Hacking Official Xbox One Retroarch Thread

[Deleted_413010]

im guessing there's still no way to add cores?

i let people know on reddit that a version exists and showed my video

My question is how do you even get this stuff on your Xbox? I happen to have a Xbox One myself

 

[Pickle_Rick]

My question is how do you even get this stuff on your Xbox? I happen to have a Xbox One myself

All you have to do is enable dev mode and you can sideload appx packages via a web browser.

 

[kingtut]

I posted how to do it in your other thread.

Oh you figured it out, where can I find it?

 

[dominater01]

Oh you figured it out, where can I find it?

he said

1. Put it in the 'cores' subdirectory. Put any other dlls it may use as dependencies in the root directory.
2. Select each of the dll files, and set Content to true in properties

also he was talking about my thread

 

[kingtut]

he said

1. Put it in the 'cores' subdirectory. Put any other dlls it may use as dependencies in the root directory.
2. Select each of the dll files, and set Content to true in properties

also he was talking about my thread

Oh ok, that hasn't worked with me for some reason

 

[Pickle_Rick]

Oh ok, that hasn't worked with me for some reason

Are you using the uwp dlls?

 

[dominater01]

@kingtut

libretro released a video on there channel for retroarch for xbox one



his description for the video

In this video, you will see how deploying RetroArch to the Xbox One will work (when compiling from source).

NOTE: This is very early days! Don't take this as an official release - this is merely for people who can't wait to toy with it already and are fine with messing around with a complete Work In Progress build.

You need:
* A Windows 10 PC with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 installed
* An Xbox One (or Xbox One X)
* You need to have a Microsoft Developer Account. This will cost you about $20/15 Euros. After you have done this, you need to download an app on your Xbox called 'Dev Mode Activation'. This will give you a shortcut URL that will allow you to activate your Xbox.
* Once activated, you should be able to switch between Retail mode and Developer mode. After the first initial setup, it should take about 1 minute and 20 seconds to switch. You will only be able to use RetroArch from within Developer mode.

1) Either you compile the cores from source or you grab the x64 MSVC2017 UWP cores from our buildbot (http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/...).
2) Start up Visual Studio 2017. Git clone the RetroArch repo (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch) and load the file 'RetroArch-msvc2017-UWP.sln' (can be found inside pkg/msvc) from Visual Studio 2017. This should open the solution.
3) Make sure 'Configuration 'is set to 'Release' and 'Solution Platform' is set to 'x64'.
4) If you want to bundle RetroArch with cores (which you'd obviously want to do), take the cores that you downloaded or compiled from Step 1, and add these files to the Visual Studio solution's 'cores' dir. Rightclick each core individually (or select them all together), select 'Properties', and make sure that under General, 'Content' reads 'Yes' instead of being blank.
5) Make sure at the top bar it reads 'Remote Machine'.
6) Rightclick 'RetroArch-msvc2017-UWP' from the Solution Explorer, select 'Properties'. Go to 'Debugger'. Make sure 'Debugger Type' reads 'Managed and Native'. Select 'Machine Name', click on the arrow icon to the right, and select 'Locate'. In here, you can either detect your Xbox by manually inserting your Xbox's IP address (and Visual Studio pin - go back to your Developer dashboard and select 'Show Visual Studio Pin' in order to find the code), or (in case it's already part of your network), simply select it from the list in case it's already there.
7) Press F5 in order to compile and deploy RetroArch to your Xbox.

 

[Pickle_Rick]

libretro released a video on there channel for retroarch for xbox one



his description for the video

In this video, you will see how deploying RetroArch to the Xbox One will work (when compiling from source).

NOTE: This is very early days! Don't take this as an official release - this is merely for people who can't wait to toy with it already and are fine with messing around with a complete Work In Progress build.

You need:
* A Windows 10 PC with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 installed
* An Xbox One (or Xbox One X)
* You need to have a Microsoft Developer Account. This will cost you about $20/15 Euros. After you have done this, you need to download an app on your Xbox called 'Dev Mode Activation'. This will give you a shortcut URL that will allow you to activate your Xbox.
* Once activated, you should be able to switch between Retail mode and Developer mode. After the first initial setup, it should take about 1 minute and 20 seconds to switch. You will only be able to use RetroArch from within Developer mode.

1) Either you compile the cores from source or you grab the x64 MSVC2017 UWP cores from our buildbot (http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/...).
2) Start up Visual Studio 2017. Git clone the RetroArch repo (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch) and load the file 'RetroArch-msvc2017-UWP.sln' (can be found inside pkg/msvc) from Visual Studio 2017. This should open the solution.
3) Make sure 'Configuration 'is set to 'Release' and 'Solution Platform' is set to 'x64'.
4) If you want to bundle RetroArch with cores (which you'd obviously want to do), take the cores that you downloaded or compiled from Step 1, and add these files to the Visual Studio solution's 'cores' dir. Rightclick each core individually (or select them all together), select 'Properties', and make sure that under General, 'Content' reads 'Yes' instead of being blank.
5) Make sure at the top bar it reads 'Remote Machine'.
6) Rightclick 'RetroArch-msvc2017-UWP' from the Solution Explorer, select 'Properties'. Go to 'Debugger'. Make sure 'Debugger Type' reads 'Managed and Native'. Select 'Machine Name', click on the arrow icon to the right, and select 'Locate'. In here, you can either detect your Xbox by manually inserting your Xbox's IP address (and Visual Studio pin - go back to your Developer dashboard and select 'Show Visual Studio Pin' in order to find the code), or (in case it's already part of your network), simply select it from the list in case it's already there.

I hope they don't intend to have people deploy from VS in the full release. An appx you can install from the web interface would be much better.

 

[dominater01]

I hope they don't intend to have people deploy from VS in the full release. An appx you can install from the web interface would be much better.

im assuming thats why they said if you want to try it early todo that

 

[Pickle_Rick]

im assuming thats why they said if you want to try it early todo that

I just left a comment asking. Hopefully it will be available as an appx.

 

[Deleted_413010]

I wish it could get on the store so i wouldn't have to do that

 

[Pickle_Rick]

I wish it could get on the store so i wouldn't have to do that

Even if it slipped onto the store, I'm pretty sure MS would yank it down really fast. They don't allow emulators on the xbox store.

 

[dominater01]

I wish it could get on the store so i wouldn't have to do that

all you need is dev mode and you'll be able to install the appx when its officially released

ms wont allow emulators on there store

 

[Pickle_Rick]

im assuming thats why they said if you want to try it early todo that

I just got this response:

I think we certainly intend to make this as easy as possible to use.

I guess that's a yes.

 

[Deleted_413010]

all you need is dev mode

That's my problem. I don't wanna pay for a flipping dev account.

 

[Pickle_Rick]

That's my problem. I don't wanna pay for a flipping dev account.

It's $20 one time.....

 

[dominater01]

That's my problem. I don't wanna pay for a flipping dev account.

or you could ask someone to share an account with you which you can have up to 3 xbox ones on a dev account

 

[Cannon007]

There was a way in the past to get a free account search the boards some and see if it still works.

PS maybe not, I know at one point Microsoft was desperate to have people develop for Xbox and uwp so they basically let everyone and their brother have an account for free. I thought I read about it here but maybe it was somewhere else.

 

[dominater01]

well imma try to compile it myself since its taking forever

edit: i did what the tut said and im still not getting any cores to show up ????

 

[jammybudga777]

Sorry to pester but would an external hard drive be recognised?

 

[dominater01]

Sorry to pester but would an external hard drive be recognised?

on retroarch? or in general?

im guessing retroarch will have the ability once its ready for release

other emulators have support for it on xbox one