Screenshot Directory: The folder that stores the screenshots captured in-game.Įxample: G:\HyperSpin\Emulators\RetroArch\screenshots Overlay Directory: The folder that stores the overlay image such as gamepad, borders, keyboards, etc.Įxample: G:\HyperSpin\Emulators\RetroArch\overlays Shader Directory: The folder that stores the shaders.Įxample: G:\HyperSpin\Emulators\RetroArch\shaders VideoFilter Directory: The folder that stores the video filters.Įxample: G:\HyperSpin\Emulators\RetroArch\filters\videoĪudioFilter Directory: The folder that stores the audio filters.Įxample: G:\HyperSpin\Emulators\RetroArch\filters\audio Leave it as default, which it stores in RetroArch root folder.Įxample: retroarch-content-history.txt (default) These are also extracted from the cores.7z and is the same folder as the core directory.Ĭontent History Path: The path to the file that stores for a list of games that we had launched in the past in RetroArch. Instead of storing it in RetroArch root folder we are going to store it here instead for better file structure management.Įxample: G:\HyperSpin\Emulators\RetroArch\configĬore Directory: The folder that stores RetroArch cores (.dlls), which is where we extract our cores.7z just now.Įxample: G:\HyperSpin\Emulators\RetroArch\coresĬore Info Directory: The folder that stores the core information (.info). The path to your ROMs.Īssets Directory: The path that stores assets.Įxample: G:\HyperSpin\Emulators\RetroArch\assetsĬonfig Directory: The path that stores RetroArch configuration files. This path will be automatically loaded when you are trying to load a game.Ĭontent Directory: Same as Browser Directory. Note that some of the options might not be available if you're using RetroArch stable build.īrowser Directory: The path to your ROMs such as G:\roms. The following settings are based on my RetroArch folder located in G:\HyperSpin\Emulators\RetroArch. We are going to configure some of the paths to point to the exact paths. To do that, go to Settings > Path Options and setup the following: The first thing we'll want to do is to configure some of the essential paths such as cores, roms, filters, shaders, etc. Navigating in RetroArch is relatively simple as shown in the welcoming screen. Retroarch.cfg, which is the configuration file that RetroArch will refer to whenever it is launch.Notice that it is only a single line for now, and it will then be populated as we configure some settings within RetroArch. RetroArch welcoming screen when launching for the first time. This is the file that RetroArch will refer to whenever you launch RetroArch. It will then automatically create a configuration file named retroarch.cfg under its RetroArch root folder. You'll see the following welcome screen when launching RetroArch for the first time. Next, extract the cores.7z into RetroArch\cores.īefore we start to integrate RetroArch into RocketLauncher, let's start by configuring some of its initial settings. Make sure you download both the RetroArch and cores, which is basically the various emulators that RetroArch supports.Įxtract RetroArch.7z to your Emulators folder in the HyperSpin, such as G:\HyperSpin\Emulators\RetroArch.Įxtracted files from RetroArch.7z archive. Nightly builds for RetroArch which features the most recent core configurations for the RetroArch emulator. If you're using the stable build instead, some of the configurations in the screenshots might differ, especially the configuration screen. For this tutorial I'm going to download the nightly build. The later support audio and video filters as well as more path configurations and possibly more ROMs compatibility especially for the MESS or MAME cores. I'll leave it to you whether to download the Stable build (v1.0) or the nightly builds (v1.1.x). For the uninitiated, RetroArch serves as the front-end for Libretro, which provides the cores for the emulators including BSNES, Ganbatte, and even MAME and MESS.įirst, download RetroArch builds here. Its main reason is its ability to support multiple mainstream emulators and provide a unified configuration across all its offered emulators (or cores). This is a full tutorial showing how to integrate RetroArch with HyperSpin and RocketLauncher.įoreword RetroArch has become the choice of emulators for many players now and is increasingly popular since its launch few years ago.
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