Hacking Emulation RetroArch/Libretro Thread: PS Vita Edition! Nightlies Included

[nowaaru]

In Snes9x 2005: How to use analog as d-pad and how to change the L1+R1+select +start to easier combination (like right analog up) to open the menu?

 

[SeongGino]

So I've made some updates to the OP...

DOSBox core is confirmed working, but without virtual keyboard support and thus only games with pre-configured joystick controls work, it is considered partially functional for the moment.
2048 core works as of now. Yay?

Some RA bugs have been fixed, VBA Next seems slightly faster as of late as well...
And even Kirby Super Star works fine now (Mostly fullspeed-ish) with Snes9x '05.

As an aside... how is the XMB menu working for everyone? At least on my end, forcing XMB as the menu driver just makes the UI an off-color black screen.

 

[JJXB]

XMB's working fine for me and has been since some point before 29th august build. after the amount of times i had to delete the retroarch.cfg though.

 

[SeongGino]

XMB's working fine for me and has been since some point before 29th august build. after the amount of times i had to delete the retroarch.cfg though.

And that explains everything.
I'll go to fixing things then.

 

[Aramir]

XMB is working fine here too ... As long as I don't fiddle too much with the config options, I managed several times to crash it, to shift the columns and/or display them multiple times on the screen .... So yeah .... I shall provide steps to reproduce some of the XMB bugs soon (within the next day probably) if you're interested.

With that siad I reiterate my question, does retroarch create some log files somewhere on the vita for when it fails to load a rom/crash? Thus allowing me to understand what I'm doing wrong with my magical drop 3 neogeo rom.

 

[Bryon15]

What's the best sega genesis emulator?

 

[SeongGino]

XMB is working fine here too ... As long as I don't fiddle too much with the config options, I managed several times to crash it, to shift the columns and/or display them multiple times on the screen .... So yeah .... I shall provide steps to reproduce some of the XMB bugs soon (within the next day probably) if you're interested.

Would be much appreciated! Though I think when I do get to taking a look, it'd be self-explanatory as to how/why the config would mess with the driver.

With that siad I reiterate my question, does retroarch create some log files somewhere on the vita for when it fails to load a rom/crash? Thus allowing me to understand what I'm doing wrong with my magical drop 3 neogeo rom.

MagDrop3 works fine for me (Personal favorite of mine).

Once more, check whether your neogeo.zip/magdrop3.zip files are from the proper ROMset.

Though the Vita (When HENkaku is enabled) technically "makes" .dmp files and drops them in ux0:data/, they aren't good for diagnosing specific problems; just memory address issues and such, not parsed or anything for the end user (Which makes sense as these are technically the same files that are sent to Sony normally on a Vanilla Vita when you agree to submit diagnostic reports).

What's interesting to note, however, and I quote from Libretro.com here:

"Since this is a current nightly snapshot release, PS3 and Vita users are able to get a sneak peek at some of the features that will be part of RetroArch 1.3.7 for the other platforms.
- Improved error handling. When loading the wrong ROM into a core, most cores should be able to now gracefully exit instead of just quitting or crashing RetroArch."

This was poised to become a thing for Vita/PS3 builds... but I don't know because it doesn't pop up for me at all and this was supposed to be a thing since August 3rd.

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What's the best sega genesis emulator?

Correction:
The ONLY Sega Genesis emulator working is Genesis GX+ as stated in OP; PicoDrive doesn't work (yet).

 

[JuanVCS]

In Snes9x 2005: How to use analog as d-pad and how to change the L1+R1+select +start to easier combination (like right analog up) to open the menu?

For both go to Settings -> Input:
* -> Input User 1 Binds -> User 1 Analog to Digital Type -> Left Analog
* -> Input Hotkey Binds -> Menu Toggle and change the key

 

[SuperDan]

2048 core.. what does this emulator do... just curious ....

 

[SeongGino]

2048 core.. what does this emulator do... just curious ....

It's an (open-source?) port of 2048...

Y'know, that mobile phone game where you match numbers together in a 4x4 grid?
It's all-inclusive; just "Start Core" to play.

EDIT:
So I updated a few more things (And once again, thanks to everyone pointing out the retroarch.cfg being the reason why xmb doesn't work; the assets folder wasn't adjusted to go to app0: initially).

Virtual Boy (Mednafen), while still half-speed, now shows the entirety of the screen. It seems like this was an age-old fix I never looked into... so for now, I just bunched the screen fix with the rest of the September 12th fixes.
Removed a few bits from the performance estimations list (QuickNES, for example; it's pointless on Vita frankly).

And FINALLY updated the latest nightly date; it is NOT September 5th still.

Looking at all the fixes we've been getting lately, I'm considering separating the bugs/issues list into two halves: One that's the same as it is currently which documents CURRENT issues in the open, and a collapse panel that shows the bugs that have since been fixed for documentation/historical purposes.
If we're all fine with that, I'll see about getting it done tomorrow afternoon (EST).

(Oh, small note: Sept. 13th nightly brainfarted again; download the Sept. 14th zips now please.)
Neato, only six more days until my birthday. (^^;

 

[SuperDan]

oh errr right you are....

 

[subcon959]

Any tips for getting PC Engine CD games to work other than putting the syscard3.pce in the right folder?

 

[LibretroRetroArc]

SeongGina - might want to update TGB Dual in the OP too, it should work just fine now.

 

[SuperDan]

fbalpha_2012.neogeo
9/14/2016 retroarch works perfectly every game worked that i had 60fps
faster than older builds...

just hoping for a perfect MAME..Emu
some games work some dont.... work

 

[FX3200]

how setup dosbox input keys? in my psp i create bat file with setup for example

INPUTMAP triangle d
INPUTMAP square lshift
and etc......

but on vita not work. how setup keys on vita?

 

[JJXB]

how setup dosbox input keys? in my psp i create bat file with setup for example

INPUTMAP triangle d
INPUTMAP square lshift
and etc......

but on vita not work. how setup keys on vita?

as far as i know, keyboard isn't working at the moment. the only input you can do is gamepad/joystick via Quick Menu, Controls right now. i'll give the new nightly a test for if any updates to input have been made though.

 

[ArugulaZ]

Any chance the Amiga will be emulated any time in the near future? The PSP doesn't handle it all that well.

 

[Lord M]

But for new nightly build of a emu, to install it, i need to remove the older version first, or just install the vpk and in this way the files will be overwrite?

 

[JJXB]

But for new nightly build of a emu, to install it, i need to remove the older version first, or just install the vpk and in this way the files will be overwrite?

as long as there hasn't been any added cores installing vpk's over the old versions can work fine. but each new core shifts at least some of the cores up by 1 depending on the alphanumeric filename

 

[Lord M]

as long as there hasn't been any added cores installing vpk's over the old versions can work fine. but each new core shifts at least some of the cores up by 1 depending on the alphanumeric filename

I understand nothing ._.
So if i've just installed, for example, vba next on my vita; for newer version i need to simply install new vba next vpk?