Zombeaver

Honestly we do have stuff like this, they're just really few and far between. I've got a couple of good local shops, though none are anywhere near this massive. There's one in Philadelphia that I've always wanted to go to called Classic Game Junkie.

Yeah if it just closes with no error message I'm inclined to think it's a problem with your bios files. It's not guaranteed, but that seems the most likely to me; especially if literally no games are working with it (and those rips are working with other emulators apparently). The System sub directory is the correct one to put them in. Echoing lordmonkus, I use the Genesis Plus GX core and it works great for Sega CD.

No, certainly not. There are plenty of games (shmups in particular) that are in English, and others (fighters and shmups) that are fully playable even in Japanese. There are also a significant number of English translations for games, especially for SNES. Romhacking.net is a good place to start for that. I'm not sure what you mean there. I know there is some degree of integration with Dropbox that's possible but I have no experience with that whatsoever. I don't use Dropbox at all. Why not look into Steam In-Home Streaming? Your situation is actually perfect for it because so long as the host computer is capable of playing the games, you should be good because the host does all the hard work - you're playing it on the host and streaming it to a client (a different computer). As long as the host is decent, you can basically play it on a toaster. You can setup LB/BB as a non-steam application in Steam and stream it via In-Home Streaming.

I'm sorry, it must be done.

Could be, I dunno. I pulled up process monitor and I'm using like 20% CPU and 20% RAM while it's running...

Yeah I normally have it turned up - most stuff around 6ish but I specifically remember having to dial it down to 4 on Mednafen Saturn because higher than that was causing audio problems. I have no idea why I can no longer use it now...

So...I seem to have fixed it...I guess. I have to turn frame delay to 0. I've had it on 4 for a while now and it's been fine. For whatever reason though, now it has to be on 0. Vsync/Hard GPU sync being turned off have no impact.

Well I thought maybe that was it too, but it's only pulling the settings for that specific core and there are no reference to the core specifically in Retroarch.cfg. If I pull up BSNES for example, it has different settings. If I switch back to Mednafen_Saturn (following a fresh delete/redownload), it loads the same old custom settings (from where, I can't figure out).

So now I'm really confused... I've moved the core and config elsewhere as a backup and then completely redownloaded the core...and it still has my custom resolution/viewport? What the hell? And of course the audio is still screwed too.

And yes, I do have hard GPU turned on. But I've had it turned on since day one. Again, none of that stuff has changed in any way. I've had the RA core since it was released. It worked fine. I updated the core today. Not fine anymore. Updating the core is the only change.

CRT Easymode Halation, 64 latency, threaded on. None of these are different from what they were before when it was working fine.

No, but that was going to be the next step. I'd prefer not to do that because I've got custom resolution/viewport settings setup but I guess I'm gonna have to at this point.

The only change I've made is updating the core. Was fine before. Borked now.

Yeah I've been on 1.3.6 the whole time - that hasn't changed. It was working fine and now all I'm getting out of it is crunchy garbage audio.

Stable. I literally haven't changed anything in RA. It was working fine before.

No, that's not what I mean. I'm not talking about Astal specifically...every game is doing it. Even ones that I was already using the RA core with before.

So I updated to the newest RA core in hopes that I could then play Astal with it since I believe they were supposed to have pushed the update downstream, but post-update I'm getting nothing but awful stuttering crunchy audio - it was totally fine before. Standalone still works fine as well... no idea what the deal is. I've tried messing with quite a few video and audio settings to no avail.

Cool site @lordmonkus. You can also (and I realize this is gonna sound stupid) go to Google and search for "Best [insert platform] games" and for most systems it'll pull up this little scrolling list of game covers for popular games for that system - if you click on one it'll show the wikipedia page for it with some snippets of information. Like this for example. You press the arrow at the right side to go to the next group. It's been mentioned already, but Hardcore Gaming 101 and Racketboy are good for finding some hidden gems.

I've got a couple of other things in the pipeline but I'll add Wii U to the list. Cemu I'm assuming? I was under the impression Wii U emulation was still pretty early but I've heard some good things about Cemu (and no shortage of posts on /r/emulation... so much so that it kinda drove me away from that sub to be honest). Is it in a sufficient state that it's actually worth looking into as more than a novelty? Is it viable for more than just a couple games?

Woot! It works! Thanks Jason One thing that I noticed (and maybe this is unavoidable) is that the bottom line in a description that's long enough to scroll always gets cut off slightly before it starts scrolling. It's always a little bit of the last line in "Horizontal Boxes with Details" view and most of the last line in "Text List with Details" and "Vertical Clear Logo Wheel" views. Is there any way for it to be cropped (or expanded) so that it only shows full characters prior to scrolling? It's not a huge deal either way. Is there an .xml or something I could edit?

Alternate region-specific names for DB entries are in the works

The ZSNES view gave me a huge smile - it brings back memories from many moons ago. It's been surpassed by better options as time went on, but when I think about the origins of my love for emulation a great deal of it goes straight to ZSNES way back in the 90's. I used to browse around Zophar's Domain all the time when I was in middle school Keep up the good work!

You can also setup separate emulator entries for separate cores. If you have a large number of games that need to be switched from one to another that's what I would recommend. I have instructions for doing that in the following post:

(Disc 1) (Disk 1) (CD 1) are all viable and I believe brackets (rather than parenthesis) work as well now.

I've never had any issues with them. I've used quite a bit of their PSX stuff and it's always been great. It's redump.org though, not re-dump.org.