PS1 emulation "choppy" on iPad 3

RetroArch Apple devices
#1

Hello all,

First of all, I am very excited about being able to play my old PS1 titles. Thanks for putting this together.

Yesterday, I downloaded RetroArch 1.0.0.2 onto my iPad 3 (yes, the short lived phantom iPad), and got a PS1 title up and running (if it matters, this PS1 game was extracted in the cue/bin file format, not as an iso file). My iPad is not jailbroken, I was able to get it all up and running using the “July 15” workaround.

I was able to get the game running (it “plays” in the most basic sense), but both the audio and video are choppy (they skip alot). It’s fairly distracting, and I was hoping there might be a fix I could try. One other note of interest, when I launch the game, a text message in the lower right of the screen says “No BIOS Found, expect bugs!” This is concerning…

So far, to try and fix the problem, I have closed (almost) all of the background apps, so only RetroArch & Settings are open. I turned the iPad to airplane mode and disabled all notifications. This didn’t help. I then tried fiddling with all the settings available to me in RetroArch with no success.

Any tips, advice, or troubleshooting guidelines would be appreciated. Thanks a ton for your help!

Joe

#2

You can’t use cores that rely on dynarec cores on a non-jailbroken iPad. That is the entire reason for jailbreaking - so you can get around Apple’s hardball security limitations to do actually useful stuff - like say - being able to emulate PS1 at fullspeed without having to buy the latest Pad Air.

Your only alternative would be to use the interpreter core of PCSX ReARMed but I am pretty sure that it won’t run at fullspeed on your iPad 3 - it’s too weak for that. So -either you should have jailbroken it when you had the chance, or you should buy a new iPad (A7-powered) so you at least have the necessary horsepower to run fullspeed PS1 emulation with the interpreter core.

#3

Thanks for your reply! At least I know I’m not doing anything wrong…