We have given RetroArch its own dedicated website now . We hope you dig the overall design of the site.
You can also expect a revamp of the Libretro website as well.
Be also on the lookout later this week for new cores and a new RetroArch release!
2017-04-26 20:46:18 +0000 UTC View PostWe have made a new subforum now dedicated to the bounty system.
https://forums.libretro.com/c/bounty-discussion
New bounties/updates
Make Reicast work on ARM and 32-bit PC
This bounty has now been raised to $70!
Stay tuned for a lot of announcements/ releases concerning new cores and updates to existing ones next week!
2017-04-22 20:31:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Lakka 2.0 RC5 is ready to test. The changes are mainly bug fixes and emulator updates.
Mr. Boom (the freeware Bomberman clone), written by talented coder Franck , now has AI Player options.
You can select up to 7 players to act as AI bots. You do this by pressing Select on the player select screen. You can even let AI bots play against themselves!
How to get it
1. Start RetroArch.
2. Select 'Online Updater'. Select 'Update Cores', and download 'Mr. Boom' for your platform.
* The EasyRPG Player core has been updated to the latest version (0.5.1.0). It's currently available on our updater service for : Linux (32bit/64bit), iOS, and macOS. We are currently preparing to add it for Windows and Android as well as we speak.
With EasyRPG, you can play RPG Maker-compatible games! You would be surprised at the quality of some of these games.
Dolphin
In other news, we are still working on the Dolphin libretro core. Right now it's available on o...
2017-04-11 20:40:58 +0000 UTC View Post
A low-level, low-latency WASAPI audio driver has been written for RetroArch, and will likely appear in the next stable RetroArch version (1.5.1).
Windows users have requested this for a long time. Up until now, RetroArch on Windows could make use of either DirectSound (the older audio API ) or XAudio2 (available since Windows XP SP2+ and up). WASAPI has been available since Windows Vista and should allow for lower latency audio.
There are currently still some limitations in the current i...
2017-04-11 20:28:48 +0000 UTC View Post
People were not satisfied with just having SABR texture filtering, so we added more !
here is a screenshot gallery of Ridge Racer Revolution. Each screenshot shows a different texture filter.
Note - some of these texture filter shaders might be significantly slower than others. All of the filters are GPU-bound.
2017-04-03 00:22:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Read the rest of the article on our Libretro site -
https://www.libretro.com/index.php/sdl-libretro-proof-of-concept/
What this means for endusers:
* Developers familiar with SDL can get to grips with libretro easier.
* We can get ports of existing SDL games up and running quicker as libetro cores, they can run inside RetroArch, everybody benefits!
One of...
2017-04-01 18:37:13 +0000 UTC View PostThese are the current bounties we have created for March - about $15 remains to be spent from this month.
Here is an overview of all the bounties we have spent money on so far -
https://www.bountysource.com/teams/libretro/bounties
As you can see, there is an equal spread between core-related bounties as you can see and RetroArch bounties.
Starting as of April, we will add another $150...
2017-03-31 12:28:06 +0000 UTC View PostWe have the bounty system up and rolling with Bountysource and have begun adding awards to a series of issues. The libretro organization has seeded $80 to issues so far, and another $100 has been offered by users. Current issues include adding low-latency input and audio drivers for Windows; extending the mouse axis for games like tyrquake that can be controlled by mouse; support for multiple mice s...
2017-03-29 22:00:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Lakka 2.0 RC4 is available for testers. This is certainly the last Release Candidate before the stable release.
* Mednafen/Beetle Saturn got updated today to the latest version - 0.9.43. It also got a bit faster in the process.
* CrocoDS, an Amstrad CPC emulator, got added!
* Improved/added cheat support for PicoDrive, Genesis Plus GX, Beetle PSX, and others!
How to update to the latest versions:
1. Start up RetroArch. Inside the main menu, go to 'Online Updater'.
2. Just to make sure we have the latest info files, select 'Update Core Info FIles...
2017-03-27 10:13:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We just updated the Beetle PSX core with a couple of worthwhile new features.
To begin with, we fixed a longstanding bug that could occur with the OpenGL renderer.
Most importantly, though, we added a new texture filtering option for the OpenGL renderer. Called 'SABR', using this option will increase the load placed on your GPU but the graphics will look a lot better and less pixelly (if you like that sort of thing).
If you don't, then select 'Nearest' instead and everything will b...
2017-03-27 09:56:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The 3rd and last new core for this weekend is a port of the VICE 3.0 emulator, a Commodore 64/128 emulator!
Not all bells and whistles are hooked up yet, however, this emulator core comes with a builtin GUI made possible by the middleware GUI software 'Nuklear'. It is rendered in software for maximum portability!
This core has been made possible by r-type who did most of the work by porting it. What we did in the process of bringing it to the buildbot was polishing up the core, mak...
2017-03-26 04:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The second new core comes out of leftfield and has been graciously provided by RedBug.
This is a karaoke music player! It can load any MP3+CDG file combination. It will then show the lyrics onscreen and on-cue like a true karaoke player, and it will also highlight the text which should be currently sung.
Playable on
So far, we have released this program core for the following platforms:
* Windows
* Linux
* Android
Other systems like iO...
2017-03-26 04:18:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Three new cores today! The first one to cover is a game program core called 'xRick'. This is a game engine for the old Core Design game 'Rick Dangerous'. This game was released in 1989 by the same people who would later go on to make games like Thunderhawk and Tomb Raider.
Our thanks goes out to 'r-type' who did the major work on this program core to get it up and running. Afterwards, we did some minor cleanups and revisioning to get it working on the widest array of platforms possible.
...
2017-03-26 04:09:53 +0000 UTC View Post
This new site shows all existing RetroArch netplay lobbies which are currently running! It also has links to video tutorials demonstrating how to host and/or join new netplay sessions.
We have also put up a link on our Libretro website. Go to the top of the site and click on 'Lobbies' in order to access it.
We aim to provide more community-building features as we go along for netplay, so st...
2017-03-24 23:45:09 +0000 UTC View Post
All the Final Burn Alpha cores now have cross-architecture savestate support! This means that:
- savestates can now be reliably saved and loaded
- you can netplay with popular systems like Capcom CPS1/2/3, NeoGeo, etc.
- You can even netplay across architectures now. For instance, in a peer to peer game, one can be running a 32bit PC while another one is using a 64bit system, or a 32bit Android system connecting to a 64bit PC, etc.
- We have even made a tweak to the sav...
2017-03-23 06:42:00 +0000 UTC View PostBounty : Create a WASAPI audio driver for Windows
Current bounty amount: $20
Bounty: Create a RawInput input driver for Windows
Current bounty amount: $20
To kick things off, and as promised, $150 has been made available for bounties on Bountysource! Over the upcoming days you will see us setting up additional bounties on issues (both RetroArch and core-related).
You as an individual user can also join on Bountysource and pledge additional money towards issues. These are one-offs and you can pledge money using either Paypal or Coinbase.
Note that we are dependent on the money we receive on Patreon in order to keep putting in $1...
2017-03-22 17:04:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Polygon tearing bug now fixed through a hack in Donkey Kong 64 for the ParaLLEl N64 core!
2017-03-21 02:07:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Our first development issue on which we have placed a $20 bounty!
This particular issue involves write permissions for SD cards (Android 6.0+ issue).
Any user is free to pledge money too towards any given issue; so together ,we can raise the total amount ensuring that the right issues get prioritized!
We are going to be spending another $130 on other issues this month as bounties! Each month we will spend $150 on bounties.
We will be adding more of these as the we...
2017-03-19 23:03:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The Mr. Boom core should work now with netplay! Use the latest RetroArch in order to do multiplayer online!
To get Mr. Boom, in RetroArch go to Online Updater -> Update Cores. Select 'Mr. Boom' in order to download it.
From there you can start Mr. Boom by going to 'Load Core', select 'Mr. Boom'. Then select 'Start Core'.
2017-03-15 20:18:01 +0000 UTC View Post
After two weeks of work, we can now publish the Release Candidate 3 of Lakka 2.0.
The RPi Zero W is the new version of the RPi Zero with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
We usually don’t update RetroArch during the release candidate cycle, but this new version is mostly about stability improvements and bugfixes.
There are some account setup issues still left to deal with (Coinbase/Bountysource), but we feel we are ready enough to already pre-announce the bounty system that is going live this month!
Both core and RetroArch-related work will be included as part of this bounty system. Please look forward to more details and announcements as they become available!
2017-03-10 16:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostRetroArch 1.5.0 has just been released!
Download
You can get the latest version here.
On Android, you can expect version 1.5.0 to be downloadable on the Google Play Store later today. If you want to install the APK manually, you can do so by downloading it from the URL linked to above.
Changes since last version
The new Lakka 2.0 RC2 images are waiting to be tested on our server.
This version fixes:
If you were already using the RC1, you can upgrade to RC2 using the graphical interface.
Please remember that this is not a stable version. It is made ...
2017-03-05 15:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostSome big releases these next two weeks -
* A preliminary version of Dolphin libretro core for Linux and Windows, potentially macOS if time and resources allow for it! It will work as a dynamic library, there will be Gamecube controls only at first and we have yet to hook up Wiimote controls. This initial version will be a work-in-progress therefore but nevertheless, I am sure many people have been looking forward to this finally happening so it's going to happen!
* A new RetroArch interi...
2017-03-01 12:37:11 +0000 UTC View Post
During the last two months, we’ve been busy rebasing Lakka on LibreELEC. It was quite difficult because we didn’t want to drop support for any ARM boards, but we finally managed to get it working on time. This new version of Lakka is based on the LibreELEC 8.0 stable branch and ships RetroArch 1.4.1. It is a Release Candidate intended for testers and developers. If you are a beginner Lakka user, it’s better to keep using the c...
2017-02-28 13:45:47 +0000 UTC View Post