Grandma would be proud! Personally I think the 4th gen i3 is the best starting spot for emulation because of the igpu improvement. It will let you play 95% of PS2 & Wii library without any lag & also using standalone emulation & enabling those mostly safe speed hacks is the way to go for PS2 & Wii to squeeze out those extra performance. PCSX2 has improved a lot in the last 2 months. 6th gen is the sweet spot though. HD 530 has Vulkan & OpenGL 4.6 support which helps modern emulation a lot. Vulkan is mandatory for accurate N64 emulation & it can also play some easy to run WiiU, Yuzu & RPCS3 games. DS emulation is actually pretty taxing on Windows & Linux because of the absence of Drastic. About 3 years ago you couldn't even upscale DS games on PC. Drastic is nothing short of a magic.
Excellent video! One of your best yet! Can't wait for the next two! I shout out my dead grandma Maxine, who used to play Dr. Mario on NES religiously. She was amazingly good. Love you Grandma!
She sounds like a sweetie! My IRL dead grandma didn't play games, but she used to [pretend to, in retrospect,] cheer me on in Mario Bros when I'd go visit her in the summers and bring my Nintendo. "Watch this Grandma!" *epic mario move. "Wow you're so good at that!". "Were you watching Grandma?". "Yes, definitely..."
Add a low profile GTX 1650 or RX 6400 to turn this old Lenovo office PC from a good emulation setup to a great emulation setup. 6400 is cheaper at the moment, and draws less power, so I recommend that. I set up one of these small form factor office PCs for my sister to use (a Dell Optiplex though) and put a Sapphire Pulse RX 6400 low profile card in it. It’s one hell of an emulation box
Before going to the next pc, you should revisit the SFF pc with a dedicated graphics card at the very least. On mine i added the 1650, an ssd for the boot drive, ram to 16gb and the cpu up to an i7. Obviously these do increase the cost and the biggest improvement is the gpu. I had a 1050ti before the 1650 and that was also great.
I think an interesting topic is around VR or more specifically getting a cheap windows MXR headset (ie Lenovo) and showing what’s possible with things like Half Life Alyx etc
Some of the emulators in batocera have no linux version so those emulators have to be emulated in wine.... giving a performance hit. For gamecube you will need to play with the screen settings a bit, it can run lag free and upscaled. Some systems just need a lot of testing. Just don't try ps3/4, xbox 360 or wii u/switch as half the games won't run in batocera or work way slower then windows.
For sure. I was running Gamecube fine with this Batocera on my main PC. Ran great. For the rest of the tests (PS3/ 360) I'm going to switch to windows.
If only raspberry pi's didn't cost a kidney to buy nowadays, I'm very happy I managed to get a pi 4 for £40 a while ago before the inflation. The next best thing closest to the true retro experience I have tried is EmuVR, holy crap. EmuVR is mind blowing.
But side note : Tech Dweeb I love what u do big dawg ❤❤ next time you do a emulator video showing gameplay anyway u could include the game “NFL Street” ? Love from Richmond VA
I am really going to have to join your discord channel. I bet there are some great gaming conversations going on there. It cracks me up that you mention "the greatest library of games known to man..." Then you show the ET Atari game. I remember back in the day, that this game was so bad that they ended up taking thousand upon thousand of these cartridges and burying them in a landfill! In fact there is a documentary on Netflix (I believe) on gaming where they interview the creator of ET. Pretty interesting story. Great video as usual.
I'll be a perfectly decent human being and just say I'm glad you liked it, I won't even gloat 😁 My i3 4130 with its powerhouse of igpu upscales better, but sometimes an i5 2400 can be had for a laughable amount of money. I've purchased mine on an auction for peanuts, but if I had to do it again, I'd probably get an i5 4570, as they are barely any more expensive. And I definitely won't get an Acer again. It sounds like a B52 taking off. Oh, I don't know if you noticed, Retrobat got a rather major update. I guess you did, but if you didn't, it's bloody massive.
Good. Gloating is MY job! I heard about a RetroBat update but I haven't had a chance to check it out. I just checked the changelog: "- Autodetection of best mame version when set to auto" That alone is worth throwing a party!
@@TechDweeb also: New Retrobat integrated Updater & Emulators download/update functionnality I almost fell on my face when I started an emulator and saw the update prompt. It is getting shockingly amazingly awesome!
@TechDweeb: Have you considered doing a video on converting an old (Linux capable) Chromebook? The market is getting flooded with ex-educational HP 11 G5 Chromebooks for around $35usd (Intel Celeron 1.60 GHz 4GB 16GB 11.6") Would be neat to see how these can be "Retro"cycled into emulation consoles and not end up as ewaste! Keep up the amazing vids!
Cool. We actually just got an old office PC for free. I'm setting up emulators and such right meow. I'll be keeping it offline in the garage, so am setting up each emulator one by one instead of doing any of the batocera stuff (which seems like you'd need to have web connectivity to get the most out of it). I have a finely tuned and curated rom list of exactly 6,361 games. 🙂 Edit: I will, of course, be checking out your Retrobat vid again, just in case it saves me time.
14:03 I don't know what your talking about. Shadow of the Colossus ran exactly like this for me. In fact, it ran exactly at this speed like it was me back in PT 🤣....... It died shortly after, and it was during covid. RIP PS2 Slim. It was nice running with you before it crashed and burned.
It might be interesting to see how much difference a low profile video card would make. I suspect it would help with upscaling, but not much with systems that don't emulate well at native resolution. Of course, you could also investigate a processor upgrade, but that might be a little advanced for the spirit of this video. I'm confident you could handle it, but it might be a bit intimidating for a significant portion of the target audience for the video. Just for information's sake to someone wanting to investigate this: A processor upgrade for old office PCs like this is about finding the best bang for the buck. Usually i7 processors will be priced too high to be worth it. However, you can sometimes find Xeon processors that will fit the socket for cheap that were harvested from old servers. They will usually have more threads than an i5 from the time, and that can help quite a bit with both emulation and native gaming. Of course, you have to figure out exactly what Xeon, if any, will fit the socket (which is one of the things that might be a bit advanced for the target audience of this video; it's easy to get the wrong processor for the socket).
as soon as nintendo finds out you emulated their games this video is going down. good thing this channel is still on the small side so it will take them awhile to discover it 😂
80% PS2 sounds a bit optimistic to me but that's just a guess. Did you use a graphics card on this computer? I can't remember if you said so. I have the next generation of this computer with a core I7 in it. I put in a GTX 1050 & 16GB of RAM. I can run most GameCube at 1080p but it struggles with F-zero GX (for instance)
For emulating on a low end system it's more about the GPU. I'm surprised some of higher, harder to emulate systems ran well using the iGPU. I'm running Batocera on an old i7-3770 4c/8t CPU, 16gb 1600 MHz Ram and GT 1030 2gb GPU. It can run everything up to PS2 and DS alsong with most 3DS. Although some of the harder to emulate game settings need to be downgraded to play PS2 games and DS can't upscale passed 2x without problems and 3DS at only 1x or 2x depending on the game.
Got a badbooty gaming pc. 12700k and a 3090. I'm wondering if I should use retrobat or if there is something cooler I can use. Looking forward to the next videos.
Retrobat is just the frontend, it makes browsing your game library a treat. But another good aspect of retrobat is that it comes with all the emulators pre-installed and setup, saving you time. If you want the bestest-best compatibility and peformance you should manually update the high end emulators (dolphin, RPCS3, xenia, citra, yuzu), but you can do that by accessing them through the retrobat install directory. Retrobat is the best frontend, IMO.
@@TechDweeb Noted! I have poked at Retrobat before, just was wondering what other cool front ends there are. I like Daijisho for android, but the whole "installs all the emulators" is hard to pass up.
I played Final Fantasy X on PCSX2 anno 2008 on a Q6600. I had to OC it to 3,6ghz @1,6V so it run well. Edit: With a small GPU, even if it`s old, like a GT730 u can increase massive the max resolution (depending on game and emulator). This old Igpu is as fast like high end GPU`s from maybe 2003. Thats why u cant increase resolution of the better systems like PS2
vid card upgrade would support higher emulation on lower systems. i gamed on i5 680 2 core then i5 750 4 core(free garbage bin upgrade) for years with r9 290. only complaint was couldn't keep up with modern emu's like cemu, but think a lot was due to gpu restrictions
Old office PC powered with 4th gen Intel chipset is the better starting point when it comes to a budget PC for emulation up till PS2 / Wii-era games. Slap with a capable single-slot graphics card & you're basically good to go. I don't recommend anything with the 1st & 2nd gen Intel chipsets. For old PCs with just 3rd gen Intel chipsets, I'd make dual partitions on the hard drive; XP partition for XP-era games & emulation up till PS1 & Win 10 partition for modern games & emulation from PSP till PS2 / Wii.
I noticed you had a GPU in this video, I must have missed it somewhere... did you add it to this PC? I suspect a bump in GPU power should allow for most of that upscaling in some emulators... something like a GTX 750 or GT 1030 would allow for more of that 720p/1080p goodness.
That's a GT 730! I didn't add it to the PC, it's just there for ambience, but I do plan on giving that a test on the channel INCLUDING emulation performance.
Instead of playing these games from the removable hard disk can you copy all the content of it to this PC to play from the internal hard disk? and can you run old windowns games from the year 1999 like system shock 2 and half life?
Yep my current pc is an nvidia geforce gt650m, can to gaming with it for most parts because new games tend to lag on this, Except emulation! Now i have psx,n64,dc,ps2 etc and its not laggy😊
It's driving me nuts. That cant possibly be your real voice is it? If it is, this role was meant for you. No hate intended big fan! Just crazy how fitting it is
Honestly, I think the best idea for a comfy emulation is a slightly old computer with decent CPU, GPU, and an OLD monitor (even CRT) for a real retro experience.
Psp emulation does have 60 fps patches for some games so you can definitely get some good results out of it. Also id imagine that pc has a pci-e slot so you can put in a low profile R7 250 or gt 1030 gddr5 version too get way better gpu rendering performance for later console generations.
can confirm that this works ;) I have a 4th gen i5 with a GT 1030 D5 and yes, it helps a lot with upscaling and emulation. This setup is somewhere between dusty old grandma and budget gamer PC.
So many people have that V90 in their videos. I got one on amazon... Its one of those things you unpack and put your mitts on and just say "ohh nooo......" its absolutely horrible in every way except for being a clamshell design lol
Ugh I wish people would stop giving all my secrets away. Now you can’t buy old pcs to mod and fix up and the prices are going back up :( thinkcentres and optiplexes are selling like wildfire
I would like to emulate an 4090tie on my x58 rig. How do it? What can i do to emulate raytrcing on my 1070? I am willing to do rewgistry hacks if needed. Thnks in advance!
"Old PC" with CoreI5 and 8Gb of RAM? Seriously? From my perspective old PC is something from 2002 with 1GHz single core Celeron and like 256mb of RAM. That thing could handle PS1 emulation no problem, mind you.
Not necessarily. I get many questions about whether or not gamecube, for instance, will run on an old PC. And even IRL, I fixed a laptop for someone, it was a 2nd gen i5 laptop, and I copied over my retrobat install & gave them an SNES controller with it as a bit of a gift, and they were blown away that they could play all their old snes & sega games and even a few PS1 games. "I didn't think I could play ANY games on this old thing!". A few weeks later they messaged me to let me know they've been playing a ton of retro games and showed me a picture of their laptop hooked up to their TV playing tony hawk's 2. It made me realize that lots of people don't understand that you can do LOTS of emulation on pretty much ANY pc, even a dusty old pc or laptop that's over 10 years old.
@techdweeb I’ve been trying to use the hyper beast Sata 3 with my 8 year old old iMac but the controller is lagging every few seconds and the games skip. Nothing crazy but enough to make them unplayable. I have no idea what adjustments to make or what the cause of the problem is. I would really appreciate some input. Thanks so much
Sooo......what if you put that weenie 710 in the old dusty pc? Does putting a low end gpu in a low end pc help with Batocera emulation? I can't get a straight answer (the one I want to hear) anywhere online (the internet is generally pretty good at telling me what I want to hear, ie how great I am, and how everybody else is always wrong and I'm always right).
YES, a GT 710 will offer a huge improvement over the igpu of the i5 2400. But if you put the GT 710 in a different PC with a different igpu then you probably wouldn't get any better performance (worse, actually) because most more modern iGPUs perform better than a GT 710. Also you're great. And so right.
Hey there. Welcome! To answer your question - I believe I have a condition called VPI (Velopharyngeal insufficiency) which is where your windpipe at the back of your throat condenses more than usual and it causes my voice to be more nasally than most people's. It was so prevalent when I was a kid that my nickname was The Dweeb when I was in gradeschool. I found out I could control the nasally-ness of my voice when I concentrate on the airflow at the back of my throat, and I basically trained myself to talk 'normal' as I became a teenager, and now my 'normal' voice has barely a hint of The Dweeb, I can talk like a normal guy all day, but The Dweeb has sort of become my alter ego and I can slip into that voice at will. And then for these videos I embellish it by acting extra dorky. 🤓
Me. Dweeb, please take this PC and run the windows versions of the stand alone emulators for these consoles. I promise you N64, PS1, GameCube, and some 2D ps2 games will run perfectly. Batocera is a bit of a mess if you ask me. Mario Kart on GameCube will run at 1080p on that PC using Dolphin. That old i5 has more in the tank. Test it again!
I think it's more just the limit to what this ancient iGPU can handle. You might have better performance in other emulators but I doubt it. The Dreamcast relied more heavily on VRAM than its competitors so maybe there's something about that being emulated on a very weak iGPU that hamstrings it.
"Very old PC" eh? Nah, you've got a fancy mulit-core processor that can run windows 10... That ain't old! Emulation on that is a walk in the park! On a clear spring day! ;) See what kind of emulation you can run on a Pentium I or Pentium II. Now that's old! At least use something without multiple cores!
Currently doing something similar with an old athlon emachine that I got for free in a parts lot. I'd say it's do able as long as the cpu used has decent single core performance
Brilliant idea! And I must say that I am really looking forward to seeing the next two videos Btw, I have been looking at "budget gaming PC deals" out there. I have noticed that bundles of a 12100F paired with a 1650 GTX (of unknown GDDR memory speed sadly) without an installed OS have been getting cheaper. I guess that in the not so far away future such PCs will be ~500$ (new) and possibly considerably less used. The reason I am looking for such a bundle is that, to my knowledge at least, Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs are considered best for emulation (eg 3DS emulation which is only OpenGL). What are your thoughts on a system like that? Many thanks T.D. Edit: For emulation purposes
Oh I think that's a rock solid choice for an emulation focused PC. You'll be able to do pretty much all the newer stuff at native, and all the older stuff upscaled. Not sure if you'll be able to upscale ps3 to 4k, for instance, but maybe. For the budget gaming PC I'll test I think I'm going to use a machine with a GDDR5 1650 (I haven't 100% decided yet). Yeah I think the world needs some good sub $500 bundles with a 1650 right about now. Hopefully with all the new stuff coming out in 2023 that'll push the price of the older stuff down.
That intro was very real and personal, really good content as usual, now i know my depressing dusty pc isnt so depressing!
Same. He described my life way too accurately...😂
I can't help it. I love this channel. You rock, Mr. Dweeb. Keep making these awesome videos, and I will keep watching them. 👍
Will do 🤓
@@TechDweeb 16:08 What happened to this series? Have you done part 2 yet? Or did you forget about this?
Great idea for a series! Looking forward to seeing the other videos
Grandma would be proud! Personally I think the 4th gen i3 is the best starting spot for emulation because of the igpu improvement. It will let you play 95% of PS2 & Wii library without any lag & also using standalone emulation & enabling those mostly safe speed hacks is the way to go for PS2 & Wii to squeeze out those extra performance. PCSX2 has improved a lot in the last 2 months.
6th gen is the sweet spot though. HD 530 has Vulkan & OpenGL 4.6 support which helps modern emulation a lot. Vulkan is mandatory for accurate N64 emulation & it can also play some easy to run WiiU, Yuzu & RPCS3 games.
DS emulation is actually pretty taxing on Windows & Linux because of the absence of Drastic. About 3 years ago you couldn't even upscale DS games on PC. Drastic is nothing short of a magic.
Yeah the lack of Vulkan was a big problem here :/. My next PC for emulation testing has a dedicated GPU so that won't be a problem next time around.
It's like Fight Club, if it were an ad for retro gaming!
Except reading Nintendo Power in the bathroom instead of the Ikea catalogue.
Editing job is equivalent to a channel with 1,000,000 + subscribers ❤️
Thanks! That's my strategy. Act like a channel with lots of subs, and maybe I'll be a channel with lots of subs.
He'll get there. He'll get so big he will have to hire more than one editor and cameraman
What do you mean you are a channel with a lot of subs congrats on 9k🎉🎉🤩
@@TechDweeb fake it til ya make it. So, when's the next installment of this series?
There's many large channels with virtually no editing except for clip cutting lmao
waiting on the next video in this mini series👍👍👍
You earned a sub from me. Quality work man
Excellent video! One of your best yet! Can't wait for the next two!
I shout out my dead grandma Maxine, who used to play Dr. Mario on NES religiously. She was amazingly good. Love you Grandma!
She sounds like a sweetie!
My IRL dead grandma didn't play games, but she used to [pretend to, in retrospect,] cheer me on in Mario Bros when I'd go visit her in the summers and bring my Nintendo. "Watch this Grandma!" *epic mario move. "Wow you're so good at that!". "Were you watching Grandma?". "Yes, definitely..."
@@TechDweeb Grandma's are the best
Add a low profile GTX 1650 or RX 6400 to turn this old Lenovo office PC from a good emulation setup to a great emulation setup. 6400 is cheaper at the moment, and draws less power, so I recommend that.
I set up one of these small form factor office PCs for my sister to use (a Dell Optiplex though) and put a Sapphire Pulse RX 6400 low profile card in it. It’s one hell of an emulation box
I use one of these sff pcs with a lowprofile 1650 it runs emulation fine including switch and xbox 360.
Before going to the next pc, you should revisit the SFF pc with a dedicated graphics card at the very least. On mine i added the 1650, an ssd for the boot drive, ram to 16gb and the cpu up to an i7. Obviously these do increase the cost and the biggest improvement is the gpu. I had a 1050ti before the 1650 and that was also great.
Man I love dusty old office PCs so much. They make the best living room machines.
Totally! Once you clean out the dead grandma smell.
Wait what a yo bro wait why is computers smell like dead grandmas anyways was there a MURDER😳😒🤭🤔🤫
I think an interesting topic is around VR or more specifically getting a cheap windows MXR headset (ie Lenovo) and showing what’s possible with things like Half Life Alyx etc
Some of the emulators in batocera have no linux version so those emulators have to be emulated in wine.... giving a performance hit. For gamecube you will need to play with the screen settings a bit, it can run lag free and upscaled. Some systems just need a lot of testing. Just don't try ps3/4, xbox 360 or wii u/switch as half the games won't run in batocera or work way slower then windows.
For sure. I was running Gamecube fine with this Batocera on my main PC. Ran great. For the rest of the tests (PS3/ 360) I'm going to switch to windows.
If only raspberry pi's didn't cost a kidney to buy nowadays, I'm very happy I managed to get a pi 4 for £40 a while ago before the inflation.
The next best thing closest to the true retro experience I have tried is EmuVR, holy crap. EmuVR is mind blowing.
Can't wait to checkout EmuVR!
Windjammmer!!!! I used to play that with my dead grandma. She always beat men. My dead grandma has mad skillz.
One of the best retro games of all time!
Rip 🪦 Grandma I miss her 😢
But side note : Tech Dweeb I love what u do big dawg ❤❤ next time you do a emulator video showing gameplay anyway u could include the game “NFL Street” ? Love from Richmond VA
I am really going to have to join your discord channel. I bet there are some great gaming conversations going on there. It cracks me up that you mention "the greatest library of games known to man..." Then you show the ET Atari game. I remember back in the day, that this game was so bad that they ended up taking thousand upon thousand of these cartridges and burying them in a landfill! In fact there is a documentary on Netflix (I believe) on gaming where they interview the creator of ET. Pretty interesting story. Great video as usual.
Yes! Join! We need fresh blood 🧛♀️
Yeah ET is legendary. The ironic thing is it's actually not a terrible game IF you read the instruction manual. 🤓
I'll be a perfectly decent human being and just say I'm glad you liked it, I won't even gloat 😁
My i3 4130 with its powerhouse of igpu upscales better, but sometimes an i5 2400 can be had for a laughable amount of money. I've purchased mine on an auction for peanuts, but if I had to do it again, I'd probably get an i5 4570, as they are barely any more expensive. And I definitely won't get an Acer again. It sounds like a B52 taking off.
Oh, I don't know if you noticed, Retrobat got a rather major update. I guess you did, but if you didn't, it's bloody massive.
Good. Gloating is MY job!
I heard about a RetroBat update but I haven't had a chance to check it out. I just checked the changelog:
"- Autodetection of best mame version when set to auto"
That alone is worth throwing a party!
@@TechDweeb also:
New Retrobat integrated Updater & Emulators download/update functionnality
I almost fell on my face when I started an emulator and saw the update prompt. It is getting shockingly amazingly awesome!
wow, you summed up my life. it was almost like you know me and was looking directly into my soul. though, I don't have a balcony and i am not suicidal
@TechDweeb: Have you considered doing a video on converting an old (Linux capable) Chromebook? The market is getting flooded with ex-educational HP 11 G5 Chromebooks for around $35usd (Intel Celeron 1.60 GHz 4GB 16GB 11.6")
Would be neat to see how these can be "Retro"cycled into emulation consoles and not end up as ewaste! Keep up the amazing vids!
Cool. We actually just got an old office PC for free. I'm setting up emulators and such right meow. I'll be keeping it offline in the garage, so am setting up each emulator one by one instead of doing any of the batocera stuff (which seems like you'd need to have web connectivity to get the most out of it).
I have a finely tuned and curated rom list of exactly 6,361 games. 🙂
Edit: I will, of course, be checking out your Retrobat vid again, just in case it saves me time.
I think I’m your biggest fan 👍
Best retro tuner ever still waiting for a q&a
Thanks buddy. I like the idea of a Q&A. Maybe I'll do that for my big 10k subs special :)
14:03 I don't know what your talking about. Shadow of the Colossus ran exactly like this for me. In fact, it ran exactly at this speed like it was me back in PT 🤣.......
It died shortly after, and it was during covid. RIP PS2 Slim. It was nice running with you before it crashed and burned.
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No wonder Hermione the Cat doesn't want to appear in your YT videos; you're pretty much throwing bananas into her.
Keep it up my guy
Just in Time for winter in Canada
It might be interesting to see how much difference a low profile video card would make. I suspect it would help with upscaling, but not much with systems that don't emulate well at native resolution.
Of course, you could also investigate a processor upgrade, but that might be a little advanced for the spirit of this video. I'm confident you could handle it, but it might be a bit intimidating for a significant portion of the target audience for the video.
Just for information's sake to someone wanting to investigate this: A processor upgrade for old office PCs like this is about finding the best bang for the buck. Usually i7 processors will be priced too high to be worth it. However, you can sometimes find Xeon processors that will fit the socket for cheap that were harvested from old servers. They will usually have more threads than an i5 from the time, and that can help quite a bit with both emulation and native gaming. Of course, you have to figure out exactly what Xeon, if any, will fit the socket (which is one of the things that might be a bit advanced for the target audience of this video; it's easy to get the wrong processor for the socket).
Good tip about the Xeons!
not to mention the risk of damaging the socket and borking the motherboard...
@@SeeJayPlayGames Yes, not to mention that. 🙂
First of your videos I watch, subscribed right after you yelled at your grandma for wasting your inheritance. 😂🤣😂💀
Stay tuned for more yelling at dead grandmas!
Your intro, TD... hit a little close to home. Ouch
In other news: Merry Christmas!
Back at ya ☃️
That is also me in the intro. Sometimes No time to play and Need rest for tomorrow's work.
You had me @ " brought to you by bananas " 🍌 😁
as soon as nintendo finds out you emulated their games this video is going down. good thing this channel is still on the small side so it will take them awhile to discover it 😂
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80% PS2 sounds a bit optimistic to me but that's just a guess. Did you use a graphics card on this computer? I can't remember if you said so. I have the next generation of this computer with a core I7 in it. I put in a GTX 1050 & 16GB of RAM. I can run most GameCube at 1080p but it struggles with F-zero GX (for instance)
no graphics card for this video just IGP
Bro the game would look so good
Great video. So I have an optiplex 970 i7 and wonder what is optimal low profile graphics card for this type of build?
For emulating on a low end system it's more about the GPU. I'm surprised some of higher, harder to emulate systems ran well using the iGPU. I'm running Batocera on an old i7-3770 4c/8t CPU, 16gb 1600 MHz Ram and GT 1030 2gb GPU. It can run everything up to PS2 and DS alsong with most 3DS. Although some of the harder to emulate game settings need to be downgraded to play PS2 games and DS can't upscale passed 2x without problems and 3DS at only 1x or 2x depending on the game.
Got a badbooty gaming pc. 12700k and a 3090. I'm wondering if I should use retrobat or if there is something cooler I can use. Looking forward to the next videos.
Retrobat is just the frontend, it makes browsing your game library a treat. But another good aspect of retrobat is that it comes with all the emulators pre-installed and setup, saving you time. If you want the bestest-best compatibility and peformance you should manually update the high end emulators (dolphin, RPCS3, xenia, citra, yuzu), but you can do that by accessing them through the retrobat install directory. Retrobat is the best frontend, IMO.
@@TechDweeb Noted! I have poked at Retrobat before, just was wondering what other cool front ends there are. I like Daijisho for android, but the whole "installs all the emulators" is hard to pass up.
💯 is what I rate your channel🎉❤
I played Final Fantasy X on PCSX2 anno 2008 on a Q6600. I had to OC it to 3,6ghz @1,6V so it run well. Edit: With a small GPU, even if it`s old, like a GT730 u can increase massive the max resolution (depending on game and emulator). This old Igpu is as fast like high end GPU`s from maybe 2003. Thats why u cant increase resolution of the better systems like PS2
vid card upgrade would support higher emulation on lower systems. i gamed on i5 680 2 core then i5 750 4 core(free garbage bin upgrade) for years with r9 290. only complaint was couldn't keep up with modern emu's like cemu, but think a lot was due to gpu restrictions
Intel integrated graphics of that vintage were terrible, very impressive they got that far!
1:01 OOF too relatable.
You are the champ
GameCube: you called me week now look at me
Can't wait for the next one
Funniest video yet. Legit lol'd. You just might be getting the hang of this RUclipsr thing. Sell us some POW KITTY t-shirts. I'll buy one. In orange.
Old office PC powered with 4th gen Intel chipset is the better starting point when it comes to a budget PC for emulation up till PS2 / Wii-era games. Slap with a capable single-slot graphics card & you're basically good to go. I don't recommend anything with the 1st & 2nd gen Intel chipsets. For old PCs with just 3rd gen Intel chipsets, I'd make dual partitions on the hard drive; XP partition for XP-era games & emulation up till PS1 & Win 10 partition for modern games & emulation from PSP till PS2 / Wii.
Good call 👍
I noticed you had a GPU in this video, I must have missed it somewhere... did you add it to this PC? I suspect a bump in GPU power should allow for most of that upscaling in some emulators... something like a GTX 750 or GT 1030 would allow for more of that 720p/1080p goodness.
I suspect even a GT 730 should give you more consoles @720p
That's a GT 730! I didn't add it to the PC, it's just there for ambience, but I do plan on giving that a test on the channel INCLUDING emulation performance.
A great video, well done buddy, I enjoyed every fkin second
Thanks Mr. Frog!
Instead of playing these games from the removable hard disk can you copy all the content of it to this PC to play from the internal hard disk? and can you run old windowns games from the year 1999 like system shock 2 and half life?
Yes, and yes!
Yep my current pc is an nvidia geforce gt650m, can to gaming with it for most parts because new games tend to lag on this, Except emulation! Now i have psx,n64,dc,ps2 etc and its not laggy😊
It's driving me nuts. That cant possibly be your real voice is it? If it is, this role was meant for you. No hate intended big fan! Just crazy how fitting it is
I have an old PC that would be perfect for running Batocera- issue is I own solar panels and desktop PC's are power hungryyyyy.
Ha, yeah, this is probably the least efficient way to play gamecube known to man 🤣
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Honestly, I think the best idea for a comfy emulation is a slightly old computer with decent CPU, GPU, and an OLD monitor (even CRT) for a real retro experience.
I downloaded a complete (USA) PS1 library of iso's it took me 3 days because it was 540 gb
Psp emulation does have 60 fps patches for some games so you can definitely get some good results out of it.
Also id imagine that pc has a pci-e slot so you can put in a low profile R7 250 or gt 1030 gddr5 version too get way better gpu rendering performance for later console generations.
can confirm that this works ;) I have a 4th gen i5 with a GT 1030 D5 and yes, it helps a lot with upscaling and emulation. This setup is somewhere between dusty old grandma and budget gamer PC.
I can play everything up to Wii on my old HP computer, PS2 plays in slow motion though.
So many people have that V90 in their videos. I got one on amazon... Its one of those things you unpack and put your mitts on and just say "ohh nooo......" its absolutely horrible in every way except for being a clamshell design lol
I love mine! I probably put a hundred hours on it. I hope they do an updated version someday.
Ugh I wish people would stop giving all my secrets away. Now you can’t buy old pcs to mod and fix up and the prices are going back up :( thinkcentres and optiplexes are selling like wildfire
I finally subed
About time 😏
Miyoo Miyoo !
I would like to emulate an 4090tie on my x58 rig. How do it? What can i do to emulate raytrcing on my 1070? I am willing to do rewgistry hacks if needed. Thnks in advance!
Download more ram and then reinstall windows. If that doesn't work you'll need a new battery for your bios.
"Old PC" with CoreI5 and 8Gb of RAM? Seriously?
From my perspective old PC is something from 2002 with 1GHz single core Celeron and like 256mb of RAM. That thing could handle PS1 emulation no problem, mind you.
Sandy Bridge is 10 years old. I guess it's a matter of perspective.
"Sega Saturn easy to emulate", man have times changed...
He does have good editing tho
Im not sure what the point of doing this without a GPU is. Most of us have access to a laptop that can absolutely eclipse this 32nm antique.
Not necessarily. I get many questions about whether or not gamecube, for instance, will run on an old PC. And even IRL, I fixed a laptop for someone, it was a 2nd gen i5 laptop, and I copied over my retrobat install & gave them an SNES controller with it as a bit of a gift, and they were blown away that they could play all their old snes & sega games and even a few PS1 games. "I didn't think I could play ANY games on this old thing!". A few weeks later they messaged me to let me know they've been playing a ton of retro games and showed me a picture of their laptop hooked up to their TV playing tony hawk's 2. It made me realize that lots of people don't understand that you can do LOTS of emulation on pretty much ANY pc, even a dusty old pc or laptop that's over 10 years old.
@techdweeb I’ve been trying to use the hyper beast Sata 3 with my 8 year old old iMac but the controller is lagging every few seconds and the games skip. Nothing crazy but enough to make them unplayable. I have no idea what adjustments to make or what the cause of the problem is. I would really appreciate some input. Thanks so much
i mkae custom retrobat 4tb loaded for $200 shipped in the usa
I dont know if i missed something, did you put a gpu in in there or not?
Nope, no GPU
I just want to ask which is more demanding to a low end device PS2 or Dreamcast?
PS2 is more demanding for low end devices because it's much more CPU intensive.
@@TechDweeb Thanks. I haven't emulated Dreamcast yet so I don't have a clue and I have only emulated PS2 on Android.
Should have added a not so great gpu like gt1030
Sooo......what if you put that weenie 710 in the old dusty pc? Does putting a low end gpu in a low end pc help with Batocera emulation? I can't get a straight answer (the one I want to hear) anywhere online (the internet is generally pretty good at telling me what I want to hear, ie how great I am, and how everybody else is always wrong and I'm always right).
YES, a GT 710 will offer a huge improvement over the igpu of the i5 2400. But if you put the GT 710 in a different PC with a different igpu then you probably wouldn't get any better performance (worse, actually) because most more modern iGPUs perform better than a GT 710.
Also you're great. And so right.
9:03 Yeah that is Ghost of Sparta, not Chains of Olympus LMAO
Doh!
Why does your voice sound like that no offense I think it makes you cool😎 just a question and can you do a q&a❤
Hey there. Welcome!
To answer your question - I believe I have a condition called VPI (Velopharyngeal insufficiency) which is where your windpipe at the back of your throat condenses more than usual and it causes my voice to be more nasally than most people's. It was so prevalent when I was a kid that my nickname was The Dweeb when I was in gradeschool. I found out I could control the nasally-ness of my voice when I concentrate on the airflow at the back of my throat, and I basically trained myself to talk 'normal' as I became a teenager, and now my 'normal' voice has barely a hint of The Dweeb, I can talk like a normal guy all day, but The Dweeb has sort of become my alter ego and I can slip into that voice at will. And then for these videos I embellish it by acting extra dorky. 🤓
Me. Dweeb, please take this PC and run the windows versions of the stand alone emulators for these consoles. I promise you N64, PS1, GameCube, and some 2D ps2 games will run perfectly. Batocera is a bit of a mess if you ask me. Mario Kart on GameCube will run at 1080p on that PC using Dolphin. That old i5 has
more in the tank. Test it again!
Good idea!
Why is it Dreamcast so demanding, is it that its games are poorly optimized?(at least for emulation)
I think it's more just the limit to what this ancient iGPU can handle. You might have better performance in other emulators but I doubt it. The Dreamcast relied more heavily on VRAM than its competitors so maybe there's something about that being emulated on a very weak iGPU that hamstrings it.
Do you like Pokémon yea or no btw q&a pls
I have played the occasional pokemon game. I'm not a mega fan but I enjoy them when I do.
"Very old PC" eh? Nah, you've got a fancy mulit-core processor that can run windows 10... That ain't old! Emulation on that is a walk in the park! On a clear spring day! ;) See what kind of emulation you can run on a Pentium I or Pentium II. Now that's old! At least use something without multiple cores!
Currently doing something similar with an old athlon emachine that I got for free in a parts lot. I'd say it's do able as long as the cpu used has decent single core performance
My CRT name cab is running a pentium 4 with groovymame
Not to be that cringy meme guy but... Dweeb you're over 9000!!!
YES!!! I'm getting excited or the big 10k. Gotta come up with some fun vid to make for that :P
My dell pc would just explode😂
OH MY GOD I NEED TO BUY BANANAS! CREDIT CARD! CREDIT CARD!!!
I need a crazy man to play wii u on this thing
can you test orange pi 5 with emulation ? But no build of botocera are available 😪
My dead grandma. 🥰
I want a spectrum emulator and omega emulator kind regards
Imagine with a good pc
How do you know me so much!
if i get this pc id slap my 610 in it and play gta v peacefully my core 2 quad is barely enough to emulate switch after oc
Is that his real voice?
For console side of emualtion before I watch I am fonna say....PS2 and below, and for handhelds I am gonna say.....PSP and below.
I was pretty dead on. Go me.
WHAT DEVILRY IS THIS!?!
@@TechDweeb LMAO
If his voice was much deeper, he could cover old school fat/snot-nosed Gucci Mane raps.
Dude, how do you know so much about my life! Get outta my head! 😆 🤣
emulation on a old 20.00 ebay phone :)
You sound like they use your voice for a nutty professor in a series.
Brilliant idea!
And I must say that I am really looking forward to seeing the next two videos
Btw, I have been looking at "budget gaming PC deals" out there. I have noticed that bundles of a 12100F paired with a 1650 GTX (of unknown GDDR memory speed sadly) without an installed OS have been getting cheaper. I guess that in the not so far away future such PCs will be ~500$ (new) and possibly considerably less used. The reason I am looking for such a bundle is that, to my knowledge at least, Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs are considered best for emulation (eg 3DS emulation which is only OpenGL). What are your thoughts on a system like that? Many thanks T.D.
Edit: For emulation purposes
Oh I think that's a rock solid choice for an emulation focused PC. You'll be able to do pretty much all the newer stuff at native, and all the older stuff upscaled. Not sure if you'll be able to upscale ps3 to 4k, for instance, but maybe. For the budget gaming PC I'll test I think I'm going to use a machine with a GDDR5 1650 (I haven't 100% decided yet). Yeah I think the world needs some good sub $500 bundles with a 1650 right about now. Hopefully with all the new stuff coming out in 2023 that'll push the price of the older stuff down.
Thanks T.D.
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