Homebrew Retroarch Emulation Thread (Nightly Builds Included)

[cearp]

GameYob for GB/GBC (audio isn't perfect but everything runs fullspeed)

for gb(c) should i be using gameyob or gambatte?

 

[daxtsu]

for gb(c) should i be using gameyob or gambatte?

I'd say Gambatte except if you need borders, slightly better colour support (I can't remember off the top of my head, but I seem to remember GameYob being more customisable in this area), and more speed in some games. It's purely opinion though. Use whatever emulator works best for the games you play.

 

[EMoney100]

Hi! Does anyone who has mastered the Sega CD for retroarch want to tell us their tricks of the trade? What format and naming scheme should we use? I am struggling, I have Sonic CD in bin/cue as well as iso/wav and neither is being played on 3DS..

 

[cearp]

I'd say Gambatte except if you need borders, slightly better colour support (I can't remember off the top of my head, but I seem to remember GameYob being more customisable in this area), and more speed in some games. It's purely opinion though. Use whatever emulator works best for the games you play.

i only thought there was one gb emulator in the pack so i wasn't sure when i read about gameyob ha
i'll try to find how to remove the debug text on the bottom screen. i'm sure that's possible.
i was very impressed with the retroarch menu, very nice (although very confusing!)

 

[daxtsu]

i only thought there was one gb emulator in the pack so i wasn't sure when i read about gameyob ha

Gambatte is the only one provided with RetroArch, but GameYob can easily be found in this subforum.

i'll try to find how to remove the debug text on the bottom screen. i'm sure that's possible.

Press the touch screen on the upper half, and it'll turn the screen off.

i was very impressed with the retroarch menu, very nice (although very confusing!)

You get used to it after a while. It has a lot of options (and it's generic for every core, so there's some overlap).

 

[cearp]

@daxtsu great advice, thanks!

 

[Kazuma77]

Looks like Picodrive is getting the boot. Beggar Prince reset at the usual place. Pier didn't even run, failed to create save data. Both run on Plus of course. That's what it's known for. Though Pier only runs at 40 FPS, with or without the ISO (actually, it drops below 40 without it). That game must really give the Genesis a workout. Wouldn't know. It won't run on a Mega ED. First time trying it actually, and it seems like a genuinely good game (most homebrew carts are just translated HKO crap). If someone could get it to work on the Mega ED, I might even consider buying it (I like supporting indie devs, but I hate swapping carts).

Playing the cia versions of RetroArch on Pasta sysnand sounds like a great idea!
As a general rule, if the cia installs fine on emunand, it should install fine on Pasta sysnand as well without bricking, right?
There's no limit to what cia's you install on sysnand via pasta? Like emulators, homebrew apps, etc. I guess it will only really be useful for emulators. And if on O3DS, it's useful for AGBfirm + GBA injects. Or does AGBfirm also work on N3DS sysnand?

Well, it's not like they're installing to NAND, and I think we can trust the RA team. If I were getting these from some unknown source, I'd definitely check them in EmuNAND first. That said, you don't really see much console homebrew malware. The big target is Android. Besides, most people that have an exploitable 3DS to begin with run EmuNAND. Imagine if people were even halfway as cautious with Windows PCs. People like me might have to find a new line of work.

Actually, there are a few other things you might want on SysNAND. For example:

A CN CIA for running Ninjhax 1.1 (that's obviously not going to work on 10.3). Of course, keeping 1.1 around means changing "boot.3dsx" in all 2.5 payloads you might be using, since there's no changing 1.1's target. My copy of Gridlauncher is named "hblb.3dsx" for example I find the most cross-hax compatible boot file to be the one with Pasta built in, so that's my "boot.3dsx" file. YMMV.

I made RF CIAs of the US and EUR versions of CN so I could run Gateway on the other copy (no longer needed for several reasons, but a few months ago it was very useful).

There's MSETSD for changing the settings that disappeared when you downgraded MSET to 4.5. This is pretty much only useful in SysNAND. You may never need it, but it's good to have.

Alternate eshop access methods so you can get updates for your legit CIAs, and download NFN on SysNAND (into which I like to inject Four Swords, naturally). Then again, I guess thanks to MenuHax, you never have to see a clean SysNAND, or even see SysNAND at all for that matter, ever again if you'd rather not. Which would make all that "legit CIA" stuff somewhat pointless.

FreeMultiPatcher gets out-of-region DSiWare and GBA games to show up if you don't like using BBM to launch them. Of course, rxTools has an RF SysNAND mode. But it's nice having options.

It never hurts to have useful apps like SDF, PlayCoinSetter, FBI, HB Launcher, BootNTR, and CTRXplorer installed either.


GBA and DSiWare probably will remain the most frequent uses for SysNAND though. They're the reason GW owners like me wanted CFW for the N3DS to begin with. Well, that and SDF, but that's also a need that's passed. And yes, the N3DS has AGB-FIRM. Apparently it did occur to Nintendo how angry someone doing an ST from an ambassador 3DS might get if it didn't.

wow, 40fps for sotn sounds good, i mean, 'promising', especially if we think it can be improved to get to the magic 60fps one day?
i played it on my vita and was fine, but it would be really cool on the 3ds too, but only if the speed is fluid.

Hard to say. Some tweaks might get SotN up to speed. Looks like we can forget about Diablo though. Think I'll try FF7 and Twisted Metal 2 next.

 

[TecXero]

for gb(c) should i be using gameyob or gambatte?

I'd say it's up to you. GameYob will give you better performance and a couple more options specifically for GB/GBC. Gambatte isn't fullspeed for a couple of GBC games but will give you better audio and the regular advantages that come with RetroArch.

Hi! Does anyone who has mastered the Sega CD for retroarch want to tell us their tricks of the trade? What format and naming scheme should we use? I am struggling, I have Sonic CD in bin/cue as well as iso/wav and neither is being played on 3DS..

I tried out Sonic CD and the audio was fine for me, beyond that it's slow on my o3DS. I was simply running a BIN/CUE combo. Just in case, make sure you select the CUE when booting up. If it's not picking up the tracks properly, the BIN might be corrupted or the CUE might have the track markers wrong.

 

[Naked_Snake]

Picodrive runs Sega CD. It runs on O3ds, but it's slow. Recommended for N3ds. You can find any info you need to know about setting it up in the OP.

 

[Kazuma77]

I'd say it's up to you. GameYob will give you better performance and a couple more options specifically for GB/GBC. Gambatte isn't fullspeed for a couple of GBC games but will give you better audio and the regular advantages that come with RetroArch.

I tried out Sonic CD and the audio was fine for me, beyond that it's slow on my o3DS. I was simply running a BIN/CUE combo. Just in case, make sure you select the CUE when booting up. If it's not picking up the tracks properly, the BIN might be corrupted or the CUE might have the track markers wrong.

Also, the tracks could be misaligned if convererted from iso+mp3 because the MP3 format doesn't properly preserve original track length exactly (like OGG does). The first rip of Dracula X I ever downloaded failed to play in a real Turbografx, and for that exact reason. It would have been best for all involved if MP3 had died with with dialup (for distribution purposes anyway -- let the end user do the ripping).

However, the SegaCD did come out after the mixed mode standard. The data track is always at the beginning, so the game should at least load. If not, they should make absolutely certain that they have the right BIOS files, that they are named correctly, and in the correct folder, as outlined in post 1. Some emulators can be extremely picky about which version of the BIOS they want after all.

 

[TheBroCode]

I saw they put out 1.3 (www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-3-released/)

Does this mean they they fixed the gpSP random crashes? It works so well apart from the random lockup that forces you to restart the system.

 

[daxtsu]

I saw they put out 1.3 (www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-3-released/)

Does this mean they they fixed the gpSP random crashes? It works so well apart from the random lockup that forces you to restart the system.

If you've been using the nightly builds, 1.3 is just a formality (in other words, if you had problems on really recent nightly builds, then no, it's probably not fixed). Correct me if I'm wrong though, @aliaspider..

 

[cvskid]

So, with N3DS:
MGBA RetroArch or MGBA Standalone?

You most likely would want to use the retroarch version of mgba.

 

[hutzero]

I have black screen problem with MAME cannot run every FBA roms (both of 3dsx and cia). Have anyone can prove that it works for now?

 

[MattKimura]

@Kazuma77 More great ideas, thanks!
I forgot what's good about hax 1.1, is it still remotely useful? I can already do a lot in hax 2.5, including loading CFW.

Ah I knew N3DS had to have had AGMFIRM, that's great! But do GBA games work on sysnand through Pasta, or ONLY through Rxmode sysnand via Devmode/Pastamode? Eh I think it's pointless on N3DS, GPSP runs perfect enough that you don't need injects.

You're very knowledgeable, someone can learn from you!

 

[nusilver]

Hey guys,

So first off, just wanted to say I just got into RetroARch on 3DS over the weekend, and I'm blown away by the performance of all SNES games I've tried on CatSFC. That said, Super Metroid exhibits some weird behavior and I was wondering if anyone is familiar with this issue, and with how to fix it. I'm using the latest nightly build (1/19) and it's still doing the same thing... otherwise the game is flawless. The issue is: when the fanfare music for getting a new powerup plays, or when I from room to room, the HUD flickers like crazy, but then goes back to normal when the actions I mentioned are completed.

Any help is greatly appreciated; it's admittedly a minor annoyance, but since I don't see anyone else talking about it I thought I'd mention it. Using menuhax/.3dsx version on 10.3 on New 3DS, by the way.

 

[kedest]

Hey guys,

So first off, just wanted to say I just got into RetroARch on 3DS over the weekend, and I'm blown away by the performance of all SNES games I've tried on CatSFC. That said, Super Metroid exhibits some weird behavior and I was wondering if anyone is familiar with this issue, and with how to fix it. I'm using the latest nightly build (1/19) and it's still doing the same thing... otherwise the game is flawless. The issue is: when the fanfare music for getting a new powerup plays, or when I from room to room, the HUD flickers like crazy, but then goes back to normal when the actions I mentioned are completed.

Any help is greatly appreciated; it's admittedly a minor annoyance, but since I don't see anyone else talking about it I thought I'd mention it. Using menuhax/.3dsx version on 10.3 on New 3DS, by the way.

Try applying a video filter in settings. This solved flickering for me in DKC. Try out different filters (Some are too heavy and slow down the game)

 

[Codiox]

Hey guys, are there some good gba filters to make the saturation less intense?

What about shaders? Are there any on the 3ds version of retroarch?
Thanks!

 

[Jacklack3]

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[Stack3r]

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