Guide: RetroArch for the PS Vita (NES, SNES, GBA, Genesis, and more) 

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@@Deadbay Look at 23:00 :-D

Lol

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It should come with a "nah bro im good" button.

Glad you like them!

Interesting name.

same here, so glad i got one recently. its an amazing emulation system along with all the great vita games, pretty cheap too

​@@RetroGameCorps Hey, First of all, thank you very much for the effort you put into your guides. Thanks to them, playing with my PS Vita seems really pleasant. Secondly. Would you like to share your retro gaming package from this video on priv? I would be extremely grateful.

​@@RetroGameCorps After I started playing yugioh forbidden memories on retroarch and saved or so I thought and finding out there isn't how do I go fixing it

Glad it helped!

where to download all games roms ?

You're so welcome!

@@RetroGameCorps Hey when I make a bubble for pokemon crystal and use it to open the game I get the error "could not read content file" do you know what this means? The rom works when I launch it from retroarch but not with the bubble. Any suggestions?

Hope you enjoy it!

yikes

Good points, thanks!

Musashi does work on adrenaline you have to hold home i believe and change the firmware in the settings or pop firmware in settings

@@HistoryandReviews Last I checked popsloader doesn't actually work in adrenaline. That did work for the PSP though. Edit: I just looked it up and the Vita has a different version of POPS that's incompatible with PSP POPS so it will never work.

@@chronossage I know for a fact I changed it in one of the menus. Been trying to replicate what I did 2 weeks ago for the past 3 hours. It’s either in the Adrenaline menu (open adrenaline once it loads hold the home button until the adrenaline settings appear) or once adrenaline loads hit the select button I had to change it to play Musashi and Rugrats search for Reptar

The Vita has the power for fast forwarding? Which games and which systems? If that's true, I'm really hyped lol

Happy to be of help!

@@RetroGameCorps Yaya

Glad you enjoyed it!

Someone told me I should emulate PSX through Adrenaline not Retro Arch. Is this something I should consider? I been emulating PSX through retro arch and love the settings and hotkeys I have set up. Digimon world 2003 does studder a tiny bit sometimes but I havent messed with a ton of settings really.

@@nicksauto9737 Adrenaline uses the built in PSP (and as a result, PS1) emulation in the Vita itself. As a result it has near perfect compatibility. Honestly it is just dealers choice. I personally use Adrenaline with EBOOTs

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Hey Daniel. I hope you are in good health. I recently got a PS Vita. I have a question: Is it necessary to download the games from other places other than the vita? Also, many games are not available on the PKG like Shrek, Ghost Rider and more. Can this be fixed? Thank you.

hey, do you know where you get the game files that he is using at 5:20?

@@bobbyboi8208 Ah, those are roms, it's not too difficult to find them, although, I'm not sure if I can share these here

@@ParanoidThalyyMVS Thats perfect, thanks for the fast response! I scrolled through all the comments to no avial

@@bobbyboi8208 Ah no worries, I'm glad I was able to help. :)

How and where

I think that's totally fair. I'm getting to that point too, where certain devices are becoming dedicated to one specific console/platform.

I have this mindset too. But I also find sometimes I just want to take 1 device with me. And I find I prefer that to be the vita since I have access to retroarch and psp/vita games

@@anthonykearney608 That is fine. I wish we had a streamlined way to manage save game files and save states across multiple devices.

@@anthonykearney608 my test is which device I grab when heading off to bed, to sneak in a few minutes before passing out. The Vita is my choice most of the time, unless I am going to play DS (RG351V) or GBA (RGB10).

I have 2 vita's and a 3ds. I use one vita for it's own library and I use the other for psp, ps1 and retroarch. My 3ds is for 3ds and ds games. I've been actually looking for a video detailing how to set up arcade games for retroarch though

Wow, thanks!

where did you get your bios from? i cant find any

Thanks, yeah it's been quite a journey. I was always impressed by this device and its Sony content, but it took a while to really get RetroArch running. It doesn't hurt that the latest 1.9.4 RA is much more stable than in December when I started!

anberlin?

Awesome, happy to help! I recently got a GPD XD+, need to start working on guides for it.

@@RetroGameCorps awesome man! great device, but pricey as you know... my main issues with retroarch on that device are related to the keymapping. if you take a dive into making some guides for it, that one would be greatly appreciated!

Tried an overclock plugin yet? There are a few to choose from & are easy to install via Autoplugins 2. Lolicon OCs the Vita up to 500 MHz vs stock 333MHz.

@@TexasHollowEarth Will overclocking automatically improve performance? GBA doesn't run too well.

ideed this was a good tip! is there perhaps a way to make these perky games display on the damned playlist??? That would put me in a positionquite more confortable!!! i have no idea why they are glitching like that.

@@HelenoPaiva I couldn't figure out a way, I guess you could try downloading different rooms for the same game and see if one of them works. The only "solutions" I found involved messing with RetroArchs code, but that was way too complicated for me. I have just been booting them up manually, there's only so much time I could rip my hair out trying to get this to work lol

Hey boss. Where are you downloading your roms?

@@fisterr8363 bigger question is where do they get the games from cause I just want a good short list not thousands that ill never get to lol

That's a great price!

@@RetroGameCorps it’s from a Japanese seller and has a lot of them listed for cheap and in good shape.

@@TVCColin you know the name of the seller I haven't seen anything below 130 lately thank you in advance

I’m not the guy, but I got mine from a seller called lucky eight trading. It was a 2000 model.

@@Shyverin that guy is pretty legit. I have bought a few from him...

I'm still searching for that elusive 100% liked video :)

Same

same here

I couldn't find the bios either 😕

There in that data files guy's 🤣🤣. Simply unzipped to new folder then search folders for the exact. Bin files etc.

@@X862go except they aren't. Searched the data zip file nothing there.

I like turtles.

same here, where do you find them?

github.com/archtaurus/RetroPieBIOS/tree/master/BIOS search here

Same

Sane

Try running the retroarch first. Then maybe it will show the system files

im having the same issue

Same

You're welcome!

did you find them? i´m lost here...

Same here

lol, I asked the same question. Thought I was being dumb, haha. I hope we find out soon as Im stuck now.....

@@JesusIsKing373 idk for this one but for PS1 emul for example, everything is legal except roms and BIOS, you need to find it by yourself on the dark path of the internet

@@chl6916 does anyone have a link to the listed bios files he required on the video. im stuck on this part! thank you

I just highlighted the text, and right clicked. And there should be a search option for some of them at least, hope this helps.

I'm having the same problem

I figured it out, in Vitashell, hit start and switch the USB device to sd2vita

Hope you enjoy!

I found the list of bios from the written guide, but I couldn't find the link to download them either.

@@ChristopherLKL I just copied it into google and searched each one individually.

Same issue here

Did u ever find it I’m stuck on tht as well

? Cores are in the data zip that accompanies the RetroArch vpk.... it gets updated with each new RetroArch version.... No brainer. No 2: Use a fucking search engine for bioses man..... Bioses are copyrighted & not readily available. Just put your effort into searching instead of begging/baiting. No 3: I'm NOT overreacting. You are lazy or dishonest.

you'll have to search for them yourselves there's a wiki dedicated for cores and you'll just have to download each of them.

Did you find them? Let me know if you need help still.

@@TexasHollowEarth I mean you kinda are I didn’t even know wtf a bio file was and I didn’t even know you had to just go and find them he didn’t specify neither does his write guide

Yep, totally agree with you Rob. The app has been in dire need of a real UI overhaul for many years now. They're in a weird spot where they set up the interface imperfectly, but they're so deep down the rabbit hole that they may not ever recover. It took me nine months of tinkering with the interface on various systems to get to the level of knowledge I have today, and I'm by no means a pro. At that point it's not the fault of the user, but of the system.

💯💯 saved me the typing 🙋‍♂️

I"m in the same boat. Retro arch isn't dumping the new files after I reconnect to vita shell after first running retro and quitting.

Try going into Vitashell, hit start and switch USB device to sd2vita.

Happy to provide!

@@RetroGameCorps I've done it today works perfect 👌

@@jacu27 awesome!

need small help didn't see before I did something wrong after scan directory to add games , suspossed to be on the right list of games to every each system , i haven't got it for some reason , always need to load games by load content , really don't know why ? to be fair ive scanned like 10 differnet folder with games and i see on the left down corner system see my games but after that last icon on the left is retroarch icon :(

Ok coppied again 7z folder is working now 😍

After watching the video the tutorial was basically perfect. Everything is explained clearly and done step by step. Any video distortion is on your side but the video runs perfectly on my end. Some settings in retroarch have been moved around a bit since this video released but all it takes is a little effort on your part to READ and they aren't too hard to find. You either source the games and bios files from your own personal copies OR do what most of us probably did and use good old Google to find a site that hosts them. The written guide on his site explains exactly what file extension you need and any specific naming conventions for them you need to follow. It's illegal to distribute roms so he's obviously not going to link to exactly where you get them. That should have been extremely obvious. I personally use Vimms Lair.

You can just drop in individual games. Look for "non-merged" romsets, and then pull the individual .zip files from there. By virtue of being non-merged, all of the necessary files are contained in each zip file, so they are plug and play.