RetroArch never works right. Even once you get past the cores and all the other stupid bs, once you get to setting up the controls it never works right, most buttons just do not work in game, if they even work in the menus.
So many years, so much effort, all wasted.
It’s still so much easier to keep BlastEm, Snes9x, Duckstation and whatever else installed, so much faster to set up controls and most of the time you don’t even need to as everything works out of the box.
And yet plebbit will say nuhhh use muh libretro cores!!!1 so heckin’ wholesome Keanu chungus 100!!! I love my wife’s boyfriend!!!111 Thanks Reddit!!!
I guess you were trying to say “it makes you look like a clown”.
I’m afraid that’s a C-, see me after class.
It is a shit design.
It’s trying to do everything and ultimately does nothing very well at all. It’s such a bad frontend, the only way through which it is really useful is if you use another frontend for it, but if you want to change any settings you’re also SoL and might as well just use the standalones, since the way the RetroArch configs translate to individual cores is just a fuzzy mess where the actual dysfunction and if any - user error - will inevitably be obfuscated from the user.