Homebrew Hi-Resolution DS Emulation

Patxinco

Riding a Shooting Star
Member
Joined
Apr 18, 2011
Messages
848
Trophies
1
XP
2,243
Country
Spain
Can someone try Spectrobes (any of them, but Beyond the Portals should be better) and Destiny Links?
I tried to search in this thread, and in youtube, but nothing, Spectrobes should look good and Destiny links, probably awesome...

Thanks!!!
 
D

Deleted User

Guest
Guys, I know I might be being a noob here, but you guys are all talking about your processors. Isn't it the graphics card that matters?
 

daxtsu

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Jun 9, 2007
Messages
5,627
Trophies
2
XP
5,194
Country
Antarctica
Guys, I know I might be being a noob here, but you guys are all talking about your processors. Isn't it the graphics card that matters?

In most emulators, no, not at all (notable exceptions: N64, PS2, PSP, GC/Wii, and several others). The CPU does all of the work emulating the system's hardware (CPU, memory, controller inputs, graphical operations, etc.), only using the GPU to display the final picture to the user. DS emulators use the CPU pretty much exclusively to emulate everything (DeSmuME has an OpenGL option but it's often slower and buggier than the software rendererer). The "exceptional" systems I listed tend to have hardware similar enough to PCs to a point where you can make use of a PC's GPU to render the geometry/triangles required.
 

Duo8

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Jul 16, 2013
Messages
3,613
Trophies
2
XP
3,032
Country
Vietnam
Guys, I know I might be being a noob here, but you guys are all talking about your processors. Isn't it the graphics card that matters?
In addition to the answer above, the DS has very unique graphics hardware, making it difficult to translate to typical PC GPU.

The hi res emu does have an ogl renderer though.
 
D

Deleted User

Guest
In most emulators, no, not at all (notable exceptions: N64, PS2, PSP, GC/Wii, and several others). The CPU does all of the work emulating the system's hardware (CPU, memory, controller inputs, graphical operations, etc.), only using the GPU to display the final picture to the user. DS emulators use the CPU pretty much exclusively to emulate everything (DeSmuME has an OpenGL option but it's often slower and buggier than the software rendererer). The "exceptional" systems I listed tend to have hardware similar enough to PCs to a point where you can make use of a PC's GPU to render the geometry/triangles required.
In addition to the answer above, the DS has very unique graphics hardware, making it difficult to translate to typical PC GPU.

The hi res emu does have an ogl renderer though.
Oops! Yeah, I guess.
 

Mills32

Member
Newcomer
Joined
Oct 6, 2014
Messages
6
Trophies
0
Age
34
XP
54
Country
In most emulators, no, not at all (notable exceptions: N64, PS2, PSP, GC/Wii, and several others). The CPU does all of the work emulating the system's hardware (CPU, memory, controller inputs, graphical operations, etc.), only using the GPU to display the final picture to the user. DS emulators use the CPU pretty much exclusively to emulate everything (DeSmuME has an OpenGL option but it's often slower and buggier than the software rendererer). The "exceptional" systems I listed tend to have hardware similar enough to PCs to a point where you can make use of a PC's GPU to render the geometry/triangles required.


A bit off topic:
You just solved my mistery... Desmume is working very slow on my i3 laptop. But PPSSPP (PSP emulator) Works incredibly fast, even faster than a real PSP, with my laptop in power saving mode (900 MHz).
 

Esppiral

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Aug 24, 2014
Messages
352
Trophies
0
Age
41
XP
1,198
Country
Kingdom Hearts looks surreal.

ZCUOIAK.jpg





vVAdCIg.jpg


11Nk6QU.jpg



It just need to filter the textures to look better.
 

Lunos

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Dec 26, 2010
Messages
226
Trophies
1
Age
27
Location
Montevideo
XP
681
Country
Uruguay
Kingdom Hearts looks surreal.

ZCUOIAK.jpg





vVAdCIg.jpg


11Nk6QU.jpg



It just need to filter the textures to look better.


¡WOAH! ¡It looks just pretty much like the KHBBS from PSP! O:

ON:
Does someone tried Naruto Ninja Destiny / Shinobi Retsuden Games?
I would love to see how it looks now <3
 

sagaopc

Well-Known Member
Newcomer
Joined
Sep 13, 2009
Messages
46
Trophies
0
XP
223
Country
Brazil
I was downloaded the last rev and this emulator Works much better! With OGL plugin, i can play almost all games in 4X resolution at the moment!

I'm doing a video to demonstrate how the games are working on this emulator...

I'm only frustrated by Golden Sun Dark Dawn, because in OGL plugin, it have glitches like flashing textures and error positioning elements

I'm not using translator, but I'm in the beginning of english course! sorry!
 

FAST6191

Techromancer
Editorial Team
Joined
Nov 21, 2005
Messages
36,798
Trophies
3
XP
28,348
Country
United Kingdom
4x is unarguably impressive, however I am actually quite impressed at how well things stay recognisable on the standard side of things.
 

LumInvader

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Mar 30, 2013
Messages
702
Trophies
1
XP
1,784
Country
United States
This is precisely how DS games should look with hi-res applied. No texture blurring -- just improved clarity. With hi-res, the pixelized textures give a retro vibe while retaining the original look of the DS.
 

Site & Scene News

Popular threads in this forum

General chit-chat
Help Users
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    Damn that's cheap.
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Slower speeds for gen4
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    I'll reformat and have a 3tb raid0 m. 2 at least
    +1
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Lmao that sold out fast
    +1
  • Veho @ Veho:
    Yeet the cat.
    +1
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Good idea
    +1
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    i thought everybody knew cocktails are like 75% ice
  • Veho @ Veho:
    Yeah but not like this.
  • Veho @ Veho:
    It's not like they're complaining that their Slurpee is 99% ice or something, but if the cocktail calls for "shot of vodka, shot of vermouth, shot of gin, shot of Campari, three shots of juice, squirt of lemon" and ends up being a thimbleful of booze, that's a problem.
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    the funny thing is cocktails in norway are only allowed to have 1 20ml shot of booze
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    so..... yeah
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    we're used to only having a thimbleful of booze
  • Veho @ Veho:
    Booo.
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    same thing if you want whisky on the rocks or something, you can't get a double
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    but you could buy as many shots of whisky (or anything else) as you want and ask for a glass of ice and pour them in
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    it's dumb
  • Veho @ Veho:
    Maybe.
  • Veho @ Veho:
    There was a comparison of the number of Ibuprofen poisonings before and after they limited the maximum dosage per box or per pill (i'll look that up). No limit on the number of boxes you can still buy as many as you want, so people argued it was pointless.
  • Veho @ Veho:
    But the number of (accidental) poisonings dropped because drinking an entire package of ibuprofen pills went from "I need a new liver" to "I need a new box of Ibuprofen".
  • Veho @ Veho:
    Here we have ketoprofen that used to be prescription-only because of the risk of toxic dosages, but then they halved the dose per pill and sell them in bottles of six pills apiece instead of twenty and it doesn't need a prescription any more. Yes you can buy more than one bottle but people simply don't.
    Veho @ Veho: Here we have ketoprofen that used to be prescription-only because of the risk of toxic dosages...