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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   2419 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for August 23, 2024

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How good of an experience is playing the Fire Emblem games via emulation on PC?

Generally very good, though I understand some of the FE5 patches are a little glitchy. You get save states as well, but I find they can actually undermine the experience a bit if not used sparingly.

the latest FE5 patches fixed the bugs and questionable translation choices of the earlier one, and even added a bunch of optional QoL features like showing hidden stats in the menu and allowing the player to change character deployment slots

I’ve emulated Fire Emblem games from the SNES, GBA, and GameCube on PC and it was very smooth in all cases. You get access to save states if you’re interested in that, so it’s arguably a better experience. I recommend using a gamepad with a decent d-pad if you’re going to play the older games though, as it’s ergonomically preferable to doing it on your keyboard.

For the Switch games Fire Emblem Three Houses and Engage: Very good. On a half decent PC you can get 60 fps and much higher resolution than native.

It's my understanding that emulation of the GameCube and earlier consoles is essentially perfect, while emulation of the DS and later consoles is somewhat iffy but generally tolerable.

>>>/vg/emugen can answer questions as well.

A few years back the best performing DS emulator on PC would be outperformed by running an Android emulator and using the Drastic DS emulator inside of that, but I'm not sure that's the case anymore

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