Homebrew [RetroArch] Nightly builds here!

[AtlasFontaine]

There is still room for improvement for PSX, indeed.
Dynarec is already enabled for this core, or not?

Only on 9.2 and below

 

[Seita]

Only on 9.2 and below

and only on n3ds. o3ds is old anyway.lol

 

[AtlasFontaine]

and only on n3ds. o3ds is old anyway.lol

He's asking about dynarec, and dynarec is usable in both, old and "new" 3ds on 9.2 and below.

 

[Seita]

He's asking about dynarec, and dynarec is usable in both, old and "new" 3ds on 9.2 and below.

It's almost useless in o3ds. And btw, dynarec is also available in 9.2+ systems. I can see that option in my 3dsxl 9.9

 

[NeohopeSTF]

Sorry if its been asked before but does the neogeo core need bios files? Glad to see compatibility is up for it!

 

[AtlasFontaine]

It's almost useless in o3ds. And btw, dynarec is also available in 9.2+ systems. I can see that option in my 3dsxl 9.9

You can see it but it doesn't work even if it says is enable. The point there is that dynarec IS avaliable to O3DS, slower, but is there. I'm out.

 

[daxtsu]

Sorry if its been asked before but does the neogeo core need bios files? Glad to see compatibility is up for it!

Yes it does. I'm not sure if you can use the unofficial UniBIOS instead of the original, but you at least need the original official one.

 

[kenseiden]

UniBIOS is supported up to ver 3.0 and must be in your neogeo.zip. Don't have my neogeo.zip near me at the moment, but if i remember correctly, the files must be named uni-bios*.rom (* being whatever version number it is, such as uni-bios12.rom).

 

[mordorer]

i cant get past this lots of errors, with some neo geo roms - cia - n3ds

 

[Fatalanus]

Because they are not Neo Geo roms. They are arcade games, but not Neogeo, so they don't work.

EDIT: gpsp.cia: random freeze ingame. I can add that without the bilinear filtering option, this is just ugly. Dust is everywhere, extra pixels are absolutely crazy. And this is annoying because bilinear filtering is blurry for me.

 

[Seita]

You can see it but it doesn't work even if it says is enable. The point there is that dynarec IS avaliable to O3DS, slower, but is there. I'm out.

you had better be because you have little idea about that. Now begone.

 

[MunkyLuv]

Been watching this thread quite a bit, but seeing as how it moves so fast and has so much info, i just wanted to toss a quick update out there just in case, like myself, it was missed. I'm using a N3ds 10.1 and a Cubic Ninja cart for homebrew. The newest nightly 10/23 Neo Geo .3dsx has seen a nice boost in compatibility. I'm able to now load metal slug X,3,4 as well as KOF2000. Each of these roms will hang for almost a minute, but then load as normal. Metal slug 5, SVC, and KOF2002 still throw an error and lock the system, but we're getting there! Just wanted to throw out a huge THANK YOU to everyone making this happen!

 

[SeongGino]

Came to back to, indeed, Neo-Geo finally getting a ROM size compatibility boost.......
Buuuut 3dsx CPS2 had it's graphics renderer broken in the process. Nothing but audio.
But MVSC boots properly now at least. :/

Oh look, and PCE CD loading is now broken too!
Bah...

 

[Stack3r]

Why does overwriting catsfc with a newer version erase the saves for my games?

 

[ArugulaZ]

I just cherry picked the emulators I wanted to update. I've got the new Neo-Geo em and the old CPS2 em, so I'm happy.

By the way, having access to later Neo-Geo games is pretty great. I think CPS2 games run better, but hey, you take what you can get.

 

[Vague Rant]

It's almost useless in o3ds. And btw, dynarec is also available in 9.2+ systems. I can see that option in my 3dsxl 9.9

An option showing up in RetroArch absolutely does not mean that that option functions. Try messing with some settings in the audio menu sometime, most of them literally don't do anything on 3DS.

UniBIOS is supported up to ver 3.0 and must be in your neogeo.zip. Don't have my neogeo.zip near me at the moment, but if i remember correctly, the files must be named uni-bios*.rom (* being whatever version number it is, such as uni-bios12.rom).

Version 3.1 has been supported for a couple of weeks, now. Anyway, people shouldn't need to manually name their BIOS files, if they're getting their neogeo.zip from a reliable source, they should just be included.

Why does overwriting catsfc with a newer version erase the saves for my games?

Can you check your SD card to see if the saves are just being written to the wrong location? This was occurring with a few cores until it was fixed a few days ago; it's possible your saves are still on the SD card but need to be moved. You should also check that the savefiles directory in your retroarch.cfg doesn't have a slash on the end of it, as this apparently causes problems on 3DS.

 

[NekoMichi]

Why does overwriting catsfc with a newer version erase the saves for my games?

Some of the nightlies have a bug where they try to read/write saves from the root of the SD, rather than wherever you specified in the configs.

 

[Stack3r]

An option showing up in RetroArch absolutely does not mean that that option functions. Try messing with some settings in the audio menu sometime, most of them literally don't do anything on 3DS.


Version 3.1 has been supported for a couple of weeks, now. Anyway, people shouldn't need to manually name their BIOS files, if they're getting their neogeo.zip from a reliable source, they should just be included.


Can you check your SD card to see if the saves are just being written to the wrong location? This was occurring with a few cores until it was fixed a few days ago; it's possible your saves are still on the SD card but need to be moved. You should also check that the savefiles directory in your retroarch.cfg doesn't have a slash on the end of it, as this apparently causes problems on 3DS.

So you suggest changing my save directory to root? Where does it save by default? Also @NekoMichi said slashes would mess it up if it was in the location so root would be best?

 

[Vague Rant]

So you suggest changing my save directory to root? Where does it save by default? Also @NekoMichi said slashes would mess it up if it was in the location so root would be best?

No, I wouldn't recommend changing save directory to root, that will just make your root messy. The slash issue seems to relate to when there's a slash on the end of the path, not if there's slashes in it anywhere.

My understanding of the way RetroArch works is that if a core fails to detect your save directory correctly, it will drop back to a fallback directory. For a while there was an issue with RetroArch on 3DS not correctly detecting the save directory from the config, so saves were going in the fallback directories. A confusing factor here is that different cores seem to use different directories as their fallback. CatSFC seems to just use the same path the ROM was loaded from (so e.g. it would write Chrono Trigger (USA).srm to the same directory where Chrono Trigger (USA).sfc was found). Nestopia seems to just use the root directory. Mednafen-based cores used the System directory (by default, I believe that that's sdmc:/retroarch/cores/system).

This issue should be fixed in current RetroArch, so cores should be correctly saving your saves to the savefiles directory (should be sdmc:/retroarch/cores/system). But that doesn't mean saves that were written on previous versions before this fix will suddenly be in the correct directory. There's a good chance that your saves aren't gone, you just need to find where RetroArch was (incorrectly) putting them and move them to the savefiles directory.

As always, be careful when overwriting saves with other saves. Don't delete any that you're not certain you don't need.

 

[NekoMichi]

So you suggest changing my save directory to root? Where does it save by default? Also @NekoMichi said slashes would mess it up if it was in the location so root would be best?

No, the bug makes it so that it will always use root as the save directory no matter what folder you set for saves. I think it was fixed in later builds, but not sure.