Lastly, we hope that new users can be understanding of the fact that RetroArch’s UI might have a bit of an initial learning curve. Steam Cloud sync should be supported for save files.We make no guarantees as to how well this will work. There are no plans yet for this, but if there are updates on this, we will tell you. There is no macOS version available on Steam yet.Builds right now are not automated but might be later on.We are not sure if we will be supporting 32bit on Steam as well. RetroArch on Steam is available for 64bit Windows/Linux users only for now.We have no ETA on when these will arrive, but it will likely be a dripfeed of new cores on a periodic basis as it takes a lot of time preparing the pages, descriptions, logos, previews and whatnot that a Steam page requires.

After that, you can install the cores either on Steam’s browser page by clicking ‘Manage DLC’ and easily installing them all at once, or you can go to each respective page and install it from there. The cores currently available as DLC on Steam are as follows:įirst, you install RetroArch on Steam. RetroArch loads this ‘core’, and from there RetroArch becomes the program.

It can be an emulator, game, or any other program. A ‘core’ is a program that RetroArch loads. These cores are available both for Linux/SteamOS and Windows users. We have decided to launch with 10 cores at launch. so on Linux) over to the ‘cores’ directory of RetroArch Steam. Instead, you can download and install cores in either one of two ways:

There is no Core Downloader to stay compliant with Valve/Steam’s Terms of Service.

Differences between the Steam version and regular versionįunctionally, RetroArch on Steam should be identical to the version you can get on our website, except for the following: Today, RetroArch has finally been released on Steam for both Windows and Linux/SteamOS.

Retroarch on steam