Flyinghead has made another breakthrough! The arcade versions of Crazy Taxi, Zombie Revenge and Power Stone finally work on Reicast Libretro through RetroArch!
Vertically oriented games are now properly orientated.
Shootout Pool, Virtua/Dynamic Golf and Sega Marine Fishing ...
2018-10-18 00:06:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Flyinghead has succeeded in merging both renderers into one. As a result, we no longer require a separate core for Reicast OIT, and there will be only one Reicast core from now on, simply called Reicast Libretro.
Moving forward, we recommend that you remove the...
2018-10-06 00:50:41 +0000 UTC View Post
We now provide an...
RetroArch 1.7.5 has just been released! Grab it here.
This latest version has also been uploaded to the Google P...
2018-10-02 17:43:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to the hard work of the RetroNX devs (natinusala and m4xw), we now have an official RetroArch release for Switch!
You can download RetroArch for S...
2018-10-02 15:31:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to the great efforts of people like @natinusala, RetroNX/m4xw and others that we have collaborated with over ...
2018-09-28 15:12:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Keyboard support has now been implemented by flyinghead! In this video you see us testing the game Typing Of The Dead, which relies on a keyboard as its primary input device..
In order to play this game, make sure the keyboard is set to Port A of the Dreamcast. You can see us doing th...
2018-09-26 17:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostReicast Libretro has now gained modem and PPP support. It leverages dreamcastlive.net which makes it possible to still play these games while their original servers are down.
Grab the latest core from the buildbot in order to use this! It should work on Windows, Linux, Android, and potential...
2018-09-25 17:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostAllow me to expand on our collaboration with Bliss-Box for a moment here and why we feel the need to feature this product on a regular basis. Bliss-Box has bigger aspirations beyond just being a controller adapter system. While people using original controllers of old videogame systems is obviously ...
2018-09-19 14:21:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The Space Harrier game that can be played at the arcades in Shenmue 1 has now been finally emulated! It relies on the render to texture buffer feature, but it had one distinguishing feature - the texture extended past the VRAM, which requires us to clip it in order to get a valid output image....
2018-09-18 10:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post Since this subject just came up, I felt this is important to address in order to clear up any confusion//misinformation -
https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/issues/249#i...
2018-09-13 21:01:39 +0000 UTC View Post
There is only one day left before MEPs will vote on this!
Not only will it be a threat to open source software in general, it will have hugely detrimental effects for anything revolving around fair use. Every Youtuber/Twitch streamer WILL be negatively affected by this. Anybody in the news that ha...
2018-09-11 16:14:49 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut9d1JtgFvk
NOTE: This feature currently works properly in Reicast Libretro non-OIT. Reicast Libretro OIT will require some more wor...
2018-09-09 22:28:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Up until now, we had three versions of RetroArch for macOS/OSX users:
Download it here -
http://retroarch.com/index.php?page=platforms
Read the article here -
Raw framebuffer write support
Raw framebuffer writes have been implemented successfully now in Reicast Libretro (non-OIT) courtesy of flyinghead. This means that games which rely on this, such as Last Hope, now play properly! You will also see the produced by Sega enterprises scre...
2018-08-27 20:06:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Previously, it was only possible to download complete thumbnail packs per system/game category. The most obvious complaint about this for many people was that they only needed thumbnails for specific games they actually have in their collection.
Now with RetroArch 1.7.4, from inside the Desk...
2018-08-26 22:26:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Post written by RetroSven
RetroArch 1.7.4 will have built-in cheat code searching/creating. Additional cheat system updates:
Blog post written by Tatsuya79
A new option will be added to RetroArch 1.7.4 that will be especially advantageous to users of variable sync display technologies, such as G-Sync/FreeSync. We call it “Sync to Exact Content Framerate (G-Sync, FreeSync)” 2018-08-23 10:34:27 +0000 UTC View Post
RetroArch 1.7.4 will have extended Discord RPC integration! Previously before 1.7.4, RetroArch would act as any other game in Discord: as a simple “Playing” status that said you had RetroArch open. It wasn’t very descriptive or helpful other than displaying the name “...
2018-08-23 01:09:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Originally posted by cuttlefish:
Hello friends, the bounty is up to $145. This is great but we need your help, this is a huge undertaking. I am asking for any and all help to get this funded, so a dev will pick this up and make this feature a reality.
I do know this wont work the best, but i...
2018-08-21 18:33:19 +0000 UTC View Post
From at least February to mid August there was a bug on beetle-psx’s GL renderer that only affected users with AMD GPUs.
This bug was exposed when user ‘orbea’ corrected a mistake in glsm (an OpenGL state manager, made by libretro, used in beetle-psx), where it would it would hi...
2018-08-19 09:17:33 +0000 UTC View PostN64 is one of the last strongholds that needs some love and attention. Several individuals have already donated to the cause of updating ParaLLEl and / or mupen64plus cores to their latest revisions of GlideN64. As you may know, GlideN64 is almost complete and becoming renowned as the default plugin...
2018-08-15 19:51:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Reicast Libretro (the Dreamcast emulator core) is now working on Android and ARM-based systems! We also have a threaded renderer option (disabled by default) which should make things much faster at the expense of maybe some very tiny judder!
Oh, and Naomi arcade games works too!
In addition ...
2018-08-14 13:20:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Lakka 2.1.1 is out!
This new version of Lakka retro gaming operating system now supports the new Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and Amlogic S912 based boxes.
The images have been pushed to our servers about two months ago. But we didn’t want to release this new version publicly yet in order to tr...
2018-08-13 06:22:29 +0000 UTC View PostReicast Libretro now works on 32bit Windows and is available on our buildbot. You can grab it for your 32bit RetroArch version by going to Online Updater, Update Cores and selecting either Reicast or Reicast OIT.
It manages to be a little faster than the 64bit version as well! 264fps for 32b...
2018-08-10 11:10:39 +0000 UTC View Post
- Rich Discord Presence support!
You can enable or disable this feature by going to Settings -> Privacy and toggling the Discord setting.
For this to work, you n...
2018-08-08 08:31:41 +0000 UTC View PostThese are going to be small status updates so everybody knows what we are currently working on -
Daphne - This is an arcade LaserDisc emulator. Still a work in progress, and it was kindly donated by a contributor called Seismal. It still required heavy work though to make it confo...
2018-08-01 21:44:39 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a snippet of the article posted on our blog. Check out the full blog article here.
Reicast Libretro and Reicast OIT Libretro have recently been updated.
Here is a listing of all the changes/fixes/improvements: