Hi…
I have RetroArch running on a Samsung Galaxy tablet. Are there any cores that will run Oriental Legend and Oriental Legend 2 smoothly?
I feel like I’ve tried everything, but I’m very new to RetroArch, so I’m guessing there’s a lot I don’t know.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Well, i don’t know what’s the specs of your Samsung Galaxy Tablet since there is probably a dozen of generations now, so hard to say what it’ll run smoothly.
The thing is, “Oriental Legend 1” (orlegend) is available on pretty much every arcade emulators, but there are very few arcade emulators available on android, so your choice is limited, i recommend either mame2003plus or FBneo, with FBNeo being the more solid choice if your device is powerful enough.
My understanding of "Oriental Legend 2 is that there are several games named like this, the older one (oldsplus, a pgm1 game from 2004) is available on FBNeo, the newer one (orleg2, a pgm2 game from 2007) is only available on latest MAME (which is unavailable on android, but tbh with a cpu@100Mhz and no dynarec, i doubt this game would run full speed on any android device anyway)
PGM isn’t very demanding in my experience, unless the tablet is ancient it should run Oriental Legend fine on Final Burn. I’ve got an old Jellybean tablet and ran Knights of Valour there with no problem.
Oriental Legend on PGM 2 is also surprisingly fast on MAME, at least on PCs. dunno what the current situation with the MAME core on Android and the hardware situation is. If a core around 0.194 or so is still available, it could at least be tried.
Thanks very much for your replies? I have two questions:
My tablet is a Samsung-SM-T377V, running Android 7.1.1. I see 16gb of internal storage as well. Does that help with recommendations?
What are PGM and PGM 2? I’ve never heard of those before. At first, I assumed they might be cores, but I didn’t see anything like that in the Online Core Updater.
I tried to load Oriental Legend 1 in Arcade (FinalBurn Neo), but it failed.
Maybe my device isn’t powerful enough?
UPDATE:
So, I got Oriental Legends 1 working on Mame 2003 Plus - kind of. The sound is static-y, and the game is just a LITTLE bit choppy. Is that par for the course with this game, or do I have a bad rom? If not, is there any way to fix that?
Also, upon booting up Oriental Legends 1, I saw “PGM”, which I’m guessing is the name of the company that makes the games?
They are arcade systems.
Roms have to match emulator & version for arcade games.
1.3Ghz cpu… well, if PGM won’t run fullspeed with mame2003-plus, forget about FBNeo or PGM2
Thank you!
Admittedly, I know very little about processors and the speeds required for games. What’s an acceptable speed for a game like that?
And, is there a way to inspect the ROM file and see what emulator and version would be recommended for that particular game?
Just curious - do you run RetroArch on a tablet? If so, what is your setup?
Thanks again!
No idea, i would expect any recent tablet to be fast enough, tbh android eating up ressources for nothing might be the real problem here, i’m pretty sure a 1.3Ghz cpu would be fine to run PGM1 games on linux.
That’s the other way around, read https://docs.libretro.com/guides/arcade-getting-started/
No, i don’t use android, neither ios, neither windows, i’ve a smartphone but surprisingly i only use it as a phone.
This is all hugely helpful information.
Thank you so much for your patience and willingness to educate!
Just for my own knowledge - are PGM and PGM 2 arcade systems in the same way that Neo Geo was an arcade system? Dedicated hardware and software, etc? That’s the parallel I came up with…
@BackstreetZAFU yes, you can learn more about them at https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=809 & https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=978