Nintendo Switch - Hight battery issue

[forgotten-865]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• This is a bug in RetroArch frontend
• I have searched the existing issues

Description

I noticed high battery consumption in RetroArch compared to standalone emulators, this happens in both stable / unstable release

My config:

Switch 21.2.0
Atmosphere 1.10.2
Original Microsd 256gb

Few examples:

• mgba core consumes 15-20% more than pgba (mgba fork) emu
• Snes9x core consumes 10~12% more than psnes (snes9x fork) emu
• Gen plusx gx consumes 10-20% more than pgnen (Gen plusx gx fork) emu
• Pcsx rearmed consumes 20-25% more than duckstation port

Anyone else reported this ?

Expected behavior

No response

Steps to reproduce the bug

1

Version/Commit

1.22.2 / Nightly

Bisect Results

No response

Present in the nightly version

Yes, this is reproduced in the nightly build

Platform & operating system

Nintendo Switch

Affected Cores

All

Environment information

No response

Relevant log output

[Megyomo]

Well, I did try mGBA on Retroarch and the GBA NSO app and both gave me more or less the same results: around 9-10% battery consumption per half an hour each. What's your Switch setup like?

[forgotten-865]

Well, I did try mGBA on Retroarch and the GBA NSO app and both gave me more or less the same results: around 9-10% battery consumption per half an hour each. What's your Switch setup like?

Both stable / nightly are stock conf even if I put in powersave mode this consumption remains the same.

I suspect that, for some reason, RetroArch isn't handling profile mode correctly.