Which is better?
RetroArch with hundreds of cores in one consistent and uniform UI with a massive amount of features and customization that work universally across all cores, as well as much lower input lag with run-ahead
or
Standalones where you have to learn the individual UI and features of every single emulator separately and you have way less features and customization
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standalone emulators > retroshart
Do you fucking zoomers really need a big gay GUI like RA to emulate? Imagine being a midwitted retard lmao.
Reminder there is literally NO alternative for the dozens of features RetroArch offers, and you WILL be missing out on them all if you get filtered by being too stupid to figure it out (reminder: you only need to learn RetroArch once and it's the same for dozens of platforms and consoles)
People use it for the
>consolidated UI and settings for hundreds of different emulators
>run-ahead
>full rebinding
>VRR, BFI, and sync to exact framerate
>shaders, filters, and overlays
>audio customization and level
>unlimited save states, pause, rewind, fast-forward, frame advance
>cheat support
>network play
>50+ different hotkeys with full rebinding
>Retro achievements that are uncheatable with a hardcore mode to disable save states, cheats, pause, rewind, and fast forward
>updated forks
>being able to set any aspect ratio or refresh rate
>Rotation/TATE support
>recording, screenshots, and streaming
and being able to save ALL OF THESE, as well as specific core options and global settings, on a per-game, per-core, per-directory, and global basis. That means each and every game can have its own rebindings, shaders, volume and audio settings, run-ahead level, core and core options, rotation, aspect ratio, etc.
There is literally no reason to use anything else to play gen 5 and earlier games
wow a bunch of shitty features nobody asked for or cares about, very cool
zoomers need a launcher for emulators lmao
I just grab retroarch and if the game works fine, if not then go specific emulators.
'I'm going to use both Retroarch and the respective standalones, and there's not a damn thing any of you can do to stop me. Gottem!
Is there even a single gen 5 or earlier game that doesn't work in RetroArch?
I wonder if OP has an inherent bias that betrays any sort of fair comparison suggested by the question and rather is just an excuse to shit on (thing other people like but I don't).
Fuck off.
Which option is closest to each of these?
>Higher quality
>Easier to use overall
>Doesn't need a million side downloads just to play games
>Works out of the box with minimal tinkering
I use Retroarch for everything up to Gamecube/Wii.
RPCS3, Cemu, and Ryujinx/Yuzu for everything else.
You can't convince room-temperature-IQ tards about Retroarch though. They'll come crawling when they want to use a feature they see somewhere.
I'm older than you and use it.
>I'm older than you
I highly doubt that.
I'm 36. How old are you?
worst ui of all emulators i've ever seen
>Higher quality
RetroArch
>Easier to use overall
Standalone
>Doesn't need a million side downloads just to play games
Both of them
>Works out of the box with minimal tinkering
Both of them
>Basically every feature and customization you can imagine and you can save every single one per-game, per-core, per-directory, or globally
RetroArch
Which one? It has 4 different UI options.
I didn’t think they were serious about the Retroarch shills, it after yesterday’s thread and this one, I’m convinced. At least you guys are earning that Patreon money.
Obviously, it depends. Retroarch with Steam integration is really nice for easily using Remote Play Together and doing multiplayer everything. Standalone on the other hand often has more up to date versions, forks and console specific features.
Why do you retards always try to black and white everything? Emulate your ancestors and die already.
>The sheer cope of thinking that people liking something you blindly hate means they must be paid.
Pretty sad
Holy shit why is it that every single person I ever see is against RetroArch is underage and/or braindead as fuck?
I literally NEVER see a single legitimate complaint, just the same blatantly incorrect garbage regurgitated ad nauseam, or my favorite: "I'm a shit-eating retard and I don't care about any features at all so anything extra beyond the absolute bare minimum to launch a game is """bloat""" to me"
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>pressing Esc quits the program instead of bringing you to the menu like every other game on the planet
Come on, nigga. That's some autistic shit.
It's sad really. They're one degree away from being zoomers begging for remasters or remakes with their level of idiocy.
How much do you get paid to shill this failed software?
>file path has a single "á" in it
>retroshart shits itself
if a program cannot handle basic unicode characters in 2022 then it's absolute garbage
>á
The fuck is that thing?
Educate yourself: en.wikipedia.org
>Learn about other gay ass culture or languages
Why the fuck would I give a FLYING FUCK about that shit, you fucking faggot ass bitch?
RetroArch has absolutely terrible UX and is best suited to people comfortable messing with config files manually, but if you can get past its bullshit it's the best option for emulating anything 5th gen and older
I see Retroshart needs more donations to steal from actual emulation devs so they're negging Yea Forums again.
Retroarch cores are ancient unmaintained software when compared to the
OG standalones.
You do know that there's at least 4 different UIs you can switch between, right?
Manual scan you stupid fuck
The Retroarch dev got some tranny dev to kill himself so he's great in my book.
They're all shit from a dog's anus. Fuck Retroshart and fuck you, shill.
How pathetic that you can't even figure out basic menus. Tell me how it feels to have an IQ equivalent to a subhuman mutt.
Nah, fuck that dude, duckstation is legend.
Tell me how it feels to advertise your failed software on a Italian spitroasting forum.
I used standalone emus for 20 years and I'm not going back to them, Retroarch is what I always wanted.
Though it's obviously meant for people who play on emulators a lot, and is interested in many different systems. People get mad when they just want to play one game that their favorite youtuber just talked about but don't want to go through all the trouble of initially setting up RA.
I use duckstation all the time too but I won't worship some faggot because of it, you bitch.
Wouldn't know. I'm just here to insult faggot ass little zoomer bitch tranny fucks like you.
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do i use retroarch or emudeck for my steamdeck? i am retarded and dont really know what im doing
>I am a redditor desperately trying to fit in! PLEASE notice me...
Never been, but you seem obsessed since you're homesick. Maybe you should go back?
what is up with the retroarch shilling the past few days? i've seen at least 4 threads the past few days
who worships him you gagging cunt? i just ain't gonna use some trash software that a highschool dropout made that's simply there to steal donations. fuck that you simp.
You sound like someone personally against RA for some other reason than the software with that post.
I'm the simp, yeah, okay, buddy.
>do i use retroarch
No.
you're here defending some faggot's skidmark because it triggers people? Yeah, shill or simp, you can decide.
We use RetroArch because it's so damn useful once you actually understand it. If you would actually take an hour or two to understand all its features, just search up a few common questions, then you would literally never need to use anything else for many generations of gaming, and you would realize how barebones standalones are in comparison. I pretty much only use RetroArch, RPCS3, and Yuzu.
If you just want to play a couple le epic retro game flavor of the month that the latest onions slurping faggot on YouTube is shilling then sure stick to standalone. But if you actually plan to use emulation regularly or for a ton of systems, RetroArch is massively useful.
I'm here to call out faggot bitches like you that can't into simple menus and that cry about someone apparently "stealing" donations? Stop being a faggot fuck and I'll stop posting.
Haven't fired up an emulator since I stuck a hard drive into my PS2 and don't really see a reason why.
Only thing I genuinely give any kind of shit about is accuracy and emulators are all over the place when it comes to that, except for XEBRA.
...there's more to emulate than PS2?
Is there?
None of them have any fundamental difference besides just the way it looks, which isn't my problem
If I want to for example change both core options and video options, then I have to go through a minimum of 4 different screens just to get to the video options from the core options, and that's if I already know where I'm going
The way the menus are structured is an absolute mess that takes way too long to navigate
> you WILL be missing out on them all if you get filtered by being too stupid to figure it out
tfw
I agree that there could be some improvements, but all-in-all, nothing offers the vast number of options, customization and fine-tuning RA does. I guess it's more of an enthusiast tool. If you don't like tweaking and getting things to work exactly how you want them, you can just boot up any emulator and run it with disgusting raw pixels like a zoomer or even more disgusting bilinear filtering with no run ahead or game-specific tuning for overscan, uprezing, downscaling, or specific control configurations.
Retroarch
>better emulation tech
>built around the assumption that you sit around playing retro games in huge marathons and will only want to exit it once in a blue moon, so the UI is insanely obnoxious for normal use
Standalones
>moderately worse emulation tech
>built for what I actually use emulators for, playing a fucking game and then closing it when I'm done
Tough call. Personally, even knowing how to use retroarch "right", I still don't fall into the audience they seem to be aiming for, so I prefer standalones. It's always been long enough since my last time using it that it takes a second to shake off the rust, whereas standalones are so simple that I don't need to do any tweaking or updating or relearning.
Sounds like you're just a casual.
WHAT ARE EMULATORS THAT ALLOW FOR ONLINE PLAY WITH FRIENDS THAT WORKS THEN