Lordmonkus

Saturn emulation is actually more complex due to the hardware design of the original system. The Saturn actually had 2 CPUs and 2 video processors in it which is quite difficult to emulate properly. Even game devs back in the day had a hard time programming for the Saturn. Dolphin is very easy to get working in Launchbox.

Yeah for the most part video cards have little to no effect on how well most emulators perform. However some emulators like Dolphin, Cemu and PCSX2 do get some benefit from a graphics card but the CPU does the heavy lifting. Graphics cards do help however when you get into things like shaders in Retroarch and Mame and resolution scaling in Dolphin and PCSX2.

Yeah it's mostly to do with speed of the CPU, newer CPUs with newer instruction sets also help out.

Nah, I got an AMD 8350 @ 4 GHz.

Lol, I will stick with Mednafen I have much better luck with it but I do understand that lower end systems need SSF so it's good to have options available. Looking at the new bat file it looks like all that changed is the line: %daemon% -mount 0, %game% to %daemon% -mount F, %game% and the last line %daemon% -unmount 0 to %daemon% -unmount F

Glad you got it all sorted out and you don't have to make batch files for every game now lol.

If you are looking for complete or near complete rom sets for cartridge based consoles such as NES, SNES, Genesis for example they are the best to look for. For CD based systems like Sega CD, Playstation and Saturn you will want to look for "ReDump" and "Dark Water"

NoIntro is the name of rom sets for cartridge based consoles. Basically it means that there are no intro scenes that may have been patched into a rom dump and released to the internet by a release group. Essentially they are the cleanest and proper roms out there. There are the "GoodSets" but those packs contain every single region and variation of roms while the No-Intro sets are cleaner with far less useless trash. They are the defacto standard that people use, if you try and use the netplay feature in Retroarch they will 99% of the time be using a No-Intro version of a rom.

Retroarch is great once you get used to it, if you are new to it I wrote up a guide for it here: And of course many of us around here use it and are always willing to help out with any questions. But yes the Mednafen Saturn core is more resource hungry than SSF so for that it may not be an answer for you.

Ok good you got the %1% to work so you don't need a bat file for every game.

That is unfortunate if the line: set game=%1% does not work to save a lot of time and energy.

Do you have to create a bat file for each game though ? Or is it just set the bat file as your emulator and load any rom ?

Can you post a screenshot of your emulator settings in Launchbox for Mame along with the Associated Platforms window for Mame.

No problem.

Yeah you can use it on as many systems you own as you like.

Well hopefully someone can confirm whether or not SSF, Daemon Tools and Windows 10 play nicely together or not.

Yeah it's a pretty CPU intensive emulator, I have an AMD 8350 @ 4 GHz and it runs really nicely. SSF does have the advantage of being faster and less picky about the disk images but at the cost of not quite as good of emulation, extra input lag and having to deal with disk mounting.

There is always the possibility that SSF, Daemon Tools and Windows 10 do not work together properly anymore. I do seem to recall people talking about issues with it but I have not tested it out because I have long since ditched SSF for my Saturn emulation in favour of Mednafen.

One thing I forgot to mention was that the bat file itself goes in your SSF folder where the .exe for the emulator is.

You shouldn't need to create one bat file for each game, just copying and pasting the bat script I posted and having that bat file set as the emulator should work. I hope we are understanding each other here.

I'm not sure if just double clicking the bat itself outside of Launchbox will do anything but having it set as an emulator in Launchbox it will pass all the necessary stuff to the bat file, mount the disk and run the game, then when you close the game it auto unmounts the disk image.

You make the bat file your emulator in Launchbox and then you just import your disk images like normal with your emulator pointing to the bat file. That is how it worked for me in the past, again though I cannot confirm this works with Windows 10.

I don't know if this is still applicable to Windows 10 and Daemon Tools but here is the bat file I used to use with Windows 7 and 8. I seem to recall people saying there were problems with Win 10 and DT. I cannot confirm this though since I no longer use SSF or Daemon Tools. @echo off set game=%1% set daemon="C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" set emu="H:\Emulation\Emulators\SSF\SSF.exe" %daemon% -mount 0, %game% start /wait "" %emu% %daemon% -unmount 0

Yes, the raw emulation relies on CPU power and in the vast majority of cases single core performance, there are a couple of emulators that will use 2 cores such as Dolphin (maybe RPCS3 the PS3 emu). Without getting super technical into why this is it is because of how the timings of of the old systems are emulated. If you start spreading different functions of the emulator across multiple CPU cores or onto the GPU it becomes a timing nightmare and game timings get way out of whack. The graphics card however will handle graphical enhancements such as shaders and resolution upscaling. And yes of course more ram will help your system with multi-tasking and modern PC games, I was talking strictly in terms of the emulation itself. For example if you had 4 gigs of ram and expanded that to 16 gigs you would not see that ram do anything for your performance in the emulator itself though you may see some benefit from having more ram to handle the windows side of things

Not exactly sure why you reposted this suggestion when you had already posted this before and Jason said it was a good idea and you should submit it as a request using the Issues/Requests link at the top of the webpage.