RetroArch XMB Consideration

AlexMurphy

@mediamogul I use xmb, not a lot but I find it much easier to see, understand and navigate than rgui. It just looks a lot more user-friendly than that grey/green monstrosity! Plus as you said it can display the full info and has a info-help service (not sure if rgui has this).

herb_fargus

@mediamogul assets would also have to be installed (not sure how much bloat that adds) also pi 1 performance has to be considered as well

mediamogul

@herb_fargus

not sure how much bloat that adds

I took note of it earlier at 52.6 MB zipped and 65.4 MB unzipped.

also pi 1 performance has to be considered as well

A very good point.

herb_fargus

@mediamogul also I don't make these decisions ;) but it's definitely worth discussing (also since RetroArch sets it as the default )

mediamogul

@herb_fargus

Understood. I just figured it was worth bringing up.

AlexMurphy

@herb_fargus Whoa. Just checked the assets directory... It's 3.34GB. I don't need the space at the minute but if I ever do I know where to get it. That's a lot of bloat.
EDIT: I'm an idiot. It's 97MB.

mediamogul

@AlexMurphy

Are you sure about that? As mentioned above, I have it at 52.6 MB zipped and 65.4 MB unzipped.

AlexMurphy

@mediamogul Sorry! 97MB. I just saw the 3Gigs and freaked out!

Concat

Just a warning... when I first installed RetroiPie, one of the first things I did was change the menu driver in RetroArch to XMB. I experienced some issues that seemed specific to the emulator being run:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1815/hotkey-for-retroarch-quick-menu-in-game-menu

Maybe it's no longer an issue... I don't know.

AlexMurphy

@Concat Works fine on all RetroArch cores including lr-pcsx-rearmed. I don't use a libretro emulator for N64 so I can't comment on that.

mediamogul

@Concat said in RetroArch XMB Consideration:

Maybe it's no longer an issue... I don't know.

I've had it active since my initial post and have been testing it with 28 cores. So far it's been performing very well, but just like almost anything, mileage may vary. I don't know if the original Pi or Pi 0 would run it well, but apparently it's the default in Lakka for those as well, so who knows.

AlexMurphy

@mediamogul It works great for me too, I changed a long time ago. RGUI just offended my eyes. The only thing I had to do was add an icon for netplay that was missing on the retroactive icon theme I use. I couldn't bear to look at a black square where it should have been. I think personally that RGUI is used to keep the technophobes and noobs away from using it!