Homebrew [Release] Unofficial Retroarch 3DS

[dankzegriefer]

Is it homebrew launcher or?

Homebrew launcher.

 

[skebeman]

is there any way to enable sound? Super Mario World works perfectly without but its boring

 

[Smoker1]

What is the File structure for these? SD/3ds/????? or SD/????????

 

[bpc908]

is there any way to enable sound? Super Mario World works perfectly without but its boring

If you want an SNES emulator that runs with sound, you might be better off with blargsnes

 

[Powermad80]

If you want an SNES emulator that runs with sound, you might be better off with blargsnes

He's probably talking about Super Mario Advance port of SMW, though solid advice all the same.

 

[sTIMulat3]

Are there button combinations to exit a game so I don't have to restart everything just to play a different game?

 

[skebeman]

He's probably talking about Super Mario Advance port of SMW, though solid advice all the same.

yeah that's the one. i could play the snes version but it lacks some ssound effects that the advance version has. and i really like them

 

[AmandaRose]

I seems to be the only one here that don't mind about N64 emulation. That console didn't have many games. And very few of them were good. PS1 emulation would be rather cool though. There were many great shmups on the PS1

Are you on drugs son??? Very few Nintendo 64 games were good I can think of loads of great 64 games.

Mario 64
F Zero
Pilot Wings
Mario Kart 64
Donkey Kong 64
Majoras Mask
Ocarina of time
Goldeneye
Perfect Dark
Banjo Kazooie
Conkers bad fur day

And so many more games

 

[TecXero]

Are you on drugs son??? Very few Nintendo 64 games were good I can think of loads of great 64 games.

Mario 64
F Zero
Pilot Wings
Mario Kart 64
Donkey Kong 64
Majoras Mask
Ocarina of time
Goldeneye
Perfect Dark
Banjo Kazooie
Conkers bad fur day

And so many more games

Well, it's a matter of opinion. Just about all the N64 games I like have been ported, and those ports are generally better. I've never been big on Rare's take on platformers, I love F-Zero but at this point I'd prefer GX (and you'd be stuck in single player), OoT and MM have great 3DS remakes, and Mario 64 is also on DS (though due to the lack of analog stick, it suffers). So even if the 3DS had the power for a decent emulator, it wouldn't be a high priority to me. I can't speak for any developers looking into N64 emulation, but I can't imagine too many of them could justify the work needed.

Even on the N3DS, I doubt any homebrew developer can make something on par with DaedalusX64 on the PSP. I'm not trying to insult any developers, just that the N3DS really isn't ideal for it.

 

[doctorgoat]

N64 emulation isn't going to happen because nobody cares who has the skill to do anything ATM.

blargSnes being as developed as it is currently is somewhat of a miracle.

There's an actual Retroarch port going on, but the devs aren't comfortable showing anything they have, and the 3DS is weaker than the PSP in the aspect of emulation according to their last blogpost mentioning the system.

 

[TecXero]

N64 emulation isn't going to happen because nobody cares who has the skill to do anything ATM.

blargSnes being as developed as it is currently is somewhat of a miracle.

There's an actual Retroarch port going on, but the devs aren't comfortable showing anything they have, and the 3DS is weaker than the PSP in the aspect of emulation according to their last blogpost mentioning the system.

Well, in a way, yes. Most of the harder to emulate stuff pre-Dreamcast was using MIPS. The PSP uses a newer MIPS architecture, making it a bit more compatible. It also had a powerful (for the time) core. It did have the ME as well, but that was just a parallel processor (required a lot of overhead to run) that was missing a lot of points, so it only really worked for audio.

The 3DS has a dual-core ARM CPU (quad on N3DS) that is powerful and advanced, but lacks the compatibility the PSP's CPU had. Also, it is very difficult to emulate a single core system on multiple cores. You have to break up the code without them losing sync or becoming unstable, so that has a lot of overhead as well, negating a lot of the benefits of multiple cores.

 

[SkyDX]

I can't seem to get the GBA emulator to work. I put the BIOS in the correct folder. I load the emulator and press Load Content but it can't "see" the ROM I'm trying.

Try to disable the audio in the emulator settings before you load a ROM!

Well shit it runs

Glad to hear!

 

[coredalae]

Is there anyone would could create a current build of this?

 

[doctorgoat]

Is there anyone would could create a current build of this?

Where's the source that needs to be compiled? I didn't see this in active development.

 

[Kibouzen]

Are there button combinations to exit a game so I don't have to restart everything just to play a different game?

Just press L + R + SELECT + START at the same time and after a short break you can easily push the start button to exit (works in "gambatte")

 

[CocoTheFilly]

Forgive me for sounding like a noob but where do I put the GBA 3dsx file? Ive put it in a folder inside the /3ds folder and it doesn't show up in the Tubehax menu.

 

[irvinscastle]

Forgive me for sounding like a noob but where do I put the GBA 3dsx file? Ive put it in a folder inside the /3ds folder and it doesn't show up in the Tubehax menu.

put it in the 3ds folder not in folder within 3ds

 

[CocoTheFilly]

put it in the 3ds folder not in folder withing 3ds

Oh thanks that worked, I didn't know some apps were supposed to go into the 3ds folder, i thought they all went into a folder within the folder,

 

[BlueEdge]

I get black screen in the gen emulator, someone knows what im doing bad?

 

[mattycfp]

TBH I have *no* idea what's happening

First off: I got the GBA one. Where would I get a GBA core (I'll assume that it's compiled specially for the 3DS so I'll have to get it special somewhere)?

EDIT: I have a "legitimate" BIOS dump for GBA. Where would I go about placing it in RetroArch?