johnnyskullhead Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Saturn Emulation Mednafen or Retroarch Hi Quick question currently running standalone Saturn emulator via Mednafen but the lack of GUI makes it hard to run and change settings How well does the emu run via Retroarch ? its more user friendly and easier to change options Any answers or help would be appreciated Thanks Dean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 I've never setup Mednafen personally but the Saturn Mednafen core seems to run pretty good and a few of the missing options from the stand alone have been added to the core now so I would suggest using RA. I also believe there are some MednafenGUI programs out there too not sure how up to date they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyskullhead Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 Thanks Matey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Mednafen Saturn in RA is quite good - it was missing analog pad support for a while but that's been added recently. I've thrown quite a few games at it and not had any problems with any of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 One of the main differences I have seen between the stand alone Mednafen and RA versions is the RA version does require a little more CPU to drive it. My system (AMD 8350 @4Ghz) is just on the bubble of being just barely fast enough to run the RA core. I can run it perfectly fine for the most part but I do get the occasional audio crackle. There are 3rd party GUIs for Mednafen but I haven't found one that I like, This one here is the newest and more fancy one though if you wanna take a look at it https://medlaunch.info/ I just set my Mednafen up manually editing the config file which does suck but that's more to do with the fact they put every single emulator core setting in a single config so navigating through it gets to be cumbersome at times. It would be nice if they broke up the different sections of the config by system. They do have very detail documentation on their site though and you really don't need to configure too many settings at all to get the most out of it. One downside to the stand alone when compared to the RA core is the lack of CHD support and the devs have stated on their forums that have no plans to ever put that support in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyskullhead Posted February 6, 2018 Author Share Posted February 6, 2018 Many Thanks My CPU is identical so hopefully will run via RA I will also check out your link Thanks Again to all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyskullhead Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 Hi Sorry none of the roms will now work ? is there a special way to set up Thanks Again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 33 minutes ago, johnnyskullhead said: Hi Sorry none of the roms will now work ? is there a special way to set up Thanks Again Do you have the bios files in your Retroarch/System folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyskullhead Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 good pont Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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johnnyskullhead Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 Thanks to all sorted working Great Thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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