Retroarch Dolphin core

[Wayne100]

Hi all, has anybody had any experiance with the new(ish) Dolphin Retroarch core? Just trying to setup a few Gamecube games, but all I seem to get is a blank screen, with the game music playing?  Wanted to really use the Retroarch core if possible, instead of running Dolphin as an emulator.

[Lordmonkus]

The Retroarch core for Dolphin is still extremely early in development and not usable yet. As for when it will become usable and to what level is any ones guess but my money won't be on it being close to the stand alone anytime soon. Who knows though, maybe the Retroarch devs will surprise me and make it really awesome quickly.

[Wayne100]

That's a shame - really wanted to try and keep as many platforms as possible with Retroarch.

[Lordmonkus]

Give it time.

[Wayne100]

Yeah, there's no rush to be honest. Will install the Dolphin emulator later and have a play around with that, might even put a few Wii in there as well.

[YakuzaLord]

Set video driver to vulkan! Thats as far as I got :}

[Enverex]

Just a heads up, it's not a real core, it's just a wrapper for Dolphin so I'd very much advise against trying to get it to work right now as there really isn't much point.

[scorpiove]

On 5/22/2017 at 8:07 AM, Enverex said:

Just a heads up, it's not a real core, it's just a wrapper for Dolphin so I'd very much advise against trying to get it to work right now as there really isn't much point.

Just here to clear of the misinformation. You are probably thinking of the "Libretro-Dolphin-launcher". But Dolphin has actually been ported over and is a real core.

Links for reference.

Libretro-Retro-launcher (Wrapper)

People in the libretro forum talking about compiling the newish Dolphin core.

Edited May 26, 2017 by scorpiove

[Enverex]

Oh, that's new. I didn't realise they'd reached that point yet. Cool.

[YakuzaLord]

Heres a small video I made of it working :}

 

Cheers

 

As for OP youre better off still using Dolphin the meulate GC/Wii games for now until the core in RetroArch is more stable.

Edited May 26, 2017 by YakuzaLord
added; typo

[orac31]

I di try it just out of interest said I had fonts missing 

 

but I give it time hopefully it will be god

[zetec-s-joe]

How did you get it to work? The black screen has been put into place by the team just while they are testing, hit the windows key and you will see gameplay working

[MucLuto]

Hi,

Used to have this trouble of blank screen while launching dolphin on retroarch. Choosing the following settings in the retroarch menu fixed it for me :

Settings -> User Interface -> Show advanced settings -> "on"

Settings -> Core -> Enable Hardware Shared Context -> "on"

Works fine on Retroarch 1.5 and 1.6

Cheers

Edited June 12, 2017 by MucLuto
Wrong setting

[zetec-s-joe]

Thanks, saw this on ETA's video, got it working great

[Wayne100]

Hmmm, think I will give this another go later - getting bored of going through PS2 ISO's now anyway.