I got the latest version of retroarch (dev build).
Did you fix the KitKat problem where retroarch can’t handle zipped roms? I tried it, and I was able to load unzipped roms but not zipped ones. How do I configure the temp directory that retroarch uses to unzip roms? (The problem was that retroarch was trying to unzip in the same directory as the rom, which no longer works on external SD cards.)
RA can handle zipped roms, thing is, as you pointed out KitKat is rather stupid in that it doesn’t allow you to write to SD. Easiest fix is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta … tapp.sdfix
But anyway, in RGUI under path options now there is an extraction path, that should fix the issue (haven’t really tested that yet)
I’m not that motivated to do the hassle of rooting. I think with newer phones they made it harder. (I don’t even know if Samsung Galaxy S4 + kitkat is rootable yet. It wasn’t when I checked a few months ago.)
There still is a bug. In order to get to the GUI you have to load a rom first! You can set the extraction directory from insider the running retroarch, but not from the Android frontend. The android frontend lets you set some paths in Settings->Paths. It lets you set rom path, bios path, save path, but not extraction path. You should be able to set the extraction path there.
Yeah, that worked. If I start retoarch with an UNZIPPED rom, go to change the extraction directory, then go pick a zipped rom. Now I can load zipped roms!
So “extraction directory” needs to be configurable from the android frontend. Ideally it should default to the libretro directory on the internal memory, where retroarch gets write permission.