Retroarch core

[nikhilCad]

Describe the bug A RetroArch / libretro core will allow the project to be used on multiple platforms and will be a great QoL improvement for people who prefer all-in-one type of emulators

To Reproduce Not a bug, no feature request template found

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Your PC or smartphone specs Moto E7 Power Android 10

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[pent0]

You must think:

• Are you solely in it for the N-Gage or do you want Retroarch to also become a multi-phone OS emulators.
• How will it works out : how can users install system ROM or device files. If a multi-phone system OS is what we are heading to instead of "N-Gage emulator", the complexity or device switchingand installing will increase. The frontend is only designed to easily to get in game with little setup.

Either way, even when these answers are fullfilled, Im not interested. But can leave this open.

[cystbear]

Hey @pent0 what about create simplified version of EKA2L1, which will care about running n-gage games only.

Yeah, I know you are not interested, I am just asking.

[pent0]

Do you mean retroarch core that will only play N-Gage? Or just standalone will do the job. Do you have some suggestions as to how would you want it to?

Right now, if you install only ngage rom. Then its a ngage emulator! Beside the UI not solely dedicated to load the game dumped folder/aaru dump of course.

[WH-G]

It is a good idea

[pent0]

More of my opinion. Most frontends now is very heavily designed around this idea:

• A folder will contain full game ROMs, frontend will list those ROMs in a folder

So it means that its mostly plug and play. But Symbian OS is very much like Windows, an SIS file does not represent a game, it is just like a zip file containing files that is to be extracted. And games and apps need to be installed and stored in a virtual filesystem, so there is no such thing as game ROMs, JARs (I meant that there is no such definition of symbian/ngage game contained in a single-file)

Right now emulator that requires game to be installed in a virtual filesystem instead of allowing to load game ROM included RPCS3 and Vita3K. I hope they can lead the way on this issue maybe (Daijishou already is on it with Vita3K, the same solution can applied to EKA2L1). I cant imagine yet how Retroarch will work with this, especially if EKA2L1 emulator is forced to use their API (its impossible!)

I hope I wrote it easy to understand

[tapir]

Sorry to bring this back from the dead. As far as RetroArch is concerned it can pass handler to a "zip" file to EKA2L1 core and the core itself can mount it as a filesystem (something along the lines of Quake PAK files). Basically you would be creating your own ROM file format with pre-installed game files. That means ROM files would have to be processed offline of course. I don't think RetroArch is the limiting factor in this regard. With the sudden surge of cheap RA handhelds, it might help with the exposure of your project for sure but otherwise I completely understand if porting to RA is not something you're interested in.