I don't know you but I don't think it's moral selling supplement products even if it's just a sponsorship considering how many of them are scams.

I would like to tall about the emulators made for the PSP. Like genesis emulator, GBA and stuff. i play my psp daily and mostly emulators on it,

Hello MVG I LOVE EMULATORS... For the last 17 years they have been my main gaming experience ... so many titles so many systems... no dlcs no moneygrabs... just eternal fun... But at this point many of them literally require a computer science degree to get stuff running...at least for me... I dont even bother with shaders or upscaling since most of the time stuff just barely runs on my laptop from the get go anyways... This is the very aspect of emulation i would improve if i could... Some emulators do have descriptions for the different options in the settingd but even those require a certain amount of knowledge at this point... You may think after 17 years i would be an expert but the truth is the emulators that run without issue and dont require maintanance are the ones i use most i dont want to waste times in the settings i could be playing... ...i will usually try a few emulators with different options and settings read a few comments watch a few videos and if i still cant get it running it will disappear in some folder until next year... if i really want to play a title badly i will try it with new updates or even a new emulator again with videos and comments... For emulators i want to load a game set a few control settings or controllers and get to play... i really wonder if an emulation specific AI could be used as some kind of a "setup assistent" for emulators to let anyone have the best possible experience on their specific devices... I dont know if you ever bothered to look at this but it would mean alot to me an people like me who only do emulation gaming these days...

Good to see a proper update about performance o the major emulators. Reminded me that Simply Austin's comeback never materialized.

@@flintfrommother3gaming Agree, has been proven that many don't need supplements and are only peeing them out or damaging their bodies. Hopefully MVG could look up more info up about this to form a more properly informed opinion, because many people frown on this. Idk, maybe he already did this and came to this conclusion, but taking money from these kind of sponsors, just makes him sound less reliable, just like many KZfaqrs that take money from gray market game selling sites, coin marketplaces, VPNs etc.

well that sucks

I don't have any android phone atm but it seems suyu will continue where yuzu left off, including android builds from what i read.

Ryujinx

You should make a video about Ryujinx. If you want tho

@@Frostbite1090 rip suyu lol

Yea half the updates for the emulator is removibg/streamlining the decades of jank it accumulated lol

Ever since it was rewritten, it still does not support guitar hero controller mode, unlike the old version

It also has great achievement support.

@@Grishanof At-least the old version's still there for that specific purpose.

@@chemergency true. Still, the new version is much faster on same hardware, GH1 is barely playable in some scenes.

that sounds like it could be a great how to: youtube video that you should make!

For me it's the preservation of games as a medium. There are so many games that get stuck every generation and left behind. These games would be lost to history were it not for emulation. And emulation will be the key factor that helps to fight against games as services, subscription models and removal of ownership in the coming years. Want to play your old classic games? Only if you pay for a subscription that Nintendo lets you pay monthly. OR just emulate it and run it yourself (often better).

It’s not an amazing concept. It’s how a computer works. ALL CPU operations are nothing more emulation/simulation that are translated in huge numbers that are added rapidly. ALL CPU calculations are simply adding numbers really really fast.

@@darinherrick9224 oh yea? Prove it, I don’t believe you. Prove that it’s not amazing. And prove that computers are adding numbers really fast

​@@user-ds8rj2vc4vtechnically paying for the subscription and playing it there is also emulation. I think you mean unofficial emulation over offical emulation.

​@@ryanimateon😂😂😂

And vulkan ❤

And the UI is so much nicer, with no mess of plugins that are all over the place

Although I will say I do miss the shader plugin, wish that the qt build was could run the old shaders

I wich they are still update on windows 7, but since this emulator is open source, it will be still a big plus on this emulator. Same goes on Duckstation. The new UI on PCSX2 used the Duckstation gui, made by stenzek, which is for my eyes great and better than the old UI.

@@ChaoticKrisis I still switch between PCSX2 1.6 for a small handful of games. I can't get Tomb Raider Anniversary or Legends to run right on the 1.7 Night build. Upscale and run it thru 1.6 and it plays fine.

Any future progress on Android?

@@user-vb6ej2rw4x Play!/purei ps2 emulator probably has potential. It's multiplatform with a android port. Updates are slow though

​@@user-vb6ej2rw4x aethersx2 emulator PS2 on android

I started back around 97, too. As a Mac user the library of games was super limited, but all of a sudden I could play the back catalog of NES, SNES, and Genesis and not long after even play Playstation 1 with Connectix Virtual Game Station (with real games only, though, it didn't support ISOs nor do I think I could've downloaded them with dial up).

@@nunyabusiness896 That was what was so great about emulating back then. You could download the whole game in a couple of hours on a 26.4Kbps dial-up connection. It's crazy cause now if I'm not downloading faster than 5MBs I get irritated.

Damn znes been around that long

it had DOS releases lol@@razorbackroar

I never could beat Chrono Trigger in time when I was renting it (the next person would overwrite my saves), but I did manage to beat it via ZSNES on a keyboard 😂

you need a quantum computer for it to run in an acceptable manner, wouldn't bother with it LOL

@@HUYI1 No you don't. I have mid level gaming laptop with an AMD R7 3800H that plays most games I tested at 1080p/1440p with 30 fps or 60 fps depending on the game.

@@HUYI1 No you don't. You just need a decent CPU. I've messed around with swapping my 3090 out for my 1080, and have found very little difference in performance.

​@@bluetooth2677Yea, try running something like MGS 4. I have a 3070ti which should be more than enough but...

@@HUYI1 There are vids. of ETA Prime running Skate at 60 FPS on a 5700G. Yeah no.

being able to play stuff like bust a groove, eternal darkness and jet set radio future is basically why i love emulation so much.

Here's an important one for the Nintendo DS. It's the 1 true sequel to Chibi-Robo for Game Cube. It was only released in Japan, but now there's an english translation version. I can't recommend it enough. ♥ Title: "Okaeri! Chibi-Robo! - Happy Rich Oosouji!" For me, I use DeSmuME for pc, and Drastic for my tablet. 😌👌🏻 Here's another one: "Magician's Quest - Mysterious Times" (Also a DS title) It's literally Animal Crossing, but you're a wizard who goes to a wizard school. Bonus, you can even get married! Last one: "Okamiden" The sequel to Okami. Let me know if you want more recommendations 😁✌🏻

@@leozar69 Question, what's the best emulator for the DS with upscaling? I want to show my friend KH 358/2 days, as the cutscene movies aren't shit compared to playing through the story, but dear lord, in modern times it NEEDS upscaling filters....and XP and item hacks post game because dear lord THE GRIND for levels and extra Thundaga spells post game.

@@empoleonmaster6709 I don't personally know for sure, so i asked ai. Here's what it said: "When it comes to emulators for the ds with upscaling, there are a fw options you can consider. One of the popular choices ia DeSmuME. It allows you to upscale the graphics, providing a better visual experience. Another option is MelonDS, which has a feature called "HQ2x/3x" that enhances the graphivcs as well. Both emulators have their own strengths, so you can try them out and see which one suits your needs best." I tried melonds before, but I always ditch it for DeeSmuME. But it might work for you.

I just want to be able to play Infamous 1 and 2 in high resolution and smooth framerates...

c&d

Yeah thank god for Emudeck. The biggest problem with the Steam Deck is that a lot of simple stuff like installing anything outside of Steam kind of requires basic Linux knowledge and a lot of people like myself didn't use anything other than Windows until they got a Deck.

Being able to install and run just 1 frontend and have all those emulators just ready to go... Magical.

True, experienced this first hand with Wonder

He did literally mention it at 17:00

@@WH1T3_No1SEyup, side by side with Yuzu. Also he mentioned Yuzu ran any game this year from day one, which is not actually true. Mario Wonder had an issue on Yuzu en also Zelda TOTK. Both worked perfectly on Ryujinx on day one.

macos? they should not waste ressources on that, linux is the way to go and maybe windows support.

Not to mention ryujinx supports way more games than yuzu.

Do you use emu deck or any of those emulation launcher script things?

@@alexanderkarren6455 emu deck with a little extra configuring but not much honestly.

Same here, the Deck is a game-changer (heh). When I used EmuDeck, I felt like saying "...that's it? That's the setup for all my emulators? I thought that setting them up would take all night!"

While I agree some emulators could be "fiddly", the convenience is overwhelming because your whole library can just be in a single folder vs. combing through shelves looking for a game and having to wait for it to load, etc. vs. jumping to a save state.

@@MusicFromAnotherTime Yeah, Emudeck was a huge convenience factor for me too. I hope that Emudeck for Windows will be just as significant of a leap too.

you're kapping thinking ryujinx is better

Lmao when I played Bayonetta 1 on ryujinx in some places it run with 1 fps but yuzu got stable 60 fps,also yuzu don't crash as ryujinx!!!

Yuzu has been so much better this year for me. The development flurry after ToTK and Mario Wonder came out were amazing.

@@retrogamer847I have yet to have ryujinx crash in me and I use it a lot

The choice of Yuzu vs Ryujinx usually comes around to what video card you have. Supposedly, Yuzu plays better with AMD drivers while Ryujinx does with Nvidia.

Good idea . I may do this next year

@@ModernVintageGamer will look forward to that one..

Is it not possible to set up the mouse as the touch screen and tilt controls option?!

@@dragonandavatarfan8865 oh no, the mouse works for the touch screen, it's just that you can't do touch more than one place in the screen at once with it, which some games require you to do. as for the tilt controls, i haven't been able to find anything about binding or enabling them in the settings, it's possible that they're currently just not implemented or somewhere obscure like the debugging options.

​@@ZeroWaveZ For tilt controls, wouldn't it be possible to use wiimotes or a smartphone?

@@y0mgi3d not sure about wiimotes, but i can see tilt controls working on the mobile build, and to be fair you'd probably want to emulate the vita on something with a touch screen anyways, i just do it on PC because my phone can't handle vita3k. while not having tilt controls in a game like gravity rush isn't a deal breaker, it definitely could impact compatibility in some other titles. since the emulator is still experimental this is probably something that will get looked into in the future though.

I feel like once again the steam deck may be the only viable option for those enhanced inputs using the two touchpads. Of course that won’t feel 100% 1:1 with vita back touch estate, but it’s the best we got

I do find it kind of sad that people won't play through a game unless it has achievements.

@@voteDC Achievements have encouraged me to play more games than I used to in previous generations. Also gets me to play games I never would have and get more enjoyment out of them. Always 100%d games before achievements, just gives me another reason to play more games than just playing the same 5 games over and over again.

i like retroachivement support cause it challenges me to go beyond just 100% completion

me after just finding out there's RA support, I'm just blasting thru ps2 games rn

@@dude-zr8gi See I don't get why achievements matter. If the game is good then you'd be playing it anyway. It seems more to me that achievements get people to play games they don't enjoy because the value of getting an achievement is the most important thing for them. If seeing that achievement pop up is what gives people happiness, then who am I to want to stop them. I do still find it sad that people won't give older games a chance unless there are achievements.

Good picks

RPCS3 Needs Multiplayer network support for GTA Online

What are you talking about. My 3rd gen Intel runs PCSX2 perfectly fine.

@@GreatKeny with graphics card at 1x resolution, sure.

@@jong2359 What are you talking about? My CPU is an i5 3570. But graphics card I have a 6700XT. I can easily run God of War 2 at 6x resolution (4k) at 60 fps without any issue.

​@@GreatKeny alright, so you have a graphics card that is worth 3x the amount of the computer it is in, sue me. I still said WITH GRAPHICS CARD, which my example excluded.

love those 2 emulators, playing on my steam deck a psp game like resistance : retribution or onimusha on pcsx2 is awesome !!

Or, as I like to call it, PSPSPS 😅

@@Daniel_Richards when you start the emulator your cat will come and lay on your lap

@@nathangraves1069 The funniest thing with some old games is that the PS2 version on an emulator is easier to get running than the native PC version. One such game for me was "Total Overdose". If some old PC games aren't that popular, and someone hasn't made patches for them, then they don't really want to run on my Windows 11 PC.

A fellow pokerom collector 😀

@@MarkColemanRules haha yes indeed. One must simply catch 'em all.

Chad data hoarder

You mean linux iso files. And games you own. ;)

@@veneratedmortal4369 So very many Linux ISOs.

Both are great, some games run better on yuzu some on Ryujinx. Have both installed and use them interchangeably!

​@@fumeiusrDo you know if it's possible to use the same save on both? I always have trouble transferring saves.

@@elimalinsky7069 Right click on the title and open the save directory, then just copy all the contents to the other emulator

@@fumeiusr Thanks.

It also takes way more system resources to use ryujinx where yuzu runs the same games docked at 60 no issues

The video had a little too much fluff.

Thank you legend

Ryujinx is way more accurate and stable, so unless you run on a 2010 intel iGPU, use Ryujinx.

@@elimalinsky7069 Not much for reading comprehension are you? They were specifically saying that a 2010 iGPU wouldn't run ryujinx.

Things haven't changed much. Ryujinx is far and away the most accurate of the two, and scales better with better hardware. Yuzu is really hacky, which is why it tends to have higher performance further down the hardware stack. A lot of issues present in Yuzu are often absent in Ryujinx due to the accuracy difference. I'd say if you have at least a modern, mid-tier PC Ryujinx is the better of the two. But, if you have something closer to entry level, Yuzu is definitely a better option. You have your blow trading between the two. And, Ryujinx just performs better with AMD GPUs; as a whole it seems. So that's another thing to consider.

That and mods and cheats are far easier to use.

​@@AhPookguess i'll use Ryujinx after getting my graphics card

not to mention controller support!

Hmmm interesting, I never thought of doing that but it might be a great way to experience oblivion for the first time. I started a playthrough with the pc version on steam deck and while it's fairly playable the lack of controller support kind of hurts the experience.

@John-PaulHunt-wy7lf Killzone 2 and 3 definitely made my Ryzen 5700X cry.

I want to be clear im not affiliated with Yuzu in anyway . The Android bulld and the overall better performance were my main reasons.

​@@ModernVintageGamerryujinx performs better most of the time though, and games run on it when they leak early even

But if MVG has used Yuzu this year more than ryujinx then that's why it's on this list

fix the problematic CPU usage of Ryujinx plus its bad performance on a lot of AMD machines. also stop LOBBYINNG On MODDERS... yall effers are SHADY

I guess it's because they were the ones who managed to get to comercial games emulation the first.

I played 3 recently on pc native and had no problems Iirc those bugs arent there anymore since the game got rereleased on windows store And about fable 2 its playable with Xenia but the experience isnt great even with a 4090 and 13900ks and all the necessary xenia canary patches

Oh I’m aware of it . I haven’t had the chance to look at it yet

Fax

Yeah I loved to do that in Bigscreen VR

@@RetroSmoo Just now figuring out how to play 3DS games in 3D now. Looks promising.

Flycast also now has NAOMI 2 support and ***rollback netcode netplay.***

you have to put the menu into the harddrive manually because they can't legally distribute it

RPCS3 is much further ahead than both Xenia and Xemu right now. Not sure if you were implying otherwise.

@@Woodzta Honestly, XEMU is ahead of RPCS3, it just has god awful performance in a lot of titles and it's a bit unstable but you can technically play 84% of the entire library. I think it just needs more mature code to bring more stability and performance. Xenia is definitely behind both though, it could use some love from the community.

I agree on the Ryujinx part. The Other part, however, is far from true. Xenia has a LONG was to go compared to RPCS3 (XEMU is getting close though I'll give it that).

@@Manic_PanicNah, even many of the 29% of RPCS3's "ingame" list are playable but have other performance issues. RPCS3 is a far more complete and feature rich emulator at this stage compared to Xemu.

@@Woodzta Wrong, Xenia runs most games with 100% compatibility, and those that run with bugs at least run at 100%. RPCS3 can only run HD re-releases at 100% speed and without issues. Other native PS3 games it will run terribly with some sort of bugs. RPCS3 is highly dependent on whether you have the CPU with AVX512 instructions. Which can give you up to 25% boost in performance. Given that most people nowadays use AMD, most people can't utilize that advantage. Also those games that do run well, still have minor bugs and require significant tinkering in the options. RPCS3 does offer more features, and is much easier to use. I'll give you that. The game installation feature is a life saver.

yabause on retroarch seems to do well for me

mednafen standalone aswell. But coudnt get to work on lower end machines.

citra has surprisingly weak performance for a 3ds emulation and some forks even dramatically outperform it. Though i'm hopeful now that development on it has picked up pace again after a long pause. We'll hopefully see it in a much better place for next years best of list.

Its better to use both Emulators. Sometimes it works on Yuzu better, sometimes it works on Ryujinx better. its a comparison, which emulators works better depending on game.

Another Ryujinx Lier detected .. Yuzu release updates almost everyday to say problems are not being addressed is an Outright LIE

Since the jaguar is not a very good console so there isn't much interest on it's emulation but bigpemu is sure one of the best emus this year

Agreed, no wonder why i got a gtx 1650 laptop to avoid the unoptimized aaa gaming and focusing for easier run games aka emualtion. RPCS3 works on a i5 6500 btw with few exclusive games fine. "means you don't have to give money to Nvidia" lmao, everything thats bad are good ones for my eyes

@@AntiGrieferGames really? recommending an at best, D tier processor? yikes, i'd hate to see how badly that performs. the i5 6500 isn't even listed, the i5 6600k is listed at D tier, seems like especially on a laptop it'd perform even worse :( there's no way you'll get any of the really challenging stuff running on a setup like that, sorry you're stuck with such crappy parts :(

@@anarchicnerd666 Is for benchmark purposes, not for generally usage

I mean Yuzu did that on Android too.

Yep, I just am from an Apple family so I don’t have a PC or Android, so Ryujinx is usable for me and Yuzu is not.

Yes, but there are some games that still don't work well with melonDS and with Desmume they do.

Not to get your hopes up, but Rich Whitehouse; the developer of the surprisingly very good and rapidly progressing Atari Jaguar emulator BigPEmu is considering taking a look into the Saturn.

Mednafen has many front-end UIs you can download to use the emulator with a GUI rather than command-line.

@@crimson-foxtwitch2581 I've found that the available frontends for Mednafen were janky and weren't very user-friendly, but it's been a couple years and I think I only tried like, two? If you got a recommendation, I'd appreciate hearing it as much as the OP would.

@@LonelySpaceDetective Mednaffe is worth a look

@@crimson-foxtwitch2581 Will try to remember it next time I feel like exploring TurboGrafx/PC Engine emulation, or if/when I get into Saturn emulation.

Yuzu on Nintendo switch with android would be wild

cant wait to test it around and watching it progress when my Ayn odin 2 arrives next week

Yuzu is way better.

One issue I have with Retroarch is its clunky method for playlists where you have the choice of having Retroarch search a directory and match known roms in its database or just chuck everything into the playlist without linking ones that would match its database. It would also be nice if one could drag and drop games between playlists along with saving and loading playlists to files as music players do for music so if you accidentally remove a game from a playlist you could just restore a backup. Having sub playlists like virtual machine manages have would be nice so you could have a playlist for a console then within that subplaylists so organize your games within it. Lastly Retroarch does not make it easy to assign mouse as a controller for example using your mouse as a paddle controller like the stand alone Stella emulator allows for, in Retroarch you have to trick retroarch into thinking your mouse is a joystick.

I love using RetroArch on my pc and my phone etc and love to use the CRT shaders and bezels

Whats strato?

@@plazzy9911 Looked it up, mobile Switch emulator that is mostly a fork of Skyline with some code from Ryujinx and yuzu

​@@plazzy9911Its a switch emulator for android, formerly known as Skyline which performs much better than Yuzu android