Retroarch 1.3 PS3 port is essentially useless

I realize that version 1.3 of Retroarch is the first since 1.0.0.2 to have an “official” compile/release - but I have to ask, did anyone bother to test anything before it was released?

I ask this because for the most part it doesn’t work, like, at all. Most of the cores crash, hang, freeze when trying to launch a game rom. More than half of them crash to the PS3 XMB when launching a rom. On the odd occasion you can get any rom to run, it crashes to the XMB when you try to close content.

I took a look in the Playstation subform for any answers and it’s mostly reports of the same. Is anyone working on this?