RetroArch
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| Game update | Version 1.19.0 released RetroArch 1.19.0 has just been released. Changes AI: Revert AI translation to previous version (fix for translation not working with HW rendered cores) APPLE: Try to use system preferred language APPLE: Correctly register for filetypes uniquely APPLE/MFI: improved Switch Online controller support through MFi AUDIO: Bring back audio toggling on menu toggle CHEEVOS: Build a default RetroAchieveme… | 14562564 | |
| Release | Dosbox Pure core added We added a new core, Dosbox Pure. This brings the total number of available cores on Steam to 65 now. DOSBox Pure is a hard fork of the multiplatform MS-DOS emulator. It was built by Psyraven in 2020 specifically for RetroArch/Libretro and implements advanced features like save states, an on-screen keyboard, highly customizable controller setup or rewinding. DOSBox Pure aims for simplicity and… | — | |
| Release | Geolith core added We added a new core, Geolith. This brings the total number of available cores on Steam to 62 now. Geolith is a highly accurate core for a popular console/arcade system released in the early 1990s, and surviving into the mid 2000s. It is written in modern C and takes a unique approach compared to other emulators for this system. This core focuses on providing a user experience similar to a tradi… | — | |
| Community | RetroArch 1.17 – new netplay features RetroArch 1.17 expands Netplay to support playing multiplayer games that were originally played on two or more separate consoles or computers connected together. This is currently supported by two cores: DOSBox Pure (not available on Steam) and gpSP (available on Steam). In DOSBox Pure it is now possible to play DOS and early Windows multiplayer games that used IPX, Ethernet or a modem over the… |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.
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| Major update | RetroArch 1.17.0 release RetroArch 1.17.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here . We also added a new core, PX68K. This brings the total number of available cores on Steam to 61 now. Changelog · ACCESSIBILITY/TTS: fix target language and missing espeak handling on Linux · AI: AI service reworked: performance increase, automatic translation, configurable subtitle placement, and more · APPLE:… | — |
| Major update | RetroArch 1.16.0 release RetroArch 1.16.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here . Changelog · AUDIO: Fast-Forward Audio Resampling · AUDIO: Reinit audio on audio sync toggle · AUDIO: Count audio samples in stats when rate control is disabled · AUDIO/PULSEAUDIO: Support device list for PulseAudio · AUDIO/WASAPI: WASAPI Frame Delay fix + cleanups · AUDIO/WASAPI/MIDI: Frame Delay correction · A… | — |
| Major update | DirkSimple core added + RetroArch update We added a new core, DirkSimple. This brings the total number of available cores on Steam to 60 now. DirkSimple is a core written from scratch by icculus, one of the original creators/maintainers of popular open source projects like SDL. It can play some of the 1980s LaserDisc arcade games. RetroArch 1.15.0 updated A maintenance update/fix has been pushed for 1.15.0. This replaces the current 1… | — |
| Community | Development Plan – March 13, 2023 Link to our full blog article here , snippet below - A new concept we’re going to try, we’ll see if it lasts. Expect irregular blog posts like this, whenever something is on our mind that we want to share. It’s basically like a development diary where we discuss future plans for upcoming versions and what we have been thinking about doing. Raising the lowest common denominator RetroArch pushes… | — |
| Major update | RetroArch 1.15.0 release RetroArch 1.15.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here . Now available for macOS RetroArch for Mac is now on Steam! Minimum system requirements: · Your Mac should be running macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later. It is technically possible to try to run it on a version as low as macOS 10.11 (El Capitan), but in order to use it with all features reliably working we’d rec… | — |
| Release | ScummVM and Numero cores added New cores added for RetroArch Steam. You can download these cores either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. There are now 57 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam. | — |
| Release | MojoZork core added New core added for RetroArch Steam brought to you by icculus You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. There are now 55 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam. ---------------- This is an implementation of Infocom's Z-Machine. The Z-Machine is a virtual machine that's something like a high-level… | — |
| Game update | Version 1.14.0 - Hotfix 1 Changelog since 1.14.0: D3D12: Fixed some shaders not appearing with the d3d12 driver - this reintroduces a validation error though but it seems to work as in not crash and is the old RA behaviour. Guess we need a different way of fixing the validation issue. | 10141341 |
| Major update | RetroArch 1.14.0 release RetroArch 1.14.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here . Check our Libretro Core Progress Report (May to December 2022) article here . Changelog · CHEEVOS: Fix construction of Cheevos badge path · CLI: Fixed not getting any output when running --version or --features without --verbose · CLI: Fixed crash when running empty - parameter (it proceeded to content loading)… | — |
| Release | Ep128 core added New core added for RetroArch Steam You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. There are now 54 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam. Leverage the convenience of libretro/RetroArch to emulate the Z80 based home computers that the original ep128emu supports - that is, Enterprise 64/128, Videoton… | — |
| Major update | RetroArch 1.13.0 release RetroArch 1.13.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here . Overlay / onscreen gamepad controls improvements Android/iOS users in particular are going to benefit a lot in this release and upcoming versions from various improvements being made to neil4 to overhaul and improve touch controls. Several gamepad overlays have already been updated to take advantage of these ne… | — |
| Major update | RetroArch 1.12.0 release! RetroArch 1.12.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here . Views There is now an entirely new way to display and organize content – Views! You can turn a filter set in the Explore menu into a so called “View” file which then gets listed alongside playlists. This also adds the ability to filter a category by range in the Explore menu and not just filter on exact matches… | — |
| Game update | RetroArch 1.12.0 Changelog: - CONFIG/CLI: Allow use of --appendconfig with override cfgs instead of getting ignored - CONFIG/LOGGING: No more console startup logging if logging to file - CONFIG: Saves config on exit only once instead of (worst case scenario) 3 times - DATABASE/EXPLORE/VIEW: Add View feature - Add saving of a filter set in the Explore menu into a so called "View" file which then gets listed alon… | 9736959 |
| Game update | RetroArch 1.11.1 Point fix update. Read the full article here . 1.11.1 - GENERAL: Fix DEFAULT_FILL_TITLE_MACRO - NETWORKING: Add the const qualifier to some function parameters - NETWORKING/NETPLAY/UPNP: Add a private or CGNAT address warning to UPnP - SAVESTATES/SCREENSHOTS: Avoid ‘video_gpu_screenshot’ with savestates - UWP: Better ‘Save on quit’ fix | 9652098 |
| Major update | RetroArch 1.11.0 release! RetroArch 1.11.0 has just been released! Months of work has gone into significantly improving RetroArch across the board. Particular points of focus have been networking/netplay and user interface improvements. Read the full article on our website here . Patch notes: AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Add missing locks for thread safety AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Fix audio mixer memory leak + remove redundant ‘single… | — |
| Game update | RetroArch 1.11.0 release RetroArch 1.11.0 has been released! Patch notes: AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Add missing locks for thread safety AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Fix audio mixer memory leak + remove redundant ‘single threaded’ rthreads implementation AUTOSAVE: Change/improve exit behavior of autosave thread – if condition variable is signaled, the loop is ran another last time so we can do a final check/save before stopping the thre… | 9628759 |
| Release | A5200 core added A new core has been added for RetroArch Steam. You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. There are now 53 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam. | — |
| Release | A800 core added A new core has been added for RetroArch Steam. You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about these cores, you can go to our Documentation Center site. Documentation for the A800 core can be found here . There are now 51 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam. | — |
| Release | BlueMSX and WASM-4 cores added 2 new cores have been added for RetroArch Steam. WASM-4 is a low-level fantasy game console for building small games with WebAssembly. Game cartridges (ROMs) are small, self-contained .wasm files that can be built with any programming language that compiles to WebAssembly. You can download these cores either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading them for… | — |
| Release | Gearboy, Gearsystem, TIC-80 and Handy cores added! 4 new cores have been added for RetroArch Steam. You can download these cores either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading them for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about these cores, you can go to our Documentation Center site. Documentation for the Gearboy core can be found here . Documentation for the Gearsystem core can be found here . Do… | — |
| Release | FreeIntv, Gambatte and CrocoDS cores added! Three new cores have been added for RetroArch Steam. You can download these cores either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading them for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about these cores, you can go to our Documentation Center site. Documentation for the Gambatte core can be found here . Documentation for the FreeIntv core can be found here .… | — |
| Release | FreeChaF core for RetroArch Steam added! A new core has been added for RetroArch Steam - FreeChaF. You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about this core, you can refer to more information on our Documentation Center site. There are now 41 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam. | — |
| Release | Beetle Saturn and FUSE cores added! Two new cores have been added for RetroArch Steam - Beetle Saturn and FUSE. You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about these two cores, you can refer to more information on our Documentation Center site. There are now 40 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam. | — |