Yabause 0.9.15

[5200fanatic]

For me, this new release seems to work better than Mednafen on Retroarch but I can't get it to load a game through Launchbox. I have searched and found nothing except that Yabause is not friendly to GUI but that could have changed. If anyone can share a command line that works in Launchbox, please share!

 

Thanks!

[Lordmonkus]

I haven't really tried to use 0.9.15 because it wouldn't work for me when I did try it and I gave up because Mednafen was out and working great.

But I still have 0.9.14 installed and the command line parameter -i which works.

I will try and get 0.9.15 working again and see what happens.

[Lordmonkus]

Ok, I got it working with the command parameter -i and setting the emulator to load full screen in the settings / video tab.

Personal Rant Incoming!!!

Now I will apologize in advance for what is coming next but this emulator is absolute trash and there is no good reason to use this thing whatsoever. It still has broken sound in Darius Gaiden where it only plays music and no game sound effects. The full screen of this emulator is broken, it doesn't keep aspect ratio even though it is check on. When I full screen the emulator it spreads across both monitors unless I set the full screen resolution to match my main monitor which is 2560 x 1440 but like I said before it stretches the game to widescreen. Maybe it doesn't like the fact I am using a dual monitor setup but in this day in age many people do and this is the only emulator or program I have run into that does this.

Maybe some day this emulator could be good and usable but today is not that day. Mednafen is far superior and if your system isn't quite fast enough to run it then SSF even with the mounting of disk images in Daemon Tools is way better and much more usable.

[5200fanatic]

For me, the latest Yabause runs Daytona and Sega Rally far better than Mednafen does. So that's why I like the latest Yabause. I have an i5 and a GTX 980 so I don't think its the system.

And thanks!

Edited September 18, 2016 by 5200fanatic

[Lordmonkus]

Did the -i command switch work for you at least ?

[5200fanatic]

Yes, with a little tweaking. I went into Yabause and switched on "autorun" and that worked. Thanks very much! Maybe what I'll do is run some games in Yabause and the others in Mednafen.

Edited September 18, 2016 by 5200fanatic

[Lordmonkus]

Cool, glad it works the way you want it to despite my hatred for this emulator in its current state

You said that Daytona doesn't run well for you, are you talking the normal first release version or the later Championship Edition ? The Championship edition works just fine for me, I haven't tried the normal version or Sega Rally.

[5200fanatic]

I'm using the Championship Edition -- for me, it is very slow on Retrorch/Mednafen

Edited September 18, 2016 by 5200fanatic

[Lordmonkus]

Hmm, do you have Threaded Video turned on or off and are you running any shaders ? What is the speed of your CPU ?

I found running one of the heavier shaders that I had to turn on Threaded Video to get full speed.

[5200fanatic]

I have an i5 3.2 ghz -- should threaded bideo be on or off? I'm not using any shaders.

[Lordmonkus]

I don't know where the tipping point for CPU speed and performance is.

If you need to squeeze out a bit of speed make sure you have Hard Gpu Sync On (should be on anyways) but then bump Hard Gpu Sync Frames to 1 and see what happens. If you still aren't quite there in smoothness you can turn on Threaded Video, it may introduce a tiny bit of input lag but it shouldn't be noticeable. I have Threaded Video On but I also use a very heavy shader (Kurozumi-Royale).

[5200fanatic]

Thanks -- I'll give it a shot.