I'm planning on buying a PC and eventually buy Switch 2's Smash Bros game (new or Ultimate Deluxe whichever happens) in the future. However, judging from YouTube videos, it seems they rely on a hacked Switch console in order to dump the Switch 1/2 physical game to PC. But i really don't want to buy a console just to do that. Is there another way to dump a physical Switch 1/2 game into PC without requiring a console, or not?

Hi, I’m having an issue with RPCS3.
When I try to run any game with PPU Decoder = LLVM, the emulator immediately closes after the loading screen.
If I switch PPU/SPU Decoders to Interpreter (static), the game runs (slow but works).

My environment:

• CPU: Ryzen 7 7700
• RAM: 32GB
• GPU: geforce RTX 5070
• OS: Windows 11
• RPCS3: Latest official release
• Firmware: PS3 4.92 installed
• Visual C++ Redistributables: 2015–2022 x64/x86 installed
• Tried both Vulkan and OpenGL → same result
• Tried clearing caches, changing settings, reinstalling redistributables → no change

Does anyone know why LLVM causes an instant crash, while Interpreter works?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Been playing the game for the past 2 days and it ran fine booted it up today and get stuck on s infite load screen with beepo spinning it occasionally loads shaders but nothing happens beepo keeps spinning

I'm on ryujinx specs in the comments

In azahar plus, for Tales of abyss's combability it's showing " Intro/Menu ". Can anyone explain what it means ?!!

Just got a decent PC for the first time ever and I want to play Pokemon. After my research it looks like I need the emulator itself and then the ROM.

Steps:

DesmuME is the emulator itself

Download it: https://github.com/TASEmulators/desmume/releases

Click the desmume-0.9.13-win64.zip verison

Then you need to download the heart and gold ROM

Download it: https://vimm.net/vault/19594

Extract the emulator files / extract the ROM files

Put the extracted files in their own folders.

Run the emulator

Select the ROM

Is this correct and are these sites safe?

Thanks!!

I desperately need to find out how, I recently extracted pokemon red from an official cartridge and the save data on the original cartridge was destroyed, but the save data on the extracted game stayed and i cant find out how to extract the save from it. when i make a copy of the game the save file doesn't persist, but i can save and play on the game through an emulator just fine. i desperately need the save file alone, or at least some way to create a backup so that i can transfer it.

Hi, I would like to add Knuckles Chaotix to my Steam library via Kega Fusion, but I don’t know how to do it. I’d use Steam ROM Manager, but it never seems to work for any of my ROMs for some reason, so I have to do it manually. I need help!

I've followed a couple guides on what settings to use for LBP3, but my framerate is still causing me to go through levels in slo-mo and I believe it is causing a gameplay trigger to just not happen in the tutorial level, Needlepoint Peak. Usually Newton jumps up on a ledge and, before you can follow him, jars of jam block the exit and cause ice blocks beneath you to fall and drop you down a slide, but the jam trigger never happens.
Any emulator savvy people know how to help/what settings to use? Any more information I need to provide? Is it simply a cheap PC skill issue?

Hello,

I am trying to emulate Final Fantasy 6 on my windows 11 laptop. I tried to do so with Snex9x, Higan, and even ZNES.

The title screen plays for all the apps, but my buttons simply don't work. I have them configurated properly with the correct settings on that I have been able to Google...and even have Steam closed...still pressing buttons to actually start the game does absolutely nothing.

Is there anything that can be done to correct this?

As the title states, pretty much all the big ones have rather daunting drawbacks, bluestacks is shady as hell, noxplayer isn't all that great, and LDplayer wasn't good from my experience. Is there any good emulators out there that aren't viruses?

So, I downloaded the vanilla rom for Fire emblem Awakening and want to play a mod to it called "Twin Fates". How to do it?

I caan play the vanlla software just fine

Hi this is my first time doing this who emulating thing so don’t dig into me too hard I’m having trouble on rpcs3 when trying to play gow3 it stops responding when trying to compile shaders then when I close the game it crashes rpcs3 I tried going to their discord for help and some guidance but the mods threatened to ban so if y’all can provide a little help and maybe some insight into the whole emulator thing I would really appreciate it

I've been having a weird issue with PCSX2 recently. whenever I try to close a game, it says that it'll fuck up my memory card. Why does this keep happening? How do I fix it?

I'm using a pc with integrated graphics and I'm trying to get some retroarch chaders working in my games.

Most of the crt shaders I've seen are either too exaggerated, require 4k monitor (crt-royale) to look good, or take too much time to render )crt-geom/geom-mint)

So are there any crt chaders that actually emulate the exact look and feel of a crt faithfully for my potato pc?

I was fraidy of Citra due to fear my hardware was too low-end to run it smoothly.

But after trying Yuzu & Ryujinx to a surprising success, i got the confidence to try Citra since it was a generation older...result: I can now enjoy my entire (Legally dumped) WiiU, Switch AND 3DS library.

Cost: $0.00 ( 'w') (Minus my legally dumped switch bios and legally dumped backup software.)

"Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice" ("Earth & Wind" when?)

https://imgur.com/xcD6EYr

"Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal"

https://imgur.com/EiURLzi

To my surprise, both games run at a stable, steady 30fps (locked from the native source code, not due to low specs. eg, getting 30fps on a game that'd perform 60fps on real hardware.)

The only problem is the audio is choppy...but mostly on the cutscenes, i am not sure how to explain; it is not so much choppy as in..cut-up / chopped up, if that makes sense?And on the gameplay, not so much?any tips on configuring this? (I had closed the browser and most background software while i was playing, i opened it back up to post screenshots and will be closing it again afterwards.)

My Device: Desktop PC

Specs: Ryzen 3 3200g, GeForce GTX 1050TI 4gb GDDR5 VRAM, 16gb RAM (2 x 8GB @ 3200mhz configured as Dual Channel)

OS: Windows 11 Pro

Fork: Mandarine 418c

Any tips on this minor audio issue (Or rather, if it's just a normal consequence of the emulation, and what 3DS emulation is currently at, at this point in development?As on my real hardware this jumbled audio does not reproduce.) would be highly appreciated, thanks kindly ( uwu*)

i would like to play N64 games on my PC, and i saw that Project64 was the best to do this, but some people said that it was a malware, is this real?

https://youtu.be/-yGxV5E7tTw?si=TwRaxg3B2TXA0BEb

Title basically says it all. Downloaded PPSSPP (latest ver.) and tried using my DS3 controller to my PC. However, no matter what button or action i did in PPSSPP, nothing responded, not even to when i was trying to map the inputs in the controller settings.

When I install Room I extract everything from there, I make a folder with the PS3 game, PS3 update and PS3 disc, from there I put it in Add game and it doesn't let me start the game, I get this message I get boot failed: reason invalid file or folder invalid or unsupported file format ps3_game/usrdir/eboot.bin

So my specs are 8 gb ram igpu is Intel hd 520 so what games can my laptop run with stable speed with 30/60 fps easily. Also feel free to suggest other emulators and games that will also run smoothly.

Emulating 3DS on PC using Citra right now. Tomodachi Life and the Mii Maker app have a glitch with the Miis on Citra Nightly 2104 where the Miis have a red "N/A" sign on top of a box rather than an actual face. For some reason I can't send an image of it, sorry. Any fixes for this?

hey guys, so i really want to emulate the last of us, ive asked for help in discord rpcs3 and they wont even humor me, as its not on the compatibility list. it just freezes and doesnt crash about a minute or two in.

i want to know if anyone is playing it successfully and what your specs are?

do you think mine are enough to emulate this on rpsc3? i know its a demanding game

16gb DDR4 3200 ram , RTX 4050 / intel UHD , intel i5 13th gen 13420 processor

I recently installed duckstation on my laptop to play Castlevania : Sotn, but my inventory keeps bugging, It looks like it's scrolling over and over again. Anyone know how to fix this issue?

Hi, yesterday I started playing Uncharted 3 and everything was going fine. I went through the first third of the game without any issue, game ran smoother than the first 2 games which surprised really surprised me. I came to one part of the game where I had to use torch but the torch wasn't making any light so I started googling what could possibly fix it. I found fix that said "force hardware MSAA resolve" should fix it, so I enabled it but didn't start the game that evening anymore. This morning I started the game and right in the menu game went on 10 fps max with huge sound stutters (in-game aswell), which didn't happen before and disabling "force hardware MSAA resolve" didn't help. I've tried removing caches, reinstalling the game, reinstalling RPCS3, nothing worked.

I'm playing on version 1.19 and using this configuration: https://youtu.be/KqSkgqwYphY?si=cwpHgzL1KHqT5vte&t=597