/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3374519
>>crashes when a core doesn't have a BIOS or is otherwise set up incorrectly rather than just handling the error gracefully even though this is supposed to be a user friendly frontend/media center emulator

This is actually being worked on. So that will hopefully improve in the future.

>no way to easily specify things like BIOSes for cores

90% of systems have 1 BIOS that matters. BIOS pack on the wiki handles all the BIOS shit

>>menus are clunky and horribly laid out

Menus are fine, there just needs to be better options for mouse navigation.

>>emulation is glitchy as fuck at times

All the stable, tested cores like Nestopia, bsnes, Gambatte, Beetle PSX all work fine. Experimental cores like Mupen64plus or Reicast might have some issues.

>Why does anyone use RetroArch?

Because it provides some things that many standalone emulators lack. Like shaders, dynamic rate control for smooth sync, automatic gamepad mapping, full gamepad control, etc. It has a Vulkan driver which can be used for 2D blitting as well as 3D rendering, and will probably be great for low-latency due to low level control over the swapchain.

>I'm convinced that its devs viral market the living fuck out of it and that's the only reason it is "popular".

Or maybe it's getting popular because it does things people want. Like run on Raspberry Pi or 3DS.

>>1317921
>Mednafen / RetroArch isn't an emulator, it's a frontend to other emulations cores such as ePSXe or pSXfin.

Wrong. Mednafen uses it's own unique PSX emulator (currently the most accurate PSX emulator), and RetroArch implements as a core using the libretro API, and has some advantages over using regular Mednafen like on the fly disc swapping and pixel shaders.

>It's also worth noting that someone (or more than one person?) keeps spamming support for RA here at /vr/, even though nobody actually uses it.

Oh lord not this shit again.