It's been teased, it took the scene by surprise and now it's finally here: Flycast's Switch core has just been added to RetroArch's official buildbot! In case it's the first time you hear about it, Flycast is a Sega Dreamcast and NAOMI emulator made by flyinghead which initially began as a reicast fork, then later would become known for being the first to run Windows CE-based games on Android. Flycast has seen a good number of developments recently: not only it received various performance improvements, but it became stable enough to merge its two separate libretro cores into one - which in turn marks another first on its own, as it's currently the only open-source Dreamcast emulator to offer WinCE support in its master branch. Right after this happened, Mats (a developer already known for working on Xash3D for the Switch) started to port the new unified core to Nintendo's latest console, and then @m4xw also stepped in to fix its 64-bit ARM dynamic recompiler & texture invalidation feature. Thanks to it, many games are completely playable and run at full speed!

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Since then, some preliminary builds had been shared around both to give followers an idea of what to expect in the future and also to make up for some issues related to libretro's buildbot. However, you can now download Flycast's all-new Switch core right from RetroArch's built-in updater! All you need to do is to get into the Online Updater, then Core Updater and select "Sega - Dreamcast/NAOMI (Flycast)". The build should be stable enough to be fine for most users, but it still needs some code revisions which may impact performance or reliability. If you're a SX OS user, however, there are some bad news for you: the core is inadvertently incompatible with the aforementioned CFW, so it will not work until TX fixes the issue. Atmosphère is currently the only officially supported custom firmware.

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[m4xw]

so,saturn too will be possible if a vulkan support is added in near future ? (I hope but I dream ~~)

No Idea.
But don't get me wrong, gc will just suck as much as now on linux then.
And you can't even overclock as much to be able to use it

 

[HitchensRIP]

No Idea.
But don't get me wrong, gc will just suck as much as now on linux then.
And you can't even overclock as much to be able to use it

That sux man as when they NX was announced/revealed all I could think of was GC on the go, especially considering I was already doing it on WiiU in semi portable mode, meh

But oviously, appreciate your reply and honesty

 

[wakabayashy]

No Idea.
But don't get me wrong, gc will just suck as much as now on linux then.
And you can't even overclock as much to be able to use it

thanks for flycast and n64 anyway, I only hope someday you'll do saturn port and we can die peacefully

 

[Gamerxxx]

"If you're a SX OS user, however, there are some bad news for you: the core is inadvertently incompatible with the aforementioned CFW, so it will not work until TX fixes the issue"

What problem does TX have to solve?

 

[enderer]

does it support touchscreen light gun options?

 

[JakobAir]

Sidenote... If you're not gonna build the controller, don't make the render. It's a nasty tease. ;o;

My soul is crushed...

 

[ChibiMofo]

What are you talking about? @m4xw has been working alongside on the main Dreamcast core flycast and he is one of Retroarchs main developers for the libretro team! Get your facts right numpty before you comment.

When I read the title, I assumed emulation of the Switch itself was being added to Retroarch. Don't overreact to other people's comments m4xw.

 

[HitchensRIP]

Surely missed some drama here...

 

[cPix]

I have a noob question, I've tried to launch a DC game through retroarch/flycast on my switch, and as soon as i try to load the .cue file, i just get an atmosphere error 2144-0001, any clues to what im doing wrong?

 

[HitchensRIP]

I have a noob question, I've tried to launch a DC game through retroarch/flycast on my switch, and as soon as i try to load the .cue file, i just get an atmosphere error 2144-0001, any clues to what im doing wrong?

From the top of my head, although I never tried flycast, could be two things:

- Retroarch must be launched via game mode (not through photo Album, you can look it up), to unlock more RAM
- No DC BIOS in retroarch BIOS folder

I can be absolutely wrong though

 

[cPix]

From the top of my head, although I never tried flycast, could be two things:

- Retroarch must be launched via game mode (not through photo Album, you can look it up), to unlock more RAM
- No DC BIOS in retroarch BIOS folder

I can be absolutely wrong though

Thanks! I think it was missing the bios Now that i try to load the .cue file, i get into the dreamcast bios menu, but the game is not loaded, only say "scanning cue" down in the left corner, could that be that it doesn't support that exact game?

 

[HitchensRIP]

Thanks! I think it was missing the bios Now that i try to load the .cue file, i get into the dreamcast bios menu, but the game is not loaded, only say "scanning cue" down in the left corner, could that be that it doesn't support that exact game?

Dunno mate, as said, havent used it, yet, maybe this might help ?

https://docs.libretro.com/library/flycast/

 

[cPix]

Dunno mate, as said, havent used it, yet, maybe this might help ?

https://docs.libretro.com/library/flycast/

done all of that, still onlt getting the bios screen, hopefully someone knows what's going on

 

[yusuo]

Ignore

 

[Yoni Arousement]

If I try to load a game without the bios files, it shows the Sega Enterprises screen and then closes. If I try with the bios files, Retroarch just closes. The same bios files that work with Reicast don't seem to work with this core. I've tried using the bios files from several different websites with no success. Certainly there's something I'm doing wrong there. As it stands, the core seems to require a very specific MD5/SHA-1 to work (please don't tell me I'm correct on that).

 

[Gamerxxx]

I would like to know if a version of flycasts for SXOS already exists?

 

[wakabayashy]

I would like to know if a version of flycasts for SXOS already exists?

no for now

 

[natanqb]

Where can i find the necessary BIOS to use this? I googled it but couldn't find it.

 

[natanqb]

From the top of my head, although I never tried flycast, could be two things:

- Retroarch must be launched via game mode (not through photo Album, you can look it up), to unlock more RAM
- No DC BIOS in retroarch BIOS folder

I can be absolutely wrong though

How do i launch retroarch via game mode?

 

[HitchensRIP]

How do i launch retroarch via game mode?

You need to launch HB Menu via Game mode... so not via Album