These two issues often go hand-in-hand, and you may particularly have experienced them on some of the more demanding cores like the Vulkan-based PS1 core Beetle PSX HW. Now open a ROM using the ParaLLel 64 core and it will work with the Vulkan driver (using very accurate if low-resolution N64 graphics).

Next, quit Retroarch and reopen it, go to Settings -> Drivers -> Video and change the driver to “vulkan”. Once the game is running, go to the Retroarch menu -> Quick Menu -> Options and change the GFX Plugin to angrylion and RSP plugin to cxd4. First you need to start a game up in the core using the “gl” driver. With ParaLLel 64, you can use Vulkan drivers. Annoyingly, you can’t save this setting just for the N64 core, and need to manually switch it whenever you use cores that use the GL and Vulkan drivers. Namely, neither core works with the Vulkan driver by default.įirstly, if you want to use Mupen64, then you need to manually switch your video drivers (Settings -> Drivers -> Video) to “gl” rather than “vulkan”. If you run your other Retroarch cores using the Vulkan video driver, then you may encounter problems with both of these N64 cores.

The two main N64 cores in Retroarch are Parallel64 and Mupen64. Here, we’ll run through the most common Retroarch issues, and fixes to get it working again. ROMs may fail to scan, emulators run too slowly, and controllers don’t get detected. Such a vast platform with so much going on inevitably runs into problems however.

It doesn’t do Retroarch justice just to call it a “frontend” for every console emulator imaginable because all the great emulators can be integrated into it, downloaded and loaded up as “cores” within seconds. For a growing number of people, Retroarch is the ultimate hub of everything emulation-related.

Roms for mupen64 app