MKK hanzo 13 Posted November 25, 2017 Yay! https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-roadmap-for-v1-7-0-and-beyond/ Xbox OG/Xbox 360 For a long time, the Xbox OG and 360 versions of RetroArch and cores have been de-listed. This had several technical reasons, one of which being that it was a big maintenance burden and struggle to keep having to update all the separate Visual Studio solution files for these platforms. For all other platforms, we build cores using a universal Makefile, which typically contains one file (called Makefile.common) which conditionally defines which files are to be compiled in. By having to maintain some separate solution file, we need to update two files instead of one, and worse, having to start IDEs in order to edit them (or even worse), having to manually edit them with a text editor, which can tend to be error prone on top. In order to do away with these issues, we have now reverse-engineered how we can still have a Makefile target for MSVC that uses MS’ compilers/linkers/assemblers from within the confines of a Makefile-based solution. Note that this solution does not depend on Microsoft’s nmake and uses plain make. Now that we have accomplished being able to compile and link cores with MSVC without any MSVC solution file, we now feel the time is right to start reintroducing the Xbox OG and 360 ports. The Xbox port work also feeds into several other things we have been working on concurrently, such as : Better Direct3D support. Xbox OG will need Direct3D 8, whereas Xbox 360 needs Direct3D 9 + HLSL. The latest compiler that can be used for Xbox OG is Visual Studio 2003, whereas for Xbox 360 this is Visual Studio 2010 (right now). To this end, we have updated a lot of core Makefiles to include targets for these platforms, and not just for the Xbox platforms, but PC as well. Yay!!! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
felida 1653 Posted November 25, 2017 13 hours ago, MKK hanzo said: Yay! https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-roadmap-for-v1-7-0-and-beyond/ Tbh, the front end, salamander, needs work.. the emu cores, really dont haha.. seriously wont even upgrade, as i like the unofficial one here.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gavin_darkglider 1562 Posted November 25, 2017 I thought they moved away from salamander a while ago. lol. Not that it matters much. lol. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
felida 1653 Posted November 26, 2017 22 hours ago, gavin_darkglider said: I thought they moved away from salamander a while ago. lol. Not that it matters much. lol. Salamander is their frontend thingy.. has nothing to do with the emu cores haha.. altho, they might have changed the name.. but yeah either way.. i dislike the old gui, and new one isnt that great either.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
