RetroArch 1.6.0

Description

RetroArch is a multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and *BSD. It is formerly known as SSNES.

Its design and background is quite different than most other emulators as RetroArch does not implement an emulation core itself. RetroArch talks to libretro, a generic emulator core API. This means that RetroArch is core agnostic, and it does not care which emulator core is running.

Currently there are libretro implementations for systems such as SNES, NES, GBA, GB/GBC, Genesis, and even arcade games (Final Burn Alpha).

libretro isn't only usable for emulators. A preliminary port of an open source reimplementation of Cave Story has been ported to libretro as well.

RetroArch believes in modularity. The application itself is a command-line driven application suitable for HTPC and/or headless use. There also exists a GUI frontend for RetroArch, supporting every single config option available in RetroArch.

You can seamlessly utilize the GUI without thinking of RetroArch as a command line application, which is a probable scenario for most Windows and OS X users. RetroArch-Phoenix, the GUI frontend, can be found on GitHub.

Changelog

Here is a change log of most of the things that changed:

AUTOSAVE/SRAM – Fix bug #3829 / #4820 (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/3829)
ENDIANNESS: Fixed database scanning. Should fix scanning on PS3/WiiU/Wii, etc.
NET: Fix bug #4703 (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/4703)
ANDROID: Runtime permission checking
ANDROID: Improve autoconf fallback
ANDROID: Improve shield portable/gamepad device grouping workaround
ANDROID: Allow remotes to retain OK/Cancel position when menu_swap_ok_cancel is enabled
LOCALIZATION: Update/finish French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION/GUI: Korean font should display properly now with XMB/MaterialUI’s default font
MENU: Improved rendering for XMB ribbon; using additive blending (Vulkan/GL)
OSX/MACOS: Fixes serious memory leak
WINDOWS: Added WASAPI audio driver for low-latency audio. Both shared and exclusive mode.
WINDOWS: Added RawInput input driver for low-latency, low-level input.
WINDOWS: Core mouse input should be relative again in cores
MISC: Various frontend optimizations.
VIDEO: Fix threaded video regression; tickering of menu entries would no longer work.
WII: Fix crashing issues which could occur with the dummy core
WIIU: HID Controller support
WIIU: XMB/MaterialUI menu driver support
WIIU: Initial network/netplay support
LOBBIES: Fallback to filename based matching if no CRC matches are found (for people making playlists by hand)
LOBBIES: GUI refinement, show stop hosting when a host has been started, show disconnect when playing as client
LOBBIES: if the game is already loaded it will try to connect directly instead of re-loading content (non-fullpath cores only)
LOBBIES: unify both netplay menus
THUMBNAILS: Thumbnails show up now in Load Content -> Collection, Information -> Database
VITA: Fix slow I/O
VITA: Fix 30fps menu (poke into input now instead of reading the entire input buffer which apparently is slow)
VITA: Fix frame throttle
VULKAN: Unicode font rendering support. Should fix bad character encoding for French characters, etc.
VULKAN: Fix some crashes on loading some thumbnails
AUDIO: Audio mixer support. Mix up to 8 streams with the game’s audio.