Retroarch submissions will be rejected
4 years ago
United States

If you use a Retroarch emulator, with any core, your run will not be accepted.

As exposed by @garadas21, Retroarch lag reduction is deliberately making the emulation less accurate, in order to make it play faster.

There are a number of other emulators that are accurate. Please use those instead. Examples: Nestopia, Fceux, Mesen, Higan, or OpenEmu with one of the above cores.

Slackanater likes this
Pennsylvania, USA

How about the core on the MiSTer?

Hamilton, ON, Canada
songbirder
He/Him, They/Them
1 year ago

I don't think the Retroarch rule is valid any longer, FYI. It is not an emulator itself, one can run FCEUX etc within Retroarch. Many speedrunning communities have done away with this rule as I understand it. Correct me if I'm wrong though!

Edited by the author 1 year ago
Zophar likes this
Hamilton, ON, Canada
songbirder
He/Him, They/Them
1 year ago

and fwiw MiSTer should be fine IMO as it's about as accurate as you can get outside actual hardware.

Zophar likes this
Pennsylvania, USA

Sounds good to me!