[bsnes] wrong binary? (SOLVED)

nemo93

Hello, I recently acquired a Pi4 and I'm doing a full round of testing to find which emus are working ok. So far I'm just impressed by how solid the Pi4 is compared to Pi3! I just tried bsnes yesterday and faced an issue.

Description/How to reproduce:

on a pi4 launch the Retropie setup
go to Manage packages
Select 212 / lr-bsnes
Update from binary

Assuming you have lr-bsnes as the default snes emu you won't be able to run any games at this stage (you'll go back to the frontend). In fact the accuracy core is being installed into the Retropie folder. This core is too demanding for a Pi definitely. This accuracy core is also not properly added in the emulators.cfg file.

Fix
Simply update this core from source and the performance core will be compiled and installed without issue. Games are running fine (I'm on a stock Pi4/no overclock) even the most demanding ones with a special chip. The only trouble is in some Super FX/GSU-1 games like Stunt Race FX you can hear "pops" and "clicks" on audio. Usually this means Pi4 is maxed out. I forgot to check the cpu usage hence it's just an assumption. Otherwise the video emulation looks to be fullspeed.

This is the proper repo for performance version: https://github.com/libretro/bsnes

Question
Would it be possible to update the binary to include the performance core instead of the accuracy one please?

mitu

Binaries should be ok now. The core has been updated to use the latest bsnes version, but the binaries were using an old core version.

nemo93

Thanks as always for the swift response.