Homebrew Will upcoming advances in N64 emulation have any effect on emulation on the Wii?

[regnad]

RetroArch announced today a new plugin that uses Vulkan API will be released this week. They say this represents a giant leap forward in N64 emulation.

Will N64 on the Wii be able to benefit from this at all?

 

[DinohScene]

Depends.
If the plugin relies on powerful hardware then probably not.

 

[regnad]

Depends.
If the plugin relies on powerful hardware then probably not.

It has to be compatible with Vulkan. I have no idea what that means for Wii. For PCs, as I understand it, that covers quite a few bases, including my middling HP laptop.

Here's the RetroArch posting: http://www.libretro.com/index.php/f...lator-coming-soon-only-for-libretro-parallei/

 

[DinohScene]

Seeing this:

It seems it does rely on powerful hardware so I doubt it'll help with N64 emulation on the Wii.

 

[niuus]

Should be obvious, but definitely no.

 

[Rockhoundhigh]

Pretty sure Vulkan requires hardware capable of at least an OpenGL 3 like feature set. Wii isn't even close. Besides, at this point I think it's unfair to expect devs to keep supporting Nintendo's little box. It's had a much better run than I would've ever expected but it's time to move on.

 

[CeeDee]

What about n3DS? Guessing that's a definite no but it's worth a shot.

 

[DarthDub]

What about n3DS? Guessing that's a definite no but it's worth a shot.

I wish.