Homebrew Discussion Switch overclocking released (improved N64 & PSX emu)

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Notimp I don't really hear any audio problems in your video, I didn't put on headphones, just stereo speaker
I proof watched and recorded them with headphones as well, there should be some crackle in the 540p and 720p versions of the video. First one at the title screen, when pressing start, then right in the Cathedral of Time in the beginning, changing direction while the place is still loading. Then in the market square before leaving Hyrule Castle - and finally in the "outro" sequence looking down on Kakariko Village. (Wide vista, some animations going and NPCs pathing along. Afair only in 720p.)

In 360p there are none, afair.

Edit: just rewatched 720p. There isn't so much an audio crackle in the "outro" part (there was with driver audio only set to switch), but there is minor infrequent crackle transitioning the mountain area, at several points. Lower 16:9 resolution versions dont have this issue.
 
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hi can anyone help me out please, i go on the nsp it says can't find core directory or something an same with cfg? when i look for the retroarch folder through retroarch folder its not there ?

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Is there anything special I need to do to run Chrono Cross? It's definitely not fullspeed and I'm getting graphical issues. If someone could upload their configs for PSX that would be great
 

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Use a bios. Name it the way its supposed to for pcsxrearmed (use google). Place it in the appropriate folder (look into the directory setting in retroarch). Activate threaded video in video settings. Set Overclock (OC) to 1.2 Ghz. Potentially activate audio_thread in driver settings/audio. Potentially deactivate vsync in video settings. Make sure driver video is set to gl. Restart Retroarch.

What grafical issues?

Also - no config for you. ;) That worked so wonderfully in the past - where people all of a sudden tried to ask several times, what they should set - once Retroarch started to be delivered with default configs. We'll not bootstrap a "configs maintained for different systems - most easily" scene here. Instead, how about you learning, what the settings actually do. ;)

Also - two service requests in a row - and we are halting at at least 38 times mentioning PSX settings - as individual service requests - although they are listed in the wiki. Again - the predicition is, that we will have "answered" this question 100 times in this and one other thread alone - before the switch is end of life.

A forum still is not reddit, or facebook (the instagram company), or your company helpdesk line. You dont say "can someone do me easily". You read, provide, contribute - maybe then ask a question. At least in theory.
 
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This is so cool orcarina of time is getting a playthough again i am so loving this. There is a little cracking in the sound but it is nothing. Did i say it is so cool thx to all the devs there has been working on this. Hoping for Dolphine support one Day Then the switch will be the Ultimate machine
 
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Use a bios. Name it the way its supposed to for pcsxrearmed (use google). Place it in the appropriate folder (look into the directory setting in retroarch). Activate threaded video in video settings. Set Overclock (OC) to 1.2 Ghz. Potentially activate audio_thread in driver settings/audio. Potentially deactivate vsync in video settings. Make sure driver video is set to gl. Restart Retroarch.

What grafical issues?

Also - no config for you. ;) That worked so wonderfully in the past - where people all of a sudden tried to ask several times, what they should set - once Retroarch started to be delivered with default configs. We'll not bootstrap a "configs maintained for different systems - most easily" scene here. Instead, how about you learning, what the settings actually do. ;)

Also - two service requests in a row - and we are halting at at least 38 times mentioning PSX settings - as individual service requests - although they are listed in the wiki. Again - the predicition is, that we will have "answered" this question 100 times in this and one other thread alone - before the switch is end of life.

A forum still is not reddit, or facebook (the instagram company), or your company helpdesk line. You dont say "can someone do me easily". You read, provide, contribute - maybe then ask a question. At least in theory.
Hey bud I asked for help, not a condescending lecture. If I wanted that I would just call up my parents. Don't like a question? Don't answer it.
 

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Hey bud I asked for help, not a condescending lecture. If I wanted that I would just call up my parents. Don't like a question? Don't answer it.
Wrong attitude. People dont have to like a question to answer it. You cant be into the "you werent friendly enough" mentality this much, to refuse an answer, if it isnt overly polite. Here is why.

Dont ever think, that I am answering a request for you or any person alone. I'm not a personal support agent. When answering a question I do it with the thought in mind, that it might help others reading it, and learning something without insisting on the "personal support experience".

Also - here is why "don't like it - dont answer it" doesnt work.

- If everyone does it, the forum is dead.
- If only people who give worse answers do it, the forum is worse.
- If everyone does it with a smile, people get encouraged to do personal help me postings all the time, and the forum becomes unreadable - and filled with low effort help requests

I dont know where people like you got the "if you dont like it just ignore it" mentality, but its the wrong life lesson to learn from your parents, pal. :)

Get rid of the customer is king mentality - you can pull that off, where you actually spent money to also pay for support as part of a purchase. This is not the place.
 
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Wrong attitude. People dont have to like a question to answer it. You cant be into the "you werent friendly enough" mentality this much, to refuse an answer, if it isnt overly polite. Here is why.

Dont ever think, that I am answering a request for you or any person alone. I'm not a personal support agent. When answering a question I do it with the thought in mind, that it might help others reading it, and learning something without insisting on the "personal support experience".

Also - here is why "don't like it - dont answer it" doesnt work.

- If everyone does it, the forum is dead.
- If only people who give worse answers do it, the forum is worse.
- If everyone does it with a smile, people get encouraged to do personal help me postings all the time, and the forum becomes unreadable - and filled with low effort help requests

I dont know where people like you got the "if you dont like it just ignore it" mentality, but its the wrong life lesson to learn from your parents, pal. :)

Get rid of the customer is king mentality - you can pull that off, where you actually spent money to also pay for support as part of a purchase. This is not the place.
Wow man, you like the taste of salt don’t you

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I dont prefer it, actually - but if you think about it, it has some truth to it. "Customer is king" simply doesnt work in an environment, where you brought nothing, you payed nothing - and all you can usually do (as a needs support requester) is leave a like, that is worth - nothing.

In an exchange based on human decency "thanks, bye" isnt what grants you a friendly help session from a stranger.

This is what makes sense to me. If you sense "low effort - and not even a decent issue description" call it out, but if you can - also answer it. This has the benefit, of showing others, that actually trying to look into a thing might be a good idea - before screen swiping your smartphone - to have someone else do it for you. It also keeps high quality answers visible.

If we do this in the way "personal help requesters" like - thiswhole thing is a 10 msg back and forth, where we ask each other to provide more information, and be very pleasant about it, in the middle of a software release thread. Then the next person comes along and a thought forms in their mind, spelling "I want that!". ;)

3 medi long posts of bickering, and one with a full answer - much better, just economically. ;) And we dont have to have it all the time. As again - I dont prefer holding conversations that way. But I do it sometimes, for a purpose.
 
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Hi. I'd just like to report that the PS1 NTSC versions of Doom, Rayman, and Final Doom are all crashing\freezing at or before their respective title screens. I am using an NSP of the first overclocking enabled nightly. GTA2 and Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown (also PS1 NTSC) work fine, however.
 
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Best way to fry the console : overclock it !

honestly since doing this my switch has gotten so much coooler and more fun. My understanding is this change is well within operable limits. Also I have noticed no significant difference in battery drain. Basically a win win.
 

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Best way to fry the console : overclock it !
Nice for those who have been testing this for weeks
1/ No one's forcing you to overclock.
2/ There are consoles like the ps3 phat 60gb that we fry without overclock ,we're talking about the x360 case?
3/ man, you know you even have the possibility to underclock your switch? And turned it into a fridge? Gba,nes,sms...
4/ Do you only know the tolerance of cpu cortex a57? Its original frequency?...its thermal limits?


:gun::switch:
 
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Chrono Cross at 1.2 OC works pretty much flawlessly with vsync enabled now. I only get a tinsy amount of sound stutter at the beginning camera pan of battles - otherwise its full speed. :)

This includes menus. ;)
 

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Chrono Cross at 1.2 OC works pretty much flawlessly with vsync enabled now. I only get a tinsy amount of sound stutter at the beginning camera pan of battles - otherwise its full speed. :)

This includes menus. ;)

Hello notimp, how did you sleep?
A little politeness doesn't hurt anyone.
I saw that you edited your message, about zelda's audio problems
Just so you know, did you test this?
Just out of curiosity, I'm lazy

Quick menu > audio > dynamic audio rate 0.005 ( set a zero) > audio maximum timing skew 0.005 ( set a zero too)
 
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Nope, didn't test this - also I probably wont run Zelda OOT on the Switch OC longterm, at least not long enough to be really bothered by the remaining small amount of audio crackle.

Those pseudonyms we are writing here under, are there to provide a little interpersonal distance. So we dont have to always operate on real live social interaction standards - we can try out some concepts, overshoot a little (which we always do in a medium where there is only text to work with) and there is still this small barrier of not attacking the other person personally, at least not with ever lasting social ramifications. :)

Its not that I have to be slowly moved to understand the benefits of polite social interaction either - its actually my personal default, because I like to find out what people are about - or what they think. :)

Its just my personal experience, that if you dont put in any guidelines (cant be a whole paragraph of text - has to be maybe a three word phrase :) ), under community standards where everyone is encouraged to access "for free", has pseudonymity - and first and formost wants to be supported, this results in an exploitative default.

I've co-led communities that where destroyed by a popularity swing because of a product managers marketing campaign - where places all of a sudden where swamped with people trying to get others to read them a manual - but only the parts which the currently were concerned with. People turned sour, this never went away - and when the marketing push went - there were maybe a handful of hardcores left, to talk amongst themselves. ;)

I've also seen the opposite thing. Communities with people (not me) actually insisting, that there should be any standard of participation that was somewhere above the ground floor - and they were exiled, with the community remaining a veritable "what I feel is right", and "thank you so much for sharing" lovefest, that produced no extrinsic value from then on out. ;)

I kind of play a role in here, that sometimes can get you consumed - I admit, that I dont necessarily want to play (and certainly not every day), but that I think that is somewhat necessary.

I also acknowledge, that what I want to get out of this forum, and what a typical support requester might want - are diametrically opposed things.

I slept very well last night, thank you for asking, but - interpersonal distance through pseudonyms. :) We don't ask every one of the several thousand participants, how they slept - for a reason. :)

(Probably, because growing up in the facebook default of social interaction on the web, they would self optimize the answer anyways.. ;))
 
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personally i think notimp is very intelligent he is just crazy and negative. That deadly combo when coupled with intelligence. But alas please people let's keep it simple share our findings and settings etc. Refrain from mud slinging.

So like my mk2 has the invisible problem but I can share as long as 32x games are zipped they play fine no need to change the file extension. Hope that helps.

3do is improved but stuff like way of the warrior still has some issues. Anyone any ideas?

I patiently await virtual jag nro. Sega saturn nights still chugs but is better.
 

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