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SentaiBrad said Bsnes Balanced is also just as great, it's what I use and I've never had a problem with it. But to get perfect emulation there are some drawbacks. Speed hacks are just a necessity early on, not to mention Higan is still being developed. I don't think Higan ever differentiates accuracy vs balanced anymore. Emulation wise you should be great though. Correct, Higan is just all one now, no separated versions (performance, balanced and accuracy) it's all accuracy now, and it does other stuff like NES, GB and WonderSwan.

Should be fine, if it isn't 100% and you need a tiny bit more speed then the balanced core is available and is still better than anything else out there in Snes emulation and can do the MSU-1 stuff as well.

BSnes accuracy or Higan which is what the stand alone is called now by the author Byuu is pretty CPU intensive, basically it requires 3 ghz to run everything 100% speed. The video card only comes in to the equation when you start adding in shaders.

bSnes is by far the most accurate emulator out there. ZSnes' advantage is speed on very old computers. The bSnes accuracy core is 100% according to the libretro wiki. link If your system is not able to handle it then the balanced is a very good alternative with a very high accuracy %. The other extremely nice feature of bSnes is the ability to play the MSU-1 sound patched games so you can have CD quality audio in your SNES games (approx a dozen or so games have been done).

There is no bios files for the CPS stuff like the NeoGeo but the Qsound files may be needed like Mame requires. @Hydro May I recommend you try using the fb_alpha_libretro.dll core. I use this single core to handle all my NeoGeo, CPS-1, 2 and 3 games. One core to run all of them just keeps things neat and tidy and I have not run into any issues whatsoever with it yet. Edit: I just wanted to add for anyone thinking of using Retroarch for CPS-3 games. If you load a game and get a "No CD-Rom" message just bring up the Retroarch menu with the F1 key or Windows button on the controller and in the quick menu Restart Content. It will reset the game and won't give the "No CD-Rom" message. Not sure how other emulators handle those games. I only noticed this with Red Earth / Warzard.

My Launchbox game total is 4534 (small by many peoples standards) games but no way I have tested every single game. When it comes to systems like the NES, SMS, SNES, Genesis and Atari 2600 it is far easier just to grab and import entire sets than it is to try and think of and get each and every single game and test as you import. My Mame and other arcade games like NeoGeo and the Capcom CPS games are all individually tested since that collection is not that big. I only import the good Mame games after trying them out using MameUI first. What I do is import the set and then go through and make sure that all the games have at least the proper box art and stuff and then I will skim through and test the games I see that actually are interesting. I will play the games I know I like to make sure they work and I will try out some obscure game I never heard of just to see what it is, but I wont waste time testing Barbie or kids games but it is just easier to leave them in the collection. This is still fairly time consuming though. It would be much more difficult and time consuming to do it all for the PS and PS2 games where the libraries are enormous.

Yes, you need to test them all to see if they all work. It's all part of building your emulation collection, especially if you are one of the "must have it all" types of people.

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Do you have all 3 bios files ? scph1001, scph5500 and scph5502 are the 3 you need, one of them is just another version but renamed but I forget which one exactly. Are your cue sheets set up correctly matching the bin the bin file name ? (I trust you but im just asking) I am trying to think what would cause a black screen, usually it either works or crashes and the 3 main causes of things not working are wrong bios or wrong folder path or bad rips of the game. Check out my covering PS, Sega CD and TG CD systems and getting all 3 setup. Be sure and check the video description for extras if you need them. https://youtu.be/jXSrVEU7cWc

It really is worth the effort for many reasons. Brad as done guides on getting up and running and several of us here on the forums can help out with any questions you may have. Also if you check the link to my blog in my forum sig scroll down and I got a guide there for some of the different general video settings.

Daytona is best emulated using NullDC and the Dreamcast port or the Playstation store port, not sure if there's an Xbox live port or not.

Which games specifically does it not work for ? I have never had the issue you are describing.

Input (General) > Other Controls Setting your keys for Coin and Start in there should set it for all games it does for me atleast.

Fusion was and still is a very good emulator but it has been surpassed by the Genesis GX core in Retroarch which handles SMS, Genesis and Sega CD games. It just doesn't do 32X games but PicoDrive handles that. Genesis GX is 100% or very damn close to it in terms of accuracy and is the only was to play PierSolar outside of MESS which is just awful to try and setup. I highly recommend making the switch as Retroarch is much better in many ways for the systems it supports outside of a couple of exceptions. RA handles keybinding better, it handles frontends better, it has by far the best shaders to get your old games looking just right for your personal tastes, save state management is better and the best reason to use RA over all else is the Hard GPU Sync option to reduce input lag drastically. Like I said, Fusion was and still is a very good emulator on its own but if you intend on using a frontend Retroarch is going to make your life so much easier and you don't lose any features of Fusion besides 32X.

Mame would be my second choice. RA is always gonna be my first choice for anything I can use it for other than a select few cores like PSP, Dreamcast, Saturn and non FBA arcade stuff. The reasons I stated above make it better than anything else out there.

I'm not gonna tell you which emulator to use, that's your choice. However, I will highly recommend Retroarch, it really is the best option for the vast majority of emulation that it has cores for. It is the best for several reasons like easy controller setup, save state management and shaders to start. But the biggest and best reason to use Retroarch is for its Hard GPU Synch setting which has a pretty big impact on reducing input lag.

DOS76 said Kawaks or Final Burn Alpha are both options but truthfully the fb_alpha_neo core in RA is the best Neo Geo emulator I've ever used. This right here is the correct answer.

Yeah the start and back buttons to exit is a paid Launchbox feature but you could use X-Padder to do it as well. The RA input settings are under the Settings > Input > Input Hotkey Binds.

Windows 10 you need to roll your controller driver back to the previous version to regain control over the button. I think there is another fix but rolling back driver is the easiest one.

For exiting games on my XBox controller I use the back and start buttons together. The XBox button is used by default in Retroarch to bring up its menu for tweaking purposes and save state management.

You may need the qsound files for the CPS games.

https://www.asus.com/Monitors/ROG_SWIFT_PG278Q/ I just picked up this bad boy right here and let me tell you that it is definitely one fine monitor. If you are you in the market for a significant upgrade from a standard run of the mill monitor and you don't mind dropping the dough I cannot recommend this monitor enough. The one drawback of this monitor is that it is not IPS but because it is a TN panel it is super fast and responsive. IPS vs TN is gonna be a trade off of eye candy vs performance, since I don't do content creation the IPS was not important to me and since I game A LOT I chose the performance. The Acer Predator was the other monitor I was considering in the same price bracket which is an IPS so if you need or prefer IPS that is the monitor to get. I was never an absolute input lag whore and was very pleased with an old 22" Samsung monitor and I could play games just fine with it but this thing is a noticeable upgrade in that department. Controls are super quick and responsive and the G-Sync technology removes all screen tearing making everything just so creamy buttery smooth. Being 27" and a 2560x1440 resolution it takes Retroarchs CRT shaders and makes them look the way they were intended to look. The CRT-Royale shader is regarded as one of the best CRT shaders out there but on a 1080 screen it just was not doing it justice. I used a tweaked version previously and it looked what I thought was pretty good but now I can use the proper version of the shader and OMG! does it look amazing. Bottom line is this. Is it Pricey ? Yeah. Is it worth it ? Like Stone Cold says, "Gimme a HELL YEAH!"

Those filthy bad rips.

The core I use with the most success is fb_alpha_libretro.dll. I use it for both NeoGeo and Capcom CPS games.

@angelobodetti if you check my forum sig I have a small blog site setup and on there I have a tutorial video on youtube on getting CD based systems up and running.