So, I’ve been looking into the emulators on the stock A06 operating system and had the following findings.
At this moment repositories have two available aarch64 emulators, both quite outdated:
- RetroArch 1.9.3
- Mednafen 1.26.1
They basically run fine, but the main issue happens when trying to run SNES games on both: they both crash with longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame error. Of course, looking that both published aarch64 packages predate the DevTerm and A06 core, I compiled the recent 1.29 release, and it finally ran. It took almost 1.5 hours though.
But I’ve found an yet another problem with it.
I run DevTerm with 1.3x display scaling, because 1x scaling is too big and a lot of windows just don’t fit into standard 1280x480. However, 1.3x scaling causes issues with fullscreen scaling in both versions of Mednafen on any emulation core:
Dropping the scaling to 1x fixes the issue and fullscreen works good, however the desktop becomes uncomfortable to use due to windows being too big.
Any possible suggestions what I can use? I need a SNES emulator that I can use on DevTerm in fullscreen mode. I suppose I can try building latest Retroarch 1.10.2 because it will take care of issue there too, but it will also take a lot of time…