Does this cause any kind of issues?

[Thermal Lance]

Like input lag or things like that? I'm not a huge fan of the idea but I'm thinking of trying that out of curiosity to see how some games would look through that.

[Michael]

I certainly haven't noticed any. It's simply an NES emulator, which can run on a toaster these days. But the custom profiles it applies to the games are nothing short of amazing. You really feel like you're "inside" your favorite (supported) NES title. (Speaking entirely for the VR version of this app. Obviously the pancake version won't have the same level of immersion, but it's still darn cool to see.)

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by Michael:

I certainly haven't noticed any. It's simply an NES emulator, which can run on a toaster these days. But the custom profiles it applies to the games are nothing short of amazing. You really feel like you're "inside" your favorite (supported) NES title. (Speaking entirely for the VR version of this app. Obviously the pancake version won't have the same level of immersion, but it's still darn cool to see.)

Not sure how people can get any "immersion" in this. I mean, even if I'd go around and strap a couple paycheck-worth of hardware to my face (+ the computer needed.) those are still NES games. Games built for gameplay in two dimension. I'm quite surprised in fact that somebody come up with this here... A NES emulator is about the last thing I'd expect a VR fan to parade his hardware around in. No offense meant, just feels extremely odd to me.

[dpanter]

Why don't you try it for yourself and form an opinion based on experience instead of speculation?
There shouldn't be any input lag added by the emulator, but it will naturally bring other artifacts since these games were never intended to be adapted into 3D or VR. Give it a try!

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by dpanter:

Why don't you try it for yourself and form an opinion based on experience instead of speculation?
There shouldn't be any input lag added by the emulator, but it will naturally bring other artifacts since these games were never intended to be adapted into 3D or VR. Give it a try!

Speculations? Whatever. Still think it's insane to bring up immersion in a 2D platformer. To each their own I guess just like some people swear Ford makes the best cars.

Good, I just wanted to be sure. Sometimes when you render something in a way that isn't intended, input lag can be a thing depending on the way it was implemented. Just wanted to make sure it was a fully functional emulator WITH a gimmick and not a gimmick first. The input lag is important for me because I still need to reach those spot I want to see "3D Mode" and some of those games are no joke. XD

And if the speculation part was refering to me asking people about that at all. There is nothing wrong to ask questions to people who owns the darn thing.

[themazingness]

For the most part, I prefer the classic 2D. However, there are some games that I really like the effect on.

One thing to consider, this isn't just changing pixels into voxels. You can also manipulate the camera in 3D. for some games that's an entirely different experience. My favorite cases are Spy Hunter and Pinball. Spy Hunter in 3D with a 3rd person view is pretty awesome. Pinball has a really nice depth to the table parts, and you can change it's view to feel a bit more realistic instead of just straight up and down.

As for a "fully functional emulator" and input lag, there isn't much to worry about. It's a comparable experience with other emulators, and you can run any game in 2D (exceptions being some games that do not have mapper support in this emulator, but that isn't a unique problem to 3DSen). I haven't had a major input lag problems across multiple PCs.

Personally, I'd still rather run my games that don't have a 3D profile here in another emulator unless they could benefit from the camera angle manipulation. This is a great emulator, but it isn't feature loaded like RetroArch by any means.