
Go through all the menus and set what you know you want. This includes what your controls will be, your basic video settings, etc. Having spent the last 2 years working on my setup (I insist on doing everything the hard way), and learning a lot by doing just about all of it manually here is what I would sugguest:īoot up RetroArch with no cores loaded, and figure out your base settings FIRST. Well I’m nowhere near done hahaha, but I’ve got RetroArch running the vast majority of my system via Hyperspin and RocketLauncher. These things are easier to mess with via the GUI rather than fiddling with cfg files, so you may want to play around with getting it looking how you like it first via GUI and then move on from there. You may or may not want to have integer scaling enabled (probably yes if you’re going to do scanlines or a CRT shader, probably not if not there are exceptions in either case). The default aspect ratio in RA is ‘core provided,’ which typically means 4:3 for things that were played on a TV and 1:1 PAR for handhelds (with a few exceptions). OTOH, if you use an entirely separate config for each core instead of using the config overrides, you may find yourself having to edit a lot of config files just to make one change consistent across all of the cores. Important CLI switches are:īecause of the -c switch, you can avoid a lot of the per-core config / override headaches that a lot of people run into. Since Hyperspin et al work from the CLI interface, that’s probably where you’ll want to spend most of your time exploring, rather than through RetroArch’s GUI. Thanks in advance for any advice you all can give to help me move forward with my ultimate goal. Once I get RetroArch setup properly and I’m happy with it I can then move on to the RocketLauncher forums and continue my journey from there. I understand that this forum is about RetroArch so it’s fine if that’s all you want to talk about. Maybe even add scanlines too but that’s not a necessity and would be the only extra thing I would possibly want. I really don’t mind black bars on the side. The only things I think I may need to mention is that my computer is connected to a HD TV through HDMI and that I would like my games to be run in their original resolution and not stretched. So I have messed around with RetroArch before but I was wondering if there was anyone who had a similar end goal like mine that already has everything set up perfectly could share what they did to me. So where I want to start first is NES and once I get NES working perfectly through RetroArch, RocketLauncher and HyperSpin then I will move on to the other systems.

But before I can get there I want to make sure I have all my roms and emulators working perfectly first and then I will start messing around with RocketLauncher and HyperSpin. My ultimate goal is to have HyperSpin set up on my computer with all the consoles from my childhood (NES, SNES, N64, Gameboy, Genesis, Game Gear).
