DuckStation includes hardware rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan and D3D11), upscaling and 24-bit color and a 64-bit dynarec. A ROM image is not provided with the emulator for legal reasons, you should dump this from your own console using Caetla or other means. You can use an image from any hardware version or region, although mismatching game regions and BIOS regions may have compatibility issues. A “BIOS” ROM image is required to start the emulator and to play games. “Hack” options are discouraged, the default configuration should support all playable games with only some of the enhancements having compatibility issues. Accuracy is not the main focus of the emulator, but the goal is to be as accurate as possible while maintaining performance suitable for low-end devices. I'm not quite sure how to use Tirion's mod that will enable us to play Cross in upscaled textures, so I'll give the floor to them.Īll other discussions specifically related to RetroArch and this project can be had here.Stenzek’s new PlayStation1 emulator DuckStation is now available as a Libretro core on RetroArch! The author of this promising new PlayStation1 emulator made the core by himself and has included it in his upstream repo.ĭuckStation is a totally new PlayStation 1 (aka PSX) emulator focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability. You can then Import Content from inside RetroArch to find your game. Find these online and toss them into RetroArch's 'system' folder.

To get Chrono Cross (or any PSX game) to work, however, I believe you also need some of the PSX's bios files. Select and update one of those (or both!). The only difference, I believe, is that HW offers more features. There are two: 'Sony - PlayStation (Beetle PSX HW)' and 'Sony - PlayStation (Beetle PSX)'. Once you start RetroArch, you'll need to go from the Main Menu to 'Online Updater' -> 'Core Updater', then find the PlayStation cores. RetroArch itself is not an emulator but instead runs off plugins called 'cores'.

Fortunately, the RetroArch developers are already pretty good at that: Their webpage has downloads and installation videos and instructions for just about every system you can imagine. Since Tirion's mod works off of RetroArch, I figured I'd write a short tutorial on how to get it set up.

Retroarch playstation bios