Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

[fatsquirrel]

Arcade roms actually NEED to be zipped, because they're usually a collection of multiple files.

That makes sense yes. ^^

 

[the_randomizer]

Arcade roms actually NEED to be zipped, because they're usually a collection of multiple files.

Can the zips themselves be renamed to be better? Something like SF2AUS or something is too confusing to understood what the name actually is.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Can the zips themselves be renamed to be better? Something like SF2AUS or something is too confusing to understood what the name actually is.

I don't think they can.
I remember back when I was playing around with MAME, the name of the zips have to be a specific name or else MAME has problems recognizing the file.

 

[the_randomizer]

I don't think they can.
I remember back when I was playing around with MAME, the name of the zips have to be a specific name or else MAME has problems recognizing the file.

Ugh, then I'll just remove the ones I don't play as there are way too many in a romset, most I don't care for. Oh well XD

 

[pwsincd]

Hey,

maybe some of you have a use case for this.

Retro Launcher

it's a quick mod of Dimoks HBL to keep the many RetroArch cores seperate from the other Wii U Homebrews. You launch it fom the HBL and it opens another instance of it, which is listing the RetroArch cores. You have to put the cores to sd:/wiiu/retro/*. To simply go back to the Hbl, just put a copy of the homebrew_launcher in the retro directory.

Really neat idea . Are you loading this app from out side of the apps directory ? or was that just the way you packaged it... i was going to add to the appstore but noticed your file structure.. this wouldnt work for the store .. ?????


Also , is there a working package of versions around .. save me some time in adding them all to the appstore ..

 

[the_randomizer]

Really neat idea . Are you loading this app from out side of the apps directory ? or was that just the way you packaged it... i was going to add to the appstore but noticed your file structure.. this wouldnt work for the store .. ?????


Also , is there a working package of versions around .. save me some time in adding them all to the appstore ..

You mean like from the buildbot? https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/nintendo/wiiu/

 

[xtreemsurf]

You'll not get The Simpsons running yet - CPS stands for Capcom Play System and each is a particular Capcom made arcade board.... Like Osakasan says you'll need Final Burn Alpha roms, but at the moment you can only play the CPS games, Neo Geo, and Midway (on the Mame core) anyway - The Simpsons is a Konami game, and not yet playable.

Final Burn and Street Fighter II are CPS1 games
Marvel vs Capcom and Super Street Fighter II are CPS2
Street Fighter III is CPS3

Google will help for a full list of supported games....

Thank you to you both! I haven't tried to play an arcade ROM in years! At that point, MAME on the PC would play most of the old arcade games, so I never looked into these others. I'll use Google and do some more research on this. I appreciate your help!

 

[gl1mml1ng]

Really neat idea . Are you loading this app from out side of the apps directory ? or was that just the way you packaged it... i was going to add to the appstore but noticed your file structure.. this wouldnt work for the store .. ?????


Also , is there a working package of versions around .. save me some time in adding them all to the appstore ..

The Retro Launcher is loaded from the usual apps dir. It searches in the retro dir for the RA cores. I made a copy of the HBL to the retro dir only to switch back.

 

[pwsincd]

The Retro Launcher is loaded from the usual apps dir. It searches in the retro dir for the RA cores. I made a copy of the HBL to the retro dir only to switch back.

ok ill add this then , does it create the cores directory on install ?

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You mean like from the buildbot? https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/nintendo/wiiu/

yes but all of them in one file... i can grab them all individually .. wondered if anyone had bothered to get them all...

 

[gl1mml1ng]

ok ill add this then , does it create the cores directory on install ?

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yes but all of them in one file... i can grab them all individually .. wondered if anyone had bothered to get them all...

You have to create the retro directory manually. Retro Launcher is just a recompiled HBL, where I changed some pathes in the source files and some of the resources.

 

[pwsincd]

You have to create the retro directory manually. Retro Launcher is just a recompiled HBL, where I changed some pathes in the source files and some of the resources.

ok well its here www.wiiubru.com/appstore#retro and also on the app(obviously) , i edited the meta to include this info... as the new appstore is due soon ...

and an individual app will appear like this : https://i.imgur.com/kWWPwdd.png .

 

[ploggy]

Oooh, looks sweet. @pwsincd

 

[pwsincd]

noqw for a precompiled bundle of app core.... surely one of ya managed it

 

[the_randomizer]

noqw for a precompiled bundle of app core.... surely one of ya managed it

Maybe @aliaspider has some insight on that

 

[SilverWah]

Maybe off topic, but is it illegal to play arcade roms of games? Cause arcade machines are so rare these days, and it's not like the police would throw you into jail or something.

 

[pwsincd]

Maybe @aliaspider has some insight on that

huh ? im sure you guys have been grabbing them from the build bot page ..?

 

[the_randomizer]

huh ? im sure you guys have been grabbing them from the build bot page ..?

I don't know, sorry, as far as a core app goes, not entirely sure how it's been done to be honest. My apologies >.>

 

[Korudo]

Any way to play using a Wii remote+classic controller on the Neo core? Looking for a way to play 2 players if it's currently supported. (unsure)

 

[AmandaRose]

Any way to play using a Wii remote+classic controller on the Neo core? Looking for a way to play 2 players if it's currently supported. (unsure)

Other controllers/two player is not yet supported sorry.

 

[Korudo]

Oh ok just wanted to confirm. Thanks!