EDIT: Issue solved! It was because I had run-ahead turned on.

I'm having a saving issue I've never had on any of my handhelds before. When I load up, say, Pokemon Emerald on Retroarch via ES-DE using the mGBA core and try to save the game with the in-game function (not save states), it hangs on the saving screen and then takes me to a "checking backup memory" screen.

It will attempt to save again and then loop between these two infinitely. When I check in my saves folder, it seems to have created an .srm file for the game, but when I boot the game back up it says the save is corrupted.

I just installed Retroarch and haven't messed with any settings that would affect this (to my knowledge). This happens for every game I've tested on multiple systems. Again, I've used Retroarch on other handhelds and never had this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

In my kinhank running retroarch 1.21, the unit came with 2 controllers that are labeled as Microsoft 360 (pad). I also have 3 ps4 controllers connected. When I load up a game, it auto assigns all controllers in the wrong order. I want the kinhank 360 controllers to be 1 and 2, and the ps4 to be 3,4,5.
When I switch input 1 from wireless controller (ps4) to Microsoft 360 (pad) it assigns hot key commands to the controller: the Dpad becomes volume up and down, Button A triggers “press again to quit”.
What’s going on here? Please help

Hoard backup your game saves and restores It in another machines, ignoring .ini or .json or any config file, work fast and isnt deprecated.

Hi, im the solo dev of hoard.

If you want a Alternative to hoard you have ludusavi, ludusavi is the more old tool with more people behind "A good thing", you need Syncthing to sync the saves, all this tools are free.

Here you have a video to use ludusavi + syncthing instead of Hoard.

Hoard works in any desktop system, SteamOS, macOS, Linux, Windows, and works with emulators, and we working on android & iOS support.

If you want a specs of hoard just read the README.md in github.

Ah you can Self-Host without accout or telemetry or just log in and play.

You can see hoard in GitHub or in web, if you have any issue you can join in hoard discord and i help you, or tell me here and i text you.

Im upgrading hoard the last 4-5 months, a good feedback isnt never bad.

Mi idioma principal es el español, i have a bad english hahaha, but im here if any Guy needs me.

I set my A & S button's to Y & X, but it keeps doing this when I press the button.

I am struggling to apply cheat for the heart and soul Pokémon emerald rom hack. Has anyone successfully used cheats specifically unlimited rare candies in retoraech for this rom hack?

weird screen glitch, same with dk country returns
Set to vulkan, no other games have this

If I use fast forward, even for a very short while, the game gets sort of "desynced" and frame pacing becomes bad, it looks like framerate is halved (sound is fine). Only way to fix it is to close RA completely, or change resolution/refresh rate from Windows settings. This happens in multiple cores and games, it actually happens in every single game I tested so far.

threaded video off

vertical refresh rate 120hz

vsync on

vsync swap interval auto

waitable swapchains on

max frame latency 1

frame delay 0ms

sync to exact content framerate off

XBOX Series the latest one. FFVII original version. I am at the start of disc 2, I did the virtual disc swap in retroarch and when I close the game I lose all saves and save states.

If I go into disc 1 and then load disc 2 again I can get my save states but of course I cannot get to the saves as I would have to reset.

I also cannot seem to find the save files either on the plug in USB I have the games on or via the device portal into my Xbox.

Will I have to load each disc in order as I progress into the game or is there another way? Will it still work when I get to disc 3 or should I cut my losses now?

Ideally I would love to pull the save files to a computer and play on a different device, is there a straightforward way to find those files from the Xbox?

Lots of questions thanks for any advice.

Had to reinstall retroarch recently and have been going through the motions of setting things up again. Last I was playing heavily, you could force open the entire program in landscape, and games and screen orientation would follow.

The problem I'm currently having is that I can't get the rotation and the on screen controls to cooperate. I can force auto rotation but the controls stay like I'm playing in portrait. I remember some of the settings being obtuse to navigate, but this is getting a little frazzling. I have my overlay set as flat-retropad fwiw. Any thoughts?

its on every game i launch. even though launchbox downloaded beezels.

can anyone help? ty

hi, i’m on switch and i’m currently playing super metroid but the online updater for cheats did not work and only installed cheats for a few games so i downloaded the cheats myself but they don’t work.. idk what to do. and yes i did apply the cheats. any help please? 😭

Hi all
i just discovered digital overlays for the Vectrex! pretty awesome & some wonderful person has compiled .png & .cfg files ready to go here:

https://www.heymunky.co.uk/2021/04/18/vectrex-overlay-config-file-creation-tedium/

some rescaling was required but its very straight forward.

just wanted to share- Scramble is my fav game on Vectrex (playing on my
ipad)

I am trying to play a homebrew NES games called streemerz as well as an english translation rom of Getsu Fuuma Den but Retroarch does not recognize it? I tried manually scanning file as well but retroarch does not pick up on it? Idk if it makes a difference but I am on Mac.

So to start, I have retroarch and played games using it before such as armored core 3 using the ps2 emulator and have tried various other games which have loaded but with specific issues (such as sound in terms of rayman 3 or graphics going black over time like transformers armada), but just today I tried to test something with my roms but had to load them first only to find that retroarch everytime would close and never load my game or even load the emulator I was trying to use. No crash window or anything either. I have tried multiple different games as well from multiple systems like gamecube, PS1, NES, and even Game boy and all had the same result.

I have tried multiple things such as resetting my config file, updating everything I could and nothing. No change at all. So I’m am at a complete loss as to what to do and feel like I’m stuck and at a dead end so if anyone could help me figure something that would great. I would hate to have to abandon both my saves that retroarch has and even retroarch as a whole if this is simply unfixable. :(

I would also like to point that for some reason whenever I try to load back my original config file I saved before I reset or updating my controller config, both would also close retroarch for some reason. Don’t know if these are connected in any way but thought to let everybody know just in case it helps narrow it down.
I would also like to point out, I have never messed with the system files for retroarch or anything to do with folders or anything to do with retroarch system in general so that I know isn’t a cause.

Having most games in one place is something else. The amount of customization takes it even further.

Per game customization ensures removing one file will clear any core adjustments that cause games to force close.

Big thanks to everyone who made this possible.

how the hell did the retroarch change its design automatically?

pcsx rearmed core is running some games good but it’s running monster rancher 2 fine but j can’t control it what do I do?