Online Updater (option) Missing

[Dgo]

I am watching video tutorials about RA and all of them ask you to use that feature. However my RA does not show the OU. What can I do? Any tips?

[Bers]

Yes its simple. And no this isnt the preferred solution for me, I had the hope, with Retroarch being on steam that everything is auto-updated. Retroarch itself and all the cores. With this manual copy and pasting we are (convenience-wise) in nearly the same position as we were before. But I also understand the necessity of having to ask the core devs, I hope they answer soon.

[Dgo]

引用自 uuuhhhh-Ghostly：

Go to Libretro website and download the RetroArch_Cores 7zip file. Unzip it with 7Zip and place the files into the cores folder, in the RetroArch program folder.

It's pretty simple.

Yep. Indeed, works like a charm

[Singularity]

Why are you bothering the people? Please download core button on this program manually cores not working.

[Freaky Old Man]

So I get that whole Core dev part yes but what about cheats as we need the Online Updater for cheats part that has nothing to do with licence issues from core dev and there EMU's and such can we get this added somewhere ells then? as it a pain in the ass to have to sit and add every file when the normal version as it all ready.

[GeometricFuzz]

I'm trying to get cheats uploaded, but without the Online Updater option it's proving very, very difficult to get the ones I want. It would be helpful to have the Online Updater for that alone.

[Lee]

When i start retroarch it says assests missing please run online updater. How do i solve that with online updater disabled.

[x7bit]

After some research, I realized that the missing 'online updater' feature was in the executable and not in the configuration files. That gave me the idea to put the regular executable into steam's retroarch directory (renamed for example to retroarch_non_steam.exe). It didn't work at the first time since these dll files were missing, but no problem, we copy them too:

libpcre2-16-0.dll
libzstd.dll
Qt5Core.dll
Qt5Gui.dll
Qt5Network.dll
Qt5Widgets.dll

And it works, to download and update cores (and other 'online updater' features) I run the non-steam version manually, and for everything else i run the steam version normally. I recommend putting the regular executable and the dll files in a folder or in a zip outside steam folders, in case steam deletes them when updating. Don't forget to update core info files the first time.

[AmethystViper]

引用自 x7bit：

After some research, I realized that the missing 'online updater' feature was in the executable and not in the configuration files. That gave me the idea to put the regular executable into steam's retroarch directory (renamed for example to retroarch_non_steam.exe). It didn't work at the first time since these dll files were missing, but no problem, we copy them too:

libpcre2-16-0.dll
libzstd.dll
Qt5Core.dll
Qt5Gui.dll
Qt5Network.dll
Qt5Widgets.dll

And it works, to download and update cores (and other 'online updater' features) I run the non-steam version manually, and for everything else i run the steam version normally. I recommend putting the regular executable and the dll files in a folder or in a zip outside steam folders, in case steam deletes them when updating. Don't forget to update core info files the first time.

For me I also had to copy to copy these files too in order to get the online functions to work with the Steam version as of v1.9.12.

libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll
libpcre2-16-0.dll
libssl-1_1-x64.dll
libzstd.dll

Without these, running the non-Steam version's executable just returns an error that these files couldn't be found in the installation folder from my experience.

[Justin]

Why are some of you so concerned with the Steam version not having the updater?
Assets, configs, database, etc will update automatically whenever the steam version has an update pushed out.

Regarding thumbnails, the steam version has "on demand thumbnails" enabled via its config file, so that part of the updater is also not necessary.

Regarding cheats, even if you use the non-steam version of RA; the cheats is one zip file that extracts all cheats. Not sure why someone was stating they can't pick which ones they want instead because standalone doesn't let you pick and choose either.

TL;DR
Side-loading cores is the only real issue and it's not that hard and will go away as more and more cores release as DLC.

[GeometricFuzz]

引用自 Justin：

Why are some of you so concerned with the Steam version not having the updater?
Regarding cheats, even if you use the non-steam version of RA; the cheats is one zip file that extracts all cheats. Not sure why someone was stating they can't pick which ones they want instead because standalone doesn't let you pick and choose either.

Can you explain this deeper? I'm not sure what zip file you are talking about. Are you meaning searing the web and downloading it manually? People are asking for the updater to avoid the step of having to possibly go to questionable sites to download the files. As for choosing cheats, that's totally an option as you can load them in groups then turn them on and off individually, at least in the Steam version. Maybe you mean that when cheats are loaded they are not actually labeled, so turning them on and off can be a pain to make sure you are toggling the correct one(s).

[uuuhhhh-Ghostly]

引用自 dArc_Joe：

引用自 Justin：

Why are some of you so concerned with the Steam version not having the updater?
Regarding cheats, even if you use the non-steam version of RA; the cheats is one zip file that extracts all cheats. Not sure why someone was stating they can't pick which ones they want instead because standalone doesn't let you pick and choose either.

Can you explain this deeper? I'm not sure what zip file you are talking about. Are you meaning searing the web and downloading it manually? People are asking for the updater to avoid the step of having to possibly go to questionable sites to download the files...

The site you get them from, is Libretros own site. Nothing questionable about it. Plus, when they are added to Steam, you can download them as DLC and then they overwrite the ones you have and start updating themselves.

[vukisz]

Correct me if I am wrong, but this could be a source where cheats is pulled from https://buildbot.libretro.com/assets/frontend/ file cheats.zip

[Jesse Pinkman]

Is there a possibility in the future of there being a standalone app just specifically for downloading cores and transferring them to the steam version, without having to have 2 versions of retroarch? I would like to have Dolphin easily installable auto-updated

[icculus]

So just wanted to post this in case someone else is getting bit by this and getting unrelated advice that doesn't work:

I _think_ this is what happened to me, but the technical specifics are just wild guesses.

If you're on Linux and you've previously used RetroArch outside of Steam, you likely had a config file somewhere that got picked up by the Steam version, but also totally _does not work_ with the Steam version. Unfortunately, this gets saved to Steam Cloud, so this will remain broken even if you wipe the hard drive and reinstall the OS.

(Or maybe this just had a really janky config file if you were an early adopter of the Steam version? I don't know.)

Here's what you can do.

- Quit RetroArch
- Right-click RetroArch in your Steam library, click "Properties" then "General" then UNCHECK "Keep games saves in the Steam Cloud for RetroArch" ... close the window.
- Go delete $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/RetroArch/retroarch.cfg (or wherever it might be on your system).
- Launch RetroArch in Steam again, so it writes out a fresh config file. It's probably working now, but quit out again.
- Go check the "Keep games saves in the Steam Cloud for RetroArch" again to keep everything in sync going forward.
- Launch and quit RetroArch again so the latest is definitely sync'd to Steam Cloud.

Now you should be good to go. Hope this helps!

[ricsonchua]

I recently had a problem with flycast. I had to manually download libreto-flycast.dll in github to get it working. Does anyone know how to update the cores in the 1st place? I was unable to find such option in the UI. Many have said that update cores is available in retroarch but it seems like it is not available in the steam version.