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RetroArch 1.7.7 – Experimental alpha version of UWP/Xbox One version!
The buildbot is doing round 2 of the 1.7.7 release rollout. It will likely take hours again to be finished with them all, but you'll get a better endproduct out of it in the end.In the meantime, here is an early release of a pre-alpha version of RetroArch for UWP/Xbox One! Please be aware that this is very early days - and read all about it in this blog article -https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-7-7-experimental-alpha-version-of-uwpxbox-one-version/
Reicast WinCE Libretro – Experimental core released!
NOTE: You can read the full article here on our website -https://www.libretro.com/index.php/reicast-wince-libretro-experimental-core-released/Courtesy of flyinghead, today we’re releasing a special version of Reicast with Windows CE support enabled! Our reason for releasing this is that we want users to report back as many issues as possible so the kinks can be ironed out.What’s this about?Windows CE was an option available to Dreamcast developers that made it much easier to port their game from PC to Dreamcast. Windows CE is/was a subset o...
(Upcoming) RetroArch 1.7.7 - RGUI Particle effect animation system!
Courtesy of jdgleaver -Introducing the concept of RGUI particle effects. Basically, you get 256 particles to play with, each consisting of 4 float variables with which you can do as you please. This is very crude and simplistic, but it's also quite flexible and adding new effects is a fairly trivial exercise.From a user's perspective, the current Snow option has been removed and replaced with a new Background Animation setting under User Interface, Appearance. This can be disabled, or set to one of the following:Snow (Light): This is th...
RetroArch 1.7.7 scheduled to be released this weekend
Provided the stars perfectly align, we should have RetroArch 1.7.7 out of the door by the tailend of this weekend.Lots of work went into this upcoming version, lots of bugfixes, additions, and usability enhancements. We hope you will share our enthusiasm for this version once it is finally in your hands!More videos will be dropped soon showcasing some of the new features in this release.
Progress made on OCR bounty
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/52185180-proposal-adding-ocr-and-translation-button-to-allow-playing-games-from-any-languageReal progress is being made on this bounty by a developer. What you see above is a real-time screenshot being taken from a Proof of Concept build.What you see is the game being paused, a screenshot being taken of the game screen. What happens next is that the screenshot is transferred to a live service and then the image is being checked for matching patterns. What you see above is the final result being sent back from...
(Coming Soon) RetroArch 1.7.7 - WIMP Desktop UI Settings !
The desktop UI is about to become even better soon!Thanks to the great efforts of CozmoP and also due to some refactoring on our end, starting as of version 1.7.7, RetroArch will finally allow you to change settings inside the nice and easy Desktop UI (that can be triggered at any time by pressing F5 on your keyboard).NOTE: The Desktop UI is only available for Mac, Windows and Linux. The desktop UI is powered by Qt 5.
A website to browse the libretro database – db.libretro.com
A new website is now available at db.libretro.com.db.libretro.com is an online database of video games. It is generated from the exact same game database that is used in RetroArch for scanning your game collection.Compiling a database of all the existing games is not an easy task. Thanks to the hard work of no-intro and other preservation teams, libretro-database was started on a very solid basis. However, as we are adding more and more sources of games, maintaining a high level of quality has become a challenge.We hope that this new tool will ...
Lakka 2.2.2 with RetroArch 1.7.6
Lakka 2.2.2 is now available.Changelog: RetroArch 1.7.6 with important improvements on the Ozone menu Almost all the libretro cores are updated, including a fix for mupen64plusYou can download the builds from http://le.builds.lakka.tv or update your existing installation through the Online Updater.Happy retro gaming!
RetroArch v1.7.6 - Released!
RetroArch 1.7.6 has just been released! Grab it here.NOTE: Currently the following versions have not yet been released – Xbox OG and OSX PowerPC. We will keep you up to date on Twitter and update this blog post accordingly.HighlightsPlayStation2 port – now available!RetroArch has been ported to the PlayStation2 by fjtrujy, and starting as of version 1.7.6 you can already try it on your own homebrew-enabled PS2!A couple of cores have been included as part of this initial release:* 2048* FCEUmm (NES emulator)* QuickNES (NES emulator)* Picodri...
Experimental Vulkan and X11 Lakka 2.2 builds for x86_64
So far nvidia PC GPUs were supported by Lakka through nouveau open-source drivers.Unfortunately, these drivers are nowhere as complete as Intel or AMD ones, so while having some advantages (DRM/KMS support, no X Server) this approach has major drawbacks, for example: poor 3D performance no support for recent GPUs no VulkanBecause of the above, PCs with nvidia GPUs were not a good target for Lakka. To overcome the limitations and unleash full potential of these GPUs, the following new experimental builds of Lakka for x86_64 are now available fro...
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone!RetroArch is going to be making a big splash on several new systems this Q1 2019 - PlayStation2, PlayStation4, Xbox One.Stay tuned!
Xbox One RetroArch port for early 2019!
We've bit the bullet and will commit to releasing an Xbox One port of RetroArch for early 2019!Might require Developer Activation and might not be available on the Store but will be possible for anybody with an Xbone to obtain nonetheless!We basically have most of the building blocks ready for an Xbox One port, the only thing that still needs to happen is making an UWP app out of RetroArch.Xbox One might be the only game console out of the big three so far that will not require you to jailbreak anything in order to run RetroArch.UPDATELooks...
Merry Christmas from Libretro!
We wish you a merry Christmas here from Team Libretro.Before the end of the year we will release a new RetroArch version, and some more.For now, have some new blog posts -Mu/SquirrelJME Dual-Releasehttps://www.libretro.com/index.php/musquirreljme-dual-release/PlayStation Classic Boot Menu + RetroArch + 91 Cores, Christmas 2018 public BETAhttps://www.libretro.com/index.php/playstation-classic-boot-menu-retroarch-91-cores-christmas-2018-public-beta/Introducing Kronos: a new Sega Saturn/ST-V emulatorhttps://www.libretro.com/index.php/introducing-k...
New Vulkan graphics enhancements features in Beetle PSX HW!
<figure>Final Fantasy IX – SSAA at 1x internal resolution with CRT Royale</figure><figure>Final Fantasy IX – SSAA at 8x internal resolution with CRT Royale</figure>MDEC YUV filteringPlayStation used a special unit called the MDEC to decode full motion videos instead of relying on software rendering (like the Saturn). These videos were encoded in YUV macroblocks and had to be converted from YCbCr to RGB so that the PSX can output the final image to the screen. A common issue with PlayStation emulators is that the chroma channel generally sho...
Libretro and Classic/Mini Consoles update!
NOTE: This is a guest article by swingflip. Read the original article here - https://www.libretro.com/index.php/libretro-and-classicmini-consoles-update/Libretro has teamed up with ModMyClassic (formerly Hakchi Resources) to provide Libretro with their own official “Classic” platform offering for the classic consoles such as the NES Classic, SNES Classic, C64 Mini and the PlayStation Classic.This now means you can download both stable and nightly builds of RetroArch and majority of the cores directly from official sources which are built an...
Libretro/RetroArch Progress Report/Update – November 2018
RetroArch Switch nightlies now have overclocking support!RetroArch for Nintendo Switch now has built-in overclocking support! Download the latest nightlies here –http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/nintendo/switch/libnx/There are 3 “Overclocking” and 3 Underclocking options.On exit, RetroArch will restore the default system clock.On docking, RetroArch will restore chosen clock (same with undock)On focus loss, RetroArch will restore the default system clocks.On focus gain, RetroArch will restore the chosen clock.Some general performance h...
(Upcoming) RetroArch 1.7.6 - Resolution selection! (Windows)
We have implemented a dropdown list of all the available resolutions that your display server currently supports. You can select a resolution from this list and it will change the output resolution, and it will even change the refresh rate accordingly. So you will be able to jump from 4K 60Hz to 1440p 120Hz if your video card and TV/monitor allows for it on the fly! Hopefully this is far more convenient than having to manually set the fullscreen width/height manually inside Video Settings.Note that this is currently implemented for Windows only...
Reicast Libretro Atomiswave support!
Thanks to flyinghead, Reicast Libretro has now gained Sammy Atomiswave support! Sammy Atomiswave was an arcade system board based on the Dreamcast/Sega NAOMI hardware. A lot of SNK Playmore’s flagship games transitioned from the ageing Neo-Geo hardware to the much more modern Naomi-based hardware, such as Samurai Shodown, King of Fighters, Metal Slug and so on.Both MAME ROMs and Demul-compatible roms should work. Note that as of right now, only a limited selection of Atomiswave games work. More will be added later today/tomorrow.Here is a sam...
Reicast Libretro NAOMI and MAME ROM support!
Flyinghead is adding MAME ROM support to the arcade side of Reicast Libretro.Here is what has currently been implemented:* NAOMI M1 cartridge support* NAOMI M2 cartridge support* NAOMI M4 cartridge supportThings you need to know* Right now, only non-merged romsets work. A merged rom is a ROM without parent, it contains all the files needed.* NAOMI M4 cartridges require a special BIOS file to be put inside your System directory. The M4 bios should be in a "naomi.zip" file in the BIOS folder (<system folder>/dc ). The file in specific whi...
MAME libretro core updated to version 0.203!
The MAME libretro core has been updated to the latest version (0.203)! You can grab this latest MAME core from our buildbot.Here is a quick demonstration of how you would update/download MAME directly from within RetroArch -1. Inside the Main Menu, go to Online Updater.2. Select 'Core Updater'.3. Select 'Arcade (MAME)' and press the OK button. Now wait until the download has finished. In the meantime, you can still use the menu to make the wait less boring. After it has finished extracting, the core has successfully been install...
Reicast Libretro now has NAOMI MAME rom support! M2 cartridge-only for now!
Flyinghead has just added MAME ROM support to Reicast Libretro for Sega NAOMI arcade games! Currently, only M2 cartridges are supported.M1 cartridge support and Atomiswave/NAOMI GD-ROM support is likely next!See here the list of games it currently supports -https://github.com/libretro/reicast-emulator/blob/e04378b3e60850e950d277112103d60d842e1721/core/hw/naomi/naomi_roms.h
Reicast Libretro should now have CHDv5 support!
Today's Reicast Libretro nightlies will have working CHDv5 support!Even special edge cases like the 98-track Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six CHD should work just fine!
Reddit integration
Patreon today added Reddit integration, so in light of this, we've added a new tier - for $10 or more, in addition to getting all the benefits of the $5 patreon, you also get a flair on our RetroArch subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/retroarch)!
(Upcoming) RetroArch new menu driver - Ozone! Sneak peek WIP build!
You can see here an early Work-In-Progress build of natinusula's Ozone, the new menu driver that we hope to be premiering soon as a touch/mouse/gamepad-oriented solution!In this video, we demonstrate how on the fly theme switching is already possible. Not shown in this video but very much a thing is how the button legend below responds to the 'Swap OK/Cancel' setting, so it properly tells you which of the buttons is used for confirming and going back.Not implemented so far are message boxes, thumbnails, better scaling, etc. But all ...
New Sega Saturn core - Kronos - OpenGL rendering and cached interpreter available!
We are making a new Sega Saturn libretro core available today - Kronos. This is a fork of Yabause from the developer FCare. It's actually a fork of a fork, in this case a fork of uoYabause, now called Yaba Sanshiro.It has an OpenGL ES 3.0 (for mobile) / 3.1 renderer, allows for texture filtering, and upscaling. It even has a cached interpreter CPU core which should be faster than the default interpreter that the standard Yabause core has.See above a quick video of Daytona USA running on Kronos with RetroArch. First we start the game with th...
Gambatte Progress Report!
Gambatte progress report can be found here -https://www.libretro.com/index.php/gambatte-progress-report/ …. There will be more progress reports for core updates in the near future
RetroArch Vita 1.7.5 stable updated!
RetroArch Vita 1.7.5 stable builds have been updated, there were some input issues that could happen on PS TV or Vita with certain lower firmwares. These issues should now be resolved! You can get the latest stable version here -https://retroarch.com/?page=platforms
RetroArch macOS 1.7.5 stable updated!
There were some packaging issues with them that now should have been resolved! Reminder also that the Metal build should have the desktop UI now!
RetroArch 1.7.5 for macOS (Metal version) released/updated, now comes with Desktop UI!
RetroArch 1.7.5 for macOS (the Metal version) has just been updated ! You can grab it here -https://retroarch.com/?page=platformsIt now includes the desktop UI that already made its appearance on Linux and Windows before, powered by Qt!We hope to be adding this desktop UI also to the non-Metal builds of RetroArch for macOS soon. Stay tuned!
RetroArch for PlayStation2 in development - WIP video!
fjtrujy is working on a RetroArch port for the PlayStation2. Yep, you read that right!So far, he has succeeded in getting RGUI rendering onto the screen, the PS2 joypad is working, and a core has been compiled (Picodrive). From here on out, the challenge becomes a bit harder - he will need to figure out sound, get the libretro core actually running, get audio/video performing well, etc.You can see here this current WIP video of how RetroArch on PS2 currently looks like. RetroArch is a project that prides itself on being available everywhere. Wh...
