Issues with certain SNES games on retroarch on PSvita

kbf · Aug 4, 2022

Mario All Stars + World has minor but noticably annoying slowdown with the sound. Same goes for Yoshi's island. Yoshi's Island has even lagged somewhat on certain parts. For Yoshi's Island I was using snes9x 2002, I had to change it for Mario All Stars because my character wouldn't move for some reason until I changed the core to snes9x 2010, but it was still kind of laggy/choppy sound. any advice on better methods for emulating snes games on PSvita?

duwen · Aug 4, 2022

Have you tried pSNES?
I can't say whether the titles you mentioned will work better, but I've found that the emu ports by @cpasjuste are more stable on Vita than the retroarch cores seem to be.

kbf · Aug 7, 2022

duwen said:
Have you tried pSNES?
I can't say whether the titles you mentioned will work better, but I've found that the emu ports by @cpasjuste are more stable on Vita than the retroarch cores seem to be.

https://github.com/Cpasjuste/pemu/releases/ there's so many files here. Which one do I download to work on the vita?

elpapadelospollitos · Aug 7, 2022

Yeah, snes on the vita can be hit or miss, best core for me is snesx2005, but if the game runs bad in it I use snesx2002, or if it's a rom hack that won't open in that version I use snesx2010 and overclock, it's not perfect but it's as good as it gets.

I tried standalone emulators and didn't notice any performance boost.

kbf · Aug 8, 2022

elpapadelospollitos said:
Yeah, snes on the vita can be hit or miss, best core for me is snesx2005, but if the game runs bad in it I use snesx2002, or if it's a rom hack that won't open in that version I use snesx2010 and overclock, it's not perfect but it's as good as it gets.

I tried standalone emulators and didn't notice any performance boost.

Is SNES emulation on Adrenaline better? I know GBA emulation works better on PSP.

xoINARIox · Aug 8, 2022

Are you using the Standard or the piglet version of Retroarch?

https://buildbot.libretro.com/stable/1.10.3/playstation/vita/

https://github.com/SonicMastr/PIB-Configuration-Tool

With the piglet version I personally had never a problem regarding snes emulation.....

elpapadelospollitos · Aug 8, 2022

xoINARIox said:
Are you using the Standard or the piglet version of Retroarch?

https://buildbot.libretro.com/stable/1.10.3/playstation/vita/

https://github.com/SonicMastr/PIB-Configuration-Tool

With the piglet version I personally had never a problem regarding snes emulation.....

Can you play Kirby's dream land 3?

That game never ran okay in any core, the only one that was fullspeed was snesx2002 but the water wasn't transparent so when you got to those levels you were done

xoINARIox · Aug 8, 2022

elpapadelospollitos said:
Can you play Kirby's dream land 3?

That game never ran okay in any core, the only one that was fullspeed was snesx2002 but the water wasn't transparent so when you got to those levels you were done

No idea ..... you just have to try it out

RaniaAl · Aug 8, 2022

@xolNARlox
Can the piglet coexist with the "normal Retroarch"(own bubble) on the same Vita?

xoINARIox · Aug 8, 2022

RaniaAl said:
@xolNARlox
Can the piglet coexist with the "normal Retroarch"(own bubble) on the same Vita?

As far as I know this is not possible (should be the same Title ID) :teach:

If you ask me it does not actually make sense to have two versions at the same time on the system.

kbf · Aug 9, 2022

xoINARIox said:
Are you using the Standard or the piglet version of Retroarch?

https://buildbot.libretro.com/stable/1.10.3/playstation/vita/

https://github.com/SonicMastr/PIB-Configuration-Tool

With the piglet version I personally had never a problem regarding snes emulation.....

I think standard? https://i.imgur.com/gjDHFxO.jpg

How do I get the VPK for the config tool? I don't see anything I can download. Is the config tool even necessary?

I'm having another problem though. I installed piglet and I don't see it anywhere on my homescreen. I think a new program called Vita Homebrew Browser appeared but when I click it it just gives me an error and doesn't work.

Edit: Now retroarch won't even work. What happened?

Edit 2: I just deleted a bunch of files and reinstalled RA and it works now. So you were saying you can't have piglet installed the same time as RA? just curious but is piglet better than RA in general?

xoINARIox · Aug 9, 2022

It’s basically the same with extra features. . . . . . .
Overall it works for me in the current version better than the with the standard version :grog:

kbf · Aug 9, 2022

xoINARIox said:
It’s basically the same with extra features. . . . . . .
Overall it works for me in the current version better than the with the standard version

Is there a way to have both? I tried installing it but then it broke my other RA. From a prior post it looks like you can't install both?

Please tell me what this is and how to install it:
https://github.com/SonicMastr/PIB-Configuration-Tool
I don't understand what file from here I need. I don't see a vpk file.

xoINARIox · Aug 9, 2022

Here is the direct link to vpk:

https://github.com/SonicMastr/PIB-Configuration-Tool/releases/download/1.10/PIBConfig.vpk

You can only use one version of retroarch . . . . . . . . I honestly don’t understand why you want to use both :wacko:

RaniaAl · Aug 9, 2022

@kbf
https://github.com/SonicMastr/PIB-Configuration-Tool/releases

just install the pibinstall.vpk and activate the contents.

Fugelmir · Aug 9, 2022

I gave up on SNES for Vita. FF6, 7th Saga, bahamut lagoon, etc all had serious problems on all 4 snes forks.

Modded switch / Steamdeck is the way to go.

elpapadelospollitos · Aug 9, 2022

Fugelmir said:
I gave up on SNES for Vita. FF6, 7th Saga, bahamut lagoon, etc all had serious problems on all 4 snes forks.

Modded switch / Steamdeck is the way to go.

Bit of an overkill for the system but yeah, snes emulation on the vita it's not perfect unfortunately

AkitoUF · Aug 10, 2022

I just gave up with SNES on Vita. I ended up buying an Anbernic handheld.

Fugelmir · Aug 10, 2022

Also, don't discount the New 3ds SNES capabilities. It lacks emulator features but the emulation is really spot-on.

kbf · Aug 10, 2022

Fugelmir said:
Also, don't discount the New 3ds SNES capabilities. It lacks emulator features but the emulation is really spot-on.

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I have a new 3DS actually. I just personally find it to be a bit heavy and the form factor not as comfortable as the PSvita.

xoINARIox said:
Here is the direct link to vpk:

https://github.com/SonicMastr/PIB-Configuration-Tool/releases/download/1.10/PIBConfig.vpk

You can only use one version of retroarch . . . . . . . . I honestly don’t understand why you want to use both

Thanks. The reason why I might want both is maybe because the original RA might have features over the piglet version? I don't know if it does but that would be my guess. Is there anything the original version of RA has over the piglet one?

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