Opening this up since this is rare in how I've had problems with multiple emulators for it.
I usually use BizHawk with the Genplus-gx core. The problem I run into with this one is when you soft reset (or reset in any way aside from dying) the game forgets your progress.
My backup has generally been Fusion. I've run into two painful glitches with it so far:
- The duel, it'll glitch out and slow waaaaay down during the Jester duel, which persists until you defeat the Joust Knight.
[Edit]: I just had this happen with Emulicious too. Is this a problem with the game itself? Getting hit too far into the left side corner seems to be what triggers it. BizHawk didn't slow down here for me at all, just occasionally I'd stop taking any damage from his rocks.
- The path from Pharazon to Suma's Cave doesn't show up sometimes, even after getting the proper dialogues.
I was pointed to Emulicious recently for another game I was having problems running. So far I haven't had any glitches or problems with it. Of what I've tried for SMS emulation this works. Just wondering if anyone else has tried anything else, or had these same problems on BizHawk or Fusion.
Hey, GG on your run! Unfortunately the duel slowdown isn't an emulator bug, it happens on console too. The manual tries to play it off as the boss casting some kind of evil slowdown spell. It seems to mainly happen when using arrows heaps, so I've had some luck avoiding it by slowing down or swording instead.
For the other glitch, I'm pretty sure you need text in both Amon and Pharazon to trigger that path from memory. That might be causing the issue as you need the text from two places.
From what I've seen, Emulicious is the best to use, followed by Fusion. Bizhawk might be able to work if you bind a reset button in the controller config menu. Just be sure to capture the whole window if using bizhawk since it has TAS tools.
Sounds good. All the reset options (Core, Soft, Hard) forget any save/progress data and I'm still not sure why. Guess I'll stick to Emulicious.
Regarding Fusion though - it seems like it runs faster than Emulicious for this game. I did a 2nd run after my PB on it and was getting golds almost across the board for what felt like worse stage movements. I'd have to do some exploratory recording and comparing I guess. I haven't messed with any settings in Fusion either.
