u/colorovfire

I beat the game ages ago but I was testing something and played the game for about 5 minutes. Shortly after, I was looking at LittleSnitch (A macOS firewall) and the connections list is reaching out to every corner of the world.

Anyone know what could be going on here?

Update: It pings almost 30 IP addresses on game launch and it’s not a fixed list. Why is this necessary in a single player game?

I have a zsh script to update installed cores from buildbot.libretro.com. The problem is determining the remote version so it only updates when the remote core is newer.

What the script does currently is compare etags from the request header with a saved value set by the script but that doesn’t track with the changes in the binary. What RetroArch does is either read a specific range in the zip file to read the metadata holding the CRC or it’s requesting a separate file with all the metadata. I’m hoping it’s the latter.

Could someone tell me exactly what it’s doing?

I’m running on macOS and a single core LRPS2 runs under x86_64. Recent changes prevents it from updating because I run RetroArch in native ARM and to have LRPS2 get recognized, I have to manually set the update url.