Yep, VBA Next seems to run at full speed on iPhone 5 as well.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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…
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.
Ok Thank you… i will try …
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
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}
Thanks for making PS1 emulation a reality on iOS.
I’m having some issues with saving the game however. Whenever I save my game in FFVIII it doesn’t seem to ‘stick’. After I restart the application the game save simply isn’t there. Save states work fine but I won’t be able to progress beyond the first disc with only save states.
I’ve only noticed this in FFVIII, my FFVII is saving and loading correctly. Any ideas why?
Retroarch crashes if you hit the home button. You have to exit the game from the menu for it to write the sram.
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
http://youtu.be/1Ii3jCmv7qw[/quote]
Crashing is definitely not intended but i have not experienced it on either my ipad 2 or ipad mini. Perhaps meancoot can look into the issue since he has an ipad 4.
Retroarch crashes if you hit the home button. You have to exit the game from the menu for it to write the sram.[/quote]
As a stop-gap measure - bring up RGUI and select Save State. There are an infinite amount of state slots you can save to and load from.
Sure - Ill look at making those changes. I will also upload the original Tex files.
Retroarch crashes if you hit the home button. You have to exit the game from the menu for it to write the sram.[/quote]
As a stop-gap measure - bring up RGUI and select Save State. There are an infinite amount of state slots you can save to and load from.[/quote]
It’s not a huge issue, but it can be if you’re in the middle of playing and you recieve a phone call/Facetime request. It happened to me after playing Legend of Dragoon for about 45 minutes. 
Thanks to the devs for bringing top notch emulation to iOS (and for free!).
I have a small problem, though. I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 on iOS 6.1.2 and when I start RetroArch, I get this error:
“Browsed path is not a directory”
After that, I get an empty Documents list and I can’t add ROMs with either iTunes (file/documents sharing not enabled in the App section) or iFun (can’t find the Documents folder)
I uninstalled and re-installed RetroArch and rebooted my iPhone to no avail. Maybe a problem with permissions?
One thing I would like to see in a future release is the option to load ROMs from another location in the iOS file structure. I already have ROMs in the /var/mobile/Media folder and it would nice to have the choice.
Thanks again for your work, it’s greatly appreciated!
Just use SSH for now I guess. I think you can only ‘transfer’ over files from iTunes to predesignated folders or apps that were installed through the official Apple Store.
One thing I would like to see in a future release is the option to load ROMs from another location in the iOS file structure. I already have ROMs in the /var/mobile/Media folder and it would nice to have the choice.
Thanks again for your work, it’s greatly appreciated!
This would create consistency issues between jailbroken and non-jailbroken users. We are not going to be making RetroArch on non-jailbroken devices some distant second- or even third-class citizen to the jailbroken version. The two should be fundamentally the same - hence why we insist on the Documents folder being the central ROM path and nothing else. You will just have to swallow this - sorry - this is how Apple wants your apps to deal with content, and that is how we are going to do it - if there was more flexibility and if it wouldn’t cause issues on non-jailbroken then we could offer this indeed.