Homebrew Retroarch for 3DS in development

[Sizednochi]

So yeah, aliaspider has made a bunch of commits since this thread was first created, any improvements?

 

[dubbz82]

So yeah, aliaspider has made a bunch of commits since this thread was first created, any improvements?

Presumably.

 

[Clydefrosch]

as long as they follow their no frameskip policy even on weak consoles, don't expect things to be nicely playable after nes/gbc

 

[dubbz82]

as long as they follow their no frameskip policy even on weak consoles, don't expect things to be nicely playable after nes/gbc

Eh, genesis and snes (outside of some of the specialized chips) should be doable (provided you're not attempting to use bsnes emulation core anyways).

 

[Sizednochi]

as long as they follow their no frameskip policy even on weak consoles, don't expect things to be nicely playable after nes/gbc

Gambatte and gPSP is all I need.

 

[Smoker1]

Am only really interested in SNES, Gen/MD, VirtualBoy, MAME, N64 and PSX. Doubtful on the Last maybe

 

[tyrran]

I'm incompetent with github. Would someone be able to pull, compile and post a .3ds or similar file for testing? I get that it's probably quite unstable in the current form, but curiosity is killing me.

 

[Deleted User]

Awesome! Can't wait for the full build to release!

 

[Rinnegatamante]

Compiled with Gambatte core (so GBC) and results are very bad.
If someone wants to try: http://rinnegatamante.netsons.org/retroarch_3ds.3dsx

 

[Deleted User]

Compiled with Gambatte core (so GBC) and results are very bad.
If someone wants to try: http://rinnegatamante.netsons.org/retroarch_3ds.3dsx

Can you do .3ds or .cia? I'm tired of every since homebrew being only for NINJHAX..

 

[Rinnegatamante]

Can you do .3ds or .cia? I'm tired of every since homebrew being only for NINJHAX..

Gambatte should work also in 3DS/CIA cause it doesn't use Dynarec. Anyway, first i'll try gpsp core and after this, i'll try to do 3DS/CIA build.

 

[Deleted User]

Gambatte should work also in 3DS/CIA cause it doesn't use Dynarec. Anyway, first i'll try gpsp core and after this, i'll try to do 3DS/CIA build.

Thank you! I've been trying so long today getting it to work for my iPad, but then i found this!

 

[UraKn0x]

I highly doubt the gpsp core would evet give good results...

 

[GhostLatte]

Seriously, this looks amazing.

 

[Clydefrosch]

Eh, genesis and snes (outside of some of the specialized chips) should be doable (provided you're not attempting to use bsnes emulation core anyways).

the 3ds is not worlds more powerful than a psp was. and there, snes games were often laggy without at least some frameskip enabled. same thing for the gba games. retroarch for psp is basically useless (compared to the other emulators available) since they dont do frame skip. I expect a similar outcome on the 3ds for anything beyond snes.

 

[daxtsu]

Compiled with Gambatte core (so GBC) and results are very bad.
If someone wants to try: http://rinnegatamante.netsons.org/retroarch_3ds.3dsx

How did you get this to compile at all? When i try, it just says:

$ make -f makefile.ctr
ctr_sprite.shader
python /E/programming/devkitpro/msys/aemstro_as.py gfx/drivers/ctr_sprite.shader
ctr_sprite.shader.shbin
bin2s ctr_sprite.shader.shbin | /E/Programming/devkitpro/devkitARM/bin/arm-none-
eabi-as -o gfx/drivers/ctr_sprite.o
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:1: Error: bad instruction `bin2s -By Sjeep'
{standard input}:2: Error: bad instruction `bin2s infile outfile label'
make: *** [gfx/drivers/ctr_sprite.o] Error 1

It's like it's trying to use the bin2s command as an assembler instruction or something (wtf?).

 

[Rinnegatamante]

You need to set up aemstro cause RetroArch uses GPU.

gpsp core compiled but seems to freeze with almost all titles (or at least all roms i tried): http://rinnegatamante.netsons.org/retroarch_gba.3dsx (Note that it takes a lot of time to setup Retroarch so wait, it's not a freeze).

 

[Rinnegatamante]

Gambatte as 3DS if audio is manually disabled works very well, reached 60 fps with some titles, i'll set a good icon/banner and public it.

 

[daxtsu]

You need to set up aemstro cause RetroArch uses GPU.

gpsp core compiled but seems to freeze with almost all titles (or at least all roms i tried): http://rinnegatamante.netsons.org/retroarch_gba.3dsx (Note that it takes a lot of time to setup Retroarch so wait, it's not a freeze).

I have aemstro set up.

 

[Azel]

any chance it can (significantly) take advantage of the higher specs of the new 3DS?