{"id":45868,"date":"2017-08-07T19:33:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/?p=45868"},"modified":"2018-02-11T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T21:11:08","slug":"core-updates-since-version-1-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/core-updates-since-version-1-6-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Core updates (since version 1.6.3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the short release cycle, there has been a fair bit of core work since the 1.6.3 release, including some significant contributions driven by the recently implemented bounty system. In no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>r-type fixed <b>Beetle NGP<\/b>&#8216;s longstanding bugs with big-endian architecture, which should allow that core to control properly on those architectures. He also fixed compilation of the <b>atari800<\/b> and <b>Hatari<\/b> cores on Wii U and fixed some issues with the cap32 core on that platform.<\/li>\n<li>Twinaphex and r5 continued overhauling <b>Beetle PSX HW<\/b>&#8216;s OpenGL renderer, doing much behind-the-scenes work that isn&#8217;t particularly visible to end-users but should improve stability and lay the groundwork for future improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Twinaphex also added MSVC2005 solutions for many cores, making them compatible with our Win98 port of RetroArch.<\/li>\n<li>bparker fixed some memory and GL issues with the <b>Craft Minecraft<\/b> clone core, which should correct an issue where the core was crashing at launch for some people.<\/li>\n<li>markwkidd backported C-based MIPS3 support to <b>MAME2003<\/b>, which gets Killer Instinct and Killer Instinct 2 working with this core. Without a MIPS dynarec, they&#8217;re too demanding for most ARM devices, unfortunately (Killer Instinct 1 is not quite full speed on my Shield ATV, while Killer Instinct 2 is pretty far from full speed; Raspberry Pi is, of course, not even close), but they should work fine on x86 and x86_64 devices.<\/li>\n<li>Bounty hunter rtissera added CHD support to <b>Beetle Saturn<\/b> and <b>Beetle PC Engine Fast<\/b> &#8211; with plans to add support for this format to several other disc-based cores in the near future&#8211;and hooked up support for the Saturn&#8217;s 3D pad. He also fixed an issue with <b>MAME 2003<\/b> with Midway DCS games that would lead to audio issues at set intervals. This should fix the sound in Mortal Kombat 1\/2\/3\/Ultimate, NBA Jam, Total Carnage, etc. other games.<\/li>\n<li>casdevel, another active bounty hunter, fixed mouse input in <b>Desmume libretro<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>albertofustinoni submitted changes for a variety of cores to make them compatible with his RetriX UWP libretro frontend, which is compatible with Windows 10, Windows Phone and Xbox One developer mode.<\/li>\n<li>orbea committed some buildfixes for the early work-in-progress <b>Basilisk2<\/b> core.<\/li>\n<li>yoshisuga continued adding build targets for iOS ARM64 in various cores.<\/li>\n<li>hunterk did the mind-numbing work of bisecting and correcting a regression in <b>Snes9x Libretro<\/b> that apparently broke the game Phalanx back in May.<\/li>\n<li>psyke83 fixed a crash with Tyrquake that could happpen on Raspberry Pi-based devices (e..g. Retropie).<\/li>\n<li><b>Citra<\/b> \/ <b>OpenLara<\/b> \/ <b>Dolphin<\/b> will now work without having to explicitly enable &#8216;Shared Hardware Context&#8217; in RetroArch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the short release cycle, there has been a fair bit of core work since the 1.6.3 release, including some significant contributions driven by the recently implemented bounty system. In no particular order: r-type fixed Beetle NGP&#8216;s longstanding bugs with big-endian architecture, which should allow that core to control properly on those architectures. He also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,2,5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45868"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45900,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868\/revisions\/45900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}