I don’t have a lot of space for consoles and cartridges, or money for consoles and cartridges but I do have a decent computer hooked up to a TV. What’s the best way to get an authentic experience via emulation? Here’s what I have so far:
Retroarch Settings
- HDR enabled (cant tell if it actually helps)
- Run-ahead enabled
- Mega Bezel shaders
- Retrobit saturn controller (having trouble getting configured but has an excellent dpad)
Emulators/cores:
- NES - Mesen
- SNES - bsnes
- Jaguar - Bigpemu (need to configure shaders)
- Megadrive/CD/32X - Picodrive
- PSX - ??? Swanstation?
- Saturn - Beetle Saturn
- N64 - Mupen64plus
Thing I need to work on:
- Tweaking shader settings as the defaults are very dark
- Configuring retrobit controller to work with Steam big Picture (how I launch Retroarch) and retroarch seamlessly
- Possibly finding a Big Box theme that is focused on original artwork and not garbage
Any advice/pointers? My goal is to eventually have a “pick up and play” setup possibly with different 8bitdo/retrobit controllers for each system.
I don’t know if it’s the “most authentic” experience, but for a “pick up and play” setup, you might want to look into Emudeck (www.emudeck.com). It was originally made for Steam Deck, but has a desktop version now and it pretty much automagically handles setting up all your emulators. Plus, it integrates with Steam. Russ with Retro Game Corps has a installation guide on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05dunYi6hkY&t=1s