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Libretro Cores progress Report – Beetle PSX HW Dynarec news, New Neo Geo Pocket emulator core, and more!
🕑 Added 2019-12-30 23:57:55 +0000 UTCTo read the full article on our blog site, click here.
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RACE – new Neo Geo Pocket Color emulator core
Description: SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color emulator
We have released the new SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color emulator core for the following platforms –
- Android
- iOS
- macOS
- PSP
- PS Vita
- Linux
- Switch
- Windows
This is an existing old Neo Geo Pocket emulator that unlike NeoPop and its derivatives (Mednafen/Beetle NGP) focuses on performance.
You can get it right now on the Core Updater.
There might still be some savestate and netplay issues with this core. However, the main attraction of this core and by far its ultimate selling point is the performance. It is orders of magnitude faster than Beetle NGP. Watch the video to see exactly how substantial the performance improvement is. For lower-spec systems like PSP, PS2 and 3DS, Beetle NGP (being based on NeoPop) is not able to run at fullspeed, whereas RACE runs at fullspeed on PSP and PS Vita right now.
Beetle PSX HW
Description: PlayStation 1 emulator
* (Vulkan) When rendering games above their native resolution, textures would often become corrupted. Turns out this was a rounding issue. This has been fixed.
* (Dynarec) The Linux/Android portion of the project is getting close to completion, while the Windows part has kinda languished. Therefore, we have made the decision with the current dynarec bounty coders that we focus right now primarily on Linux/Android for an initial release, which hopefully can happen around the end of January. We think that once it’s in people’s hands and results are satisfactory on Android/Linux that the Windows issues can be sorted out from there on out. With CPU-bound games, performance should be roughly 2 times faster.
We are currently assembling testers on our Discord to put the dynarec on Linux to the test.
Beetle PCE Fast
Description: NEC PC Engine emulator
* Added mouse support
* Fix turbo button core option
Kronos
Description: Sega Saturn emulator
* Update to version 2.0
BlueMSX
Description: MSX home computer emulator
The MSX emulator core finally works for the first time on PSP and PS Vita.
Game & Watch – GW
Description: Game & Watch emulator
A regression was fixed in this core, it should finally work on Android again.
Atari 800
Description: Atari 800 home computer emulator
Fix for non-working virtual keyboard.
Virtual Keyboard didn’t work at all.
Right now not all keys are mapped, but at least most important are working now.
FB Neo
Description: Multiple arcade machine emulator
FB Neo has been updated to the latest version.
MAME 2000 – Faster Z80/68K CPU cores for ARM – Big performance boost on Vita
Description: Multiple arcade machine emulator
The MAME 2000 libretro core is now using the ARM-optimized Cyclone and DrZ80 CPU cores on PS Vita. We’re going to be testing this out on various other 32bit ARM devices as well and rolling it out there as well. This should give a significant boost in performance and bring it in-line with MAME4All for 32bit ARM devices.
NOTE: Only the games that make heavy use of Z80 and 68K CPU cores will see significant performance gains from this.
MAME 2003 Plus
Description: Multiple arcade machine emulator
* Fix for Eagle Shot Golf on ARM hardware
Flycast
Description: Sega Dreamcast/NAOMI emulator
* Avoid TA data buffer overflow. Fixes Ooga Booga crashes on multiplayer (offline and online)
* Vulkan: Workaround for Intel driver bug when depth write is disabled
* Vulkan: Add anisotropic filtering core option.
