Retroarch Core updater is not working due to Hackers

[Drodrik]

Hi if you're having issues with the core updating inside retroarch is due to this

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/category/blog/

[Jason Carr]

That is very disappointing and sad news. I'm sure everything will be back up and running soon though.

The Android news is also unfortunate, but we saw it coming. It's one of the reasons why we abandoned our own Android app.

[Jacksons20]

On 8/18/2020 at 4:31 AM, Drodrick said:

Hi if you're having issues with the core updating inside retroarch is due to this

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/category/blog/

that would make so much more sense, I thought that they just deleted most of the cores.

[Drodrik]

On 8/18/2020 at 10:00 AM, Jason Carr said:

That is very disappointing and sad news. I'm sure everything will be back up and running soon though.

The Android news is also unfortunate, but we saw it coming. It's one of the reasons why we abandoned our own Android app.

I found 2 solutions for android, the first one is by modifin gthe repository:

 

Open up your retroarch.cfg file with a text editor (the file is located at Android/data/com.retroarch/files)

Find the line that starts with core_updater_buildbot_cores_url and change the hostname from buildbot.libretro.com to farmerbb.duckdns.org

Open up RetroArch and you should be able to download cores like normal

 

 

the second one is by downloading manually like in this video;

 

 

The fist method is just for andorid, the second one is for all platforms

 

 

 

 

Edited August 29, 2020 by Drodrick