donluca
Ninja Combat Warrior
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Here's the page of the Retroarch on Pandora's box project:
https://github.com/sebastian404/aus_japb_retroarch
it has most of the info you need, including the compatible versions of pandoras.
Here's the thread were developments are discussed: http://www.jammaplus.co.uk/forum/fo...ID=753457&title=pandoras-box-4-hacking#753457
It's a general pandora thread, so the information about retroarch is mixed with many other posts about pandora's box.
Here's my custom image: http://www.mediafire.com/file/a3d5wjulaumnqq3/Retroarch.img.7z
Just write it to an 8GB SD (the one which came with the Pandora should be fine, be sure to back it up first), and put the roms in the empty disk that pop ups.
Right now there are some people having issues with the rom partitions because it seems there are no tools on Windows which are able to write properly the image to the SD. No issues on Mac and Linux.
I've just tried Etcher on Windows ( http://etcher.io ) and that seemed to work fine for me, but further tests are needed.
Quoting myself from another thread about the changes I've made:
I think I've made some other very small changes but right now I can't remember, maybe something on the audio resampler to have a lesser impact on the CPU although I don't remember if I reverted it back in the end or not.
Tomorrow I'll post some pics for you guys.
EDIT: Just to make it clear
I'm not telling someone to go and do it, I've just stated my opinion on the matter, based on my own experience, so YMMV as with anything else.
Someone might like it, somebody else might prefer the tearing and issues of the original Pandora.
The UI is really barebones (it's RGUI for those familiar with Retroarch) but it's ok for me as I just care for the games.
https://github.com/sebastian404/aus_japb_retroarch
it has most of the info you need, including the compatible versions of pandoras.
Here's the thread were developments are discussed: http://www.jammaplus.co.uk/forum/fo...ID=753457&title=pandoras-box-4-hacking#753457
It's a general pandora thread, so the information about retroarch is mixed with many other posts about pandora's box.
Here's my custom image: http://www.mediafire.com/file/a3d5wjulaumnqq3/Retroarch.img.7z
Just write it to an 8GB SD (the one which came with the Pandora should be fine, be sure to back it up first), and put the roms in the empty disk that pop ups.
Right now there are some people having issues with the rom partitions because it seems there are no tools on Windows which are able to write properly the image to the SD. No issues on Mac and Linux.
I've just tried Etcher on Windows ( http://etcher.io ) and that seemed to work fine for me, but further tests are needed.
Quoting myself from another thread about the changes I've made:
Several small tweaks has been done: a slight overclock, 1P Start + 1P Button 1 to return to retroarch menu (instead of the physical button on the Pandora's Box), 382x240 resolution (so 320x240 games are displayed correctly, as well as CPS1/2 which are 384x224 - black borders are added where needed, you'll have to adjust your monitor geometry), smaller message font (so they are entirely readable) and, of course, the FAT32 partition where you can directly dump the ROMs in. (otherwise you'd need a Linux machine to read the EXT3 partition and put roms in)
I think I've made some other very small changes but right now I can't remember, maybe something on the audio resampler to have a lesser impact on the CPU although I don't remember if I reverted it back in the end or not.
Tomorrow I'll post some pics for you guys.
EDIT: Just to make it clear
It's one thing to say that "you did it", then tell everyone that they should do it,
I'm not telling someone to go and do it, I've just stated my opinion on the matter, based on my own experience, so YMMV as with anything else.
Someone might like it, somebody else might prefer the tearing and issues of the original Pandora.
The UI is really barebones (it's RGUI for those familiar with Retroarch) but it's ok for me as I just care for the games.
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