Homebrew Retroarch Emulation Thread (Nightly Builds Included)

[Clydefrosch]

Does Gpsp continues to crash randomly with some games and to work perfectly with others?

better, at times it will work perfectly for a game and at others crash every 2 minutes for the same game!

 

[ImCarlosGG]

1.6.6 version is out and seems like there are fixes in the 3DS cores:

- Serious Nintendo 3DS regression fixed which affected the performance of all cores!

 

[Muxi]

psx-rearmed is still crashing on 1.6.6

 

[Greymane]

psx-rearmed is still crashing on 1.6.6

The latest working one from what i can remember is around 2017-4-4/7 or so.
Don't count on it working anytime soon unless someone starts to specialy focus on the 3ds version.

 

[Deleted User]

The latest working one from what i can remember is around 2017-4-4/7 or so.
Don't count on it working anytime soon unless someone starts to specialy focus on the 3ds version.

I read on an german Gamepage that the previous Versions of Retroarch accidently enabled an automatic rewind which slowed down the Performance.

 

[Deleted User]

Anyone note any performance gains in the latest release? RetroArch seemed to say that it would improve performance across cores.

 

[Greymane]

I read on an german Gamepage that the previous Versions of Retroarch accidently enabled an automatic rewind which slowed down the Performance.

Eeyup, the rewind was implicitly enabled.
Though in case if psx-rearmed the problem is it trying to recompile the code from a game you play which makes the system crash.

 

[Muxi]

Version 1.6.7 is out. Does anyone know what this release fixes ?

 

[ShadowOne333]

Version 1.6.7 is out. Does anyone know what this release fixes ?

Here:
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/blob/master/CHANGES.md

1.6.7 (future)

• SCANNER: Fix directory scanning.
• SCANNER: Fix file scanning.
• COMMON: Fix 'Disk Image Append' option.
• FREEBSD: Compatibility fixes for Video4Linux2 camera driver.
• GUI: (MaterialUI) Add disk image append icons.
• GUI: (MaterialUI) Improve word wrapping when menu icons are enabled.
• GUI: (MaterialUI) Add User Interface -> Appearance -> Menu Icons Enable. You can turn on/off the icons on the lefthand side of the menu entries.
• GUI: Performance optimizations for XMB menu driver - only calculates visible items.
• LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation.

1.6.6 (future)

• 3DS: Fixes serious performance regression that affected every core; rewind was always implicitly enabled.
• AUDIO: MOD/S3M/XM sound should now be properly mixed in with the core's sound.
• GUI: Visual makeover of MaterialUI.
• GUI: Added 'Music', 'Images' and 'Video' collection options to RGUI/MaterialUI.
• GUI: Allow the user to add 'Favorites'.
• GUI: Allow the user to rename entries.
• GUI: Performance optimizations for XMB menu driver.
• LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
• INPUT: Overlay controller response - when we press buttons on the gamepad or keyboard, the corresponding buttons on the overlay will be highlighted as well.
• NETBSD: Silence some compilation warnings.
• COMMON: Fixed bug 'Deleting an entry from a playlist would not update the list view inside XMB'.
• COMMON: Fix inet_ntop_compat on *nix
• LOBBY: Add skeleton to add help descriptions to lobbies

 

[Muxi]

Here:
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/blob/master/CHANGES.md

So nothing new for 3ds users

 

[ShadowOne333]

So nothing new for 3ds users

Only in the 1.6.6 update, which fixed the issue with the rewind always enabled.

 

[Muxi]

Only in the 1.6.6 update, which fixed the issue with the rewind always enabled.

I´m still waiting for a new working version of psx_rearmed

 

[Stack3r]

I´m still waiting for a new working version of psx_rearmed

Sad to say, probably not going to happen they stopped support for 3ds last time I heard

 

[ShadowOne333]

Sad to say, probably not going to happen they stopped support for 3ds last time I heard

If they did we wouldn't have the rewind fix in 1.6.6.
The problem was that aliaspider left the project, and he was the main maintainer for both 3DS and Wii U ports.

That's not to say, however, that someone else could take on the project and/or implement bugfixes here and there from time to time.

 

[SeongGino]

If they did we wouldn't have the rewind fix in 1.6.6.
The problem was that aliaspider left the project, and he was the main maintainer for both 3DS and Wii U ports.

That's not to say, however, that someone else could take on the project and/or implement bugfixes here and there from time to time.

Sure, bugfixes are nice, but they are simple and not to the extent of optimizing whole cores for the system. Literally no one else can make the 3DS versions any more salvageable than it is now. I think it's safe to say, unless someone else here or elsewhere decides to continue from Aliaspider's work, this port specifically is virtually on hiatus.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Sure, bugfixes are nice, but they are simple and not to the extent of optimizing whole cores for the system. Literally no one else can make the 3DS versions any more salvageable than it is now. I think it's safe to say, unless someone else here or elsewhere decides to continue from Aliaspider's work, this port specifically is virtually on hiatus.

Cores are another repository on their own.
The main thing is to get RetroArch to compile for whatever system the target is for.
If you notice, each core/emulator has a different GitHub repository.
The cores themselves are not what's to be optimized, the maintainers of each emulator are mostly in charge of that, like ekeeke for GenPlus GX, but rather work on the main frontend and debug the issues it has in particular for the system at hand, in our case, the 3DS.

 

[Deleted User]

Version 1.6.7 is out. Does anyone know what this release fixes ?

This Update fixes the Game Scanner that creates the Playlist. Apparently it was broken in Version 1.6.6.

 

[Stack3r]

If they did we wouldn't have the rewind fix in 1.6.6.
The problem was that aliaspider left the project, and he was the main maintainer for both 3DS and Wii U ports.

That's not to say, however, that someone else could take on the project and/or implement bugfixes here and there from time to time.

Gotcha thanks for clearing that up

 

[Smoker1]

So basically, dont bother with the PSX Emulation on the 3DS. Previous and Current Builds lock up when it is trying to run a Recompiling.

 

[AtlasFontaine]

I don't think anybody will pick up and optimize the cores for the 3DS after all this time, just look at PCSX, right after being ported nobody made a single effort to optimize it for the platform.