Homebrew RetroArch Switch

nutsack · Jan 19, 2019

I have RetroArch installed to be launched from the album. I was wondering why PS1 saves weren't working, but from reading online it's supposed to be a problem if you exit Retroarch via the Home button. But how do you then properly exit out of RetroArch so your saves are stored correctly?

EDIT: Nevermind, I see START+SELECT brings up the RetroArch menu by default.

Beware · Jan 19, 2019

Little eye candy

fallingrat · Jan 19, 2019

taggen86 said:
Is there any way to get retroarch working properly on an exfat formated memory card? Would be nice if you didnt need to swap sd card every time you want to play the emulators. Currently got two sd cards, one for large switch games above the limit and one for retroarch

You can have everything in a fat32 sd card. About the 4gb limit, you can install large games with the usb installation functionality of tinfoil.

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Beware said:
Little eye candy

It looks amazing. Is Overclock needed? Does it work at full speed?

lordelan · Jan 19, 2019

sion_zaphod said:
Through pissing around and many hours of tinkering I've figured it out!

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Try this:- Backup your retroarch.cfg and retroarch-core-options.cfg inside the retroarch folder of your SD root then unrar this to your SD root and enjoy. Please tweak and share!

Fantastic! Thank you very much. I'll take a look to understand how it has to be done.
Did you adjust that from within RetroArch only or did you have to do some manual cfg edits?

taggen86 said:
Is there any way to get retroarch working properly on an exfat formated memory card? Would be nice if you didnt need to swap sd card every time you want to play the emulators. Currently got two sd cards, one for large switch games above the limit and one for retroarch

Install large games with Fluffy or AluminumFoil using the old text based Tinfoil version
or
Install them with Goldleaf
or
Make a network install with either Tinfoil or DZ tinfoil
or
Split them on PC with a python script and install them with n1dus/d0pus

There's so many ways for big NSP files.

grabman · Jan 19, 2019

i turn them into xci using ncb then load off usb

had to do a fresh install but mario 64 is very fast now using mupen next core incredible progress

ok so majoras mask and jet force Gemini dont boot for me with the mupen next core is this reason for the 2 cores or setting issue?

ok so here is what looks like is issue you can't like load game after game if game fails try exiting and reopening retroarch

cruisin the world plays great

grabman · Jan 19, 2019

Beware said:
Little eye candy

can you share the htc file?

pretty please?

a9lh-1user · Jan 19, 2019

https://emulationking.com/nintendo64

from there to:

https://emulationking.com/legend-zelda-majoras-mask/

Then you got all!

Next time try google

needed 30 seconds to find it!

DL and try whatever you like and let us know what is working and what not!

Paulsar99 · Jan 19, 2019

taggen86 said:
Is there any way to get retroarch working properly on an exfat formated memory card? Would be nice if you didnt need to swap sd card every time you want to play the emulators. Currently got two sd cards, one for large switch games above the limit and one for retroarch

Been using exfat on retroarch since last year and it's been fine for me.

And yeah I've accepted the risk and I was actually testing how long an exfat could survive retroarch, So far so good it's still fine up to this day.

ganons · Jan 19, 2019

Anyone using this with SX OS with full ram usage?

grabman · Jan 19, 2019

ganons said:
Anyone using this with SX OS with full ram usage?

no work i just use sxos to boot atmosphere instead

Hielkenator2 · Jan 19, 2019

Could anyone test progear ( FBA ) fro me on Reatroarch switch?
I cannot get this game to work with my FBA romset I am using for my WiiU...

linuxares · Jan 19, 2019

Congrats @grabman and @a9lh-1user. You are now banned from this thread.

Trice · Jan 19, 2019

taggen86 said:
Is there any way to get retroarch working properly on an exfat formated memory card? Would be nice if you didnt need to swap sd card every time you want to play the emulators. Currently got two sd cards, one for large switch games above the limit and one for retroarch

There isn't, because it's an issue of the Switch itself and nothing that can be fixed by the RetroArch devs.

stick267 · Jan 19, 2019

ganons said:
Anyone using this with SX OS with full ram usage?

Yep, works fine.

onofrix · Jan 19, 2019

stick267 said:
Yep, works fine.

works fine for me too

ganons · Jan 19, 2019

stick267 said:
Yep, works fine.

How exactly are you doing it?

stick267 · Jan 19, 2019

ganons said:
How exactly are you doing it?

Just hold R while launching a title. That’ll open the Homebrew Menu with full RAM, and then you just open RetroArch from there.

ganons · Jan 20, 2019

stick267 said:
Just hold R while launching a title. That’ll open the Homebrew Menu with full RAM, and then you just open RetroArch from there.

So not the album but a game?

regnad · Jan 20, 2019

Maybe a stupid noob question, but is it possible to make playlists with box covers on Switch RA?

stick267 · Jan 20, 2019

ganons said:
So not the album but a game?

Yes. For example if you have BOTW installed, hold R while you launch it. It’ll automatically load the HBmenu. Then you can load RetroArch from there.

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