Retroarch?

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looks like i have to let RA download cores again because its not starting them now. but i don't see a mednafen for saturn. i only see Yabause. how can i use my mednafen that the nightly build downloaded?

[ckp]

hmm, with stable i'm just getting a black empty screen. i did update LB with the correct new path for RA. I must be missing something?

[Lordmonkus]

If there is no Mednafen Saturn core showing in the Core Updater  try Updating Core Info Files in the same menu as the Core Updater.

[ckp]

any idea on the black screen for my ps1 that was working with nightly build?

[Lordmonkus]

Did you put your bios files in the system folder ?

[ckp]

ahhhhh, i knew i missed something! thanks!

[Lordmonkus]

Lol.

You will get the hang of Retroarch quickly enough. I know when I first started using it I found it confusing but  I stuck with it and now I can have a fresh install up and running fully in about 5 minutes with all settings and everything.

[ckp]

ok so i'm back to the same exact issue where the xbox 360 stops working when setting dual analog. and even in stable i had to do a bind all to manually set it

[Lordmonkus]

I don't know what to tell you, my Xbox 360 controller always just works out of the box without anything needing to be done.

[ckp]

when you start a game does text flash with xinput for user 1 or xbox 360 specifically?

[Lordmonkus]

xinput

[ckp]

oh well, no analog for 

at least the LB automation works to exit.

now i need to see how to use keyboard keys as well to control games so I can also use my x-arcade. really hard to find this info online.

[ckp]

for ps1, do you know of any RA settings to improve the graphics? set some specific shader in there somewhere and/or other things.

[Lordmonkus]

For 3D polygon games there isn't a whole lot you can do but check over on the Retroarch forums in their shader sub forum and see what people use. I honestly have very few 3D Playstation games. For 2D sprite based games there is a lot of personal preference here and if you ask 5 different people what they like and you will probably get 5 different answers. I prefer a good CRT shader though like CRT-Hyllian-Halation and Royale-Kurozumi.

[ckp]

just added a second xbox 360 usb controller and dual analog doesn't work for user 2 either.  =/

[Lordmonkus]

Try going to the settings (cogwheel) > input > input user 1 binds > user1 bind all and go through binding everything as it asks. just remember that a,b,x and y are mimicking a snes pad so they are reversed of what an xbox controller is. But this should let you setup the analog stick. Also don't forget when you have the PSX core loaded to enable the dual analog controller in the quick menu controller setting.

If that doesn't work I really have no idea what to tell you.

[ckp]

unfortunately i did all that to no avail. i wonder if others have this issue. must be a setting somewhere causing this.

dumb question, how do you set one of the shaders you mentioned?

[Lordmonkus]

When you have a game loaded up, open the quick menu. Go to Shaders > Load Shader Preset > pick either the CG or the GLSL folder > from there look around in all the sub folders for a preset and just try different ones out. The files that end in P are presets. Then close out the quick menu and the shader should be loaded. Not all presets work though.

Shaders are whole big deep thing to get into. For more information on them do some reading over on the Retroarch forums and the shaders sub folder.

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all this time i was not going into the quick menu. found shaders now that i finally noticed that. i thought just F1 put you in the "quick" menu.

so i tried the dual analog again but in there. still no luck. ha

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found a setting 'internal GPU resolution' and set it to 4x but things were slow. then tried 2x and looks much better now.