Homebrew RetroArch Switch

[mspy]

Any way to prevent the exceedingly long wait time when starting a ROM in RetroArch!Switch? Talking about ~2 mins here.

Is it compressed?

 

[deathblade200]

Any way to prevent the exceedingly long wait time when starting a ROM in RetroArch!Switch? Talking about ~2 mins here.

either don't zip/rar ir or don't preload a chd

 

[Francesca]

either don't zip/rar ir or don't preload a chd

Chd?

Is it compressed?

It's just the ROMs as they always are when you open them with an emulator. Some are decades old.

 

[impeeza]

That could work for some ROMs what are a file inside the zip, but for MAME ROMS, is not possible to uncompress it because the CORE search for zip files (or HD Images in other cases) but no the files inside the zip, most of them haven't extension.

I running NrallyX a lot but is a pain in the butt the start, takes 5 - 10 seconds to load, when in blank screen no button response, even the Home one.

 

[deathblade200]

Chd?

the best format for compressing disk games

It's just the ROMs as they always are when you open them with an emulator. Some are decades old.

what does this even mean?

 

[Francesca]

the best format for compressing disk games

what does this even mean?

Do people manually compress games themselves when they specifically want to play them on RetroArch?

I mostly try to emulate NES, SNES, Genesis. Some of the ROMs were downloaded back in the 00s and I haven't modified them since then. They still make me wait a really long for RetroArch to load the game.

 

[deathblade200]

Do people manually compress games themselves when they specifically want to play them on RetroArch?

I mostly try to emulate NES, SNES, Genesis. Some of the ROMs were downloaded back in the 00s and I haven't modified them since then. They still make me wait a really long for RetroArch to load the game.

I manually compress mine for emulating in general yes but you still keep refusing to answer the question about compression it really doesn't matter when you downloaded them that tells us nothing. hell you could be using a collection that has multiple versions of the same game in one zip

 

[DominoBright]

They're in .nes, .smc, etc. instead of .zip formats right?

 

[bad361]

They're in .nes, .smc, etc. instead of .zip formats right?

it doesn't even matter for nes/snes/gen and other super old consoles, if the core supports loading zips, it will and it won't take that longer than usual. I have zipped roms for n64, snes and gen and everything loads absolutely fine, maybe like 10-15% longer than usual, we are talking about mere seconds here, not minutes. So the op must have some problems with his sd or something else... Other than that, for more modern systems its better to use chd or some other compressed format like rvz for gc.

 

[DominoBright]

it doesn't even matter for nes/snes/gen and other super old consoles, if the core supports loading zips, it will and it won't take that longer than usual. I have zipped roms for n64, snes and gen and everything loads absolutely fine, maybe like 10-15% longer than usual, we are talking about mere seconds here, not minutes. So the op must have some problems with his sd or something else... Other than that, for more modern systems its better to use chd or some other compressed format like rvz for gc.

Folks were asking them about zips and I was just trying to clarify that better to get it out of the way so that the greater issue could be addressed.

 

[deathblade200]

it doesn't even matter for nes/snes/gen and other super old consoles, if the core supports loading zips, it will and it won't take that longer than usual. I have zipped roms for n64, snes and gen and everything loads absolutely fine, maybe like 10-15% longer than usual, we are talking about mere seconds here, not minutes. So the op must have some problems with his sd or something else... Other than that, for more modern systems its better to use chd or some other compressed format like rvz for gc.

unless as I previously stated they are using a collection that has multiple different versions of a game in one zip which will take longer. or if they are trying to run bigger files from a zip file such as ps1 games which I've seen people do before

 

[bad361]

unless as I previously stated they are using a collection that has multiple different versions of a game in one zip which will take longer. or if they are trying to run bigger files from a zip file such as ps1 games which I've seen people do before

yeah, that's true, but he stated that he mainly emulated nes/snes/gen, so there's no reason for a 2 min. load times...even if its a zipped collection of diff versions of a rom.

 

[deathblade200]

yeah, that's true, but he stated that he mainly emulated nes/snes/gen, so there's no reason for a 2 min. load times...even if its a zipped collection of diff versions of a rom.

when you count bad dumps, revisions, and different regions all of which are typically in those collections it adds up and can in fact slow down the extraction time

 

[Francesca]

They're in .nes, .smc, etc. instead of .zip formats right?

Yep, always have been.

 

[deathblade200]

Yep, always have been.

then something is wrong with your sd those should load instantly

 

[mspy]

Maybe you have one of those fake subpar SDCards?

 

[BananaRoad]

So I'm trying to get the Retroarch Flycast working for the first time on my switch. I downloaded 1.10.3 RA, the bios and transferred it over to the /retroarch/cores/system/DC directory which contains the dc_boot.bin/dc_nvmem.bin. Tried loading several files zipped DC games I had and keep on getting "failed to load content", using the flycast core. Tried my zipped bomberman online, power stone, MvC. Is there another core I should be using/should I be putting the bios in a different place, or did I do something wrong there?

 

[bad361]

So I'm trying to get the Retroarch Flycast working for the first time on my switch. I downloaded 1.10.3 RA, the bios and transferred it over to the /retroarch/cores/system/DC directory which contains the dc_boot.bin/dc_nvmem.bin. Tried loading several files zipped DC games I had and keep on getting "failed to load content", using the flycast core. Tried my zipped bomberman online, power stone, MvC. Is there another core I should be using/should I be putting the bios in a different place, or did I do something wrong there?

Try unzipping you roms and loading .gdi/.chd instead, also its worth trying to launch something on pc with the same bios/rom files to make sure your setup files are correct... Flycast is very easy to setup, and it works beautifully. You can also read about all the necessities for flycast core here - https://docs.libretro.com/library/flycast/

 

[BananaRoad]

Try unzipping you roms and loading .gdi/.chd instead, also its worth trying to launch something on pc with the same bios/rom files to make sure your setup files are correct... Flycast is very easy to setup, and it works beautifully. You can also read about all the necessities for flycast core here -

Interesting loading from the unzipped GDI files works, thanks. The docs say it supports zip files but I can only get the games to load from the gdi files even on the PC. I swear this used to work at one point on PC since I played all these before on my PC years ago before setting up the switch.

 

[bad361]

Interesting loading from the unzipped GDI files works, thanks. The docs say it supports zip files but I can only get the games to load from the gdi files even on the PC. I swear this used to work at one point on PC since I played all these before on my PC years ago before setting up the switch.

Yeah, it says it should support zips, idk. Tho personally i only use zips with older systems like genesis/snes etc (if the core supports it). Its not recommended to use zipped files when launching roms with large file size. To compress gdi files, just simply convert them into chd, you'll save quite a lot of space and your roms will work perfectly.