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 systems are supported through various cores:
* 2048
* Acorn - BBC Micro
* Amstrad - CPC/GX4000
* Anarch
* Arcade
* Arduboy
* Atari - 2600
* Atari - 5200
* Atari - 7800
* Atari - Jaguar
* Atari - Lynx
* Bandai - WonderSwan/Color
* Cave Story
* Coleco - ColecoVision
* Commodore - Amiga
* Commodore - C128
* Commodore - C64
* Commodore - C64 SuperCPU
* Commodore - CBM-II 5x0
* Commodore - CBM-II 6x0/7x0
* Commodore - PET
* Commodore - PLUS/4
* Commodore - VIC-20
* Dinothawr
* Doom
* DOS
* Fairchild ChannelF
* Flashback
* GCE - Vectrex
* Game Music Emu
* Handheld Electronic
* MSX/SVI/ColecoVision/SG-1000
* Mattel - Intellivision
* Mega Duck / Cougar Boy
* Mr.Boom
* NEC - PC Engine / SuperGrafx / CD
* NEC - PC-FX
* NEC - PC-98
* Nintendo - DS
* Nintendo - Game Boy / Color
* Nintendo - Game Boy Advance
* Nintendo - NES / Famicom
* Nintendo - Nintendo 64
* Nintendo - Pokemon Mini
* Nintendo - SNES / SFC
* Nintendo - Virtual Boy
* Palm OS
* PocketCDG
* Quake
* Quake II
* Rick Dangerous
* SNK - Neo Geo AES/MVS
* SNK - Neo Geo CD
* SNK - Neo Geo Pocket / Color
* ScummVM
* Sega - MS/GG/MD/CD/32X
* Sega - MS/GG/SG-1000
* Sega - Saturn
* Sharp - X68000
* Sinclair - ZX Spectrum
* Sony - PlayStation
* Sony - PlayStation Portable
* Texas Instruments TI-83
* The 3DO Company - 3DO
* Thomson - MO/TO
* Vircon32
* VirtualXT
* WASM-4
* Watara - Supervision
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.**
All my emulators are working well. I use the DS and GBA emulator most. The UI is pretty difficult to use and settings need to be saved correctly for it to work the way you want it but once you get it working it’s super nice. I would say UI overhaul is much needed (although I understand this is a pretty standard UI across all platforms that run RetroArch) One last thing; can the gesture bar be made to hide while emulating a game? It’s kind of annoying to see that white bar flash on when you tap screen just to have it disappear after a second. Thank you devs!
Needlessly difficult to use
Tsuresu
Look, I get it, this is a free app and it’s incredibly powerful and flexible. It’s awesome that the dev took the time to bring this to the store.But the UX is awful. I have decades of experience in IT, much of which involves dealing with open source software, and this has to be one of the worst apps I’ve ever seen in terms of getting it configured and running.I still don’t have it set up as I want after diving into it multiple times. It’s needlessly challenging to navigate, and overall feels like a bad Android port.I really wish the dev would look to Delta for inspiration.Still really cool to play Sega Saturn games on my iPhone though!
- Siri and Shortcuts integration! Use the Shortcuts app to put shortcuts directly into your favorite game directly on your Home Screen.
- Native Keyboard integration
- iPad multitasking support
- Configurable startup page - Main Menu, History, Playlists, and more
- CoreAudio microphone driver - better integrated with RetroArch and with iOS than sdl2
- Removed the "Down Arrow" floating menu. All functionality has been integrated into the normal settings menus.
- iCloud Drive cloud sync backend driver
- Stronger, configurable rumble/haptics support
- Refresh rate improvements (improved ProMotion support - runs at 120Hz)
- Eight New Cores!
* SameDuck (Mega Duck / Cougar Boy)
* Gearcoleco (ColecoVision)
* Geargrafx (NEC PC Engine / SuperGrafx / CD)
* Virtual Jaguar (Atari Jaguar)
* REminiscence (Flashback)
* vitaQuake 2 (Quake II)
* GAM4980
* ClownMDEmu (Sega - MD/CD)
