- RETROARCH CONSOLE
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- v0.9.8
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- - (Android) Initial release of RetroArch Android.
- - [LIBRETRO] Added Mednafen NGP and Mednafen VB.
- - [LIBRETRO] Added NEStopia Undead (1.44).
- - [LIBRETRO] Updated Mednafen PCE Fast and Mednafen Wonderswan to 0.9.28.
- - [LIBRETRO] Added PCSX ReARMed for RetroArch Android.
- - [FBA] Updated Final Burn Alpha to 0.9.27.28.
- - [Gambatte] Updated Gambatte (now has built-in GBC BIOS color palettes).
- - [SNES9x Next] Updated SNES9x Next (fixes numerous bugs).
- - [FCEUmm] Updated FCEUmm to latest version.
- - [Genesis Plus GX] Updated Genesis Plus GX to latest version.
- - (360) Gamma correction can now be applied on-the-fly - no longer requires
- reboots
- - (360) Added new shaders - mudlord-oldtvshader-variant, crt-curved, and
- others
- - (360) Added 'SRAM dir Enable' option - allows you to save all your SRAM to
- game:/sram instead of the ROM directory
- - (360) Added 'SRAM dir Enable' option - allows you to save all your states to
- game:/savestates
- - (RARCH_CONSOLE) Various stability fixes
- - (RARCH_CONSOLE) More sane unzipping mode - will temporarily extract file to
- HDD and then instantly delete it when it's done with it (ie. when another ROM
- gets loaded or when RetroArch shuts down)
- - (RARCH_CONSOLE) All console ports now use 59.94Hz for synchronization on
- the RetroArch side instead of 59.92Hz as before. All consoles use 59.94Hz
- so this agrees better with them.
- - (PS3) Added PAL60 temporal PAL mode
- - (PS3) Fixed a lot of path issues - SRAM/savestate dir enable now work,
- 'Default ROM directory' should now work, etc.
- - (PS3) Added rewind granularity options
- - (PS3) Rewrote video driver from scratch (RGL v2). Faster blitting.
- - (PS3) Onscreen keyboard should work again.
- - (WII) Made a custom wiiuse input driver and built it in. Slimmed down
- and should give better results. Also rejigged input in general.
- - (WII) Added rewind option. NOTE: This feature is CPU intensive - a core
- might need to at least run at double realtime FPS in order for this option
- to be useful.
- - (WII) Button combos can now be done ingame. You can do rewinding, fast
- forwarding, selecting save state slots and 'save state load/save state save'
- all ingame without first going to the menu. For more information, read the
- README.txt for the Wii release.
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- v0.9.7.1
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- - (FBAcores CPS1) Sound crackling/popping fixed
- - (FBACores CPS2) Sound crackling/popping fixed
- - (FBACores NeoGeo) Sound crackling/popping fixed
- - (WII) Fixed left/right audio channels being in reverse issue
- - (WII) Filebrowser now filters by core supported extensions
- - (WII) Fixed filebrowser performance issues in v0.9.7
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- v0.9.7
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- - (XBOX 1/Wii) Made an Xbox 1/Wii port.
- - (LIBRETRO) Added Mednafen PCE FAST, and Mednafen Wonderswan cores
- - (360) Added Genesis Plus GX to official 360 release
- - (Genesis Plus GX) Updated to v1.7.0
- - (PS3) Improved GUI
- - (360) Improved UI
- - (ALL) Improved stability / error trapping
- - (ALL) ZIP extract modes expanded - it can extract the contents of a ZIP file to
- the current directory, and/or extract to current dir and immediately load the
- first ROM/game file.
- - Too many things to mention
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- v0.9.6
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- - (PS3/360) Initial release of RetroArch PS3/360.
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- Themaister, Squarepusher/Twin Aphex
- After over half a year of development (well, slightly more) and lots of
- preparation work, we can finally present you with RetroArch for Xbox 360.
- HOW TO INSTALL THIS
- -------------------
- Copy the entire folder to your harddrive.
- ROMs go into the 'roms' directory, or some subdirectory in the RetroArch-360
- directory.
- HOW TO USE THIS
- ---------------
- On first startup, RetroArch will select one of the dozen or so
- emulator/game cores. The name of the core currently loaded will be
- shown at the bottom side of the screen.
- You can now select a ROM that this core supports and load it in the Filebrowser.
- To select a different core - go to 'Change Libretro core' in the Main Menu.
- Press A to go to a filebrowser where you can select a different core. Press A
- to switch to the emulator/game core.
- INGAME CONTROLS
- ---------------
- During ingame operation you can do some extra actions:
- Right Thumb Stick - Down - Fast-forwards the game
- Right Thumb Stick - Up - Rewinds the game in real-time
- ('Rewind' has to be enabled in the 'Settings'
- screen - warning - comes at a slight
- performance decrease but will be worth it
- if you love this feature)
- RStick Left + RT - Decrease save state slot
- Rtick Right + RT - Increase save state slot
- RStick Up + RT - Load selected save state slot
- RStick Down + RT - Save selected save state slot
- Right Thumb + Left Thumb - Go back to 'Menu'/'Quick Menu'
- WHAT IS RETROARCH?
- ------------------
- RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to
- be fast, lightweight and portable. It has features few other emulator
- frontends have, such as real-time rewinding and game-aware shading.
- WHAT IS LIBRETRO?
- -----------------
- Libretro is the API that RetroArch uses. It makes it easy to port games
- and emulators to a single core backend, such as RetroArch.
- For the user, this means - more ports to play with, more crossplatform
- portability, less worrying about developers having to reinvent the wheel
- writing boilerplate UI/port code - so that they can get busy with writing
- the emulator/porting the emulator/game.
- WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?
- --------------------
- Right now it's unique in that it runs the same emulator cores on
- multiple systems (such as Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii, etc).
- For each emulator 'core', RetroArch makes use of a library API that we
- like to call 'libretro'.
- Think of libretro as an interface for emulator and game ports. You can
- make a libretro port once and expect the same code to run on all the
- platforms that RetroArch supports. It's designed with simplicity and
- ease of use in mind so that the porter can worry about the port at hand
- instead of having to wrestle with an obfuscatory API.
- The purpose of libretro is to help ease the work of the emulator/game
- porter by giving him an API that allows him to target multiple platforms
- at once without having to redo any code. He doesn't have to worry about
- writing input/video/audio drivers - all of that is supplied to him by
- RetroArch. All he has to do is to have the emulator port hook into the
- libretro API and that's it - we take care of the rest.
- PLAYSTATION3 PORT
- -----------------
- The 360 port of RetroArch has the following features:
- - Real-time rewinding
- - Switching between emulator cores seamlessly, and ability to install
- new libretro cores
- Included with RetroArch 360 are a bunch of shaders - including the latest
- version of the popular xBR shader. It is possible to use two shaders
- simultaneously to get the best possible graphical look.
- EMULATOR/GAME CORES GBUNDLED WITH 360 PORT
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- The following emulators have been ported to RetroArch and are included in
- the first 360 release of RetroArch:
- - Final Burn Alpha (Arcade - various) [version 0.2.97.26]
- - FCEUmm (Nintendo Entertainment System) [recent SVN version] (*)
- - Gambatte (Game Boy | Super Game Boy | Game Boy Color) [version 0.5.0 WIP]
- - SNES9x Next (Super Nintendo/Super Famicom)
- - VBA Next (Game Boy Advance)
- - Prboom (for playing Doom 1/Doom 2/Ultimate Doom/Final Doom)
- All of the emulators listed above are the latest versions currently
- available. Most of them have been specifically optimized so that
- they will run better on 360 (some games would not reach fullspeed
- without these optimizations).
- * This port was previously called FCEU Next.
- WHAT EXTENSIONS ARE SUPPORTED BY EACH CORE
- ------------------------------------------
- - Prboom: WAD|wad
- - SNES9x Next: smc|fig|sfc|gd3|gd7|dx2|bsx|swc|zip|SMC|FIG|SFC|BSX|GD3|
- GD7|DX2|SWC
- - VBA Next: GBA|gba
- - FCEUmm: nes|NES|unif|UNIF
- - Gambatte: gb|gbc|dmg|zip|GB|GBC|DMG|ZIP
- - Final Burn Alpha: zip|ZIP
- ZIP SUPPORT
- -----------
- FOR EACH CORE (except for Final Burn Alpha): When you press 'A' on a ZIP
- file in the File Browser, its contents will be extracted to the cache:
- partition.
- From there, you can load the ROM and play.
- FOR Final Burn Alpha: Selecting a ZIP file from the Filebrowser will load
- that game directly.
- What can you expect in the future?
- ----------------------------------
- - A public release of RetroArch Wii that is on the level of RetroArch PS3
- /RetroArch 360
- - An official Android port of RetroArch (no, no App Store 'fee' - 'free' as
- in beer AND as in libre)
- - Port of NxEngine to libretro - runs Cave Story (PC version is already
- done, now for the consoles...)
- - Port of MAME 0.72 to libretro
- - Port of VICE to libretro
- - Port of ScummVM to libretro
- - More emulators, more games that will run on RetroArch
- - Lots of other crazy ideas that might or might not pan out
- Credits
- -------
- - Mudlord for his Waterpaint/Noise shaders.
- - Hyllian for the xBR shader.
- - Opium2k for the nice manual shaders (bundled with PS3 release).
- - Deank for assistance with RetroArch Salamander on CFW PS3s and
- Multiman interoperability.
- - FBA devs for adopting the libretro port.
- - Ekeeke for help with the Genesis Plus GX port.
- Websites
- --------
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/libretro
- Source: http://github.com/libretro
- Homepage: http://www.libretro.org
- IRC: #retroarch (freenode)
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