After a long hiatus, Lakka is finally back!
New version of Lakka has been released!
We are happy to announce the new and updated version of Lakka. Lakka 4.3 is based on RetroArch 1.14.0. Read the full article on our sister site here.
Lakka 4.3 release
RetroArch 1.12.0 release
RetroArch 1.12.0 has just been released.
Grab it here.
If you’d like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here.
Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldn’t keep doing this were it not for spreading the love to our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. We have always prioritized the endusers experience, and unlike others, we have never emburdened them with in-app ads, monetization SDKs or paywalled features, and we intend to continue to do so. If you’d like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store!
Views
There is now an entirely new way to display and organize content – Views!
You can turn a filter set in the Explore menu into a so called “View” file which then gets listed alongside playlists. This also adds the ability to filter a category by range in the Explore menu and not just filter on exact matches.
The views are saved into .lvw (libretro view) files that just like playlist .lpl (libretro playlist) files are in JSON format and are stored in the same playlists directory.
Here’s some examples of views that are now possible with the new range filtering:
- Games made between 1992 and 1996 by developers Capcom and Capcom Production Studio 1
- Games supporting 5 to 8 players
- Games containing “Mario” in the title released between 1988 and 1994
These are just some examples of what is possible with this new system. It’s a pretty powerful system, and we hope this gives you a lot of flexibility to better organize your content.
How to use it
- Go to Explore screen/tab.
- Search through the list of games sorting through it however you want, then once you’re satisfied with the output, select ‘Save As View’. It will now add this ‘view’ to the playlist list. In Ozone, you can select it from the left popup toolbar. In XMB it will show up next to your playlists. NOTE: You can currently not rename views from within the application.
Android – Haptic feedback for touch overlays
Courtesy of neil4 who implemented this great feature
This repurposes the setting ‘Vibrate On Key Press’, which previously enabled a 16ms vibration on any screen touch.Now the device’s standard keypress feedback is triggered on overlay key/button state changes, except when a finger leaves the screen.
It’s currently only implemented for Android, but it can potentially be implemented for other systems with haptic feedback later. It’s not enabled by default for now so you will have to enable it manually. To do this, go to Settings -> Input -> Haptic Feedback/Vibration, and enable ‘Vibrate On Key Press’.
iOS 13+ port
The iOS ARM64 port is completely revamped and targets iOS 13 and later now. It leverages Swift and it has some unique features.
iOS 13+ port now has a toolbar which lets you pull up an onscreen keyboard For instance, it adds support for revealing the onscreen keyboard and enabling touch screen mouse input by adding a toolbar that is revealed by tapping the top of the screen.
There is also now an iOS 16 lockscreen widget.
WiiU improvements
Some important WiiU platform improvements. Default directories should now be created on the fly (fixing a longstanding issue), and some of the networking issues that popped up in 1.11.x have now been fixed.
Changelog
1.12.0
- CONFIG/CLI: Allow use of –appendconfig with override cfgs instead of getting ignored
- CONFIG/LOGGING: No more console startup logging if logging to file
- CONFIG: Saves config on exit only once instead of (worst case scenario) 3 times
- DATABASE/EXPLORE/VIEW: Add View feature – Add saving of a filter set in the Explore menu into a so called “View” file which then gets listed alongside playlists. This also adds the ability to filter a category by range in the Explore menu and not just filter on exact matches.
- FILEBROWSER: Fix regression – certain extensions keep disappearing
- IOS: New modern iOS version (targeting iOS 13 and up), leverages Swift
- IOS: Fixes to iOS toolbar
- IOS16: Add iOS 16 lock screen widget
- IOS13+: Added emulator keyboard
- IOS13+: Add JIT support for non-jailbroken devices
- IOS13+: Added support for touch mouse handler
- IOS13+: Changed click-and-drag behavior to double tap hold and drag
- INPUT/HAPTIC/OVERLAYS/ANDROID: Improve haptic feedback for input overlays
- LINUX/MALI FBDEV: Add conditional support for OpenGL ES 3.x
- LOCALIZATION: Updates
- LOCALIZATION/ENGLISH: Add British English language option
- LOGGING/QT: Increase log buffer to 2048 characters – Vulkan validation layer messages output correctly now.
- MENU/XMB: Remember selection per main tabs. Addresses the following : collection playlists can contain hundreds or thousands of items. When scrolling through one, pressing left or right by accident can be common. This resets the playlist to the top
- MIST/STEAM/STEAMDECK: Don’t expose Black Frame Insertion (BFI) if we are running on a Steam Deck
- NETWORKING/WINDOWS: Disable poll support for MSVC 2010 and earlier. WSAPoll is not supported on Windows XP and earlier.
- NETWORKING/WIIU: Fix socket_connect_with_timeout for WIIU
- NETWORKING/WIIU: Fixes RetroAchievements login
- NETWORKING/WIIU: Fixes other online updater functionality
- SAVESTATES/NOTIFICATIONS: Add delay to savestate notifications, so that GPU savestate screenshots stay untouched
- SAVESTATES/SCREENSHOTS: Avoid ‘video_gpu_screenshot’ with savestates. Allow GPU screenshots with savestates only when there is no other way of getting a screenshot.
- SCREENSHOTS/VULKAN: Unload screenshot widget texture early. Fixes Vulkan crash when closing content while a screenshot widget is still on-screen
- SCREENSHOTS/VULKAN: Fix screenshot widget crash when ticker animating
- WAYLAND: Set correct app ID
- WIIU: Add some missing default directories
- WIIU: Get mkdir working on WiiU (directory creation)
RetroArch 1.11.1 release!
RetroArch 1.11.1 has just been released.
Grab it here.
If you’d like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here.
Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldn’t keep doing this were it not for spreading the love to our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. We have always prioritized the endusers experience, and unlike others, we have never emburdened them with in-app ads, monetization SDKs or paywalled features, and we intend to continue to do so. If you’d like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store!
NOTE: The Android version on Samsung Galaxy Store, Huawei AppGallery, and Amazon App Store will be updated soon. We will remove this notice when it has been updated. Until then, grab the APK from our site.
NOTE: Several size optimizations have been made to the packages. We no longer pre-install all of the optional XMB theme packs or other miscellaneous assets. Previously we also shipped autoconfig files that were irrelevant for that specific platform. By excluding these files from the package, we have managed to reduce the filesize and overall amount of files of RetroArch downloads/installs significantly. On consoles this will be very helpful where SD card/FTP installs can tend to be very slow.
If you still want to have all assets, you can go to Online Updater and select ‘Update Assets’. This will install all assets.
Changelog
1.11.1
- GENERAL: Fix DEFAULT_FILL_TITLE_MACRO
- NETWORKING: Add the const qualifier to some function parameters
- NETWORKING/NETPLAY/UPNP: Add a private or CGNAT address warning to UPnP
- SAVESTATES/SCREENSHOTS: Avoid ‘video_gpu_screenshot’ with savestates
- UWP: Better ‘Save on quit’ fix
1.11.0
- 3DS: Add unique ID’s
- 3DS: Add bottom menu options
- 3DS: Set bottom_asset directory default
- 3DS: Only enable internal counter with CONSOLE_LOG defined
- 3DS: Set default bottom font values
- 3DS: Fix CIA installation issues
- 3DS: Support latest libctru
- ANDROID: Add HAVE_ACCESSIBILITY
- ANDROID: Gingerbread support
- ANDROID: Touchpads support
- ANDROID: Builtin Xperia Play autoconfig profile
- ANDROID: Disable Feral GameMode for Android – only available on Linux
- ANDROID: Add a configurable workaround for Android reconnecting devices
- ANDROID/FDROID: Add F-Droid metadata to repo in Fastlane format
- AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Add missing locks for thread safety
- AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Fix audio mixer memory leak + remove redundant ‘single threaded’ rthreads implementation
- AUTOSAVE: Change/improve exit behavior of autosave thread – if condition variable is signaled, the loop is ran another last time so we can do a final check/save before stopping the thread.
- CDROM: Fix memory leak caught with asan – buf passed to filestream_read_file
- CORE INFO/NETPLAY: Ensure current core info is initialized at runloop_event_init_core when netplay is enabled
- CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.4
- CHEEVOS: Allow creating auto savestate in hardcore
- CHEEVOS: prevent invalid memory reference if game has achievements but core doesn’t expose memory
- CHEEVOS: Release achievement badge textures when video driver is deinitialized
- CHEEVOS: Re-enforce hardcore limitations once achievements are loaded
- CHEEVOS/MENU/MATERIALUI: Show achievement badge icons in MaterialUI driver
- D3D9: D3D9 has been split up into two drivers – D3D9 HLSL (max compatibility, no shader support yet) and D3D9 Cg (dependent on deprecated Nvidia Cg runtime library)
- D3D9/HLSL/XMB: XMB fix
- D3D9/CG: D3D9 Cg driver fixed
- D3D11: Fix overlay not showing up
- D3D11/12: Reduce lag with WaitForVBlank – this rather simple addition seems to make D3D11/12 very very close to Vulkan/GLCore regarding input lag.
- D3D11/12: Add waitable swapchains and max frame latency option
- D3D11/12: Make waitable swapchains optional
- DATABASE: Reformat ‘rdb_entry_int’ – Nitpick adjustments for database entries: Capitalize “Release Date”, and remove space before : from Release Date rows which use integer
- DATABASE/EXPLORE: Allow On-Demand Thumbnails in Explore menu
- DATABASE/EXPLORE/MENU/OZONE/XMB/RGUI: Explore menu thumbnails
- DISC CONTROL: Better Disc Control append focus
- DOS/DJGPP: Add a workaround for libc bug
- AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added slowmotion resiliency
- AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added string representation for seeing the current effective delay without opening statistics
- AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added “ms” to logging and “(ms)” to label just like in Audio Latency
- GENERAL: Don’t bake in OpenAL and libcaca by default unless explicitly enabled with configure switch.
- GENERAL: Reduce amount of strlen calls
- GENERAL: Reduce or simply sin/cosf calls
- GFX: Fix readability and precision issues in aspectratio_lut
- GFX: Add option to manually enable/disable automatic refresh rate switching
- GFX: Enable automatic configuration of ‘VSync Swap Interval’
- GFX/FONT/FREETYPE: Use FT_New_Memory_Face – first read it from file to memory beforehand –
this solves an asset extraction issue when selecting ‘Update Assets’ – apparently FT_New_Face keeps an open file handle to the font file which
prevents it from being overwritten/deleted while the program is still running. - GFX/THUMBNAILS: Thumbnail aspect ratio fix
- GFX/THREADED VIDEO: Optimizations, fixes and cleanups
- GFX/VIDEO FILTERS: Add Upscale_240x160-320×240 video filter with ‘mixed’ method
- GLSLANG: Fix compilation with ./configure –disable-builtinglslang – was missing linking against -lMachineIndependent and -lGenericCodeGen static libs
- INPUT: Fix off by one error for input_block_timeout setting. Also default to 0 for this setting (pretty massive performance gain)
- INPUT: Analog button mapping fixes
- INPUT/HID/OSX: Fix DualShock3 support
- INPUT/HID/LINUX: (qb) Disable HAVE_HID by default for now for Linux as long as there are no working backends for both
- INPUT/HID/WINDOWS: (qb) Disable HAVE_HID by default for now for Windows as long as there are no working backends for both
- INPUT/HID/WIIU: Fix DualShock3 support
- INPUT/OVERLAY: Block pointer input when overlay is pressed
- INPUT/REMAPPING: input_remapping_save_file – existing remapping file was needlessly reloaded
- INPUT/REMAPPING: Add option to disable automatic saving of input remap files
- INPUT/LINUX/UDEV: Fix lightgun scaling on Y axis
- INPUT/LINUX/X11/LED: Add LED keyboard driver
- INPUT/WINDOWS/LED: LED keyboard driver cleanup
- INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Clear key states when unfocused
- INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fix pointer device position
- IOS: iOS app icon fixes & revisions
- LIBRETRO/SAVESTATES: Implement an api call for context awareness
- LOCALIZATION: Updates
- LOCALIZATION: Add Catalan language option
- LOCALIZATION: Fix some bad localization
- LINUX: Make memfd_create call more backwards compatible by calling it through syscall – on older systems, you’ll have to include linux/memfd.h for the MFD_ defines, and call memfd_create() via the the syscall(2) wrapper (and include unistd.h and sys/syscall.h for it work). We exclude linux/memfd.h header include because we already provide the MFD_ defines in case they are missing
- LINUX/MALI FBDEV: Fix assertion failed on video threaded switch
- MENU: Menu paging navigation adjustments
- MENU: New Menu Items for disabling Info & Search buttons in the menu
- MENU: Allow the user to use volume up/down/mute hotkeys from within the menu
- MENU: Add missing sublabels for non-running Quick Menu
- MENU: Reorganize Quick Menu Information
- MENU: Savestate thumbnails – Savestate slot reset action
- MENU: Allow changing savestate slots with left/right on save/load
- MENU: Add ‘Ago’ to playlist last played styles
- MENU: Add proper icons for shader items
- MENU/MATERIALUI: Add icon for ‘Download Thumbnails’
- MENU/XMB: Add options for hiding header and horizontal title margin
- MENU/XMB: Dynamic wallpaper fixes
- MENU/XMB: Add Daite XMB Icon Theme
- MENU/XMB/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail aspect ratio
- MENU/XMB/OZONE: Core option category icon refinements
- MENU/XMB/OZONE: Fullscreen thumbnail browsing
- MENU/XMB/OZONE: Add playlist icons under ‘Load Content’
- MENU/XMB/OZONE: Thumbnail improvements
- MENU/XMB/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail fullscreen + dropdown
- MENU/XMB/OZONE: Prevent unnecessary thumbnail requests when scrolling through playlists
- MENU/OZONE: Fix playlist thumbnail mouse hover after returning from Quick Menu
- MENU/OZONE: Thumbnail visibility corrections
- MENU/OZONE: Playlist metadata reformat
- MENU/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail fixes
- MENU/OZONE: Add savestate thumbnails
- MENU/OZONE: Header icon spacing adjustment
- MENU/RGUI: Savestate thumbnails
- MENU/SETTINGS: Turn Advanced Settings on by default, this entire filtering of settings will need a complete rethink anyways
- MENU/WIDGETS: Widget color + position adjustments
- MIYOO: Exclude unused HAVE_HID for Miyoo
- MIYOO: Enable screenshots
- MIYOO: Enable rewind
- NETWORK: Allow MITM server selection on OK callback
- NETWORK: Replace socket_select calls
- NETWORK: Implement binary network streams
- NETWORK: Poll support
- NETWORK: Check connect errno for successful connection
- NETWORK: Get rid of the timeout_enable parameter for socket_connect
- NETWORK: Fix getnameinfo_retro’s port value for HAVE_SOCKET_LEGACY platforms
- NETWORK: Define inet_ntop and inet_pton for older Windows versions
- NETWORK: Define isinprogress function
- NETWORK/NATT: Move natt files to “network”
- NETWORK/NETWORK STREAMS: Add function netstream_eof
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix game CRC parsing
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disable and hide stateless mode
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Change default for input sharing to “no sharing”
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Enforce a timeout during connection
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disallow clients from loading states and resetting
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Special saves directory for client
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Ensure current content is reloaded before joining a host
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix client info devices index
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix input for some cores when hosting
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Memory leak fixes
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Force a core update when starting netplay
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix NAT traversal announce for HAVE_SOCKET_LEGACY platforms
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Refactor fork arguments
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix content reload deadlocks on static core platforms
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disallow netplay start when content is not loaded for static core platforms
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Show client slowdown information
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Improve check frames menu entry
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Do not try to receive new data if the data is in the buffer
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Copy data on receive, even if the buffer is full
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix lobby sublabel CRC display on some platforms
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for customizing chat colors
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Small launch compatibility patch adjustments
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for banning clients
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Minor tweaks to the find content task
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for gathering client info and kicking
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix possible deadlock
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Initialize client’s allow_pausing to true
- NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disable netplay for unsupported cores – with stateless mode being disabled for now, there is no reason not to include this. Refuse to initialize netplay when the current core is not supported (no proper savestates support)
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY: Ensure fixed width ints on packet struct
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY: Support for IPv4 tunneling (6to4)
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY/TASKS: Netplay/LAN Discovery Task refactor – aims to prevent blocking the main thread while awaiting for the LAN discovery timeout; This is accomplished by moving the whole discovery functionality into its task and using a non-blocking timer to finish the task. Also fixes discovery sockets not being made non-blocking, which could cause the main thread to hang for very long periods of time every pre-frame.
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/TASKS: Find content task refactor – fixes many issues along the way, including a couple of nasty memory leaks that would leak thousands of bytes each time the task ran. It also expands the original concept by matching currently run content by filename (CRC matching is always performed first though).
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/TASKS: Find content task refactor – Ensure CRC32 is 8 characters long
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Add setting for filtering out rooms with non-installed cores
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Hide older (incompatible) rooms
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Add a toggleable filter for passworded rooms. In addition, move lobby filters into its own submenu for better organization.
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Chat supported info for the host kick submenu
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Localize relay servers
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Host Ban Submenu
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Add client devices info to the kick sub-menu
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Path: Netplay -> Host -> Kick Client – Allows the host to kick clients. Allows the host to view client information: connected clients (names), status (playing/spectating) and ping.
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Add net_ifinfo support
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Enable partial LAN discovery
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Change default UDP port to 19492
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Do not multiply negative timeout values
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Fix epoll’s timeout parameter
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Launch compatibility patch
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/3DS: Launch compatibility patch
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/3DS: Adapt POLL for 3DS platform
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/PS3: Launch compatibility patch
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/WII: Enable net_ifinfo for some features. In practice, this only allows the netplay’s UPnP task to succeed on the Wii.
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/WIIU: Launch compatibility patch
- NETWORK/NETPLAY/SWITCH: Launch compatibility patch
- NETWORK/UPNP: Attempt support for remaining platforms
- NETWORK/UPNP: Support for IPv4 tunneling
- ODROID GO2: Increase DEFAULT_MAX_PADS to 8 for ODROIDGO2, since that impacts the RG351[X] consoles. The RG351[X] have a USB host controller and can have an arbitrary number of USB gamepads.
- ONLINE UPDATER: Online Updater menu reorganizing
- OSX: Fixed items of system top menu bar on macOS
- OSX: Revision to macOS app icon set
- PLAYLISTS: Ensure history list will contain CRC32
- PLAYLISTS: Fix CRC32 comparison – as state->content_crc has “|crc” suffix.
- PS4/ORBIS: Orbis/PS4 Support using OrbisDev toolchain
- PS4/ORBIS: Update xxHash dependency
- PS4/ORBIS: Shader cache
- RETROFW: Exclude unused HAVE_HID for RetroFW
- RETROFW: Support battery indicator on RetroFW
- RETROFW: Enable menu toggle button on retrofw devices
- SHADERS: Shader Preset Loading of Multiple additional #references lines for settings
- SHADERS: Shader Load Extra Parameter Reference Files – this adds the ability to put additional #reference lines inside shader presets which will load additional settings. The first reference in the preset still needs to point at a chain of presets which ends with a shader chain, and subsequent #reference lines will load presets which only have parameter values adjustment. This allows presets to be made with a modular selection of settings. For example with the Mega Bezel one additional reference could point at a preset which contained settings for Night mode vs Day mode, and another reference could point to a preset which contained settings for how much the screen should be zoomed in.
- SHADERS/MENU: Increase shader scale max value
- SCANNER/DC: Fix Redump bin/cue scan for some DC games
- SCANNER/GC/WII: Add RVZ/WIA scan support for GC/Wii
- SCANNER/PS1: Improved success rate of Serial scanning on PS1 by adding support for the xx.xxx format
- SCANNER/PS1: Changed return value of detect_ps1_game function to actually return a failure when the Serial couldn’t be extracted. Scanner will then fallback on crc check, and usually ends up finding the games in the database.
- SWITCH: Enable RWAV (WAV audio file) support
- STRING: Do not assume char is unsigned
- TASKS: More thread-awareness in task callbacks
- TASKS: Fix race condition at task_queue_wait
- TVOS: Revised tvOS icons w/ updated alien.
- VFS: Fix various VFS / file stream issues
- VULKAN: Fix more validation errors
- VULKAN: Attempt to fix validation errors with HDR swapchain. Always use final render pass type equal to swapchain format. Use more direct logic to expose if filter chain emits HDR10 color space or not
- VULKAN/ANDROID: Honor SUBOPTIMAL on non-Android since you’d want to recreate swapchains then. On Android it can be promoted to SUCCESS.
- VULKAN/DEBUG: Automatically mark buffer/images/memory with names
- VULKAN/DEBUG: Move over to VK_EXT_debug_utils. Debug marker is deprecated years ago.
- VULKAN/HDR: Fix leak of HDR UBO buffer
- VULKAN/BFI: Fix BFI (Black Frame Insertion) regression
- WINDOWS: Fix exclusive fullscreen video refresh rate when vsync swap interval is not equal to one – refresh rate in exclusive fullscreen mode was being incorrectly multiplied by vsync swap interval, breaking swap interval functionality at the gfx driver level
- WIN32: Do optimization for Windows where we only update the title with SetWindowText when the previous title differs from the current title
- WIN32: Skip console attach when logging to file
- WIN32: Remove black margins with borderless non-fullscreen window
- WIN32/TASKBAR: Release ITaskbarList3 on failed HrInit – pointer wasn’t NULL’d, thus set_window_progress would cause weird behavior
- WII/GX: Fix potential datarace
- WIIU: Implement sysconf and __clear_cache
- WIIU: Add OS memory mapping imports
- UWP: Added launch protocol arg ‘forceExit’ so a frontend can tell an already-running RetroArch UWP instance to quit.
- UWP: Enable core downloader/updater
- UWP: Remove copy permissions as its inefficient as we can just directly assign the new ACL and that works
- Xbox/UWP: Remove expandedResources
- Xbox/UWP: UWP OnSuspending crash fix
- Xbox/UWP: Enable savestate file compression by default for UWP/Xbox – got told there are no more issues with it
- Xbox/UWP: Add support for 4k to angle on xbox for MSVC2017 build
SUBOPTIMAL_KHR can happen there when rotation (pre-rotate) is wrong.
RetroArch – Introducing the Mega Bezel Reflection Shader
Article written by HyperSpaceMadness
RetroArch keeps introducing innovations to the retrogaming world, constantly building simple roads for players to enjoy classic games in new and sometimes better ways.
Getting the sweet spot between ease of use and customization can be a time-consuming process, and sometimes requires a deep insight of how old technologies worked: refresh rate, aspect ratio, scaling, overscan, deconvergence are terms which we may or may not be familiar with, and these all play an important part in building a retro gaming experience that feels better, yet passionately authentic.
How do we get a handle on this?
Building an idealized CRT (cathode ray tube) like display experience. Getting the best out of post-processing with the latest CRT shaders fused into a “one stop” solution. Making it incredibly easy to customize, and yet performant. A fresh and unique starting point for the retro game lover.
The Mega Bezel Project started back in July 2019 when developer HyperspaceMadness was looking at experimental shaders creating real-time reflections on emulated display bezels. More than two years later, the swiss-army-knife of visual simulation to enhance the retro game experience is ready for players!
The Mega Bezel is unique in that it bends the common definitions of shaders and overlays in an out-of-the-box experience: custom calculations take care of games native resolution and scaling, dynamically draw bezels around the gameplay area filled with curvature simulation and reflections, incorporating a unique pipeline of CRT simulation models and other visual conditioning of the game image, color correction, de-dithering, and adding responsive backgrounds and lots of additional features to enjoy.
The shader centralizes a lot of complex tasks and makes them instantly available for all cores: screen rotation and position, horizontal and vertical orientation, zooming, cutting away games black spaces to get a real full-screen, and filling the aspect ratio difference between the emulated screen and your monitor with interesting graphics. Mega Bezel even adds original solutions, like the ‘Night Mode’ to simulate a dimly lit room and ‘Glass Mode’ for a modern and dynamic way to fill the entire monitor.
Being based on contributions and discussions from the Libretro forums, Mega Bezel is a community project at its heart: shader writers and artists are actively developing features and customized presets which max out the shader capabilities, and making them freely available for retro players to enjoy and further customize, chasing the their ideal setup.
Easy to use for newcomers, deep in customization for emulation maniacs, flexible for artists: the Mega Bezel project is a fun ongoing journey that strives to bring wonderful features to everyone, minus the hassle of setup!
You can get the basic Mega Bezel shaders inside RetroArch by running Online Updater -> Update Slang Shaders then the shaders will be located inside shaders/shaders_slang/bezel/Mega_Bezel/Presets. Be sure to read the setup portion of the ReadMe.md to help you get started you can find it in the Mega_Bezel folder just mentioned.
A small group of talented artists has also come together using the Mega Bezel to create suites of shader presets with beautiful graphics covering many consoles, computers and PVMs to share with retro gamers.
If this sounds exciting head over to the Mega Bezel thread on the Libretro forum to find more about the Mega Bezel, and links to the artist’s pages and shader preset collections.
https://forums.libretro.com/t/hsm-mega-bezel-reflection-shader-feedback-and-updates/25512
Below are more examples of the Mega Bezel and artwork from the community.
RetroArch now on the Samsung Galaxy Store!
We keep expanding!
We’re happy to announce that RetroArch is now available on the Samsung Galaxy Store! For free, of course.
Q&A
How can I download RetroArch from the Galaxy Store?
The Galaxy Store should be pre-installed by default on Samsung phones. It is a storefront available exclusively for Samsung-branded devices.
Open the app on your device, type in RetroArch in the search bar, and download it from there.
How does this version differ from the Google Play Store version?
The version available on the Galaxy Store is identical to the version you can download from our website.
It has a couple of big advantages over the Google Play Store version:
* There is no set core limit. For RetroArch Plus on the Play Store, it is up to 127 cores that can be installed. We have to hand-pick these cores specifically so that users can install them on the Google Play Store.
* Cores are distributed from the Libretro buildbot infrastructure. There are far more cores available than on the Play Store.
Should I use this version or the Google Play Store version?
On a Samsung phone, you have the choice to choose between either version. Regardless, we highly recommend you use the Galaxy Store version over the Google Play Store version. Reasons are listed above, but on top of that, the Google Play Store version has not been updated for a while because of increasing restrictions and requirements that we haven’t caught up with yet.
Bottom line, we anticipate the Google Play Store version to become more and more nerfed as time goes on unfortunately. There is nothing we can do about this, these are restrictions and limitations imposed by Google to have the software available for distribution on the Play Store. To get a more full-featured version, download the Galaxy Store version.
RetroArch should now be available on the Google Play Store, Amazon App Store, Huawei App Gallery, and Samsung Galaxy Store. No matter what device you are on and which ecosystem you are in, we try to have you covered.
