Release Retroarch

[sebt3]

Hi there,

This is the retroarch initial packaging for pyra. It run using the SGX, so it's normally GPU accelerated.
It only come with few cores (21). But more can be downloaded from the official buildbot.

Enjoy

 

[matzesu]

This is cool , but I’m a bit a noob:
Is this a multi system Emulator, so I just have to put it in my Pyra, run the DBP and chose my Roms?

 

[matzesu]

Ok i dit some test run :
I mapped the Input to the Pyra Game Controlls , and i dit allready Super Nintendo and the Gameboys to work
The others need some more test, but at least SNES ^^
I wonder if the GBA Emulator Cores also got the Sound Issue i had whit Ducktabe MGBA ..

 

[levi]

New video this weekend then eh?

 

[matzesu]

I think so, but first I need to rearrange my SNES Roms ..

Also a positive effects on my Video Project: I have to clean up my Rom folders , so they don’t Look that Full

 

[matzesu]

I wonder, when I want to add the nestopia core, how will this work:
Just download, put the zip in a folder, and then just running the NES Roms ?
And how well dos the vice C64 and the scummvm runs??
Maybe I have to play around a lot whit retroarch this afternoon..

 

[netcat]

I'm interested in scummvm too. Because the prya has a keyboard.

 

[matzesu]

Ok, so this afternoon will get used to test some more cores, (ditnt had luck whit the Sega Cores (Mastersystem, Genesis, Game Gear), and the Atari Lyncx), are there some special things to make first?? Do i need to Clock the Pyra to 1,5 ghz? I will find out..

 

[Wally]

Great release, thanks!

An annoying bug:
* Unable to download the rom databases, it says tasks failed meaning we cannot scan directories instead have to manually scan (Online Updater - Update Databases)

 

[matzesu]

Ok when this is a bug whit the fullscreen mode, maybe i should test the other emulator cores in window mode..

 

[matzesu]

Ok i made some more tests:
Now there is the option to download cores from retroarch itself, but it’s got only until 48 % or it will load but need hours per core??
I don’t know where to put the cores from the start post, unzip in the core folder, gets an error when I try to install these from the menu..

So only GB GBC and SNES yet ..

Also a bit strange : I have a Audio Issue even whit speakers, whyle it’s fine whit pcsxrearmed as standalone dbp

 

[Eight Bit]

Nice, I just played some games in RetroArch and as far as I could see all worked fine. I noticed though that the shoulder button Top Left (Fn) can not be used, it does not bind on its own... this might not be a retroarch issue, anyone know how to fix it?

 

[levi]

I wonder, when I want to add the nestopia core, how will this work:
Just download, put the zip in a folder, and then just running the NES Roms ?
And how well dos the vice C64 and the scummvm runs??
Maybe I have to play around a lot whit retroarch this afternoon..

Looking at the dbp (I was able to unpack it using 7z fwiw) it looks like inside the appdata folder for this program you need to create folders lib/libretro and inside that put .so files, so if they come as zips I'd suggest unpacking them and see if you get an .so file from them.

 

[matzesu]

Ok i will see how this works thanks..
maybe the cores you can download via retroarch can’t get download because they ditnt got ported to arm v7 hv ?
I try to make a video this weekend..

I wonder how much difference in performance in comparison to the single emulators..

 

[PowerGod]

nightly builds of cores can be downloaded from:

index - powered by h5ai v0.29.0 (https://larsjung.de/h5ai/)

index - powered by h5ai v0.29.0 (https://larsjung.de/h5ai/)

buildbot.libretro.com

these are still not certified as stable and so not present in retroarch list, but can be "installed" manually and most of the time they just work

 

[matzesu]

Cool, and where are they put to? I made a test and put the Scumvm So from the Startpost to the Download Folder in Appdata/Retroarchseb3 and when i push "Install cores" it will showed up, but i get an error when i try to install it..

The PSX Game i tryed whit the Playstation Core was Final Fantasy VIII, and this was one of the games which dont even work on the pcsxrearmed on Pandora and on Pyra..

 

[levi]

As I posted before, I thing they go in appdata/Retroarchsebt3/lib/libretro. They do appear to be straight zipped up .so files so unpacking it and putting it there should match the .so's supplied in the dbp so I'd expect to be recognised, unless they need extra configuration.

Looking at the retroarch.cfg in /etc/ that I unpacked, it is configured to look in /etc/libretro for it's cores. There's also a core information page pointed at /share/libretro/info but you don't seem to get those from the nightly core builds, so I'd just ignore those and hope it works.

 

[PowerGod]

On Windows I have those DLLs uncompressed in the "cores" directory

 

[logen]

After updating to Bullseye, I can't get this to launch anymore. Looks like it wants to use old libs.

I don't know enough about building retroarch nor packaging for the DBP yet to fix this myself.

 

[levi]

Yes, that's the danger. Maybe retroarch could be distributed with more libs inside the dbp, but it's hard to know what you'd need to include before time, and of course, including libs means no security patches can get to them.