Unable to load cores on android

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#1

I set android back button to open GUI. Tried every emulator and all my Roms (from coolrom, most there work on my PC)

I load ROM, be it for SNES, ps1, Nintendo ds …all of them. It goes to I guess an non-interactive menu where I can’t press back button or quit or anything. Have to go back to the front page using the middle house button on my phone. I press every button on menu, try opening interface and nothing responds. And I can’t get my android keyboard to come up either.

It also says on every single core and ROM, 1.0.0.2 no core. Even though I already picked one.

I have a lg nexus 4

Thanks. :slight_smile:

#2

Where did you get this Android version? Self compile, one of my compiles, Release pack, … ?

#3

Right off the playstore. Is there a better way to get this?

#4

It should work just fine in that case…

#5

That is strange then. Gets to the menu, but kinda just locks up there. Unless I did something wrong. I did use ps1 GUI for ps1 games…so that should be right.

(Update)

Fixed it. Reinstalled and it works. Same settings as before. Possibly download/install went bad.

(What?)

That was short lived. Changed back button to GUI and now no matter what I do it can’t detect core again. And it happens as soon as I launch any game after clearing data. Works once, but ui doesn’t work then I restart and it won’t launch game.

#6

ATM, I can only think you have some sort of corruption going on or an Antivirus is over extending its authority. Try this, go into your App Manager and do a “Clear Cache”, then “Clear Data”, then “Uninstall” Reboot then try to install again.

#7

Got it working. It was indeed my antivirus. I removed it and it works fine.

#8

Something is going on. Was playing and suddenly it did it again (no core) after I left to take a call on home phone.

Was playing perfectly and it died again :frowning:

(Edit finally got it 100% working. It was due to my Google updates being old. Didn’t realize it. That and the antivirus. Now I can play all of them)

Wish it came with ps2 :stuck_out_tongue: tons of my favorite games were for that. unless I just find a core for it. Not entirely sure if the core has to be built with android in mind.

#9

No PS2 core currently or possibly ever. AFAIK, the only PS2 emulator around is PCSX2 and it’s not a particularly portable codebase, unfortunately. I believe it also leans pretty heavily on x86 asm and/or SSE optimizations, which aren’t available on typical ARM Android devices.

#10

Ah okay. Well, still the GameCube should be possible in the future? I remember after mine broke it was easy to find an emulator on my PC. But dunno if that works either for android.

In any case. At least got it working. :smiley: not too hard to figure out.