Gbc because I grew up with it, but NDS has so many interesting games mechanically
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Good shaders for stuff like retroarch: https://github.com/RetroCrisis/Retro-Crisis-GDV-NTSC
https://docs.libretro.com/shader/crt_royale/
https://r-roms.github.io/ Get all your games here, retro and up. r/ROMs reddit community's game link aggregator.
Myrient for data hoarders. Here you can get full sets of PS3/360 era games: https://myrient.erista.me/files/ A Download Manager is recommended. JDownloader2, for example, download the clean installer here: https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=54725
Another aggregator: https://shakil-shahadat.github.io/awesome-piracy/#roms
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https://www.readonlymemo.com/emulation-101/
Fiddly Switch Shit
Currently probably maaaybe the good yuzu fork: https://git.citron-emu.org/Citron/Citron
Ryubing probably the main Ryujinx fork: https://git.ryujinx.app/ryubing/ryujinx
Mirror of the last release of the original project: https://git.axenov.dev/mirrors/ryujinx
Switch games: https://nsw2u.com/
Speaking of which...
For more fiddly emulators, their wiki sites provide tweaks/fixes/hacks, and explain any bugs that are still known issues.
https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Category:Games
https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Category%3AGames
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Nintendo_GameCube
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Wii
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Account Required Pre-Patched ROM/ISO hacks and fan translations here: https://retrogametalk.com/repository/
DIY ROM/ISO patches: https://romhackplaza.org/
Browser based ROM patchers: https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/
https://www.hack64.net/tools/patcher.php
https://www.ff6hacking.com/patcher/
Good Programs
The good (standalone) N64 emulator: https://github.com/Rosalie241/RMG
Quick and Dirty shaders in a window you can overlay on other windowed emulators: https://github.com/mausimus/ShaderGlass
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I've definitely spent the most time with Switch and Wii U emulation. Purely because the emulators existed while the consoles were still current. I still owned both consoles for online play, but emulation was just a better and higher resolution experience so long as the game was compatible. That and mods for Zelda and MK8 fan made map packs.
I've been emulating since Win 3.11 / DOS days, current day I have fullsets of pretty well everything up to 6th gen including arcade on my NAS.
At one point also owned every successful or partially successful console (but I exclusively used flashcarts or mods on every one of my consoles to save money, didn't buy used games) from the 70's up until I sold my collection off in the PS4 era and went all in on emulation...to free up space in my house 😅...was getting overwhelming.
PCSX2/RPCS3 are also interesting even just as programming marvels translating such alien hardware found in PS2/PS3. There's a lot of unique games on both consoles too. Good generations. PS2 especially like you say.
Also spent a lot of time in my youth with messy N64 emulation/plugins as my username would suggest, but I've definitely played pretty much all there is worth your time to death already.
I don’t really bother with systems I didn’t play prior.
It's pretty tough for me to go back to 2D consoles, the games just don't hold my attention anymore outside of a few standout exceptions per console. There was soooo much awful shovelware in the 80's especially. I'm pretty harsh on the NES despite it being my first home console as a kid :P Going further back is worse. I can't say I enjoyed anything on the Atari 2600. More of a curiosity piece. The only Intellevision game I really like is SNAFU! lol.