A new updated PS3 Emulator for the PlayStation 3 Homebrew community has been made available . RetroArch 0.9.8 is the latest emulator for the PS3 To be made advailable to the PS3 Homebrew community . If you are using a older version of RetroArch on your system , Then you might want to go ahead a update to the latest version which is now available for download via the source . Feel free to read a bit moe about this release below .
This new version of RetroArch includes some new cores: Mednafen_neo_pop (Neo Geo Pocket / Color) & Mednafen_VB (Virtual Boy). These two cores first appeared on a recent unofficial build from pete_uk’s (0.9.8 Beta 3). Nestopia an alternate NES core is a newly added core and I must say i been playing with this for about a week in an unofficial build and it performs quite nicely. There has been improvements to all parts of RetroArch including updates to all the libretro cores, Various fixes/additions such as Onscreen keyboard, An added PAL60 temporal PAL mode, Fixes to a lot of path issues, Added rewind granularity options & also a Rewrite of the video driver from scratch (RGL v2). Plus many more Changes/Additions you can view in the change log below.
• [LIBRETRO] Added Mednafen NGP and Mednafen VB.
• [LIBRETRO] Added NEStopia Undead (1.44).
• [LIBRETRO] Updated Mednafen PCE Fast and Mednafen Wonderswan to 0.9.28.
• [FBA] Updated Final Burn Alpha to 0.9.27.28.
• [Gambatte] Updated Gambatte (now has built-in GBC BIOS color palettes).
• [SNES9x Next] Updated SNES9x Next (fixes numerous bugs).
• [FCEUmm] Updated FCEUmm to latest version.
• [Genesis Plus GX] Updated Genesis Plus GX to latest version.
• (RARCH_CONSOLE) Various stability fixes
• (RARCH_CONSOLE) More sane unzipping mode – will temporarily extract file to
HDD and then instantly delete it when it’s done with it (ie. when another ROM
gets loaded or when RetroArch shuts down)
• (RARCH_CONSOLE) All console ports now use 59.94Hz for synchronization on
the RetroArch side instead of 59.92Hz as before. All consoles use 59.94Hz
so this agrees better with them.
• (PS3) Added PAL60 temporal PAL mode
• (PS3) Fixed a lot of path issues – SRAM/savestate dir enable now work,
‘Default ROM directory’ should now work, etc.
• (PS3) Added rewind granularity options
• (PS3) Rewrote video driver from scratch (RGL v2). Faster blitting.
• (PS3) Onscreen keyboard should work again.
Source and Download Location for RetroArch 0.9.8 – http://psvitacfw.com/dl/645