Anti-RetroArch sentiment seems to be growing

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Retroarch is very good at what it does. I'll never not appreciate it being around and being supported. BUT, I tend to prefer individual dedicated emulators over Retroarch cores. Retroarch is the software I turn to if there is no great independent emulator for the device in question. As it's own thing, Retroarch takes a little longer to boot a game after you select it, and the menus are not as intuitive as they could be, finding some options can sometimes be a nightmare, especially after looking around for awhile only to conclude that the option you're looking for simply doesn't exist within Retroarch. I dunno about any behind the scenes drama as mentioned above, but, this all is how I feel regardless of all of that in regard to Retroarch. I very much am grateful it's here, I certainly don't dislike it, but it's also typically not the first place I want to go for emulation.

And I don't think there is anything that can really be done to change how I feel here, because this is all baked into the very nature of what Retroarch is, it tries to accomplish so much for so many different systems. It's understandable why the code isn't always gonna be tailor made for what you're trying to play on what device you're trying to play it on.
 
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I think the retroarch frontend sucks. I prefer just using standalone emulators.
Well in Raspberry 3 its very diffcult to get delete retroarch,because they are no worthy os to use standlone emulators.If only the raspberry 3 can use opendingux i will ride lakka from my system.
 
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Well in Raspberry 3 its very diffcult to get delete retroarch,because they are no worthy os to use standlone emulators.If only if raspberry 3 can use opendingux i will ride lakka from my system.
Well I don't use raspberry pi's for emulating because they are too under powered.
 

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Lol @ the people getting hurt their precious is being attacked. This topic wasn't supposed to be about the actual software but why there is negativity surrounding the devs.

It's also fine that some people don't care about any of it and have no problems using the software, but not everyone is capable of that sort of cognitive dissonance. For example, I had no interest in using anything by blawar on the Switch after the way he acted towards others. If you read the logs the RetroArch dev comes across a hundred times worse and that's enough to make some people feel uncomfortable using the software.
 
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Lol @ the people getting hurt their precious is being attacked. This topic wasn't supposed to be about the actual software but why there is negativity surrounding the devs.

It's also fine that some people don't care about any of it and have no problems using the software, but not everyone is capable of that sort of cognitive dissonance. For example, I had no interest in using anything by blawar on the Switch after the way he acted towards others. If you read the logs the RetroArch dev comes across a hundred times worse and that's enough to make some people feel uncomfortable using the software.
Everybody says professional, and personal life should be separated. Yet we have cases when a movie gets delisted because a single actor presumably harassed someone, which is yet to be proven. Lots of collateral damage.

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I'd love to see people create a better frontend, but until then, maybe use standalone emulators and stop bitching about it?
On some platforms, RA is the only option to run certain emus.
 
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Setting it up takes 5 min max, configuring a game might need another 2 min.
 

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Everybody says professional, and personal life should be separated. Yet we have cases when a movie gets delisted because a single actor presumably harassed someone, which is yet to be proven. Lots of collateral damage.

That quote isn't there to hand wave abuse away, it's there to let people know that sorrows at work should not be allowed to spill over into personal life and cause more problems there, and vise versa. If someone uses their professional position to facilitate abuse in their private life then that quote loses all meaning.
Bill Cosby being the perfect example of a person where the abuse in private was possible because of his professional life, and thus he doesn't deserve the professional life he had anymore.

Coming back to RetroArch, the devs don't strike me as people that have the best interests of the emulation scene at large in their minds but only their own little garden, but I simply don't use it because I dislike the interface options and the emulators I do care about are better standalone.
 

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To be fair the person in question was a former retroarch team member and I've seen no evidence that any other retroarch team members were involved or have done similar things, only a brief mention with no evidence, so we can consider the issue to be completely unrelated to retroarch and the hate should not be directed at them, the blame lies on the persons directly involved.
 
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I always preferred the standalone emulators over RA but the thing is nobody is making standalone emulators anymore. I have to use my PS Vita or my android.

My take on RA atleast they are still being consistent
 
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I always preferred the standalone emulators over RA but the thing is nobody is making standalone emulators anymore. I have to use my PS Vita or my android.

My take on RA atleast they are still being consistent

^ this. i was thinking the same.

retroarch is on everything. they trying update and improving it. other stand-alone emulators dont always get updated once a hacked system gets updated.
 

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The best and worst thing about Retroarch is that it provides the same interface and features across all systems. Back in the day we had to experiment with a ton of different emulators, installing and configuring each one individually, and that was effort. But at the end of the day, my Xbox was unique. Retroarch does so much more, and it's easy to install and use once you learn it. But, it has the same features and interface across all platforms, so my Switch, Phone, Shield, PC, arcade cabinet and PS4 all look and operate the same. Throw in the ability to use the same controller on all those platforms and the convergence of modern computing really becomes apparent. Still, what other platform plays every game made before 2000 with filtering and rewind?

In regards to cancel culture, we live in a world where the laws and the structure of government and business reward bad people for doing bad things. Public shaming on the internet is the last recourse we a powerless population have for justice. But far too often, people are wasting that power on shaming normal people who do good things overall just because they don't 100% meet your definition of perfect.
 

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Everybody says professional, and personal life should be separated. Yet we have cases when a movie gets delisted because a single actor presumably harassed someone, which is yet to be proven. Lots of collateral damage.

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On some platforms, RA is the only option to run certain emus.

Exactly, so people either need to deal with it
 

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So sounds like we need to make a project that wades into retroarch and spins off the cores as standalone emulators for those things that are not otherwise updated.

The best and worst thing about Retroarch is that it provides the same interface and features across all systems. Back in the day we had to experiment with a ton of different emulators, installing and configuring each one individually, and that was effort. But at the end of the day, my Xbox was unique.
That might have been one of the worst systems to base counterpoints on you could have given there; the original xbox was fairly well known for having emulators with much the same UI shared between multiple emulators.
 
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