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angelsix

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Tried 5 Android tablets now, and testing Zelda games, 007 games etc... all just open a black screen.

Fresh installs of latest RetroArch and LaunchBox for Android, all cores downloaded. Games confirmed working on PC.

Tried every core, tried GL and Vulkan as rendering options. Tried opening direct in RetroArch. Nothing works.

Saw a post about saving configuration and editing video_shader = "nul" however there is no video_shader in the config, but what looks like a newer video_shader_enabled which is already false.

Tried adding video_shader = "nul" anyway and that does nothing either.

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On 12/20/2022 at 11:47 PM, angelsix said:

Tried 5 Android tablets now, and testing Zelda games, 007 games etc... all just open a black screen.

Fresh installs of latest RetroArch and LaunchBox for Android, all cores downloaded. Games confirmed working on PC.

Tried every core, tried GL and Vulkan as rendering options. Tried opening direct in RetroArch. Nothing works.

Saw a post about saving configuration and editing video_shader = "nul" however there is no video_shader in the config, but what looks like a newer video_shader_enabled which is already false.

Tried adding video_shader = "nul" anyway and that does nothing either.

Sorry for the late reply here. We'll need to know details on the devices you're testing with in order to help (make and model). It is best to use the sideloaded version of RetroArch, because Google has severely crippled the versions from the Play Store, so that may be related to your issues.

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Had the same issue on android, my fix was using mupen64plus_next_gles3_libretro_android.so core for the emulator.  Then inside the Retroarch system folder you need to create the Directory Mupen64Plus if it is not there already and inside that folder you need to add the file mupen64plus.ini which could be downloaded from here https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-core/blob/master/data/mupen64plus.ini

The .ini file is what mupen64 needs to get the games going since it is like a game database for the core. Once that file is in with the gles3 core it will work on whatever android device. 

 

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