RetroArch Xbox 360 1.0.0.2 Download

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

This is the current final build that is capable of running on Jtag / RGH hacked Xbox 360's and supports the following cores:

• Genesis Plus GX
• SNES9x Next
• VBA Next
• NEStopia
• FCEUmm
• Mednafen PCE Fast
• Mednafen NGP
• Mednafen VB
• Mednafen Wonderswan
• Prboom
• NX Engine (Cave Story)
• Tyrquake
• Final Burn Alpha
• Gambatte
• MAME 2003 (0.78) NEW!

How to Install:

Copy the entire RetroArch-360 folder to your Xbox 360's harddrive.
Roms go into the roms directory, or another subdirectory in the RetroArch-360 directory.

Download:

RetroArch Xbox 360 1.0.0.2 Final Download

How to use:

On first startup, RetroArch will select one of the dozen or so emulator/game cores. The name of the core currently loaded will be
shown at the bottom side of the screen.

You can now select a ROM that this core supports and load it in the File browser.

To select a different core - go to 'Change Libretro core' in the Main Menu.

Press A to go to a filebrowser where you can select a different core.
Press A to switch to the emulator/game core.

In game controls:

During ingame operation you can do some extra actions:

Right Thumb Stick - Down - Fast-forwards the game
Right Thumb Stick - Up - Rewinds the game in real-time
('Rewind' has to be enabled in the 'Settings'
screen - warning - comes at a slight
performance decrease but will be worth it
if you love this feature)
RStick Left + RT - Decrease save state slot
Rtick Right + RT - Increase save state slot
RStick Up + RT - Load selected save state slot
RStick Down + RT - Save selected save state slot
Right Thumb + Left Thumb - Go back to 'Menu'/'Quick Menu'

What is Retroarch?

RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight and portable. It has features few other emulator frontends have, such as real-time rewinding and game-aware shading.

What is Libretro?

Libretro is the API that RetroArch uses. It makes it easy to port games and emulators to a single core backend, such as RetroArch.

For 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.

Think of libretro as an interface for emulator and game ports. You can make a libretro port once and expect the same code to run on all the platforms that RetroArch supports. 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.

The purpose of libretro is to help ease the work of the emulator/game porter by giving him an API that allows him to target multiple platforms at once without having to redo any code. He doesn't have to worry about writing input/video/audio drivers - all of that is supplied to him by RetroArch. All he has to do is to have the emulator port hook into the libretro API and that's it - we take care of the rest.

The 360 port of RetroArch has the following features:

- Real-time rewinding
- Switching between emulator cores seamlessly, and ability to install new libretro cores

Included with RetroArch 360 are a bunch of shaders - including the latest version of the popular xBR shader. It is possible to use two shaders simultaneously to get the best possible graphical look.

 

I believe so, I'm not aware of anyone actively developing RetroArch for the Xbox 360 anymore.