General question about staying up-to-date

I got rid of my 1.0.0.2 installation and got the latest_full zip from the buildbot. In the future, how do I properly go about updating Retroarch itself without losing my configurations? Also, how do I know when a core has been updated, what the changes are? And how do I update cores? Re-download them through the Core Updater?

Just don’t overwrite your config files (retroarch.cfg and retroarch-core-options.cfg).

Check the commit logs. https://github.com/libretro/

That or you’ll compile them yourself.

I can’t compile the mednafen-psx core with MS VC 2010, it throws a gazillion errors. Why isn’t there a new build from the buildbot, since commits have been made to that repository? Isn’t it automated?

The buildbot is checking the cores each day to see if they’ve been updated and compiles them when that’s the case.

I’ve just checked it and it seems like the Windows 32-bit builds of said core aren’t being build correctly, I’ll ping radius about it.

EDIT: It should be fixed now and provide a new build soon.