ParaLLEl force closes on loading any content [Android]

Libretro Cores
#1

I’m running RetroArch on a Amazon Firestick. I updated my cores and ParaLLEl stopped working. It used to be the case that it would load and play content fine but crash on “close content” but other than that it worked fine. Now it is crashing when I “load content” and before it displays anything. The odd thing is I could swear it is actually the same version 2.0-rc2 though I’m not sure if the hash, or whatever the characters after the version numbers are, is the same.

I uninstalled retroarch and reinstalled (and copied my config files back in place) but it didn’t help. As far as I can tell there isn’t any config info for parallel anyway and I have no idea if or where a log file is being saved on android. I can’t find one anywhere.

#2

If you can get a log for us, we’ll take a look and see what’s up.

#3

As far as I could tell the only way to get a log on Android is to capture the output of logcat via an adb connection. I just captured everything from right before I launched RetroArch until it crashed. Have retroarch set to debug level logging.

https://pastebin.com/5eupHmrT

#4

It looks like it’s crashing at the dynarec init:

I/RetroArch( 1205): mupen64plus: Starting R4300 emulator: Dynamic Recompiler
I/RetroArch( 1205): mupen64plus: Init new dynarec
I/RetroArch( 1205): mupen64plus: ARM CPU Features: SWP, Half, Thumb, FastMult, VFP, ESDP, ThumbEE, NEON, VFPv3, TLS, VFPv4, IDIVa, IDIVt
--------- beginning of crash

You could try setting it to use the interpreter instead, but that will make it much slower and you would have to manually add the setting to your core options file, since you can’t actually get into the menu to change anything at this point.

#5

When it was working there weren’t any core options to set anyway. Going into that menu the screen read “parallel doesn’t have any core options” or something like that.

So parallel is just another incarnation of mupen64plus under the hood? Didn’t realize that.

I just use parallel on a handful of games that the regular mupen can’t quite handle so slowing it down isn’t going to be ideal. I guess I’m just stuck for now?

#6

Is there any way to install an older version of the core from within the interface? To see if it is that. As far as I know I can’t manually install an old version on Android without root (though I may be wrong about that).

#7

No, not easily at least.

#8

I registered just to say I am having the same troubles with the latest core (2.0-rc2 189d2d7) on the Nvidia Shield Portable after updating this week. Parallel just crashes immediately upon loading the rom. Unfortunately it’s been a couple months since I last used this core so I’m not sure exactly at what version it broke or what version I was using previously. I’m really wishing there were an archive of older cores somewhere for this situation. This is also the only N64 core that runs smoothly on my device; mupen64plus simply doesn’t run well unfortunately.