Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

[Osakasan]

For what? I'm curious.

The guy who took the Dynarec framework for BeetlePSX bounty estimated that it would be ready for September 22

However that's only for the framework. We need someone to work on a PPC Dynarec afterwards.

 

[ShadowOne333]

For what? I'm curious.

Exactly this:

The guy who took the Dynarec framework for BeetlePSX bounty estimated that it would be ready for September 22

However that's only for the framework. We need someone to work on a PPC Dynarec afterwards.

Apparently it was moved to the 21st of September.
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/48048939-dynamic-recompiler-305-bounty

 

[Deleted member 388912]

Exactly this:

Apparently it was moved to the 21st of September.
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/48048939-dynamic-recompiler-305-bounty

The guy who took the Dynarec framework for BeetlePSX bounty estimated that it would be ready for September 22

However that's only for the framework. We need someone to work on a PPC Dynarec afterwards.

Exciting times. Wii VC injection and now this. Thanks for the info.

 

[WesMods]

Great work

 

[lordelan]

I'm shaking. Being able to play PSX and maybe even N64 on the Wii U without injection or vWii mode would be nothing but wonderful.

 

[Osakasan]

I'm shaking. Being able to play PSX and maybe even N64 on the Wii U without injection or vWii mode would be nothing but wonderful.

Dude, the dynarec itself will take a little more time. I'm excited toó bit chill.

 

[AmandaRose]

Dude, the dynarec itself will take a little more time. I'm excited toó bit chill.

Exactly why is everyone getting so excited with that date. We are many months if not years away from dynarec on wiiu

 

[marduk666]

Is there any way someone could add an updated list of working cores to the OP please, or a link to one would be cool thanks

 

[the_randomizer]

Exactly why is everyone getting so excited with that date. We are many months if not years away from dynarec on wiiu

No, but it's a helluva big first step.

 

[A Plus Ric]

I was curious about starting a Mame compatability list. Sick of moving things to sd that never work . Or leaving on for no reason.

 

[lordelan]

Dude, the dynarec itself will take a little more time. I'm excited toó bit chill.

Uhm, I'm fully aware of the fact that we (end users) get nothing at that date.
I'm just wishing for the future.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Quick question,
Are MAME Romsets compatible with FBA?
I am wondering because I have both MAME 2003 and FBA downloaded, but I'm not even sure if they can both boot up the same ROMs or not.

 

[Billy Acuña]

Exactly why is everyone getting so excited with that date. We are many months if not years away from dynarec on wiiu

Lel, dynarec is alreally in developement

 

[AmandaRose]

Lel, dynarec is alreally in developement

Yes and a few well known wiiu homebrew devs have all said it will take a minimum of 6 to 8 months to make so it ain't happening anytime soon

 

[the_randomizer]

Yes and a few well known wiiu homebrew devs have all said it will take a minimum of 6 to 8 months to make so it ain't happening anytime soon

But now that we have someone and a real bounty, it'll more than just simple talk about it. Before, no one was really working on it.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Yes and a few well known wiiu homebrew devs have all said it will take a minimum of 6 to 8 months to make so it ain't happening anytime soon

I think you are forgetting what the points of the bounty are.
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/48048939-dynamic-recompiler-305-bounty

To quote Twinaphex:

Conditions:

• A dynarec system for Beetle PSX, preferably written in C or else C++98. Portability to the various targets libretro supports is important in considering the programming language being used here. No C++11 or C++14 please,
• A working backend for x86 32bit, x64 (x86 64-bit), ARMv7 (32bit) and aarch64 (ARM 64bit).
• Should be engineered in such a way that new backend implementations for other architectures (like ARM and PowerPC) can be easily implemented. There is a separate bounty for a PowerPC dynarec, but first this one needs to be successfully completed before the PowerPC dynarec is feasible.
• The dynarec needs to be PIC-compliant. This is essential since libretro cores predominantly are meant to run as dynamic libraries.
• Should be signifcantly faster than the interpreter CPU core, and should lower Mednafen/Beetle PSX’s CPU system requirements considerably.

That is one of the main five points for the bounty to be considered successful.
Basically, once the main dynarec for x86, x64, ARMv7 and arch64 are done, the dynarec recompiler should be easily implemented into ARM and PPC architectures. All it takes is someone skilled enough with PPC and the Wii U to make it work. Quark already mentioned this before, and he said that main PPC architecture should be almost as easy as copy-paste, with only a few modifications to get it working on Wii U properly:
http://gbatemp.net/threads/retroarch-wiiu-wip.447670/page-376#post-7549387

So yeah, make your own assumptions

 

[mightymuffy]

Quick question,
Are MAME Romsets compatible with FBA?
I am wondering because I have both MAME 2003 and FBA downloaded, but I'm not even sure if they can both boot up the same ROMs or not.

No they're different romsets. Some will probably work on both, but many/most won't.. better to grab both sets really.

 

[QuarkTheAwesome]

That 6 to 8 month number was when we were adding dynarec support to Beetle from scratch, along with writing a full PowerPC dynarec to go along with it. I also hadn't looked at the r3000a's instruction set; which turned out to have far fewer instructions than I thought.

The current situation is that someone else is adding the support to Beetle, and @ploggy has found a PowerPC dynarec already written which should be easy enough to implement; with a similar process for the other platforms. There's a few WiiU specific problems that we're yet to come up with a solution for, but I'd expect to have PowerMacs running something a week or two after the other platforms are finished and merged. As for Wii U; we're looking at possible API changes so I wouldn't count on the paperwork getting done anytime soon.

 

[the_randomizer]

That 6 to 8 month number was when we were adding dynarec support to Beetle from scratch, along with writing a full PowerPC dynarec to go along with it. I also hadn't looked at the r3000a's instruction set; which turned out to have far fewer instructions than I thought.

The current situation is that someone else is adding the support to Beetle, and @ploggy has found a PowerPC dynarec already written which should be easy enough to implement; with a similar process for the other platforms. There's a few WiiU specific problems that we're yet to come up with a solution for, but I'd expect to have PowerMacs running something a week or two after the other platforms are finished and merged. As for Wii U; we're looking at possible API changes so I wouldn't count on the paperwork getting done anytime soon.

Still a better situation than prior methinks.

 

[A Plus Ric]

That 6 to 8 month number was when we were adding dynarec support to Beetle from scratch, along with writing a full PowerPC dynarec to go along with it. I also hadn't looked at the r3000a's instruction set; which turned out to have far fewer instructions than I thought.

The current situation is that someone else is adding the support to Beetle, and @ploggy has found a PowerPC dynarec already written which should be easy enough to implement; with a similar process for the other platforms. There's a few WiiU specific problems that we're yet to come up with a solution for, but I'd expect to have PowerMacs running something a week or two after the other platforms are finished and merged. As for Wii U; we're looking at possible API changes so I wouldn't count on the paperwork getting done anytime soon.

Since we have vc injection to stuff and can now gamecube nintendont with gamepad,....u could always try to impliment the input adding to get wiisxr working for us as a "for now" fun time hahaha sorry, I'm just being crazy haha