i just discovered them this past month. I've only played 2 games using it, deathsmiles and sonic 06, and it seemed to run it pretty well. Fast load times and visuals looked great. I had no idea there were emulators past 6th gen, ps2 and xbox. If it really is a small team of 3 dudes they are killing it. sonic 06, even tho it is a broken POS, ran pretty well with only a few small visual glitches, and a couple gamebreaking visual glitches that went away after a gameover and restart. I was able to play though the entire game, a hell of a lot faster than the official 360 game.
An honorable mention would be "RedViper", the VirtualBoy emulator for the 3DS. It works very well and it's one of the few ways to experience the stereoscopic image without original hardware or VR glasses.
Red Viper is gold and, for countless people, the only way to explore such a bizarre and unique system in emulation while... Preserving its flavour. What a unique combination of inventive and great skills!
Played Tales of Xillia 1 & 2 in glorious 4k with rpcs3 too. Damn Bandai Namco for letting their PS3 titles being stuck on a system no longer in production.
It's ChadPS4 The reason for this quick development is, because it does not emulator everything like a regular emulator, because its close enough to x86-64 compatible hardware. This makes it easier to program the emulator, test and actually easier on the performance. Still even with this in mind, its mind blowing to me too.
There's even a custom build for playing Rock Band 4, sure you can't load Rivals yet but the fact that we're now at a point where all the mainline Rock Band games can be played on PC is amazing.
@@thingsiplay Chad ps4 is being ran thru a compatibility layer and being developed that way… So yes of course it rung x86-x64 as the jaguar is a x86 - x64 architecture… However implementing the compatibility layer is not that easy as you need a jailbroken ps4 and also pretty much mirroring the console with out using its original code or structure so it takes time.. It’s not like the recent Xbox one emulator that lets you play games on your of because of said compatibility layer and Microsoft already is a x86 - x64 system…
So cool to see PCSX2 get updates. It was an emulator i tried to use a ton back in the day and most of the games had some kind of bug or disturbance that made me not use it. Hats off to the team. Also cool to see you include Jak 3, it's a game that means a lot to me. It's receiving a PC port sometime next year that allows for mod support which is amazing
That PC port is via the OpenGOAL project, isn’t it? I’ve been following it since their early days, and I have to say it’s amazing the progress they made on both Jak 1 and Jak 2.
The emulator has come a long way. My backup of Way Of The Samurai 1 used to not play and now it runs flawless. The team there really did their thing, hats off to them.
Pcsx2 really had a massive glowup Parrapa the rapper 2 had alot of graphical issues on the older versions of pcsx2 that essentially made the game unplayable and as soon as the nightly releases came out almost every issue i had just vanished.
The devs of the emulators are truly the goats. They allow you to play your favourite consoles for FREE if you dont have them and on top of that they support it and do everything, expecting nothing in return. Please support them if you can. They are keeping preservation alive while expecting nothing for themselves True goats.
Also shout out to the crazy people who are decomp-ing games to make them native to PC! Those people are GOATs too Specific shoutout to OpenGOAL for the Jak series native project
They sure are But not only are they helping in preserving those games, they are basically code wizards Because making something run better and look better by pure code is truly something magical, you don't see it very often
why are you trying to jinx it , you know trash from usa will ruin all of it and put out their restrictions, they already got their sheep citizens using vpns to download pirated games
RPCS3 also offers something special and very unique. Early users of PS3 might remember PlayStation Home. Well that got recreated and is now called Destination Home. You can access that on the RPCS3 emulator. I know a lot of people might not care, but for anyone who enjoyed what PlayStation Home tried to do, you CAN experience that again through this emulator. And I think that's pretty cool.
@@jimmelton5846 Well I married my friend, then a random that came towards us, and then married my friend again and we went to play bowling so That's a yes
@@jimmelton5846I played it as a kid. Can’t necessarily say I “enjoyed” it or really had any actual fun, but it was still a good time to goof around in for a bit. I played maybe a total of 5 hours or less and got my fill. Maybe will check out this new version tho
RPCS3’s compatibility is understated. The reason it is low is because you have to dump certain files and have proof of you beating the game. Example: I have beaten Dark Souls many years ago on RPCS3 with a decent CPU and no hacks, no problem, but it is still considered ingame because I didn’t know how to extract the files needed to submit it.
Huh, interesting. Dolphin's compatibility is pretty much just user-reported afaik, so they'll just take you at your word that "hey, I was able to get all 45 Edgars and didn't notice any jank, mark Animaniacs as Perfect compat", or "pressing a certain button combo crashed not only Paper Mario but caused a BSOD, mark it as Some Issues", they don't require _proof_ (but having logfiles and video is helpful if you _did_ encounter jank)...
You also have to remember that it has to be playable on the recommended specifications (or below) for it to be considered playable. Midnight Club: Los Angeles for example is perfectly emulated via RPCS3 but it requires a very beefy CPU in order to be playable. Dark Souls is considered playable now though so there's that.
It's a bit sad there was no mention of Melon DS, which recently reached its 1.0RC with LAN support after 8 years of development, and Azahar 3DS which resulted by the team up of several different developers, like PabloMK7 who brought online support. Nintendo wasn't all about the switch, and I feel like the scene it's going to rise from the ashes...
@@maskedlibrarian1483 aside? we don't know how good Azahar is. Right now the best 3DS emulator is either the old LIME 3DS or Citra MK7 by pablo. They joined and created Azahar, so we are waiting to see what comes out of that.
It’s good but we had drastic for like 2 centuries. It kills the novelty when there’s an alternative that is so much better it’s practically incomparable.
Emulation is really important to preserve the history of video games or even entire computer/console generations. I really appreciated the work the community has done to make this possible. But one emulator class that is much more important to me than any console emulation is X86 PC Emulation. The discontinued PCem project and the still ongoing 86Box are great to get back into the pre 2000 years. I am not sure if you ever have covered this in your channel, if not please consider making a dedicated video for it, because they deserve it. Also there is a really good alternative using virtualization, running windows 98 with full GPU support up to DirectX 9 using a driver solution called "SoftGPU".
ShadPS4 has got to be one of the most surprising and impressive developments of an emulator I have ever seen. We were still under the impression it was impossible to emulate the PS4 and then suddenly this Emulator came around and claimed to do the impossible.. and within what feels like weeks it went from running homebrew to running bloodborne!
ShadPS4's hype train brings back memories of Yuzu going from barely booting Mario Odyssey to fully playable in six months or so. It's such an exciting time
Why did it seem impossible? PS3 emulation I can see saying that because of the architecture. PS4 is a AMD Jaguar CPU PC, basically. I was expecting emulation to be the easiest of any console. This is a big part of why Sony is now willing to invest in PS4/5 games being ported to PC.
@@dragons_red From what I understand the PS4 hasn't been fully decrypted yet, so the low level instruction calls are still largely unknown. This is basically the communication between the OS/kernel, hardware and software (i.e. games). Also the PS4 uses a custom API known as GNM/GNMX, which is undocumented to the general public, so it's pretty much a guess work as to how the API functions.
@elimalinsky7069 Reverse engineering GNM library isn't really the big issue in PS4 emulation, but the overall complexity and feature set of the GPU hardware. Most of the GNM library is statically linked inside the game, and the few functions the emulator can intercept from the system library are dead simple to reimplement. The emulator has to directly parse PM4 command lists sent to the hardware, recompile the shaders, and figure out the resource layout from them since there is no high-level API to hook. In that sense it's diffrent from dxvk/proton and more akin to classic emulators. So most work is following open AMD isa/pm4/reg docs to figure out what game is trying to do
I do think it’s worth a mention that Xemu is on the verge of merging Vulcan rendering to the main branch, and you can already download test versions with Vulkan rendering. This is pretty substantial and in some cases such as MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf, has fixed unplayable games to be fully playable. In other instances of my own testing I have found Vulkan to be capable of fixing certain graphical bugs and improve performance.
For who uses CRT the Wii still a beast with great 8-16 bit emulators displaying 240p over component cable. And the Wiistation for PS1 games still being update.
@@MrDesillu Are you saying with the Wiistation or in general? A small amount the games I got black screen on wiistation. Retroarch crashes a lot. Not64 also have some N64 games that not work. But other emulators and the system itself run fine. Maybe you need to reinstall and update all the system hack and homebrew. is amazing how back in the days we needed a modchip and later a simple browser/ip hack do all the work. Also check the Sonic Mania 240p por for Wii.
Considering how long we went without any really good Jaguar emulation I’d say BigPemu is hands down one of, if not the most impressive emulator of the last few years.
@@AntiGrieferGames The Duckstation github is still active and you can fork and develop from it without threat of legal action, it's de-facto open source still
I think it will once Nintendo stopped selling switch games but considering that Switch 2 will be backward compatible, it might take a decade for Switch emulation to be as tolerated as SNES, GC or even WiiU.
@@efrenarevalo2025 That's kinda what I was thinking as well. Nintendo is making _zero dollars_ off of Wii U and earlier (aside from once in a while releasing a VC onto Switch), so the existence of Cemu and Dolphin doesn't hurt their present-day bottom line. Whereas *_they're still actively making Switch games_* and Yuzu was a legitimate "threat" to that... so, I can kinda understand the business perspective of why they went scorched-earth on emulators of _current gen_ consoles :/
@@clamojoat8543 new purchases were retired last year, but the eshop remained online for users to download their previously purchased items until earlier this year
Xenia canary has gotten pretty good in the past year (they should definitely fix the constant crashing on dx12 tho) and xemu has been improving recently (sadly conker live and reloaded didnt work well for me on xemu for some reason)
I got myself a Steam Deck OLED around June 2024. I've installed emulators such as PCSX2, Duck Station, Dolphin, mGBA, and PPSSPP, and they work pretty well! I haven't tried Vita3K yet, but I do plan on using it.
@@Gloryboyquan 1TB is already big enough for retro games. At most, some can reach up to 4.4GB, and even then, you can still trim said games close to half their size or more. I have an Odin 2 Pro with 256GB internal memory and another 512GB microSD storage. I have games from NES all the way to Wii and still have 100GB to spare. I'm pretty sure you're not gonna be playing _all_ of the PS2's library anyway.
@@Gloryboyquan i have close to 100 PS2 games so far, stored on a 500GB HDD, i still have some space left, like around 20% of the drive left. NES/Snes ROMS are at most, a couple of Mb in size. I'm not sure about how large are GC/N64 images, but shouldn't be that big considering the standards of digital storage back then
Nice shouting out BigPEmu. A Jaguar emulator is niche thing but it was cool to tackle some niche titles I had interest in like the Alien vs Predator exclusive and the Iron Soldier games.
Shout out to YabaSanShiro finally getting an update after absolutely ages. So far the only Saturn emulator with hardware upscaling. Also, on a personal note, props to Tsugaru. Not the most user-friendly emulator out there, but it finally gave me the opportunity to check out the FM Towns for the first time.
i dunno you should of seen the scene back in the 90s, emulating gameboy and NES was thought to be impossible, when NESticle got released it really changed the whole game
And modding / randomizers, and playing games which have barely any compatible hardware still working, and enabling new features or bugfix, and running games that were never distributed out of some regions, and allowing retro gaming competition (like speedrunning) to be accessible for most people
@@EnglishMike It ABSOLUTELY was. People reversed the structure of the SPU and the PowerPC chips because they DEEPLY care about the console and it's inner workings, and want to bring them into modern hardware, not because they wanted you to have free games....
new 1st party games look like sh** what r u talking about they needed to manually code each game now those brilliant devs are gone, only sh**y forks remain
Yeah, I can't overstate how much better the PCSX2 UX overhaul is. It's an absolute game changer. And it's not just about how easy it is to change settings (which is much, much easier), but also how much nicer it is to be able to make custom input profiles and emulator settings for each game. It genuinely went from one of my least favorite emulators to use, to one of my absolute favorites
Looking forward to this one! Always great to take a minute to see see how far emulation has come. Forever grateful to the developers of emulators and those who help preserve games and media!
@@ChimpRiot not really the threat of Nintendo with their Switch and Switch 2 will stop alot of people from making emulators for both of those consoles. your average person just cant fight that company
Back in October I tried out the PCSX2 emulator on a mini PC and it was finally the kick I needed to buy a new PC and now I just got RCPS3 running last night.
The mere threat of a lawsuit from a company like nintendo is enough to destroy any emulator. Most people dont have the money to fight that sort of pressure
In addition to the money, it's also the time and the stress. A big company like Nintendo can afford to throw money at a near infinite number of lawsuits and subquent appeals until they win by attrition. Even if Yuzu or whoever ultimately won their case, the financial cost could well sink them (as it did with Bleem! many years ago) and this doesn't account for the mental toll fighting such a case would take on the development team.
I'm currently enjoying Wolfenstein 3D on BigPEmu. BigPE has introduced me to Jaguar library and I'm having a really great time with it. Thanks for covering it and big thanks to the Dev.
My personal favorite emulators that I played around with this year are touchHLE (iOS) and Infuse (Zeebo). I love these obscure platforms such as Zeebo getting an emulator so that I can play around with exclusive games that I never even knew existed. Sure the compatibility is low for both of those at the moment, but I am eagerly waiting to see where they go in the future. And of course ShadPS4 is fun, but I'll wait for it to develop further before I dive into Bloodborne and eventually I want it to run The Order 1886 as well. I know a lot of people disliked that game, but I personally enjoyed it. I wish that one day we'll get a proper Android emulator for PC as well. People who work on emulators are truly the most amazing people out there. They have brought so much joy and happiness to people all over the world.
If dolphin stopped development 5 years ago I would still consider it one of the most complete, stable and accurate emulators ever made, but the fact they are still actively updating it is amazing
Winlator Being able to run PC games on Android using wine is a god send for some people like some guys finished far cry 3, fallout, Witcher ,crysis remastered , OG modern warfare 3 it's actually something that's really nice to see as you know Android is Linux obviously so that's just something 🎉
Big PEMU is huge for preserving the Jaguar. Especially now that it mostly supports Jag CD games. I've also seen that it improves the performance of Checkered Flag, making it actually playable.
I still remember when I saw one of Simply Austin's videos for the first time and when I wanted to revisit his channel once more, I bumped into Austin Evans by mistake and that's how I ended up knowing about the latter from there on out. 😅
I finished the entirety of Bloodborne + DLC on ShadPS4 yesterday. You only need to install a couple of mods in order for Cainhurst to work properly and to gain access to the Nightmare Frontier without crashing. Other than that, the game is fully playable start to finish.
Oh they would give a damn. They will still dmca original nes games. Now they might not sue you for doing last gen emulators, but as soon as a game is involved they're not happy and will make sure its removed and more likely if they could identify you easily they probably would take you to court.
I would be really interested in Worst Emulators of 2024. I don't follow the emulator scene very much but even so I still watched many controversies in the community this year.
RPCS3 and PCSX2 will always be my go to but this year ShadPS4 deserves the win on this because of how much they got in a few months, when i saw the progress on Bloodborne i was shocked how quickly it got running same thing with CEMU day one when Zelda came out, the CEMU team worked so fast and now everything runs perfect. amazing work for the Emulator devs, i might check this Vita3k one day, i didn't knew Vita had a emulator
PSMove is final frontier of RPCS3. I keep holding out hope I can play PSmove games in bigscreen VR, with 3D enabled, Resistance 3, Killzone 3, House of the Dead, and Resident Evil 5.
Good call on BigPEmu; I just found out it's been converted to linux and for those wanting to try the jag this really is the only way (aside from spending loads on a real one). that said there are only a couple of decent exclusives - AvP and Tempest 2000 (the Jag version of that is the only one made by Llamasoft; the conversions on other systems were made by other developers and aren't the same, or rather don't play as well).. Rayman's pretty good too.. Ok there are a few decent games but most of those are conversions from other systems which are usually as good if not better than the jag version as they just ported the M68k code to it (although Zool 2 on Jag is the only one that has music AND sfx... remember that? when you had to choose between the two?)
I wish we had a better version of something like RetroArch. I'd like an all-in-one program to manage and run all these emulators, as well as sync saves across devices. Right now it's a headache juggling them all on multiple devices.
There's technically EmuDeck, but the windows support is only somewhat there, and it's kinda annoying having to use their shortcuts, rather than clicking the exe yourself. It's really made for a set top TV setup rather than a PC.
You could try some front ends, I do not know if they are capable of sync the saves as I play only on my PC, but at least they do about all-in-one, you can run all your PC/emulator games only in one place (front end), first that comes to mind is Launchbox (which I use, also has some cool features as counting the time played) or second Playnite (I think it is totally free, I have never used this one actually)
@@AntiGrieferGames retroarch is easy to use, pair it with Launchbox and it will auto download the cores you are missing and will tell you what dependencies you are missing and will download those
I couldn't agree more regarding RPCS3. It's emulating the most complex console ever made and the progress of the emulator is outstanding. I don't know how the RPCS3 team do it, but I'm very happy they do.
I'd like to make a case for DuckStation, a PS1 emulator. You'll need a BIOS of a PS1, yeah, but even then, tracking one down isn't that much of a big deal since they're readily available online. You can upscale to widescreen, you can up the texturing to a considerable degree, even netplay's a thing. It's also seeing updates every once in a blue moon that keeps this thing running like a champion. And hey, if a game's giving you a rash of shit, cheats are also implemented into it per game! You'll have to be careful though, because things can get a bit wacky if you do too many of them at once!
Beautiful video! Careful in every detail with solid reasons for the choices! I agree with everything! Will you make a video about the Android platform too?
vita3k is so impressive I'm blown away by these graphics, that were supposed to be displayed on a tiny screen, and hold so well even on modern large screens.
@@creatorsfreedom6734 It's probably legal if you make your own game backups and hold onto your original media, and for emulators which include HLE BIOS. If you have a Wii it's dead easy to mod the console and then back up Gamecube and Wii games. Cartridge games can be easily dumped with available dedicated USB devices. PS2 and PS1, Saturn, 3DO games you can just install an optical drive into your PC or connect one off the shelf a very cheap one via USB and you're all set, it's also easy to salvage an optical drive out of an old trash laptop and put it into a cheap USB enclosure. Original Xbox and 360 requires a somewhat exotic Toshiba or Samsung drive modified compatible to the one in the consoles.
@@creatorsfreedom6734 Wdym? It's been legal for as long as it's existed. What's illegal is the shady ways you decide to get your rom files from, unless you rip the games for your own use.
Can I make a request? I would really love it if you could put the name of the game that you are showing on the screen when you are showing gameplay footage for an emulator. Sometimes, I see a game that looks like a lot of fun in your videos, but I don’t know what it is to go look it up.
That's exactly how it works. They have the engineers, the know how, the access to all the materials to make a good emulator. They won't because the money, there's little to no money it. Unless they charged per game as a downloadable.
I feel it's still limited to how well it peforms with different specs on pc, even though compatibility is improving, I guess there will be a time where like the PS2 emulator will start working with more hardware and will become more accessible
rpcs3 has good compatibility but is quite demanding, in my case I have a Ryzen 5 3600 from many years ago and it is almost impossible for me to play games that are not in a playable state
@@mauricio2085 yeah likewise, I have a MX3500 i7 and it wouldn't even load with my specs, thankfully the console ports of these kind of high end emulators allow me to play them on the series X which I got recently for PS2 games but no way would I be able to play anywhere else lol
I like your videos, good content. One thing you could improve, there is some noise when you are in your room. Maybe better lighting, or some camera settings even?
Same. I played Death and Return of Superman and Final Fight 2 and 3 on it in secret lately. Then I went and played Starcraft Remastered Campaign and Starcraft 2 for multiplayer vs AI in secret. Henks Hanks.
@@jimmelton5846 its easy now, hell with Launchbox it will auto download the cores and place them for you, they made it easier to use than alot of other emulators
@crystalwater505 It does a lot of stuff after the og playstation, N64, Dreamcast, PSP, DS, 3DS, PS2 and GC/Wii from memory but I'd argue that some of these would yield better results using standalone Emulators. Retroarch does cover such a vast amount of consoles and computers, though, so it is essential for me.
Unless the emus aren't playable on portable devices aka Android and Steam Deck , the switch does not suffer from opposition. The moment Yuzu was playing on Steam Deck i knew the end was coming. Now for anything older than Switch there is no point to hunt it down.
Oh for Nintendo there is still a reason. It's retro games and OST are being put on NSO. So it still might get around to protecting it's intellectual property. Didn't Retro Game Corps receive a RUclips strike for featuring footage of an old Mario game?
@skycloud4802 yes it can be true. But there is a difference between the home user and streamer when they engage in emulation. The 1st one makes money or gains fame through using intellectual property (?) and can be said that in a way promotes piracy. The 2nd just plays the game in his home and none knows it. For me , my ps4 with bloodborne is in Greece and now that i live in nl i downloaded bloodborne and finished it in my laptop. So did i cause any harm for sony ? The same for Nintendo.
@naytny5819 well only 10 games are left that are exclusive to ps4 . All others are ported to pc. And yes there are many games that are yet released both on on ps4 pro and ps5. Because lets be honest , not many people play on 4k tvs. Ps4 pro can easily handle games that are in 1080p and 1440p.
@@blad... As in Nintendo and Breath of the Wild where it was playable in cemu from day one. Of course it became perfect 3 months later. If sony continues to issue games to both ps4 and ps5 and those are playable day one in Shadps4 then they have a motive to hunt down shadps4.
Come on, MVG: justifiably or not, the Switch emulators were bullied into closing doors. Everyone remembers "Sony v Connectix" and what happened to Bleem! No one wants to go into trial against a multi-billion dollar company.
huge shoutout to the RPCS3/PCSX2 devs! i'm having a blast playing my childhood games, plus experiencing those i didn't have a chance to try, like Drakengard, Ace Combat and many others. Day by day i'm growing my collection of PS2 and PS3 games.
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Emulation Devs are the true goats. Make sure you support them - check the description for patreon links etc!
Absolutely 💯💯💯
No Xemu? ;(
You didn't mention Duckstation?
Very great talking points and point of view. Will check these emulators out and give the devs support.
What about the Droid attack on the Wookies!?!
I think Xenia should have gotten an honorable mention, they got like 3 dudes that got a custom Xbox live working on it
i just discovered them this past month. I've only played 2 games using it, deathsmiles and sonic 06, and it seemed to run it pretty well. Fast load times and visuals looked great. I had no idea there were emulators past 6th gen, ps2 and xbox. If it really is a small team of 3 dudes they are killing it. sonic 06, even tho it is a broken POS, ran pretty well with only a few small visual glitches, and a couple gamebreaking visual glitches that went away after a gameover and restart. I was able to play though the entire game, a hell of a lot faster than the official 360 game.
I also had the same thought, I haven't personally messed with Xenia. But I've been playing Fable 2 on my XSX, and I'm wondering how the two compare.
Their development is too damn slow they barely do anything with it wake me up in 20 years when we will have finally music in Burnout
@@Dregomz02Entitled prick.
@@Dregomz02 3 dudes are developing too slow for you?
An honorable mention would be "RedViper", the VirtualBoy emulator for the 3DS. It works very well and it's one of the few ways to experience the stereoscopic image without original hardware or VR glasses.
RedViper really feels like an official 'virtual console' release
That's actually amazing and maybe the first time ever I feel like I'm missing out on the original 3DS hardware lol
Agree 💯
Red Viper is freaking amazing. I had the Virtual Boy back in the mid 90s, and this emulator blew me away.
Red Viper is gold and, for countless people, the only way to explore such a bizarre and unique system in emulation while...
Preserving its flavour.
What a unique combination of inventive and great skills!
RPCS3 is a god send. I finally managed to complete Demon's Souls, after 15 years (after my original 60GB PS3 died), and in 4K 60fps, too.
For me I'm waiting to get my PC to play some of the exclusives that didn't have PS3 to play them
Yay!
Played Tales of Xillia 1 & 2 in glorious 4k with rpcs3 too. Damn Bandai Namco for letting their PS3 titles being stuck on a system no longer in production.
@@aquapendulumthank God for emulation I'm playing top gear snes
@@aquapendulum Ooh, there's some classic RPGs on the PS3. Good shout.
ShadPS4 is unbelievable! One day you barely had any gameplay and other day you suddenly have Bloodborne
Unfortunate naming though. I'm sure Mr.Beast is a fan 😂
@@BenWillockTo be fair, I think it's supposed to mean Shadow PS4.
It's ChadPS4
The reason for this quick development is, because it does not emulator everything like a regular emulator, because its close enough to x86-64 compatible hardware. This makes it easier to program the emulator, test and actually easier on the performance. Still even with this in mind, its mind blowing to me too.
There's even a custom build for playing Rock Band 4, sure you can't load Rivals yet but the fact that we're now at a point where all the mainline Rock Band games can be played on PC is amazing.
@@thingsiplay Chad ps4 is being ran thru a compatibility layer and being developed that way…
So yes of course it rung x86-x64 as the jaguar is a x86 - x64 architecture…
However implementing the compatibility layer is not that easy as you need a jailbroken ps4 and also pretty much mirroring the console with out using its original code or structure so it takes time..
It’s not like the recent Xbox one emulator that lets you play games on your of because of said compatibility layer and Microsoft already is a x86 - x64 system…
Great video! I'm glad to see BigPEmu make the list!
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So cool to see PCSX2 get updates. It was an emulator i tried to use a ton back in the day and most of the games had some kind of bug or disturbance that made me not use it. Hats off to the team. Also cool to see you include Jak 3, it's a game that means a lot to me. It's receiving a PC port sometime next year that allows for mod support which is amazing
It's all u post lol
That PC port is via the OpenGOAL project, isn’t it? I’ve been following it since their early days, and I have to say it’s amazing the progress they made on both Jak 1 and Jak 2.
The emulator has come a long way. My backup of Way Of The Samurai 1 used to not play and now it runs flawless. The team there really did their thing, hats off to them.
It's the GOAT emulator if you ask me, absolutely incredible.
Pcsx2 really had a massive glowup
Parrapa the rapper 2 had alot of graphical issues on the older versions of pcsx2 that essentially made the game unplayable and as soon as the nightly releases came out almost every issue i had just vanished.
The devs of the emulators are truly the goats.
They allow you to play your favourite consoles for FREE if you dont have them and on top of that they support it and do everything, expecting nothing in return. Please support them if you can.
They are keeping preservation alive while expecting nothing for themselves
True goats.
Also shout out to the crazy people who are decomp-ing games to make them native to PC! Those people are GOATs too
Specific shoutout to OpenGOAL for the Jak series native project
Yay!🎉
They sure are
But not only are they helping in preserving those games, they are basically code wizards
Because making something run better and look better by pure code is truly something magical, you don't see it very often
@@AltPlus30That kind of stuff is what happens when projects are driven by pure passion instead of just money alone
why are you trying to jinx it , you know trash from usa will ruin all of it and put out their restrictions, they already got their sheep citizens using vpns to download pirated games
RPCS3 also offers something special and very unique. Early users of PS3 might remember PlayStation Home. Well that got recreated and is now called Destination Home. You can access that on the RPCS3 emulator. I know a lot of people might not care, but for anyone who enjoyed what PlayStation Home tried to do, you CAN experience that again through this emulator. And I think that's pretty cool.
Wait, they remade PS Home? Hell yeah, that was my childhood right there
People enjoyed Home?
@@jimmelton5846
Well I married my friend, then a random that came towards us, and then married my friend again and we went to play bowling so
That's a yes
@@jimmelton5846I played it as a kid. Can’t necessarily say I “enjoyed” it or really had any actual fun, but it was still a good time to goof around in for a bit. I played maybe a total of 5 hours or less and got my fill. Maybe will check out this new version tho
We're still waiting for MGS4 to not suddenly hang, that would be amazing.
RPCS3’s compatibility is understated. The reason it is low is because you have to dump certain files and have proof of you beating the game. Example: I have beaten Dark Souls many years ago on RPCS3 with a decent CPU and no hacks, no problem, but it is still considered ingame because I didn’t know how to extract the files needed to submit it.
Huh, interesting. Dolphin's compatibility is pretty much just user-reported afaik, so they'll just take you at your word that "hey, I was able to get all 45 Edgars and didn't notice any jank, mark Animaniacs as Perfect compat", or "pressing a certain button combo crashed not only Paper Mario but caused a BSOD, mark it as Some Issues", they don't require _proof_ (but having logfiles and video is helpful if you _did_ encounter jank)...
You also have to remember that it has to be playable on the recommended specifications (or below) for it to be considered playable. Midnight Club: Los Angeles for example is perfectly emulated via RPCS3 but it requires a very beefy CPU in order to be playable. Dark Souls is considered playable now though so there's that.
I used to watch your videos while walking home from school as a kid. Thanks for getting me into emulation and console jailbreaking :]
It's a bit sad there was no mention of Melon DS, which recently reached its 1.0RC with LAN support after 8 years of development, and Azahar 3DS which resulted by the team up of several different developers, like PabloMK7 who brought online support.
Nintendo wasn't all about the switch, and I feel like the scene it's going to rise from the ashes...
But Azahar 3DS has no public release yet, how can he say is one of the best if nobody has been able to test it?
theres always next year
@@Hoytehablodecause aside azahar which other 3ds emulator is as good??
@@maskedlibrarian1483 aside? we don't know how good Azahar is.
Right now the best 3DS emulator is either the old LIME 3DS or Citra MK7 by pablo.
They joined and created Azahar, so we are waiting to see what comes out of that.
It’s good but we had drastic for like 2 centuries. It kills the novelty when there’s an alternative that is so much better it’s practically incomparable.
Emulation is really important to preserve the history of video games or even entire computer/console generations. I really appreciated the work the community has done to make this possible.
But one emulator class that is much more important to me than any console emulation is X86 PC Emulation. The discontinued PCem project and the still ongoing 86Box are great to get back into the pre 2000 years. I am not sure if you ever have covered this in your channel, if not please consider making a dedicated video for it, because they deserve it. Also there is a really good alternative using virtualization, running windows 98 with full GPU support up to DirectX 9 using a driver solution called "SoftGPU".
ShadPS4 has got to be one of the most surprising and impressive developments of an emulator I have ever seen. We were still under the impression it was impossible to emulate the PS4 and then suddenly this Emulator came around and claimed to do the impossible.. and within what feels like weeks it went from running homebrew to running bloodborne!
the progress was so fast I literally thought it had to be malware, it's so impressive
ShadPS4's hype train brings back memories of Yuzu going from barely booting Mario Odyssey to fully playable in six months or so. It's such an exciting time
Why did it seem impossible? PS3 emulation I can see saying that because of the architecture.
PS4 is a AMD Jaguar CPU PC, basically. I was expecting emulation to be the easiest of any console.
This is a big part of why Sony is now willing to invest in PS4/5 games being ported to PC.
@@dragons_red From what I understand the PS4 hasn't been fully decrypted yet, so the low level instruction calls are still largely unknown. This is basically the communication between the OS/kernel, hardware and software (i.e. games). Also the PS4 uses a custom API known as GNM/GNMX, which is undocumented to the general public, so it's pretty much a guess work as to how the API functions.
@elimalinsky7069 Reverse engineering GNM library isn't really the big issue in PS4 emulation, but the overall complexity and feature set of the GPU hardware. Most of the GNM library is statically linked inside the game, and the few functions the emulator can intercept from the system library are dead simple to reimplement. The emulator has to directly parse PM4 command lists sent to the hardware, recompile the shaders, and figure out the resource layout from them since there is no high-level API to hook. In that sense it's diffrent from dxvk/proton and more akin to classic emulators. So most work is following open AMD isa/pm4/reg docs to figure out what game is trying to do
Man PCSX2, I've been using that emulator for SO many years now. I don't think I've ever had a game breaking bug since the olden days.
I do think it’s worth a mention that Xemu is on the verge of merging Vulcan rendering to the main branch, and you can already download test versions with Vulkan rendering. This is pretty substantial and in some cases such as MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf, has fixed unplayable games to be fully playable. In other instances of my own testing I have found Vulkan to be capable of fixing certain graphical bugs and improve performance.
For who uses CRT the Wii still a beast with great 8-16 bit emulators displaying 240p over component cable. And the Wiistation for PS1 games still being update.
my wii crashes a lot. maybe bad luck ? i tho' the code on wii is very unstable/unfinished
@@MrDesillu Are you saying with the Wiistation or in general? A small amount the games I got black screen on wiistation. Retroarch crashes a lot. Not64 also have some N64 games that not work. But other emulators and the system itself run fine. Maybe you need to reinstall and update all the system hack and homebrew. is amazing how back in the days we needed a modchip and later a simple browser/ip hack do all the work. Also check the Sonic Mania 240p por for Wii.
Yeap, killer combo.
I played a bunch of NES and gameboy games with Wiimednafen. It's pretty great.
wii u is amazing for this, you get an insane catalog with one console
Considering how long we went without any really good Jaguar emulation I’d say BigPemu is hands down one of, if not the most impressive emulator of the last few years.
The top of the honorable mentions list, HAS to be Duckstation.
One of the most complete, widely compatible, and best performing emulators out there!
Mednafen has the same good with open source, but Duckstation is Close Source sadly. Still both Emulators are good for ps1 Emulation.
@@AntiGrieferGames The Duckstation github is still active and you can fork and develop from it without threat of legal action, it's de-facto open source still
Agreed that Duckstation is great! But what did it do special in 2024 specifically?
I switched to DuckStation a few years ago; it’s great.
agree DuckStation easily the best PS1 emulator
Honestly Yuzu is still up there. Can still play a bunch of the newest games without a single dev working on it. Hopefully it continues someday
I think it will once Nintendo stopped selling switch games but considering that Switch 2 will be backward compatible, it might take a decade for Switch emulation to be as tolerated as SNES, GC or even WiiU.
@@efrenarevalo2025 That's kinda what I was thinking as well. Nintendo is making _zero dollars_ off of Wii U and earlier (aside from once in a while releasing a VC onto Switch), so the existence of Cemu and Dolphin doesn't hurt their present-day bottom line. Whereas *_they're still actively making Switch games_* and Yuzu was a legitimate "threat" to that... so, I can kinda understand the business perspective of why they went scorched-earth on emulators of _current gen_ consoles :/
Yuzu is owned by Nintendo now. But ryujinx is being continued though
@@freewilliam93 i thought ryujinx was also being stopped?
@cool3865 someone else has stepped in to continue it.
Correction: Wii U/3DS eShop was retired last year. This year was the shutdown of Nintendo Network for Wii U and 3DS
totally stupid- pennies to keep the server running
@@Matanumi Not really, they'd rather have folk migrate to the Switch and the NSO service.
Piracy is a lack of service issue. It is always justified.
according to nintendo it was JUST shut down. not last year. loads of tictok vids on it
@@clamojoat8543 new purchases were retired last year, but the eshop remained online for users to download their previously purchased items until earlier this year
personally rcps3 still blows me away i just wish the og xbox and 360 got that much love
Xenia has brought 360 emulation forward by leaps and bounds this year. I'd keep up on that one for sure...
Xemu has really good compatibility already
Xenia canary has gotten pretty good in the past year (they should definitely fix the constant crashing on dx12 tho) and xemu has been improving recently (sadly conker live and reloaded didnt work well for me on xemu for some reason)
I've been waiting for whenever Xemu finishes the vulkan renderer they've been working on for the past few months
Xemu and Xenia have been making huge advancements lately. Gears of War 2 is very much playable now.
I got myself a Steam Deck OLED around June 2024. I've installed emulators such as PCSX2, Duck Station, Dolphin, mGBA, and PPSSPP, and they work pretty well! I haven't tried Vita3K yet, but I do plan on using it.
but how do you store all these games if steam deck only use 1 tb card PS2 games r big
@Gloryboyquan PS2 games are not particularly big. 1tb internal SSD and 1tb SD works just fine and I emulate everything on Steam Deck.
@@Gloryboyquanps2 games are really not that big
@@Gloryboyquan 1TB is already big enough for retro games. At most, some can reach up to 4.4GB, and even then, you can still trim said games close to half their size or more. I have an Odin 2 Pro with 256GB internal memory and another 512GB microSD storage. I have games from NES all the way to Wii and still have 100GB to spare. I'm pretty sure you're not gonna be playing _all_ of the PS2's library anyway.
@@Gloryboyquan i have close to 100 PS2 games so far, stored on a 500GB HDD, i still have some space left, like around 20% of the drive left. NES/Snes ROMS are at most, a couple of Mb in size. I'm not sure about how large are GC/N64 images, but shouldn't be that big considering the standards of digital storage back then
Nice shouting out BigPEmu. A Jaguar emulator is niche thing but it was cool to tackle some niche titles I had interest in like the Alien vs Predator exclusive and the Iron Soldier games.
You were interested in nothing.
Shout out to YabaSanShiro finally getting an update after absolutely ages. So far the only Saturn emulator with hardware upscaling.
Also, on a personal note, props to Tsugaru. Not the most user-friendly emulator out there, but it finally gave me the opportunity to check out the FM Towns for the first time.
omg fm towns
Emulators still have the same magic they had when I first found out about then on the psp. Even after using them for 20ish years, they still amaze me.
i dunno you should of seen the scene back in the 90s, emulating gameboy and NES was thought to be impossible, when NESticle got released it really changed the whole game
18:05 Woah, take me to dinner first lmao
Oh my god I had to rewind to understand what's going on but it was so worth it
Sonic the Fighters, of all games, has had an online resurgence due to RCPS3. A real niche community suddenly expanding has been real fun to watch.
Emulation is so important for art preservation
Sure, but let's not pretend that's the main reason the emulators were created...
And modding / randomizers, and playing games which have barely any compatible hardware still working, and enabling new features or bugfix, and running games that were never distributed out of some regions, and allowing retro gaming competition (like speedrunning) to be accessible for most people
@@EnglishMike It ABSOLUTELY was. People reversed the structure of the SPU and the PowerPC chips because they DEEPLY care about the console and it's inner workings, and want to bring them into modern hardware, not because they wanted you to have free games....
what does that have to do with videogames? correction: " Emulation is so important for game preservation"
17:42 Finally i can enjoy "Where did you learn to fly" in 4K60. Thanks BigP!
I love it when you do these "state of emulation" videos. Good stuff MVG!
Yuzu still works well on the newer releases i was surprised
that's because you can still use the patches nintendo releases on it. once it gets to a certain point they wont work anymore.
new 1st party games look like sh** what r u talking about they needed to manually code each game now those brilliant devs are gone, only sh**y forks remain
Hi MVG! As an optician I have to tell you that your glasses suit you really well! Awesome video as always!
Yeah, I can't overstate how much better the PCSX2 UX overhaul is. It's an absolute game changer. And it's not just about how easy it is to change settings (which is much, much easier), but also how much nicer it is to be able to make custom input profiles and emulator settings for each game. It genuinely went from one of my least favorite emulators to use, to one of my absolute favorites
Oh wow Rich Whitehouse, he was one of the developers of Star Wars Jedi Academy and he chats with us sometimes in irc
Looking forward to this one! Always great to take a minute to see see how far emulation has come. Forever grateful to the developers of emulators and those who help preserve games and media!
Pour one out for Yuzu and Ryujinx.
Just finished Echoes of wisdom on Ryujinx 1440p at 100fps. Fantastic game, fantastic emulator
They both get cut down and then turn into 4 new emulators with 4 different teams all competing to add more features and stability.
@@ChimpRiot not really the threat of Nintendo with their Switch and Switch 2 will stop alot of people from making emulators for both of those consoles. your average person just cant fight that company
@@cool3865 Maybe if they live in the US or Europe. Nintendo have no chance with development teams and groups in places like China and Russia.
suyu is still up and ive heard of another one in dev called citron
I have to give credit to MVG for his work on the OG xbox emulators. Still running smooth to this day. 👍
Back in October I tried out the PCSX2 emulator on a mini PC and it was finally the kick I needed to buy a new PC and now I just got RCPS3 running last night.
Quick question man, like where do you get your roms in RCPS3?
The mere threat of a lawsuit from a company like nintendo is enough to destroy any emulator. Most people dont have the money to fight that sort of pressure
this only happen's when one of the DEV's does a Come at me bro , mental brake down attitude , GBA emulator's are still around
And it destroys so much hard work.
It's oligarchic bullying.
Isn't pocket world fighting that stupid patient protection case?
In addition to the money, it's also the time and the stress. A big company like Nintendo can afford to throw money at a near infinite number of lawsuits and subquent appeals until they win by attrition. Even if Yuzu or whoever ultimately won their case, the financial cost could well sink them (as it did with Bleem! many years ago) and this doesn't account for the mental toll fighting such a case would take on the development team.
I've been using RPCS3, PCSX2, and Vita 3K like crazy this year. All of the developers should be commended for their stellar work.
I'm currently enjoying Wolfenstein 3D on BigPEmu. BigPE has introduced me to Jaguar library and I'm having a really great time with it. Thanks for covering it and big thanks to the Dev.
"compatibility rate has risen from 68% last year to the whopping 69.5% in 2024, what a huge improvement"
r u cereal old man
I wish I was old enough to know what "per CENT" means, it almost looks like something only old people would know 🤔
My personal favorite emulators that I played around with this year are touchHLE (iOS) and Infuse (Zeebo). I love these obscure platforms such as Zeebo getting an emulator so that I can play around with exclusive games that I never even knew existed.
Sure the compatibility is low for both of those at the moment, but I am eagerly waiting to see where they go in the future.
And of course ShadPS4 is fun, but I'll wait for it to develop further before I dive into Bloodborne and eventually I want it to run The Order 1886 as well. I know a lot of people disliked that game, but I personally enjoyed it.
I wish that one day we'll get a proper Android emulator for PC as well.
People who work on emulators are truly the most amazing people out there. They have brought so much joy and happiness to people all over the world.
Been emulating since the 90's, and it's still one of the wonders of the world imo.
Great video, btw.
Red Viper, a Virtual Boy emulator for the 3DS, got huge updates this year, most notably the suppert for the 3DS's stereotopic 3D
I think a classic emulator that wasn't mentioned is Dolphin for GameCube and Wii. It keeps getting better and better.
If dolphin stopped development 5 years ago I would still consider it one of the most complete, stable and accurate emulators ever made, but the fact they are still actively updating it is amazing
@RandomGreenKirb they just keep squeezing out performance improvements, at times even paired with accuracy improvements. 🤯
Winlator
Being able to run PC games on Android using wine is a god send for some people like some guys finished far cry 3, fallout, Witcher ,crysis remastered , OG modern warfare 3 it's actually something that's really nice to see as you know Android is Linux obviously so that's just something 🎉
Sodium64. They are adding so much more compatibility to SNES roms playing on an N64. But you already knew this because we talk about it.
Big PEMU is huge for preserving the Jaguar. Especially now that it mostly supports Jag CD games. I've also seen that it improves the performance of Checkered Flag, making it actually playable.
I used to look forward to Simply Austin's take on this every year. But he hasn't released anything in a long while. Thanks for doing this!
MVG forgot more than Simply Austin will ever know.
@@jimmelton5846 You're a looser.
I still remember when I saw one of Simply Austin's videos for the first time and when I wanted to revisit his channel once more, I bumped into Austin Evans by mistake and that's how I ended up knowing about the latter from there on out. 😅
I finished the entirety of Bloodborne + DLC on ShadPS4 yesterday. You only need to install a couple of mods in order for Cainhurst to work properly and to gain access to the Nightmare Frontier without crashing. Other than that, the game is fully playable start to finish.
I honestly think Nintendo wouldn't given a damn about Switch emulation if it wasn't competing with their current gen selling system.
And then seeing those games perform better on all sorts of hardware that it wasn't designed for and so quickly. They did not like that lol.
they exposed themselves a lot, im surprised they got that far
Oh they would give a damn. They will still dmca original nes games. Now they might not sue you for doing last gen emulators, but as soon as a game is involved they're not happy and will make sure its removed and more likely if they could identify you easily they probably would take you to court.
They certainly do, look at dolphin not making it to steam, what happened to vimms lair, look at competitions from the melee community
They wouldn't have a problem to begin with if they'd just release their games on PC. They always prefer the path of most resistance.
just in time for my lunch break, thank you MVG for another great video.
I would be really interested in Worst Emulators of 2024. I don't follow the emulator scene very much but even so I still watched many controversies in the community this year.
The timing here is absolutely fantastic! I just did a fresh install of Windows on an old laptop that I am going to use solely for emulation.
RPCS3 and PCSX2 will always be my go to but this year ShadPS4 deserves the win on this because of how much they got in a few months, when i saw the progress on Bloodborne i was shocked how quickly it got running same thing with CEMU day one when Zelda came out, the CEMU team worked so fast and now everything runs perfect.
amazing work for the Emulator devs, i might check this Vita3k one day, i didn't knew Vita had a emulator
Hopefully all the cut scenes on Dragon Quest VIII will play on the newest update.
Played through DQ VIII on the 3DS this year, brilliant game. Brilliant remake even, loads of QoL and postgame content.
I fully recommend it
The new day is about to split up. Xavier Woods and Kofi yelled at Big E pretty harshly.
PSMove is final frontier of RPCS3. I keep holding out hope I can play PSmove games in bigscreen VR, with 3D enabled, Resistance 3, Killzone 3, House of the Dead, and Resident Evil 5.
Yes, I hope it has support! I played Deadstorm Pirates on the arcade with my wife, so it would be wonderful to have the same experience again.
Good call on BigPEmu; I just found out it's been converted to linux and for those wanting to try the jag this really is the only way (aside from spending loads on a real one). that said there are only a couple of decent exclusives - AvP and Tempest 2000 (the Jag version of that is the only one made by Llamasoft; the conversions on other systems were made by other developers and aren't the same, or rather don't play as well).. Rayman's pretty good too.. Ok there are a few decent games but most of those are conversions from other systems which are usually as good if not better than the jag version as they just ported the M68k code to it (although Zool 2 on Jag is the only one that has music AND sfx... remember that? when you had to choose between the two?)
Wow, Mirrors Edge on RPCS3 looks like the PC version!
Absolutely love your channel still. Thanks for the upload, and hope 2025 will be even better for emulation as a whole!
I wish we had a better version of something like RetroArch. I'd like an all-in-one program to manage and run all these emulators, as well as sync saves across devices. Right now it's a headache juggling them all on multiple devices.
There's technically EmuDeck, but the windows support is only somewhat there, and it's kinda annoying having to use their shortcuts, rather than clicking the exe yourself. It's really made for a set top TV setup rather than a PC.
RetroArch is somewhat not recommneded for beginners. I prefer Standalone Emulators.
Lutris isn't terrible for this tbh, the problem is just that it has a limited number of emulators supported and is missing a lot of key ones.
You could try some front ends, I do not know if they are capable of sync the saves as I play only on my PC, but at least they do about all-in-one, you can run all your PC/emulator games only in one place (front end), first that comes to mind is Launchbox (which I use, also has some cool features as counting the time played) or second Playnite (I think it is totally free, I have never used this one actually)
@@AntiGrieferGames retroarch is easy to use, pair it with Launchbox and it will auto download the cores you are missing and will tell you what dependencies you are missing and will download those
I couldn't agree more regarding RPCS3. It's emulating the most complex console ever made and the progress of the emulator is outstanding. I don't know how the RPCS3 team do it, but I'm very happy they do.
I'd like to make a case for DuckStation, a PS1 emulator. You'll need a BIOS of a PS1, yeah, but even then, tracking one down isn't that much of a big deal since they're readily available online. You can upscale to widescreen, you can up the texturing to a considerable degree, even netplay's a thing. It's also seeing updates every once in a blue moon that keeps this thing running like a champion. And hey, if a game's giving you a rash of shit, cheats are also implemented into it per game! You'll have to be careful though, because things can get a bit wacky if you do too many of them at once!
I switched to DuckStation a few years ago; it’s great.
i didnt think you needed the PS1 bios anymore
@@cool3865 Maybe that might have changed in recent updates, but that was what I needed when I first got started. It might say different in the manual.
Great video Lantus! please next time write the games titles on screen
I really hope MattKC WiiU gamepad project (I almost know nothing about it or it's progress) makes it compatible with Cemu.
Beautiful video! Careful in every detail with solid reasons for the choices! I agree with everything! Will you make a video about the Android platform too?
racing game @ 0:22 is that Ridge Racer 1 or 2 for the psp?
Ridge Racer on the Vita
Some games on the PS3 emulator say they don't run, but they do! I am using the nightly build. Didn't know about a new Jag emulator. Thanks man!
The number of times you said "look / now look" made me look so hard I went blind. How can I enjoy emulators now?? Damnit Aussie RGT85!
vita3k is so impressive I'm blown away by these graphics, that were supposed to be displayed on a tiny screen, and hold so well even on modern large screens.
I’ve been thankful for emulation in 2024
is any of this actually legal yet ?
@@creatorsfreedom6734 yet? It always has been legal. It's piracy that's illegal (in most countries...)
@@creatorsfreedom6734 It's probably legal if you make your own game backups and hold onto your original media, and for emulators which include HLE BIOS. If you have a Wii it's dead easy to mod the console and then back up Gamecube and Wii games. Cartridge games can be easily dumped with available dedicated USB devices. PS2 and PS1, Saturn, 3DO games you can just install an optical drive into your PC or connect one off the shelf a very cheap one via USB and you're all set, it's also easy to salvage an optical drive out of an old trash laptop and put it into a cheap USB enclosure. Original Xbox and 360 requires a somewhat exotic Toshiba or Samsung drive modified compatible to the one in the consoles.
@@creatorsfreedom6734 Wdym? It's been legal for as long as it's existed. What's illegal is the shady ways you decide to get your rom files from, unless you rip the games for your own use.
@@creatorsfreedom6734Legally gray if you own copies of the games you're emulating (like we all do right? Aha)
Can I make a request? I would really love it if you could put the name of the game that you are showing on the screen when you are showing gameplay footage for an emulator. Sometimes, I see a game that looks like a lot of fun in your videos, but I don’t know what it is to go look it up.
I just don’t understand why Sony doesn’t fund rpcs3 and license it to enable back compat on ps5 pro. It would be a killer app.
They just hate money
But then the high amount of wasted horsepower would no longer be wasted!
They don't even need to do this. They already have the keys to the kingdom. They could whip one up in small amount of the time.
That's not how that works. They have more inside knowledge, but they still need to make an emulator from 0.
That's exactly how it works. They have the engineers, the know how, the access to all the materials to make a good emulator. They won't because the money, there's little to no money it. Unless they charged per game as a downloadable.
Thanks a lot for the updates !
I remember how PS4 emulation was little more than a scam and a myth, as well as PSVita emulation. Time has gone past…
Did MVG say in any of this other videos, or comments what brand, model number and retailer, his magnificent glasses come from ?
Rpcs3 only needs some optimization for games run more fps
I feel it's still limited to how well it peforms with different specs on pc, even though compatibility is improving, I guess there will be a time where like the PS2 emulator will start working with more hardware and will become more accessible
rpcs3 has good compatibility but is quite demanding, in my case I have a Ryzen 5 3600 from many years ago and it is almost impossible for me to play games that are not in a playable state
@@mauricio2085 yeah likewise, I have a MX3500 i7 and it wouldn't even load with my specs, thankfully the console ports of these kind of high end emulators allow me to play them on the series X which I got recently for PS2 games but no way would I be able to play anywhere else lol
I like your videos, good content. One thing you could improve, there is some noise when you are in your room. Maybe better lighting, or some camera settings even?
Ares has become my favorite multi-emulator lately
Same. I played Death and Return of Superman and Final Fight 2 and 3 on it in secret lately. Then I went and played Starcraft Remastered Campaign and Starcraft 2 for multiplayer vs AI in secret. Henks Hanks.
Fab roundup Lantus. Have a great Chrimbo man.
In b4 someone mentions Retroarch and causes a shitstorm.
Retroarch is great but not really intuitive for newbies. It is considered a frontend.
@@jimmelton5846 its easy now, hell with Launchbox it will auto download the cores and place them for you, they made it easier to use than alot of other emulators
I think Retroarch is more for older systems like Atari-PS1.
@crystalwater505 It does a lot of stuff after the og playstation, N64, Dreamcast, PSP, DS, 3DS, PS2 and GC/Wii from memory but I'd argue that some of these would yield better results using standalone Emulators.
Retroarch does cover such a vast amount of consoles and computers, though, so it is essential for me.
@@jimmelton5846n64 emulation actually works amazingly on retroarch
Fantastic episode with tons of information. Thank you!
1:03 you really didn't wanna say 69% mvg lol 😂
Great material as always, but.... but you get +100 pts this time from me for the Sushi Boys music from Amiga demo by Ghostown ;)
Keep the great work!
Drink every time he says “and look” or “now look”
I just saw a video of Cemu running a game in 4K with a second display using Moonlight to a tablet to emulate the wireless display. Amazing progress.
Unless the emus aren't playable on portable devices aka Android and Steam Deck , the switch does not suffer from opposition. The moment Yuzu was playing on Steam Deck i knew the end was coming. Now for anything older than Switch there is no point to hunt it down.
Oh for Nintendo there is still a reason. It's retro games and OST are being put on NSO. So it still might get around to protecting it's intellectual property. Didn't Retro Game Corps receive a RUclips strike for featuring footage of an old Mario game?
@skycloud4802 yes it can be true. But there is a difference between the home user and streamer when they engage in emulation. The 1st one makes money or gains fame through using intellectual property (?) and can be said that in a way promotes piracy. The 2nd just plays the game in his home and none knows it. For me , my ps4 with bloodborne is in Greece and now that i live in nl i downloaded bloodborne and finished it in my laptop. So did i cause any harm for sony ? The same for Nintendo.
Though technically not emulation, I really expected you to talk about Recompile64 as that is likely to be the way forward with all future emulation.
Almost 70% so 69%? Nice.
Another awesome video, thanks.
The moment shadps4 can play games that are still full price in ps5 and pc as Gow Ragnarok then we should expect a dmca notice from Sony.
Why? They already put there games on PC?
@naytny5819 well only 10 games are left that are exclusive to ps4 . All others are ported to pc. And yes there are many games that are yet released both on on ps4 pro and ps5. Because lets be honest , not many people play on 4k tvs. Ps4 pro can easily handle games that are in 1080p and 1440p.
@@naytny5819 yes gow ragnarok and one other ps4 exclusive were recently released on steam. And by recently i mean the last 3 minths.
Ragnarok is already on PC and can be shadily obtained. How would it being playable via emulation change anything?
@@blad... As in Nintendo and Breath of the Wild where it was playable in cemu from day one. Of course it became perfect 3 months later. If sony continues to issue games to both ps4 and ps5 and those are playable day one in Shadps4 then they have a motive to hunt down shadps4.
nice video mvg. i follow emulation since 2001 and can't remember a better year than 2024.
Its a real pity Simple64 doesnt support retroachivements.
you have a very pleasant voice its nice listening to you speak thanks
Come on, MVG: justifiably or not, the Switch emulators were bullied into closing doors.
Everyone remembers "Sony v Connectix" and what happened to Bleem!
No one wants to go into trial against a multi-billion dollar company.
huge shoutout to the RPCS3/PCSX2 devs! i'm having a blast playing my childhood games, plus experiencing those i didn't have a chance to try, like Drakengard, Ace Combat and many others. Day by day i'm growing my collection of PS2 and PS3 games.
WHAT IS LOVE?
BABY DON'T HURT ME
DON'T HURT ME
NO MORE
I was expecting RPCS3 to be Windows-only, but was pleasantly surprised to find out it also runs on Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD.