New Amiberry relese and Libretro Reicast update

George Spiggott

The two optional packages I use seen to have been busy lately.

Amiberry 2.24 was released 14th Jan.

https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/releases

I didn't even realise there was a Libretro version of Reicast but there was a progress report (updated release?) on 25th Dec.

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/category/reicast/

A Former User

On the Dreamcast front, a recent but notable improvement is the automatic setting of the BIOS date and time at boot.

That, I'm sure, will be most welcome to many.

quicksilver

@John_RM_70 Its just a shame Lr-reicast isnt available for the RPI. Something tells me it would be too slow on an RPI anyway.

I believe there was a fix for date time issue for RPI users, submitted as a PR a while ago but it was never incorporated because of some issues with the PR.

George Spiggott

That would explain why I had not heard of LR Reicast before. A shame as the little optimisations like improved pad customisation and no date/time request would really make Reicast on the Pi. Currently on my Pi3 it delivers better performance than N64 emulation with way better graphics to boot.

barbudreadmon

@George-Spiggott said in New Amiberry relese and Libretro Reicast update:

Currently on my Pi3 it delivers better performance than N64 emulation with way better graphics to boot.

Standalone reicast frameskipping on rpi3 is awfully noticeable already; for lr-reicast (its improvements go far beyond a date fix and some RA features), while it can run on rpi, an odroid xu4 is strongly recommended.

George Spiggott

I'd like to take a look for myself. Is it possible to install it on Retropie?

It would be worth it just to see if the emulation of Panzer Front has improved.

barbudreadmon

@George-Spiggott said in New Amiberry relese and Libretro Reicast update:

Is it possible to install it on Retropie?

Through the retropie scripts i don't know, but you can build it the official way :

git clone https://github.com/libretro/reicast-emulator.git
cd reicast-emulator
make platform=rpi3

After that you'll have to edit your emulationstation configuration to make use of the reicast_libretro.so you just created.