Added

[Android]: Added some support for QLaunch (Home Menu) and added QLaunch option to Applet launcher sub-menu
[Linux], [Windows]: Added some support for QLaunch (Home Menu) and added QLaunch option to Tools sub-menu

Changed

[Android], [Linux], [Windows]: Improved accuracy of several IPC interface services
[Linux], [Windows]: Improved game library loading by using native C++ directory recursion

I ask because I decided to try out PCSX2 for the first time in many years today and was blown away by things like the resolution scaling.

When I first started using emulators having save states and the ability to rewind in GBA blew me away.

I am wondering what features, added by emulators, you really appreciate or would make going back to the original console difficult? Are there any emulators you'd highly recommend to a friend who is into retro gaming but never really tried out emulation?

Are there some emulated consoles that don't quite have the feature set of the native experience? For example I haven't tried out Xenia but I know a bit about the history of 360 emulation and why it's lagged behind (Modern Vintage Gamer I believe has a decent video on this I'd link if I wasn't on mobile). Is it missing some key or quality of life features?

Thought this could be a fun Friday discussion for this community

So, I want to use some cheats to bypass some grind in pokemon emerald. I'm on an ambernic so using stock firmware and the mgba core.

I saw a cheats setting in RA but idk how to use it

For whatever reason you would want that, but otherwise it’s a high quality mgba frontend.

RetroArch never works right. Even once you get past the cores and all the other stupid bs, once you get to setting up the controls it never works right, most buttons just do not work in game, if they even work in the menus.

So many years, so much effort, all wasted.

It's still so much easier to keep BlastEm, Snes9x, Duckstation and whatever else installed, so much faster to set up controls and most of the time you don't even need to as everything works out of the box.

And yet plebbit will say nuhhh use muh libretro cores!!!!1 so heckin' wholesome Keanu chungus 100!!! I love my wife's boyfriend!!!!111 Thanks Reddit!!!!!

I recently got a used surface duo for the sole purpose of emulating nintendo ds and 3ds. I have retroarch running with Desmume but as far as i understand, drastic offers better performance on android.

I know i can get it on the play store (for now at least), but i dont have a google account (and i will not sign up for one). I can see that there are many sites offering downloads of an .apk, but they all seem pretty shady to me.

What would be the best way to get a malware-free .apk for drastic? Am i better of waiting for it to go open source and build it myself?

So I'm waaay out of touch with the whole emulation scene. I'm just coming back to it after not touching it since the late 2000's

I've been messing around with Dolphin, Yuzu, RCSP3 mainly, but seen screenshots of a few others.

Relevant information: I'm a Windows user, and I'm using the stand alone emulators.

I've noticed that they all have the same, or very similar user interfaces. I'm all for standardization, but I'm curious if this is coincidence, or is there a specific front-end system that they're all using?

No Bloodborne yet!

So, I've been playing Pokémon emerald. I beat a gym leader and saved. I rebooted after the save and lost an hour of progress.

I progressed a bit more from that state, saves TWICE and now it reverted to before that.

Is this a ROM issue? Is this an sdcard issue? I'm playing in RA.

Uhh, turns out it was just my dumbass using the wrong card

So, some of the games I try fail to work. The result is it saying there is no lua to load and gives a gray screen, just wondering if this is a core or ROM issue. The game in question is Trial of the sorceror. The menus work but when I start a level the crash occurs

Device in question is a stock ambernic sp in case that changes anything

So, I'm trying to add more games to my sp and am wondering how boxart works. Is it the same as retroarch?

So, I want to add my own games to my sp running stock firmware and want to know if its possible to automate boxsrt scraping, o have had luck with the android build of retroarch getting boxart, does the Linux build do this too?

So, I'm going to install minui to my sp but the readme says that it needs to be installed "over a fresh copy of stock" what does that mean? Where do I find the stock image?

So, I'm getting a 35xxsp shipped, should be coming in a few weeks, I got an extra card to replace the stock one. Is cfw worth it? Is ambwrnic stock any good? I'd like your advice

This is a sad day. One of my favorite resources and communities is closing the doors as we know. No longer are new Romhack and mods accepted; the site becomes a News site. There was some drama going on. The site owner and leader put entire database and files to Archiveorg for preservation and download in one batch.

Read the message here: https://www.romhacking.net/news/3074/

Download the files here: https://archive.org/details/romhacking.net-20240801

Download as Torrent: https://archive.org/download/romhacking.net-20240801/romhacking.net-20240801_archive.torrent (official torrent file, I recommend this, as it is faster)

I want to buy an ambernic 35xxsp but the official website does not have the colour I want, if I got the color I wanted I'd have to pay way too much in shipping. I reside in the EU. What vendors are good?

Hello!

I'm buildiing an emulated Wii console thing (and I'm calling it the Uriine, because I'm a 12 year old at heart apparently)

I've got a mayflash dolphin bar, and it's working beautifully. I only have 1 working controller though, and would like to set up a DS5 as a secondary controller.

I have it mapped and 90% working, but it could be much better, and I'm hoping for some help getting this the rest of the way.

The issues I'm facing:

1. I've got the pointer mapped to the right stick, but I would like to use the gyro for this. Gyro movement doesn't seem to be registered as a mappable axis though.

2. Rumble motors aren't detected

3. The DS5 has an onboard speaker like the wiimote, any way to use it as such?

I feel like most of this could be fixed with a good driver for the controller, but I can't find one.

Any help would be appreciated. Bonus points if you can tell me why I have to have the controller on before launching a title for it to be detected (any controller, not just the DS5)