Launchbox Not Recognizing Retroarch on Android

[TheThirstyMage]

Apologizes if this has been addressed already (couldn't find it in a search), but I just purchased Launchbox, installed it to my Android device, and when I try to play one of my games it says it does not detect Retroarch on my device even though it's already loaded.

Is there a setting where I can direct the app to my installation of Retroarch? Launchbox wants to download Retroarch and all the emulators again which I don't want to do.

Thanks,

[faeran]

36 minutes ago, TheThirstyMage said:

Apologizes if this has been addressed already (couldn't find it in a search), but I just purchased Launchbox, installed it to my Android device, and when I try to play one of my games it says it does not detect Retroarch on my device even though it's already loaded.

Is there a setting where I can direct the app to my installation of Retroarch? Launchbox wants to download Retroarch and all the emulators again which I don't want to do.

Thanks,

This would depend on which version of RetroArch you've installed on your device. LaunchBox has support for many different kinds of RetroArch, and it sounds like whatever version you have installed is not the version you are telling LaunchBox to launch into.

Go into your platform, click on the top-right menu and enter into Emulator Settings. Choose the version of RetroArch you believe you have installed, and click the verify button to make sure it's the correct one. Make sure you have the correct core selected that you've downloaded within RetroArch as well.

Now try and launch your game and see if it works.

 

There are some benefits for using the version of RetroArch that LaunchBox installs, like RetroArch updates and core downloads and such, but follow the steps above and it's easy enough to bypass all of it.

[TheThirstyMage]

All fixed!

On the new Pixel 9, you have to side load Retroarch 64 bit version so I needed to tell Launchbox app that was the case.

Thank you very much.