Your Favorite Emulators on PC

[Aliem]

Mainly:

SNES - SNES9X
PSX - psX
PSP - PPSSPP

I avoid higan, most (all?) ePSXe plugins and thus ePSXe, and DesMuMe simply because they will busy-loop all of my CPU into oblivion; I don't feel the need to have a dedicated gaming rig for the occasional retro-day.

Yeah those emulators alone certainly aren't worth the processing power. I like 'em, but my PC is my primary gaming machine.

I've ever tried PSP emulation, though - how is it?

[Gleeok]

I've ever tried PSP emulation, though - how is it?

PPSSPP is actually one of the most optimized and clean emulators I've come across. If I ever get an OUYA that's like the first thing going on there. :)

Been a year since I checked game comparability so I assume most the standard titles will be playable all the way through. Last game I played on it [Star Ocean 1 remake] there was an interesting bug where the player sprite was always drawn in front of the background layer. Turns out Tri-Ace was (intentionally?) exploiting a stencil buffer behavior quirk on the psp GPU. I've only ever had that issue plus one random crash while state-saving, and of course, the occasional game-dependent graphics glitch on every emu since systems started using GPUs.