Hi I have read that you plan to rename retroarch aarch64 in order to install it with the regular retroarch installed. Is it possible now because it would be great if I can test dolphin on shield tv without desinstall the regular retroarch. Thanks
If you go to buildbot.libretro.com, there’s a “staging” build that has a different name and can coexist. It’s what I’m using.
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ok thanks for your confirmation I will try thanks
so I begin to try to install on my shield tv the apps: 2018-07-27-RetroArch_aarch64.apk with xplorer (file manager), but before start, it says me that this app (retroarch aarch64) “will update but my settings will be kept”. so its seems that it will crush my current installtion of the regular retroarch. so I stop before update. could you please confirm me that installing RetroArch_aarch64.apk will create two different retroarch icon on the shield tv screen with all separate folder config between the regular retroarch and retroarch aarch64. thanks for your confirmation. regards
Does the aarch64 version break the other cores or something? I installed it and it seems to have replaced what I already had installed but the version still says 1.7.3 GIT.
*looks for Dolphin core and doesn’t find it in updater via app *
*installs aarch64 nightly *
*looks for Dolphin core and still doesn’t find it there *
I don’t have root access and I also tried previously to throw cores into RetroArch from browser downloads by changing the paths for cores to install but with repeated failures,making it impossible to do so. It was really dumb from the start to have directories default to root-only locations.
Edit: Yep it LIBBING butchers it as I can’t load any cores now!
Edit 2: At least it no longer softlocks on new installs. I have input for menus but unfavourable to my customizations.
Oh yeah,its fun to use a lot of memory,boxart being enabled caused RetroArch to overload the 3GB memory due to listed images displaying previews when I was scrolling to a game to prepare mapping my input again to get N64 stuff to use the correct buttons (which takes forever) of my own choosing.
Edit 3: Never LIBBING mind! N64 cores are borked again! 
Helpful tip for Dolphin core: Make sure RetroArch shaders are disabled (0 pass) and apply core preset for shaders while Dolphin is running so that any time you run a Gamecube/Wii game,it won’t immediately fail and crash like I saw it did once I found out that was the thing crashing it after some messing around.
Do custom GameSettings work properly? The Twilight Princess speedhack is not active as noticed by the outline on maps and performance is particularly slow because of it,though its expected that this fresh Dolphin core would be a tad slow normally anyway until it matures more.
To confirm it,the Twilight Princess speedhack works if you put a properly set up GameSettings ini file with the correct name into RetroArch/saves/User/GameSettings
It helped with performance a good bit. One issue I noticed in TP (Gamecube version) is that shadows are missing chunks on some occasions,at least on OpenGL mode.
Edit: Here is the code for a GZ2E01 ini for anyone with that version. If its wrapping around,you will have to fix the STUPID word-wrap that the post is forcing on it.
[OnFrame] $Hyspeed 0x8003D50C:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D528:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D540:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D55C:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D560:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D564:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D568:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D56C:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D570:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D574:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D578:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D57C:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D580:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D584:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D588:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D58C:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D590:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D594:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D598:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D59C:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D5A0:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D5A4:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D5A8:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D5AC:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D5B0:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D5B4:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D5B8:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D5D4:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D5EC:dword:0x60000000 0x8003D608:dword:0x60000000 [OnFrame_Enabled] $Hyspeed
sorry I find it using x plorer on the root folder (root needed) thanks
but it will be tricky to configure the right path in the settings of hyperspin android to play with the gamecube wheel.
my bad, Retroarch_Staging.apk is the one i used, not aarch64.