RetroArch 9+

A frontend for emulators

Daniel De Matteis

    • Free

Description

RetroArch is a free, ad-free, open source, and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators, game engines, video games, media players, and other applications. Supported systems come in the form of libretro cores. The following cores are included:

* 2048
* Amstrad - CPC (CrocoDS)
* Amstrad - CPC/GX4000 (Caprice32)
* Arcade (FinalBurn Neo)
* Atari - 2600 (Stella 2014)
* Atari - 2600 (Stella)
* Atari - 5200 (Atari800)
* Atari - 5200 (a5200)
* Atari - 7800 (ProSystem)
* Atari - Lynx (Handy)
* Bandai - WonderSwan/Color (Beetle Cygne)
* Cave Story (NXEngine)
* Commodore - Amiga (PUAE)
* Commodore - C128 (VICE x128)
* Commodore - C64 (VICE x64, fast)
* Commodore - C64 (VICE x64sc, accurate)
* Commodore - C64 SuperCPU (VICE xscpu64)
* Commodore - CBM-II 5x0 (VICE xcbm5x0)
* Commodore - CBM-II 6x0/7x0 (VICE xcbm2)
* Commodore - PET (VICE xpet)
* Commodore - PLUS/4 (VICE xplus4)
* Commodore - VIC-20 (VICE xvic)
* Dinothawr
* Doom (PrBoom)
* DOS (DOSBox-Pure)
* Fairchild ChannelF (FreeChaF)
* GCE - Vectrex (vecx)
* Game Music Emu
* Handheld Electronic (GW)
* MSX/SVI/ColecoVision/SG-1000 (blueMSX)
* Mattel - Intellivision (FreeIntv)
* NEC - PC Engine / CD (Beetle PCE FAST)
* NEC - PC Engine / SuperGrafx / CD (Beetle PCE)
* NEC - PC Engine SuperGrafx (Beetle SuperGrafx)
* NEC - PC-98 (Neko Project II Kai)
* Nintendo - DS (DeSmuME)
* Nintendo - DS (melonDS DS)
* Nintendo - Game Boy / Color (DoubleCherryGB)
* Nintendo - Game Boy / Color (Gambatte)
* Nintendo - Game Boy / Color (Gearboy)
* Nintendo - Game Boy / Color (SameBoy)
* Nintendo - Game Boy / Color (TGB Dual)
* Nintendo - Game Boy Advance (VBA Next)
* Nintendo - Game Boy Advance (VBA-M)
* Nintendo - Game Boy Advance (gpSP)
* Nintendo - Game Boy Advance (mGBA)
* Nintendo - NES / Famicom (FCEUmm)
* Nintendo - NES / Famicom (Mesen)
* Nintendo - NES / Famicom (Nestopia UE)
* Nintendo - NES / Famicom (QuickNES)
* Nintendo - Nintendo 64 (Mupen64Plus-Next)
* Nintendo - Pokemon Mini (PokeMini)
* Nintendo - SNES / SFC (Snes9x 2005)
* Nintendo - SNES / SFC (Snes9x 2010)
* Nintendo - SNES / SFC (Snes9x)
* Nintendo - SNES / SFC (bsnes)
* Nintendo - SNES / SFC (bsnes-hd beta)
* Nintendo - SNES / SFC / Game Boy / Color (Mesen-S)
* Nintendo - Virtual Boy (Beetle VB)
* Palm OS (Mu)
* PocketCDG
* Quake (TyrQuake)
* Rick Dangerous (XRick)
* SNK - Neo Geo AES/MVS (Geolith)
* SNK - Neo Geo CD (NeoCD)
* SNK - Neo Geo Pocket / Color (Beetle NeoPop)
* SNK - Neo Geo Pocket / Color (RACE)
* ScummVM
* Sega - MS/GG (SMS Plus GX)
* Sega - MS/GG/MD/CD (Genesis Plus GX Wide)
* Sega - MS/GG/MD/CD (Genesis Plus GX)
* Sega - MS/GG/MD/CD/32X (PicoDrive)
* Sega - MS/GG/SG-1000 (Gearsystem)
* Sega - Saturn (Beetle Saturn)
* Sharp - X68000 (PX68k)
* Sinclair - ZX Spectrum (Fuse)
* Sony - PlayStation (Beetle PSX HW)
* Sony - PlayStation (Beetle PSX)
* Sony - PlayStation (PCSX ReARMed)
* Sony - PlayStation Portable (PPSSPP)
* Texas Instruments TI-83 (Numero)
* Thomson - MO/TO (Theodore)
* Vircon32
* VirtualXT
* WASM-4
* Watara - Supervision (Potator)

RetroArch supports a broad range of features, including:

* Netplay
* Soft patching
* RetroAchievements
* Save states
* MFi controller support
* Key remapping per core or per game
* Gyro
* Cheats
* Custom overlays
* Shaders
* Fast forward and rewind
* Game artwork
* AI translations
* Advanced latency management

**RetroArch and Libretro are in no way affiliated with Nintendo. The name "Nintendo" and all associated game console names are registered trademarks of Nintendo Co., Ltd.**

What’s New

Version 1.19.1

- Fix a crash during scanning corrupt files
- Change defaults to enable haptics

Changing the defaults only affects new installations. Make sure to check out the Input settings for haptics to turn on vibrations on key presses. Enjoy!

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
63 Ratings

63 Ratings

johnny the bird ,

Great App, but this one thing is bothering me.

This and the delta app, are great emulators, a wide selection of systems with great emulation. The UI is a mixed bag but I’m okay with it, just needs a tad bit of improvement.
But there is one thing that bothers me while playing some of the roms, The controls.
So can you improve on the touch controls, like customised controls, where you can drag and scale the buttons to one’s liking, kinda like how Sega used customised controls for the Sega forever games.
Seriously I tried looking that up in the app and there is no option for that.
So please implement custom touch screen controls, playing the games in RetroArch with connectable physical controller is fine but not convenient for something like on the go. (Just a iPhone or iPad or whatever you want to call it. Smartphone?)

Alexx0005 ,

Promising, but UI is terrible

Promising app, but jeez the UI is rough. Definitely needs improvement before anyone would consider it becoming “mainstream”. Hopefully this is addressed sooner rather than later.

throAU ,

read the website instructions

Works well, due to the sandboxing on the ipad you need to copy files into the ipad retroarch directory manually using the files app.

Other than that, works like a charm on an M1 ipad air!

App Privacy

The developer, Daniel De Matteis, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Game Controllers

    Play this game with your favourite compatible controller.

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