Everyone knows the SNES struggled when dealing with a lot of sprites, the frame rate would start to chug. The final boss of UN Squadron, parts of Gradius III, and Armored Armadillo level in Megaman X come to mind.
However it's 25 years later- does Retroarch have settings or en emulator that can smooth out these areas or does faithful emulation require them to chug?
Posted Aug 5, 2018, 5:39 AM UTC
"faithful emulation require them to chug", done.
Try Mega Man X at "Mega Man X Collection" (PS2/GameCube - I played with no slowdown in the GameCube version), and arcade versions of UN Squadron and Gradius (FBA/MAME).
cheers
As said, you can overclock snes9x.
Faithful emulation does seek to recreate slowdown, bugs, etc. that was present in the original hardware/software. Beyond posterity, it isn’t uncommon for a game to be programmed around/against a particular bug; if that bug isn’t present, the game won’t function properly.
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Some of those games were built to have those slow downs on purpose to not over task the hardware. Read it somewhere.
snes9x added the ability to overclock the emulated cpu a while back.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyeU1GSufiU