Homebrew Retroarch Emulation Thread (Nightly Builds Included)

[NuikopeaDemon]

Just wondering, is there a core for Atari 2600 on RetroArch for 3DS?

I believe so just not made yet for 3ds :/

 

[trancepara]

But then I also wanted to get nxengine and here is where I don't understand how to launch it, I did put it in my 3ds folder as with quicknes, it displays in my homebrew launcher but when I boot it, it just opens the retroarch menu, and I see no option to start it, "load content" opens my directory and nothing else.

I'm having a noob stroke right now, halp?

I just put CaveStory folder with everything inside my ROM directory. When you press Load Content and nothing shows up, press A will give you your list of directories and then you can find your doukutsu.exe, give it a second, and it will load.

Also if you are on n3ds I suggest you use nestopia instead. It will run full speed and is far more accurate.

 

[Pandaxclone2]

@trancepara Just here to clarify that I didn't say that.

 

[Tony_93]

I just put CaveStory folder with everything inside my ROM directory. When you press Load Content and nothing shows up, press A will give you your list of directories and then you can find your doukutsu.exe, give it a second, and it will load.

Also if you are on n3ds I suggest you use nestopia instead. It will run full speed and is far more accurate.

Thank you! Specially for the Nestopia recommendation, colors look so much better than quicknes.

 

[Homerchu]

Can someone tell me the most stable build of Retroarch 3DS, including the MAME 2003 and FBA full cores? I also kindly ask if anyone could test sfiii3n for me. (I'm in the process of getting Ubuntu for smashhax).

No one?.....

 

[GorrillaRIBS]

So I got retroarch in my 10.3 N3DS for NES emulation, so I placed the quicknes into my 3DS folder and retroarch at the root of my SD card, everything works perfectly fine.

But then I also wanted to get nxengine and here is where I don't understand how to launch it, I did put it in my 3ds folder as with quicknes, it displays in my homebrew launcher but when I boot it, it just opens the retroarch menu, and I see no option to start it, "load content" opens my directory and nothing else.

2048 doesn't even show up in my homebrew menu.

I'm having a noob stroke right now, halp?

You need the original cave story files (you can find them on the tribute site, they're freeware), once those are on the 3ds just run the .exe like you would a a rom in quicknes

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No one?.....

Dunno about MAME/FBA (don't use those) but the most stable build seems to be the Nov 8th (I'm on the 14th with no issues though)

 

[NuikopeaDemon]

No one?.....

I use MAME 2000 is better than 2003 IMO

 

[Cornholio309]

I use MAME 2000 is better than 2003 IMO

Do the 3DSX builds of MAME even work? Every time I try to launch them it hangs on a nice red screen, so I can't even get to the menus...

 

[NuikopeaDemon]

Do the 3DSX builds of MAME even work? Every time I try to launch them it hangs on a nice red screen, so I can't even get to the menus...

Yes they do work I use the 8th November nightly and do you have the Special Demo of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate on your 3ds or YouTube because you need any of those to work MAME

 

[Cornholio309]

Yes they do work I use the 8th November nightly and do you have the Special Demo of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate on your 3ds or YouTube because you need any of those to work MAME

Luckily for me I do. I grabbed it when smealum announced Tubehax and still haven't deleted it after Nintendo killed off that exploit.

So basically the MAME core is picky and an official app similar to YouTube needs to be launched before it can actually do anything?

 

[NuikopeaDemon]

Luckily for me I do. I grabbed it when smealum announced Tubehax and still haven't deleted it after Nintendo killed off that exploit.

So basically the MAME core is picky and an official app similar to YouTube needs to be launched before it can actually do anything?

You will probably have to update YouTube :/ or you could use Special Demo Monster Hunter 4

Well considering that the MAME Emulators are huge they need another app to piggyback for Ram Usuage I believe to make MAME work

 

[Cornholio309]

You will probably have to update YouTube :/ or you could use Special Demo Monster Hunter 4

Well considering that the MAME Emulators are huge they need another app to piggyback for Ram Usuage I believe to make MAME work

Unfortunately, I'm on firmware 9.9 on a New 3DS, which means I can't access the eShop to update YouTube. This also means I can't grab the Monster Hunter 4 demo either.

Could ironhax work by any chance?

 

[NuikopeaDemon]

Unfortunately, I'm on firmware 9.9 on a New 3DS, which means I can't access the eShop to update YouTube. This also means I can't grab the Monster Hunter 4 demo either.

Could ironhax work by any chance?

Hmmm okay... And I don't know about Ironhax as I'm using Cubic Ninja

And to make things worse I can't even use Cubic Ninja yet because the Playloads for 10.3 don't work

 

[kenseiden]

Here's how it basically works and why you need Youtube, MH4U or Smash Bros: basically, there's an XML file included with certain cores that need extra memory. That XML file tells the core to "piggyback" off of another system app to get access to that memory. If I remember correctly, YouTube, Smash Bros, and MH4U were chosen due to the fact that they each use up a significant amount of system memory; the XML file has the title IDs of each app/game listed and tells the core to piggyback off of the first available one.

That's my basic understanding of it, but hopefully someone with a bit more technical knowledge can chime in.

ALSO: it doesn't matter what *hax you use, as those *hax are just entrypoints into the Homebrew Loader itself.

 

[Cornholio309]

Here's how it basically works and why you need Youtube, MH4U or Smash Bros: basically, there's an XML file included with certain cores that need extra memory. That XML file tells the core to "piggyback" off of another system app to get access to that memory. If I remember correctly, YouTube, Smash Bros, and MH4U were chosen due to the fact that they each use up a significant amount of system memory; the XML file has the title IDs of each app/game listed and tells the core to piggyback off of the first available one.

That's my basic understanding of it, but hopefully someone with a bit more technical knowledge can chime in.

If Smash Brothers works, then that's good. I own a physical copy of it.

Really wish the eShop hadn't been taken away from us as soon as we got it back. I'm trying my hardest to stay on firmware version 9.9 just because I'm hoping somebody finds a workaround or a really cool kernel exploit pops up, but that's wishful thinking and I'm digressing.

How well does the MAME core even run? I'd kind of like to Ms. Pac-Man with the speed hack and that'd be good enough for me, but I'd love to see Snow Bros. also working.

 

[kenseiden]

I'm on o3DS, so MAME 2000 is basically my only choice for remotely playable arcade games, haha. Even then, I can confirm that Ms. Pac Man and Snow Bros do run full speed on o3DS (although Snow Bros is lacking sound); since you're on N3DS, you'll get better results for sure.

 

[ArugulaZ]

If I may make a suggestion, there's a Sega Genesis version of Snow Bros. that's pretty close to the arcade game. You shouldn't have any trouble running it in Picodrive.

 

[trancepara]

@trancepara Just here to clarify that I didn't say that.

Deleting quotes to make the post less messy and deleted the wrong one. Oops.

No one?.....

Some people seem to be having issues with builds past Nov 8th.

 

[Bubsy Bobcat]

Anybody know how to get PAL games working on QuickNES? I wanna play Asterix but it's completely broken. D^:

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Anybody know how to get PAL games working on QuickNES? I wanna play Asterix but it's completely broken. D^:

I can run the PAL Mario Bros Classic just fine on quickNES so I personally think you ether found a bad dump of the ROM or the ROM is just incompatible with quickNES.