Emulator problems FAQ: Difference between revisions

Depending on the emulator, BIOSes can be either necessary or an added novelty. Generally, emulators of more modern/complex consoles will require BIOS files in order to operate.

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'''Are there emulators for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 or PlayStation Vita?'''

It varies. The PlayStation Vita's best emulator is [[Vita3K]], with a substantial amount of games supported. PlayStation 4 emulation is still in a very early state, with the most promising efforts being shown by [https://github.com/red-prig/fpPS4/ fpPS4], though most commercial games are still unsupported. There are currently no actively developed PlayStation 5 emulators.

No. <b>Any that you come across on YouTube videos and the like are scams or malware.</b>

See [[Computer specifications]].

*The new version may have lost support entirely for settings that sped up the games, probably in favor of [[Emulation_accuracy|accuracy]].

Most emulators of the 16-bit era (fourth generation) and earlier consoles (e.g., Sega Genesis, NES, Atari 2600, etc.) can be run on any PC, even one with a CPU clock speed of below 1 GHz. [[higan]] is the only exception because it's highly accurate and requires a 3 GHz CPU for optimal performance. Other emulators such as [[Snes9x]], [[Kega Fusion]], [[Mesen]], etc. can be run on any PC that can run Windows.

However, emulators of the fifth generation and later consoles are a different story. While fourth generation and earlier consoles could only display pixel art and, in some cases, very primitive 3D graphics, the move to fifth generation consoles saw a massive jump in consoles' graphical capabilities, with full 3D polygon graphics with texture mapping, lighting and shadows, anti-aliasing, texture filtering, etc. The consoles required much more complex CPUs and GPUs with multiple cores to be able to display these types of graphics. Because of this, emulators of the fifth generation and later consoles require a mid to high-end gaming PC for optimal performance, with a 3 ~ 3.5 GHz or faster CPU clock speed and at least a mid-range AMD / Nvidia graphics card.

==[[Controllers]]==

===DualShock 3===

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ECM is a compressed format. You need to decompress using [http://static.emuparadise.me/downloads/PakkISO-0.4-setup.exe PakkISO] or [https://archive.org/details/ECMToolsV1.0 ECM Tools] (both provided on the emuparadise download page). You could also use [https://m.apkpure.com/unecm/fr.bobenrieth.unecm Unecm] for Android. It'll output as a .bin usually, which is what the [[Cue sheet (.cue)|.cue]] uses to load the game. Note that recent SVN builds of [[PCSX-Reloaded]] do allow loading of ECM files, however, it's recommended to unpack them anyway. Linux users can use the ECM Tools which should be included in your repository, which is explained on [https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1472552 Ubuntu Forums]. You then need to use the 'ECM-uncompress' command in terminal.

These multi-track games are often compressed, the first track is usually ecm'd, the audio files are often converted to the .ape format, to easily extract all of these, use [http://static.emuparadise.me/downloads/PakkISO-0.4-setup.exe PakkISO]. Using [http://www.monkeysaudio.com/download.html Monkey's Audio] to decode the ape files sometimes result in files that don't match redump's md5 sum.

It's either interlacing or a filter in the game itself. For the former, switching the de-interlacing mode with F5 may help but may cause flicker or screen shaking. For the latter, hacks are required. Either Aggressive-CRC if the game is listed there, or skipdraw (toy with the number, 1-100) might work otherwise.

Simply sitting farther back from the screen (similarly to how one would normally sit away from a CRT TV) can also reduce the noticeability of the blur filter.

Those lines are caused by scaling to a non-integer internal resolution (anything other than XxNative), texture filtering (Check that option off or to half at most), improperly offset textures (TC offset hack, Wild Arms hack), or improperly handled texture edges(Sprite hack). Native resolution, for the most part, fixes those, but software rendering may be required as well.

** Download [[Emulator_files#PlayStation_Portable|the original fonts]] and place them into the /flash0/ folder, confirming overwrites; this may correct corrupted text in games that use the system font, such as punctuation replaced by overscores in '''Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy'''.