Homebrew Retroarch Emulation Thread (Nightly Builds Included)

[FateForWindows]

Thanks, Got it working with an older version though. It's so close to playable on almost every game I try. Is there a specific group/person working on pcsx rearmed for 3ds aside from retroarch. I want to follow there progress

Nope. Retroarch is the only PlayStation emulator on the 3DS that is capable of playing commercial titles.

 

[Manana]

If anyone was curious about why pcsx rearmed hasn't been improved much if at all since it's launch, I contacted libretro on twitter and this is what they had to say. I have no I dead what that means other than an implication that improvements from here could be minimal at best. Let me know if this is the wrong place to post this.

Me - "Is there any chance Pcsx - Rearmed for 3DS will run at a playable fps (W/Sound) anytime soon? I'ts been pretty stagnant since it's launch and it seems like its on the brink of running at full speed on New 3DS. Has it been abandoned due to hardware limitations?"

Libretro - "Hi there, our first priority is to stabilize these RetroArch ports first. 1.7.0 (the next version) for instance will have much needed stability fixes, and we'd like to first flesh out and polish some of these console ports first. But yes Pcsx Rearmed was a quick port. There are also no easy quick gains to be had anymore, since 3DS doesn't support NEON so we can't use the NEON optimizations, etc."

 

[FateForWindows]

If anyone was curious about why pcsx rearmed hasn't been improved much if at all since it's launch, I contacted libretro on twitter and this is what they had to say. I have no I dead what that means other than an implication that improvements from here could be minimal at best. Let me know if this is the wrong place to post this.

Me - "Is there any chance Pcsx - Rearmed for 3DS will run at a playable fps (W/Sound) anytime soon? I'ts been pretty stagnant since it's launch and it seems like its on the brink of running at full speed on New 3DS. Has it been abandoned due to hardware limitations?"

Libretro - "Hi there, our first priority is to stabilize these RetroArch ports first. 1.7.0 (the next version) for instance will have much needed stability fixes, and we'd like to first flesh out and polish some of these console ports first. But yes Pcsx Rearmed was a quick port. There are also no easy quick gains to be had anymore, since 3DS doesn't support NEON so we can't use the NEON optimizations, etc."

They would have to do a lot of major modifications to get performance improvements on 3DS.

 

[JP1983]

Hi. Sorry if this is a dumb question. I've just modded my 3ds and set up a few retroarch emulators. Is there any way to change the default directory that appears when I load a rom so that it knows where my roms are actually stored, rather than having to navigate to it each time?

 

[trecko1234]

Hi. Sorry if this is a dumb question. I've just modded my 3ds and set up a few retroarch emulators. Is there any way to change the default directory that appears when I load a rom so that it knows where my roms are actually stored, rather than having to navigate to it each time?

Settings > Directory > File Browser, then set your location. To go to it, load content and then "Start Directory"

 

[Manana]

They would have to do a lot of major modifications to get performance improvements on 3DS.

This is my last post on the matter. Sorry if I'm being persistent but in your honest opinion, is full speed feasible even with those major modifications? I have a bunch of roms stored on my SD and I want to delete them if there is no hope. Good bye Mega Man Legends for 3DS....again

 

[JP1983]

Settings > Directory > File Browser, then set your location. To go to it, load content and then "Start Directory"

I'm not seeing any option for "Directory". The only choices I see are:

Quick Menu
Load Core
Load Content
Information
Restart RetroArch
Configurations
Help
Quit RetroArch

I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but I've been looking through the options and I don't see anything about Directory.

 

[guicrith]

This is my last post on the matter. Sorry if I'm being persistent but in your honest opinion, is full speed feasible even with those major modifications? I have a bunch of roms stored on my SD and I want to delete them if there is no hope. Good bye Mega Man Legends for 3DS....again

Its true, the new 3ds may be 800 mhz but it lacks many things even low end phones have like neon which allows you to run entire loops as one opcode and is also running armv6 not 7.

 

[trecko1234]

I'm not seeing any option for "Directory". The only choices I see are:

Quick Menu
Load Core
Load Content
Information
Restart RetroArch
Configurations
Help
Quit RetroArch

I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but I've been looking through the options and I don't see anything about Directory.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Try deleting your retroarch.cfg and reinstalling

 

[Muxi]

This is my last post on the matter. Sorry if I'm being persistent but in your honest opinion, is full speed feasible even with those major modifications? I have a bunch of roms stored on my SD and I want to delete them if there is no hope. Good bye Mega Man Legends for 3DS....again

Megaman Legends is well playable with the right settings on N3DS, but sound is still crappy.
(retroarch nightly 2017-12-03 cia; Audio-Driver : DSP; Games in PBP-Format)

 

[Transdude1996]

Does anyone know how to fix Retroarch's problem with replacing Japanese characters with gibberish when ROM searching?

 

[ajfoucault]

What format should the PSX games be to run as smooth as possible? *.bin/*.cue? or *.iso? another format?

 

[RocketRobz]

What format should the PSX games be to run as smooth as possible? *.bin/*.cue? or *.iso? another format?

A format that is used for PSX2PSP-converted games, though I forgot what's it's called.

 

[lone_wolf323]

A format that is used for PSX2PSP-converted games, though I forgot what's it's called.

I think that one your after is the .pbp format of what the psp uses.

 

[ajfoucault]

I think that one your after is the .pbp format of what the psp uses.

Does PSXRearmed recognize those? Wow!

 

[SaffronXL]

Does PSXRearmed recognize those? Wow!

.pbp will run the fastest. Still won't be playable.

 

[Muxi]

.pbp will run the fastest. Still won't be playable.

there are quite some games that are playable, if the device is a N3DS and the games are in pbp-format.

 

[SaffronXL]

there are quite some games that are playable, if the device is a N3DS and the games are in pbp-format.

Just trying to set expectations accordingly.

 

[DominoBright]

Does anyone know how to fix Retroarch's problem with replacing Japanese characters with gibberish when ROM searching?

I suggest renaming the ROMs and paths that have these Japanese characters. I'm not a major RetroArch user so I don't know of a better solution.

 

[FateForWindows]

Just trying to set expectations accordingly.

Games like FF7 and some 3D RPGs are perfectly playable, though more graphically intensive games will do a bit worse. Ironically 3D ones tend to outperform 2D when it comes to things like world maps since large maps (take FF2 for example) will cause lag.