Oh, I don't want it to be that sharp. I saw your images earlier and they seemed softer. How did you accomplish that?
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RETROARCH - The all-in-one emulator dreams are made of, son
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Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
These are the levels I've been using that I've just clipped out my cgp to compare and contrast:
There might be other stuff switched off by virtue of me having a Radeon, and I can see a few texture_small_mipmap = "false" entries. lol i dunno. This rabbit hole is deep.
Oh man, thanks for this. I've been looking for a clean looking frontend for quite some time.
beam_horiz_filter makes the image slightly softer, and I think it'll be good enough until the NTSC version is out. I thought I'd messed with this option before but I guess in all of my reloading it didn't ever stay turned on.
EDIT: Or not. Something I changed made it slightly softer, but I guess beam_horiz_filter wasn't it.
EDIT: Or not. Something I changed made it slightly softer, but I guess beam_horiz_filter wasn't it.
crawlingpeter
Member
This is absolutely gorgeous. With it, Lakka, the new GameEx Evolution, and a few of the other front ends that have recently come out, I'm so torn!
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Appreciate the video. Not only is it useful to me but to a friend who's been looking for a basic walk through on things like the one you made. Thumbs up.
Cheetos is Pretty Awesome
Member
Yeah Lakka is kind of a bad choice for the GUI. Don't really like the XMB interface, makes searching around for games tedious.
The one thing I'm REALLY pining for is core-specific control options.
The one thing I'm REALLY pining for is core-specific control options.
charlequin
Banned
So, unrelated to anything: has anyone gotten the DOSBox core to work, like... at all? I have a mess of old EGA games I'd love to push through some filters but I have yet to get it to do anything useful.
No Mednafen GBA?
That is the only single thing standing in the way of Retroarch being the best place shy of real hardware to play the Mother 3 translation.
Super pumped for a PSP release, though. I would love to get rid of the mess of garbagey-interface emus on my Go. And you left out one of the bigger pieces of news from that blogpost -- a buildbot and official nightlies!
Yeah, I get by with RGUI which works fine for loading ROMs and tweaking shaders, but I would love an interface that actually made the per-core configs vaguely workable.
sörine;124140677 said:
No Mednafen GBA?
That is the only single thing standing in the way of Retroarch being the best place shy of real hardware to play the Mother 3 translation. Super pumped for a PSP release, though. I would love to get rid of the mess of garbagey-interface emus on my Go. And you left out one of the bigger pieces of news from that blogpost -- a buildbot and official nightlies!
Yeah, I get by with RGUI which works fine for loading ROMs and tweaking shaders, but I would love an interface that actually made the per-core configs vaguely workable.
The GUI will be very easily modified. I wouldn't be concerned with that, once the groundwork is laid out, it will be improved on.
Also new blog is up with updates about 1.1, located here:
http://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-v1-1-what-to-expect/
Also new blog is up with updates about 1.1, located here:
http://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-v1-1-what-to-expect/
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
That's some exciting news.
According to squarepusher, the old RGUI is still going to remain as an option. So if you prefer that interface, you will still have it as an option.
Also, i just tried out a dev build with PPSSPP in x64 windows in retroarch, and it works just fine. Played about 5 games, they all worked. Shout outs to AndresSM who got it going on the windows solution for the port. He is going to make an account here soon as well to interact with everyone directly.
Also, i just tried out a dev build with PPSSPP in x64 windows in retroarch, and it works just fine. Played about 5 games, they all worked. Shout outs to AndresSM who got it going on the windows solution for the port. He is going to make an account here soon as well to interact with everyone directly.
NinjaCatfish
Member
Wow, Retroarch on PSP could be fantastic! It seems like the current PSP based emulators haven't been worked on in a while, so a currently worked-on emulator would be so good and potentially iron out the performance issues with old SNES9x versions.
I'm keen.
I'm keen.
Oh yay! I know it's ugly and awkward and looks like something from 1987 bit I've really grown to love rgui.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I might try emulation station later or when it's ready. That looks great.sörine;124225505 said:
The current UI is a little clunky.
Hmm, so I tested it with snes9x and now I have far less bugs. No more sound crashes on error, which is nice.
But for some odd reason, whenever I launch RetroArch, there is a mouse pointer in the middle of the screen. Even when setting it to full screen. No clue why this is happening, but it does affect performance.
edit: aaand fixed it through EventGhost. Now runs far less choppy too.
But for some odd reason, whenever I launch RetroArch, there is a mouse pointer in the middle of the screen. Even when setting it to full screen. No clue why this is happening, but it does affect performance.
edit: aaand fixed it through EventGhost. Now runs far less choppy too.
MoGamesXNA
Unconfirmed Member
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If you want the Windows port and would rather not compile the source from git, you could grab a usually fairly recent binary from here: http://www.emucr.com/search/label/RetroArch?&max-results=12
The latest one, dated 2014/07/30, indeed does not. I think it has all except for that one.
The latest one, dated 2014/07/30, indeed does not. I think it has all except for that one.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I'm more curious on how to actually set it up and get it working. It looks daunting. Is there a working archive or a detailed tutorial video? And how do you piggy back that off Retroarch?
MoGamesXNA
Unconfirmed Member
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LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Not yet. It would be nice if it had some working Kaillera like client. I can't port forward on this dumb Motoral modem/router combo provided by my ISP but I can join any game.
So, unrelated to anything: has anyone gotten the DOSBox core to work, like... at all? I have a mess of old EGA games I'd love to push through some filters but I have yet to get it to do anything useful.
No Mednafen GBA?
Super pumped for a PSP release, though. I would love to get rid of the mess of garbagey-interface emus on my Go. And you left out one of the bigger pieces of news from that blogpost -- a buildbot and official nightlies!
Yeah, I get by with RGUI which works fine for loading ROMs and tweaking shaders, but I would love an interface that actually made the per-core configs vaguely workable.
What's that about Mother 3? I've been curious about trying it via emulator for ages now.
There is a Mednafen GBA core included in lordashram's latest test release, but it crashes on launching a game for me. Mednafen GBA is an old fork of VBA-M though; generally you'd want to use the VBA-M core, which is based on the latest source.
I've done some testing with Mother 3 specifically and the VBA-Next core has one less bug than M. Next doesn't have the issue where the BGM will speed up while looking at certain items in your inventory (happens with the Libra Bracelet and Battle Memory on my end game save). The Next core is also an old fork of VBA-M made for speed on slower platforms. It seems to have worse colors than M; a bit more green in a quick screenshot comparison I did. I can't load my save in stand alone Mednafen to see if it has the BGM issue.
I think this commit was supposed to fix that issue in VBA-M, but I just tested it with a core compiled on 7/26/2014 and it still happens.
Both cores and the latest stand alone Mednafen have the sound stutter at the beginning of the game before the "Welcome to the World of Mother 3" screen.
They are both pretty minor issues overall though. I recommend using VBA-M until something better comes along. The GBA emulation in Higan is striving for accuracy, but was pretty far from finished last time I tried it.
The issue that charlequin was alluding to with Mother 3 is that the rhythm combo system in the game requires extremely low latency in order to operate properly, and RetroArch+Mednafen GBA (presumably also with the GPU Hard Sync option in RetroArch) should offer lower latency than other emulation solutions.
schandmann
Member
What shaders do you guys use for PS1/N64 emulation?
cgwg_curved looks great for sprite-based games, but polygon-based games look hella grainy und ugly.
cgwg_curved looks great for sprite-based games, but polygon-based games look hella grainy und ugly.
MoGamesXNA
Unconfirmed Member
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CuckFupertino
Banned
Speaking of playing PS1 games, I cannot get Retroarch to play PS1 games at all. Am I doing something wrong? I downloaded the Megapack, and I load the .BIN via "Load Content - Detect Core," however it never detects the right core.
Do I need to be putting a BIOS file somewhere? I seem to remember doing this with PCSX/ePSXe
Thanks in advance!
PS - Running Windows verison, bt dubs.
Do I need to be putting a BIOS file somewhere? I seem to remember doing this with PCSX/ePSXe
Thanks in advance!
PS - Running Windows verison, bt dubs.
Did you try manually choosing the right core?
CuckFupertino
Banned
When you say manually choose, you mean select "Core," then select the right core? I don't know to "select" once I get there. The select button, and even enter, don't seem to have any effect.
CuckFupertino
Banned
For clarification, if I choose the Mendafen PSX core, then try to load content, the directories my .bin file is in show up blank. Why is that?
Daffy Duck
Member
Which psp will they release retroarch on?
Have to place the PSX BIOS files in the system folder, RA needs 3 bios files but can't remember which ones they are, I think if you load the core and go into core info (or settings) it lists which BIOS files are needed and which ones are missing
2 questions.
With the GBA Bios i went and put it on the Pi through the network on my PC and dragged the BIOS file into the Rom folder then i went;
cd into the GBA ROM directory
mv gba_bios.bin /opt/retropie/emulators/gpsp/raspberrypi/
but what is the process for SegaCD bios?
- How and where do i put the SegaCD BIOS on RetroPie?
- How do i configure the Xbox 360 (official pad) controls for GBA games? Every other emulator runs the pad fine but the GBA emulator has switched Start and Select to X and Y and A and B back to front (makes it hard to run and jump in games)
With the GBA Bios i went and put it on the Pi through the network on my PC and dragged the BIOS file into the Rom folder then i went;
cd into the GBA ROM directory
mv gba_bios.bin /opt/retropie/emulators/gpsp/raspberrypi/
but what is the process for SegaCD bios?
MoGamesXNA
Unconfirmed Member
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Doesnt even need to be in the same directory, just needs to point to the iso. Each of my cue files link to the isos on a separate hard drive.
MoGamesXNA
Unconfirmed Member
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Uh, space issues. Why else?
I keep the original CUE files in a zip archive if I ever upgrade my HDD.
MoGamesXNA
Unconfirmed Member
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Heh yeah. It also helps reduce clutter in the browser when on auto detect core, as the BIN and ISO files aren't hidden.
Zombie James
Banned
How are AMDs APUs for emulation these days? Thinking of putting together a little cheap ITX RetroArch box. Or maybe even a Raspberry Pi? But I'm pretty sure it can't handle filters and shaders.
firebricks3
Member
Has anyone seen "Data Load Fail" issues or save fails in the Desmume core? I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the save type for it.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
Great video. Couldn't get CRT Royale to work, though (the console was spouting garbage about bad references).
Do you have an ATI card? Look in the sample user configuration files directory and find one that matches the type of card you have, then copy it out to the same directory as the shader files and rename it to user-settings.h.