Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

[ShadowOne333]

@ploggy Can you tell me EXACTLY how to reproduce those DSI errors? In order to fix any of these, bparker needs to first be able to reproduce these.

Double posts usually don't notify the users.
@ploggy your help is needed my friend

 

[ploggy]

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?posts/7615859

I posted how I caused the error here. I cant be more specific since I only managed to trigger the error a few times.. try after a fresh install.

Literally by highlighting the Favorites tab (pressing right twice) causes the freeze and pressing a few buttons after causes the dsi error.

 

[LibretroRetroArc]

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?posts/7615859

I posted how I caused the error here. I cant be more specific since I only managed to trigger the error a few times.. try after a fresh install.

Literally by highlighting the Favorites tab (pressing right twice) causes the freeze and pressing a few buttons after causes the dsi error.

Bparker tells me he cannot reproduce your issue.

Can you put your .lpl files in a zip file and post a link here? One of them should be the favorites list.

 

[ploggy]

Bparker tells me he cannot reproduce your issue.

Can you put your .lpl files in a zip file and post a link here? One of them should be the favorites list.

I got the error from a clean install though. So no favorites lpl?

@LibretroRetroArc
EDIT: a bit more info.. It's not specific to the Favourites menu, it just happened to crash while on the Favourites menu. I managed to recreate it again but this time it locked up on a different tab.
It really needs to be a clean install though, once it locks up pressing "A" or "B" button does nothing (although "X" button does bring up the On screen Keyboard though)
But pressing the "L" or "R" buttons triggers the actual DSI Error..



I know it doesn't show in the vid but right after the vid stops I pressed the top L and R buttons a few times and caused a DSI Error..

Also the last build from the Bot is alot smaller than normal?

 

[the_randomizer]

He's streaming right now and just called the retroarch WiiU guys "a bunch of assholes" lol

No offense to this individual, but unprovoked attacks like that, and ultimately insulting the devs, that's just a douche move on his part, and no, I'm not sorry for saying that. It's insults from people like him that cause devs to be unmotivated *shrug*

We need more motivated developers for the RetroArch Wii U port, not people like Hedgberg who are attacking other people, even in jest.

 

[Maxbeta]

Hi.
I’m currently still in version 1.67 and keep having this weird problem.

I swap lot between WiiU Pro Controller and gamepad and at some random point when starting up Retroarch neither will work as a main source of input for the menu. So I’m pretty much stuck at that point.
I then always have to take out the SD card and delete the config files created under wiiU/ and then for some reason I am able to work the gamepad again.

Has anybody had this issue?

 

[ploggy]

@LibretroRetroArc @bparker did you guys have any luck tracking down that bug? Also the build bot is still broke for WiiU :/

 

[rioray]

@LibretroRetroArc @bparker did you guys have any luck tracking down that bug? Also the build bot is still broke for WiiU :/

@ploggy
For the wiiu build , yes it failed at mame2003 (not only for wiiu) because a newer commit introduce an osd_malloc that were not declared elsewhere.
i did a PR and now waiting an merge.

https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/146

@QuarkTheAwesome
any chance you can look at your touch driver to fix the press ? it will be cool to play with it on some core(light pointer in mame game , finger touch keyboard ...)

BTW not related but i was looking at the RA wiiu source
for overlay,after looking how wii deal it ,I think it can be possible to implement them on wiiu , of course need to look/study more but the actual code already deal with texture (for menu menu.texture) so it can be a good starting point.
Another thing is also to provide a rthread implementation for the wiiu , the most of the work was already done by @aliaspider but it missing a way to deal pthread_cond_timedwait.
as I have no knowledge of the wiiu , it can take age to me to done something with

 

[Shadow Fyre]

Hey just wondering since I've never used Retroarch before, do the N64 and DS emulators work on this?

 

[the_randomizer]

Hey just wondering since I've never used Retroarch before, do the N64 and DS emulators work on this?

No, it needs a dynarec core, which is being worked on.

 

[QuarkTheAwesome]

@ploggy
For the wiiu build , yes it failed at mame2003 (not only for wiiu) because a newer commit introduce an osd_malloc that were not declared elsewhere.
i did a PR and now waiting an merge.

https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/146

@QuarkTheAwesome
any chance you can look at your touch driver to fix the press ? it will be cool to play with it on some core(light pointer in mame game , finger touch keyboard ...)

BTW not related but i was looking at the RA wiiu source
for overlay,after looking how wii deal it ,I think it can be possible to implement them on wiiu , of course need to look/study more but the actual code already deal with texture (for menu menu.texture) so it can be a good starting point.
Another thing is also to provide a rthread implementation for the wiiu , the most of the work was already done by @aliaspider but it missing a way to deal pthread_cond_timedwait.
as I have no knowledge of the wiiu , it can take age to me to done something with

Been busy lately, sorry. I'll get onto that when I can (couple days?)

As for threading, it's kinda difficult on Wii U since it uses a completely different thread model than every other OS supported by RA. One basically has to write a thread scheduler from the ground up... Not super easy. That's the main reason it hasn't happened yet; despite how it's hampering performance.

 

[pedro702]

No, it needs a dynarec core, which is being worked on.

hmm just becuase someone makes a dynarec for ps1 doesnt make a dynarec for n64 being worked on which its not even looked into t all.

 

[ploggy]

Why does the glui driver look wrong on the Wiiu? Can it be fixed?
If @QuarkTheAwesome and @rioray get touch support working on WiiU I think the Glui driver would be a good candidate for it
It just looks odd atm

 

[rioray]

lol I must have missed something with overlay

 

[ploggy]

lol I must have missed something with overlay

It's kinda working

 

[gcpro]

lol I must have missed something with overlay

it's possible to use overlay?

 

[rioray]

it's possible to use overlay?

no , for now just some tests that lead to nowhere.

 

[rioray]

it look better now.

 

[ploggy]

it look better now.

Wow. YES! they look good well done.

 

[bootmonster]

it look better now.

i take once this is working this means we can now play GBC games with SGB backgrounds? (There's a pack available with the backgrounds saved as images)