Homebrew [RetroArch] Nightly builds here!

[Skeet1983]

Where do I put cheats for CATSFC and mGBA?

 

[Fatalanus]

Speaking about fullscreen, do you have an option for this in Retroarch? Because I have 16/9, 16/10 but I failed getting a real fullscreen.

 

[teampleb]

Where do I put cheats for CATSFC and mGBA?

mGBA is still in alpha. It might not even work with the cheat engine yet.

 

[Skeet1983]

Anyone know if cheats are supported in CATSFC? If yes, where are they put and in which format?

 

[teampleb]

Anyone know if cheats are supported in CATSFC? If yes, where are they put and in which format?

You could probably just find that information on their website.

 

[Skeet1983]

You could probably just find that information on their website.

Have a link to their site?

 

[teampleb]

Have a link to their site?

Come on dude. Think for yourself. It's libretro.com . A minute of googling "retroarch website" would've got you that.

 

[Skeet1983]

Their site says that CATSFC does support cheats, but can't find anything on where to put them and in which format.

 

[teampleb]

Their site says that CATSFC does support cheats, but can't find anything on where to put them and in which format.

It's on there. Look for information about cheats. Not CatSFC.

 

[Vague Rant]

I'm going to recommend with some firmness that people don't switch from mGBA to the RetroArch port of same, "nice UI" or not. For one thing, RetroArch mGBA is probably lacking any number of features that the natively built version has: e.g. games with motion control or which use the solar sensor probably aren't playable at all. Also, keep in mind that mGBA is not exclusively a piece of software developed for 3DS. It's been a PC emulator for much longer than it's run on 3DS, where it is being tailored to the 3DS hardware. The RetroArch port is not based on the 3DS branch specifically, it's just a port of the standard core to the libretro architecture and will likely fall behind on 3DS support as mGBA 3DS becomes more specialized. You can already experience how performance of RetroArch mGBA lags behind the 3DS version with games like Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland, where RetroArch runs the game at about 2/3 the speed native mGBA does.

What RetroArch does is many times great. What it's probably not great for is porting emulators to platforms they've already been ported to by their original developers with care taken to take advantage of the new platform. RetroArch is fundamentally about making things the same across many platforms, so cases where its core will outperform the same software built specifically for a platform are likely exceedingly rare.

Sorry if this sounds critical of either the goals or implementation of RetroArch, which is not my intention. I'm simply making the case the goals of a jack-of-all-trades project like RetroArch are very different to software that's tailored to any additional platforms to which it's ported. The RetroArch approach gives us great things like relatively quick ports of emulators to 3DS once they're plugged into libretro as a whole, while mainline mGBA's approach basically means less platforms run mGBA but when they do it's done with consideration for the capabilities of the machine running the emulator. Phrased another way, on platforms where mGBA is not currently available, the possibility of running the emulator via RetroArch is a massive improvement over the alternative, even if that means it's not going to be tailored to your hardware. The thing is that mGBA is available on 3DS.

 

[Skeet1983]

It's on there. Look for information about cheats. Not CatSFC.

Where? Not seeing it...

 

[teampleb]

I'm going to recommend with some firmness that people don't switch from mGBA to the RetroArch port of same, "nice UI" or not. For one thing, RetroArch mGBA is probably lacking any number of features that the natively built version has: e.g. games with motion control or which use the solar sensor probably aren't playable at all. Also, keep in mind that mGBA is not exclusively a piece of software developed for 3DS. It's been a PC emulator for much longer than it's run on 3DS, where it is being tailored to the 3DS hardware. The RetroArch port is not based on the 3DS branch specifically, it's just a port of the standard core to the libretro architecture and will likely fall behind on 3DS support as mGBA 3DS becomes more specialized. You can already experience how performance of RetroArch mGBA lags behind the 3DS version with games like Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland, where RetroArch runs the game at about 2/3 the speed native mGBA does.

What RetroArch does is many times great. What it's probably not great for is porting emulators to platforms they've already been ported to by their original developers with care taken to take advantage of the new platform. RetroArch is fundamentally about making things the same across many platforms, so cases where its core will outperform the same software built specifically for a platform are likely exceedingly rare.

Sorry if this sounds critical of either the goals or implementation of RetroArch, which is not my intention. I'm simply making the case the goals of a jack-of-all-trades project like RetroArch are very different to software that's tailored to any additional platforms to which it's ported. The RetroArch approach gives us great things like relatively quick ports of emulators to 3DS once they're plugged into libretro as a whole, while mainline mGBA's approach basically means less platforms run mGBA but when they do it's done with consideration for the capabilities of the machine running the emulator. Phrased another way, on platforms where mGBA is not currently available, the possibility of running the emulator via RetroArch is a massive improvement over the alternative, even if that means it's not going to be tailored to your hardware. The thing is that mGBA is available on 3DS.

Thank you for that essay. That could've been five lines and explained the same thing. "The official mGBA builds are faster and optimised for the 3DS." Oh look, it only took one line.

 

[Vague Rant]

Boo hoo, somebody on the Internet wrote three paragraphs, this is an affront. I'd tell you to quit filling every thread with pointless garbage bickering, but it's GBATemp so it's just a drop in the ocean, anyway.

 

[teampleb]

Boo hoo, somebody on the Internet wrote three paragraphs, this is an affront. I'd tell you to quit filling every thread with pointless garbage bickering, but it's GBATemp so it's just a drop in the ocean, anyway.

Anyone who has used both knows that already anyway.

 

[Idaho]

Thank you for that essay. That could've been five lines and explained the same thing. "The official mGBA builds are faster and optimised for the 3DS." Oh look, it only took one line.

Nickname isn't "vague rants" for nothing

 

[Radius4]

It's still not necessarily kept up to date with the latest nightly. For example, the Genesis Plus GX core seems to be based on 1.7.4 rather than the latest 1.7.5 RC1. Only alispider can confirm if they're actively keeping the mgba core up to date.

It's up-to-date

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I'm going to recommend with some firmness that people don't switch from mGBA to the RetroArch port of same, "nice UI" or not. For one thing, RetroArch mGBA is probably lacking any number of features that the natively built version has: e.g. games with motion control or which use the solar sensor probably aren't playable at all.

 

[Vague Rant]

@Radius4 My apologies, I stand corrected. Is it possible to map core options to buttons in RetroArch, or are they exclusive to the menu?

 

[Radius4]

@Radius4 My apologies, I stand corrected. Is it possible to map core options to buttons in RetroArch, or are they exclusive to the menu?

They are exclusive to the menu, actually endrift added it himself.
I guess it's possible to map them but it hasn't been done.

Edit: hmmm maybe it's already done:

 

[Nepeta]

Could someone tell me how to switch cores in RetroArch? For whatever reason, there's no "Load Core" button on the main menu which is what I assumed did it, so it's just stuck on the mGBA core. Also, for whatever reason, even though I can load it on mGBA, Mother 3 crashes RetroArch (and I prefer to run it on RetroArch since it has bilinear filtering, which either the standard mGBA doesn't have or I just can't find out how to enable it)

 

[Radius4]

Core switching in 3ds is not implemented. You have to exit and load the other core.