Personal computing discussed
The Egg wrote:Yeah....I'm exceptionally sensitive to input lag with retro games. All those years playing with wired controllers on analog CRTs means that I have the timing of the jumps and actions hard-coded into my brain with 0 input lag. Even the smallest amount bothers me, and beyond a point is unplayable because I'd have to un-train muscle memory.
bthylafh wrote:Newer versions of RetroArch have a couple options for reducing lag: you can switch the input driver to "raw", the video driver to Vulkan, and audio to wasapi. The audio part doesn't work well on my system--too much stuttering--but the other two seem to help some.
There're also adapters you can get for the RPi that connect the GPIO pins to real NES, SNES, and probably other controllers directly; this should eliminate USB-related lag.
edit: just went back and fiddled with RetroArch's configuration on my PC, and the wasapi-related stuttering seems to be gone now. Used settings from the May 12th post here: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/2771 (except with Vulkan).
derFunkenstein wrote:I really should check pawn shops for a 20-ish inch CRT.
Hawkwing74 wrote:But for FF7 - it was a no go. The graphics are intolerably bad and she didn't like all the random fights.
derFunkenstein wrote:I had thought everyone loved it, but apparently not everyone likes random encounters as much as I do.
derFunkenstein wrote:Chrono Trigger is really good but unfortunately that's one I never got around to buying. It only goes for $100+ on eBay now. Yikes. I might as well buy a flash cart and an SD card.
derFunkenstein wrote:I wasn't really aware of this until recently, but Final Fantasy is apparently a love-it-or-hate-it kind of thing. I had thought everyone loved it, but apparently not everyone likes random encounters as much as I do.
NTMBK wrote:derFunkenstein wrote:I wasn't really aware of this until recently, but Final Fantasy is apparently a love-it-or-hate-it kind of thing. I had thought everyone loved it, but apparently not everyone likes random encounters as much as I do.
I think my tolerance for random encounters has gone way down...snipd...
derFunkenstein wrote:I wasn't really aware of this until recently, but Final Fantasy is apparently a love-it-or-hate-it kind of thing. I had thought everyone loved it, but apparently not everyone likes random encounters as much as I do.