RetroArch

Frontend for emulators, game engines and media players

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org.libretro.RetroArch

RetroArch enables you to run classic games on a wide range of computers and consoles through its slick graphical interface. Settings are also unified so configuration is done once and for all.

It enables you to run classic games on a wide range of computers and consoles through its slick graphical interface. Settings are also unified so configuration is done once and for all. RetroArch has advanced features like shaders, netplay, rewinding, next-frame response times, runahead, and more!

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Rabbit : a fighting game from 1997, one of the only Electronic Arts arcade games

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Upstream releases

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1.22.222 Nov 2025

Update to RetroArch 1.22.2

1.22.116 Nov 2025

XMB: Fix null pointer crash in xmb when scrolling
LIBRETRO: Build fix for stb_vorbis
LIBRETRO: Slim down stb_rect_pack/stb_truetype/dr_flac

1.22.010 Nov 2025

AUTOCONF: Autoconfig match extended with a physical identifier
CAMERA: Use ffmpeg libavfilter virtual input device as default
CHEEVOS: Show additional message for unsupported achievements
CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 12.1
CHEEVOS: Change expired token message from info to error
CHEEVOS: Hashing of RVZ files is now supported
CLOUDSYNC: Don't always trust the server hash
CLOUDSYNC: Enable WebDAV support for Android
DATABASE: Improve multidisk game scanning
DATABASE: Filter in Database Manager now works for genre and region
INPUT: Default key and mouse binds for lightgun Start and Select buttons
INPUT: Turbo mode corrections
INPUT: Turbo fire settings are now saved to remaps, not to overrides
INPUT: Fix menu usage when OK/Cancel has mouse binds
INPUT: Ignore menu mouse startup position before moving
INPUT: Fix heavy slowdown when using Bluetooth XInput controllers with rumble
INPUT: Reset and close content hotkeys now require confirmation, similar to quit
INPUT: Menu toggle and hotkey enable can now be assigned to the same key
INPUT: Option to have hotkeys follow the port mapped first to the core
INPUT/UDEV: Fix lost terminal settings after restart from menu
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Bumped replay format version to 2. Old replays will still play back fine.
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Add option to skip deserializing checkpoints from replay files
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Add checkpoint and initial savestate compression
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Add incremental checkpoints based on statestreams
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Checkpoint compression and encoding can be combined
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Add hotkeys and text commands to force a checkpoint insertion into the currently recording replay
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Add a text command to seek to a specific frame of the currently playing/recording replay
INTL: Add Irish Gaelic to selectable languages
LIBRETRO: Deprecate intfstream_open_writable_memory
LIBRETRO: New environment function RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_GET_TARGET_SAMPLE_RATE
LINUX: Add full complement of key/value pairs to desktop entry
MENU: Common Thumbnail Background option for all menu drivers
MENU: Move core options reset from Settings/Configuration to Main Menu / Configuration Files
MENU: Use right analog stick for thumbnail cycling in playlists
MENU: Option to always suggest cores, even when a core is already loaded
MENU: Option to show Favorites before History
MENU: Media history playlists are now visible in playlist manager
MENU: Import Content visibility defaults reverted
MENU: Update CRTSwitchRes menu options for future use
MENU: Debug builds are indicated in Information menu
MENU: Save As / Save Main options for configuration file
MENU: Unwanted input is prevented when menu is triggered by toggle combo
MENU: 32-bit values in cheats and rumble are not presented as huge lists
MENU: Less important widgets are now sized like task notifications
MENU: Play count is added to runtime log
MENU: Configurable startup page (several options beside default Main Menu)
MENU: Shader menu rework
MENU: Single-click start option from playlists and Explore view
MENU: Allow kiosk mode and hiding of Settings menu also in GLUI and RGUI
MENU: Task widget improvements
MENU/GLUI: Show thumbnails in Explore view
MENU/XMB: Select button toggles thumbnails in playlists
MENU/XMB,OZONE: Fix content icons when playlist tabs are hidden
MENU/OZONE: Horizontal padding factor option
MENU/OZONE: Custom font selection and scaling factor
MENU/RGUI: Clock format is now configurable and moved to top header
NETPLAY: Push room info to lobby
NETWORK: Fixes for nmcli wifi driver
NETWORK: Network command interface enabled for Android, iOS, TVOS
OTHER: ZStandard support and libchdr update for support of chd files converted with createdvd option
OVERLAY: Speed limit on touch pointer tracking
OVERLAY: Dedicate each touch pointer to hitboxes or pointing devices
OVERLAY: Fix overlay turbo fire
PLAYLIST: Built-in playlists are now stored under playlists/builtin
PLAYLIST: Fix subsystem information in playlists
REPLAY: Bugs fixed regarding rewind
REPLAY: Same timeline check and future state check for replays vs. savestates
SAVESTATES: Savestate thumbnails are default enabled for x86_64 builds
SAVESTATES: Slot is now remembered using the runtime log file
SAVESTATES: Slot hotkey widget shows save state thumbnail
SCAN: Fix crash with Sega CD
SCAN: Log files without database match
SCAN: Optimization of database queries by content file size
VIDEO: Fix auto swap interval setup
VIDEO: Improvements for integer scale half scaling
VIDEO: Adjustments to smart integer scaling, considering title safe area
VIDEO: Frame delay improvements for the automatic setting
VIDEO: Auto-enable GPU recording with HW context cores
VIDEO: Fix viewport bias when using custom aspect ratio
VIDEO/GL: Fallback OpenGL symbol loader for Linux devices with EGL < 1.5
VIDEO/GL: Support for Cg and GLSL shaders in the GLCore video driver
VIDEO/GL: Improve GLES version detection
VIDEO/SHADER: Shader hold function, useful for some lightguns and shader comparison
VIDEO/SWITCHRES: Horizontal and vertical geometry adjustment options added
VIDEO/SWITCHRES: Game overrides
VIDEO/WAYLAND: Support for xdg-toplevel-icon-v1
VIDEO/WAYLAND: Fix deadlock when using Wayland Vulkan driver
VIDEO/WAYLAND: Fix fullscreen on auto monitor index (partial)

1.21.029 Apr 2025

AUTOCONF: Enable alternative display name in autoconfig files
AUTOCONF: Make autoconfig failure messages optional
AUDIO: Option to mute on rewind
AUDIO/PIPEWIRE: Fix app launch when pipewire service is stopped
AUDIO/PIPEWIRE: Fix speedup with threaded video mode
AUDIO/PIPEWIRE: Fix latency setting and microphone handling
AUDIO/PIPEWIRE: Pass the new rate to the audio driver
CAMERA: Add PipeWire camera driver
CAMERA: Add ffmpeg camera driver
CHEAT: Rewrite part of cheat_manager_load_cb_second_pass()
CHEEVOS: Include achievement state in netplay states
CHEEVOS: Fix crash when entering achievements in quick menu while client is not present
CHEEVOS: Restore cheevos_badges_enable for HAVE_GFX_WIDGETS builds
CLI: Allow --entryslot to fall back to normal states
CLOUDSYNC: Workaround for duplicated requests bug
CLOUDSYNC: Workaround for 301 redirects
CLOUDSYNC: Handle ignored directories properly
GENERAL: Fix save state auto increment
GENERAL: Fix softpatching with periods/dots in the file name
GENERAL: Fix compilation with --enable-videocore
GENERAL: Allow asset directory redefinition and other directory overrides via environment variables
GENERAL: Allow override of player 1/2 input with machine learning models (needs recompilation and external library)
GENERAL: Fix performance counter option not remembered between sessions
GENERAL: Create security statement
GENERAL: Fix crash when core is not selected
GENERAL: Use core fps instead of screen refresh for calculating dropped frames
INPUT: Fix a crash when initializing illuminance sensor on Linux
INPUT: Analog-to-digital refactor, fixing behavior when analogs are assigned to keys
INPUT: Turbo fire overhaul
INPUT/COCOA: Include gravity in acceleration sensor values
INPUT/COCOA: Fix relative mouse input
INPUT/COCOA: Allow mouse input while mouse overlay is active
INPUT/WINRAW: Invert mouse index order
LAKKA: Remove bluetooth device after disconnection
LINUX/X11: Extend X11 input driver with XInput2 extensions for multi-mouse
MENU: Add SSL support to the information list
MENU: Add warning to BFI and related menu items
MENU: Fix latency statistics when using runahead
MENU: Fix opening file inside archive with core selection
MENU: Main menu unified between different menu drivers
MENU: Visibility toggle for playlist tabs
MENU: Color the notification icon by message category
MENU: Gray Dark+Light theme adjustments
MENU/GLUI: Menu back button switches tabs like in other menu drivers
MENU/GLUI: Tab selection option is honored
MENU/GLUI: Fix CD icon appearing when no icon is specified
MENU/GLUI: Allow fullscreen thumbnail browsing
MENU/GLUI: Save state thumbnails
MENU/PLAYLISTS: Random selection/shuffle function
MENU/QT: Fix desktop menu crash with Cheevos disabled
MENU/RGUI: Cleanups of certain menu items
MENU/RGUI: Thumbnail fixes
MENU/OZONE: Fix messagebox background
MENU/XMB: Fix Light theme, font shadow
MENU/XMB: Appearance menu cleanup
MENU/XMB: Icon thumbnail can be any of the existing types
MISC: Guard nanosleep prototype behind _POSIX_TIMERS
MISC: Use fabsf and intended threshold for refresh rate check
MISC: Use platform-specific checks for invalid descriptors
MIDI: Add dropdown items for midi device selection
NETWORK: Refactor of net_http, improvements for task blocking and performance
NETWORK: Follow http redirects in net_http
NETWORK: Expire failed DNS lookups much faster
NETWORK: Fix netplay when using netpacket interface with recent cheevos
NETWORK/HTTP: Fix crash in net_http_resolve() in single-thread mode
OVERLAY: Fix overlay lightgun, mouse and pointer
OVERLAY: Preferred overlay loading is now default only on mobile platforms
OVERLAY: Improve analog recentering when touching the area just outside the recentering zone
QT: Enable non-png thumbnails also for Qt interface
REPLAY: Fix issue when replaying old format input recordings in newer RetroArch
TTS: Fix initial text-to-speech on Windows
SAVESTATES: Reset state index when loading new content
VIDEO: Enable BFI setting for mobile platforms (mind the warnings)
VIDEO/OpenGLES: Fix FP/sRGB FBO support
VIDEO/SHADERS: Allow exact refresh rate sync with shader subframes
VIDEO/SHADERS: FIX shader wildcards
VIDEO/VULKAN: Enable adaptive vsync
VIDEO/V4L2: Added resolution picker/forcing.
VIDEO/V4L2: Rewrote logic for finding ALSA audio devices in enumerate_audio_devices function
VIDEO/V4L2: Added a skip for some of the interface queries that fail and are not required for magewell usb.