Hey can someone help me out here please. I shouldn’t have updated this recently since I forgot I was in the middle of a game. Can someone please help get this core from before the most recent version? It was just recently updated so any version older than a week or two should work.
It’s from 24 Jan 2017 https://mega.nz/#!Xs8VmKgA!r8nX75kDSO0hIM37NQ7mtXGqk6PYarXRAD_y4szPFgY
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It works! Wow thank you so much man, I was getting pretty frustrated. I really really appreciate it.
I’m so relived and thankful that there is people out there keeping older versions of the cores just in case things like this happen, you are life savers!
It’s kinda sad that there isn’t an archive of older cores because sometimes the latest isn’t always the greatest or more stable and then when you realized that there is no turning back and you are stuck with broken cores regretting you overwrote the older one.
Usually I make backups of the last known working core but sometimes the inevitable happen.
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its easy to just compile it from source, can rollback as old as you want.
@wertz While I agree with you to some extent there is flaws too with above said statement.
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Not all end-users is familiar with GitHub, source code and let alone knowing which commit broke what etc. If a core is broken and you don’t know anything about coding and what each commit means (there could be well over hundreds and some very cryptic) then there could be a real problem of where to start looking.
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Building is not as trivial as some people think it is and can require a lot of effort for the inexperienced end-users who just want things to work out of the box. Building often also requires several extra applications, libraries and runtimes which I assume a majority of the end-users doesn’t even know or care about.
Anyway YES, in an ideal world compiling from source would be an excellent idea but the reality is a bit different unfortunately.
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I’m not a Retroarch archivist but I do have a number of old cores saved, mostly from January 2017. Don’t know if anyone finds it useful but here they are
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It would really be great if a libretro core archive project were to emerge, even if it was just a thread where people who have build environments compile older versions for users with less experience.
Once I set up a github repository as a libretro core archive, although I didn’t get very far into the project: https://github.com/markwkidd/libretro-core-archive
I’ve also thought that archive.org might be a good place to set up a libretro core archive. Hmm.
Thanks so much for this - I just got caught out as well, as I wasn’t aware that new cores can break compatibility with older save states.