Lordmonkus

Windowed Scale = 3.0 is the size of the game screen when in windowed mode and that is in the general video settings. What I am talking about is in the core options. Most (not all) cores have extra options specifically available to that core which is in the quick menu when you have that core running. You can try other video drivers but gl is all around the best driver, it's what I use and I have an Nvidia card. There is no 1920 x 1080, there will only be multiples of the native resolution of the original hardware so the closest would be the 960 resolution. If you want 16:9 you will have to force it in the general video settings and like you said previously, it looks bad. Though some people really prefer it. You can turn off integer scaling though and it will get rid of most, if not all of the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

Interesting find.

With a game running, bring up the Retroarch menu with F1, go into the quick menu > options > resolution, set it to the resolution you want. Close Reatroarch and restart.

For N64 there aren't really any good shaders that I found to my liking. I just straight up use upscaling the resolution. For 8 and 16 bit sprite based games I prefer a CRT shader over a smoothing type of shader, IMO the smoothing shaders only look somewhat decent in stylized art games like Mario World and Yoshis Island but games with a more "realistic" art style like Final Fantasay or Chrono Trigger they don't look so good. If you want a smoothing shader look into the sabr and xbr shaders and see what you can find.

http://kotaku.com/long-lost-warcraft-adventure-game-is-now-downloadable-1786499297 Hit up your favourite torrent site and search for Warcraft Adventures because this has been pulled off the net already.

Well it isn't a case of picky, it's a case of different games will either work / not work better or worse in different emulators. For example Beetle Adventure racing is only playable through Mupen64plus, PJ64 and Mupen RA aren't even playable.

The setting you want is in the N64 core options and not the video settings. With an N64 game loaded in the Mupen core open the quick menu and go into core options. In there look for the resolution scaling, after bumping it up to what you want you will need to do a restart for the changes to take effect. Personally I don't recommend using the Retroarch core, I use a mix of PJ64 and stand alone Mupen64plus on a game by game basis. N64 emulation is in a not so good state and needs a lot more work, a lot of individual tweaking per game with it.

Your problem being fixed now with your old bios and roms probably means that you originally had an issue with the bios path in Retroarch. Sorry I can't help with your question though since I don't emulate any of those systems.

If you are going to try my HLSL settings then you will need 172 or newer. Before 172 HLSL was shit in Mame but with 172 they made some changes and made it extremely good and the settings I use don't look good at all in previous versions.

I suggest you give stand alone Mame a try with my HLSL settings.

Honestly I couldn't tell you, I just use the stand alone Mame.

Weird, hopefully @Jason Carr or someone else has an answer for you with that one cause I haven't run into that one.

I found Mame easier to setup controls for actually and with good HLSL shaders it looks really good. Retroarch Mame is just as good in terms of emulation quality though and you get more shader options. My issue with RA shaders though is I like a CRT shader and vertical Mame games don't work well with a CRT shader.

Hmm, is it maybe set to full screen windowed ? Is there a reason you are using the RA Mame over stand alone ?

I can't help you with the movies but I would suggest you use the Mame core without a year after it if you want to use Retroarch for Mame. The 2014 core is based on the 159 version of Mame plus you can turn off the nag screens in the core options. As for your Retroarch loading up in the background do you have your Mame Retroarch core set to load full screen or windowed mode ?

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Darkwater dumps are rock solid, I don't recall ever getting a bad one from them.

Well I don't know what else to tell you then. You have other games that work so your setup is correct. You have tried to fix your game but it still doesn't work. I know that Albert Odyssey works so your only option is download a different dump of the disk and see if that works.

It looks like you are loading the bin file into cdmage, here is a screenshot of what mine looks like when loaded.

Well if you have some games working in your setup and you get a game that loads to the cd player then that means your disk image is bad. You can try repairing the image or getting a new dump.

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Ok so other games work that's good at least. Yeah try the repair anyways, if that doesn't work then you will need to download a new rip, look for a Darkwater dump if you are unsure yours is already.

Try repairing it and saving it out as a new cue + bin even though it says no errors. I can guarantee you that Albert Odyssey is a game that works. I have it working and so does Zombeaver. Do any other games work ?

Something else that just came to mind because you mention Albert Odyssey, what is the exact file name ? The reason I ask this is because Zombeaver was having problems with his until he renamed it. The copy he had was a really long weird file name and after he shortened it to a shorter simpler name it worked. It seems that Mednafen doesn't like long weird names in it's files. Try changing the name of the cue + bin and don't forget to edit the cue sheet to match the bin name.

Ok it's just that you mentioned PSX so I thought maybe you were using the Mednafen PSX core. If you are getting the cd screen then there are 2 possibilities. Is it a PAL region game ? PAL games do not work yet for now, they can be fixed with the region patcher tool but it isn't 100%. The other possibility is your disk image may be a bad dump and has errors and may be fixable using CDMage. I use the version of CDMage on Emuparadise. Load the cue sheet into CDMage then click Action and Scan For Corruption, then Action > Repair Corrupted Sectors. Once that is done go to File > Save as and save out a new cue + bin.