Compatibility of updated Cores for older version of RA?

Hello, i have Windows XP on my secondary PC (I use it for retro games only) with RA 1.3.6 x86 installed and everything works fine. The reason why i don’t have the latest version of RA installed is because it doesn’t work on XP anymore, the XP Patch someone posted here in the forums doesn’t works either (it worked up to 1.3.6).

My question is, how is the Compatibility of the updated Cores for a older version of RA? are there some extra features or new calls/commands build into the newer Cores beside RetroAchievements and Vulcan which will only work with newer RA versions or are the updated Cores gonna work with older versions of RA too?

Updated cores should generally work fine.

Ok, Thank you for the quick response.