Posts made by BlockABoots

@dragu said in Will the next update include?.....:

@blockaboots said in Will the next update include?.....:

Be able to download ES themes

This is also now already possible.

Its only a select few though not many

@voljega

@voljega said in how to add new core in recabox?:

@blockaboots said in how to add new core in recabox?:

Hopefully the devs can add it to the UI in the next update to have a 'Update RetroArch' and also a 'Download Retroarch Cores' options

It clearly not will be added, it is not in the philosophy of Recalbox, which is to the most plug and play, safe and easy to use.
Thus adding a core on Recalbox is not just downloading, it requires writing configuration to handle all kind of controllers and screens to be handled automatically, plug n play, without any configuration to be done by the user.

If you want something configurable as much as you want, Retropie already does that.

Yet Recalbox allows you to select an emulator to use!!

If the core is already usable in Recalbox then how would adding a 'update core option' be unreasonable as everything would be setup for that core already?

Or failing that have an 'advanced user' mode in the options were enabling this would allow such features?

@gkralicek2 said in how to add new core in recabox?:

@voljega When opening retroarch and selecting update core, it displays the content of https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/armhf/latest/
A core can then be selected and downloaded but it's stored within retroarch folders and needs to be moved manually to the proper recalbox core folder afterwards.
I did it to update my mame2003 core with the latest version from 30/03 which eventually solved the annoying sound problem in mortal kombat 1 (the voice constantly shouting "finish him" in the character selection screen instead of pronouncing the character's name)

Thats good to know, is it possibel to also update the actual RetroArch progmram to 1.7.1?.

Hopefully the devs can add it to the UI in the next update to have a 'Update RetroArch' and also a 'Download Retroarch Cores' options

This latest update to Recalbox is a massive improvement and has a lot of nice new feature but there are still some features missing.

Will the next via the UI allow you to update....

Update Retroarch
Allow you to add your own cores for RetroArch
Update the cores for RetroArch
Update Overlays and Shaders for Retroarch
Be able to download ES themes

These are currently features that Retropie allows you to do and i think its the only thing stopping Retropie being better than Recalbox. If recal box allowed you to configure Retroarch more (like retropie does) then it would be the go to image to use for RPi devices!

thanks

@voljega I though you can select what core to run for each emulator in the advanced emulator settings??

So say for example i load a MegaDrive game then go into RetroArch settings and update the Genesis GX Plus core it wont actually run the updated version on restart?

@snwfrd38 You'd still be looking at around £300 for a system though (APU, Memory, Harddrive, Mobo, PSU and Case) and then an OS...unless Recalbox do a OS image for x86/64?

So compare that to £70 for a XU4 its no contest really yes games will run better on the Ryzen but you have to pay for that....maybe a older cheaper Intel NUC unit would be the best of both worlds?

@juliano-gonçalves-lima said in how to add new core in recabox?:

redream_libretro

Can you not just load a libretro core then once loaded go into the libretro core settings (usually your 'shortcut/function button' and 'Button B') then go to 'updater' then 'core' and download the redream_libretro from there?

@substring Yes i know about the 'Run ahead to reduce latency' option and wasn't what i was referring to as i didn't even think it would be included in a RPi build due to it being so demand. What i was referring to however was the work which has been done on the backend since version 1.6.9 to lower input latency with no performance cost.

I was under the impression that the improvements didnt add any cost to cpu cycles at all??, now if you increased the the latency frames a large amount then yes this would but at there default settings i didnt think there was anymore load on the cpu. If this is the case maybe just a feature for the RPi3 +B

Will the dev team being adding support for the Official Hori PS4 Wireless pad at all?.....

https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/12/16878026/hori-onyx-ps4-controller-xbox-layout

and also the newer Xbox One pads that have built in bluetooth?

@gaetan Well they have reduced latency in the pad a great deal since ver 1.6.9 and also the ability to overclock cores such as the snes to remove slowdown found in a lot of games among other things

Anh ok thanks. Is it easy enough to update to 1.71 for the time being?

What is the best way to update Retroarch to the latest version, i would have though updating Recalbox to the latest version would of done it but the version of RetroArch is 1.6.9.

@acris said in FTP'ing files, how to remove read-only permissions?:

Hello

https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Make-a-partition-writable-(EN)

mount -o remount,rw /

Thank you, that worked

Im trying to use FileZilla to transfer some shaders over to the shader folder, 'shader directory /recalbox/share_init/shaders' but when i try and copy the files i get an error message ....

/recalbox/share_init/shaders/zfast_crt_standard.glslp: open for write: received failure with description 'Read-only file system Error: File transfer failed

how to i remove the read-only file permission?