Solved RetroArch core

[serjsk8]

Hello,
Some times I play old games with emulators/Snes9x
This days I think to try games/retroarch
But I can't figure out how to add "core" for RetroArch.
Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Best regards,

 

[SirDice]

These are the 'cores': https://www.freshports.org/search.p...own=asc&search=Search&format=html&branch=head

The ports are all named as libretro-*

For some reason RetroArch doesn't autodetect though. So you have to load the core yourself.

 

[serjsk8]

Thank you SirDice
I think i described my situation incorrectly.
For example:
I have installed:
pkg install libretro-nestopia-0.20220322
And in the RetroArch I can see my core:

But when I try to load a ROM for NES I have message "No Cores Available"

 

[Aminavy]

try from command line:

retroarch --libretro /path/to/core-file /path/to/rom-file

 

[SirDice]

But when I try to load a ROM for NES I have message "No Cores Available"

Yeah, that's what I meant with the 'autodetect' not working. Use the command line Aminavy posted above, that should work.

 

[serjsk8]

Thanks
It's work!

 

[BaronKRoolenstein]

offtopic but nice choice of game XD

 

[W.hâ/t]

You need to install games/libretro-core-info for autodetection to work.

 

[SirDice]

Is it? Definitely going to try this when I get home, this issue has bugged me for a long time.

 

[W.hâ/t]

Is it? Definitely going to try this when I get home, this issue has bugged me for a long time.

If I am not mistaken, yes. You can then select a rom directly and it will load the appropriate core.
I also chmod -R 775 /usr/local/share/libretro to allow downloads of assets as user (wheel group) from retroarch.

 

[SirDice]

You can then select a rom directly and it will load the appropriate core.

Yes, that's what I expected to work. But it never did. Scanning my folders for roms never detected anything either.

I also chmod -R 775 /usr/local/share/libretro to allow downloads of assets as user (wheel group) from retroarch.

I changed that setting to a directory in my home directory, there are a few other settings that are pointing to some directory in ~/.config if I recall correctly. Some set to the user's home directory, and some that aren't.

 

[serjsk8]

You need to install games/libretro-core-info for autodetection to work.

Thank you,
This is the final solution!
I don't know, but I would make this port one of the dependencies for RetroArch