Retroarch is a piece of shit

Nah you're just a retard.

Wew

Oh god is this going to be the new mlp?

Both of these.

The idea that poor user interfaces are, in themselves, proof of patrician genius is sadly prevalent in tech.

its more of a trait of a programmer with zero foresight or consciousness of the fact they are supposed to make a product/program/gimmick that more than 1 person can use.

OP may be stupid, but I must confirm that sometimes things break in RetroArch. You wind up going to an older or different core or a different version of RetroArch altogether.

It's kinda like in Android when an app updates and suddenly stops working properly.

That is 100% user error.

this

Play the original emulator instead of a bad front end with the worst interface known to man.

I thought this thread was going to be shitting on retroarch for being a glorified file manager, or being poorly coded or some shit.

But your gripe is that it's hard to use? You don't even need to set keybinds, you literally just plug in the controller and play how fucking retarded are you that you can't even figure out retroarch.

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retroarch is great but it also fucking sucks and is cancer

can't properly play smash 64 because you cannot fucking change the control scheme, only define which buttons on your gamepad correspond to that control scheme. You also can't leave some controls blank, and you also can't define additional controls such as macros or simply two buttons on your gamepad doing the same function/button for convenience

You just don't know how to use it

Furfag.

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no you are fucking retarded I've already looked up how to change it online and the only solution are messing with core configuration and something else that only partially works (assigning two functions to the same button, not sure exactly what it was, had to do with c-stick modifier and jumping in smash) where you immediately had to let go of the button to attack while in the air

Thanks for your input.

also I've confused some terms a bit. To clarify I know that you can map two functions (from the emulator core control scheme) to the same retropad (which is the "virtual" retroarch gamepad used for all cores) button, but since the retropad itself only allows for specific buttons and isn't customizable, that means your actual gamepad may be left with unused buttons that you can't use, so on your actual gamepad you can't have two buttons pressing the same button on the retropad

Kill Linuxfags

No nigger. Retroarch is broken.

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Depends on the gamepad you're using, but yes, you can map multiple buttons to the same input.

Like clockwork.

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Kill Windowsfags, Linuxfags, and everyone who doesn't worship at the altar of TempleOS.

:^)

It's been a long time but I remember not being able to bind both top and right face buttons, and left and right analog to the left and right c-buttons. It must have been updated since then if it's possible now.

Retroarch has UI which is on dwarf fortress tier, otherwise it works fine.

*left and botton for right analog to left and bottom c-buttons
fuck me

Retroarch is a fucking meme that only casual faggots need. Is it really that fucking hard to just use individual emulators that do the following perfectly:
It's just window dressing for faggots.

the problem is some emulator "cores" that are worth using are exclusive to this retroarch interface, so it can be considered a standalone emulator too when it's used for specific systems and games

You are so fucking stupid

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You not being able to use it has nothing to do with it's level of funtionality, so in short you're a fucking retard.

Retroarch cores are as accurate as the software they are based on
controls because retroarch's auto binds are shit
Oh no I have to rebind the controls?!
Most cores have core specific resolution settings as preset for each one and changing the resolution takes like two seconds plus restarting the emulator
Scanning is entirely optional, besides you don't seem to be aware of most of the capabilities of Retroarch nor the fact that it can be ported to nearly everything

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That doesn't even make sense considering its free and cross platform. That comic implies that he can't get retroarch. Its possible to think something is shit without it being an envy thing. Are you actually retarded?

Just stick to Zsnes or PJ64 if you can't understand how to use a tool clearly aimed at power users.

I think you may have autism, friend.

The analogy works just fine, are you?

You actually wrote "power user" and "tool" unironically. Your autism is showing friend. Go jerk off to your config files.

Such as?
Retroarch is only there to load cores and play cores and it does it just fine for me.

If you're too much of a retard just stick with Bizhawk, it does the same thing as RA within the comfort of a WIMP GUI, which is perfectly fine for people such as you.

you're special kind of brain damaged eh?

Read the god damned thread.

top kek

Oh noes, you called me autistic. How will I ever recover?

Not an argument.

All I'm seeing is retard who shouldn't even be trusted with a computer.

Theres plenty of very valid criticism you can level at RA and libretro in general, your incompetence and retardation isn't one of them.

are you the same guy who has been shitting up the emulation thread?

How is Retroarch not a power user tool? And no, I am not some other guy you ran across.

$100 says this is mednasperg.

By thinking you're superior by using a piece of shit.

Not an argument.

Great. When you actually reply to my post that pointed to my critique I'll be sure to read it. Instead you won't read the whole thread.

its made for bumbling retards as shown by its console tier UI

typical retrofag persecution complex. Nobody is going to donate to your kike master's patreon here.

Your own incompetence doesn't make it shit.

I'm kinda interested to hear them. The only single problem I had with it, is when after some fan patches game's checksum got broken and it didn't load it properly, so I had to fix the damn thing.
But it's like because I was running shit not meant to be run in the first place.
What legit problems does it have?

All the cores which aren't maintained by emulator creators themselves are outdated in one way or another.
The guy who has been collecting the patreon money does literally nothing on it. He doesn't even pay other developers who maintain various cores. He just sits on his ass and cashes the checks while berating and repulsing other contributors because of how autistic he is.

They won't reply with anything.

There is a patreon for this shit? Wew.

yeah instead of configuring it once to have it work forever I prefer those clunky unportable emulators that were updated last time over 10 years ago

Reply to my post and why it is wrong.

Ad hom is all he has m8. Don't expect anything of substance.

I mean, it's the shit user interface and that IS retroarch. I mean, I'm too tech illiterate to know the exact difference between these libretro cores and retroarch and how it easy it would be to run them without it, but I'm told it's just a graphical user interface for using emulators.
And I'd guess one expects of a user interface to be "user-friendly". Look no further than this recent update on how laughable this psp system menu imitation is. Trivial things like this should've been essential, but they just forgot to include that. Also the steamlined video/graphical options and presets for all cores. Again I don't know if those are ingrained in the libretro cores or if these limitations are purely in retroarch, but there's barely any customizability, it's all just presets. Also look at this dolphin screenshot to see how any somewhat decent emulator allows you to set multiple buttons on your controller to a button on the emulated controller. Retroarch can't do that. Ironically RA also has a dolphin core, using RA you wouldn't be able to customize your controls like that

can't even map mouse inputs using RA.

No, not really. DOS is user interface too.

what are you smoking?

Ayy, I knew it was mednasperg. That posting style is as good as a fingerprint and RA discussion attracts you like a fly to shit.

Have you decided to sit down and play some videogames yet? It'd probably make you happier and calm you down a bit. I'm being completely honest right now.

what the fuck are you rambling about?
having your schizophrenic episode?

So if I look at your posts in order

So yeah user,, I already addressed your issue, stop being a retard and you won't have any problem, and if you for some reason can't there's always RA for retards (bizhawk) or standalones

Contrary to you I can make actual arguments.

Basically the main guy SP is all alone maintaining dozens of somewhat complex programs that are all made by different people so they tend to just get to be functional and never really updated past that, in some case it's not so bad (like bSNES where it's pretty much just the last sensible version with bugfixes backported) or get some work done on them, he does get some help now so the situation slightly improved until they got the brilliant idea to have a patreon goal to add more cores, any upstreamed core though runs pretty fucking great (all two of them for now, soon to be 3 with Redream, maybe 4 if hrydgard decide to not ditch SP after all the missed opportunity to make PPSSPP not a pain in the ass to port in RA)

There's also tons of effort that ends up being completely wasted for no good reason, they're at their 3rd fucking attempt at getting a new GUI up and running (ZARCH, minir and whatever the new one is), or good ideas that end up being wasted like the new vulkan renderer for N64 and PS1 that will never be finished because no one is better than the guy who made them to begin with.

SP in itself is one of the issue, guy literally cannot stop acting like an autistic retard and ends up burning bridges left and right, although he tends to behave recently since he's too busy dealing with the "loganmc10 being a bitch" fallout.

There's also tons of shit made to appease retards that should have never been integrated in the first place like the menubar and playlist, the first is just annoying and the later is literally just more annoying than setting up an external program

The documentation is way too fucking lacking for what you're dealing with in some advanced setups (especially when dealing with layered overrides + core and game specific config files), also SP likes to advertise RA as something more than an emulator player but he literally tells anyone trying to use RA to make an actual game to fuck off because the code is self documenting when in actuality unless you're a seasoned dev you're not gonna fucking understand any of thhis shit..

SP/Twinaphex literalltyy spends his life coding for RA;, pic related

You do know that the UI is swappable don't ya?

Holy shit man just shut up or say you don't know.

who are you trying to fool here?
Where is the PPSSPP core update? Desmume core update? Mednafen core update? Parallel update?
These aren't something new. He has been promising this shit for years now and made a big deal about updating PPSSPP months back which lead to fucking nothing. Instead we got a half baked Dolphin core which was outdated the day it was released.

Not on mobile devices or consoles where it manages to be even worse than it is on PC despite literally being a design lifted from consoles.

Well for one your first post answers your own question, if you can't get the program to run properly because you can't get the necessary files from some servers, it's the servers fault not the program.
As for it being non-functional, people wouldn't be using it on a daily basis if that was the case.

You don't get that number of commits by doing nothing, a good bit of it is buildfixing and tedious shit no one else wants to do and half of it might be refactoring and microoptimization of dubious usefulness though I'll give you that.

Next week™ In limbo, although this time hrydgard is involved directly and he seems willign to forget all the shit that has happened in the past and it's a patreon goal so if he doesn't hit it he can say goodbye to his patreonbux

It's updatede, they're not backporting the HW renderer ever and nothing worthwhile has happened on the standalone version in years anyways, better let that fucking thing die and look forward to an actually good emulator in the near future when Drastic gets a windows port and maybe gets open soruced too.

It is up to date, barring the texture cache fix for mednafen PSX

TinyTiger/themaister called it quits because he can't handle endusers being endusers and you can't exactly replace a guy like this in an instant considering he helped wrote the fucking vulkan spec to begin with and that renderer uses an approach never used in any emulator before that (compute shader based software rendering), maybe mudlord will get off his fat autistic ass and do it but I wouldn't count on that.

Lol nope. Retrofags are some of the most rabidly defensive people out there. They would donate more patreonbux out of spite than actually force him to get his shit together.

It doesn't have fixes which were implemented in mednafen two years back

Its not. The compatibility is way worse, so is the performance. Considering how SP wasted his time porting reicast which went fucking nowhere and the entire web usage infrastructure, the problem isn't the lack of time.

Dunno the PS4+HDTV / bounty system did put a dent in his patreonbux, but yeah I also forget he's got the retropie thing on lockdown so that's not going anywhere.

Main one being the texture cache which people don't seem to care about considering the bounty on it hasn't been claimed still after 3 month

It's desmume in interpreter + software renderer mode only so yeah performance is gonna be worse than with dynarec+OGL, as for compatibility I didn't have any problem (maybe you have a concrete example?) but I also don't use it that much since I have an android emulator and Drastic for DS in general (and yeah that runs better than Desmume both RA and standalone)

Well at the time nobody thought the guy behind reicast would pull a fast one on everyone and ask for 100k to continue working on it, still as bad as the reicast port is it's actually far better than standalone.

Well the guy spends 8hr sleeping, 8hr shitposting in IRC and 8hr doing menial coding tasks so yeah he could allow more time to coding but I doubt his mental health could take it.