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Turn your Xbox Series S or X into a fantastic emulation machine, using Dev Mode

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AlexM

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23 hours ago, artz said:

Does Retroarch on Series S support generic USB pads?


No. Xbox compatible pads only.

 

12 hours ago, Wonderm said:

Probably going to buy a Series S this week. Does it run redream for the dreamcast games or is it flycast only? 

 

Flycast only.

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So I finally got my Series S set up last night, and tried Dreamcast, mostly Crazy Taxi, just didn't seem to play welll, slow down all over the place. Was sort of expecting solid 60fps, unless I've not got something set right? Using RetroArch with Flycast.

 

Even Virtua Tennis was noticeably dropping frames, felt off.

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Yeah, it's been working since Edge got updated IIRC.

Although the account that hosted these on the MS store did get shot recently, and stuffed the DurangoFTP app for me until a new version was hosted elsewhere. Retroarch didn't have that problem, mind, although like Dev Mode you'll be downloading the whole thing again to update it.

It's a good thing to have everything available with the 5min switch to Dev Mode, but games larger than 2GB are still a pig to run on anything that's not on the internal storage, which puts a dampener on the proceedings.

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On 18/12/2021 at 20:23, papalazarou said:

Did this earlier and yeah the difference is fantastic ps2/GameCube/wii games load within about 5-10 seconds compared to the 2-3 minutes previously

Yes I didn't realise but previously the emulator copied the ROM file to the SSD and that concerns me a bit.  Like, when you uninstall this stuff to put the later versions on, how do you know it's wiping all the roms and remnants in the same way commercial software does? Will I find my SSD getting progressively smaller over time?

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23 hours ago, dumpster said:

Yes I didn't realise but previously the emulator copied the ROM file to the SSD and that concerns me a bit.  Like, when you uninstall this stuff to put the later versions on, how do you know it's wiping all the roms and remnants in the same way commercial software does? Will I find my SSD getting progressively smaller over time?

this has now been fixed as well in the newest version:

 

"For those who don't have NTFS drives, ROMs will now copy to a temporary VFSCACHE folder inside LocalState that's DELETED every time RetroArch opens. This means you no longer have to worry about clearing it yourself."

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I've never played Retroarch on a box powerful enough to use the slang shaders. 

 

I was given an Xbox One S. (not a series) and the shaders are working perfectly. Some of the CRT ones are sublime.

 

All the 16-bit and under emulators are running at full speed from a USB stick.  

 

Thanks for the heads up for the easy non-whitelist install. 

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2 hours ago, Sane said:

I'm trying to install the emulators using this website. It all seems to work, it says I already own them when I try to do it again, but I can't actually find them anywhere on my Xbox. What am I doing wrong?

not sure of that site - but this is one i get mine from https://gamr13.github.io/ ( you need to open in edge on the xbox)

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6 hours ago, ScouserInExile said:

I literally have no idea what that means. 

There used to be only one core for PS2.  When you play a ps2 game it loads the PS2 core.  Now there's another core which may or may not be as good as the other one.  So you can try one and if it's no good try the other.  

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9 hours ago, dumpster said:

There used to be only one core for PS2.  When you play a ps2 game it loads the PS2 core.  Now there's another core which may or may not be as good as the other one.  So you can try one and if it's no good try the other.  

But I don't need to do anything with my existing set up to use that core? 

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