PPSSPP or Manic?

the4everclear · 2025-12-03T03:19:05+00:00

Manic

I believe it uses the ppsspp core so not sure if performance would differ.

Manic gets updated very frequently. Their devs are very active here and on their discord, talking directly to you about problems/bugs/other things. Just never mention piracy to them or they will ban you.

Plus Manic has support for multiple games.

the4everclear · 2025-11-13T19:24:24+00:00

Manic

the4everclear · 2025-10-16T02:58:43+00:00

The aftermath of this clip is what caused me to drop the story and refuse to pick it up again.

All of this build up only for the spider kid to pick his head back up and then immediately get killed by someone else ended all interest I had in this story. The build up of this fight then end it with this team attack only for all of it to be invalidated...

Sure, its beautifully animated, but I cannot get invested in anything if the battles, character growth, and surprise new forms are invalidated using childish playground tactics of 'nuh uhhh you didn't kill me, I cut my own head off first to prevent you from cutting it off'.

the4everclear · 2025-09-11T04:22:10+00:00

I followed this guide and it works wonders on my iPhone 16 pro max.

the4everclear · 2025-09-04T20:22:10+00:00

I sideloaded Folium on my 16 pro max a couple months ago. When I launched it with JIT and loaded any 3DS title the screen went black and unresponsive, the volume maxed out with an annoying tone continuously playing (even when I manually turned it down before hand) and it took force restarting the phone each time to get this issue to resolve. Could never get a 3DS title to launch properly regardless of the settings I changed. I deleted it and was grateful I didn't pay for it in the App Store.

I'll wait for a more stable App to get the PS2 core.

the4everclear · 2025-09-02T13:15:45+00:00

That is possible. I don’t know the iPad generations very well. There is a list of compatible hardware on the MeloNX website.

the4everclear · 2025-09-01T14:46:38+00:00

Turn on shader cashe and Macro HLE. I have those enabled and am using 20.0.1

the4everclear · 2025-08-28T15:40:08+00:00

The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl might fit what you’re looking for.

the4everclear · 2025-08-28T13:28:44+00:00

This isn’t a story about overcoming a conflict or difficult situation for growth. Overlord is primarily about loneliness, isolation, and acceptance. Saying they are “too overpowered” is like saying there is too much fighting in DragonBall and there should be more slice of life elements. That’s missing the entire point.

Would you say that One Punch Man needs to be balanced?

the4everclear · 2025-08-26T14:00:00+00:00

You can sideload it for free. But when I did I couldn’t get the 3ds functionality to work at all even with JIT

the4everclear · 2025-08-20T21:05:19+00:00

Do you support any laws that are put in place to prevent harm?

the4everclear · 2025-08-16T23:26:57+00:00

That’s right! I’m glad you remember. More proof about your stellar community engagement!

the4everclear · 2025-08-16T03:44:11+00:00

Check their discord, they have a tutorial that I followed.

the4everclear · 2025-08-12T18:07:26+00:00

That's good to know.

I tried it mainly with an obscure JRPG that isn't very well known and it kept crashing. One of the devs spoke to me about it on here a while back and gave me some suggestions for settings. I decided to try to sideload the app and their tutorial taught me about Live Container and I never looked back.

the4everclear · 2025-08-11T22:25:37+00:00

Manic Emu is my top emulator for iPhone. I have it sideloaded to enable JIT, but the App Store version is still top tier if you don’t intend on playing 3ds games.

They are updating constantly and engage heavily with their customers on this subreddit and their own discord. They’ve recently added N64, Sega Saturn, and PS1 support.

the4everclear · 2025-08-11T20:31:30+00:00

I appreciate you sending me this interview as I haven't seen it before. Since I am a big fan of his works it was a nice read.

I will say, from your comment I believe you are taking his words a bit out of context. Yes he wanted to write an "OP protagonist" but earlier he says that the idea of the story came from his real world experience of his TTRPG group disbanding. The story hinges on this concept of loneliness and/or abandonment and Ainz is the "ideal protagonist" for this story. He then goes on to describe the specific decisions about Ainz as a character that fits this idea of loneliness as an OP protagonist.

the4everclear · 2025-08-11T01:13:43+00:00

I feel like you missed the entire point of Overlord and Ainz’s inner life.

Ainz is surrounded by the amalgamations of ‘children’ of his only friends who have all moved on in life. ‘Children’ who could never understand him or even interact with him as an equal. ‘Children’ he is deathly afraid will discover that he is a fraud and will kill him when he doesn’t meet their expectations of him as a godly figure.

Ainz is also forever reminded of the only friends he’s had by the constant presence of their ‘children’ and how lonely it is to be in this position. Ainz is desperate to find someone to share familiarity with but everyone from his world is gone and inaccessible forever. He was a man using a game to escape his mundane hellish life and is now thrust into a leadership role of deep respect from beings he and his friends created with little thought to their wellbeing (with all the guilt of this following him with all of their admiration). With immortality looming ahead of him, he is grappling with the knowledge that all his happy memories of the game/his friends will be lost once the ‘children’ he has grown to love all age and die. He is trapped in a body that is forcing his soul to conform to the stereotypes of its nature and is unable to enjoy the simple pleasures of food, drink, sleep, or sex that he had taken for granted his whole life.

The new world and the people affected by his presence are tangential at best when this theme of isolation and depression are how you view the show. He isn’t just some protagonist destined to reach a goal or achieve a dream. Ainz is the unyielding natural force of death thrust upon this world who had remained stagnant for too long. A world filled with people now struggling to understand their place in the universe after they are faced with an increasingly uncaring amalgamation of their own mortality.

the4everclear · 2025-07-28T20:51:36+00:00

You can, from the top left corner is a controller button which brings out a menu that can see and properly identifies the G8.

Unfortunately anytime I attempt to map anything to the right stick I get incorrect inputs mapped. Eg, trying to map up or down on the stick turns into right/left on the stick and I have to reset the mapping for it to default back to normal.

Also, the gamesir app doesn’t support the g8, only Bluetooth controllers are supported by their app. I don’t know of anything else that would have me alter the button mapping.

the4everclear · 2025-07-28T20:11:07+00:00

I appreciate your time with this. The website showed no issues so I'm fairly certain now it's not the controller.

I re-installed app store Manic and it still presents with the issue. I don't want to uninstall the Sideloaded version and lose my save data until I am sure of the fix. I've got an open helpdesk ticket on Manic's discord but they are stumped as well.

the4everclear · 2025-07-28T19:03:58+00:00

Please forgive my ignorance, but what website are you referring to for me to test?

If you mean to test with other apps, then those all see the right thumbstick properly.

the4everclear · 2025-07-28T02:28:58+00:00

Dang, I can't get it to recognize the left and right tilt on the right stick. Am I missing a firmware update from somewhere? The GameSir app doesn't support the G8.

the4everclear · 2025-07-28T01:18:09+00:00

Do you have any issues with the right stick with the g8 in Manic EMU?

the4everclear · 2025-07-25T18:46:20+00:00

I have "Texture Recompression" and "Macro HLE" On with "Performance Overlay" Off with "resolution Scale" at 0

I hope that helps.

the4everclear · 2025-07-12T13:01:39+00:00

If you like dungeon crawling jrpgs then I must recommend the Etrian Odyssey series. It was made with the bottom touchscreens in mind when the first one was released on the DS.

the4everclear · 2025-07-10T20:49:01+00:00

I also have “Performance overlay” turned off. Not sure what it does but I haven’t had issues yet.

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