Lordmonkus

I would suggest starting off with this tutorial video, it's a great beginners guide to get you up and running.

No problem.

No problem.

It's possible the FBA2012NeoGeo core is missing that option but unless you are using an old rom set and very low end hardware you shouldn't be using that core, use the fbalpha_libretro.dll core.

You need an updated Qsound.zip bios file for 186.

Yeah the driver thing is still annoying in the way that it can't change on the fly. My way around this was to have a duplicate install just for Vulkan.

No, you should be able to bump the resolution though I suggest using the Vulkan renderer for it since it will give you much better performance. I have mine setup for my 3D games to run at 8x resolution.

I don't think there is an easy way to swap disks without having the UI and using the mouse. No keyboard shortcuts to do it or anything that I could find though I suppose it is possible that one of the other available controller plugins may have something. PCSX Reloaded core in Retroarch is not very good in comparison to ePSXe but the Mednafen / Beetle core is equal to it.

It's all good It seems most people around here either use Retroarch or Snes9x for their emulation. Byuus quirky design choices with his emulator throws a lot of people off. There is no question that his emulator is top quality but some of his choices in design are kinda

Yeah this script is around here on the forums in other threads and depending on the version of Higan it may or may not work. For example 1.01 requires this script but 1.02 does not, all you need is the command line parameter --fullscreen. I have no idea what 1.03 requires since I have't tried it out, Byuu is known to change tiny things like this up on a whim. #NoEnv Sleep, 3000 SetKeyDelay, -1, 110 Send {F11} Return

Is there no option to remap your controls in the game ? For my Doom games I use the Doomsday engine so I have no idea if the GOG version running through DOSBox would let you remap controls or not.

It should if your emulators and roms haven't changed location.

Grab a 1.54 version from EmuCR. If for any reason it actually supports MSU Snes patched games.

Then it's something in your emulator settings in Launchbox like a bad or missing command line parameter or something.

Most likely the next official release will be using .NET 4.7 so wait for that.

Yeah, things like that could slow it down. I know there has been talks of either a more performance friendly version of Launchbox or maybe some presets to quick adjust to "performance mode" but I haven't heard anything on it lately so don't take it as a for sure thing. Though with the latest beta using .NET 4.7 it made some performance gains.

BigBox can chug but like I state in that performance thread it can run just fine with some tweaking like turning off animations and dialing down the image quality to medium. And you have to tune your system by disabling the unnecessary garbage on the system.

You can definitely come down quite a bit in the hardware requirements. I guess the next question is what sort of budget does your friend have in mind and how small does it have to be ? My HTPC setup while it isn't compact since its on old PC and it handles PS1 using ePSXe without problems. Its an old eMachine that's got got an AMD cpu running at 2.4 GHz, 2 Gigs of Ram and I threw my old Radeon 7800 series graphics card in it with 1 gig of ddr5 vram for shaders. I have't tried any N64 stuff on it but I would imagine Project64 would be fine with it. The Retroarch PS1 core is too much for it and probably the N64 core might be a bit too much for it as well, I haven't tried. This machine also handles BigBox fine with some tweaks made to it like turning off animations and stuff. Check out this performance post I made here, I go over the tweaks I made and you will probably want a relatively curated games list. My collection on it is just over 2500 games so no 10,000 plus games and complete libraries on it.

PS2 era is tricky since it can be such a CPU hungry emulator. While it doesn't have the level of power needed for something like Cemu to run smoothly it does require something fairly good. You will probably want something that is at least 3 GHz plus a dedicated graphics card if you want to do any of the graphical enhancement stuff like resolution scaling.

Yeah Mame would be different. With Mame you would be better off using the "Mame menu" you get when pressing Tab.

F1 > Quick Menu > Controls

Yeah there is that.

Sounds like one of your controls might be bound to F1 on the keyboard somehow, thats the keyboard shortcut to open the Retroarch menu. Look in your retroarch.cfg for the line: input_menu_toggle or input_menu_toggle_btn And see if anything is bound to it that matches up to your controller.

Hmm you could probably get away with either just grabbing the updated exe and dropping it right in your Retroarch install folder but just for safety sake make a copy of your current RA folder and do that. Here is Brads video on how to update Retroarch:

Yeah that is definitely an emulator error. Just out of curiosity though what version of Snes9x is that and where did you download it ? I have a 1.54.1 version from EmuCR and there is no SNES9XW.dll file to be found in my Snes9x folder or sub folder.