Ever use an emulator that was a pile of junk? Well, I have!
Each category is rated in severity from 1/5 (minorly annoying) to 5/5 (is that you mupen?)
- Internal capture is nonexistent 5/5
- MS Virtual PC
- Internal capture has so many unique deficiencies that it needs its own category. 4/5
- Mupen (not frame accurate, fails if monitor goes into powersaving mode, captures parts of windows and menus in front of the capture window)
- Internal capture shows a/v sync drift. 2/5
- FCEUX (less apparent at 96000hz)
- PCEjin (seems to be rom-specific?)
- Snes9x (depending on audio settings)
- PSXjin (only human-detectable on very very long captures)
- FBA (depending on audio settings)
- Internal capture has no useful sense of timing at all, creating a/v sync hell. 3/5
- Dolphin (unmodded)
- Dega (on Windows)
- PCSX-RR
- Mupen64
- Internal capture cannot occur properly at speeds significantly faster than realtime. 2/5
- Mupen (can lose even more frames)
- FBA (audio issues)
- FCEUX (audio issues)
- Internal capture has filesize issues. 4/5 unless you can get it under the limit
- Gens (2GB split screws up)
- FBA (no 2GB split)
- Mupen64 (no 2GB split)
- Famtasia (a/v desync?)
- Internal capture can't save to any useful lossless codec. 3/5
- Famtasia (uncompressed only)
- Internal capture is so awful, kkapture is better. 5/5
- Dega (on Windows)
- Mupen
- PCSX-RR
- Internal capture requires extra intermediaries for common encoding workflows 1/5
- JPC-RR (audio and video for many common workflows)
- Dolphin (modded, audio only)
- Internal capture doesn't distinguish between multiple resolutions in any automatable way 1/5 to 3/5 depending on how many segments
- Gens
- PCSX-RR
- Internal capture has different movie sync than with capture disabled 3/5
- FBA
- Desmume
- Internal capture has ambiguous settings that affect output in undesirable ways. 2/5
- Gens (Audio "HQ")
- Snes9x (Bad handling of 2x resolutions)
- PSXJin (Mysterious audio settings, Entire video setting page)
- Famtasia (line crop)
- Dolphin (many video settings)
- Internal capture can't save to a lossless format 5/5
- Famtasia (4:2:2 colorspace conversion)
Corrections and additions welcome.