New information reveals details about upcoming Steam release of RetroArch

Reploid · Jan 23, 2020

Now installing it would be a bit easier. Or harder, considering your POV

Stealphie · Jan 23, 2020

Nice.

gamesquest1 · Jan 23, 2020

I'm kinda hoping we see developers/publishers get onboard and publish games through the retroarch steam page as paid DLC packs, think things like the namco collection, sonic collection etc, if it picks up enough support it could allow a lot more retro games to be available legitimately from developers who otherwise wouldn't have the financial inclination to have to make/licence their own emulators and in turn make things a little more organised, maybe have a small fee from each sale be split between the emulator core devs for the required console and the retroarch team to help with development

let's face it, people will get these games regardless, so you might as well get whatever sales you can rather than stomp your feet and get nothing

the_randomizer · Jan 23, 2020

I'm surprised Steam/Valve is allowing this, given how stingy and uppity they get when people use the e-word (emulator)

ut2k4master · Jan 23, 2020

anyone whos more familiar with this noticing any obvious omissions?

jamesaa · Jan 23, 2020

So what are the pros and cons of this vs traditional installation? Do we get any Steam features? (cloud saves?)

ShadowOne333 · Jan 23, 2020

ut2k4master said:
anyone whos more familiar with this noticing any obvious omissions?

Right from the get go I notice Dolphin, PrBoom, FCEUX, PCSX Rearmed and melonDS are not there.
Also, none of the Mednafen/Beetle cores are there as well.

Mythical · Jan 23, 2020

the_randomizer said:
I'm surprised Steam/Valve is allowing this, given how stingy and uppity they get when people use the e-word (emulator)

I'm not sure they can really do anything about it as long as they're careful

yoyoyo69 · Jan 23, 2020

ShadowOne333 said:
Right from the get go I notice Dolphin, PrBoom, FCEUX, PCSX Rearmed and melonDS are not there.
Also, none of the Mednafen/Beetle cores are there as well.

Hopefully there's a way to "unofficially" add them.

comput3rus3r · Jan 23, 2020

jamesaa said:
So what are the pros and cons of this vs traditional installation? Do we get any Steam features? (cloud saves?)

Yeah I don't get the point of this when you can already have retroarch on the pc.

Deleted User · Jan 23, 2020

the_randomizer said:
I'm surprised Steam/Valve is allowing this, given how stingy and uppity they get when people use the e-word (emulator)

steam literally has porn on it, so i really think the rules have gotten lax as of late

also it's had commercial emulators for ages now

TunaKetchup · Jan 23, 2020

comput3rus3r said:
Yeah I don't get the point of this when you can already have retroarch on the pc.

Having your program on steam is good advertising

Reecey · Jan 23, 2020

Congratulations @m4xw you deserve it also other devs involved.

chrisrlink · Jan 23, 2020

supprised not all nintendo cores are omitted i see vba-m bsnes etc i know emulators themselves are legal but being a big company attached so such a grey area program seems not too good of an idea especally if laws change etc

PatrickD85 · Jan 23, 2020

Well I wonder how long it will remain there given the premise of the e-word.
But hey who knows. Still kudos for everyone involved!

ShadowOne333 · Jan 23, 2020

chrisrlink said:
supprised not all nintendo cores are omitted i see vba-m bsnes etc i know emulators themselves are legal but being a big company attached so such a grey area program seems not too good of an idea especally if laws change etc

No gaming company in the world holds any legal threat against emulation.
This was all settled way back in the 90's with Bleem and Sony. Sony lost, and emulation is 100% legal nowadays.

Nintendo can go fuck off and eat crap with their stupid non-stopping legal shit.
They can't do a single thing about emulation, and they won't.
Only thing they can do is mitigate ROM distribution, but praise the heavens for non capitalist countries for that.

m4xw · Jan 23, 2020

Reecey said:
Congratulations @m4xw you deserve it also other devs involved.

Congratulate me/us when the release is out, not before.

slaphappygamer · Jan 23, 2020

Hopefully retroarch will get its own AppStore within then we can pay a dollar for the unmentioned cores. Or perhaps this will be an ad supported app and we get to pay a monthly fee to remove ads. I just love money and little bullshit. Also, this can now be called a “container” rather than an emulator, since it doesn’t really emulate. #verbaltrickery

Anyhow, it’s kind of nice to see retroarch released this way. This way when a user gets steam on whatever format they can, retroarch will automagically work.

lordelan · Jan 23, 2020

gamesquest1 said:
I'm kinda hoping we see developers/publishers get onboard and publish games through the retroarch steam page as paid DLC packs, think things like the namco collection, sonic collection etc, if it picks up enough support it could allow a lot more retro games to be available legitimately from developers who otherwise wouldn't have the financial inclination to have to make/licence their own emulators and in turn make things a little more organised, maybe have a small fee from each sale be split between the emulator core devs for the required console and the retroarch team to help with development

let's face it, people will get these games regardless, so you might as well get whatever sales you can rather than stomp your feet and get nothing

This will never happen although it would be awesome.

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