installing retroarch on steam
last updated: Jun 29, 2026
- Retroarch gets installed to
~/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/steamapps/common/RetroArch - I had to disable the PS5 button support in mac to get it to work inside retroarch
- Retroarch also picked up my controller as #2 instead of #1, and I had to flip it in settings
- I had to disable the steam overlay to get the ps5 button working in retroarch
- guide here telling you how to get the cores, which are not built in
- doesn't work on OS X though
- steam has some DLC cores, so I installed the Beetle PSX DLC
- that got close to working! But then it failed on the firmware, so need to figure out what dir to install it to
cp SCP* ~/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/steamapps/common/RetroArch/system- got it going