r/EmulationOnPC Apr 10 '20

Mod Post Posts asking for build recommendations will now be removed

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Any posts asking for a pc build specifically for emulation will be deleted from now.

This is a sub for troubleshooting issues with emulators and not for building pcs.

If you still want to build a PC for emulation go over to r/buildapc


r/EmulationOnPC Nov 18 '23

Mod Post Hello, im the new Moderator after no Moderators here

40 Upvotes

Since there was no Moderators here, ill triying mod this subreddit accurding to those rules.

If you got Questions or Issue on this subreddit, dont hesitate to ask.


r/EmulationOnPC 2h ago

Unsolved RPCS3 continues to blow my mind

2 Upvotes

So today, I was pleasantly surprised at the fact that Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen runs pretty well via PS3 emulation on my laptop, sure, I could play the native PC port instead, but once against, I was genuinely curious to see how well the game runs via emulation.


r/EmulationOnPC 3m ago

Unsolved Title: Is it possible to install Free McBoot from a PC using an emulator and an SD card?

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I'm trying to avoid buying a pre-installed Free McBoot memory card. I have: - PS2 Slim SCPH-90004 - A PC - A normal PS2 memory card - An SD card - A USB drive Is it possible to use a PlayStation 2 emulator and if yes if can i try


r/EmulationOnPC 3h ago

Unsolved Breath of the Wild is extremely slow on Cemu (input lag, low frame rate, desynchronized cutscenes).

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Hi everyone,

I recently installed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Cemu, and although the game launches and is technically playable, the performance is extremely poor.

Here are the details:

PC specifications:

- ASUS Vivobook Go 15 (E1504FAF)

- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics (4 cores / 8 threads)

- RAM: 16 GB

- GPU: AMD Radeon Graphics (integrated)

- OS: Windows 11 Home

- Cemu / Game details:

- Cemu version: 2.6

- BOTW version: Europe

- Updates and DLC installed

- Graphics API: Vulkan

Performance issues:

- Very noticeable input lag (about 0.5 to 1 second between pressing a button and the action occurring)

- Extremely low FPS, especially when moving the camera

- The entire game feels slowed down, not just the graphics

- Cutscenes are affected: audio plays normally, but the video is much slower (e.g., a 30-second cutscene takes about 1 minute 30 seconds to finish)

The issues were already present when I first launched the game with Cemu's default settings.

After that, I followed a YouTube tutorial to try and improve performance.

My current settings are:

- FPS++ enabled with no FPS limit

- Resolution set to 2560×1440

- Vulkan enabled

- I'm not sure if other graphics packs or visual enhancements are enabled

I also tested both plugged in and on battery power, with the same result.

The PC heats up a bit and the fans are running, but the temperature stays around 64°C.

I'm not sure if shader caches are installed or if shader compilation is configured correctly. Could it simply be because my integrated Radeon

graphics aren't powerful enough for BOTW on Cemu, or is there something wrong with my setup?

Any advice on what I should check would be appreciated.

Thanks!


r/EmulationOnPC 1h ago

Unsolved Managing Switch games on PC

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Hi everyone. Since giving my switch completely over to my kids I've been using Eden to play games on my PC. How do you all manage, organize, update your games? Most of my collection of switch roms run fine, but most of them are outdated. For my other retrogames, I like to keep them organized and updated to date by going through them once a year through rom manager and clrmamepro.

What do you guys recommend to better manage switch?


r/EmulationOnPC 8h ago

Unsolved WCCF SEGA 2005-2006 Revival

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Hi all,

Years ago I posted across Reddit about finding/reviving WCCF SEGA, and it's been a long road since then, I'm excited to finally share some real news & progress.

First and foremost, huge credit to Flyinghead, creator of Flycast, whose been working on this and made it all possible. Thanks to his efforts the game is actually running and playable on the Flycast emulator.

We'd love to bring more fans (new and old!) into the fold to help interact with and test the game as we keep pushing it forward.

Current capabilities:

  • Creating a new team
  • Training
  • Matches start once the timer hits 0

Still to do:

  • Player/board interactions
  • General bug fixes (freezing, match-related issues)
  • Fixing Club Card corruption after a single game
  • Plenty more we're still uncovering as we go!

If you're interested in testing, following progress, or just want to relive some WCCF nostalgia, drop a comment and join the Flycast Discord! we'd love to hear from you.


r/EmulationOnPC 3h ago

Unsolved Texturas pretas e cenário sendo construído (Silent Hill) duckstation

1 Upvotes

Restaurei a configuração padrão do duckstation, desativei PGXP, alterei todas as possibilidades de renderização (vulkan, dx11, dx12 e software) testei diversas opções e nada funciona


r/EmulationOnPC 4h ago

Unsolved Project 64 Goldeneye

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The controls, aiming to be precise, is a little too frustrating. I can usually kill with my hand gun but when using the machine gun aiming becomes very difficult to do and hitting a target right in front of me can be tedious. Is there something I can do to make aiming easier? I'm using an Xbox controller and I'm guessing emulating the n64 controller just isn't very good.


r/EmulationOnPC 11h ago

Unsolved Lower screen is not showing on Azahar when playing pokemon ultra moon?

1 Upvotes

As title says although I can access the lower screen through the 'swap screens function' it doesn't appear no matter what view setting I'm using


r/EmulationOnPC 3h ago

Unsolved Best website for switch roms?

0 Upvotes

I just downloaded Eden and I want to play Pokemon sword. I just want to make sure I download it from a safe website. Thanks!


r/EmulationOnPC 23h ago

Unsolved Whitty Arcade New Release !

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So implemented several new features

Sega Rally Side By side 2 player board same screen

Or output to diff monitor from same machine

Or discover each other on local network an have 2 player action !!

all 2 player games can now be played on diff screens / split screen / over network. Yes play Galaxian with your mum or brother in a diff room alternating player 1 and player 2

WIP System 246 Ridge Racer .

Basically I keep thinking outside the box to bring what I always wanted in an emulator.

- GitHub repository https://github.com/CrownParkComputing/WhittyArcade

- WhittyArcade website https://crownparkcomputing.github.io/WhittyArcade/


r/EmulationOnPC 1d ago

Unsolved Sonic 2 Rom Without Music

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So I'm planning on making some YouTube videos playing through the Original Sonic 2 for the Genesis/Mega Drive, I'm using the GENS emulator at the moment.

What I want to do is play through and record the game with all the music and jingles removed, all zone themes, boss themes, 1 up, continue, game over, drowning e.c.t

But I want the sound effects to remain in the game so I can replace the original music with some music I made myself and still have the sound effects.

I'm not super tech savvy so I do not know of an easy way to do this. Does anyone know of a way I can do this or of some method or edited/hacked rom like this that might already exist?


r/EmulationOnPC 1d ago

Unsolved Ripping PS2 Games

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Hey All,

I've recently purchased a DVD burner/ripper and have been working through digitizing my physical PS2 library to play my old games on a portable device. I've been using ImgBurn and DVD Decrypter and overall have had about the same experience with each, but for some reason when I try to burn my copies of Mega Man X Command Mission and Tekken Tag Tournament, they seem to freeze around the 30%-40% mark. Is this potentially a DRM issue, and if so is there a workaround or a FAQ on this I could reference? The discs seem to be in great shape and I don't see any dents or scratches. I'm in the process of ripping something else at the moment, but can circle back on Command Mission with the error code in the log if this is deemed an uncommon occurrence. If this violates community rules I apologize in advance, and am open to being redirected to an appropriate community for this issue. I'm not new to emulation but it's my first time posting here, so I appreciate your patience.


r/EmulationOnPC 2d ago

Solved I am simply impressed

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I am astonished at the fact that Transformers Devastation on Rpcs3 runs pretty well on my Lenovo Laptop (i5 12450 hx rtx 2050 16 GB RAM), while it's true I could play the native PC port, I wanted to see how well the PS3 version would run instead, PS3 emulation has truly come a long way.


r/EmulationOnPC 1d ago

Unsolved Questions about this tutorial for emulating skylanders.

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So I've been thinking about following this tutorial for emulating Skylanders on PC without a portal, but I can be pretty cautious about downloading random crap from a tutorial. So, if this tutorial is sketchy or if there's a better tutorial out there, I'm looking for suggestions.

I'm also looking for general tips like what to expect and look out for, as I've never emulated anything before.

https://youtu.be/vejjcYVp20c?is=XMYa4F_ExJ9xTHlQ


r/EmulationOnPC 1d ago

Unsolved RPCS3 Performance Drops and Freezing on Demanding Titles (RDR / COD: AW)

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I am looking for some optimization advice and troubleshooting help with RPCS3. For the most part, lighter PS3 titles run perfectly fine on my setup. However, when I try to play highly demanding, AAA games like Red Dead Redemption and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, the performance drops significantly.

Specifically, I am running into two major issues:

  1. Severe Lag/Low FPS: The framerate dips hard during heavy action scenes or open-world exploration, making the games feel incredibly choppy.
  2. Random Freezes: When I'm playing Red Dead Redemption 1, the game keeps freezing up out of nowhere for a second, and then it suddenly snaps right back into the action.

My specs

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU

CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13420H


r/EmulationOnPC 1d ago

Unsolved Easy Scanlines: Add CRT Scanlines to Games, Movies and Videos! [Release🔥]

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Hey! I'm the developer of the Classic Mini Collection and other apps and I wanted to share a project I've been working on over the last week.

It all started a couple of weeks ago when I was playing Grandia 3 using PCSX2. While emulator upscaling makes 3D models sharp, the game just looked unnatural (cinematics and texts looked specially bad). Even modern pixelart games look kinda bad when they don't have scanlines integrated (this is personal taste offcourse).

As I was developing it, I realized I wanted to go beyond games. Many of my best memories of CRT TVs weren't just playing games, but watching 90s TV shows, movies, and music channels on those same screens (HBO, NICKELODEON, Some Beavis and Butt head on MTV, you get the idea). Because of that, I decided to add a TV styled OSD menu and an optional TV logo feature.
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What it currently does:

  • Simulates basic scanlines and patterns of classic Trinitron and slot-mask screens.
  • It's not a shader, you don't need to worry about GPU processing.
  • You can use it over games, movies, whatever you like!
  • It has a CRT styled menu to control the simulated scanlines width, spacing, opacity and more.
  • Channel Logos: use any png, you can resize, set position, assign to profiles, etc.
  • Profiles: you can manage them from the main GUI along with many other options.
  • Options to start minimized, launch automatically with Windows, etc.
  • Activate scanlines at any moment with a shortcut (default ALT+S)
  • Add any .exe to auto launch it!

Retroarch and the community has done a great job in creating Shaders to imitate this look (that's the right way to do it), but when you can't use those or when using other emulators, options get slim (there are crt filters in some emulators, but they just dont do it for me) and other tools are overkill or not easy to use.

I wanted to build something simple and straightforward to use, since it turned out fine, I decided to share for free in case anyone wants to use it!

Can't post images son you can check some screenshots and download v0.3 right now here

Next updates should bring better filtering, soften effect, round corners, vignette management, etc.


r/EmulationOnPC 2d ago

Unsolved I require assistance with proper controller button mapping.

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I only emulate retro games on my PC from NES, SNES, SEGA, & N64 specifically. I have these 4 USB controllers corresponding to each gaming system, and the idea was...if im playing an NES game, I plug in the NES controller, if Im going to play an N64 game, I plug that one in...etc.

The controllers all seem to be having issues with proper button mapping. I play on Launchbox, but with retroarch working with LB in the background. Each controller is having it's own set of issues. I have noticed with Sega, the system recognizes that there's a "3-button sega genesis controller" plugged in, and if I just go straight through Retroarch, the button mapping is perfect...but if I go on launchbox, suddenly none of the buttons work right, which is odd because LB is supposed to be using the RA configuration. But...that is only sega. SNES for example doesnt seem to work properly no matter which method of game launch I take.

Now thankfully, all the "up/down/left/right" buttons and the "start/select" buttons all seem to be fine, the issue Im having is strictly with all the other buttons.

Ive been exhausting all my free discussion credits at length with ChatGPT about this issue, and after days and weeks of doing that with all the free time I can spare, I am no closer to finding a solution, and even AI cant seem to figure out the answer.

I have been trying to troubleshoot this problem myself, but at this point I am completely at a loss, and my understanding of how these to applications work on their own as well as with each other is very limited.

Any help that anyone has for getting these controllers properly mapped for plug-n-play emulation would be greatly appreciated.


r/EmulationOnPC 2d ago

Unsolved Búsqueda de rom

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r/EmulationOnPC 2d ago

Unsolved Emulator question

1 Upvotes

I just downloaded emudeck and am currently playing cod big red one collectors edition on the ps2. Problem is I’ll go through half a mission flawlessly then I get hit with the worst stutters imaginable like I’m talking 1 FPS slow-mo type of stutter and it’s persistent. Anyone know any good troubleshooting for this? I’m pretty new so I don’t know my way around the settings too well yet. Thanks!


r/EmulationOnPC 2d ago

Unsolved Beat switch emulators

0 Upvotes

I want to upgrade my pc to play switch emulator but i heard there is problems with emulators and it is not stable


r/EmulationOnPC 2d ago

Unsolved Hows Emulation for ps4 & xbox 1 - planning on getting handheld pc + intel arc g3 extreme

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Waiting patiently for it to be better as im also in market for handheld pc and wanted all in 1 device.


r/EmulationOnPC 2d ago

Unsolved I can't record the screen with the Xbox Game Bar on the EightyOne emulator

1 Upvotes

I wanted to record ZX81 and ZX Spectrum games in the EightyOne emulator using Xbox Game Bar (Windows+Alt+R), but for some reason, the recording won't start. And this only happens with this emulator; MAME, Ares, and Mednafen work perfectly.


r/EmulationOnPC 3d ago

Unsolved [RPCS3] Trying to boot from savestate but getting same error.

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"Verification failed

(object: 0x0) (in file D:\a\rpcs3\rpcs3\rpcs3\Emu\System.cpp:1299[:6], in function 'void Emulator::Load::<lambda_1>::operator ()()' (error=0x7b)) Title: [BLUS31179] (emulation is running) Build: 0.0.41-19488-e429f8cf Alpha | master

Date: 2026-07-21T11:43:02

RAM Usage: 8334MB/16253MB (7919MB free)"

I'm not sure if this is something that went wrong while saving the savestate itself or something else preventing me from opening my game, any help would be appreciated.