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Skill issues. And being toxic like that won’t help anyone; it lets you look like a clown. Why don’t you use standalone emulators instead, if that is what works for you? Nobody is forcing you to use RetroArch.

I personally think that RetroArch is one of the greatest and best software ever made. It is exactly what I always wanted and even tried to do some similar setup before RetroArch was invented. I’m sick of standalone emulators that work differently and each and every of them is a special snowflake and does not do everything I want. If you have only a few simple systems such as Snes9x and Duckstation, then you might not even need RetroArch. But if you have installed over 70 emulators in RetroArch for more than 70 systems, then its a godsend. It was already after 4 or 5 cores added.

The reason why RetroArch is not as easy as a single emulator is simple. RetroArch does:

• bring many different kind of emulators and systems, such as MAME (which itself is a multi system emulator), DOSBox (PCs basically), many consoles and handhelds and tries to fit it into single environment
• can be installed on and works on all kind of hardware and software, such as Windows PC (even on Windows 2000), Linux, on Nintendo 3DS, Android smartphones, Raspberry Pi, on Steam, Xbox, on Web Frontends in your browser, and more
• every system needs to work with the same UI and all configurations are setup the same way
• configurations need to work across all systems and environments, such as controllers
• while being extremely flexible and configurable

The price you pay for all of this is the added complexity to the system to manage everything. And sometimes not everything can be up to date, until they port or update the cores in RetroArch. There is no denying in. But I’m not the one who is crying here.

No. All you need to do is put them in the right place. If they are marked as missing, either they are not in the correct folder, not named correctly or are the wrong versions.

Note: You don’t need all files that are marked as missing in this list. There are bios files from PSP and PS3, but you don’t need them. You only need the 3 original PS bios files, 1 for each region: scph5500.bin, scph5501.bin, scph5502.bin . Make sure they are the correct versions. Easiest way to check that is with md5sum . Then compare it to the MD5 listed at documentation link I gave you earlier, which looks like these 490f666e1afb15b7362b406ed1cea246 . Its enough to just compare the first few and last few characters to make sure its correct.

Without getting creepy (I have only good intentions) I looked up your post history to see if you were a Linux user. I can see you was setting up Batocera at some point. It is entirely possible that the system you are using setup a different directory for the RetroArch bios “system” folder. Open RetroArch and lookup Settings > Directory > “System/BIOS” . The very first entry on this list shows where the system directory of RetroArch is setup for you. The Playstation bios files go in that folder.

Can you play any Playstation games? If not, its best to create a log file. I don’t know what platform you are using, here is an overview of how to do that for all platforms you have installed RetroArch on: https://docs.libretro.com/guides/generating-retroarch-logs/

You replied to yourself, therefore I did not get any notification.

Just put the bios files in the system directory. They don’t need to be scanned. If these are the correct files, then RetroArch will pick them up automatically from this place. All you need is to put those 3 bios files with .bin extension to system folder.

Then you can check if the bios files are missing or correct at Settings > Core > Manage Cores > “Sony - PlayStation (Beetle PSX HW)” or at the core you actually use. Scroll down to the list with the exclamation points marks (!) . They tell you which of them are either “Present” or “Missing”.

RetroArch has a dedicated directory for bios and system files. Usually the Playstation bios goes to “system” folder in RetroArch. It’s described here, you need the correct bios files: https://docs.libretro.com/library/beetle_psx_hw/#bios

With a gui I guess, right? Not one that is run by terminal commands. Did you search or try any emulator yet and is something too big or does not work for you? What environment are you in and what repository do you can use? Even if the filesize of the emulator is small, it might introduce lot of dependencies that are much bigger in size. How old is the PC actually? Ancient? How smol do you need it?

You could also just download an .AppImage file, which does not require you to install anything and all dependencies are included in this one file. So while the file looks big (15 MB for recent build Snes9x 1.62.3), it still is all you need, compared to an installation from your package manager: https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/releases

I also have almost most recent version of Yuzu (2 days behind). I immediately updated and backed up when reading about the news the other day. I was in the middle of playing Breath of the Wild when these news came out to light and finished the game just recently a few weeks ago on original Yuzu, with over 130 hours playtime.

I know. Obviously I have linked to the project and said it has a new leadership, which is the key point. Should have said “the project as we know is dead”. You can think of it as kind of a fork, but without being a fork, just with a different leadership.

No. Suyu devs stopped working on it. It’s officially dead: https://pastebin.com/6FYdz9Sr

The guy posting this on pastebin “claims” to be “kksowo” and probably is, but we cannot verify. The project “seems” to be under new leadership. You can make out of it what you want, but I would not touch Suyu anymore or any of its forks. They are all sus by default. But you can disagree with me and still use it. For that case: https://git.suyu.dev/suyu

I still have the version before all of this happened (just a few days older than last official Yuzu) and plan on switching to Ryujinx.

I think like with any other standalone emulator compared to RetroArch, the main benefit would be the user interface and the entire configuration setup. Ares is a more traditional application with less functionality and narrow focus. That makes it simpler and more native to use on your operating system. Also you don’t need to learn and understand how RetroArch is setup, with all its configuration, because how many features it supports and how generic it is.

Note: I’m a huge RetroArch fan, its not dunking on it or anything like that.

Also some people don’t like that RetroArch itself does not have emulator cores, but rather use other cores (which is the entire point of it and why I’m loving it). Ares is completely its own thing (but a fork of higan, which was based on Bsnes, RIP Near). And because its much simpler, people might be understanding its source code better.

Also I don’t use and don’t know what Ares actually supports and can do. In example I have a separate and standalone Mesen, just because of its excellent debugging features (when I experimented with romhacking).

Maybe I got it the other way and Yuzu did not require. Did a quick research and seems like the opposite, maybe the person I was listening to (or read, honestly don’t remember the source) got it twisted?? I’m sorry for my misinformation and will edit my above reply. I did not know this and always installed firmware, title.keys and prod.keys.

The suyu devs themselves said that the DMCA request didn’t even come from Nintendo, it came from gitlab automatically because they forked a repo that was taken down.

That would sound plausible, if it wasn’t that much delayed from the actual takedown of original Yuzu. If this is true, then they will probably work on Suyu elsewhere.

To be expected. Honestly I don’t know what they expected, directly cloning and working on the very same emulator Nintendo shutdown a few days prior. They should have taken their time, reorganize, remove problematic stuff and documentation, and create a complete new identity with different branding. If anyone wants truly work on this emulator, they should think about a good approach. And maybe wait until Nintendo does not sell the console anymore.

(Edit: After reading the reply, this paragraph can be answered with “no”. I got it flipped and it’s actually Yuzu that did not require firmware.) And is it true that suyu did not need any product keys anymore and an empty file would be enough to play all games? That’s even worse for Nintendo, because that makes piracy even easier.

People call me a Nintendo fanboy and yuzu hater. It’s the opposite, I’m a Yuzu player (almost daily) and don’t like Nintendo anymore. And it saddens me to see how incompetent some people go with this topic.

That’s some nice words, thanks. :-) I’m so glad it helped you. Have a good day!

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I suspected something like that would happen, but to be honest, this is a bit faster than I was even thinking. I thought we would get a revival of Yuzu when Nintendo officially stops selling the console.