Hi folks,
Since i got the wii u roughly 2 years ago my wii is just collecting dust in the shelf, so i decided to build an arcade out of it. I already built 90% of the first prototypes housing, and soldered already arcade buttons to the pcb of an gc controller (controller for the 2nd player is at the moment in production).
So, quite soon it will come to the software part: i would like to have mame, snes and psx. If it is easily feasible there will be added n64, wii and nes emulation as well.
Best would be if this can be run all out of 1 emulator wich i would like to launch directly at booting (via preloader).
So there were coming a few questions in my mind where i hope the one or the other can be answered from you:
1) is retroarch capable to show me a list of the different roms from the different consoles and emulate them all from 1 app? If not, is there a better multi-platform emulator? E.g.some kind of of an usb-loader-mod? Or injecting vc-games like it can be done for wii u?
2) Or would you go for different emulators and boot to homebrew channel to launch them?
3) what do you in general think of the idea / the project? Do you have any suggestions, advices, etc?
4) when my project is finnished i am thinking about making a tutorial/ an report of my problems and what i made in wich way. But i think it might get a lot of work and i do not know if it is worth doing it. Therefore: is there anyone interested at all or can i save the time which i would spend to create this for the Community?
Regards, edizius
Since i got the wii u roughly 2 years ago my wii is just collecting dust in the shelf, so i decided to build an arcade out of it. I already built 90% of the first prototypes housing, and soldered already arcade buttons to the pcb of an gc controller (controller for the 2nd player is at the moment in production).
So, quite soon it will come to the software part: i would like to have mame, snes and psx. If it is easily feasible there will be added n64, wii and nes emulation as well.
Best would be if this can be run all out of 1 emulator wich i would like to launch directly at booting (via preloader).
So there were coming a few questions in my mind where i hope the one or the other can be answered from you:
1) is retroarch capable to show me a list of the different roms from the different consoles and emulate them all from 1 app? If not, is there a better multi-platform emulator? E.g.some kind of of an usb-loader-mod? Or injecting vc-games like it can be done for wii u?
2) Or would you go for different emulators and boot to homebrew channel to launch them?
3) what do you in general think of the idea / the project? Do you have any suggestions, advices, etc?
4) when my project is finnished i am thinking about making a tutorial/ an report of my problems and what i made in wich way. But i think it might get a lot of work and i do not know if it is worth doing it. Therefore: is there anyone interested at all or can i save the time which i would spend to create this for the Community?
Regards, edizius