is it at all possible to make a wii u disk adapter fo the switch

[Bkool999]

This thread is great. I lost some brain cells reading it.

 

[Pacheko17]

In fact he's even contradicting himself. The Switch meets those specs.

Yeah, because the Switch has a fucking PC GPU and CPU, right?
IT'S A MOBILE ARM PROCESSOR, IT WON'T RUN NO MATTER WHAT, IT IS *IMPOSSIBLE*

It's a fucking tablet processor running on it's iGPU with just 4gbs of ram. There is no way in hell this will ever be possible, specially because CEMU is made for x86, try even porting it to ARM, it's not easy and if you manage to do it, it won't run either way.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

like the title says, is it possible to make something that reads wii u discs on the switch? obviously there isn't homebrew yet, but would it be possible if there was?

We can't even read Wii U discs on a PC. The only thing that can read Wii U discs is a Wii U.
And even if we could, Switch is ARM based and the Wii U is PowerPC, so it would require emulation, which the Switch is not powerful enough to do at more than 1-2 FPS, nevermind that the Switch doesn't even have homebrew yet.

 

[Shadowfied]

Yeah, because the Switch has a fucking PC GPU and CPU, right?
IT'S A MOBILE ARM PROCESSOR, IT WON'T RUN NO MATTER WHAT, IT IS *IMPOSSIBLE*

It's a fucking tablet processor running on it's iGPU with just 4gbs of ram. There is no way in hell this will ever be possible, specially because CEMU is made for x86, try even porting it to ARM, it's not easy and if you manage to do it, it won't run either way.

Didn't say that.

Just said that according to his list of specs, the Switch fits the bill, apart from the OS.
It does OpenGL. It has 4 gigs of RAM. It has GPU drivers.

 

[Pacheko17]

Didn't say that.

Just said that according to his list of specs, the Switch fits the bill, apart from the OS.
It does OpenGL. It has 4 gigs of RAM. It has GPU drivers.

Everything has "GPU drivers", the fuck are you talking about.
And it said an NVIDIA GPU, not an iGPU.
Everyone knows that it means a GPU, there's no way in hell you'll get an iGPU running CEMU.
And 4gbs of ram is the minimum, it just won't even run right on 4gbs. Who even uses 4gbs on a PC nowadays anyway?

 

[Shadowfied]

Everything has "GPU drivers", the fuck are you talking about.
And it said an NVIDIA GPU, not an iGPU.
Everyone knows that it means a GPU, there's no way in hell you'll get an iGPU running CEMU.
And 4gbs of ram is the minimum, it just won't even run right on 4gbs. Who even uses 4gbs on a PC nowadays anyway?

An iGPU is a GPU.
Everything that has a GPU has drivers, correct. Which is exactly why my point is nothing but stating that it fits those specs.

Why are you arguing me on whether it's gonna run it or not?

 

[linuxares]

We can't even read Wii U discs on a PC. The only thing that can read Wii U discs is a Wii U.
And even if we could, Switch is ARM based and the Wii U is PowerPC, so it would require emulation, which the Switch is not powerful enough to do at more than 1-2 FPS, nevermind that the Switch doesn't even have homebrew yet.

You can read a Disc fine in the PC, but you can't read the data on it since there is no drivers/software/fileformat for it on the PC, Wii U discs are just blurays with a proprietary format. How else do you think they manage to dump the discs before?

Linux can read it fine and then do a dd on it and save as an image.

 

[Pacheko17]

An iGPU is a GPU.
Everything that has a GPU has drivers, correct. Which is exactly why my point is nothing but stating that it fits those specs.

Why are you arguing me on whether it's gonna run it or not?

Because your original post made it seem like you think it will run.
Maybe you should try and make what you're saying clear and avoid getting into useless arguments.
You're making yourself look stupid.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

You can read a Disc fine in the PC, but you can' read the data on it since there is no drivers/software for it on the PC. How else do you think they manage to dump the discs before?

Linux can read it fine and then do a dd on it and save as an image.

They probably used homebrew to dump the disc.
If it's that easy to dump WUDs then why isn't it mentioned anywhere?

 

[Shadowfied]

Because your original post made it seem like you think it will run.
Maybe you should try and make what you're saying clear and avoid getting into useless arguments.
You're making yourself look stupid.

I'm really not. I was pointing out that it's contradictory to claim something using an irrelevant list of specifications which are already satisfied.

 

[lembi2001]

An iGPU is a GPU.
Everything that has a GPU has drivers, correct. Which is exactly why my point is nothing but stating that it fits those specs.

Why are you arguing me on whether it's gonna run it or not?

So you are being facetious for the sake of it then?

 

[linuxares]

They probably used homebrew to dump the disc.
If it's that easy to dump WUDs then why isn't it mentioned anywhere?

Yes, now days they most likely use Wii Us to dump. But I mean in the beginning it wasn't that easy.
You can dump it as a RAW, but it won't really be helpful in the longrun if you can't write back the RAW format to the discs.

 

[nmkd]

Everything has "GPU drivers", the fuck are you talking about.
And it said an NVIDIA GPU, not an iGPU.
Everyone knows that it means a GPU, there's no way in hell you'll get an iGPU running CEMU.
And 4gbs of ram is the minimum, it just won't even run right on 4gbs. Who even uses 4gbs on a PC nowadays anyway?

What if I told you: The Switch has an iGPU?

Every SoC including Tegra has an iGPU.

Anyway iGPUs can run some games on CEMU, Mario Maker for example.

 

[linuxares]

What if I told you: The Switch has an iGPU?

Every SoC including Tegra has an iGPU.

Anyway iGPUs can run some games on CEMU, Mario Maker for example.

Some people don't understand what the "i" stands for apparently.

 

[yardie]

I have to wonder if these guys are just trolling sometimes. The level of stupidity is crazy on here

 

[Pacheko17]

What if I told you: The Switch has an iGPU?

Every SoC including Tegra has an iGPU.

Anyway iGPUs can run some games on CEMU, Mario Maker for example.

Some people don't understand what the "i" stands for apparently.

I didn't say it doesn't have one, for fucks sake!
But try running CEMU on a low powered tablet iGPU. You KNOW it can't be done. The Switch is simply NOT powerful enough for it.
And it's ARM. Not even Nintendo would be able to get emulation going, ports can be done, but emulating a PPC device on an ARM device just doesn't seem feasible, specially considering that the Wii U is pretty powerful.

This is the same thing as asking if you can emulate DS games on a 3DS. It's not doable.

 

[APartOfMe]

I just realized I posted this in the wrong section, could one of the mods move it to the eof?

 

[linuxares]

I didn't say it doesn't have one, for fucks sake!
But try running CEMU on a low powered tablet iGPU. You KNOW it can't be done. The Switch is simply NOT powerful enough for it.
And it's ARM. Not even Nintendo would be able to get emulation going, ports can be done, but emulating a PPC device on an ARM device just doesn't seem feasible, specially considering that the Wii U is pretty powerful.

This is the same thing as asking if you can emulate DS games on a 3DS. It's not doable.

Actually, it is powerful enough for some games running CEMU, it all depends on the graphical fidelity that is needed and how optimized CEMU could be for unit. Never the less, an iGPU (APU or Intel iGPU?) can run CEMU, not just well.

 

[lembi2001]

Switch Specs:

The CPU cores are clocked at 1.020 GHz, as revealed by DigitalFoundry. The GPU cores vary between 768 MHz and 307.2 MHz depending upon whether the device is docked (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch#Technical_specifications)

WiiU Specs:

The Espresso CPU is clocked at approximately 1.24 GHz. The Latte graphics chip is based on the Radeon R600/R700 architecture and is clocked at approximately 550 MHz. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U#Hardware)

The CPU in the switch is SLOWER than the CPU in the WiiU and the WiiU has a dedicated GPU which requires emulation again due to the GX2 library calls. So you are emulating 2 sets of instructions in order to get a basic display. The CPU and Integrated GPU in the Switch processor just will not cut it.

EDIT: Iff you are going to say it's faster docked, then you might as well just buy a damn WiiU

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

Edit: oh shit this isn't the eof