I know that this is not related, but will the dolphin core ever come to the Steam version of Retroarch?

[mattjoebrickmen]

The Steam version of Retroarch requires the standard version Retroarch in order to get the Dolphin core. I know that the Retroarch developers are separate from the Dolphin developers, so this conversation doesn't really apply here.

[Effy]

Dolphin standalone is much better than than the retroarch core is

I can understand reasons why it sounds appealing
It's what you're used to, it's controller friendly, everything in one place.

But the core is heavily behind and missing features, this is the case for most 6th-gen console cores and a couple 5th-gen ones

(Trying really hard to not let my bias against retroarch to show)

[Luna ~]

RA is extremely outdated and individual emulation will always be better.

[infirit]

The dolphin core will never be supported.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by Luna Rosa:

RA is extremely outdated and individual emulation will always be better.

Not if you set it up correctly and it helps when using a Raspberry Pie only dedicated to emulation.

[Avasam]

No.
RetroArch is not Dolphin. Dolphin does not support any fork nor RetroArch. RA's core is based on an extremely outdated version of Dolphin. Don't use RetroArch.

[Meatball132]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Not if you set it up correctly blah blah blah

No, RetroArch itself comes with a version of Dolphin from more than half a decade ago, configured in strange ways that makes games perform poorly and break, and modified by people that don't understand what they're doing. It is literally impossible to get an experience in RetroArch that comes even close to Dolphin by itself, it doesn't matter if you "set it up correctly" or use a Raspberry Pi, you are inherently going to get a worse experience with RetroArch, and unless they significantly overhaul how RetroArch is developed (unlikely) you always will.

[Quarentenado]

You can download the dolphin core and install manually in steam version of retroarch without problems

[mattjoebrickmen]

Originally posted by Quarentenado:

You can download the dolphin core and install manually in steam version of retroarch without problems

I know that, but the core will not auto update unlike the cores you can get directly from Steam. This thread is pretty old and I have already switched to standalone Dolphin and non-Steam RetroArch instead since then.