I am hoping someone may be able to provide some assistance to me trying to get Majora's mask working better.
I found a reddit post talking about settings to use and they talked about changing the overscan and resolution and other settings however when I try to go through my own settings I can not find similar settings to adjust.
Ontop of that I was trying to change the UI to xmb to see if it would help display more settings, and eventually could not get games to launch at all and it was using some retro UI and I could not change any settings and ended up having to load default settings again.
Can anyone please assist with how I can get into more advanced menus to change the resolution and certain settings and recommended settings for Majora's mask? We had made it to the mountain and the game became so choppy and nearly unplayable and the audio was extremely glitched as well. Our save ended up getting deleted because Retroarch crashes after loading from saving at a owl statue. I am so frustrated and just want to get this game running somewhat smooth
I was having similar problems and found that overclocking can help a fair bit in some parts of the game.
1. Press - and + simlutaneously to pause the game and go to Retroarch menu.
2. Go to MAIN MENU (not Quick Menu)
3. Scroll down to CPU overclock
4. Try different performance boosting modes from this menu. 1224 is pretty good for much of the game but some parts may need High or even Max performance. I found that the snow rendering in the Snowfall area slowed down the game no matter what, even on Max. But it was still playable and I have been enjoying the game.
Be aware however that overclocking for extended periods may harm the Switch.
I still get the game crashing really often, which sux, but the way around this is to Save State pretty much every few minutes. It doesn't take long and can be found in the Quick Menu. I even switch to different save slots and save state in at least two different save slots every now and again - because I got burned once; retroarch crashed while I was saving state and the state got wiped.
If you are relying on the in-game saving mechanism, be aware that Retroarch by default only saves your in-game saving data when you close retroarch. For example let's say you save Zelda (in-game save) at the beginning of Dungeon X. Then you close Retroarch and play another game, like MarioKart 8. Then you go back into Retroarch and play Zelda again, picking up from where you left off. Then you beat Dungeon X, and you save (in-game save) again. However now Retroarch crashes - and when you start it up again, you find your progress is back to the beginning of Dungeon X. So you see, Retroarch has only overwritten your save data permanently once you close Retroarch manually.
You can change this setting by going to Settings/Saving/SaveRAM Autosave Interval and making it 1 second. Now it will continuously overwrite your save data so that whenever Retroarch crashes, you will go back to the last in-game save.
Personally though, I find that with Majora's Mask's limited in-game-saving options, and Retroarch's propensity for crashing, it's safer to use Save State religiously and constantly.
Hope this helps. I actually came here to post my own Majora's Mask problem, which I will do now (and probalbly get chastised for double posting).
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Hi all,
I'm running retroarch on my Switch (OS: Atmosphere 0.10.5), with the Mupen64plus Next core.
Majora's Mask is running into what I am aware is a common problem - the Bomber's Notebook. I understand that the Notebook renders at a higher resolution than the original game, which may be the source of the problem. However while others seem to report a garbled screen or a blackout, the problem I'm getting is slightly different,
If I enter the Notebook and then press B to exit within a couple of seconds, it exits fine. However if I scroll through the Notebook at all, and then press B to exit, the game/Retroarch invariably freezes and then I have to bring up the Switch menu and force close Retroarch.
I have checked and I am definitely running Mupen64plus "Next", as opposed to the old Mupen64plus. I only downloaded and installed Retroarch in the last couple months so it should be relatively up to date.
Any suggestions?
Thanks