It sure looks like it folks!
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looks complicated to maintain (at least fo rme) anyways more cores are probably better…
It’s a great NES Emulator - I use it as my standalone version.
Up until the end of December 2017 I hadn’t even touched Mesen yet like ever, I was only using puNES and Nestopia and have been happily for years.
With 0.9.4 I had to give it a go though and yes I fell in love with it immediately.
Supreme accuracy (higher than puNES even), options to mimic specific Famicom behaviors, Microphone button for Famicom’s 2nd controller…damn it was like I were playing on my real Famicom and Famicom Disk System with my iBuffalo Famicom USB pad.
Standalone Mesen have a real nice GUI also that is very easy to adapt too, there is absolutely nothing to complain about here.
10/10 NES/Famicom/FDS emulator!
I doubt I will touch the Libretro core though, Mesen got a lot of options that won’t make it in to the core options sadly but it’s nice to see that this is happening.
Would Mesen in retroarch support retroachievements? Would be nice if it could since only FCE does currently.
I guess only time will tell if it does, this upcoming core is as new as it gets.
This is fantastic news! More cores, the better!
That said, it’s been a while since I messed with Mesen. Regarding accuracy, how’s the sound? One thing that’s bugged me with NES emulation is that expansion sound isn’t as accurate as it should be. The best that’s handled it is NSFPlay, and that’s just an NSF player.
At times like these I really wish that I could hook up my Famicom with Akumajou Densetsu to my LCD TV but I don’t think it’s possible since I don’t have the right equipment to do so.
But since I have played the **** out of this game in both Nestopia and puNES I must say the sound is on par with Mesen I suppose. I’m not what you would call an audiophile so I don’t hear any immediate differences, but it sounds good and it sounds different compared to the NES version of Castlevania III - Dracula’s Curse.
But if it’s accurate or more accurate then Nestopia and puNES? I don’t know, but you could listen to this and compare to the emulator output I suppose.
Mesen got a lot of options that won’t make it in to the core options
What do you mean? Is there something preventing it from making it in?
No not really, but Mesen got a ton of settings and I doubt they put all in under core options. Standalone Nestopia got a lot of options and settings which isn’t there in the Libretro core.
Have you been proven wrong? The Mesen core has a lot of core options.
Yes it got a lot of options, and I never doubted that but you know what I meant.
Just look at the Dolphin core for example, do you think all settings from the standalone is in the core? NO, far from it and it doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing either.
You said the sound volume was to low in the other Mesen thread, did you find the option to raise the volume in the core? NO, because that’s one of many options that did not make it to the core…yet.
volume would never be a core option, though. volume is configurable in retroarch’s audio options. if mesen’s default volume is unusually low, then that sounds like a bug in the core.
Not really a bug, the standalone version have the Master volume defaulted to 25 while the rest of the volumes is defaulted to 100.
Since there is no option in the core to raise it to 100 the volume will be very very low sigh
give it some time. some more trivial under the hood stuffs are going on between Sour and guys from ra/libretro team. once those are ironed out, these adjustments would not take long to fix.
Well, I have no doubt it’s gonna be a stable core in the future but I’m gonna stick with the standalone because it works really really well.
thats your decision.
the dev is already talking about adding a volume core option in the other thread, so you’ll get your wish. no sighs needed.
but to me it’s not the right approach. would be better to just raise the cores volume internally to “100” or whatever and let retroarch UI handle volume just like it handles all other audio. could make that default only in libretro builds also to keep standalone functioning at 25 as before.
having two levels of volume controls is absurd. the point of libretro/retroarch is to abstract that stuff away.
correct. just set the volume of each channel as it is in actual hardware and let retroarch have the master volume control.