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

[AkitoUF]

Change or abandon your romhacks. Vanilla plays fine on gPSP w/dynarec, some romhacks have issues.

Yeah, I was using the Sound Restoration hack for the GBA version, that's the one that runs badly

Should have specified Super NES/famicom version, unpatched.

Ah no, the SNES version has it's own problems, the audio is sliiiiightly delayed. You'll notice if you play the battle theme on youtube at the same time a battle starts in the game on the Vita.

 

[mosslump]

Does it paly badly ?

I played Robotrek on Retroarch and it worked flawlessly.

Yeah, frame rate takes a dump during the intro cutscene (after starting new game) regardless of settings or cores. FFVI seems to be a good SNES benchmark. It may be the Vita itself is just not fast enough to handle it.

 

[Arcade2019]

Just tried to update from 1.7.8 and everything has gone to shit. Constant 'c2-1282-1' errors even after deleting everything inc config etc. Nothing will make it work

So to answer my own issue incase it helps anyone else - disabling F00d plugin sorted this.

 

[FmT]

I guess I'll stop holding my breath for final fantasy vi playing smoothly on Vita or 3ds. (unless anyone's got any tips!)

FFVI (stock) is working fine on vita. Even romhack with some version -> You can make a search in that topic and you will find WHICH version of sound restoration is working on VITA hardware. As your problem on 3DS... On a 3DS, emulation of GBA is flawless (hardware based like vita for ps1 and psp emulation). Last version of FFVI sound restoration is perfect if you make an inject (better to find the way on 3DS forum).

 

[swosho]

I guess I'll stop holding my breath for final fantasy vi playing smoothly on Vita or 3ds. (unless anyone's got any tips!)

1. Use Snes9x 2005 core, the non-plus version.
2. Bump up the CPU clock speed to 500 MHz and, optionally, downclock the ES4/GPU to 111 MHz.
Runs full speed for me.

 

[kristianity77]

I guess I'll stop holding my breath for final fantasy vi playing smoothly on Vita or 3ds. (unless anyone's got any tips!)

Or, just play the ps1 version on vita. Runs perfectly. There are a few annoying load screens between battles etc but just turn disc read speed up and its fine.

 

[Rahkeesh]

Yeah SNES is in general borderline on the Vita. As mentioned above 2005 non-plus (or 2002 if you have to) and 500 mhz is your best bet.

 

[AkitoUF]

FFVI (stock) is working fine on vita. Even romhack with some version -> You can make a search in that topic and you will find WHICH version of sound restoration is working on VITA hardware. As your problem on 3DS... On a 3DS, emulation of GBA is flawless (hardware based like vita for ps1 and psp emulation). Last version of FFVI sound restoration is perfect if you make an inject (better to find the way on 3DS forum).

If you ever find the version (or even the prepatched game) please let me know in private messages please because I NEVER got to fix the slowdowns of the sound restoration on Vita.

 

[_TheGuy_]

[Retroarch version 1.9.12]

Is anyone able to fully run Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga? One of the few games I was most looking forward to playing on the Vita, but the cores seem to be unstable(graphical glitches, frame dips, etc.). GPSP is the closest one with full speed and fast forward capability, up until the Koopa Cruiser where you fight goombas from inside the barrels. It hangs in the battle transition and freezes. I'd like to hear your experiences testing the game, thanks

 

[Deleted member 42501]

Is there some kind of way to edit the file parameters to try out a new Retro install? Got a very old one on my Vita that works well and would prefer to keep it to see how the new one is without removing it.

Any ideas?

 

[Rahkeesh]

Back up your old Retroarch directory and keep the old install vpk handy? The installed vpk always points to ux0:data/retroarch and I don't think there is any way around that.

 

[Deleted member 42501]

Had considered that but the install I currently have is a custom version into which I've edited quite a lot of stuff to get it how I want it.

 

[sergio_prado]

Anyone else experiencing problems with Beetle Supergrafx? The emulator core don't respond to any input of the controller.

 

[Deleted member 42501]

Anyone know how to rotate the screen on just one ROM/one core and not globally from the Video Options menu?

 

[Rahkeesh]

Boot up retroarch, do nothing else but load your core/game, change the video rotation, then through the quick menu save a core or game override. It should write out an ini that just contains the rotation settings and load that when you load the core/game. After that point you can set your rotation back to normal, and the override should still apply rotation to those specific cores/games when loaded. Haven't tried this much myself but that seems to be the theory.

 

[NANASHI89]

Hello! Playstation 1 games, including 2D games, seem to lag like crazy with audio and gameplay on RetroArch Vita. How to speed it up?

 

[godreborn]

Hello! Playstation 1 games, including 2D games, seem to lag like crazy with audio and gameplay on RetroArch Vita. How to speed it up?

use duck station if it exists for the vita.

 

[Rahkeesh]

Best you can do for Retroarch is one of the 500 overclock plugins for the vita kernel. In general you will get a far better PS1 experience with Adrenaline though.

 

[The_Ho]

Hello! Playstation 1 games, including 2D games, seem to lag like crazy with audio and gameplay on RetroArch Vita. How to speed it up?

Put FramSkip 1, it usually improves most games here, use the PSP BIOS renamed to the required BIOS, that's what helped here, but no miracle lol.

 

[the_randomizer]

use duck station if it exists for the vita.

Doesn't PS Vita have Adrenaline for PS1 games?