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RetroAchievements

RetroAchievements adds achievements to retro games — a community-built set for thousands of titles, checked as you play. RetroXR signs in to your account and unlocks them in the headset.

New in v0.3.0.

Signing in

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Accounts are free at retroachievements.org.

  1. Open the menu and go to OPTIONS.
  2. Pick the RetroAchievements tab.
  3. Enter your username and password.

What you get

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  • Unlocks as you play, with a toast and the achievement’s badge.
  • Rich presence — your profile shows what you are playing.
  • Browse a game’s achievements without launching it, from the game’s own page in the menu.

Seeing a game’s achievements

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Open SPAWN → Cartridges, find the game, and press the list icon on its row. The page has two tabs:

The page for a game, with two tabs circled: Saves marked 1 and Achievements marked 2.

② is the achievements list. You can read what a game asks of you before deciding to start it — which is the point of having it here rather than only in a toast mid-game.

① is that game’s saves.

Hardcore mode

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Not supported yet. RetroAchievements requires a project to have existed for six months before it can enable hardcore, so this is a matter of waiting rather than of work.

What works and what does not

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Achievement support depends on the core and the game, exactly as it does in any other RetroAchievements-capable frontend. A system whose core does not support it will never report anything, and that is not a RetroXR fault.

If a game you expect to have achievements is not unlocking any, check that the core you have set as default for that system supports them — see downloading and managing cores.