Homebrew Retroarch Emulation Thread (Nightly Builds Included)

[GothicIII]

Is it possible to play golden sun 2 with retroarch? I installed the nightly build from today but it just soft resets to the GBA bios boot screen when reaching the 1st dialogue. If I provide a save file the 3ds crashes and restarts as soon as the main menu appears.
Is it really that buggy? I'm using a new3ds btw.

I want to play this game really bad but it doesn't work well. I know it is shitty programmed -.- Best emulator i played it with was tempgba with a dstwo but it tends to crash randomly. Mgba has performance issues with it too.

Can someone help me please? IS it not possible to play it without issues?

 

[DarthDub]

Is it possible to play golden sun 2 with retroarch? I installed the nightly build from today but it just soft resets to the GBA bios boot screen when reaching the 1st dialogue. If I provide a save file the 3ds crashes and restarts as soon as the main menu appears.
Is it really that buggy? I'm using a new3ds btw.

I want to play this game really bad but it doesn't work well. I know it is shitty programmed -.- Best emulator i played it with was tempgba with a dstwo but it tends to crash randomly. Mgba has performance issues with it too.

Can someone help me please? IS it not possible to play it without issues?

VC Injects are your best bet if you have CFW.

 

[TimX24968B]

Is it possible to play golden sun 2 with retroarch? I installed the nightly build from today but it just soft resets to the GBA bios boot screen when reaching the 1st dialogue. If I provide a save file the 3ds crashes and restarts as soon as the main menu appears.
Is it really that buggy? I'm using a new3ds btw.

I want to play this game really bad but it doesn't work well. I know it is shitty programmed -.- Best emulator i played it with was tempgba with a dstwo but it tends to crash randomly. Mgba has performance issues with it too.

Can someone help me please? IS it not possible to play it without issues?

1. use the stable builds, not nightlies. much less likely to have an issue.
2. are you sure your rom isn't buggy?
3. if both of the other conditions above are met, try doing a VC inject or looking for an installable .cia from that iso site for the gba game.

 

[Greymane]

Is it possible to play golden sun 2 with retroarch? I installed the nightly build from today but it just soft resets to the GBA bios boot screen when reaching the 1st dialogue. If I provide a save file the 3ds crashes and restarts as soon as the main menu appears.
Is it really that buggy? I'm using a new3ds btw.

I want to play this game really bad but it doesn't work well. I know it is shitty programmed -.- Best emulator i played it with was tempgba with a dstwo but it tends to crash randomly. Mgba has performance issues with it too.

Can someone help me please? IS it not possible to play it without issues?

Just like TimX24968B said, the stable builds are your best bet for "stable" gameplay.
Be also sure to check if your rom is not faulty.

Though i would recommend VC injection if you want stability, and don't mind the loss of savestates.
The roms from that iso site tend to be good the majority of the time.
The golden sun games are good though since i have fully played them as VC injections.

The password be dammed, so many retry's before correct -.-

 

[GothicIII]

Thank you very much I will try this. The rom is not faulty, it can be played on other devices perfectly fine. I checked the hashsum and it's valid.

Didn't know that it's possible to inject gba games and use the building emulator. Looks promising

Greetings

EDIT: Injecting VC is definitely the way to go. No lags, works perfectly. It even read my save file without problems. I created a cia myself.
Just had to install to both sys and emunand after experiencing a crash.

It's sad that emulators can't access the builtin gba hardware of the 3ds from other boot modes.

 

[matt!]

Just had to install to both sys and emunand after experiencing a crash.

Out of interest, why are you still using Emunand? And not A9LH & Luma?

 

[GothicIII]

Out of interest, why are you still using Emunand? And not A9LH & Luma?

Im using luma and a9lh but I also use gateway. We all know gateway has no firm protection on sysnand + I want to preserve the sysnand i/o-operations (nand is not unlimited writeable and I know of two people that their system bricked because of that, sd cards are easily changeable, nands aren't).

 

[ajfoucault]

I have searched all over this thread but have found nothing

In what directory should I put my "disksys.rom" (Famicon Disk System BIOS) in order to run FDS games?

I am running the *.cia version of LibRETRO Nestopia 1.48

Thank you all in advance for your kind help.

 

[coinblock]

In what directory should I put my "disksys.rom" (Famicon Disk System BIOS) in order to run FDS games?

Try retroarch/cores/system.

 

[ajfoucault]

Thanks for the help, coinblock.

Also, is there a specific file format that I must use for PSX Discs? I'm using *.bin/*.cue but everytime I select one with the LibRETRO PCSX ReARMed r22 core, it kicks me out. (I have a New 3DS and the PSX bios file is in retroarch/cores/system

edit: Nevermind. Started using an old build and it worked. The most recent one that comes bundled with the Nightly builds doesn't seem to work properly.

 

[TimX24968B]

I have searched all over this thread but have found nothing

In what directory should I put my "disksys.rom" (Famicon Disk System BIOS) in order to run FDS games?

I am running the *.cia version of LibRETRO Nestopia 1.48

Thank you all in advance for your kind help.

you can put it anywhere as long as you change the directory to that place in the config.

 

[Asia81]

Soon *maybe* Gamecube emulation with a dolphin Retroarch core
1FPS, but who care

 

[hitokagex]

Anyone able to get the latest PCSX rearmed cia on the latest nightly working? Mine always return back to 3DS home menu after selecting .cue file.

 

[matt!]

Anyone able to get the latest PCSX rearmed cia on the latest nightly working? Mine always return back to 3DS home menu after selecting .cue file.

I don't use anything other than stable for this reason

 

[hitokagex]

I don't use anything other than stable for this reason

Tried the stable 1.4.1 as well, still not working. Perhaps this cia is not ready yet. But for now I'm just glad that the cia shows up again, which means they haven't given up on it.

 

[matt!]

Tried the stable 1.4.1 as well, still not working. Perhaps this cia is not ready yet. But for now I'm just glad that the cia shows up again, which means they haven't given up on it.

Indeed great news.

1.4.1 works for me with save states. Try deleting your .cfg?

 

[hitokagex]

Indeed great news.

1.4.1 works for me with save states. Try deleting your .cfg?

Not working as well, I actually deleted the entire retroarch folder while backing up my save, roms and bios.
I use my phone to record video and with this I managed get catch the error lines right before my screen exit to home menu:

init new dynarec
mmap() failed: No such file or directory

disable BASE_ADDR_FIXED and recompile

 

[Muxi]

Not working as well, I actually deleted the entire retroarch folder while backing up my save, roms and bios.
I use my phone to record video and with this I managed get catch the error lines right before my screen exit to home menu:

init new dynarec
mmap() failed: No such file or directory

disable BASE_ADDR_FIXED and recompile

I got the same error with pcsx.

 

[matt!]

Use an older version. Check the unofficial RetroArch thread for those

http://gbatemp.net/threads/unofficial-3ds-retroarch-builds-compatibility-thread.462252/

 

[hitokagex]

I'm aware of those. But since the pcsx core have finally shown up in the build again after so long, I decided to try it and am just wondering if everyone get the same issue.