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Cross-platform, sophisticated frontend for the libretro API. Licensed GPLv3.
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Perplexing user experience, nothing works #15423

Open Photosounder opened 1 year ago

Photosounder commented 1 year ago

The user experience is very perplexing. I downloaded the latest Windows stable version, launched it, downloaded a core, so far so good, but then nothing works:

Note that this is an exhaustive account of my experience, I didn't leave out any core that I tried, truly nothing worked. I've never seen such an extreme level of nothing working in a program. Some programs are unusable because of a couple of bugs, but here you have all these different ways of totally failing, and nothing I tried actually worked.

sonninnos commented 1 year ago

No logs = no idea what is wrong.

Computer core usage requires "Game Focus" (Scroll Lock) to be able to type with the keyboard. It is all in the documents.

hizzlekizzle commented 1 year ago

to elaborate, we have a documentation site, docs.libretro.com, that includes information about each core, including any required setup, as well as a number of "getting started" docs, tutorials and videos. We also have an active forum, discord server, subreddit and (not very active anymore) presence on IRC for support.

With that in mind, the issue tracker is intended for actual bug reports, hence the template.

LibretroAdmin commented 1 year ago

These are not RetroArch issues but core issues