We have the pleasure of announcing a great new emulator core, the Neo Geo emulator Geolith. The upstream author of the Jolly Good Emulation project broke out this core and ported it to libretro to make it available to as many users as possible, and we’re happy to welcome it into the fold. Historically, Neo […]

RetroArch 1.17 expands Netplay to support playing multiplayer games that were originally played on two or more separate consoles or computers connected together. This is currently supported by two cores: DOSBox Pure and gpSP. In DOSBox Pure it is now possible to play DOS and early Windows multiplayer games that used IPX, Ethernet or a […]

RetroArch 1.17.0 has just been released. Grab it here. Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldn’t keep doing this were it not for spreading the love to our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. We […]

This was a fun research sideproject. It did not take any development resources away. Download this on NexusMods here. This mod does the following: This mod takes a conservative and disciplined approach. It does not seek to alterthe game’s look, it does not add additional lighting, it does not remove spot lights orremove baked shadows. […]

This was a fun research sideproject. It did not take any development resources away. Download this on NexusMods here. This mod does the following: Reduce/eliminate texture LOD (Level of Detail) Increase draw distances, less pop-in of mappieces and objects Draw some mappieces that were inside the level files but never rendered ingame This mod takes […]

RetroArch 1.16.0 has just been released. Grab it here. If you’d like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldn’t keep doing this were it not for spreading the love to our users. This project exists because […]

The cause of the intrusion has been found and isolated. We have no indications that other systems including core distribution was accessed, so there is no immediate cause for concern there. Sites should be operational right now and everything should work fine right now. PSA: If people downloaded RetroArch on Windows earlier today they should […]

DirkSimple core added to Steam We added a new core, DirkSimple. This brings the total number of available cores on Steam to 60 now. DirkSimple is a core written from scratch by icculus, one of the original creators/maintainers of popular open source projects like SDL. It can play some of the 1980s LaserDisc arcade games. […]

A new concept we’re going to try, we’ll see if it lasts. Expect irregular blog posts like this, whenever something is on our mind that we want to share. It’s basically like a development diary where we discuss future plans for upcoming versions and what we have been thinking about doing. Raising the lowest common […]

RetroArch 1.15.0 has just been released. Grab it here. If you’d like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldn’t keep doing this were it not for spreading the love to our users. This project exists because […]

After a long hiatus, Lakka is finally back! New version of Lakka has been released! We are happy to announce the new and updated version of Lakka. Lakka 4.3 is based on RetroArch 1.14.0. Read the full article on our sister site here.