It's designed with simplicity and ease of use in mind so that the porter can worry about the port at hand instead of having to wrestle with an obfuscatory API. You can make a libretro port once and expect the same code to run on all the platforms that RetroArch supports. Think of libretro as an interface for emulator and game ports. It makes it easy to port games and emulators to a single core backend, such as RetroArch.įor the user, this means - more ports to play with, more crossplatform portability, less worrying about developers having to reinvent the wheel writing boilerplate UI/port code - so that they can get busy with writing the emulator/porting the emulator/game. It has features few other emulator frontends have, such as real-time rewinding and game-aware shading. RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight and portable. Right Thumb + Left Thumb - Go back to 'Menu'/'Quick Menu' RStick Down + RT - Save selected save state slot RStick Up + RT - Load selected save state slot Rtick Right + RT - Increase save state slot RStick Left + RT - Decrease save state slot Performance decrease but will be worth it ('Rewind' has to be enabled in the 'Settings'

Right Thumb Stick - Up - Rewinds the game in real-time Right Thumb Stick - Down - Fast-forwards the game Press A to switch to the emulator/game core.ĭuring ingame operation you can do some extra actions: Press A to go to a filebrowser where you can select a different core. To select a different core - go to 'Change Libretro core' in the Main Menu. You can now select a ROM that this core supports and load it in the File browser. The name of the core currently loaded will be

On first startup, RetroArch will select one of the dozen or so emulator/game cores. RetroArch Xbox 360 1.0.0.2 Final Download Roms go into the roms directory, or another subdirectory in the RetroArch-360 directory. This is the current final build that is capable of running on Jtag / RGH hacked Xbox 360's and supports the following cores:Ĭopy the entire RetroArch-360 folder to your Xbox 360's harddrive.

RetroArch is an open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications.

Xbox 360 rom games