diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/cores.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/cores.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f1cef0acc1c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/cores.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchgit, pkgconfig, makeWrapper, python27
+, retroarch, fluidsynth, mesa, SDL, libpng, libjpeg, libvorbis, zlib }:
+
+let
+
+  d2u = stdenv.lib.replaceChars ["-"] ["_"];
+
+  mkLibRetroCore = ({ core, src, description, ... }@a:
+  stdenv.lib.makeOverridable stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+
+    name = "libretro-${core}-${version}";
+    version = "20140902";
+    inherit src;
+
+    buildInputs = [ makeWrapper retroarch zlib ] ++ a.extraBuildInputs or [];
+
+    buildPhase = "make -f Makefile.libretro";
+    installPhase = ''
+      COREDIR="$out/lib/retroarch/cores"
+      mkdir -p $out/bin
+      mkdir -p $COREDIR
+      mv ${d2u core}_libretro.so $COREDIR/.
+      makeWrapper ${retroarch}/bin/retroarch $out/bin/retroarch-${core} \
+        --add-flags "-L $COREDIR/${d2u core}_libretro.so $@"
+    '';
+
+    passthru.libretroCore = "/lib/retroarch/cores";
+
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      inherit description;
+      homepage = "http://www.libretro.com/";
+      license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+      maintainers = [ maintainers.edwtjo ];
+      platforms = platforms.linux;
+    };
+  } // a);
+
+  fetchRetro = { repo, rev, sha256 }:
+  fetchgit {
+    inherit rev sha256;
+    url = "https://github.com/libretro/${repo}.git";
+    fetchSubmodules = true;
+  };
+
+in
+
+{
+
+  _4do = (mkLibRetroCore rec {
+    core = "4do";
+    src = fetchRetro {
+      repo = core + "-libretro";
+      rev = "961812bc421f3fbfd83ea211783bb511a0b6d31c";
+      sha256 = "0217iq8sj8gn161c3mj632csl1da8ir2ffxxdillpcddv6ppsayl";
+    };
+    description = "Port of 4DO/libfreedo to libretro";
+  }).override {
+    buildPhase = "make";
+  };
+
+  desmume = mkLibRetroCore rec {
+    core = "desmume";
+    src = fetchRetro {
+      repo = core + "-libretro";
+      rev = "1dd58e4a9fa375b6909cd8718165a429d4b8bd6d";
+      sha256 = "137bw9316qxm8s6p0bzyvk39dv5b5bn60fgllmyj9z5y8x5lrc9l";
+    };
+    description = "libretro wrapper for desmume NDS emulator";
+  };
+
+  fceumm = mkLibRetroCore rec {
+    core = "fceumm";
+    src = fetchRetro {
+      repo = "libretro-" + core;
+      rev = "17e081541c9d36d0658e7139afa5b085aa0316c9";
+      sha256 = "0cn74z976rgjh7hf0yb1sdjlm347157893s2z397rgjvks8xssb0";
+    };
+    description = "FCEUmm libretro port";
+  };
+
+  mupen64plus = (mkLibRetroCore rec {
+    core = "mupen64plus";
+    src = fetchRetro {
+      repo = core + "-libretro";
+      rev = "2251b3aba2a5bb233ff49dd9b6472f2c0feb9b83";
+      sha256 = "04g93kj6n5vddbzfb30d8n711kg0yxfnl5v567aa854misn6gfxd";
+    };
+    description = "Libretro port of Mupen64 Plus, GL only";
+
+    extraBuildInputs = [ mesa ];
+  }).override {
+    buildPhase = "make WITH_DYNAREC=${if stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux" then "x86_64" else "x86"}";
+  };
+
+  scummvm = (mkLibRetroCore rec {
+    core = "scummvm";
+    src = fetchRetro {
+      repo = core;
+      rev = "c00247171ba8201614e85556c638b8825dc9f225";
+      sha256 = "1wir3x928b37va6gn14bmwsydkpk4afma5hppmbivw4qp8mj25pa";
+    };
+    description = "Libretro port of ScummVM";
+
+    extraBuildInputs = [ fluidsynth libjpeg libvorbis mesa SDL ];
+  }).override {
+    buildPhase = "cd backends/platform/libretro/build/;make";
+  };
+
+  snes9x-next = mkLibRetroCore rec {
+    core = "snes9x-next";
+    src = fetchRetro {
+      repo = core;
+      rev = "461d92be09e1857d215f51aeea448a8e180bbfdd";
+      sha256 = "0ci453qsyrv3brmy2szngis2xyvxilcv9yhc2qjz285mirg6fj57";
+    };
+    description = "Optimized port/rewrite of SNES9x 1.52+ to Libretro";
+  };
+
+  stella = (mkLibRetroCore rec {
+    core = "stella";
+    src = fetchRetro {
+      repo = core + "-libretro";
+      rev = "c7ee7ca7e8a29c986f49306c75832972f5749f72";
+      sha256 = "15wy9h3a2qk66lh8x40b3a9il0zkdflqil1h51zjmhq2zzsq8p95";
+    };
+    description = "Port of Stella to libretro";
+  }).override {
+    buildPhase = "make";
+  };
+
+  picodrive = (mkLibRetroCore rec {
+    core = "picodrive";
+    src = fetchRetro {
+      repo = core;
+      rev = "d84817550ac064fbba7ee718fb3baeda7d5546da";
+      sha256 = "17zh9m2v7h1cifzz8dcwqm4wn94zyhz6g85gf0aw6xylxahza627";
+    };
+    description = "Fast MegaDrive/MegaCD/32X emulator";
+
+    extraBuildInputs = [ libpng SDL ];
+  }).override {
+    patchPhase = "sed -i -e 's,SDL_CONFIG=\".*\",SDL_CONFIG=\"${SDL}/bin/sdl-config\",' configure";
+    configurePhase = "./configure";
+  };
+
+  ppsspp = (mkLibRetroCore rec {
+    core = "ppsspp";
+    src = fetchRetro {
+      repo = "libretro-" + core;
+      rev = "6ee828171218b26e124c5e8fa7877e6ee1d5ff79";
+      sha256 = "1559d4k3h0a2dv3684j4w924p2dg8z2j1fwhy7w9mhb5z4kddjhk";
+    };
+    description = "ppsspp libretro port";
+
+    extraBuildInputs = [ mesa ];
+  }).override{
+    buildPhase = "cd libretro && make";
+  };
+
+  vba-next = mkLibRetroCore rec {
+    core = "vba-next";
+    src = fetchRetro {
+      repo = core;
+      rev = "fb095107f83df5f93b8ba4833eaf43901f42c0c0";
+      sha256 = "0fvq1dfll27vjbmyh4qsp2nw166jsd91sjmf1sl84z56ab3q3iw8";
+    };
+    description = "VBA-M libretro port";
+  };
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/default.nix
index 8bc53da8f0c8..d110f2b789e2 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/default.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "retroarch-0.9.9.7";
+  name = "retroarch-bare-0.9.9.7";
 
   src = fetchgit {
     url = "https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch.git";
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   preConfigure = ''
     configureFlags="--global-config-dir=$out/etc"
   '';
- 
+
   meta = {
     description = "Modular multi-system game/emulator system";
     homepage = "http://www.libretro.com/";
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/master.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/master.nix
index 44bd6649045c..2efb43e5d5ee 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/master.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/master.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, pkgconfig, ffmpeg, mesa, nvidia_cg_toolkit, freetype, libxml2, libv4l
-, coreutils, python34, which, udev, alsaLib, libX11, libXext, libXxf86vm, libXdmcp, SDL
-, pulseaudio ? null }:
+{ stdenv, fetchgit, pkgconfig, ffmpeg, mesa, nvidia_cg_toolkit
+, freetype, libxml2, libv4l, coreutils, python34, which, udev, alsaLib
+, libX11, libXext, libXxf86vm, libXdmcp, SDL, pulseaudio ? null }:
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "retroarch-20140902";
+  name = "retroarch-bare-${version}";
+  version = "20140902";
+
   src = fetchgit {
     url = git://github.com/libretro/RetroArch.git;
     rev = "0856091296c2e47409f36e13007805d71db69483";
@@ -19,10 +22,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  meta = {
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://libretro.org/;
     description = "Multi-platform emulator frontend for libretro cores";
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3;
-    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ MP2E ];
+    license = licenses.gpl3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ MP2E ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/wrapper.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f7e903ef5290
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/retroarch/wrapper.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ stdenv, lib, makeWrapper, retroarch, cores }:
+
+let
+
+  p = builtins.parseDrvName retroarch.name;
+
+in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "retroarch-" + p.version;
+  version = p.version;
+
+  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+
+  buildCommand = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/lib
+    $(for coreDir in $cores
+    do
+      $(ln -s $coreDir/*.so $out/lib/.)
+    done)
+    makeWrapper ${retroarch}/bin/retroarch $out/bin/retroarch \
+      --suffix-each LD_LIBRARY_PATH ':' "$cores" \
+      --add-flags "-L $out/lib/ --menu" \
+  '';
+
+  cores = map (x: x + x.libretroCore) cores;
+  preferLocalBuild = true;
+
+  meta = with retroarch.meta; {
+    inherit license homepage;
+    description = description
+                  + " (with cores: "
+                  + lib.concatStrings (lib.intersperse ", " (map (x: ""+x.name) cores))
+                  + ")";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 6e5e6d92a4b2..af3980aff7e4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1220,7 +1220,7 @@ let
    * objections before removal. The feature is integer coordinates
    */
   graphviz_2_0 = callPackage ../tools/graphics/graphviz/2.0.nix { };
-  
+
   /* Readded by Michael Raskin. There are programs in the wild
    * that do want 2.32 but not 2.0 or 2.36. Please give a day's notice for
    * objections before removal. The feature is libgraph.
@@ -7169,7 +7169,7 @@ let
   tomcat6 = callPackage ../servers/http/tomcat/6.0.nix { };
 
   tomcat7 = callPackage ../servers/http/tomcat/7.0.nix { };
-	
+
   tomcat8 = callPackage ../servers/http/tomcat/8.0.nix { };
 
   tomcat_mysql_jdbc = callPackage ../servers/http/tomcat/jdbc/mysql { };
@@ -9819,7 +9819,7 @@ let
   };
 
   stella = callPackage ../misc/emulators/stella { };
-  
+
   linuxstopmotion = callPackage ../applications/video/linuxstopmotion { };
 
   sweethome3d = recurseIntoAttrs (  (callPackage ../applications/misc/sweethome3d { })
@@ -10215,6 +10215,27 @@ let
       gtk_modules = [ libcanberra ];
     };
 
+  wrapRetroArch = { retroarch }:
+  let
+    cfg = stdenv.lib.attrByPath [ "retroarch" ] {} config;
+  in
+    import ../misc/emulators/retroarch/wrapper.nix {
+      inherit stdenv lib makeWrapper retroarch;
+      cores = with libretro;
+      ([ ]
+      ++ lib.optional (cfg.enable4do or false) _4do
+      ++ lib.optional (cfg.enableDesmume or false) desmume
+      ++ lib.optional (cfg.enableFceumm or false) fceumm
+      ++ lib.optional (cfg.enableMupen64Plus or false) mupen64plus
+      ++ lib.optional (cfg.enablePicodrive or false) picodrive
+      ++ lib.optional (cfg.enablePPSSPP or false) ppsspp
+      ++ lib.optional (cfg.enableScummVM or false) scummvm
+      ++ lib.optional (cfg.enableSnes9xNext or false) snes9x-next
+      ++ lib.optional (cfg.enableStella or false) stella
+      ++ lib.optional (cfg.enableVbaNext or false) vba-next
+      );
+  };
+
   wxhexeditor = callPackage ../applications/editors/wxhexeditor { };
 
   wxcam = callPackage ../applications/video/wxcam {
@@ -10222,7 +10243,7 @@ let
     inherit intltool;
     wxGTK = wxGTK28;
     gtk = gtk2;
-  };    
+  };
 
   x11vnc = callPackage ../tools/X11/x11vnc { };
 
@@ -10376,12 +10397,11 @@ let
   zim = callPackage ../applications/office/zim {
     pygtk = pyGtkGlade;
   };
-  
+
   zotero = callPackage ../applications/office/zotero { };
 
   zynaddsubfx = callPackage ../applications/audio/zynaddsubfx { };
 
-
   ### GAMES
 
   alienarena = callPackage ../games/alienarena { };
@@ -10897,7 +10917,7 @@ let
 
       libnm-qt = callPackage ../development/libraries/libnm-qt { };
 
-      massif-visualizer = callPackage ../development/tools/analysis/massif-visualizer { }; 
+      massif-visualizer = callPackage ../development/tools/analysis/massif-visualizer { };
 
       networkmanagement = callPackage ../tools/networking/networkmanagement { };
 
@@ -11477,8 +11497,15 @@ let
 
   putty = callPackage ../applications/networking/remote/putty { };
 
-  retroarch = callPackage ../misc/emulators/retroarch { };
-  retroarchMaster = callPackage ../misc/emulators/retroarch/master.nix { };
+  retroarchBare = callPackage ../misc/emulators/retroarch { };
+
+  retroarchBareMaster = callPackage ../misc/emulators/retroarch/master.nix { };
+
+  retroarch = wrapRetroArch { retroarch = retroarchBareMaster; };
+
+  libretro = recurseIntoAttrs (callPackage ../misc/emulators/retroarch/cores.nix {
+    retroarch = retroarchBareMaster;
+  });
 
   rssglx = callPackage ../misc/screensavers/rss-glx { };