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 âfixedâ upstream but is not fixed in our older fork (itâs a couple of years old at this point): https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Dogâs_Life
Thereâs a workaround posted there at the bottom but I donât know if that option is exposed in the libretro core.
If the problem is already known, Iâll wait and see if it gets fixed soon. How will I find out about a possible fix? Online Updater -> update installed cores? Why isnât 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 isnât likely to be fixed unless/until an update/rebase of the LRPS2 core is released, which will be fairly big news, so youâll probably hear about it.
Hello,
Iâm 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 donât think anything has been done or will be done in this regard so that I can play Dogs Life?
Itâs now âpcsx2_libretoâ. I have no idea about Dogâs Life⌠itâs 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 donât expect it to work for every title. If all else fails, then your only option is going for the official PCSX2 emulator.
I donât understand the answer. Wasnât it already called âPCSX2â a year ago? And itâs no longer available in the Steam version? At least there is no âPCSX2â 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, itâs still the core that you knew before. However, itâs based on an older version of the separate PCSX2 emulator, which has many compatibility and accuracy shortcomings.
But I canât find âLRPS2â in the Steam store either.
If you run the online updater and have all the cores, itâs going to be âpcsx2_libretoâ.
In my case, I launch with launchbox and just point it to that core. In the cores list in RA, itâs 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.
So does this mean that it is no longer possible to play PS2 games and that this will probably never change?
have you tried updating the core lately?
How am I supposed to update a core that doesnât even exist? Or what do you think?
Drop the attitude.
You can add any core to Steam, whether itâs available as DLC or not:
To add non-Steam cores to a Steam installation, you need to download the core from here: http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/windows/x86_64/latest/ then download the info files from here: http://buildbot.libretro.com/assets/frontend/info.zip. Put the core(s) in your âcoresâ directory and the info files in your âcore infoâ directory. You can find the locations for each in settings > directory
Hey Hunter⌠I hate to add to a potentially touchy topic, but I had been wondering if there were any known major changes to this core since it first started floating about? Sometimes I canât pick them out. Thanks.
itâs still under heavy development but itâs already in much better shape than it was, yes.
Thanks⌠Iâll keep an eye on it. I admit I havenât updated in a bit.