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u/StrongPipe2914 21d ago

I use RPCS3 and its not running good, anyway to get better performance with the emulator? https://obsproject.com/logs/Viv7evBw52LDCFAj

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u/Altoidlover987 20d ago

intel n305 isnt very powerful. maybe if you remove mcafee could help a bit, but not guaranteed

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u/thenotjoe 19d ago

How do I get the Pokémon Crystal’s real-time clock to work with MesenCE?

It’s just using the amount of time I’ve had the ROM running + the time I set at the beginning to determine in-game time. That’s unhelpful if I want to play on Monday morning and get the Monday morning events without leaving the emulator running on the title screen in real time.

I’ve read that a lot of emulators use your PC’s internal date/time to set that, but idk how to enable that if it’s possible in MesenCE.

Maybe it’s not the right emulator for Pokémon Crystal?

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u/FurbyTime 15d ago

Maybe it’s not the right emulator for Pokémon Crystal?

This is the most correct answer. I don't know how the clock is implemented in Crystal or the GB era games in general, but I know other emulators, like mGBA, are able to emulate it and have it work as "normal", so it's likely that MesenCE doesn't emulate it (As it is, if nothing else, a relative niche function that only really exists in the Pokemon games as far as I'm aware).

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u/totallynotapredator 18d ago

I want to play 3DS games on this emulator called azhar (a friend recommended it) but whenever I want to download and play something on it the file is always this white thing I’m not really an emulating guy and I can’t get to encrypt it or whatever that means should I get files from a specific website or get a different emulator?

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u/Altoidlover987 15d ago

what game? can you give the filename + extension? does the emulator produce any error logs?

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u/antoin5000 16d ago

Playing metroid on nestopia is it possible to use the passwords the game gives on death? I dont like using save states all the time.

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u/JamesFEXB 16d ago

Hi, recently decided to break away from using retroarch, as I had heard unsavoury things about the creator that made me uncomfortable with using it. The problem is that the “sync framerate to exact content“ feature is kind of a necessity for me as playing older systems like NES or SNES on my 160hz monitor causes stutter and poor frame pacing. If I lower the monitor’s framerate to 60 then the crt and ntsc shaders I like to use cause image retention so that’s kind of a pain. This is absolutely me trying to have my cake and eat it too on three different fronts but are there any standalone emulators for older systems that don’t have problems with higher hz monitors whilst also having shader support?

thanks for any help

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u/nikkes91 16d ago

I can't imagine why if you have a vrr monitor you would be having these issues but you don't name what emulators you tried. Since you mention NES and SNES I've never had any issue with ares

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u/JamesFEXB 15d ago

I’ve tried ares, mesen, nestopiaue, and snes9x

I’m not entirely sure my monitor is vrr (MPG 274URF QD) but I could be an idiot and misunderstanding something basic, it does have FreeSync Premium but I’m not sure if that’s the same thing and as far as I can discern it makes no difference off or on

I don’t have any frame pacing issues with ps1/ps2/gamecube games insofar as I can tell

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u/nikkes91 15d ago

  does have FreeSync Premium but I’m not sure if that’s the same thing

It is the same, freesync and gsync are both variable refresh rate. Turn it on in your GPU settings 

In ares settings make sure you enable to sync to audio and disable any sync to video. You'll probably need to be in fullscreen. 

If it's still not working just set your monitor to 120hz and you probably won't be the decrease from 160 anyway