To whom it may concern, I’ve installed Retroarch through Cydia from the official repo, so there should technically be no issue with bad install etc.
I have developed a solid rom collection for my library of games, as I keep all my games in a humidity controlled glass cabinet for display purposes in my man cave. I have a wide selection of the milestone games for all the old consoles from action max (VHS game console) to my last gen ps3/wii/360.
I have moved my collection from device to device via a reliable patriot 64gb magnum drive formatted as fat32 or from my NAS on the network capable devices. Up till now there has never been a problem, my collection has worked on every emulator that I have loaded the files up on. This being said my roms are almost always the solid factor in troubleshooting and it normally turns out to be some issue with the emulator, normally video lag or sound lag etc.
I tried sonic, This was my first game and I always load it up as the test rom on new emulators. It runs fine on my ps3 when pulled from my NAS and saved locally, but when I download it from the NAS to the SEGA folder in ROMs and then load it with either of the cores available to me in retroarch on my ipad air running 7.0.4 it only gives me the “failed to load content” error. So I tried shining force, another of my most played rom, same thing.
Now as a point of additional troubleshooting I figured the network could be corrupting the transfer, as I had run into a router that did this and didn’t like my NAS for some reason and wouldn’t play nice. I set up ifile as a web server and pulled the exact file from my ipad to a new test folder on my ps3 and viola! It worked and I was presented with the game screen as it should be with no issues whatsoever.
I’ve pretty much done all the troubleshooting and have listed all my info except an external link to my NAS and provide the files so that someone who owns the 2 titles I have could download to troubleshoot with. I would love to hear from someone a dev or a well versed user of this emulator on ios if possible.
Thanks in advance