The PS2 core was lastly updated 3 months ago. But the latest commit has a regression with GTA San Andreas and Vice City, where the intros are corrupted. I used a backup core i have from Dec 2024 and the intros were fine, using the same settings. So somewhere between Dec 2024 and March 2025 something broke with parallel GS.
Does anyone have any in-between versions so i can test them? If you do please upload somewhere so i could narrow down when this issue appeared, thanks.
You should be able to find previous builds in the buildbot base directly from Libretro. At least you can access all cores for every supported operating system, when they got a RetroArch release. In example here Windows builds for cores in RetroArch 1.20: https://buildbot.libretro.com/stable/1.20.0/windows/x86_64/
Thanks, 1.20 has a core version from early January this year. That version also doesn’t have this issue.
I tested it and can confirm the issue. Luckily I have a few backups, which I take roughly each month (sometimes less). Here is a table with the tested PS2 core. The version numbers are all the same, just saying (1). So I included a date when I made the backup. Can’t say for sure if I always updated the cores before making a backup, but it should give a rough estimate from what date it might be. Also tested only one game, but can make more tests if needed.
Grand Theft Auto Intro test with various PS2 core versions in RetroArch.
Also replaced the .info files too.
RetroArch: 1.20.0 (still waiting for update through my OS...)
Game | Core | Date | Notes
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S.A. (USA) (v1.03) | 1 | 2025-02-25 | Working Intro
S.A. (USA) (v1.03) | 1 | 2025-04-06 | Broken Intro
S.A. (USA) (v1.03) | 1 | 2025-05-02 | Broken Intro
S.A. (USA) (v1.03) | 1 | 2025-06-15 | Broken Intro
The backup from February works, while at least since April it is broken. hope this helps a bit.