How to improve on the N64, Dreamcast and PSP emulation (RetroPie)

AlexMurphy

@fabio78 It's ok. Sarcasm is hard to do via text. I appreciate your reply though.

jamesbeat

@fabio78 said in How to improve on the N64, Dreamcast and PSP emulation (RetroPie):

@AlexMurphy Conker came at a much later date in the console's life cycle, so unlike Mario 64, for example, devs were utilising the HW to the maxium, and also being more ingenious with the way they were writing optimised code, with creative solutions and workarounds. These tricks are hard to emulate as such games "subvert" the original HW a little bit, and also (and obviously) are more graphically intense.

Yeah, Conker is a tough one for any emulator. It runs at full speed for me, but does have a couple of graphical glitches and texture problems.

AlexMurphy

@jamesbeat You have Conker's at full speed on a Pi? How?

jamesbeat

@AlexMurphy said in How to improve on the N64, Dreamcast and PSP emulation (RetroPie):

@jamesbeat You have Conker's at full speed on a Pi? How?

Sorry no, as I mentioned above I'm running retropie on a PC with Ubuntu.
It runs full speed even with high graphics settings.
I seem to recall that there is a problem though, like one of the menu screens is graphical junk. I will admit that I didn't really try playing around with the settings though, so a different plugin may cure it.

AlexMurphy

@jamesbeat Why so touchy? Can you not tell I'm trying to wind you up? Sure, to relaaax you should go play Zelda OOT on your PC and think about all those using the Pi and crying into their controllers.

jamesbeat

I wasn't being touchy, I thought maybe you hadn't realized I was the guy with the PC and was genuinely interested.
I guess I missed your skillfully wielded sarcasm.

AlexMurphy

@jamesbeat Obviously too subtle for some.

jamesbeat

@AlexMurphy

It did occur to me that it it might be an unsophisticated dig, but I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt.

I'm not going to spend any more time arguing with some kid about video games.

AlexMurphy

@jamesbeat "some kid"? Ha! I'm sure I have a few years on you. Probably more than a few. Away and play your PC and give my head peace ffs.

jamesbeat

@AlexMurphy said in How to improve on the N64, Dreamcast and PSP emulation (RetroPie):

@jamesbeat "some kid"? Ha! I'm sure I have a few years on you. Probably more than a few. Away and play your PC and give my head peace ffs.

My apologies, the nature of your posts gave me the impression that you were in your early teens.

AlexMurphy

@jamesbeat Any chance you could stop being a dick? Cos you are coming across like a dick.

jamesbeat

@AlexMurphy said in How to improve on the N64, Dreamcast and PSP emulation (RetroPie):

@jamesbeat Any chance you could stop being a dick? Cos you are coming across like a dick.

Just returning the favor :)

AlexMurphy

@jamesbeat *favour

mediamogul

Ladies, come on now. You're both pretty.

AlexMurphy

@mediamogul You think so???? I was just about to call a truce!

jamesbeat

@AlexMurphy said in How to improve on the N64, Dreamcast and PSP emulation (RetroPie):

@mediamogul You think so???? I was just about to call a truce!

Favor/favour
Potato/potato

I'm actually English, but since I now live in the States I have learned to spell things the American way.

I am quite happy to accept a truce, let's be friends :)

mediamogul

@AlexMurphy

You think so????

Well, a little makeup wouldn't kill you... Perhaps a hat.

AlexMurphy

@jamesbeat Aye, OK. And it's POTATOE btw!

AlexMurphy

@mediamogul I have a hat on already!

jamesbeat

@AlexMurphy said in How to improve on the N64, Dreamcast and PSP emulation (RetroPie):

@jamesbeat Aye, OK. And it's POTATOE btw!

You know, where I used to work back when I lived in the UK, there was a potato stand right outside.
Well, it was an ice cream stand in the summer, then potatoes in the winter. Same people.

Anyway, I never used to eat from there, I would walk about five minutes to the Spud-U-Like, despite the inclement weather.

Why? Because they had this menu blackboard thing, and they wrote 'potatoe' on it instead of 'potato'.

Now I thought, these guys sell potatos for six months out of every year, yet they can't even spell potato.

If they can't spell the one thing that they sell for half of every year, are they smart enough to observe basic food hygiene?

Forget that, I'm going to Spud-U-Like.