Mednafen/Beetle PSX HW – Alpha test version

Libretro Team
Parasite Eve with the experimental GL renderer. Note the screen residue glitches at the bottom.
Parasite Eve with the experimental GL renderer. Note the screen residue glitches at the bottom.

Here is the first release of Mednafen/Beetle PSX HW. You can download this core right now for Windows, Linux, and OSX.

NOTE: THIS IS AN ALPHA VERSION AND IT IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UPCOMING BETA VERSION. PERFORMANCE RIGHT NOW IS A LOT LOWER THAN WHAT IT WILL BE FOR THE BETA VERSION. EXPECT BUGS TOO.

See a complete screenshot gallery here.

Where to get it?

Rage Racer using experimental GL renderer
Rage Racer using experimental GL renderer
Final Fantasy VII using experimental GL renderer
Final Fantasy VII using experimental GL renderer

Go to RetroArch, go to Online Updater, go to ‘Update Cores’, and download ‘PlayStation (Mednafen PSX HW)’. You might need to update your core info files first before this will show up properly. To do this, go to ‘Online Updater’, and select Update Core Info Files’.

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RetroArch 1.3.4 released

Libretro Team

Version 1.3.4 has just been released.

Builds can be found here.

Old MacOS X builds (PowerPC and 32bit Intel) will be retroactively added soon, since these builds can’t be automated.

Graphics improvements

 

This is the simplified ribbon animation shown here. The more advanced one should be fullspeed on any GPU from 2008 and later.

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