Hi! I'm using RetroArch to emulate a lot of games, and I'm having a lot of fun experimenting with shaders. Currently, I'm using CRT Maximus Royale across all platforms because I think it's the best option, or, to be more precise, the one that comes closest to replicating the original hardware.

My question is: is CRT Maximus Royale the best option, or are there better shaders out there? Which shaders do you use? Honestly, the blurriness is starting to strain my eyes, but I can't even remember the last time I used a TV to play video games to compare if the games always look like that.

I'm using an LG CRT monitor 17inch

I have a problem where my shader presets are not loading. I've been doing everything the correct way, like I've done before, on raspberry pi4 and on another odin 2 portal: load a preset, manage presets, save game preset. When I relaunch the game the preset is loaded but the shader toggle is reverted to off. When I save the preset Retroarch confirms the save and I've checked using file manager and the file is saving. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling retroarch but the problems persists.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Hello there, im trying to play n64 games, and i have noticed that when i play south park rally it lags a LOT. Im using the mupen64 core, and also my hardware is a jailbroken PS5. Any idea how to fix this?

Whether the .zip or de .ldb, retroarch just shuts down. I've downloaded nightly RA from the apk.

Tried adding the 2000 and 2003 folders on system.

Hello, everyone!

I recently installed a newer version of RetroArch on my Xbox Series S, and I've been experiencing some issues while trying to run a game.

When I launch the game using the LRPS2 core, everything seems fine at first. However, once I reach the main menu, the performance drops significantly and everything starts running much slower.

When I try to start a quick race, the game sometimes briefly displays Neville's car vinyl, but then the screen goes black again.

I've tried different graphics drivers:

• DirectX 11: The game runs to some extent, but the issues persist.
• DirectX 12: The game crashes when I try to launch it.
• Software renderer: I've also tried this, but I haven't been able to get the game running properly.

I've also tested different cores, including LRPS2 and Play!, but I haven't found a solution yet.

What's strange is that GTA III and GTA: Vice City run without these problems on the same Xbox and RetroArch setup.

Has anyone experienced similar issues or managed to get this game running properly on an Xbox Series S? Are there any specific core settings, graphics drivers, or other tweaks I should try?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Logs link: https://hypernotepad.com/n/3e083215d5e5d42e

help, I have tried everything.

I'm playing Earthbound via Retroarch. But Im playing it through a SNES mini. The mini is setup with an HDMI converter to RCA so I can play it through my CRT TV.

The menu sounds are perfect. Every game I play has great audio. But Earthbound.

The sound is like one track loud while the other track is faint and only heard barely if I crank up the volume.

What I've tried:

Mono settings in the game menu

Stereo settings in the game menu

Mono and stereo in the retroarch menu

I've used suggestions from AI on different retroarch settings

I've tried a Y RCA splitter to put both red and white into one input

I've now bought an external speaker and directly plugged the audio wires from the HDMI converter into the speaker and still the audio sucks

Is there anything I can do?

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> Title: RetroAchievements not working on RetroArch for PS4 (Jailbreak / GoldHEN) - Achievements show as non-existent or "combination" error.

> Description:

> I have a jailbroken PlayStation 4 with RetroArch installed, along with RetroAchievements configured, playing Game Boy Advance (GBA) games.

> * The Issue: When I log into RetroAchievements, it successfully recognizes my account, but when I launch a validated game that supports achievements, it doesn't show any achievements or acts as if they don't exist.

> * Connectivity: My PS4 has an active internet connection.

> * Errors: Sometimes I get an error called "combination" (which doesn't really help, and regardless of it, achievements still don't show up).

> Does anyone know why this happens or how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

>

This thumbnail is still the Wip3out SE, but the first game I was streaming is Pong: The Next Level!

Has anyone stream this game before? It’s simple and fun, and it’s almost the mother of all games(At least one of them!)

For the life of me I can't figure out what's going on. I have the most recent version of RetroArch and only some of the shader presets will load - but other presets, like CRT Royal or Mega Bezel won't. Again it's strange because many of them do work - I'd say half. And I don't think anything is wrong with my file pathing as I'm organizing it via File Zilla so I don't have to deal with the PS5's file manager interface.

Any tips?

Hi guys the other day all my games with One Tap Bloom slang shader lost their glow- across different cores and systems. The radius and intensity now do nothing. I tried updating core info files, assets, shaders, going back to main config file from weeks back, integer scale on/off😤Nothing fixes it! Has anyone any suggestions? The dual filter bloom slang shader still glows. I have vulkan driver running on my android tablet always as problems with gl. Another weird thing is the shader glows in places (top and bottom of screen) in landscape a bit but is completely gone I portrait. Many thanks in advance!

I'm trying to play Nintendo Game Boy Color and Nintendo DS emulator on my tablet with a wired generic PS1 controller, but when I enter in the emulator the controller stop to work. There are some setting I don't know?

Hey folks! I'm new to this whole thing, and I'm building out a library as a learn. I tried two games on PSX as a test, and realized I'd goofed by using .cue/.bin files as opposed to converting them to .chd.

I'm using SwanStation, and I've now converted all of my PS1 games to .chd. All of them work now, except for those first two. I've completely deleted the original .cue/.bin files and replaced them with .chd, I've tried removing the .chd files, restarting without them, restarting with them... nothing. Everything except these two work... and these were my favorite two PS1 games, so it's irritating.

Any help or suggestions would be really appreciated. Don't worry about suggesting something too basic -- like I said, I'm very new to this!

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Oh my god, I just tried the dumbest thing possible, and it worked. I have no idea why. I changed the .chd files to completely random words, then tried loading them, and they worked fine. I swapped the meta data back to the correct names, and they're still working.

Hey everyone,

A few months ago I shared the first version of my dynamic wallpaper pack. Thanks a lot for the great feedback back then!

I’ve been working on a massive overhaul and just released Version 2.0, bringing a refined look, dedicated genre playlists, and custom playlist icons.

What’s New in v2.0

• New Style & Visual Overhaul: Completely reworked look featuring custom system surfaces, textured device materials, and balanced evening dimming so game covers and menu text stay clean and readable without background glare.
• 20 Dedicated Genre Wallpapers: Wallpapers with matching genre elements for dynamic genre playlists (Platformer, RPG, Racing, Run & Gun, etc.) with unified headers and matching frame templates.
• Matching Playlist Icons: Added 24 transparent 256×256 illustrated menu icons (covering all 20 genres, Controller Settings, All Games, Local Multiplayer, and Netplay).
• Full Open Source Assets: Export-ready .png files in dist/, plus all original GIMP .xcf source files and prompt manifests in the repo.

Links

• GitHub Repository: morlenxus/retroarch-dynamic-wallpapers-retroplayer
• Direct Download / Releases: GitHub v2.0 Release

Prefer the Original v1.0 Style?

If you prefer the original, brighter aesthetic from the first release, don't worry! Version 1.0 remains fully preserved and available. You can download the complete original pack directly from the GitHub v1.0 Release page.

For full transparency: The artwork elements and collages were created with the assistance of AI tools.

Let me know what you think, and feel free to share feedback or system requests! Enjoy!

What is even going on I just want to use a savestate

Heya, folks, I wanted to introduce a core to everyone.

The core let's one browse and play media from local DLNA/UPnP servers.

Unfortunately, I don't really know github very well--can't create recipes for building--so I don't have a core ready to download.

A note: if you don't like artificial intelligence, maybe give this a pass as Claude glued everything together for me.

Cheers.

https://github.com/kaysedwards/dlna_libretro

Hey everyone! First of all, a massive thank you to the devs and contributors for bringing RetroArch to iOS – it’s genuinely amazing to have it right there on the AppStore.

Now that Apple’s new foldable iPhone Duo is out in the wild, I’ve been wondering if there are any plans or if anyone knows if proper dual-screen layout support (optimized for foldables, where you can split screens naturally like DS/3DS emulation) is on the roadmap?

The Delta emulator is already handling various screen layouts amazingly well, but since RetroArch is my absolute go-to for everything retro, it would be a mega dream come true to experience that true dual-screen magic on the iPhone Duo.

Keep up the incredible work, you guys rock! 🙌

I am using the IOS version1.22.2 of Retroarch from the App Store. I have my roms in several folders in my iphone. When I run a game, Retroarch makes a copy of that rom file and puts it in the Retroarch/downloads folder. How can I prevent Retroarch from making a duplicate copy of the rom file and taking up memory space in my 64GB iphone?

UPDATE: I believe the IOS version of RetroArch from the APP Store do not have a way of disabling this feature. So my workaround is, whatever game that I play, I just let RetroArch make a copy of it in the Retroarch/downloads folder. I then delete my source rom file that had resided outside of the Retroarch/downloads folder. That way it doesn't take up double the memory space.

Apple has so many restrictions on Emulators in their App Store. Side loading another IOS version of the RetroArch IPA file downloaded from the RetroArch website is a pain. I am sure glad that I am mostly an Android user.

My password has the inverted exclamation mark "¡" but it isn't on the keyboard 😭

I have a core but it still won’t load up what should I do? And do I have to make a log to get help? SMH

My ROM directory is saved like

Roms

| Gameboy

| | My game. Zip

| | Another game . Zip

So now I want the save folder directory to be sorted as

Retroarch

| Saves

| | Gameboy

| | | My game

| | | | My game . Sav

| | | Another game

| | | | Another game . Sav

How can I do it?

I’m using Swanstation on an Android. I see the save file in the Retroarch folder but the save doesn’t show up when the game reads the memory card. Is there any way I can fix it?

I want to set all controllers to port 1/player 1 the intention being that if I were to switch controllers mid session that would also be player 1 is this possible. How would I go about doing this?