RetroArch iOS release (v1.0.0.1)

RetroArch Apple devices
#55

I just downloaded scph7502 (it said it was compatible on the pdf as well) and put it on the correct folder but i still get the same message when i load a PSX game “No bios found, Expect bugs”.

Im currently using an Iphone 5 IOS 6.2, am i supposed to do anything else or is it some sort of odd bug?[/quote]

I was getting the “no BIOS found, expect bugs!” even after trowing a lot of BIOS in the Documents/.RetroArch folder. I think the core is Case Sensitive so all BIOS should be in lowercase like:

scph1001.bin scph5500.bin scph7003.bin

This way seams to be working fine :D.

#56

I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, but I’ll throw my observations out there after testing on both an iPad 4 and iPhone 5:

-The exit on sram option doesn’t seem to work in any game. I’m playing the Legend of Dragoon now, and every time I press the home button and try to go back, my save file doesn’t exist when I try to load. I have been playing off of savestates so far. Have you considered adding a automatic savestate when the emulator is minimized, that could be loaded on the start of a game?

-The touch screen doesn’t work on the DS core, but a lot of the games are running really smoothly. Sonic Colors runs great, even though the music is a little jumpy.

-I am not having any luck getting SNES games to run. Has anyone else experienced that?

#57

Snes games are runing fine with me. And my games are autosaving just fine…

There is a option on the core “Auto Save on Exit” I think it work when you are multitasking.

#58

I have made an icon: http://i.imgur.com/oAx5Y7e.png

It comes in 3 sizes.

You have to delete all icons inside RetroArch folder, rename one of my icons to icon.png accordingly to your device and respring. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2273415/RetroArch-icon.zip

#59

I’ve tried it today on jailbreaked device , works great with an arcade game and snes ! Do you think possible to affect multiple roms path in futur versions ? It can be great to pool roms between several emulators. Or may be just one folder with the ability to select wich one.

#60

That wouldn’t work on non-jailbreak at all - since you are ‘sandboxed’ into an app’s own folder.

Hence why we are using the Documents folder like this - so that non-jailbreak is not some far distant ‘second class citizen’ of the jailbreak version.

Certain users are very appreciative of us catering to their non-jailbreakable devices as well.

#61

I am one of those certain users and I have to say I love this project and the work you have put in. My iPhone 5 is happily running gba games at max fps with 6% gpu usage ? (According to Xcode anyways) This is by far the best emulator project for devs with non jail broken idevices

#62

Yeah, this is the advantage of having not put all of my eggs into one basket (ie. dynamic recompiler-based CPU cores) - since it now turns out modern-fangled (walled gardened) OSes try their best to prevent you from running such code. The PS3 GameOS normally doesn’t support dynarecs either (without firmware hacks) - neither does Windows RT.

So an alternative for non-jailbroken phones right now (for PS1) would be Mednafen PSX but you will have to wait for the ARM equivalent of a Core i3 to turn up to be able to run that at fullspeed - I’m almost certain it will run too slow right now even on the highest-specced iPad so far.

VBA Next (both it and Mednafen GBA being interpreter CPU-core based) I have been told should run at fullspeed on an iPad 4 - it certainly doesn’t run at fullspeed on an iPad 2/iPad Mini but I guess that’s the A5 CPU for you.

#63

Yep, VBA Next seems to run at full speed on iPhone 5 as well.

#64

I think there’s a glitch with the home button while you’re in-game.

I got the exit to sram feature working, and minimizing while back on the list of cores works fine

But pressing the home button while playing a game causes the emulator to completely close, and it does not save a state in that process

#65

Double-tapping home button and then clicking on the RetroArch icon in the task bar should bring it back and the game should continue as usual.

This is not really a bug. This is how every app functions on iOS.

#66

There is a issue with playing with a PS3 Controller and the auto-lock. The phone screen goes black since you are not using the touchscreen.

This is easily fixed by using sbsettings auto-lock toggle. But in the next release this could be look at i guess. So that the PS3 Controller is recognized as you using the screen.

Blutrol also had this issue but i think it was fixed in the latest release.

Also a turbo option would be nice. A chance to configure a button as turbo mode.

#67

This can be done already - go to the Cocoa overlay, select Core Config, under Input goto System Keys, and bind either ‘Toggle Fast Forward’ or ‘Hold Fast Forward’ to a button or key.

#68

[quote=“Squarepusher”]

This can be done already - go to the Cocoa overlay, select Core Config, under Input goto System Keys, and bind either ‘Toggle Fast Forward’ or ‘Hold Fast Forward’ to a button or key.[/quote]

Sorry i mean the turbo that you only hold a button and it continuously act like you are pressing it :D.

#69

This can be done already - go to the Cocoa overlay, select Core Config, under Input goto System Keys, and bind either ‘Toggle Fast Forward’ or ‘Hold Fast Forward’ to a button or key.[/quote]

Sorry i mean the turbo that you only hold a button and it continuously act like you are pressing it :D.[/quote]

There is something like that available on PC but I don’t know about iOS.

#70

hi, I want to thank you guys for the best emulator for iphone… I do not understand how some sites still do not talk about this emulator … However, I wanted to know if there is a way to convert the save file. sav, in PS1, or other in this format .state … this is because I do not want to start all over again… and i hope that will be gameshark codes menu for the next version…

#71

Depends what emulator you made those savestates in. But yeah - just renaming them could do the trick. This should certainly work for memory card files that is.

#72

Ok Thank you… i will try …

#73

Double-tapping home button and then clicking on the RetroArch icon in the task bar should bring it back and the game should continue as usual.

This is not really a bug. This is how every app functions on iOS.[/quote]

That does not occur on either my iPhone 5 or iPad 4.

Retroarch completely crashes and no sram or savestate is made, unless I go to the menu and exit to the core menu first.

Edit: I have uploaded a video. If crashing isn’t a glitch, then that’s fine- I just thought it was unusual that I had to manually exit the game to save my sram/savestate

#74

Thanks so much! This looks awesome and I’ll try it out tonight when I’m at home with my iPad. I’m so glad I found this in time for my flight next week. Playing PSX games on my Android phone absolutely demolishes the battery. And mad respect for using LaTeX to write the manual. A suggestion: do try changing the margins so it’s not quite so humongous by adding this to the preamble:

\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}