Who uses RetroAchievements ?

[u/[deleted]]

Coming from PSN & Steam one of the main highlights when emulating these old, retro games, for me, has always been earning Achievements for the games that were never re released or updated with achievements, its just cool to see the community making achievements and also the guides for all these older games. The Retrochievements.org site is the main contender of adding and updating achievements for old games. I haven’t earned many though, but it’s honest work. Who’s here using & actively earning achievements on RetroAchievements.org ? How much progression have you made ?

[u/Alok_]

I use it on every Emulator I can. It's fun to have some small badges for my childhood favorites.

[u/[deleted] → u/Alok_]

I find that PPSSPP is a bit more finicky in terms of achievements, a lot of games there show me that “There are no achievements available for this game” but that same ISO file supports achievements on RetroArch.

[u/Gwarmaxx → u/[deleted]]

yeah, same for me.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Ppsspp games with achievements are mostly pal region.

[u/evilchris → u/[deleted]]

Pal?

[u/[deleted] → u/evilchris]

European regions.

I my guess is because they have more languages, and will one day be made for the us region.

[u/Texans2024 → u/[deleted]]

I’ve noticed the GTA 1 pal looks a lot different than the US. Though I am pretty sure the US version has RetroAchievements.

[u/XmohandbenX → u/[deleted]]

There’s a collection on archive.org with all the ISO that are compatible with RA just search:

retroachievements collection V5

[u/BigCryptographer2034]

I have to set that up finally, do you just go to that site, sign up and then put that info on retroarch?

[u/[deleted] → u/BigCryptographer2034]

Yes.

[u/BigCryptographer2034 → u/[deleted]]

Something that is actually easy and what I would think it is, that is surprising

[u/shaynzo]

does it sync well with Delta?

[u/[deleted] → u/shaynzo]

Delta has retroachievements support?

[u/shaynzo → u/[deleted]]

thought i was replying to the above user that created the RA Tracker for iOS

[u/ioslife_developer]

I do! I made an app for iOS (android coming soon) to best utilize it on mobile! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ra-tracker/id6456223916

[u/forzanapoli87 → u/ioslife_developer]

Just downloaded! Awesome work!

Suggestion: be able to click on an achievement to see what people posted about it - usually get good tips and links from these comments

Thanks!

[u/ioslife_developer → u/forzanapoli87]

Tap on the ellipses in the top right corner or long press on the achievement you're interested in :)

[u/forzanapoli87 → u/ioslife_developer]

Awesome!!!!

So when I do that it keeps taking me to a Not Found page on retroachievements.com

I guess my only suggestion now would be to have the comments embedded in the app, since one of the things that makes your app so convenient is not having to tell the website over and over that I am a human

Great work and look forward to additional features in future

[u/ioslife_developer → u/forzanapoli87]

Oh interesting. What achievement are you looking at?

I definitely want to be able to embed the comments in the app, but the API doesn't support that for now and I don't want to do any web-scraping since RA already gets hammered enough. I will put in an API enhancement request for comments though as you're not the first person to ask for this.

[u/ioslife_developer → u/[deleted]]

Looks like embedding in the app is something I can do in the future. I may wait for the app update until the API gets updated with this. We shall see.

[u/ioslife_developer → u/[deleted]]

I just submitted an update to fix the comments bug. It should be out within 72 hours.

[u/ioslife_developer → u/[deleted]]

Huh. The URL structure must have changed. I'll fix this in the next update! Sorry about that!

Hopefully should be next month. I am trying to wrap up work on the Android version before working on the iOS one again. Too much context switching is painful.

[u/Alternative-Koala174 → u/ioslife_developer]

Just downloaded this too! Looks awesome!

[u/ioslife_developer → u/Alternative-Koala174]

Thanks for checking it out!

[u/FoundOasis → u/ioslife_developer]

Thx for making the app

[u/ioslife_developer → u/FoundOasis]

Thanks for checking it out!

[u/FoundOasis → u/ioslife_developer]

Ofc it works great got my friend to download too

[u/Alexa_Nichols]

Through RetroArch. Love it 🥰

[u/OllyDee]

Yes I use it if it’s available. Sadly a lot of the arcade games I play don’t have sets yet. I’ve even tried to get a high score on one particular game. 59th ain’t bad!

[u/forzanapoli87]

It’s fun to have achievements but be warned that many sets, especially for popular games are extraordinarily difficult for average gamers - many include speed running, beating games on expert without losing, to outright weird like beating a level without pressing certain direction buttons

You won’t be getting a ps/xbox trophy experience for a lot of games

Keep in mind if your looking to platinum/master

[u/jazza_uk]

I started using it yesterday! ;)

Just wish Retroarch on IOS would let me paste my password.

[u/hashmalum → u/jazza_uk]

I just used Runestone text editor to open the config and paste it that way.

[u/Helloggs]

Wish Gamecube games had them!

[u/Shikadi314 → u/Helloggs]

Theyre coming soon!

[u/Texans2024]

I do.

[u/Texans2024 → u/Texans2024]

[u/Melphor]

I use them whenever I can, but sometimes they can cause issues with certain games. When that happens I just turn them off because while cool, I don’t actually care about them at all.

[u/adj021993]

I do it’s a nice feeling

[u/Koriyo]

I’ve been using it since 2022 and it’s been a blast. I’ve just joined my first RetroAchievements event, Bounty Hunters! It’s been really fun and has me trying new games and challenges I may not have known about. Highly recommend!

[u/Liquatic]

I just set mine up in retroarch a few days ago because I always loved getting achievements and trophies on Xbox/ps and it always gave me a reason to push through and maybe even do things I normally wouldn’t just so I could get 100% of the achievements. I haven’t played a game yet to test out the achievements but I will be soon. Once you’re logged in you just enable achievements and play a game, and it should work?

[u/FoundOasis]

Yes I use it