Giving the 360 version a shot- great start!

RetroArch General
#1

Thanks for putting this together.

I pushed RetroArch and an assortment of roms to my 360 and was pleasantly surprised. My 360 happened to be in my arcade cabinet with a vertically mounted 480i tv in it running over component video. The RetroArch UI rendered oddly/ hanging off the screen, but I was able to muddle my way through the rotation setting, picking a core, and choosing a game. I couldn’t read enough of the hint text to adjust the image size.

This is a really great start to a unified emu launching interface that is cross platform to boot. I took a couple of pics my testing. The SNES9x and VBA Next cores are oddly stretched to fit my tate setup.

[Album] RetroArch 360- 5 June, 2012

I’m going to have a million questions but have one to start with, is there mouse/trackball support on the 360 for arcade Centipede and marble madness?

Thanks again!

#2

Yes, the SD menu on 360 seems to be positioned outside the safe areas - I should fix that up for the next release. (seems I underestimated how many people are still using CRTs / 480i/p modes).

Alternatively, I can put out a maintenance release the next week with most of the complaints fixed.

Regarding mouse/trackball support on 360 - does the 360 even allow for USB mouse/trackball connectivity? First time I heard of it - I thought only PS3 had standard USB HIDD connectivity. If it is possible, I guess I could look into it.

#3

I’ve fixed the SD menus today. I have a maintenance release planned (will probably be released at the end of the week). You can get it early though if you want if you know how to compile for 360.

#4

Thanks!

I don’t know how to compile for the 360 so I’ll keep my eyes open for a release.

The 360 is great in an arcade cab and for me, an arcade cab has to be a CRT.

#5

I would like to know how to do this if you care to point me in the right direction.

PM if you prefer.

#6

I would like to know how to do this if you care to point me in the right direction.

PM if you prefer.[/quote]

Doesn’t seem like I can do PMs with this forum software as of yet.

There’s a short explanation on how to compile RetroArch 360 in the README.md on the project page - see this -

Don’t forget this step as well - it’s important -

‘NOTE: A pre-existing libretro library needs to be present in the ‘msvc-360/RetroArch-360/Release’ directory in order to link RetroArch 360. This file needs to be called ‘libretro.lib’.’

So - the way this works is that this produces a binary for you (a .XEX file) per libretro core. RetroArch 360 (the frontend) gets compiled in with the libretro core (the backend - ie. the libretro.lib file).

For example, to compile - say - SNES9x Next - first git clone the SNES9x Next repository. Go into the msvc-360 folder, doubeclick on the solutions file (sln), compile it (Release target) - move the libretro.lib file it generates over to your RetroArch 360 directory (in specific - msvc-360/RetroArch-360/Release), and then open the RetroArch 360 solution and compile that.

#7

PMs can now be sent and received. :slight_smile:

#8

Thank you!

#9

However, for information like this, it would be ideal to have it public. Please tell us how you get on with compiling. :slight_smile:

#10

I’ve never compiled a thing for 360 in my life. I’ll google around but I assume that the SDK isn’t something that MS appreciates being out in the wild. I know it was that way with the old xBox 1.