Retroarch (Emulators)

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RetroArch 1.3.6+ beta release for PlayStation3!

 

The PlayStation 3 port is back after it was decommissioned for a long time. Consider this a beta version in anticipation of the upcoming 1.3.7 version which will be further fleshed out.

 

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Thanks to PSGL, the PlayStation3 driver can use the XMB menu driver using the OpenGL rendering backend. The simplified ribbon should be running properly in the background too.

 

Where to get it

Ezi0 graciously provided these two binaries for us.

CEX version: download

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DEX version: download

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What doesn’t work yet

This version can be considered a beta release. Here are the current issues:

• You cannot scan for content as of right now. Instead, for now you should just load content directly from the filesystem.
• To be able to use zipped ROMs on emulators like SNES9x and other similar emulators, always use ‘Open Archive As Folder’, then select the ROM you want to use. Don’t use ‘Load Archive With Core’ which won’t work for now.
• If you go to ‘Information’ -> ‘Core Information’, it currently doesn’t show anything. Not a big deal for now but something we will want to fix later on regardless.
• None of the ‘downloading’ features right now will work in the PS3 port. Our networking stack code for PS3 apparently requires some customizations still. If there are any PS3 devs who can help with this, by all means.

The PS3 version now uses the XMB menu driver, a big step-up from the previous versions’ RGUI menu driver. The font driver we are currently using for PS3 is the default bitmap font, so it doesn’t look as good as it could be, but we are going to be moving over to more fancy font rendering shortly, possibly using stb_font or something similar.