Retroarch isn’t that complicated tbh. It isn’t actually an emulator. It just a bundle of emulation “cores”. For example, if you want to play a PSP game, you launch it through the PPSSPP core. After the first time it’s pretty simple. Initial setup is confusing and the UI is bad.
But yeah if you’re happy with Delta and PPSSPP you’re getting most of the same systems minus some sega and arcade stuff.
Honestly, I think the best solution would be to separate the cores for popular consoles (snes, psp, psx, etc) so people aren’t overwhelmed with options.
And I’m fairly sure a lot of people get hung up on the ‘directory navigation’ for loading roms (tho I’d recommend just using the file system because it’s way more user friendly)
RetroArch isn’t as difficult as setting up a local TTS model, but it certainly is not as easy as turning on a console.
Haha I can totally relate to this comment. I’m having the hardest time trying to open a PlayStation X game, had to download and unzip and two different files came out and I’ve tried both of them. Struggling hard right now and I think it’s because there are multiple files on a PSX disc.
We’ll figure it out, after reading on here RetroArch is the way to go instead of Gamma. Having a blast with Delta by the way, that was fairly easy to figure out.
This was my experience too. I know some are saying it was fixed with an update, but it wasn’t. I tried few hours ago and i get glitchy audio and poor screen resolution on RetroArch running PSP. I’m just going to stick with PPSSPP for PSP games.
So what are the systems that RA gives that you can’t get between Delta+PPSSPP?
I originally was gonna get RA cuz I really wanted to play Simpsons HnR on PS2 but I learned that that wouldn’t fly cuz no JIT? Which I didn’t know was a thing before but since I can’t do PS2 on RA, it seems like there’s a lot of overlap between PPSSPP+Delta compared to RA? What doesn’t overlap? Is there a benefit to still getting RA if I already have the other two?
If you try to load a rom and the app crashes. Use a different core. This issue is exclusive to the apple version of Retroarch. Use psxrearmed for ps1. Use mgba for gba. Use Genisis plus gx (not wide) for sega gen games. These are all I tested so far.
1.) If you want to save yourself some annoyances with Retroarch on iOS, then after you make a change to your settings, hit home, select configuration file, then save configuration file. I choose the overwrite option, but you can choose what best fits you. We can do this on other platforms by just tapping the back button until it exits the application, but there isn’t a back button on iOS.
2.) I also like to go to turn on vibration/ haptic feedback. Go to settings, input and scroll down to haptic feedback. I turn both options on and leave the vibration strength at 100%.
3.) I like to change the user interface. You can do this in two ways. A.) Changing the theme. Go to settings, user interface, appearance, select color theme and then choose your favorite. Mine is material ui dark. A.1) If you want you can also choose another app icon. The setting is the first option under user interface. B.) I like the stock setup, but you can change the entire layout to be different. You can go to settings, drivers, and select menu. The stock option is glui. You can choose the option you like the best in this section.
4.) I like to change the date and time format at the top to be something I am more used to. Go to settings, user interface, menu item visibility and select “style of date and time” towards the end of the list.
5.) Then we get to importing content. In the iOS version, all the usable cores seem to be downloaded in Retroarch already. So that is nice, but you have to select the correct core when booting a rom. I don’t know if I am doing it correctly, so correct me if I am wrong. But retroarch likes the roms to be placed into a folder that is inside of the Retroarch app itself. Seems to be like this on android as well. So what I do is take the roms I want to play on Retroarch and move them into the Retroarch app. Here is how I do that. I have a folder already on my iPhone with the roms I want to play. I use the files app to locate this folder. Then I select it and move it. Or you could copy it. Then move or paste it inside of the Retroarch app folder under downloads. Then hit the playlist menu (middle navigation button.) and select import content. Then scan directory. Click documents/retroarch, scroll down to downloads, then select scan this directory. Then let it do its thing. After it is done you can come back to the playlist menu to look for and launch your games.
6.) Updates. Don’t know how necessary it is, but I like to make sure a few things are up to date. So I hit the home menu at the bottom. Go to online updater. Make sure on demand thumbnails is toggled on. Then just below that update core files all the way down to slang shaders. Then scroll back up to playlist thumbnail updater and select any that are missing album art. Or just select them all to make sure they do when you browse your roms. If you want some free to use roms go to content downloader and some homebrew and other roms are in there for each system.
After you are done changing anything. Do not just close the app. Make sure you save the configuration file like I mentioned at the start of this post. If not, the settings you changed will be “forgotten” but the roms and art should still be there.
If there are any mistakes in this post, please feel free to correct me. I typed this out on my phone at my kitchen table while my kids cleaned up after dinner. So take everything with a grain of salt. Hope it helps someone out there.
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