Major Retroarch Update – Now with pretty XMB support.
At the rate that RetroArch nightlies get released it’s hard to write articles about every single change, every single day, even when there are none. With that said, it feels good to be able to write and remind people that this exists whenever a major update gets released, which is the case for today’s nightly.
Today’s Vita nightlies will have the XMB user interface. https://t.co/T4D3rUERhP
— libretro (@libretro) 23 de agosto de 2016
This update brings the user interface that PC/PS3/Android users are used to having on their versions of RetroArch to our Vita and from what I was able to test, it works pretty well. Honestly, I haven’t been playing much on emulators on my Vita, and the horrid rgui interface of RetroArch wasn’t helping much. This update brings the Vita version closer to it’s more developed brothers and it’s about time!
If you are thinking of updating to use the XMB interface for RetroArch, the steps are as follows:
- Go into Settings -> Driver
- Change the Menu Driver option to XMB
- Go back into the menu and into Online Updater
- Then choose Update Assets
After all of that is done, restart RetroArch and enjoy your shiny new user interface.
If it still doesn’t work after that, use MolecularShell to go to ux0:/data/retroarch and delete the retroarch.cfg file. It should work after you change the settings back to XMB.
Downloading RetroArch
To get the newest version of RetroArch simply go to their official Vita nightlies download list and get the 23rd August version or newer. Only these version are compatible with the XMB interface.
If you want, you can also head to Twitter to thanks the libretro guys for their hard work, or maybe shoot them a message in the gbatemp thread in which at least one of the developers seems to be active and gathering feedback.
Enjoy everyone!
can’t believe how fast they keep updating this.going an test it now thanks guys.
Sweet. All we need now is for all cores to be in the one RetroArch VPK!
THIS! I can’t get used to having 1000 bubbles for emulators when we can have a single app/bubble
except psvita only allows 100bubbles in the livearea. That being said, I challenge all devs/hackers to tweak psvita system to allow for more than 100 bubbles, or 1000 bubbles, so that the post of this guy will be validated. Thank you.
I’ve still been unable to get this to work. Attempting to load any actual games with any of the VPKs just unceremoniously dumps me back at the main RetroArch menu with no explanation as to why.
What Retroarch emu are you using? if its NeoGeo you should use MAME Roms, also many people dont recommend using some of the emulators provided with Retroarch, because of of them ont work properly
Oh i almost forgot, some emulators need a BIOS to be able to run Roms, just put the bios in the same folder as your Roms and you will be good to go!
Actually, i prefer rgui. Its a lot simpler to use than the fancier xmb
u just fail to install it and giving up already nab nab nab nab XD
Well I’m confuesed cause I can’t seem to get the GUI to load at the proper resolution on XMB?
great news
how just gotta wait for the core switch feature to have use RetroArch bubble haha
“At the rate that RetroArch nightlies get released[…]”
You mean nightly?
yea..what’s so strange about it?
Very nice, love the xmb menu 🙂
Great to see the fast development of the Vita scene. And thanks for your great news site. =D
primero jajaja..maybe
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it didnt work on me i follow these steps and i download the latest 8/24 🙁
forget it it works now =)
In the menu driver part, I only have null and rgui as options.
In this new version, does the keys X ans O work correctly. In the previous version, theses keys were mapped as japanese vitas (X to quit ans O to validate) ans there was no way to change that.
Found how to swap the buttons, just edit the retroarch.cfg file :
menu_ok_btn = “0”
menu_cancel_btn = “8”
>>At the rate that RetroArch nightlies get released it’s hard to write articles about every single change, every single day, even when there are none. With that said, it feels good to be able to write and remind people that this exists whenever a major update gets released, which is the case for today’s nightly.
I just hope you’ll write one when the emulation gets really good and comfortable to play. You know, full speed, no freezes, quick saves, etc.
I hope I’m not sounding ungrateful because I really don’t mean that – all the work going on around Vita hack is amazing. But I don’t want to experience games worse than what they are supposed to be, so for now I’m just reading about all the Vita scene without actually using anything.
What should be awesome is to have every core in one vpk<3
LOVE IT.
Thank you everyone for all of your hardwork!
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