Homebrew Question Are there any good PS1 emulators for switch?

[britain4]

Don't get all the weird nonsense about running a different OS on it i've got to say, especially if it's just for emulation, seems like more time spent obsessing over it and less time enjoying playing it

By that logic all homebrew would be out too as a Switch isn't meant to play PSX games either. They do run absolutely fine in Retroarch with a CPU overclock though so problem solved

 

[WG481]

"+bios"
Explain pls

Importing the BIOS into the emulator files makes it a little better.

 

[zerofalcon]

That individual saying that using other OS's as switchroot android or lakka is "cheating" or a "cheap tablet" just exposed a narrowed and brainwashed mind. By that silly logic then emulation is cheating because you are not using the original system anymore. Whatever, is a fact that people that stays limited to gaming, tends to be the same individuals not having fun anymore with videogames.

Beetle psx with full CPU overclock (more than 2091 mhz -not recommended-) works perfect and offers the best/accurate psx emulation on Horizon.
For Lakka or android nothing beats swanstation (formerly duckstation).

 

[Therises]

Then play switch games if you want your switch to be switch.

Yes if you suck it up and use retroarch 🤷‍♂️

I'm playing switch games on my switch, but sometimes I want to remember childhood and play PS1 games without hassle and 1.5+ GB overhead =_=

this logic will always be asinine. no matter what the OS is the switch will always be a switch. this weird cringe fanboyish shit is what causes console wars

Aha, so if I flash it with, let's say, android, am I still be able to play switch games on it without rebooting?

Three replies and zero answers, It's almost like you didn't read my question whole... You guys efficient, eh?

 

[hippy dave]

I'm playing switch games on my switch, but sometimes I want to remember childhood and play PS1 games without hassle and 1.5+ GB overhead =_=

Aha, so if I flash it with, let's say, android, am I still be able to play switch games on it without rebooting?

Three replies and zero answers, It's almost like you didn't read my question whole... You guys efficient, eh?

Congrats, the actual answers to your question weren't what your wanted to hear, so have fun not playing PS1 games and having a shitty attitude.

PS: Retroarch is modular af so you can just remove all cores etc that you don't want to use.

 

[deathblade200]

Aha, so if I flash it with, let's say, android, am I still be able to play switch games on it without rebooting?

who cares? I want to play games not worry about some weird obsession with HOS. its as simple as reboot to hekate boot lakka reboot to hekate from there then boot atmosphere

 

[bad361]

who cares? I want to play games not worry about some weird obsession with HOS. its as simple as reboot to hekate boot lakka reboot to hekate from there then boot atmosphere

you can boot straight to lakka/android from hos using something like fastcfwswitch overlay, saves a couple seconds of navigating through hekate, but still very handy

I'm playing switch games on my switch, but sometimes I want to remember childhood and play PS1 games without hassle and 1.5+ GB overhead =_=

Aha, so if I flash it with, let's say, android, am I still be able to play switch games on it without rebooting?

Three replies and zero answers, It's almost like you didn't read my question whole... You guys efficient, eh?

You scared of rebooting, lol? It takes 10 seconds and its seamless, which means you don't need any dongles, pc access or anything. Takes slightly more time than opening homebrew menu with title redirection. Regarding your original question, at this point of time, there's only RetroArch ReArmed core for psx needs. It handles 99% of the psx library easily with slight overclocking. Yes, its inferior to swan/duckstation cause of lack of resolution scaling and geometry correction settings, but it has great compatibility and overall performance. If you don't want to waste your precious 1 gb, just delete the cores you don't use. . Also, duckstation might be ported to hos soon... But i don't care that much, cause i only use lakka for emulation, glad im an erista owner.

And you could be way more efficient by using search and doing a small research yourself before asking questions that were answered millions times before...

 

[Andorin]

you can boot straight to lakka/android from hos using something like fastcfwswitch overlay, saves a couple seconds of navigating through hekate, but still very handy

You scared of rebooting, lol? It takes 10 seconds and its seamless, which means you don't need any dongles, pc access or anything. Takes slightly more time than opening homebrew menu with title redirection. Regarding your original question, at this point of time, there's only RetroArch ReArmed core for psx needs. It handles 99% of the psx library easily with slight overclocking. Yes, its inferior to swan/duckstation cause of lack of resolution scaling and geometry correction settings, but it has great compatibility and overall performance. If you don't want to waste your precious 1 gb, just delete the cores you don't use. . Also, duckstation might be ported to hos soon... But i don't care that much, cause i only use lakka for emulation, glad im an erista owner.

And you could be way more efficient by using search and doing a small research yourself before asking questions that were answered millions times before...

Hi mate,
Where have you seen that Duckstation might be ported to HOS soon ?
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What emulation platforms do you play through Lakka ?
Thanks.

 

[deathblade200]

Hi mate,
Where have you seen that Duckstation might be ported to HOS soon ?
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What emulation platforms do you play through Lakka ?
Thanks.

Duckstation is dead (or atleast done with the retroarch devs) so I wouldn't count on it. even if it or Swanstation got ported to HOS they would run horribly without vulkan support. thats why only the lowest accuracy emulator is used instead.

 

[bad361]

Hi mate,
Where have you seen that Duckstation might be ported to HOS soon ?
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What emulation platforms do you play through Lakka ?
Thanks.

I mostly play dremcast/psp/psx/some gamecube games.. Less often genesis/snes/arcades

 

[DominoBright]

From what I understand, a major overclock is needed for Beetle PSX, the absolute best way to play on the Switch, and to be honest I'd rather not go any farther than... 1785 is it? So my options are Rearmed or SwanStation in Lakka, or the outdated-but-still-probably-good Android build of DuckStation.

Isn't Swan stuck as far as progress goes though, or does it get updates from Duck? And is it still better than ReARMed? I'm not that concerned with upscaling and such, but if it still plays stuff better then I'm willing to consider it.

 

[bad361]

From what I understand, a major overclock is needed for Beetle PSX, the absolute best way to play on the Switch, and to be honest I'd rather not go any farther than... 1785 is it? So my options are Rearmed or SwanStation in Lakka, or the outdated-but-still-probably-good Android build of DuckStation.

Isn't Swan stuck as far as progress goes though, or does it get updates from Duck? And is it still better than ReARMed? I'm not that concerned with upscaling and such, but if it still plays stuff better then I'm willing to consider it.

Swanstation in lakka (or duckstation in android) is absolutely the best way to play psx currently. But you might also just wait for duckstation port that is in the works rn for HOS if you don't want to use another os (or simply can't).

And what "progress" in swan are you looking for?I haven't experienced a single problem, It's been great and it handled whatever rom i threw in absolutely fine. When duckstation core was around, i used both here and there and never noticed any difference.

 

[DominoBright]

what "progress" in swan are you looking for?

I meant whether or not Swan implements any updates made to Duck. I'm guessing not, but I've been surprised before. In any case, since Swan really is that good, I'll go with that.

And to be honest, I don't exactly have high hopes for the standalone, given that it likely won't use Vulkan. But again, been surprised before.

 

[deathblade200]

From what I understand, a major overclock is needed for Beetle PSX, the absolute best way to play on the Switch, and to be honest I'd rather not go any farther than... 1785 is it? So my options are Rearmed or SwanStation in Lakka, or the outdated-but-still-probably-good Android build of DuckStation.

Isn't Swan stuck as far as progress goes though, or does it get updates from Duck? And is it still better than ReARMed? I'm not that concerned with upscaling and such, but if it still plays stuff better then I'm willing to consider it.

beetle is not the "best" but it is the most demanding due to it preferring accuracy over performance. nobody will see any real world difference between Beetle and Duckstation/Swanstation in Lakka (i havn't updated my Lakka in awhile as I prefer Duckstation over Swanstation so I still have the Duckstation core) other than the fact Beetle is slower/more demanding. its a HUGE waste of time to use any HOS cores for psx because they will not have vulkan support

 

[bad361]

Hey, got alpha ver. of duckstation for switch from discord...for those who are wondering, it looks very promising for those who want a good psx performance in HOS , did a quick test with Tekken 3.

2x res (i see no point in going further on switch), pgxp corrections, dithering on, disabled interlacing, STOCK CLOCKS. Runs fullspeed.

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[deathblade200]

Hey, got alpha ver. of duckstation for switch from discord...for those who are wondering, it looks very promising for those who want a good psx performance in HOS , did a quick test with Tekken 3.

2x res (i see no point in going further on switch), pgxp corrections, dithering on, disabled interlacing, STOCK CLOCKS. Runs fullspeed.

the fact you think 2x res is good enough alone is worrisome

 

[bad361]

the fact you think 2x res is good enough alone is worrisome

lol, what it really worrisome is your desire to correct everyone and state your superior opinion regarding emulation performance

 

[deathblade200]

lol, what it really worrisome is your desire to correct everyone and state your superior opinion regarding emulation performance

thats 480P on a 720P screen thats not good. don't pretend its good while running with such a low resolution even a toaster could handle that

 

[bad361]

thats 480P on a 720P screen thats not good. don't pretend its good while running with such a low resolution even a toaster could handle that

go play on a toaster then, i won't whine about something i didn't even take part in developing..i'm thankful it exists and performs better than rearmed, i see no difference for me to go above 2x in psx in handheld

 

[deathblade200]

go play on a toaster then, i won't whine about something i didn't even take part in developing..i'm thankful it exists and performs better than rearmed

and yet far FAR from the best way to play ps1 on Switch which is kind of the whole point of this thread...not to just suggest a crippled version