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First official Retroarch for Switch released!
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Its just a border and you also get a emulation of the original screen including ghosting and scan lines.
You can totally disable it.
and? you only need certain level of power to emulate SNES. More than that and it's just redundant. Unless of course you can do something else with it, such as emulating PS2 and GC.
Shaders for example can be quite demanding. GC might also be possible in the future for this system. We know that the shield can emulate GC.
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GC will likely happen at some point. Dolphin has good performance on Tegra X1.
That's good to know. Everything else looks great!
Have to be on the old version of switch tho. New versions dont get full access like old does
How is retroarch installed? Nsp? Homebrew? On ofw?
It's a NRO, I'm setting it up right now. So through the homebrew launcher.
Hopefully they'll release it as an NSP package soon.
It's right there on the first post. Nothing illegal about linking it:
https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/nintendo/switch/libnx/
I've run a bunch of emulators and stuff in my switch back when the homebrew scene started taking off. Stupidly stayed online too.
Never got banned or anything but maybe I'm One of the lucky ones.
Never got banned or anything but maybe I'm One of the lucky ones.
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Can you test xenogears and some final fantasies? I just ordered a switch specifically for thisResident Evil 1 working perfectly aswell:
Thx, im on mobile and didnt bother to click the links
It's probably using the software renderer in PCSX reARMed so no scaling.
I am not doubting, I just find funny that in early emulation scene for a console basic stuff is mentioned as new stuff
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No scaling, psx is 1x resolution.
But using xbr or even FXAA the picture gets quite nice. There are a lot of shaders to make the picture better, didn't try all of them.
If we're only talking about emulators, the one thing I like to use is their throttle feature. I've only used adrenaline on the vita for PSX games and while it's awesome that it supports throttling and even save states, both can sometimes lead to buggy games and it just doesn't throttle fast enough. Save states are also really slow. Retroarch on my Shield Portable (only a Tegra 4, which is many times weaker than the Switch) runs pretty much flawlessly and throttles significantly faster even in PSX games.
I think it relies on Libnx so in the future when there are improvements in that lib, it can reflect to retroarch. Hopefully someone will make a vulkan driver.
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Resident Evil 1 working perfectly aswell:
can you test crash team racing?
Dolphin on Android with Tegra X1 is a whole different animal, Dolphin Android was basically tailor made for TX1 and it has access to full CPU and GPU power unlike on switch.
It was already tested on Linux on switch (lakka) and it seems it was way slower than on ATV.
It was already tested on Linux on switch (lakka) and it seems it was way slower than on ATV.
Great to see more Retroarch progress on Switch. Playing retro games on the Switch screen is just so good. With this and RetroNX, retro gaming on Switch is really coming along nicely.
The Homebrew scene on Switch is really kicking off now.
Team Xecutor's SX OS v2.0 looks to have a new EmuNand feature, which looks like it could allow to separate Hacking / Homebrew content from official Firmware, kinda like having 2 partitions. So potential to keep online play without being banned when not using Homebrew and having different Firmware on each partition. Will have to see how that turns out, when people have tested it out for a few weeks.
Also another neat little hack is ChoiDujourNX which allows to Upgrade and Downgrade the Switch's firmware offline, without burning eFuses, which normally would stop you downgrading again.
The Homebrew scene on Switch is really kicking off now.
Team Xecutor's SX OS v2.0 looks to have a new EmuNand feature, which looks like it could allow to separate Hacking / Homebrew content from official Firmware, kinda like having 2 partitions. So potential to keep online play without being banned when not using Homebrew and having different Firmware on each partition. Will have to see how that turns out, when people have tested it out for a few weeks.
Also another neat little hack is ChoiDujourNX which allows to Upgrade and Downgrade the Switch's firmware offline, without burning eFuses, which normally would stop you downgrading again.
Not 7/10 times, it's probably closer to 95% of the cases or above. Most people don't go through the trouble of obtaining legal roms to use for emulation. Almost everyone I have ever seen use it in real life does it illegally.
The hardware is absolutely capable of emulating GCN and PS2 but I wouldn't hold my breath for PS2 anytime soon if ever. The current best PS2 Emulator PCSX2 only runs on X86 processors and Libretro have stated in the past that a Retroarch version is unlikely. There is an Android based PS2 emulator but I have no idea how good that is.
Tegra X1 is not all that powerful, not even at full clocks. It was powerful in... 2015. It may be able to get GCN at some capacity, and even some PS2 emulation but don't expect to be running everything flawless at any time soon.
Switch Docked | Swich Non-Docked | Shield ATV
CPU: 1020 MHz | 1020 MHz | 2 GHz
GPU: 768 MHz | 307.2 MHz | 1 GHz
MEM: 1600 MHz | 1331 MHz | 1600 MHz
Switch Docked | Swich Non-Docked | Shield ATV
CPU: 1020 MHz | 1020 MHz | 2 GHz
GPU: 768 MHz | 307.2 MHz | 1 GHz
MEM: 1600 MHz | 1331 MHz | 1600 MHz
I'd have to find the link to where this was discovered, but the Switch has another hidden mode, which is speculated for GC/Wii Emulation potentially. The CPU increases in speed, while dropping the GPU speeds a bit.
While that's probably true that still doesn't make the emulators that play these roms illegal. Using them to play illegally obtained roms, yes. But the emulators themselves aren't illegal in any way. Just like how torrent clients and media players aren't illegal. Instead of banning emulators it'd make more sense to me to make it easier to use them legally.
Of course, there are several modes and that could certainly be exploited by a first party emulator like the one they made for the Shield ATV. And what you said makes total sense because most of the vertex calculations are done on CPU which is why ATV chugs in games with long draw distance (that is my experience with it at least)
Dolphin is a more generic/complete affair than the the Shield ATV emulator, the NVIDIA is most likely very different though.
Dolphin is a more generic/complete affair than the the Shield ATV emulator, the NVIDIA is most likely very different though.
I'll jump into this once the exFat support bug has been ironed out. I know many, many people have been using RetroNX on exFAT without any issues, but I wouldn't want my microSD corrupted.
This thread is about an emulator being released for switch homebrew. Please do not derail the thread into a seperate conversation.
For GB yes although I dunno if the sameboy core will be fast enough on switch.
/me runs to test on shield ATV
Just back it up? If you're using homebrew already, you can just ftp your saves over