Mednafen GBA crash "Failed to create rendering backend: freetype"

RetroArch Windows devices
#1

Ello again,

I’m getting a crash to desktop when attempting to run a rom with Mednafen GBA. The log screen has these errors -

RetroArch [ERROR] :: Failed to create rendering backend: freetype. RetroArch [ERROR] :: Failed to create rendering backend: stb.

I’m not sure what this means. Can anyone help?

Thanks.

#2

Did you compile RetroArch yourself or is that from the buildbot? Does it do that with all cores or just mednafen-GBA? Also, just for reference, there’s not much reason to use mednafen-gba, since it’s just an old fork of VBA. Unless you have a good reason to do otherwise, just use the VBA/M cores or mGBA.

#3

I just got RA from the buildbot. It only happens with Mednafen and none of the other GBA cores.

it’s just an old fork of VBA

I didn’t realise that, cheers. I’ll just use the other cores in future.