I use an 8bitdo snes pro controller (usb-c / Blutooth).
Hmm, not that I know of but if I find anything I'll reply here!
Thank you@@YourPlayer2 I was able to get the controller to use Blutooth, which strangely removed the input lag. Previously it was via USB-C.
OpenEmu's UI is so good that I'm debating on whether to get a Mac again just to use it. I've genuinely never used a better multi-system emulator and it _kills_ me that it's not on Windows. I am pretty close to making a clone of it for Windows in C# / WPF, at least as a frontend for retroarch.
Can't say I blame ya! Still working great today and can't believe something as effortless isn't available for Windows!
Interesting, I’d like this for recording game play.
Right? That was a big motivator for me especially with save states and all les I wanna ONLY show the first level of some super difficult game because I am a scrub XD
I have a question.
Does openemu can upscale PS1 graphics like Duckstation quality?
I haven't used Duckstation so I can't say for sure but I can try to check it out and get back to you maybe? I'm still new to this so you'll have to bear with me :p
It does not. It uses Mednafen which has the goal of being the most accurate PSX emulator. So the visuals are like 99% accurate to the original console which includes the low resolution. I personally prefer this because I'd rather my PSX games look like PSX games and not PC games but if you do want enhanced PSX emulation, I would use Retroarch with the Swanstation core (basically Duckstation). I do recommend looking up a video guide for it as Retroarch is quite a bit more complex and less user-friendly than OpenEmu.
I was genuinely shocked at how easy to use OpenEmu is.
It's incredibly straightforward!
hey I'm having audio issues with openemu whenever I play an n64 game the sound begins to buzz and its only with the n64 games? any advice on how to fix?
ALL N64 games? I've hit the odd issue with particular titles like Blast Corps, but others I had worked fine so hard to say :\
@@YourPlayer2 yes only the n64 games make this buzzing sound,
Also, if you enjoy messing with front ends like this I recommend you check out HyperSpin. I used to use it all the time and you can do some amazing custom things with it. Here's a video with some cool boxart setups.
ruclips.net/video/tlcjR5460vw/видео.html
Oh that looks killer! I like that it does an actual video preview.
Do you know how ro rename Turbo Grafx to PC Engine. We had PC Engine back then, not Turbo Grafx, that was the console for the UK. Belgium/France had PC Engine.
Sadly I don't since I never really emulated that system :\ BUT if I sort it out I'll try to reply here if I find anything useful!
Games like Metroid prime 2 and f zero GX stutter and have unplayable frame rates. Is there a way to fix this? I can’t find ANY settings or core options for dolphin whatsoever there’s barely any menus
I've had issues with GX stutter as well but haven't found a good solution. If I find anything though I'll reply here!
been having audio issues with openemu :(
Oh that's unfortunate- On every system or just one in particular?
Dang, I miss quite a few options:
- Console naming: I want to set the region to France, so Mega Drive, PC Engine, Super Nintendo.... impossible
- Integer scaling: every pixel same size
- Screen shot library instead of box art
- Proper Command-S game saves, the toolbar sucks for it and gets you killed during save games.
- Save game organising and overwrite. Now it becomes a mess quicky and you need to dive into the finder to fix things
- No ROM duplication. Put a shortcut to the orginal location instead of duplicating everything
- Escape back to menu. ESC does not work, Quit stops the whole emulator.
- Control mapping memory. If you swap controllers, settings get lost. Remember mapping per controller.
- Aspect ratio tweaking
I might prefer buying Emulator Enhancer, installing the Richard Banister emulators and launch games fromt the Finder when OpenEmu has som many bugs/annoyances.
Definitely some room for improvement! I think I probably use it more casually than you do, but good insights and appreciate the info :)
Is there a way to fix text ? Some games the text on certain menus don’t show. So I kind of have to guess on what to click on lol.
You might try different filters? Or I know for some ROMs there have been patches created that can manipulate text, though I think that's mainly for fan translations.
I can't change the keyboard sets, not sure what's going on... anybody have a clue?
Don't think I've encountered that myself?
Thanks for this great video.
I have been thinking about looking into emulation, as there are a ton of old games I would love to try again, and hadn’t realised it could be done this “easy” 😉😄 in the Mac.
I even spotted one of those games in your video, Simpsons Hit and Run. Guess what I am going to be doing tomorrow. 👍😄👍
You're most welcome! LoL I never played Simpsons originally so I had to check it out and now wanna track down a physical some day! And yes, OpenEmu makes it WAY user friendly on Mac.
does it slow down your MacBook In any way
I’m on my Mac and have open emu downloaded but it doesn’t let me open it, how can I fix it
You might have to mount the disk image first and run the file within it?
@@YourPlayer2 no it’s fine I figured it out thanks though
Glad to hear it!
Is there a way to make the games in Wide Screen? :)
I THINK you can adjust the aspect ratio as long as you don't mind it being a bit stretched- Not a great way to make it look totally normal stretched unless there are patches for certain games I think?
@@YourPlayer2 Ah well I’ve been trying to figure out how to do so.
Mac m1, emulating ps1 with the PSP LCD SHADER, the game screen is shifted to the left, hiding part of the game. If there is a way to move the image to the right to center it and see the entire game content, that would be perfect. Thank you for the answer
You're most welcome!
will this cause any viruses? I am afraid of it messing up my new mac.
Nope! At least not that I've experienced so you should be good to try it out :)
Lol, ancient 6502 machine code taking down your T2 secure enclave....
commenting for engagement, great vid!
Much appreciated and glad you enjoyed it, Juneau! :)
Where do you get your games for openemu?
Unfortunately I can't link directly to any ROMs but you should be able to find what you need with minimal googling :)
Ok that’s great.. but do they emulate the Jaguar?!?!?
LoL in fairness I haven't tried so I can't say for certain :p
is openemu available for windows 10
Not that I know of- Pretty sure it's Mac only but I sure wouldn't mind a Windows version given how user-friendly it is :)
Looks like a really nice emulator. If I had a Mac I would try it. For now, I use a raspberry pi and windows PC for emulation.
I just love how smooth the interface is! Raspberry Pi will be a project I'll revisit SOME time this year I'm sure!
The only downside on OpenEmu is I can't play NeoGeo and Arcade games, unfortunately.
Yeah, kind of a bummer unfortunately
I'm pretty sure the "experimental" OpenEmu version does.
I'm just disappointed that when i click on the pokemon games they're not available anymore
That is unfortunate :\
NTSC is the most realistic to how they were on Megadrive and SNES, even on PAL systems. So it's a bit of a misnomer.
LoL no doubt!
Batocera😏
Never tried it!
Super happy have found this program. Having fun in an emulator for the first time in a longgg time. Playing two player N64 smash on a MacBook with a ps4 controller is like a beautiful form of blasphemy 🥲
Glad you're enjoying it, dude! Definitely a slick, easy way to jump into some classics even WITH blasphemy XD