Hello everyone, sorry for my ignorance, but I entered the linux world recently. I would have a problem with retroarch on a PC with LinuxMint. Just installed retroarch I just download the required core. From tutorials i understand having to select core unpdater from updater menu online … in my retroarch “core updater” does not exist. Can anyone tell me why? (Excuse my language but i’m Italian)
If you have installed RetroArch from the PPA, the core updater is patched out. You should get the cores from your package manager instead.
We had to remove it from the PPA build because if you have some cores from the updater and then try to install a core from the package manager, it will freak out and leave you with broken packages.
thank you so much advice. Ok let’s say that I managed to download the core of the PSX, but now I have another problem has come back. once you started the emulator psx I have black screen, same problem with lakka distro. I made the disc image with the recommended programs on different computers, tried the recommended bios testing with md5 checker. results black screen(but high in the window of the frame counter moves) . It would be my video card is incompatible? I’m working on an older computer with ATI video card.
If you load the core but no content and then go to information > core information, does it say the BIOS files are “present”?
If so, it’s probably an issue with your ROM(s). You can try fetching a PS1 test ROM from either ‘add content’ or ‘online updater’ > download content (the ROM is named psxtext.exe). If that test ROM works, it’s definitely a problem with your ROMs.
you were right! I double checked the bios file, we are all with the right md5, but I had changed its position on the setting because I did not know where to get to the default directory. from the core information of the bios files are missing. could you kindly tell me the correct path of the file please let bios
Go to settings > directory and make sure your ‘system’ directory is set to something user-writeable and then put your BIOS files wherever that is.
I had already created a folder with bios in my home. from the directory settings I set the path, but the bios are not detected and do not understand why
Are the bios files named exactly what the core info is looking for? Make sure RetroArch has write permissions to the directory (that is, make sure nothing is in your ‘program files’ path; put it all in ‘documents’ or on your desktop or whatever).
ok so the problem was the name of the BIOS files, just went renamed lowercase including the extension. Now the emulator works but is slow stutters and the cpu runs at 100%. I also own a raspberry pie 3 and do not understand how a from 3.00 ghz processor can do Lagging a game while on raspberry 3 with a lower frequency will go smooth. the problem is that my processor is 32-bit single core while the raspberry has multiple cores? thanks anyway patience that you have had in helping
It’s an entirely different emulator. RPi uses PCSX-ReARMed, which has an ARM dynarec and NEON-accelerated renderer, while Mednafen-psx has no dynarec and no acceleration on the renderer (we do have the ‘HW’ variant, which has OpenGL or Vulkan acceleration) but it’s probably the lack of dynarec that’s holding you back.