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Following are the source files used by RetroN 5 for manipulating the save data. Placed into the public domain - use as you desire. dataFile.h #ifndef _DATAFILE_H #define _DATAFILE_H #define RETRON_DATA_MAGIC (0x354E5452) // "RTN5" #define RETRON_DATA_FORMAT_VER (1) #define RETRON_DATA_TMP_...

The Retron save format is simply a wrapper for any arbitrary data. We deal with two types of saves: snapshots, which are not trivially portable, and SRAM saves which can be used with PC emulators etc. The same Retron save wrapper is used for both types, so any PC tool would inherently be able to dea...

Thanks for reporting this, we'll work on a fix for the next firmware release.

We use a custom file format for saves, not to intentionally make it incompatible but rather to add compression and integrity protection. I'm happy to explain the format if anyone would like to work on PC-side tools.

Thanks for reporting this issue, we'll look into a fix for the next release

We've uploaded the current Linux Kernel fork as used by RetroN 5, available for download here: http://retron5.in/node/9

Hyperkin still denies the use of RetroArch in their product, but the developers of libretro insist it's there. For all we know Hyperkin could be rewriting an interface from scratch to put this topic to rest. As far as I'm aware, with the release of the last public firmware where we removed the smal...

Good point - we'll make the kernel source available soon.

I'd like to clarify one point regarding the allegations over at libretro.com: we are not using any of RetroArch in our "frontend" (libretron.so). While it is true that a few ASM functions from RetroArch were previously found in our frontend library, these were merely remnants of old test c...