Do you like your emulators accurate or more focused on gameplay?

[Bagel Le Stinky]

Depends on the system

 

[Flame]

Depends on the system

okay.

PS2 or PS3 on an android phone

 

[SAIYAN48]

Since I can't have both, I'll say accurate. My computer is decent enough to run things at proper speeds.

 

[WiiMiiSwitch]

This question makes no sense

 

[Flame]

This question makes no sense

but does the polls make sense?

 

[WiiMiiSwitch]

but does the polls make sense?

Not really, wouldn't an emulator need to be accurate to have good games.
Friendly advice from the poll lord, Next time elaborate more

 

[Flame]

Not really, wouldn't an emulator need to be accurate to have good games.
Friendly advice from the poll lord, Next time elaborate more

accurate code base and hack job to run a game is not the same thing.

VBA is a very hacky emu which runs games very well to be fair. compared to mGBA which has pretty accurate emu which runs games very well.

 

[AkiraKurusu]

I'd rather not see glitches or bugs or crashes, thanks. I only use emulators that have had several years' worth of effort put into them - VBA, mGBA, Dolphin, DeSmuME, Citra.

 

[Flame]

I'd rather not see glitches or bugs or crashes, thanks. I only use emulators that have had several years' worth of effort put into them - VBA, mGBA, Dolphin, DeSmuME, Citra.

VBA? you mean VBA-M

VBA has a nasty bug. so please dont use that.

 

[AkiraKurusu]

VBA? you mean VBA-M

VBA has a nasty bug. so please dont use that.

Yeah, that's it. VBA-M. Haven't emulated GBA in a while; too busy with uni, XC2, Ghost of Tsushima, Ōkami HD. Got a goddamn multi-choice quiz on Monday, and a draft essay (that I've written the Intro for) on the Monday after that.

 

[SG854]

Accurate

That's why I went FPGA.

 

[Vila_]

Fast please, although it allways depends on what exactly you interpret to be accurate.

 

[GAPMan]

To be honest I can go either way. The only reason I am using more accurate emulators now is because I was recommended them by other people. Also, my hardware was not always the best.

 

[hippy dave]

I was around for the early emulators that played games by whatever shortcuts and hacks were necessary, and I've enjoyed watching some of them mature into accuracy and other more accurate ones appear, so I'm gonna vote accuracy, seeing as you're forcing this dichotomy that isn't always so clear cut in reality.

 

[SG854]

Accuracy all the way baby

 

[FAST6191]

I will join the necromancy.

Accuracy is a laudable goal and I am always entertained reading the likes of https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011...-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/
https://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07/8088-mph-we-break-all-your-emulators/
https://mgba.io/tag/debugging/

Less fascinated by the golden ear types that float around HCS64 and the various audio player plugin forums but can still respect that too.

However I went straight from playing on my megadrive to playing with genecyst, and similar early GB/GBC emulators (never did too much SNES but friends did, would have likely been ZSNES). Then messed with early PS1 stuff when that came around despite simultaneously playing PS1 games on chipped consoles. Similar story for Amiga stuff, though that would have been more in the PS1 era. Had a great time everywhere there and accuracy was a distant future goal for most things on that front.

If the recreation of the game you played is enough to say you played the game, or at least have it devolve into discussions of whether savestates and cheats are a valid thing to have used then I am OK.