For emulators, ultra latency in gpu settings and runahead at 1 frame seems to yield best results and since I use a Gsync monitor, correct frame rate and flicker fx are applied on full screen too. Fortunately majority of emulators support vrr
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Far as I know that no one who works on RetroArch make any money from it as Free and Open Source Software
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We were one of the first emu-adjacent projects to have a patreon, and those people characterize it as us “making money off other people’s code”
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RetroArch has a pretty decent buildbot and private servers, which are consistently available to any user. Whether you like it or not, those things cost money, and receiving some help is indeed appreciated. It’s not like a project could go to a hosting service and ask: “Excuse me, sir. Could you provide a portion of your infrastructure for our needs, though without any financial compensation, all in the name of the good ol’ open source communitarian spirit?”. Unfortunately, no one can get by with good intentions alone.
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Sounds like Jealousy to me
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yeah, i think some people legitimately had beef with it at one point, but now it’s just something to throw around that doesn’t really have any meaning. I think most of the people who said/say it have patreons (or other subscriber/tipping accounts) of their own now.
That said, the original beef was operating under the assumption that RetroArch/libretro and our many expensive-to-maintain online services are worth exactly nothing, and 100% of any donations should be forwarded directly to upstream emu authors (setting aside the logistics of figuring out how much of any donated dollar should go to any individual core dev).
To this day, we get a steady trickle of people claiming we run our services inefficiently and they don’t really cost that much, blah blah. Even if that were true, or better yet, even if it all cost nothing, and we simply pocketed all of the money, it would still provide less than poverty wages for a single person.
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That sucks people have a go at you when they don’t have a Clue what is going on or what they are talking about without knowing How everything works
yeah, i think some people legitimately had beef with it at one point, but now it’s just something to throw around that doesn’t really have any meaning. I think most of the people who said/say it have patreons (or other subscriber/tipping accounts) of their own now.
What would be the Legit Reason they would of had?
Yeah I just think people these Days just have a Go at Libretro/Retroarch will little info and very 1 Sided Stories
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I’ve been around for quite some time now, and, if I had to bet, I’d put my finger over this theory.
Of all virtual places to visit, IRC was one of the most sincere. The focused-on-the-present approach, with not-so-reliable logs made people open their hearts often. I won’t say any names, as to not badmouth anyone, but several staunch Patreon-naysayers betrayed themselves letting their feelings run free. Money was the main issue. In particular, Cemu flipped many heads over, and short-circuited the usual discourse.
I’m glad to see that at least part of that hypocrisy is a bit diluted, so there can be more action and less preaching.
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heh, i just mean they were genuinely upset about it, as opposed to just saying b.s. to smear us. Not that I think it was a valid thing to begin with.
And yeah, CEMU brought in an insane amount of money and its closed-source nature and proximity to piracy made a lot of people (including me) suspicious of their means and motives. I’m glad to say I was wrong there.
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Imho, whether they had some legitimacy or not at the beginning, there is nothing that can justify the doxxing some of those guys did, and the others are just as guilty for not condemning this.
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Oh Sorry I got the wrong idea on what you said @hunterk
I don’t know much about the CEMU Story but sounds like they Made a Ton of Money that made them look very Greedy and that was a Terrible Look for the Emulation Scence?
yeah, it wasn’t really their fault. they were apparently doing things legally, hence them still being around lol I think Nintendo would have liked to do something about them, since they were showing off 4K / 60 FPS Breath of the Wild while the Wii U was struggling to do 720p.
We were all worried that it would being down a lot of unwanted attention from Nintendo, but in the end, nothing really happened, so lots of hand-wringing for nothing.
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I have noticed an weird detail. Retroarch use much more GPU for any core compared than the core standalone version. Dolphin is an example. In Retroarch core Dolphin GPU usage is 74% is much more high than the standalone Dolphin emulator being 64 % even both using Vulkan.