Issues with certain SNES games on retroarch on PSvita

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Mario All Stars + World has minor but noticably annoying slowdown with the sound. Same goes for Yoshi's island. Yoshi's Island has even lagged somewhat on certain parts. For Yoshi's Island I was using snes9x 2002, I had to change it for Mario All Stars because my character wouldn't move for some reason until I changed the core to snes9x 2010, but it was still kind of laggy/choppy sound. any advice on better methods for emulating snes games on PSvita?
 

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Yeah, snes on the vita can be hit or miss, best core for me is snesx2005, but if the game runs bad in it I use snesx2002, or if it's a rom hack that won't open in that version I use snesx2010 and overclock, it's not perfect but it's as good as it gets.

I tried standalone emulators and didn't notice any performance boost.
 

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Yeah, snes on the vita can be hit or miss, best core for me is snesx2005, but if the game runs bad in it I use snesx2002, or if it's a rom hack that won't open in that version I use snesx2010 and overclock, it's not perfect but it's as good as it gets.

I tried standalone emulators and didn't notice any performance boost.


Is SNES emulation on Adrenaline better? I know GBA emulation works better on PSP.
 

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Are you using the Standard or the piglet version of Retroarch?

https://buildbot.libretro.com/stable/1.10.3/playstation/vita/

https://github.com/SonicMastr/PIB-Configuration-Tool

With the piglet version I personally had never a problem regarding snes emulation.....

Can you play Kirby's dream land 3?

That game never ran okay in any core, the only one that was fullspeed was snesx2002 but the water wasn't transparent so when you got to those levels you were done
 

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Can the piglet coexist with the "normal Retroarch"(own bubble) on the same Vita?
As far as I know this is not possible (should be the same Title ID):teach:

If you ask me it does not actually make sense to have two versions at the same time on the system.
 

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Are you using the Standard or the piglet version of Retroarch?

https://buildbot.libretro.com/stable/1.10.3/playstation/vita/

https://github.com/SonicMastr/PIB-Configuration-Tool

With the piglet version I personally had never a problem regarding snes emulation.....


I think standard? https://i.imgur.com/gjDHFxO.jpg

How do I get the VPK for the config tool? I don't see anything I can download. Is the config tool even necessary?

I'm having another problem though. I installed piglet and I don't see it anywhere on my homescreen. I think a new program called Vita Homebrew Browser appeared but when I click it it just gives me an error and doesn't work.

Edit: Now retroarch won't even work. What happened?

Edit 2: I just deleted a bunch of files and reinstalled RA and it works now. So you were saying you can't have piglet installed the same time as RA? just curious but is piglet better than RA in general?
 
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It’s basically the same with extra features. . . . . . .
Overall it works for me in the current version better than the with the standard version:grog:
 

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It’s basically the same with extra features. . . . . . .
Overall it works for me in the current version better than the with the standard version:grog:


Is there a way to have both? I tried installing it but then it broke my other RA. From a prior post it looks like you can't install both?


Please tell me what this is and how to install it:
https://github.com/SonicMastr/PIB-Configuration-Tool
I don't understand what file from here I need. I don't see a vpk file.
 

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I gave up on SNES for Vita. FF6, 7th Saga, bahamut lagoon, etc all had serious problems on all 4 snes forks.

Modded switch / Steamdeck is the way to go.
 

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Also, don't discount the New 3ds SNES capabilities. It lacks emulator features but the emulation is really spot-on.

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Also, don't discount the New 3ds SNES capabilities. It lacks emulator features but the emulation is really spot-on.

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I have a new 3DS actually. I just personally find it to be a bit heavy and the form factor not as comfortable as the PSvita.

Here is the direct link to vpk:

https://github.com/SonicMastr/PIB-Configuration-Tool/releases/download/1.10/PIBConfig.vpk

You can only use one version of retroarch . . . . . . . . I honestly don’t understand why you want to use both:wacko:
Thanks. The reason why I might want both is maybe because the original RA might have features over the piglet version? I don't know if it does but that would be my guess. Is there anything the original version of RA has over the piglet one?
 

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