Duckstation missing?
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Did anyone have any luck running games at a higher resolution or faster than PCSX-ReARMed did? Duck/Swanstation is a great emulator for sure but I never found it to be a better fit for PS1 emulation on the Pi 4 than PCSX-ReARMed.
Not dissing Duck/Swanstation at all but for my money PCSX-ReARMed offered a better experience.
Currently running:
Retropie 4.8.9 on a Pi Zero 2W (Overclock Settings: CPU 1400Mhz)
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@george-spiggott for me it didn’t emulate any of the Final Fantasy’s games correctly. I found it really lagged in battles and sometimes the sound was all messed up. It also doesn’t emulate Crash team racing correctly. Theirs a handful of other issues too such as the end of Final Fantasy 8 freezing but other then that it is ok I guess. Duckstation at least for me felt like I was playing on real hardware.
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@george-spiggott i have the feeling that with default settings, duckstation run games faster, the same speed as the real hardware.You can fix this and make the games run faster on the pcsx-rearmed if you change the cpu clock from 57 to something higher, i have set it to 75. Also a lot of games on the Pi3 have performance issues with duckstation, pcsxrearmed is the best option here.
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@refazeshot1 CTR is a good example, it's fairly corner case but you can get very good (but not perfect) results with PCSX-ReARMed. Duck/Swanstation really shines with better hardware, It's my go to PS1 emulator/core on my Windows PC. It will be interesting to see how any potential 'Pi 5' hardware improvements interact with it.
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@george-spiggott I think duckstation is just better overall for the reason that it solves crashes and random freezing on a few games. Games like final fantasy 8, parasite eve 2, star ocean 2, pool hustlers, jedi power battles has been a problematic on rearmed for me but almost plays perfectly on duckstation. Also games like tekken 3 feels a bit odd to play under rearmed but feels more accurate using duckstation.
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@george-spiggott I found the higher resolution options to be a bit trial and error choosing the right option whereas Rearmed was a simple on/off which I liked. The only difference I found with Duckstation is that it had that Sony logo at the start of games which gave it that extra touch of nostalgia although I didn't play many games with it so I'm sure they were many more advantages. I never found PSX re-armed to be very broke
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@hawkes_84 said in Duckstation missing?:
The only difference I found with Duckstation is that it had that Sony logo at the start of games
There is in option in lr-pcsxrearmed to turn on the bios logo. It says that it can cause issues but I haven't encountered any and I could have sworn that it was fixed a couple years ago.
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@quicksilver sweet! I'll take a look! It was a nice touch but it also adds a few seconds to the whole intro. Nice to have the choice though
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Has anyone got Duckstation to work with Final Fantasy 8? Mine will not run. The same with Final Fantasy 9.
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@krathoon said in Duckstation missing?:
Has anyone got Duckstation to work with Final Fantasy 8? Mine will not run. The same with Final Fantasy 9.
I try Final Fantasy 7.8.9 and they are working fine. Better open a new topic and add the important infromation from here :https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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