This smartphone has very little free space on the internal memory so the Retroarch installation always fails due to insufficient memory… i’ve tried to use Link2SD and CacheDownload2SD to force the installation to take place in the SD, but some stuff is still written on the internal memory (the cores?)…
Yes, it needs most things to be in the internal memory. Prior to installing, you can get the apk file and open it on your computer (it’s just a fancy zip archive) and delete any of the cores you don’t want (MAME and FBA and ScummVM are the biggest). Then you can install the smaller package.
ok, can i load the cores from the sd card? EDIT: i guess a symlink to “/data/data/retroarch.com/cores” should work, right?
Btw, when starting the emulation i get a blackscreen… i guess the cores must be recompiled for armv6…
I don’t think any of the cores can work from SD, unfortunately. You are right, though, that it doesn’t support ARMv6, though you can compile it yourself using the Android NDK to support it.
ok, i’ve made a symlink from “/data/data/retroarch.com/cores” to “/mnt/sdcard/.retroarch/cores” with the terminal. The cores are showing in the list, but they display no version information and no error appears when i try to load them (the same happens if they are loaded from the internal memory btw, so it is not because they are on the sd card).
If i will be able to recompile the cores for armv6 i will publish them on my website…