RetroArch on Android (GT10.1) with Sega Genesis Controller

bootsector · 15 January 2017 03:27

What can I say? I’m simply IMPRESSED on how good this emulator turned out to be on the Android!

I’ve just made a video:

The only drawback so far is that activating scanlines filter, the overall performance is not very good! Other than that, keep up the great work!!

In time, how can I donate to the project?

Thanks!

bootsector

system · 15 January 2017 04:12

You can not donate to the project - that’s the great thing.

The only thing you can do instead is ‘gifting’ hardware to us to help us aid with the project.

One thing that I particularly need right now is an iPad 2 so that I can do an iOS port for jailbreakable devices (perhaps even a loophole could be ‘found’ to put it on the real store through some ‘game’)…

bootsector · 15 January 2017 04:12

You should create a donation fund for the iPad 2. It will be funded in no time. Believe me!

Now I need to make an USB pad to work on a MK808 Android mini-pc stick so I can play RetroArch on it!

Keep up the absolutely great work!

bootsector

system · 15 January 2017 04:12

No donations keeps the project in the right spiritually AND it is a way to avoid legal issues.

So sorry, but this restriction will stay. If people are really genuine they will do exactly what I request them to do - ‘gift’ the hardware that we need to make RetroArch better.

bootsector · 15 January 2017 04:12

I would definitely give you an iPad 2 if I could! Hope you get one soon!

Any plans to “port” this beauty to the OUYA once it’s released?

system · 15 January 2017 04:12

I doubt there’d be much to ‘port’ - it’s just an Android device with a gamepad and some store thingie - it wouldn’t even really need an SDK if it’s designed properly really.

Same thing applies there - we don’t have the money or the funds to buy every single thing that comes along, so if the interest is there by people, we will get an Ouya.

system · 15 January 2017 04:12

Regarding shaders - I’m going to copy-paste reply I made on ps3crunch regarding this very same issue on RetroArch Android - keep in mind most of these shaders were originally made for PC/PS3/360 -

Squarepusher on ps3crunch about RetroArch Android shaders:

I can’t do anything about shader performance - most of the GPUs in Android tablets/phones suck right now compared to the PS3’s RSX/360’s Xenos. Your ‘quad-core GPU’ might sound impressive but when you consider that your RSX inside the PS3 is more like 72 cores or so, it really puts it into perspective how far behind it really is.

Anyway - the Tegra 4 is supposed to have a 72-core GPU - so perhaps that will finally put it at parity with something like a PS3 RSX. Until then, performance of most of the hardcore shaders is going to suck - we need to wait on better hardware that can do the job. Luckily Moore’s Law still applies in mobile land so the wait might not be all that long.

As for prboom - you know you can set the FPS inside the game, right? Go to Setup - Setup and there should be an ‘FPS’ option there. You can set it to 35, 40, 50, or even 60fps (previously this had never been possible on Doom before - it was always running at 35fps regardless - even on something like prBoom where it used ‘fakery’ to ‘simulate’ an ‘uncapped FPS’ which it really was not). So this libretro prboom port is unique in that respect.