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Re:DuckStation by bluescrn on Saturday October 12, 2024 @04:32PM (#41822300)
That 'confusing UI' is fully functional with a game controller, and consistent across many cores.

Which is a massive win when you want to run emulators on devices without mouse/keyboard, and more than makes up for minor performance issues or having out-of-date cores.

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Re:DuckStation by recursivecaveat on Saturday October 12, 2024 @06:54PM (#41823436)
I've run many of the underlying emulators' software that got repurposed into cores. I loved XMB on the PS3 and PSP, and I really wish Sony didn't drop it. Retroarch's UI is a complete disaster. It is on the whole the most confusing software I have ever encountered.
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Re:DuckStation by Lammy on Sunday October 13, 2024 @12:33AM (#41825165)
That's actually one of my reasons for preferring standalone emulators on Android. My device's hardware L and R work by emulating screen touch, and the touch positions are assigned per-app, so with something like RetroArch it would be a pain to make sure an appropriate L/R target is in the same place for each emulated system.
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