The evolution of the Nintendo Switch hacking scene takes a major step forward with the impending release of RetroArch, a wildly popular emulator frontend. Known for being on nearly every possible platform under the sun, RetroArch’s development team has brought about the first official build of a version for the Nintendo Switch. If you install it onto your Switch, you can expect features like savestates, OpenGL support, and even netplay. The usual suspects of games from the NES, SNES, and GBA run well, and there’s even PS1 titles booting, to various results. RetroArch has already been running on the Switch in the past, (through Lakka) but this will be the first officially supported version by the Libretro team, and means that active development will include a Nintendo Switch version with each major update. A full version is scheduled to drop soon, with a nightly build at the link below.

There will be 42+ cores at launch for RetroArch Switch! Our biggest platform launch yet! pic.twitter.com/HtJ3ERt1IH

— libretro (@libretro) September 30, 2018

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[m4xw]

Oooooh cool. Question though: Will this change things w/ lakka? Would you suggest me to switch to retroarch instead or can I safely stay on lakka for the switch?

Do whatever you like most

 

[Noctosphere]

Quick question
If it ever supports Wii, will we have to play with wiimote
or joycon will be cpompatible?

 

[jt_1258]

Now with actual fucking audio -.-
is this retro arch thing broken on the latest switch firmware though?

 

[m4xw]

Now with actual fucking audio -.-
is this retro arch thing broken on the latest switch firmware though?

No, why would it.

 

[mesakagi]

what are the chance we can play gamecube and wii games on our switch smoothly in the future?

 

[m4xw]

what are the chance we can play gamecube and wii games on our switch smoothly in the future?

Everyone has dreams.
That said, without overclock and needed hw modifications no way

 

[SimisFul]

Everyone has dreams.
That said, without overclock and needed hw modifications no way

Dolphin almost runs full speed on Linux on Switch.

I'm confident it can run near perfectly without the load of of xserver in the way.

 

[m4xw]

Dolphin almost runs full speed on Linux on Switch.

I'm confident it can run near perfectly without the load of of xserver in the way.

What did you smoke?
It's nowhere near that hahaha

#define almost doesnt

ftfy

 

[Boostnek9]

I'm running the nightly and was wondering if you wanted feedback or bug reports yet or not.

 

[m4xw]

I'm running the nightly and was wondering if you wanted feedback or bug reports yet or not.

Feedback is appreciated, as for bug I am only aware of some random lockups when opening the menu or initial load, if you experience Issues, switch to "switch" video driver and rgui.
Don't forget GL is still not matured so bugs are expected beyond RA ones

 

[Boostnek9]

Feedback is appreciated, as for bug I am only aware of some random lockups when opening the menu or initial load, if you experience Issues, switch to "switch" video driver and rgui.
Don't forget GL is still not matured so bugs are expected beyond RA ones

Ah ok sounds good. So far, the screen alignment is off. When launching the app through hb menu, the red writing on the top just has the bottom of the letters and can't read them. Ya as far as bug reports, I mean crashes and odd behavior rather than performace of a title.

Thanks

 

[JoeyMacCheese]

How smooth are the N64 games?

 

[m4xw]

How smooth are the N64 games?

No N64 for release

 

[hexdump]

Thanks a lot for this. Really looking forward to check first release.

BTW @m4axw do you know if there would be sinclair spectrum and amstrad cores available?

Nice Job!

 

[trogoldito]

Exciting news. Lately I've wanted to go back and replay some SCUMMVM classics. Hopefully the switch version will have touch controls.

 

[huma_dawii]

I thought we already have that? RetroNX?

 

[matias3ds]

Is this going to be available to run trough Sx Os ? i just dont want to turn the switch on and off to change payloads

 

[Deleted-401606]

There isn't a release yet. You're hyping people up for a beta, essentially. Why? This is just asking for trouble. Holy hell, you're "source" even points out that fact. Didn't think it was fishy that it points to the "nightly" folder?

calm down dude.

 

[isoboy]

https://ufile.io/6u88p Here's my scanline overlay. I use it scaled to 150% at 50% opacity.

 

[m4xw]

I thought we already have that? RetroNX?

This is the evolution of RetroNX