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

[leonmagnus99]

Can i rename the .zip file to a .vpk file to install this?

yes you can, i downloaded it yesterday and it came with the extension of zip instead of vpk, renamed and put on vita installed fine.

just note that it takes a while ,so keep ur vita from sleeping

 

[NotReallySteve]

The "stable" is anything but.

 

[kristianity77]

Yeah there is something up with retroarch on Vita at the minute to the point where it's almost unusable. The amount of crashes is insane. Can barely get a game to run sometimes. Coming out of a game back to menu results in frequent crashes.

 

[swosho]

@kristianity77 Sounds like you have a CPU filter enabled (Settings -> Video -> Video filter), highlight the option and press Start to disable it.
November 15 nightly works perfectly fine for me.

 

[kristianity77]

@kristianity77 Sounds like you have a CPU filter enabled (Settings -> Video -> Video filter), highlight the option and press Start to disable it.
November 15 nightly works perfectly fine for me.

I don't, all I'm using is a 960*544 scanline overlay . No other processing going on

 

[swosho]

@kristianity77 Then I guess there's some other broken setting which causes the same crashy behaviour as the filters do, maybe it's even the overlay? I'd try backing up and deleting the current config file, and start fresh to troubleshoot the issue.
Edit: Yup, it's the overlay setting that's broken.
Edit 2: the VBA Next and gpSP cores are consistently wiping out clean my Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2 saves but not the other GBA games, and the game is crashes sporadically too. With at least this many broken things added up, it would be a stretch to say that build is "working perfectly fine" after all.

 

[NotReallySteve]

You say it works perfectly, but for what? What are you using it for?
I mean, it crashes for me if I try to even save a state in the latest SNES core.

 

[bopz44]

hey FmT, could you compile retroarch with latest commits made for vita ?
there should be gl1 support now :
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/9713

 

[VinceQ]

hey FmT, could you compile retroarch with latest commits made for vita ?
there should be gl1 support now :
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/9713

For some reason, libretro has not yet compiled it. They have 3 failed Nightlies!

P. D: Nightly with GL1 video driver available!
http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/playstation/vita/2019-11-20_RetroArch.vpk

 

[bopz44]

awesome but unfortunately it's not rendered correctly at the moment, i guess the next nightly will be the one.

 

[VinceQ]

awesome but unfortunately it's not rendered correctly at the moment, i guess the next nightly will be the one.

Another one is available! Render are corrected.

 

[kristianity77]

Seriously, at this point, what is the point in Retroarch for vita? Its simply broken. It crashes literally all the time

 

[NANASHI89]

How do I install shaders?

 

[kristianity77]

How do I install shaders?

You can't, they aren't supported

 

[VinceQ]

Seriously, at this point, what is the point in Retroarch for vita? Its simply broken. It crashes literally all the time

You have to use the vita2d video driver for now. Currently working on the implementation of gl1.

 

[kristianity77]

Whats considered the best way to delete cores from the Vita retroarch? Id prefer it if there was only half a dozen cores or so that I use to make it more minimalistic, but if I delete the .self files (which I assume are cores) then retroarch will error until I reinstall the entire app.

 

[setsunafseiei885]

Hi, anyone test gl1 driver on latest nightly build? how well it runs compare to vita2d driver? its worth to tried now?

 

[rez78]

Whats considered the best way to delete cores from the Vita retroarch? Id prefer it if there was only half a dozen cores or so that I use to make it more minimalistic, but if I delete the .self files (which I assume are cores) then retroarch will error until I reinstall the entire app.

I just use vitashell. Open "app" folder,then "retrovita" and delete desidered core.

 

[AkitoUF]

How are you guys running the gpSP core? Whenever I try to run a game with it I just get kicked back at the menu or at worst, get a crash.

 

[VinceQ]

How are you guys running the gpSP core? Whenever I try to run a game with it I just get kicked back at the menu or at worst, get a crash.

All games?