Pokemon Blue using RetroArch on my phone.
I got a gameboy color skin for the interface and laying in bed at night playing pokemon under the blanket makes me feel like a kid in the 90s again.
Also ‘The Midnight Walk’. The atmosphere and art style are perfection.
I’ve been using RetroArch to replay Pokémon games on my phone recently too. I’m currently on SoulSilver. I actually haven’t run into any of the usual visual bugs with HGSS emulation (black spots, full black screen, etc) which has been great. Every other emulator I’ve used has had those bugs. Maybe I’ve just been lucky this time around but it is a known issue with all ROMs for HGSS for some reason.
Does it let me 2x the gameplay speed? I was emulating on PC and had that, and want to know if I’d be able to have the same feature emulating on my phone.
Yeah there’s a fast forward button. RetroArch isn’t an emulator as such, or at least not in the same way others are, I don’t quite understand how it all works but you choose your emulator core and different cores have different settings. So if you don’t like the FF of one core, just change your core. I’m not sure it saves carry over when changing cores so maybe experiment when core settings before making any progress in the game.
I’ve been using melonDS for SoulSilver and it’s been great, FF is probably 2x speed on that one. It might be adjustable, I’m not sure. When I was playing Crystal the FF was probably closer to 10x speed, it was a bit much. But there’s lots of choices for cores so you can play around with it and see what you like.
That actually looks like a lot of fun! I already know where to find everything so randomizing the entire game would make it feel fresh. Thank you for the suggestion!
You’re welcome, it’s a really good way to inject some new difficulty into a game you already know inside out. Careful about going full rando though, having your weedle evolve into a mewtwo with a 40PP hyper beam might break things a little!
Pokemon Blue using RetroArch on my phone. I got a gameboy color skin for the interface and laying in bed at night playing pokemon under the blanket makes me feel like a kid in the 90s again.
Also ‘The Midnight Walk’. The atmosphere and art style are perfection.
I’ve been using RetroArch to replay Pokémon games on my phone recently too. I’m currently on SoulSilver. I actually haven’t run into any of the usual visual bugs with HGSS emulation (black spots, full black screen, etc) which has been great. Every other emulator I’ve used has had those bugs. Maybe I’ve just been lucky this time around but it is a known issue with all ROMs for HGSS for some reason.
Does it let me 2x the gameplay speed? I was emulating on PC and had that, and want to know if I’d be able to have the same feature emulating on my phone.
Yeah there’s a fast forward button. RetroArch isn’t an emulator as such, or at least not in the same way others are, I don’t quite understand how it all works but you choose your emulator core and different cores have different settings. So if you don’t like the FF of one core, just change your core. I’m not sure it saves carry over when changing cores so maybe experiment when core settings before making any progress in the game.
I’ve been using melonDS for SoulSilver and it’s been great, FF is probably 2x speed on that one. It might be adjustable, I’m not sure. When I was playing Crystal the FF was probably closer to 10x speed, it was a bit much. But there’s lots of choices for cores so you can play around with it and see what you like.
Thank you!!
Might I recommend Universal Pokémon Randomizer for your next play through?
That actually looks like a lot of fun! I already know where to find everything so randomizing the entire game would make it feel fresh. Thank you for the suggestion!
You’re welcome, it’s a really good way to inject some new difficulty into a game you already know inside out. Careful about going full rando though, having your weedle evolve into a mewtwo with a 40PP hyper beam might break things a little!