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    [bsnes] wrong binary? (SOLVED)

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      nemo93
      last edited by 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:

      1. on a pi4 launch the Retropie setup
      2. go to Manage packages
      3. Select 212 / lr-bsnes
      4. 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?

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        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.

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          nemo93
          last edited by

          Thanks as always for the swift response.

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