Homebrew RetroArch Switch

[DogParty]

its lit. still got a ways to go yall

 

[the_randomizer]

its lit. still got a ways to go yall

Daaaaaaaayum, it's looking great

 

[DogParty]

Aight, headed to bed but I got some basic controls working. Here's a build that opens on 4.1 and lets you navigate the menus It crashes when I select a rom, of course. sigh. Yuzu's emulated controller also doesn't work which is going to make debugging annoying. Try it out if ya want. I wish I could find out if the audio works but I guess I'll find out eventually.

 

[lordelan]

its lit. still got a ways to go yall

Amazing progress! Thanks for your work!

 

[CatmanFan]

It's probably not possible to fork over emulators that aren't officially supported for the Switch yet (e.g. Mupen64+) using this method, am I right?

 

[DogParty]

You are correct. If I'm eventually able to get everything to work then it should have the same compatibility as libtransistor. Smarted people than I could add support for libnx's JIT, though, to improve performance

 

[yesimnathan]

This is awesome! I didn't get anymore time to play with this yesterday or today and it looks like you've made amazing progress!

 

[shabbypenguin]

libtransistor was updated to support 5.0.2

https://github.com/reswitched/libtransistor/commit/2716fb88d6a3f8e5d08d5a139fc7f6760c7623c4

https://github.com/reswitched/libtransistor/releases/tag/v1.2.3

 

[DogParty]

lmao well fuck me, right? I’ll still work on my libnx port, though. It seems like it’s the preferred library ow.

 

[ploggy]

lmao well fuck me, right? I’ll still work on my libnx port, though. It seems like it’s the preferred library ow.

It's ok, my understanding is Libtransistor still doesn't have Jit support which Retroarch needs for certain Cores to run fullspeed
LibNX DOES have Jit support though so its still well worth your effort.

 

[DogParty]

Ya, plus I imagine I’m one of the few people who are familiar with both libraries lmao. That’ll come in handy.... maybe

 

[CatmanFan]

Someone should probably try replacing the libtransistor library in the RetroArch cores with the latest one (the one that supports 5.0.2), then recompile them and see what happens.

 

[ShadowOne333]

lmao well fuck me, right? I’ll still work on my libnx port, though. It seems like it’s the preferred library ow.

Oh please do so.
libnx seems like the most feature-filled library at the moment, amd it already has JIT and support for latest fw, so by all means, continue with it
I'd love it so that we could have both libt and libnx builds, but libnx for sure seems like it would outshine libt at the moment.

 

[DogParty]

For what it's worth, I tried to compile RetroArch and vba-next with the new libtransistor and the nro crashes before showing the menu.

EDIT: huh, it loads in Yuzu, though. Maybe the nro got corrupted in the transfer?

EDIT2: Yo... what if it only supports 5.0.2 and it just won't load on 4.1.0? I've transferred it over again and it didn't work. Also, I'm not remembering that libtransistor-based retroarch builds crash the Switch when you exit the app. Ya, a libnx build might be necessary.

 

[JJTapia19]

For what it's worth, I tried to compile RetroArch and vba-next with the new libtransistor and the nro crashes before showing the menu.

EDIT: huh, it loads in Yuzu, though. Maybe the nro got corrupted in the transfer?

EDIT2: Yo... what if it only supports 5.0.2 and it just won't load on 4.1.0? I've transferred it over again and it didn't work. Also, I'm not remembering that libtransistor-based retroarch builds crash the Switch when you exit the app. Ya, a libnx build might be necessary.

I could test it out right now on 5.0.2

 

[DogParty]

test test test

 

[CatmanFan]

EDIT: huh, it loads in Yuzu, though. Maybe the nro got corrupted in the transfer?

EDIT2: Yo... what if it only supports 5.0.2 and it just won't load on 4.1.0? I've transferred it over again and it didn't work. Also, I'm not remembering that libtransistor-based retroarch builds crash the Switch when you exit the app. Ya, a libnx build might be necessary.

You should try recompiling the NRO.
Also, I'm also concerned about that 5.0.2 thing...
Also, what core is that?

 

[JJTapia19]

test test test

Omg its working perfectly on 5.0.2 in terms of speed and audio. Home button also takes me out to switch menu. Saving in game is not working at least with TLOZ Link to the past but save states work. Thank you so much for you work.

 

[DogParty]

I didn't do much here; I just compiled the existing code with the updated lib but I'll take it If no one gets around to compiling the other builds I will try to get to them in the next day or two.

 

[JJTapia19]

I didn't do much here; I just compiled the existing code with the updated lib but I'll take it If no one gets around to compiling the other builds I will try to get to them in the next day or two.

Awesome! Saves are working on TLOZ Minish cap so the not saving error seems to be based on thr game. Also on the fly switching from portable to dock mode and back is working! The other emulators based on libnx were having system crashes on docked mode. Can't wait for the other cores. Thanks again to you and everyone involved who had made this possible.