PSX EMULATION Help w/ Cores on Mac OS X

RetroArch Apple devices
#1

Greetings everyone, this is my first post on these boards, and I don’t know much of the lingo/history/compatibility so please bear with me… :slight_smile:

I currently use RetroArch on my jailbroken iphone 5 and it works like a charm, except my manual save files never end up saving…[I read somewhere there is a “proper” way to exit retro on ios devices to preserve your manual saves…]. I use the PCSX-reArmed core because mednafen lags a lot. The support for save states is nice too [due to the problem above].

Currently I’ve downloaded RetroArch OSX [both 1.0.0.2 and the .3 beta [which I’m using atm]] and every time I load up a psx game through PCSX-reArmed retroarch immediately crashes and closes the program. I don’t know what to do at this point… Mednafen works fine on the mac, but not on the iphone and vice versa for PCSX-reArmed

I guess the problem can be solved if:

a) I learn how to get my manual saves to actually stick on ios so i can transfer them between PCSX-reArmed on ios and mednafen on osx for at home gaming

or

b) figure out why pcsx-rearmed isn’t working at all.

Thank you for your time :slight_smile: I hope I was as clear as possible.

#2

PCSX-ReARMed is ARM-specific, so it’s not appropriate for running on OS X, as you’ve found. You should use Mednafen-PSX there instead. You’re correct about the “right” way to exit, which is by using the ‘quit retroarch’ option in the in-game RGUI menu. There’s also an option to auto-write the SRAM to file every few seconds, which should help. Just make sure you have read/write permissions to whichever directory your SRAM saves are going to.

#3

Awesome, Mednafen for OS X, understood. And is SRAM is basically the actual “memory card” saves?

#4

Yeah, it’s the same thing, we just run as much as possible through our *.srm interface to keep it consistent.