Ancient Aliens: New Nin. 3DS now offers the best SNES emulation on any handheld

You can look in my post history and see me RAGING about 3ds VC distro strategy as early as 4-6 months after launch. The writing was on the wall even then.

So frustrating
 
Leonsito said:
Which emu? pcsx?
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Holy shit, is there somewhere that links all the in-production emulators? I'm gonna make that disgusting Nintendo account and install Homebrew the moment I get home if I can get PSX games going :O

Small hope, but any n64 rumors? The dream...
 
Rich! said:
It really does pose the question of why exactly Nintendo OF AMERICA have left the Virtual Console to go to waste
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Fixed.

Feels like every week Japan is getting a new series of games released for the system.

NOA is worried about sales. Just add to your fuckin library.
 
Fularu said:
Your inability to properly setup a BT pad with your phone is irrelevant here.

Also this emulates everything better than the 3DSXL ever will :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9O59A9hJAM (and I say this as someone who owns every 3DS revision (save the regular new one) and both a PSPGo and a Vita and will be ordering an XD as soon as the 64gb model is available)

EDIT : I understand your enthousiasm, it's cool to see the 3DS perform to such a level but neither the emulators nor the scene are mature enough or have any kind of real future.
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Really, man? Inability? You have to insult someone because they think playing games on a dedicated handheld gaming machine is more convenient than propping up a phone on something so you can use it with a controller?

I've looked into the XD and apparently its dpad is shit. That's a deal breaker.
 
After changing that sound setting its 50 fps in a link to the past. :) perfectly playable.

More importantly: I cant figure out how to save!?!?
 
So TubeHax/Ironhax still works even though I'm on the latest firmware. I just chose the 10.1 firmware when prompted. Early impression are good. I was able to run Rendering Ranger R2, which is a pretty graphically impressive game, at full speed. Only issue was I got a lot of sound crackling when playing NBA Hangtime.
 
I have ironhax installed on my New 3DS XL. I'm getting the Animal Crossing regular New 3DS tomorrow. Can I perform a system transfer and have homebrew work on the new system?

The XL has the newest firmware already. I'll have to update the firmware on the new system to do a transfer.
 
thechristoph said:
Really, man? Inability? You have to insult someone because they think playing games on a dedicated handheld gaming machine is more convenient than propping up a phone on something so you can use it with a controller?

I've looked into the XD and apparently its dpad is shit. That's a deal breaker.
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As an owner I can safely state that the dpad is not shit. It and the face buttons are a little mushy, but they are responsive and infinitely better than that of the Nvidia shield I had.
 
I'll probably wait until things are a bit more mature with Retroarch. I like the Genesis better so I tried that out first with Phantasy Star 2 and screen scrolling looked really rough without bilinear filtering (haven't tried with it on yet). Lot of sound crackling too.
 
PassiveObserver said:
You just have to toggle Auto-DNS on or off and you'll be flipping between eShop and homebrewed.
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Or simply install the new home menu hack and then you don't need to worry about DNS settings at all - you just hold L whilst turning the console on to boot into the homebrew launcher.
 
Rich! said:
Or simply install the new home menu hack and then you don't need to worry about DNS settings at all - you just hold L whilst turning the console on to boot into the homebrew launcher.
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Wow this is great! Sounds like Homebrew is really coming along. I think I'll give this a shot tonight.

Is the home menu hack something I install after I do tubehax or what?
 
this is brilliant. definitely gonna try it once I get home and find a proper guide because I don't know jack about homebrew
 
As a O3DSXL user, should I be running CatSFC or CatSFC+?

Stealthcobra said:
so to get the files on to the sd card...whats the best/easiest way to do that
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The simplest method is removing the SD card and putting it in your computer. However, Smealum included FTBrony, a 3DS FTP application, with the Ironhax starter package. That's the easiest way to access the files on the SD card once you've installed one of the homebrew methods, especially if you're gonna be tinkering a lot. Just start the application, get a program for accessing FTP servers, put in the info on the 3DS screen, and connect.
 
Setting this up now on my nXL. Where do I put the bios for systems that need that?

edit: I guess I should specify retroarch. In with my roms folders? Or doesn't it matter / I can reconfig path in RA?
 
On second thought, I think I'm going to wait for the emulator to be improved first. It looks like progress is going really well, but I really like all of the features my emulators on my Nvidia Shield let me take advantage of at the moment.

Excited to see progress though!
 
installed the HB channel, was super fast, but now what? what are these nightlies? what do I do once I downloaded them? can't find a guide, please help!
 
RhyDin said:
I have the regular 3DS XL (Zelda A Link Between Worlds edition), will it at least hit 30fps stable on most SNES games?
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No.

You can look into BlargSNES, which runs games faster (ie, does just fine on slower the Old 3DS) but has less compatibility. You'll need to check the compatibility list (or just experiment) for specific games.
 
Trojita said:
This is an aside, but how are FF5:GBA, FF6:GBA, and Mother 3 working? Can you turn these games into Virtual Channel objects or do you use emu?
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Anyone? OP?

So I see you might be able to inject the gba games but I'm lost from there. I have an OG 3DS, 3DS XL, and New 3DS XL. I'm guessing hacking the New 3DS from the Animal Crossing bundle is out of the question, I was thinking about buying one.
 
thechristoph said:
Really, man? Inability? You have to insult someone because they think playing games on a dedicated handheld gaming machine is more convenient than propping up a phone on something so you can use it with a controller?

I've looked into the XD and apparently its dpad is shit. That's a deal breaker.
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I did not see that as an insult (nor mean it) but as a statement. If it came of as insulting, then by all means, I apologize. But still, if he can't pair them and find it confortable (especially the Madcatz CTRLR which is prety confortable and as portable as a regular shield is (but I understand he discarded it because it's not practical, which I agree)) it's on him and his prerogative.

I've used a XD and the Dpad is no worse than the OG 3DS (but not as good as the 3DS XL) and after some getting used to, it's very easy to perform everything with it (it's just really small) in dpad heavy games like SF3TS for example (which runs beautifully)

Also the screen on the XD is gorgeous.

I'll probably try installing the homebrew channel on my n3DSXL to take a look at it (for curiosity's sake) this wek end though.
 
Trojita said:
Anyone? OP?

So I see you might be able to inject the gba games but I'm lost from there. I have an OG 3DS, 3DS XL, and New 3DS XL. I'm guessing hacking the New 3DS from the Animal Crossing bundle is out of the question, I was thinking about buying one.
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I answered you the first time though...
you need to be on 9.2 or lower to do GBA VC injection at the moment.
 
Currygan said:
installed the HB channel, was super fast, but now what? what are these nightlies? what do I do once I downloaded them? can't find a guide, please help!
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At the root of your SD card, you should create a folder called 3ds. If you installed Ironhax or the Homebrew Starter Kit, it should already exist.

Inside this 3ds folder, you should put the X_libretro folders that you'll find in the zip archive downloaded from here: http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/nintendo/3ds/

Each of these X_libretro folders should contain at least a .3dsx file and a .smdh file with the same X_libretro name.

The emulators will then appear in the homebrew menu.
 
protomouse said:
At the root of your SD card, you should create a folder called 3ds. If you installed Ironhax or the Homebrew Starter Kit, it should already exist.

Inside this 3ds folder, you should put the X_libretro folders that you'll find in the zip archive downloaded from here: http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/nintendo/3ds/

Each of these X_libretro folders should contain at least a .3dsx file and a .smdh file with the same X_libretro name.

The emulators will then appear in the homebrew menu.
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fantastic mate, thanks. Got it up and running!
 
Currygan said:
what are these nightlies? what do I do once I downloaded them? can't find a guide, please help!
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A nightly is just what it sounds like. Each night a new version of the program is uploaded. Each one is not likely to be a major breakthrough, but small tweaks that may or may not be visible to the end user will be made.
 
Hmmm maybe this is the way I finally play SMT. I bought it for my iPad, but I just can't get into the controls on that device.

I can't believe the SNES emulation is that good.
 
thechristoph said:
A nightly is just what it sounds like. Each night a new version of the program is uploaded. Each one is not likely to be a major breakthrough, but small tweaks that may or may not be visible to the end user will be made.
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great, so whenever a new one is out, do i need to erase the old and put in the new?

ps playing Super Metroid, feels smooth as hell damn. DOOM on the other hand has like, 1 fps lol
 
JoshuaJSlone said:
Seems crazy the original 3DS isn't good enough, when DS managed kinda-decent SNES emulation and even GBA managed kinda-indecent.
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Homebrew can only access 30% of the power of the OG3DS compared to near 80% of the N3DS, which is significantly more powerful to begin with. that's why.
 
This... has me interested. I may try to tamper with this, there are a lot of old games I'd like to play, and since Nintendo have made it impossible for me to own them on the 3DS... why not?

Can it run GBA games as well?
 
Real quick question...

So I have 7,661 blocks open on the SD card in my system. Will that be sufficient to run all the necessary files to boot this emulator and maybe a game or two? I wanna get the ball rolling on this asap but I wanna make sure I don't need to get a new SD card.
 
Solid SOAP said:
Real quick question...

So I have 7,661 blocks open on the SD card in my system. Will that be sufficient to run all the necessary files to boot this emulator and maybe a game or two? I wanna get the ball rolling on this asap but I wanna make sure I don't need to get a new SD card.
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More than enough.

SNES games are around 512k each bro
 
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