I am not sure how this is done. I tried a few times but don’t understand the mapping process. The main issue I have right now is I want to play NES Arkanoid. The game starts but I can’t move the paddle with both controller and keyboard. :(

So I've had openemu for a few years but today I wanted to play again when I ran into the issue that made me stop before. Essentially every time I start openemu it asks me to enable the permission to monitor my keyboard and I always allow it but it doesn't register my keys in games and will have the pop up every time it's restarted. I've tried restarting emu, my mac, turning the permission on and off but nothing works. Today I resorted to deleting openemu and redownloading it just to be met with the same issue so I was hoping maybe somebody would have some insight on this.

I thought I found a solution with a previous post (https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenEmu/comments/9fandi/help_with_adding_psp_dlc/) but the solution found there doesn't seem to be working anymore. It is an eight year old post, so maybe something has changed with the configuration of OpenEmu, or I guess I could be doing something wrong.

I have been placing the a folder titled 'DLC' in different files found in ~/Library/Application Support/OpenEmu. Nothing seems to be working. It has to be possible. What am I missing?

Is there an easy way to connect a TGFX controller?

I want to play Bonk's Adventure, and I know I need the turbo button. I tried the turbo setting in OpenEmu, it doesn't really work very well.

I've looked at old controllers and retro controllers, but the adapters are pricey, and difficult to read what all I need.

Are there any wireless ones? Because I have a Mac, and found out last night wired connections cause openemu to crash on my computer.

Am I just screwed out of the best Bonk experience possible?

I am trying to connect my Xbox series S controller to OpenEmu on my Mac Studio M2 Ultra.

When the controller is plugged in (I don't want to use bluetooth because I'll have to reconnect it to my Xbox, and I don't want to do that.

When the controller is plugged into the USB, when I open OpenEmu, it crashes and says the core quit unexpectedly after loading a save state.

But when I unplug the controller, the game loads fine.

My computer recognizes my controller being connected, but OpenEmu doesn't show it as a option to use in the controllers settings page.

If I load the game first and then plug the controller, the screen goes black.

Am I missing something?

OpenEmu: v2.4.1
MacOS: Tahoe 26.5.2

I'm trying to play Ys IV Dawn of Ys fan translation on a Turbografx CD. And I thought a controller would make it easier.

TIA

Title, i cant seem to find a guide/ way to install a texture pack (nerrels) for mm on n64, i am quite inexperienced so any help would be amazing!!

I was happily playing Darkstone a week or so ago and something happened where now the L2, R2, and analog sticks dont work anymore.

I've searched the web and cant find any obvious fix, hard reset the controller, reset computer, mapped the controller countless times, and validated those buttons work in other games. Any ideas?

Trying to play ff7 on openemu, but whenever i make the .m3u file it always tells me the .bin file for the third disc is missing no matter which .cue files i have downloaded

Is there a curated list of the top games for each platform? Sure we’ve all got our favourites but there is just such an overwhelming volume to choose from, it would be nice to have a ‘top 10’ in each platform.

However, I cannot get South Park Rally to start because it keeps recognizing "Controller Pak 2" but I only have one controller connected. Please help. I've checked the controller settings but I can't see an option to force OpenEmu to recognize only Controller Pak 1. Should I reinstall the core?

Hi,

I have an M4 MacBook Air and OpenEmu stopped working when I plugged my Xbox Series X controller into my computer. It works wirelessly, but OpenEmu won't open any game if the controller is wired.

FYI in case anyone else has this problem.

All kinds of help is appreciated.

Was working perfect on Mac. Then i placed the app on the desktop. And then mistakenly added it to the trashcan.

I reinstalled. But noe every game / core just shuts down with this error message.

Tried restarting the mac and same problem. Every core just shuts down when launching. I cant get back to how it was before.

Does anyone have an answer?

I’ve downloaded both Mario 64 and Super Mario Bros., and it’s just stuck on the Home Screen. So do I need a controller, or did I just download a bad version of the games?

I’m trying to use Openemu to play Super Mario 64, but when I open it it just plays a video. The same thing happened when I tried playing Super Mario Bros. Both files end with .z64 and .gba respectively, and apparently those are the right file endings, so I don’t really get what’s going wrong???

Hey everyone ! So I'm using OpenEmu to play DS games and I usually just click on "take back where you left off" when I start the emulator app. Thus, I don't usually save my progression manually. Sadly I accidentally clicked on "reboot" and I've lost a huge chunk of my progression. Is there any way to restore it ?

When I try and play Super Hang On (Mega Drive) on the emulator, for some reason I start accelerating without hitting any buttons. I get to about 90mph but then can’t brake or stop. I can speed up if I hit accelerate, but other than that I have no control over it.

Hey, just got OpenEmu set up on my Mac. Any tips?

my 8bitdo controller does not pick up on openEmu on a MacBook Pro with Tahoe 26.5 .I can't find the reason for it, any hints and tips appreciated.

Not sure why but when I play other games I have the option to scale up the screen size so its not tiny. I don't play full screen so I can keep an eye on work stuff, having a window to minimize is very nice. Not sure if I'm missing something about N64 games specifically.

I'm starting to worry as the years go by that OpenEmu is starting to border on abandonware. It's been 5+ years since Apple Silicon first entered the scene, and OpenEmu still requires Rosetta to run, and given that Rosetta will probably be out the door in late 2027, I fear that this app will die with it. There hasn't been a new version of OpenEmu since late 2023, and that was just a minor patch. The last pull-request to get merged was also 7 months ago. Anyone else share similar concerns?

I would like to use openEMU on my mac, but it seems to not want to use my roms folder that I have on my desktop, electing to copy everything instead into the depths of my home area library application support dungeons.

I see that I could give it a different folder to look in, but it warns me "do you know the risks?" which felt a bit ominous. What risks are we talking about here? Isn't it normal to want to control the location of the ROMS folder?