Homebrew RetroArch Switch

[Sonikkua]

Just add common games to favorites.

 

[DrakeBueno]

https://gbatemp.net/entry/retroarch-overclock-testing-and-beautifying.15332/

Many of you know I've been one of the primary testers for the Switch RetroArch overclock. Thought I'd give a quick progress report.

We now have an Overclock that is active only when using RetroArch instead of system wide. It can also go all they way up to 1.75GHz (default speed is 1GHz).

First of all, Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time are both very playable. With a 1.5GHz or higher OC you can get default settings very playable. With a little extra work you can take things to a whole new level.

One of these images of default settings. 4:3 aspect ratio, native resolution. The other one is 16:9 aspect ratio with a widescreen patch, upscaled to 720p resolution.

Regarding the OC itself, most people shouldn't need more than 1.2GHz and the dynarec bounty will make the OC all but obsolete.

There is no update on when these releases will be made public. Don't bother asking about it. I assure you we are all working very hard to get this to a state where we are comfortable distributing it. Long-term overclock can be very dangerous and it is vital we test thoroughly. Patience is appreciated.

Enjoy the eye-candy.

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PS: This is without any Shaders applied. Less intensive shaders can be applied and maintain full speed, even with the higher res and widescreen. Not all, but some.

Thank you sir

 

[jacopastorius]

I tried searching in the thread but seems not to find anything about this: emulation with NES cores seems to be too fast. Both game speed and audio are too accelerated. Do i have to config something?

 

[KHEOPS]

I tried searching in the thread but seems not to find anything about this: emulation with NES cores seems to be too fast. Both game speed and audio are too accelerated. Do i have to config something?

Hello to all
Use core nestopia
Open gl driver
Vsynchro hard gpu on
No problem at all

 

[jacopastorius]

Hello to all
Use core nestopia
Open gl driver
Vsynchro hard gpu on
No problem at all

Thank you very much my greek king

 

[KHEOPS]

You're welcome, my friend.
Since you're talking about the nes I'm taking this opportunity to share it

I just want to share some information here, have fun again thanks to an ips makaimura arcade conversion patch in our famicom
Link description in the video detail

 

[jacopastorius]

extremely nice sharing. I was completely missing this game which seems i have to play

 

[jacopastorius]

Hello to all
Use core nestopia
Open gl driver
Vsynchro hard gpu on
No problem at all

unfortunately i tried using nestopia and setting Synch hard gpu to on but the emulation is still a little bit too fast.
I am using latest .nro nightly

 

[Z-bake]

I mentioned this earlier in this thread, but so far nobody replied...
I can't save core specific options within RetroArch. RetroArch just creates an empty .cfg file. However, I manually copy/pasted the content of the main retroarch.cfg into the corename.cfg file and applied my changes.
It works, the file loads as a core specfig config file with the applied changes and everything works fine. Until I load a game from a playlist with a different core, then RetroArch will crash.
Does anyone have a fix for this?

Or how do you save specifig option, like the one for nestopia for example?

 

[lordelan]

retrogaming switch
I show you some options (shader overlay, run latency) and some games on different systems
genesis,master system,sg1000,gba etc... to make your opinion

Thx for the work. Since I didn't play around with thumbnails for over a year I've gotta ask: How did you configure it that you have both, boxarts and ingame screens at the same time? Is this an official option now or did you alter some files for that? I remember being forced to choose one of the three (box, screens, titlescreens).

 

[ElConsolero]

Any clue why there is still no core for coleco vision?

 

[KHEOPS]

Thx for the work. Since I didn't play around with thumbnails for over a year I've gotta ask: How did you configure it that you have both, boxarts and ingame screens at the same time? Is this an official option now or did you alter some files for that? I remember being forced to choose one of the three (box, screens, titlescreens).

Hello
No it's an option, at the very bottom you have left boxart and boxart
, then if you Press b ( scroll screen title, screenshots etc...)

 

[jacopastorius]

unfortunately i tried using nestopia and setting Synch hard gpu to on but the emulation is still a little bit too fast.
I am using latest .nro nightly

Solved setting preferred system to "PAL". I was using a super mario bros (E) rom and maybe it was running at 60hz

 

[TheGreaKhali]

What's the best arcade emulator for Retroarch. Finalburn or Mame and what Romset does it support

 

[lordelan]

Changing the render resolution to 800x600 instead of 960x720 (and then with additional widescreen fix applied), often looks better for N64 games (imho). Even with texture dithering, scaled to 720 the polygon models look too "sharp and angly".

For beautify reasons also try 800x600 - might also be less demanding in terms of overclock. Consider this a tip.

Here are some OOT shots in that resolution from Mupen64 (also with widescreen fix cheats) on a FireTV (Android Box).

Those screens look very good!

What's the best arcade emulator for Retroarch. Finalburn or Mame and what Romset does it support

That depends on what you want to play. As far as I know there are games that only work with either MAME or FB Alpha.
If you load the FBA core it should show the needed romset version at the bottom left.
For MAME you just have to google. For MAME 2003 it's 0.78 for example.

 

[hippy dave]

Any clue why there is still no core for coleco vision?

Sounds like blueMSX is the only retroarch core that supports colecovision. Maybe it hasn't been ported because there's not enough demand, or maybe because there's not enough buttons?

 

[jacopastorius]

i have final burn alpha core into cores folder but i can't find it in the cores list when i try to load it

 

[afra]

Bookmark(fav) and recently played and amazing menu is really enjoyable

 

[darky2003]

Is there any way to use wifi without getting banned from nintendo?
Or without being connected to the nintendo network?

 

[Illuminaticy]

Is there any way to use wifi without getting banned from nintendo?
Or without being connected to the nintendo network?

https://gbatemp.net/threads/switch-noob-paradise-ask-questions-here.488277/ should probably ask there. This is a RetroArch thread. Or even just google your question. You'd be surprised how many things you can find from literally just looking up your question

 

[lordelan]

Is there any way to use wifi without getting banned from nintendo?
Or without being connected to the nintendo network?

90DNS.
There's a thread here.
Blocks all Ninty stuff but homebrews (including RetroArch) are usable.