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Easy Steps to Update RetroArch

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Easy Steps to Update RetroArch

Retro games, those of the 80s, 90s, and even 2000, for many are much better than modern games. However, today it is unthinkable to buy an NES and its corresponding cartridges, or a Game Boy with any Mario game.

There are, but they are more intended for collecting than for playing. If we miss any of the past generations, we can play them again thanks to the emulators. And, without a doubt, the most complete that we can find is RetroArch .

RetroArch is an OpenSource program created to function as a frontend between the user and the free LibRETRO emulators.

This program gives us an interface from which we can choose the emulator (also known as nucleus, or “core”), and the game that we want to open with said emulator. It also offers us a large number of options and tools designed to improve our gaming experience.

Download the latest version
Of course, one of the ways we have to update RetroArch is to do it manually. To do this, what we must do is download the latest version of RetroArch from your server . On the download website we can choose if we want to download the Stable version (more stable, but less updated) or the Nightly version (updated to date, but with risks of errors).

Once the version we want is downloaded, what we must do is unzip the content of the compressed file on the directory where we have the emulator installed. This process, while respecting games and playlists, can override settings.

For this reason, we recommend, first of all, to make a backup of the configurations and shaders.

It is the most “archaic” method to update the program. Therefore, we recommend using it as long as we know what we are doing. If not, we can lose hours of configurations.

Update RetroArch emulators

This process only updates the emulator, but does not core them. In the end, these cores are the most important part of RetroArch, since they are in charge of opening the games.

Although updating the program is not very archaic, the software itself has its corresponding options to download and update the cores and other elements related to retro emulation.

In the main menu of the program we must choose ” Online Updater ” to enter the corresponding update section of the program.

 

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