Homebrew RetroArch Switch

[TheCasualties]

lol at goldeneye x

Wow that's cool. Did you try split screen yet? Wondering how bad the frames drop. Looks like it would run better than regular goldeneye at least. Is 5a the version you used?

 

[HappehLemons]

thanks for testing it, cannot get it to run smoothly at all.

I'm running in Horizion OS, Max CPU overclock (1785 Mhz)
This game works just as well in Lakka if you're using that.

This is all default settings on Retroarch, I have changed nothing on the install.

If you're having issues check the following.

FAT32 formatted SD card.
Launching Retroarch homebrew using a game, and not the photo album.
A SD card with speeds at least at U1.
Using the most recent version of Retroarch (1.8.9)

I'm not sure if one of these things are causing your issues, but there's a high chance it's one of them.

 

[Geridious4]

Try different settings, enable/disable framebuffer emulation, overclock it...

Yeah I've tried every single thing possible Haha been long exhausting road

 

[lordelan]

I have a problem with at least ppsspp core, it just freezes completely in any game after about 10-15 minutes, and I can exit RA only via home button.

I tried nightly and stable .nro+core files, deleted retroarch cfg, and it didn't help. Any ideas what else I can do?

Okay I tested this with Tekken 6 and can confirm it. It freezes after a short amount of playtime and can barely be force closed with the HOME button.
Sadly I had this in MAME 2003 Plus too yesterday.
Played some Marvel vs. Street Fighter and it froze completely forcing me to hard reboot.

Have u opened a github issue by any chance?

 

[sj33]

Make sure you’re all using switch_thread as sound driver. switch_audren_thread has crashing issues atm.

 

[Lunatics]

Hey guys I am having an issue with Retroarch. Anytime I try to play a n64 game Retroarch crashes or says it failed to load the content. Other emulators seem to work okay however n64 has never worked on my friends switch. I've installed the same copy of Retroarch on my switch and his yet his does not work and mine does. He really wants to play some n64 games and I've tried fully deleting it and redownloading and installing but always have the same issues. OoT is the main game we have been trying and always crashes or fails to load content, have tried multiple different versions.

 

[Deleted User]

Hey guys I am having an issue with Retroarch. Anytime I try to play a n64 game Retroarch crashes or says it failed to load the content. Other emulators seem to work okay however n64 has never worked on my friends switch. I've installed the same copy of Retroarch on my switch and his yet his does not work and mine does. He really wants to play some n64 games and I've tried fully deleting it and redownloading and installing but always have the same issues. OoT is the main game we have been trying and always crashes or fails to load content, have tried multiple different versions.

I would download latest nightly then update all cores. The latest n64 mupen runs very well. From there you will need to tweak some settings. Prior to doing all this you should delete the setup he has now (just retroarch files). Also remember fat32 is the suggested format for his sd though it should still work as exfat will just cause issues later.

this video might be helpful I show some settings and well a cool way to play the game

 

[ElConsolero]

Anytime I try to play a n64 game Retroarch crashes or says it failed to load the content.

How do you start Retroarch? Sounds to me that you start RA via "album"? Use the NSP forwarder or just hold R when launching another title. That will bring up the HBmenu with full ram access and you can launch RA from there. N64 needs full ram to even run close to 100%.

 

[sorabora]

How do you start Retroarch? Sounds to me that you start RA via "album"? Use the NSP forwarder or just hold R when launching another title. That will bring up the HBmenu with full ram access and you can launch RA from there. N64 needs full ram to even run close to 100%.

I think it also benefits from GPU overclocking, right? (iirc, something like the PSX core doesn't benefit from GPU; instead CPU OC)

 

[HappehLemons]

I think it also benefits from GPU overclocking, right? (iirc, something like the PSX core doesn't benefit from GPU; instead CPU OC)

I've heavily experimented with this on N64 at least with sysclock.

I'm not sure if it's drivers or some kind of bottleneck, but for games with stuttering on N64 like Goldeneye or Gauntlet Legends, using the default GPU handheld clock at around (iirc 307.2 MHz?) to all the way to 900+ MHZ docked at the emulators lowest resolution settings, I have seen no notable improvement in speed (using max CPU clock speeds for all tests).

Also, the Threaded GPU option on or off did not make a difference here either.

However, under-clocking the GPU will result slowdown, so it's having some kind of effect.

Strangely, doing the same thing in Lakka will result in huge performance gains, as bringing the GPU clocks around 600+ Mhz results in no slowdown in troubled games that typically do in Horizon OS.

I hope this can be solved, as HOS is obviously preferable but demanding N64 games seem to stutter a bit even with the most optimal core settings.

 

[Lunatics]

I would download latest nightly then update all cores. The latest n64 mupen runs very well. From there you will need to tweak some settings. Prior to doing all this you should delete the setup he has now (just retroarch files). Also remember fat32 is the suggested format for his sd though it should still work as exfat will just cause issues later.

this video might be helpful I show some settings and well a cool way to play the game

How do you start Retroarch? Sounds to me that you start RA via "album"? Use the NSP forwarder or just hold R when launching another title. That will bring up the HBmenu with full ram access and you can launch RA from there. N64 needs full ram to even run close to 100%.

Thanks for the replies, I fully deleted everything the other night including all games, cores retroarch stuff etc etc and started completely from scratch again. I think part of the problem was at some point when I moved over working games from my switch to his, they seemed to get corrupted or something. An OoT randomized rom was one of the main games I was trying to get over but it was only 8MB vs a new one I created was like 32MB. I just redownloaded everything all together from scratch and seem to be up and running now for the most part.

 

[Asia81]

Hello, I managed to change region of some 3DS game in retroarch settings, but not language, Ocarina of Time keep launching in english, do you know where to change this?

 

[sj33]

-snip-
Nobody cares what your favourite CFW is. This thread is purely about compatibility with Retroarch.

 

[Asia81]

Is the switch capable to communicate with a 3DS?
Can I play with my sister (she is using a legit 3DS with Luma3DS) and me on Retroarch and play together?
Like trading pokemon on DS and 3DS (me on desmume or citra core) games?

 

[catlover007]

Is the switch capable to communicate with a 3DS?
Can I play with my sister (she is using a legit 3DS with Luma3DS) and me on Retroarch and play together?
Like trading pokemon on DS and 3DS (me on desmume or citra core) games?

the emulators have to support this. Desmume does wifi communication somewhat, but only melonDS supports both local wireless and wifi (the first only between emulators), though note that it currently isn't supported on Switch (but might be somewhen). Since it's not required anymore the way is open for it to be ported sooner or later. I think for Citra it's the same. The switch (or pretty much every piece of hardware other than a real DS or 3DS) won't be eable to do local wireless with a real DS or 3DS.

 

[SuperHans111]

I can't seem to get the fonts for PPSSPP working. I download the assets files and do everything correctly, but it still isn't showing up.
Does anyone know what might be causing this?
If anyone has this working, can you send me your folder so I can just cut and paste?
I placed the contents from "assets" under /retroarch/system/PPSSPP

 

[Billy Acuña]

I can't seem to get the fonts for PPSSPP working. I download the assets files and do everything correctly, but it still isn't showing up.
Does anyone know what might be causing this?
If anyone has this working, can you send me your folder so I can just cut and paste?
I placed the contents from "assets" under /retroarch/system/PPSSPP

Try the assets provided in ppsspp standalone

 

[SuperHans111]

I fixed it. I just changed the bios location.

 

[x65943]

Let's stick to retroarch discussions guys

 

[zeon_xp]

Hi!!
Can anyone help me? I am very frustrated right now. I have been 4h trying to get PCSX REARMED work on my switch, but I can't.
I tried with different cores and nothing. Right now:

1.8.9 - PCSX-ReARMed (r22 ab323c1) Nightly 29-07-2020
All bios detected on core information.

Switch version: 10.0.4 - AMS 0.13.0E
Hetake 5.3.2
Fat32 SD.
Games placed as PBP. Tried with FFIX and Disney's Herc.

If I try to start game without load core previously: AMS ERROR 2261 0002 Crash
If I load core, and then game: Failed to load content or the software was closed because an error occurred.

Any ideas??