Open zomgugoff opened 2 years ago
You have better luck than me. Even with the Open GL renderer and a dreamcast game, starting RetroArch via intent displays a black screen then RA becomes unresponsive. Same behaviour with the Vulkan renderer.
Using RA 1.10.3 on Android 11.
I went back to Android 9 and it's almost the opposite issue. Vulkan fails on all but Dreamcast, but in GL, Dreamcast and Naomi boot.
EDIT: I tried these manually with ADB instead of a launcher and got both all systems to boot with GL. I'm catching an error in logcat when it crashes: "Abort message: 'gralloc-mapper is missing'" followed by a backtrace, which does not occur with Dreamcast games.
The Atomiswave BIOS file used by Flycast has changed. Maybe this was the problem? It was for me on Windows. The old Atmoswave awbios.zip
BIOS that i used was 17KB in size and it contains 1 file, but the new awbios.zip file is 34KB and contains 2 files inside. With this new BIOS all Atmoswave games are working for me in RetroArch.
I don't see how the BIOS would be the issue when loading via the interface was working, but not launched via intent, nor when it comes to the renderer. I chocked it up to some Android BS. That said, it's been 2 years, and I've abandoned Android as a gaming platform. It's just not built for custom launchers (or custom anything, anymore).
This emulator/core works great in ARM Linux and X86 Windows and I intend to stick to those platforms.
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Platform / OS / Hardware: Android 11
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Hardware: Ambernic RG552
Description of the Issue
Atomiswave games crash Retroarch (and Retroarch32) with Vulkan when started via intent. It does not crash when games are started in Retroarch directly. Dreamcast and Naomi games are not affected by this. Atomiswave games will run via intent if using the GL driver, however.
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