

I can't seem to find closed issues on his tracker. MaskofDestiny, developer of BlastEm (GEN). That's what the current BSNES core with no year in the title is. In the last 2 years they decided to make a new libretro core of BSNES themselves, putting aside old grudges with the libretro team lead. I don't think they left any repos open with any old issues I made. This was when the core was relatively new, but he even implemented core option catagories a few months ago after I requested it.īarbudreadmon and dink, developers of FinalBurnNeo: īyuu/Near, developer of BSNES. I made quite a few issue reports about small things the libretro core could use and he was super nice and quick about implementing them. Unfortunately the issues page is gone from the repo. Sour, developer of Mesen (NES) and Mesen-S (SNES): This is just me as a user asking for features or bugfixes. I just want to say I've had lots of good interactions with upstream developers over the years regarding their libretro ports.

Which is why I mentioned upthread that I would love if a project stepped in to take the crown away from RA and give the developers their proper credit and everything they aren't getting now. I think these conversations about the shittiness of the RA developer tend to overreach into pretending like Retroarch itself does not offer anything of value, which is clearly not the case because so many people have found a reason to use it. I've been using emulators since SNES96 and going from individual emulator to individual emulator and navigating each developer's vastly different ideas of interface design or hoping they'd support some particular feature I like from another emulator is something I always disliked, and was glad to finally be free of. Especially shaders (CRT Royale and tv-out-tweaks very specifically). When I have to venture outside of the Retroarch ecosystem for an emulator that either doesn't have a RA core or whose RA core is very outdated, I always miss these things.

Centralized configuration that transfers from core to core where it makes sense, full controller operability, support for the shaders I like, support for runahead, gsync, and black frame insertion, full audio/video sync, and things like this. I'm totally on board with abandoning it in favor of something that gives me the same things.

I don't love Retroarch, but I love what it gives me.
