Looking to implement the Libretro API to my frontend

Libretro Frontends
#1

I’m the developer of Anarchy Arcade (http://store.steampowered.com/app/266430/) and I want to try to implement the Libretro API into my frontend within the next couple of months.

I found the Retro Arch example frontend on Github, and it looks like with enough digging it should show me everything I need, but I was hoping somebody with experience with implementing the Libretro API could give me some tips. Maybe there is a tutorial floating around that walks you through the bare-bones frontend setup & implementation?

My frontend already has a framework to send input to other libraries and render the output onto the in-game screens. It has streaming video and web browser games using an external DLL. I was hoping the Libretro API frontend implementation would be similar.

Anyways, I’ll appreciate any advice you guys can give me. Great idea with this library you’ve got here.

#2

Looks great, and I suspect libretro will fit right in with very little effort.

There are no tutorials, but there are a couple of frontends floating around that you can use for reference, other than RetroArch, such as Alcaro’s Minir and letoram’s ArcanFE. There’s another one in the works (variously called ‘phoenix’ [not to be confused with the old RetroArch Phoenix launcher] or ‘pantheon’), but I don’t think it has a public repo at this time.

Anyway, Alcaro is basically the documentation at this point, and he’s easily reached in #retroarch on Freenode IRC.

#3

Yeah, IIRC it comes with that filter.

I prefer the clean pure CRT look though personally.

#4

You’re late Druage! :wink: