The Libretro Team

RetroArch 1.8.5 released!

RetroArch 1.8.5 has just been released.

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Final Burn Neo Progress Report

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A lot happened since my last progress report,...

Obituary – Cuttlefish

Hi there community,

With great sorrow we announce that Emily (AKA cuttlefish), a member of the Libretro contributor community, has passed away. She was also known under other aliases such as meepingsnesroms. She was ...

Libretro Cores Progress Report - February 29, 2020

Our last core progress report was on February 5, 2020. Below we detail the most significant changes to all the Libretro co...

Libretro Cores Progress Report – February 29, 2020

Our last core progress report was on February 5, 2019. Below we detail the most significant changes to all the Libretro co...

ECWolf Wolfenstein 3D Libretro core WIP available today on Windows/Mac/Linux/Android!

 A new Libretro core is being made available for RetroArch and other Libretro frontends today! ECWolf is a Wolfenstein 3D source port game engine courtesy of phcoder that can run the following content:

• Wolfen...
  2020-02-25 09:02:33 +0000 UTC View Post

RetroArch – Ozone becomes the default menu UI (Plus touchscreen and scaling updates!)

We held a poll earlier this week on Twitter, asking our users whether they would like us to stay with XMB as the default UI, or switch to Ozone. The results were overwhelmingly in Ozone’s favor, so starting from today’s nightlies and the upcoming RetroArch 1.8.5, Ozone will now be the default...

Flycast Progress Report – Dreamcast Mipmap D-Adjust implemented!

One of the final pieces of the puzzle regarding Dreamcast mipmapping was finally solved! Dreamcast had a feature called “Mipmap D-Adjust” which in practice is nearly identical to mipmap LOD bias, with the only difference being that it works with a factor (* d-adjust) instead of a...

Libretro Cores Quick Look - Mupen64 Plus Next - 64 Disk Drive Support!

The 64 Disk Drive was supposed to be the N64's answer to the CD-ROM medium used by the N64's competitors, the PS1 and Saturn. However, despite it being a repeated talking point by Nintendo all the way back to 1996, it finally came out in 1999 with barely a whimper at which point few cared anymore...

Mupen64Plus Next 2.0 – 64DD Support, Angrylion and GlideN64 in one build, Parallel RSP support, and Android!

What a massive release we have for you today! M4xw has been really delivering the goods now and we’re pleased to release Mupen64plusNext 2.0 today. This release would not be as significant as it is today without the combined efforts of LuigiBlood and Themaister.

The latest version is now ...

Prboom – Working rewind and WIP Runahead support!

Prboom, the Doom 1/2 game engine core, has finally gained serialization support. In this video, you can see rewind being used, as well as experimental runahead support!

Runahead support is currently incomplete and you can see some of the status bar elements flashing, some of the screen upda...

Ozone or XMB as the default UI for RetroArch?

 Would you like #RetroArch to stick to the XMB as the default menu driver, or would you like Ozone to become the new default?

Cast your vote on 2020-02-16 16:43:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Flycast Progress Report – Mip-mapping properly implemented now on both Vulkan and OpenGL

Some significant improvements have been made to the Dreamcast emulator core Flycast by flyinghead that serve to increase the graphics accuracy.

For one, the OpenGL renderer has mip-mapping support now for the first time. Second, all texture mipmap levels are now uploaded to the GPU. The Vul...

PCSX ReARMed now has dynarec support across multiple platforms!

If you can recall, a few days ago, Beetle PSX gained a dynamic recompiler based on Lightrec/GNU Lightning. We are happy to inform you that the latest version of PCSX ReARMed now available on the buildbot also has Lightrec support enabled for x86 (32bit and 64bit) and Aarch64 (64bit ARM).  2020-02-10 17:43:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Libretro Cores Progress Report – February 5, 2020 (Big updates for N64, Dreamcast, PlayStation1, Saturn and 3DO emulator cores!)

Our last core progress report was on January 9, 2019. 2020-02-06 06:20:06 +0000 UTC View Post

4DO: Recent Changes and Future Plans

trapexit, lead author on the 4DO Libretro core project, talks about what is in store for 3DO emulation in 2020! Read our article here for more info.

Parallel N64 with Parallel RSP dynarec release – fast and accurate N64 emulation is now here!

This video took us two entire days to prepare. We hope you'll enjoy it!

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 2020-01-28 16:57:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Beetle PSX Dynarec Update – Switch alpha port plus runahead support – lower latency than original hardware!

As an addendum to our earlier Beetle PSX dynarec post, a lot has changed in a couple of days:

• Several important bugfixes have been pushed ...
  2020-01-28 02:19:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Parallel N64 with Parallel RSP dynarec release – fast and accurate N64 emulation is now here!

NOTE: A big YouTube video was scheduled to launch with this, however, it quickly expanded in scope beyond its original intent and as a result it’s still being prepared. So it’s go...