RetroArch
Cross-platform, sophisticated frontend for the libretro API. Licensed GPLv3. (by libretro)
ludo
A libretro frontend written in golang (by libretro)
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| RetroArch | ludo | |
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| 265 | 21 | |
| 9,217 | 572 | |
| 2.4% | 1.0% | |
| 9.8 | 6.7 | |
| 3 days ago | 22 days ago | |
| C | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
RetroArch
Posts with mentions or reviews of RetroArch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Looking for a setup guide for retroarcher on plex
You could try hosting the web version of Retroarch on your server, and use this but I don't think what you're looking for exists
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Netplay Custom Relay Server
Hi all Ive come across this github feature request from the project https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/8124
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SillyTavern can now run Doom!*
Thanks to the amazing people at EmulatorJS and Libretro for making this all possible.
- Is there a way to filter playlists via metadata?
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Can someone explain how runahead works?
It wasn't originally developed for BSNES. It seems to go as far back as 2018 with a patch by Nitsuja for a TAS geared Gens fork then submitted to RA by Dwedit in 2018
- where do I get gameboy shaders at to download?
- [question] Anyone know to how to get rid of the mouse cursor in DOSbox-pure? Yes, I've tried f11 mouse toggle. Normally in pc/mac to fix this, I would go into Full screen mode, and it would hide the mouse cursor. I'm using a firestick on my TV in this picture instead. Can the arrow be hidden?
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How to ask for an approval on a new funcition to Sync saves on retroarch?
It's a pretty hairy topic once you get into the details but you can read through this issue thread to get up to speed: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/6875
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Trying to map R and L Dreamcast triggers to analog right UP and DOWN
So this is the issue: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/13913
- Settings not getting saved
ludo
Posts with mentions or reviews of ludo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-08.
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ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console
A similar project is Ludo [1] which is part of the libretro family. More for emulation but really a clean UI (it actually has screenshots)
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Building a Linux arcade machine
Linux Mint is fine. You'll want to modify it to start using something lighter than Cinnamon (I suggest OpenBox); 4GB of RAM means that KDE and GNOME/Cinnamon are not going to be fun, and as you're using it for arcade games, you don't need much more than a launcher for Steam/RetroArch/EmulationStation/Ludo/Lutris/etc.
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Why RetroArch?
Have a look at https://ludo.libretro.com/ if you can't work out RA.
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Libretro or Retroarch?
Ludo is better than both.
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Gaming Console Recommendations
MULTI EMULATORS (basically one program that handles a bunch of consoles) I would advise you to avoid frontend or multi emulators like mame or retroarch, because they could be intimidating if you start in this area to start with a frontend multi emulator, I recommend this one witch is beginner friendly and have a good documentation ludo emulator
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I'm coding an GameBoy emulator in Godot. I'm not quite sure why, I thought it'd be a fun side project lmao. The CPU is fully implemented, so now it's onto actually displaying stuff. Wish me luck!
There's a spin-off of Retroarch that I think is way better called Ludo. It's basically a less confusing version of Retroarch with a really clean UI!
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How to play retro games under Ubuntu 20 LTS. I used to play games from retrospec but now I don’t know what to do to make them work. It’s quite an easy question I’m sorry.
did you try retroarch? if you want something simpler, give ludo a try. It's from the same team, but made simpler. https://ludo.libretro.com/
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He’s doing it right. What GBA emulator do y’all use?
I highly recommend Ludo, it's like Retroarch but much easier to use and automatically chooses the best emulator for each system. Just put in your roms folder and it'll automatically split them by console, then just choose and play.
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RetroArch 1.9.14 released
You just want Ludo. Go use it.
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RetroArch 1.9.13 released!
[You might like Ludo](https://ludo.libretro.com/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing RetroArch and ludo you can also consider the following projects:
batocera.linux - batocera.linux
duckstation - Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64
libretro-thumbnails - Thumbnails for RetroArch
LWJGL - LWJGL is a Java library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs useful in the development of graphics (OpenGL, Vulkan, bgfx), audio (OpenAL, Opus), parallel computing (OpenCL, CUDA) and XR (OpenVR, LibOVR, OpenXR) applications.
arkos - Another rockchip Operating System
OpenEmu - 🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
EmulationStation - A Fork of Emulation Station for RetroPie. Emulation Station is a flexible emulator front-end supporting keyboardless navigation and custom system themes.
nimgl - NimGL is a Nim library that offers bindings for popular libraries used in computer graphics
docker-emulatorjs - Web based retro emulation frontend with rom scanning and automated art ingestion.
bintris - Binary Tetris
mame - MAME
macdriver - Native Mac APIs for Go. Soon to be renamed DarwinKit!