RetroArch on iPhone & iPad (Starter Guide)
Vložit
- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Now that RetroArch is available on the App Store, let's check it out and go over its (rather complicated) setup. This powerful tool will let you play any number of classic retro games directly on your iPhone or iPad without any pesky sideloading.
RetroArch Starter Guide: retrogamecorps.com/2022/02/28...
RetroArch Starter Guide video: • RetroArch Starter Guide
Controllers used in this video:
8BitDo SN30 Pro: amzn.to/3wKTQND
BackBone One: amzn.to/3V7Axr3
GameSir X2s: amzn.to/4dNUnPp
Also! EmuDeck has created a custom configuration file with hotkeys, shaders, etc already set up. Here is more info: / emudeck-for-ios-104388673
Ways to support this channel:
YT channel membership: / @retrogamecorps
Patreon: / retrogamecorps
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/retrogamecorps
Timestamps:
00:00 introduction
01:26 supported retro systems
02:26 installation and menu driver
04:07 settings configuration
09:04 adding ROMs and BIOS files
13:49 creating playlists
16:59 game testing and controllers
17:58 GB, GBA, and GBA
21:26 Nintendo 64
25:21 Nintendo DS
26:20 NES and SNES
28:11 Genesis and Saturn
31:13 PS1 and arcade
33:20 iPhone considerations
34:35 summary and conclusion
Find me on Discord! / discord
Theme song written by Jim Gray of Our Ghosts:
ourghosts.bandcamp.com/track/...
More music here: / posts
Keyboard shown in my videos: bit.ly/RGCnuphy
^^ use code "RGC10" for 10% off your order
Note that this description may contain affiliate links. By clicking on an affiliate link and buying something, I may earn a small commission of the sale at no extra cost to you. You can read more about that here: retrogamecorps.com/about/
This video is for entertainment and educational purposes only.
#RetroArch #iPhone #iPad #AppStore #emulation - Hry
I downloaded the app and decided not to touch it until you made the guide. I had the feeling you were going to make one and I was right. Thank you Russ
us 😭
Same here
Me too 😅
Everything on iPhone is ass. I've dealt with Retroach on PC and Android and I couldn't do shit this version.
Yup. Same.
My GOD! Just installed Retroarch on my Apple TV 4k and can't believe how easy it was to setup a retro gaming machine in our living room without ANYTHING (but bios, roms and your guide). Thank you SO much!
is it the same installation process as the ipad and iphone? I have appletv+ 4k and wasn't sure if it's the same install process. Thanks!
It gets very complicated when you realize all the settings you can use. So many games don't work that great with certain cores, and you have to have different aspect ratios scaling settings to get scanlines to sync up with the pixels. Then you have the issue of a lot of games not showing up in the list, you can't just add them to the list without a lot of hassle, although you can load them in by navigating the directory then adding it to your favorites.
The ds for example runs different games at different resolutions, so you have to screw with so many settings to get each game perfect. Some games you can run the core at much higher resolutions, and that is gonna mess with your shaders, so you have to find the right combination. Then you need get a control scheme to be able to switch screen layouts so you can have 1 large screen with a small one, on some games you want them vertical so that's an entirely different setting. Then you have to figure out how to individualize settings. It's a huge pain in the ass, but it's worth it. I highly suggest using integer scaling, then messing with core video/screen settings to get it full screen, then use the best looking scanline shader. Especially on a 4k tv, most games are gonna look pretty terrible compared to how they should look. You need the scanlines or else you lose like 50% or detail and shading, you also don't get transparency on pixels. It's taken me like 2 weeks to get everything configured and i'm still tinkering. I still haven't gotten the psp perfect yet.
Be aware, apple tv likes to wipe out cache data on retroarch. That includes roms, save data, save states, and other files like bios and some configurations due to apple choice to have that cleaned out to make room. I have had retro arch on apple tv for some time now, and its annoying. I always have to backup manually and reupload to folders and re put settings. I leave app open at all times now to help prevent tvos deleting things. Also when updates are being applied to app, expect a wipe of all data. Be careful!
@@KendolinkPS3This is an Apple TV thing, not a Retroarch thing. Definitely not stable enough to use regularly on Apple TV unless you want to frequently reinstall roms, saves, settings, etc. I believe some folks claim it’s been figured out with network access storage but I haven’t looked into it
I’d just use my gaming laptop for TV playing .. won’t touch the Apple TV
Your old videos seasoned me for this. I was able to get it working all on my own and now i feel like a true nerd
That’s awesome!
Watching this on my phone, while stopping intermittently to go along….on my phone
The beauty of an iPhone. The scrolling between open apps is effortless
Same
@@DaddyGamerDiariesShame that android users have only one tab.
Never stop making videos, Russ!
Woo hoo!!! Grabbing a snack and a drink! Thanks Russ
Love the slide at 13:15, you really spoil us Russ.
Retroarch was really intimidating at first but this guide made it so much easier!
I was waiting for this since forever because I wanted to have an easy way to play vertical shmups filling up the whole screen. I tried and it's even easier than what you describe. You don't need to activate vertical mode. You just rotate the screen and it works! I haven't been able to make such a frictionless setup where you can easily switch from horizontal to vertical shooters on any other platform.
Great video, Russ! I always appreciate these step-by-step guides as Retroarch can definitely be daunting if you've never used it before! The 8BitDo SN30 Pro is actually my retro controller of choice for almost all my retro games, too. It really is a solid controller! I always take for granted that we can now pretty easily play nearly any classic retro game...on the go, no less!
My God, buddy, you are a retro godsend. I can’t even tell you how much you’ve helped me out.
Thank you Russ! I would NOT have gotten that going without your guide!
Russ makes using retroarch possible! Thank you!!!!
You are the king of retro emulation CZcams
I thought this was a retro arch set up for alt store or something but wow it’s native on iOS .. what an amazing day!! No more having to use alt store every week
Just got an iPad recently so this is perfectly timed! Love the vids keep it up!
The 4:3 screen on these iPads is kind of perfect for these retro games
Thanks Russ for your great retrogaming tutorials on YT. I really like your channel. Best regards from Germany
I was desperate that my ipad pro was freezing with psx games and then you showed up right on time, thanks!
I'm already familiar with Retroarch, and I've never owned an i product in my life, but I still watched this whole video.
I can't do it lol
This is the best guide I’ve seen so far, very thorough with the cores and options 👏🏼
make hotkeys for next shader and previous shader and set it to remember the shader directory, then put a hotkey to bring up the retroarch menu on your l3 button, otherwise youll spend hours trying each shader. All I can tell you is that each game absolutely needs individual settings to look their best, some games are different resolutions so your shader scanlines won't sync up. Tinker till it's perfect. You might have to use different cores for different games.
Thanks Russ! Been waiting for your guide before getting started 😃
Perfect timing to upload video thanks a lot
THANK you very MUCH. I am following you step by step and have to take a break at the 12 minute mark. It took me a while to find the language setting. It‘s far easier, if it‘s all in english. I will have to pick up my magic keyboard and mouse to navigate as fast as you do.
This is by far the best guide you have ever made.
And it makes me to dive deeper into my iPad, RA and retroachievements. Did you know I had an account there already? Me neither…huh. Live and learn.
Next I will choose only a handful of systems and 20 games max to really play and enjoy them. FBNeo might be on top of the list.
Oh, and of course I have to find my BIOS files.
That’s why I took a break following your guide and to again THANK you VERY MUCH.
This is the video I’ve been waiting for
You rock, Russ. Keep up the great work!
These guides are just awesome! Thank you very much! Greetings from Brazil :)
Thats the Video I was Waiting for. Thank you =)
Comprehensive and well done. Thanks so much for this!
This is a god tier guide, amazing
was waiting for this one lol great stuff!
Perfect, just got an iPad pro so this is super nice. Thank you!
I am just here to support your content I already got psp running on my Apple TV 4 but you teach me everything I know about emulation 😅
Thank you for all of this! You are awesome ! I am now on my way to play my Sega Saturn branded iPad ✌🏼😎
Just wanna say this guide was great. Not too quick but not much fluff so thanks!
Great guide, thank you. Never bothered with RA on PC, so this is the time to start digging into it. One important setting for iOS is under settings -> audio, 'respect silent mode'. Turn that off to get game sound with muted ringer in the control center!
This man is a gem
thank you for your advice, excellent tutorial, I cant wait to delve into this when I get a backbone
Amazing guide.. thanks 🙏🏻 ❤
The best and most helpful channel! ❤️🔥🔝
if ipad ever gets gamecube or ps2 emulation i will never be seen again.
finally a legit use for my ipad pro...
I tried this on Apple TV and it worked great for the most part! There are some issues with N64 and because of that I didn't try Saturn. Air Playing from the iPhone to the Apple TV seemed a lot more fluid. But it is nice to finally utilize some of that storage space on the Apple TV.
Thanks for the tutorial. I've managed to figure out a few things myself, but you showed me the importance of doing a manual scan when making a playlist. Not only do I have systems with rom extensions that you'd need to match manually, but I also have a bunch of homebrew, hacks, translations, etc. that also don't show up without a manual scan. Another thing I've missed until now is that overlays (for those of us that use them sometimes) can be set per-core using Overrides. With these two pieces of info, maybe I can start using RetroArch more.
This is crazy awesome on the Vision Pro
Thank you very much. This is why I subscribed.
Great job man. 👑
I love this videos, although i am already deeply familiar with your retroarch guide. It is always cool for me to check my settings again and again.
I do like XMB, but i like to choose, “Layout:Handheld”, “Color Theme:Black”, “Scale Factor: 1.00x”
It really looks cool on the RP4 Pro
It was a great help, my iphone is now a complete gaming machine.
Fantastic guide thank you
This is way easier than Xbox Dev Mode, Retroarch, and AetherSX2 for my Series S. I'm just having fun getting emulation working on my devices. Great Video! I'm all for video game preservation.
THANK YOU KIND SIR
For making this step by step guide!!! Now I can FINALLY play the SEGA Saturn!!!!
I’ve been dying to play all the Panzer games for YEARS!! & thanks to you I can actually do it!
Before I watched this vid I was getting so frustrated & confused because this is kinda new to me
I know about Emulation & ROMs but only general info
I don’t have a PC so to get games for my Anbernic & other retro handhelds I have to resort to Etsy to buy premade cards for my systems 😅 & to buy modded systems
Thank you Russ!
Thank you!
I'm not an iOS user, or any Apple product for that matter. I just love seeing people getting more functionality from their devices and this is a big one in my eyes. Retro gaming is only getting more popular as modern gaming keeps getting worse.
Not really. Only us nerds believe that but it's wrong. Delta was number 1 in Free Apps in the App Store and now sits at 75 as of writing this comment. PPSSPP is 194. RetroArch isn't even top 200. The hype has died down significantly. I don't care if you like my comment or not. Just giving you a dose of reality. 😊
@@Cyko.. there are like 1.9 million apps in the app store. Being #75 is pretty damn good
@@sk8brder40 Not as good as it was. This is a RetroArch video though. How do you feel about RetroArch not even being in the top 200 still despite this very helpful video? Does it make you happy hardly anyone cares about the app? 😊
@@Cyko.. Does it make you happy writing nonsensical elitist comments on CZcams? 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
@@Cyko.. Believe what? You spewed a bunch of words but it didn't make a point.
I happen to have an iPad Pro as well, and after seeing this, I *really* wanna try RetroArch on it, haha. I don’t have a wireless Bluetooth controller though, but I’m seriously considering picking one up sometime to use for this. I’d also wanna get a little stand for the iPad, for a better viewing/gaming experience
For the stand, the cheapest option would be a laptop stand (perfect for my 12.9”)
For the Bluetooth Controller but from the brand (8-Bitdo) for retro games or Xbox Series X for PSP or PS1 games
Now I need a good controller that’ll fit my iPad mini! Bluetooth so I can use in landscape or vertical for DS emulation.
Was looking at some of the usb-c ones but I’d love vertical DS gameplay.
Thank you
I have developed a solution to sync save and save states across devices using the shortcuts app. it’s completely hands off and runs automatically when the app is open and closed. I now can game on my ipad and pickup on my phone right away. I feel like a video from you in particular might be good for people who want to use multiple devices without manually backing up or having a home server setup.
Been waiting for this….
good job👍
Very helpful guide for retroarch in general! Are you planning on doing a video for setting up the ppsspp app as well?
Hey Russ, thank you for the video!! When you make the Apple TV RetroArch guide could you include a how-to on getting cloud saves up and running between iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV??
It is so cool to see you play NiGHTS :D
Something that might be helpful for auto-scanned playlists: if you go to settings -> playlists -> manage playlists -> [name of playlist] -> default core, you can set what core that playlist uses so it doesn’t ask you every time you boot up a new game
That was one of the BEST tutorials I have ever seen! Thank you so much you made me understand everything I needed to know about RetroArch as I never used before. I have just a question about PS1 games, in the past I've been using a PSVITA with Adrenaline to emulate PSX games and I'm trying to understand if it would be possible to transfer my save files I have on my PSVITA to my iPad so I don't lose my progress.. Is it something doable and are the file formats compatible with each other?
This is great, I've already been messing around with this as I used to love RA on Android. Got it on my iPhone and iPad Mini, works great. Been using RA since the Wii, so I know quite a bit, but I understand (if you don't know what you're doing) it can be quite cumbersome. Great video though.
I have the exact same backbone one used in the thumbnail!
thank you thank you thank you
That was a great video! Thanks for working so hard on it!! I have just one question of something you mentioned, how can you set up multiple Bluetooth controllers into 1 apple device?
Just the video I’ve been waiting for!!!
Now I can send this to all of my friends that have been asking 😂
Thanks.
I’ve been waiting for this!!!
Retroarch really needs to work on the way menus are laid out and nested and stuff
Awesome guide, I wondered if retroarch has a function integrated to sync savestates so I can play on my iPad and continue on my iPhone?
I really like ozone layout in retroarch
A guide for TVOS would be soooooooo clutch!
You are Jesus of gaming bro. Thank you for this video.
Awesome guide, ipad mini is not that useless anymore!
If I went back in time and showed 5-year-old me how future me can take my whole NES/SNES library with me and play everywhere & anywhere on the go ... I'd probably call myself a big fat liar. Thanks for the guide, Russ.
Great video, can you advise shaders for snes NES and Arcade machines?
Very cool video, thanks. What about input lag on ios ?
thanks for the great tutorial!
Is there a way to hook up the saves folder into Google Drive / any cloud service and have seamless cross-platform saves? I also emulate on the Steam Deck and would like to be free to switch between them since I will have my phone on me more often, but prefer to play in the Deck when I am home.
Great video, curious of your thoughts or review on the cheap $30-$40 Android game sticks being sold on Amazon/TikTok that come with 30,000+ games/rom preloaded...
Jit being enabled will be a dream
This is already awesome though
That’s gonna be #1 download worldwide
The goat, been waiting for this one
Thanks Man that’s really useful!
I have one question, some games for PS1 when I try running them, they don’t seem to have “core” options, any idea how to fix that?
Yeah man, I wanna do it
Great video!! I was waiting for a good guide since this soft is very annoying!. I wonder how to know which arcade games are Fbneo? I really want to play arcade games but I tried for example the Simpsons and it didn’t work while sunset riders yes. Does it depend on if they are fbneo or not?
Wow thanks man, I thought delta was the only emulator iOS would allowed but no retro arch too!
Nice vid 🫡
Id love this for my apple tv, i do wonder multiplayer n64 on retroarch for Apple TV, like how ti set up multiple controllers
Dude that shader looks so good for GBC/GBA on your iPad
CRT-Sines is another good shader for general use under the CRT category.
here before 500k🙌
i cant wait for the apple tv version !!
I look forward to the AppleTV update!
Any advice on how to set up rewind so it works across the board? Certain consoles or games will simply reset to a fresh “I just turned it on”. This happens almost always with N64 and SNES (primarily what I play), but certain games in SNES works fine. This happens to me on multiple devices / platforms (iOS, Windows, Android) so I feel like it is user error. I had checked the guide and didn’t see I set anything up “wrong”, but I know I fall into the group that finds RetroArch settings to be intimidating.
Thank you!
Aha ok so arcade roms need to be in a "FinalBurn Neo - Arcade ROM Set (Full Non-Merged)" type to work. Hopefully there's an... _Internet Archive_ of such a thing!
Love this guide! I did run into an issue, however. I downloaded a childhood favorite, Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Griffey Jr for the N64. It plays great but the text of the names during the game is all jumbled and unreadable. I’ve done some googling but no luck. I’m doing all this on an iPad Pro 5th generation. Thank you in advance for the help!
Since you have so many gamesir controllers, are you going to try their new gamesir x4 aileron too? Maybe give that a review?