


Raising the lowest common Continue reading RetroArch 1.15.0 release It’s basically like a development diary where we discuss future plans for upcoming versions and what we have been thinking about doing. Expect irregular blog posts like this, whenever something is on our mind that we want to share. Continue reading Development Plan – March 13, 2023Ī new concept we’re going to try, we’ll see if it lasts. It can play some of the 1980s LaserDisc arcade games. DirkSimple is a core written from scratch by icculus, one of the original creators/maintainers of popular open source projects like SDL. This brings the total number of available cores on Steam to 60 now.

More information on that will appear in the future.DirkSimple core added on Steam + RetroArch updateĭirkSimple core added to Steam We added a new core, DirkSimple. However, Microsoft is in the process of bringing “safe and legal” emulation onto the Xbox. Since Microsoft considers it safe, it does not plan on changing this any time in the future. You will still be able to use emulators in dev mode. As for why Nintendo has issues with a Microsoft console, you could install Dolphin onto your Xbox Series X or One. Microsoft only banned emulators in retail mode. To summarize, aside from the legal issues with Nintendo, there is a security risk involved with emulators. The full e-mail is available on Alyanna McKenna’s Twitter as an image. Though emulating itself is not illegal, players can emulate games “from consoles that are still under copyright protection without permission,” which Nintendo is not happy about. According to the official message, the main reason for the ban has to do with Nintendo.

In response to a Twitter user noting that Microsoft blocked emulators in the Xbox store front, Azure Developer Alyanna McKenna has replied with an e-mail from the Xbox QA team.
