New User: some questions

RetroArch General
#22

yeah, done, many many thanks! Well, when I will have to update to the next Retroarch version, I simply have to download the full pack, unzip it, and copy/paste from my current version the Retroarch.cfg file and the 3 folders cores, system, config, am I right?

Now i’m configuring 3 emulators, FBA Alpha Arcade for Neo Geo, bsnes_accuracy for SNES and NEstopia for NES.

Do you have any sugggestions for video filter and shaders? I made a lot of test, in my opinioni these are good settings in order to have a good crt effect but simultaneously a good image on a pc monitor:

FBA Arcade: Video Filter = 2xSaI and shaders = crt-royale- kurozumi.cgp BSNES_Accuracy: Video Filter = Blargg_NTSC_SNES_RGB and shaders = crt-royale- kurozumi.cgp or crt-hyllian.cgp or crt-easymode.cgp Nestopia: Video Filter = 2xBR and shaders = crt-royale- kurozumi.cgp or crt-hyllian.cgp or crt-easymode.cgp

What do you think? Do you have some good settings that i can try?

thank you!

#23

Yeah, just copy over that stuff and the retroarch-core-options.cfg. Personally, I just download the nightly executable builds, which are only a few MB each, and then drop the executables over my old ones, leaving everything else intact. Occasionally you’ll need to re-download the “redist” library package, but that’s very rare (only when we update the toolchain on the buildbot or add a new dependency).

Those sound like pretty good settings to me :slight_smile:

#24

many many thanks hunterk, you helped me a lot in order to understand very well how retroarch works. Previously I learned something reading some guided but i had a lot of doubts about the real settings and procedures. Now I know how to set up it and how to add emulators and roms :slight_smile:

  1. Do you use retroarch for almost all emulators? for example i think that only few emulators are not included: Nintendo GameCube, Wii and Wii U and PC Engine FX and Playstation 2 emulators are missingg. But all the others I need i see that they are present in the core list. Probably the missing emulators will be added to the next Retroarch versions, i hope :slight_smile:

  2. Do you use LaunchBox with Retroarch? I want to use it because it is a relly good front end, really better than Launchbox/Hypespin and more user friendly

#25

1.) yeah, I use it for everything. A Dolphin core is planned but not ETA. The others aren’t even on the radar for various reasons (Cemu is closed-source, so that one’s out, PCSX2 isn’t portable enough). A Citra core will probably happen at some point, as well.

2.) I don’t use any launchers, since I do everything through RetroArch anyway.

#26

thank you :slight_smile:

tomorrow i will continue to configure roms for these 3 emulators and then i will add others, for example Saturn and Dreamcast, they are supported I see

#27

Hi

can you kindly tell me which is the right procedure to update Retroarch when it will be released a new version? I know that I have to dowload the full pack, unzip it and then I have to copy/paste some folders from my current version i order to maintain all my settings and so on? Someone tell me that there is an update tool named Stelle Updater?

thanks!

#28

Typically, you can just download the datestamped nightly builds and copy the 2 executables (retroarch.exe and retroarch_debug.exe) into your existing RetroArch directory and overwrite the old ones (it’s a good idea to make backups, just in case).

#29

ah ok for example today there is a little pack (8,8MB) with only these 2 files and i can overwrite them. But if I do this, I will have a not stable version of Retroarch, am I right?

And i see in Nightly section that there a re a lot of updated cores from the latest 1.4.0 stable version…I think that i can update cores directly from Retroarch, with the funcion Update Core, is it correct?

thanks

#30

It’s not a stable release in that case, no, but our nightlies are usually relatively safe (though it’s good to make backups of your known-working executables just in case). And, yes, you can update your cores directly from RetroArch.

#31

thanks! I think that usually i can update Retroarch only with stable release…i don’t need to update it very often…usually it is released a new stable version every 2 or 3 months…am i right?

#32

hi guys

i would like to configure the Dreamcast emulator in Retroarch. Do you know if there is a video tutorial in order to configure it properly? Is it a good emulator with filters and options in order to have a similar crt tv effect ad other emulators as bsnes or FBA Arcade?

can you suggest a good video tutorial?

thanks!

#33

HI

i have created with Retroarch playlist generator my complete rom set of my Nes games.
If I want to show the roms name with thei real name, i have to rename manually the .zip file before to create the playlist, am i right?

I mean: I want to see “Double Dragon II - The Revenge” and not " Double Dragon II - The Revenge USA) (Rev A)"

thanks!

#34

I don’t know about RetroArch Playlist Generator, but in retroarch’s built-in scanner, the names come from the database, so you’d have to change it there (which is a major task).

#35

thanks

i used the playlist generator because otherwise some games weren’t detected ny retroarch…only with the plalyst generatro i’m able to see all the games…if i use the normal retroarch built in scanner some games aren’t detected…

thanks!