Sorry for posting this in two threads in a row, but I realized I hadn't posted any updates on the state of Bloodborne emulation. Here's where it's currently at, the current issues are mostly sound and visual effects related. If you check YT you can see dozens and dozens of videos posted everyday of people testing it. There's one Russian dude who's doing a straight up Let's Play, he's about 7 hours deep.

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>>1037801 >>1037870 My favorite area is the water world where the level you enter the painting determines how high the water level is. That and the haunted house.

>>1038368 >the level you enter the painting determines how high the water level is I never knew.

What emulator would you recommend if I want to play Saturn 2D games?

Just chilling with real cozy monster hunting. >>1038182 Feels like it'll be fully done any day now.

>>1038430 You cannot go wrong with nearly any of them. Just check the compatibility lists: http://www.segasaturn.org/ https://tradu-france.com/wiki-emu-compatibility/index.php?title=Compatibility_list_of_Kronos https://www.uoyabause.org/games I personally tend to father SSF because it's the only one that renders DoA correctly.

>>1038370 I understood that there was some connection as a kid but I misinterpreted. I thought it was what kind of jump you did to enter the painting that made the difference, which of course it's easier to jump higher with some types of jumps than it is with others, so that explains why I thought what I did. It was only a couple of years ago that I learned the truth.

Would it be better to emulate the Wii-U or the Switch to play Xenoblade Chronicles? What differences are there? Does one or both have decensor patches? I won't be able to stand everyone else being English, but I still want the Welsh catgirl. How jarring would it be, and possible would it be, to only have her speak English?

>>1038483 >spoiler Undubs for the game exist

>>1038483 XBC games are 1, X, 2, 3. Wii U's only X. Wii has 1. Switch remasters 1+adds DLC, has 2+DLC, 3+DLC, will remaster X in 4 months. 1 (Wii), X, and 2 emulate ok on gaming hardware. 1 (Switch) and 3 probably do. X (Switch) is unreleased, untested, and bad emulator bugs won't be fixed. Better to emulate the Wii U than the Switch. 2 has the Welsh catgirl, Poppi α, and Poppi QTπ.

>>1038368 >>1038370 Did you know Boo's laugh in Mario 64 is Bowser's laugh played faster?

More Brothership screenshots, of Skorcheen Island in the Brrrning Sea, and rank and bonus information, for players who plan character builds. From level 1, each 7 added levels raises your rank. At each new rank up to Star, you choose 1 bonus from unchosen bonuses in that rank and earlier ranks. At the last rank 1 rank after Star, you choose 2. HP's hit points, BP's "magic" for Bros. Attacks, power increases jump and hammer damage given, defense decreases damage received, speed's for turn number and order, stache's for criticals and item drop rate. Shell (Level 8) Gear Slot (1 added accessory slot) HP Up (1 added HP each level) Quick Leveling (enemies give 20% more experience) Speed Up (1 added speed each level) Stache Up (1 added stache each level) Boomerang (Level 15) Def Up (1 added defense each level) Pow Up (1 added power each level) Flower (Level 22) Hammerhead (hammer does 20% more damage) Jumpman (jump does 20% more damage) Leaf (Level 29) Big Lucky (critical damage increases from 1.3 to 1.5 times) Counterer (counters do 50% more damage) Iron Body (you take 20% less damage) Star (Level 36) Bros Pro (Bros. Attacks do 20% more damage) Casual Bros (Bros. Attacks cost 30% less BP)

>>1038580 >Pic I see that someone flunked color theory because that image almost makes me feel like my eyes want to bleed.

>>1038580 How do you like the battle plugs mechanic when compared to badge powers? >>1038595 >color theory Why is this happening? Explain like I hab da smol monkey brain.

>>1038580 >>1038600 >Explain the color theory like I hab da smol monkey brain. Not 1038595 but the 1038580 shots skillfully use color theory since the analogous color scheme of orange, red, and purple keeps each dominant color to the same half of the color wheel, and dark colors for terrain contrast with light choices for lava, highlighting lava's hotness and drawing players' eyes to objects of interest like the coins, blocks, and pipe.

>>1038430 Mednafen with the Beetle Saturn Libretro core is recommended by /emugen/ for Sega Saturn emulation. https://mednafen.github.io/releases/

More screenshots, from my Brothership emulation, of the frozen Slippenglide Island. The IDLE group tracks the villainous Extension Corps to Slippenglide, where they built a secret lab that Mario and Luigi scout for clues. >>1038600 Battle Plugs build on the foundation of the classic system without taking it over. They're special gear made from Lumenade gathered from collectible Sprite Bulbs. As Brothership's adventure goes on, you get more Power Taps, so you can set more Battle Plugs in your Set Plugs menu. Setting Battle Plugs improves your moves in battle or grants other advantages. Coinpiler causes enemies to drop coins each time you damage them in proportion to damage dealt, Empower Counters turns jump counters into ground pounds and charges up hammer counters to do an extra 30% damage, and Performance Bonus restores 50% of BP used on a Bros. Attack that earns an EXCELLENT rating. Battle Plugs, like Gimmicks from Tomato Adventure, have a use limit then a recharge period. A Battle Plug like Boomerang Items, which returns used items to your inventory, is balanced by few uses and many recharge turns. Running out of a Battle Plug's charges in a battle can limit you in others if that battle has fewer turns than the Battle Plug's recharge turns, getting players to manage charges across battles. Compared to badge powers, I like Battle Plugs more. Learning enemy patterns in Brothership is harder than earlier Mario & Luigis, which Battle Plugs balance.

>>1038493 Yeah, I only want to play 2. I played 1, the gameplay was a slog, and the characters felt generic and boring, and it isn't much necessary to understand 2. I heard 2 had some offline gachashit style mechanics, but I'll cheat those when it feels like I'm wasting my time, without remorse. >Poppi α, and Poppi QTπ. Weren't their names censored? What's the actual names? Something like Hana JS and Hana JD (elementary schooler and college girl)? >>1038493 >Undubs for the game exist Yes, and I plan on playing it in JP with english text and subs, but what I'm talking about is whether it would be too jarring to have everyone except Nia speak JP while she's speaking English with a Welsh accent. I don't think that's possible though since the audio in some, many, or all cutscenes is probably one single track. >>1038538 No.

>>1038438 >>1038612 Which would have the fastest loading speed? I tried Beetle on Retroarch time before (because shaders), but I got tired of waiting every time I change the location playing Magic Knight Rayearth.

>>1038681 >Which would have the fastest loading speed? They're all going to be comparable because the Saturn is a disc-based console.

More screenshots from my Brothership emulation. Bowser's introduced with menacing style and power in a full-scale war scene where Bowser's minions attack Zokket's forces from the air, then Bowser turns his air force on you. In the middle screenshots, Mario and Luigi recon Bowser's Concordian base at Offandon Island.

>>1028524 Game Freak did release an 8-bit version on the NES.

>>1038891 There was also a Game Boy version.

In Brothership, Bowser built another castle on Wayaway Island, a place so remote it was an island before the Uni-Tree was destroyed and the world of Concordia was broken apart. In Bowser's castle, Mario and Luigi find plugs to carry to elevators to power those elevators to reach new floors. From Bowser's Ampberry hoard, they take Ampberries to cure Glohm, and from Bowser's air force, they take machine parts for Shipshape Island.

>>1038916 Yoshi had a lot of puzzle games. Remember Yoshi's Cookie?

>>1038916 The Game Boy version's colorless which confuses what characters switch to what columns. The Yoshi LDX (SGB Enhanced) patch fixes this, but limits colors to the palette the GBC chooses for the game, so dithers red and green to create the illusion of brown for the checkerboard and Goombas. That illusion shatters up close. The Yoshi LDX patch isn't DX quality, but improved from gray.

>>1038891 >>1038916 >>1039310 I remember getting Yoshi and Yoshi's Cookie as a kid and those games fucking sucked. They made me hesitant of getting Yoshi's Island, which is actually excellent. Anybody who nostalgiafags over the NES probably never had the console, because 80% of its library was complete shit. There are much better consoles with not only better games, but a high ratio of good games.

>>1038891 >>1038916 >>1039310 >>1039504 Anybody who spergs so hard over hard IQ games (puzzle games, many NES games) is a guaranteed fucking retard who's complete shit at games. The experience sucks for you since failing reminds you you're stupid, your comment's like an unevolved nigger calling math racist.

>>1028520 >What games are you emulating? Ristar for Sega Genesis. >>1039545 Don't feed the wild hispamonkeys, they're observation-only.

>>1039545 Yoshi's Cookie games feel thoroughly rewarding if you can set up good chains. RTA in Japan Marathon 2021 streamed Yoshi's Cookie, look how efficiently the Japanese streamer sets up his chains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMIJ2GoTSGg&t=167s

I'm considering trying to run Xenoblade Chronicles 2, but only if I can get it uncensored and undubbed. I've tried looking up mods, but the best I can get is a patchwork of several different people's mods that I'm not sure are even comprehensive. https://varishangout.com/index.php?threads/xenoblade-chronicles-2-heart-to-hearts-uncensored-mod.2153/

>>1039504 People don't judge a system's library based on how many bad games it has, but how many good games it has. People can go and play many great NES games, while ignoring the bad ones. Also, Yoshi is a fun game. I always preferred it over Yoshi's Cookie, but the impression I've always gotten is that most people disagree with me on that. >>1039498 I've played the Game Boy version plenty, and it's really hard to get confused on which sprite is which. Those Mario enemies are pretty recognizable. Also, it's been a while since I played it, but I could have sworn that playing on hardware like SGB, GBC, and GBA gives the game one of those built in default palettes that a few earlier Game Boy games got. I remember playing on actual hardware and seeing most of the colors be correct.

>>1040566 >I've played the Game Boy version plenty I have too, enough to have Yoshi LDX to screenshot and recommend to the Emulation Megathread over the unpatched GB version. LDX is improved from GB. NES Yoshi's my favorite, I recommend it over both GB and LDX. I will compare and contrast the 4 versions. Characters in columns have clearer color separation in LDX than GB, so I don't confuse them. LDX colors Boo's mouth, adds an extra color to Piranha Plants, and dithers red and green to create the illusion of brown for Goombas. NES upgrades to true brown. GB's white BG contrasts worst with characters as white's used for each character. LDX green's better, but shared with Yoshi egg spots and Piranha Plant leaves. NES blue's best, DS blue/purple's 2nd. DS characters contrast best with each other, its Yurarin Boos and Blurps replacing Boos and Piranha Plants improves color variety. GB, LDX, and NES Boos and Bloobers, all white, don't contrast well, nor brown Goombas and red Piranha Plants in LDX, where brown's near red. LDX does better there than GB, and NES than LDX, as NES brown's further from red than LDX's dither. Yoshi eggs are colored wrong on GB, right on NES and LDX, and upgrade from 3 to 8 colors on DS. DS downgrades game settings to none and cuts A Type's triple-drops. GB and LDX clutter the interface. GB, LDX, and DS have lower resolution than NES, limiting each to 7 rows where NES has 8. LDX plays unused music on the title screen different from GB music. I played many GB demakes on GB hardware, they're worse than originals but portable and UMPCs make originals portable. Color clarifies how to move so it's better. Worse versions of good games remain good. GB Yoshi's good, but LDX and NES are better. >Also, it's been a while since I played it, but I could have sworn that playing on hardware like SGB, GBC, and GBA gives the game one of those built in default palettes that a few earlier Game Boy games got. I remember playing on actual hardware and seeing most of the colors be correct. This APNG compares the GBC palette (white BG) to the LDX patch (green BG). Yoshi's colors are correct, but characters set in columns are not, and have clearer color separation in LDX. Where colors count, the GBC colors are incorrect. They help less to match. >it's really hard to get confused on which sprite is which. Those Mario enemies are pretty recognizable. For this APNG, if 50 people count Piranha Plants in the built-in default GBC palette, and 50 more in the LDX palette, the median time should be shorter for the LDX palette.

>>1040566 >The Game Boy version's colorless which confuses what characters switch to what columns. The Yoshi LDX (SGB Enhanced) patch fixes this <I've played the Game Boy version plenty, and it's really hard to get confused on which sprite is which. Those Mario enemies are pretty recognizable It's not confusing if you play the start of Yoshi GB at stock settings. It's more confusing on high speed, in A Type's later levels, when unlucky triple-drops RNG your stack higher, or on high speed, early in B Type's later levels, when you start 5/7 rows high, and you change your plan after an incoming drop. I process colors/shapes faster than shades/shapes and these shades aren't distinct enough. Color communicates more to me, faster. With color I react to incoming drops, plan movement, then execute in around a quarter second plus input lag. Without color I slow to a third, limiting what's possible for me. Click my GIF. The talk had me boot Yoshi LDX to play an hour anyway, so I clipped level 26. Maybe you're smarter than me, but I'm not a furious puzzle failure or troll like c3019f. I'm a Euro with decent skills who still processes no colors slower. Everybody probably does. At 26 seconds, 2 Goombas fall. I plan 1 in the lowest column for a short stack, and the other in the 3rd lowest, for match potential with 3, not 2, top characters. As a plant spawns, I change my plan. I swap the lowest and 2nd lowest columns to keep the plant line open. I wouldn't react in time without color. And colors are cooler. I'd rather see colors than none, or better colors than worse colors, but gameplay changes are more objective.

>>1041776 >>1041777 The thumbnail from 1041776 comparing the GBC palette to the LDX patch should loop here. My other GIF from 1041777's too big to animate its thumbnail.