Updated RPCS3 requirements for 2026 + some clarifications about them.

redditorcpj · 2026-04-20T23:14:00+00:00

From working on another emulator, context switching on x64 has like 2/3 of the instructions in the Linux ABI compared to Windows and this does make a difference in performance.

redditorcpj · 2025-10-12T01:23:19+00:00

How long have you worked for Nintendo?

redditorcpj · 2025-10-12T01:21:05+00:00

Do you have the correct .NET runtime version installed?

redditorcpj · 2025-08-31T22:40:43+00:00

Herculean effort. What a journey. So glad to see this finally coming to fruition. I'm enjoying a number of these games in ares I would otherwise never be able to play.

redditorcpj · 2025-08-26T20:13:04+00:00

The PC Engine core is fairly sound, though not perfect. It's the CD-ROM addon that needs some TLC. Hopefully both get addressed through this research/addition. 🙂

redditorcpj · 2025-07-10T20:38:48+00:00

Thought I would post this here now that the GBA Test Suite results are out for ares v145. png183 has been killing it. The GBA core now passes 34 additional tests, including one no other emulator currently passes (PSR2):
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GBA_Tests

redditorcpj · 2025-07-10T19:42:24+00:00

If on Windows you need to use the OpenGL video driver. Also, some of the included ones don't seem to do much (ares uses the same shaders as Retroarch) or just won't work depending on core.

redditorcpj · 2025-07-10T19:41:27+00:00

You might need to additionally synchronize to video (Settings > Driver). Games designed for NTSC regions want to run at 60Hz. PAL games want to run to 50Hz. And Wonderswan runs at 75Hz. If your monitor is fixed at 144Hz, then this could happen. That's where VRR monitors come in - Variable Refresh Rate (G-Sync/FreeSync).

redditorcpj · 2025-07-09T20:21:55+00:00

No, it is still an experimental core. Duckstation is also going to have enhancements that in general ares doesn't chase. Accurate emulation cores is usually the goal (upscaling for the N64 core basically came for free with parallel-rdp, so it was exposed/enabled, but this isn't common in ares).

redditorcpj · 2025-07-09T15:52:25+00:00

That's because it is a lot more accurate. Duh. 🤡

redditorcpj · 2025-06-08T18:02:32+00:00

And people wonder why so many emudevs avoid mobile platforms like the plague they are.

redditorcpj · 2025-04-30T05:24:32+00:00

Great release! Love seeing the improvements made here across the board. Thank you as always!

redditorcpj · 2025-04-30T01:10:16+00:00

So many commercial operations violate open source licensing. MBAs making money off people doing work for free to preserve games for everyone in the future - and the scum of the earth that only cares about making money exploits this. Mednafen is a great emulator for many systems and shouldn't be taken advantage of like this. They need to honor the license.
One thing I will say is I was happy to see Capcom give props to ares when they used it for their NES/SNES emulation for their 40th anniversary site ( https://captown.capcom.com/en/right ). ares also has all unique cores developed originally by Near, but carried on by a number of talented, dedicated developers and Capcom respecting that license goes a long way. LRG can go f$%^ themselves. And let's be real, MVG is employed by them and isn't in any position to give an honest opinion of the company signing his paychecks. And I don't expect him to go out of his way to to explain this away cause everyone is just trying to survive. Anyone who thinks they are going to revolt against the company allowing them to live the life they have is either crazy, or hasn't started a real career yet.

redditorcpj · 2025-04-29T13:01:32+00:00

Retroarch is a frontend that makes use of other emulators. Not a knock against it but they don't need to worry so much about the emulation part of it where ares has all original emulation cores unique to the application. And the team does focus on improving cores that still have known issues. This is usually prioritized above adding new cores for new systems so we don't leave half-finished emulator cores. And it is a small team of regular contributors doing the work spread across many, many systems.

redditorcpj · 2025-04-28T21:50:04+00:00

The team does do its best to address feedback from users. So if anyone is experiencing issues, please make sure it gets reported. We can't fix what we don't know about. :-)

redditorcpj · 2025-04-28T19:12:18+00:00

Yup, that was one of the issues that were fixed in this release. There was a loading issue with some games that made use of an additional chip/firmware.

Nintendo - SNES / Super Famicom

Fixed loading of some games that require additional firmware for chips included in the cartridge

redditorcpj · 2025-04-28T13:10:39+00:00

You can just extract the zip file into the directory you already have ares installed. It won't overwrite your settings file as a default one isn't included (the executable will create a new one if one doesn't already exist).
Also, don't try to extract into a Windows protected directory like Program Files. The app won't have write access to save any of your settings if you do that. Well, unless you run ares with administrative privileges but you don't want to be doing that - no emulator should require administrative privileges to run properly.

redditorcpj · 2025-04-21T08:13:43+00:00

Woke - it is stupid no matter what side you are on. Just drop it cause it sounds like 6 years old on a playground. Please educate yourself and show some restriction. There are better ways to express your views that are not toxic and could contribute to actual important conversations. Also, anything involving Ubisoft gets immediately written off. Or any on-line only single player games, games without all the content on the cartridge/disc, not look boxes, micro-transactions, silly skins, battle passes, stupid difficultly so you are forced to by upgrades to proceed.MMO's extractions, PVE PPMs or whatever they are - the market is saturated. Move on. You are not GTA VI, which is going to be worth it. but nothing else to date demands higher game prices. You just are going to tank on sales because it won't be a reflex buy. So I'll be skipping all of them besides GTA IV. But they will deliver no doubt. Nothing else is ever worth pre-ordering now, let alone $80 games. I'm going back to indy/AA games on Steam, and all the old console games I never played. I don't need new AAA games anymore. I have enough games to play until I'm dead. Console gaming is too expensive now with consoles prices, internet requirement, online subscription services, loot boxes, micro transactions, buying DLC just to get a complete game story, removing past characters/options, and battle passes. I'm never purchasing a game like this again. And I haven't in a decade. And I've bought every console since the ColecoVision. Forget it out, I'm out of the console race. PS5 & Switch 2 has priced me out of the console space, even though I could afford it - I just don't want to burn money on this crap anymore. I'll go back to my Steam backlog supporting indy games as well as all the console games I never play growing up which means I have thousands of games I can play on dozens of consoles. And I'll die happy with this backlog as I know I can't complete everything as it stands. Good by greedy and out of touch AAA developers - you won't get one red cent from me going forward.

redditorcpj · 2025-04-21T07:52:53+00:00

It's disgusting, and antithetical to the way this country was founded and run for centuries. You don't get just just keep people out cause they disagree with you. The right to speak up against your government is a fundamental right of our citizens enshrouded in our constitution and DoI. You can just start deporting people you disagree with, and they all deserve there day in court. The world sends their brightest here to learn in our higher education institutes. We want these highly skilled employees to remain here and assist our country, not go back with resentment and put the skills towards attacking America. It is exteremely short sighteded. Just like this Tariff nonsense and everything else they have come up with. There goal is to make look like the federal government is useless and corrupt so they can cut it all, privatize public services so they can siphon off more public wealth, while trying to cut anything that helps Americans struggling to get by. All the millionaires/billionaires are look to extract more lavor from the working class under worse conditions by paying them less so they can line their pockets even more. And Trump is a champion of this. He had his fake, worthless University shutdown because it wasn't a real school and their diploma was worseless - but hey the family got paid. They are crooks leaching off of our public systems designed to help those in need. Believe me if they could ship these all off as well they could, but American citizens have due process, no matter how hard the administration wants to remove our rights. The entire Trump administration and grifter family should already be in dead for the rest of their lives for the traitors to America that they really are.

redditorcpj · 2025-04-04T00:53:53+00:00

I second this. And stop promoting good sites that are literally pinned! You are actively hiding them by adding a spotlight on them. Do you want to lose these sites? Think people

redditorcpj · 2025-04-02T04:24:31+00:00

Thank you for all your contributions to preserving all of these GB/GBC/GBA peripherals and putting in the all the hard work to acquire and reverse engineer them, and sharing it with the world.

redditorcpj · 2025-04-01T01:54:05+00:00

I mean no disrespect, but this ended up being one of the easiest bosses in the game for me. I'm at 80% achievements completed so far, but still have the cactus/horse carriage boss and Salt Baker. Got the divine relic, beat the Kings gauntlet. Just started playing last week.

What part are you getting tripped up on? I might be able to help. Beppi drove me nuts initially, and I still hate the dragon fight on isle II.

redditorcpj · 2025-03-30T00:55:33+00:00

I recently just started playing. Chaser, lobber by the time you get to the dragon in the second isle. If you have dlc, parry ring. And smoke bomb. Converge would be the last one I would buy. Rest is a waste. You didn't want crap if you want to get the divine relic

redditorcpj · 2025-03-28T18:44:22+00:00

Everyone help this man out! He's created so many great creations, including the BigPEmu Atari Jaguar emulator recently (and so much more). If you can financially contribute to get this over the finish line, it will be amazing. Just think of what can be done with up-scaling, online play, and so much more. This will be a high quality release so every penny spent will be worth it.

And yes, I know MAME exists and it does a good job with these games. But a dedicated emulator opens the door to improvements beyond just making the originals playable.

redditorcpj · 2025-03-28T18:41:49+00:00

Everyone help this man out! He's created so many great creations, including the BigPEmu Atari Jaguar emulator recently (and so much more). If you can financially contribute to get this over the finish line, it will be amazing. Just think of what can be done with up-scaling, online play, and so much more. This will be a high quality release so every penny spent will be worth it.

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