Hello,
I would like to play Dogs Life. I found the following instructions and followed them.
Now when I select my ISO file I can select the game language and see a short cutscene with the Frontier lettering and then RetroArch closes.
Is there anything I can do about it?
It appears to be a known issue that has been “fixed” upstream but is not fixed in our older fork (it’s a couple of years old at this point): https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Dog’s_Life
There’s a workaround posted there at the bottom but I don’t know if that option is exposed in the libretro core.
If the problem is already known, I’ll wait and see if it gets fixed soon. How will I find out about a possible fix? Online Updater -> update installed cores? Why isn’t there actually an auto updater that checks at startup whether the installed cores and RetroArch itself are up to date?
There are many reasons not to update automatically, not least of which is that savestates can be invalidated by a core update.
This issue isn’t likely to be fixed unless/until an update/rebase of the LRPS2 core is released, which will be fairly big news, so you’ll probably hear about it.
Hello,
I’m now using RetroArch via Steam and have seen that there is no longer a PS2 core. There are instructions online to add it back in, but I don’t think anything has been done or will be done in this regard so that I can play Dogs Life?
It’s now “pcsx2_libreto”. I have no idea about Dog’s Life… it’s kind of beta-ish in some regards, but you can try it out.
PS2 on RetroArch is still experimental and, currently, not in active development. It may run a given game; in that case, all is good and you can use it, but don’t expect it to work for every title. If all else fails, then your only option is going for the official PCSX2 emulator.
I don’t understand the answer. Wasn’t it already called “PCSX2” a year ago? And it’s no longer available in the Steam version? At least there is no “PCSX2” in the Steam store
The name was changed because of a misunderstanding between developers. The current one is called LRPS2, so try to look for it.
All in all, it was just a name change, it’s still the core that you knew before. However, it’s based on an older version of the separate PCSX2 emulator, which has many compatibility and accuracy shortcomings.
But I can’t find “LRPS2” in the Steam store either.
If you run the online updater and have all the cores, it’s going to be “pcsx2_libreto”.
In my case, I launch with launchbox and just point it to that core. In the cores list in RA, it’s listed under S (Sony Playstation 2).
It was never available via Steam. We have only ever included cores we either maintain in-house or whose upstream teams have given us explicit permission to include. Ditto for the Apple App Store.
Oops… I stand corrected. I must have picked it up elsewhere and forgotten.