Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

[seam]

Well, it sounded like no one had interest, I recall Aliaspider saying he had no interest in porting such cores over.

Yes, those were his words exactly. His post basically answered any questions you have dude. Is it impossible? Of course not. Will it happen ever? It is way too soon to say. At this point just look at it is a proof of concept. There's no use in sitting around getting frustrated thinking about it.

 

[sj33]

What did Aliaspider mean that he wasn't going to port PCSX or any dynarec core-required cores over then? The core we have now is working, just slowly, I also hope that the new file library gets implemented one of these days.

Well, they can make a dynarec for PPC, it will just take time.

 

[the_randomizer]

Yes, those were his words exactly. His post basically answered any questions you have dude. Is it impossible? Of course not. Will it happen ever? It is way too soon to say. At this point just look at it is a proof of concept. There's no use in sitting around getting frustrated thinking about it.

No, there isn't, and you're right, it's a matter of waiting things out, mostly; there are other cores I'll be testing out in the mean time. My apologies.

 

[ShadowOne333]

It's not impossible, but we need a dynarec for PPC. Simply porting PCSX ReARMed won't work because that has dynarec for ARM, not PPC (hence the name).

3DS, Vita, iPhone and most Android are ARM. Wii, Wii U, GameCube, 360 etc. are PPC.

I can't wait to see the day in which we have our own PPCSX RePOWERed for the Wii U.

 

[ploggy]

Well it's taken me the best part of a day but I managed to fall through being able to compile Retroarch (both RPX and ELF)
Doesn't really matter since we have the build bot but it's nice to learn new things
Looking back I'm not 100% sure what I did altogether.. But it's working

 

[colanwiser]

I'm buying a vita tomorrow.. some dude released a hack called adrenaline.. soon, the vita will be able to load psx backups... that memory card is expensive as hell though. Cool stuff going on right now. So colan... what do you think about psx doom? Well, frankly they f'ed the game up when they changed the sprite and animations for the double shotgun..that enough to kill it for you?-"YES" lol.

 

[VinsCool]

I'm buying a vita tomorrow.. some dude released a hack called adrenaline.. soon, the vita will be able to load psx backups... that memory card is expensive as hell though. Cool stuff going on right now. So colan... what do you think about psx doom? Well, frankly they f'ed the game up when they changed the sprite and animations for the double shotgun..that enough to kill it for you?-"YES" lol.

Good for you. Meanwhile retroarch PSvita can't even reach the speed WiiU offers lol.

 

[colanwiser]

Is there a dos core to play around with yet? There are a ton of great platformers for dos.. I remember playing dune on dosbox like a decade ago.. I'm 30 now and a feeling a little old . In fact.. I'm so old, I remember renting sega games, back in the days of vhs tapes.

 

[VinsCool]

Is there a dos core to play around with yet? There are a ton of great platformers for dos.. I remember playing dune on dosbox like a decade ago.. I'm 30 now and a feeling a little old . In fact.. I'm so old, I remember renting sega games, back in the days of vhs tapes.

The remaining cores will come eventually. It's just a matter of time.

 

[EclipseSin]

Well, PCSXR does have some ppc stuff, but not sure if it's useful for retroarch anyway or what it's for really (besides ppc mac probably) . I do remember the 1.6b release mentioned timing fixes for ppc dynarec, so maybe some useful info in their repo if anyone did want to work on it. Not really sure though.

https://github.com/mirror/pcsxr/tree/master/libpcsxcore/ppc

 

[depaul]

Let's just wait for PS1 core.
There is no reason to panic, it will come eventually. If the Wii has almost a working PSX emulator (WiiSX, it can achieve full speed in some games without Frame Skipping), then I think the Wii U is more than enough to have a similar emulator, if not better.

 

[Osakasan]

Let's just wait for PS1 core.
There is no reason to panic,

Well, uh... let's say that Alias didn't make it sound good

But what the hell is up with the power of the machine? Wii can emulate it so it's more than obvious that Wii U is able to, but waaaay better. Let's stop ith that bullshit already.

The first thing we need is a PPC dynarec, and we'll have to wait for that.

 

[mightymuffy]

Well, uh... let's say that Alias didn't make it sound good

But what the hell is up with the power of the machine? Wii can emulate it so it's more than obvious that Wii U is able to, but waaaay better. Let's stop ith that bullshit already.

The first thing we need is a PPC dynarec, and we'll have to wait for that.

Jesus H... can't you people just be content with what you've got to play with at the moment?? (not aiming that only at you of course) Alias, FIX and the rest have done a wonderful job giving us a good selection of consoles to play with, yet all I'm seeing from the select/usual gang is 'We want PSX nao!!', and 'We want better loading times yesterday' etc..
Someone then spends xxx time building a dynarec, releases it, and the day after you'll all be screaming for better compatibility, then N64, or PSP, or DC (delete any of those consoles when done and there's 2 left - release all 3 and you'll be onto the Saturn/3DO then!)

Alias has brought RA over to the Wii U, his comment was most likely simply to reiterate that - it didn't make the prospect of a working dynarec any less 'good sounding' - that is simply a job for someone else...
....just enjoy the thousands of games we can already play thanks to these guys and let them work their magic in their own time...

 

[Osakasan]

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Please tell me when did i ask for a PSX core NOW. Please do.

What i'm saying (as always) is that it isn't impossible. We'll have to wait (a dynarec can't be written in a day) but that's it.

You can't deny however that Alias can be very discouraging.

 

[ShadowOne333]

But come on, who would miss on the opportunity of naming the the PSX emulator PPCSX RePOWERed?
It kicks ass

 

[the_randomizer]

But come on, who would miss on the opportunity of naming the the PSX emulator PPCSX RePOWERed?
It kicks ass

Like everyone has said, we need to give them a lot of time to make a PPC dyarec core, it'll happen, I just need to be, well, more positive

 

[ShadowOne333]

Like everyone has said, we need to give them a lot of time to make a PPC dyarec core, it'll happen, I just need to be, well, more positive

But the nameeeeeeeeeee

 

[Osakasan]

Like everyone has said, we need to give them a lot of time to make a PPC dyarec core, it'll happen, I just need to be, well, more positive

No one is traying to hurry them ffs

 

[the_randomizer]

But the nameeeeeeeeeee

Agreed, the name is pretty awesome

 

[ShadowOne333]

Agreed, the name is pretty awesome

Okay guys, if anyone wants to make a PCSX ReARMed port to RetroArch, and want to use the awesome, yet kickass name of
PPCSX RePOWERed, you now have to ask me for permission, that name is already trademarked:

PPCSX RePOWERed™