n3DS - Settings to Achieve Full Speed Neo Geo Emulation with FBAlpha

RetroArch Nintendo consoles
#1

Hey, everyone. Been having a lot of fun with all the modding and homebrew stuff with my n3DS. RetroArch is great and a real achievement on this little system. Almost every core I have loaded is working perfectly except for FBAlpha Neo Geo. My n3DS has Arm9LoaderHax installed on the sysNAND. I installed the CIA for FBAlpha Neo Geo and have zero problem running ROMs. The games start just fine but not too long into playing, I start getting sound skipping and framerate drops. The FPS varies from 50-60. It’s not awful but the sound skipping kinda ruins the experience.

I have default video and sound settings loaded (HW Buffering On, VSYNC On, 4:3 Aspect Ratio). I’m using the LQ2X video filter (which I use on every other core with no issues) and have tried other filters with similar or worse results.

Am I using the correct core? Are there different settings I should be using to squeeze out a little more performance? Any tips are appreciated. :smiley:

#2

Turning off the video filter should give you a bit more CPU cycles to burn.

#3

I thought so but actually I have no clue how to disable the video filter from within the menu system. Did some Googling and someone mentioned pressing start on the audio/video filter selection to clear it completely. Does that work on 3DS?

#4

So that did work to clear the filter setting AND get me the extra performance needed! Doesn’t look quite as nice but playability is more important. I tried to save the blank filter setting to the core override but it doesn’t take. Each time I load a new game it resets the video filter to Retroarch’s default config setting (LQ2X). Any way to save the blank video filter to the specific core and have it stick?