Homebrew PS1/2 Emulator Project WiiSX / CubeSX (PCSXGC) with Lightrec Project - Beta testers & feedback needed!

Maeson · Mar 14, 2023

Thank you to all the people involved for the work put into this!

I just wanted to say that I tried a couple more games and I my jaw hit the floor when i saw that Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is seemingly working correctly. On other versions with dynarec there were many, many glitches of many different types on menus, videos, actual gameplay etc, but on this new one everything seemed to work as intended.

...Lightrec is quite the beast, holy smokes.

pedro702 · Mar 15, 2023

for years we had nothing on ps1 and now we got so much damn, first wiisxrx, then came wiistation which gave us compatibility and cdda and now this, ps1 on wii keeps getting better and better.

niuus · Mar 16, 2023

Maeson said:
I just wanted to say that I tried a couple more games and I my jaw hit the floor when i saw that Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is seemingly working correctly. On other versions with dynarec there were many, many glitches of many different types on menus, videos, actual gameplay etc, but on this new one everything seemed to work as intended.

Both Oddworld games were already working in WiiSXRX 3.3. Same as Area 51 and Tony Hawk games, for example.

Actual new things are: Tekken 2 doesn't need Core Interpreter exclusively now to run without 3D exploding vertices, and Vib-Ribbon doesn't have scratchy music during gameplay. Rise 2 is still a big no, for now.

Maeson · Mar 16, 2023

I'll check which versions I have on my Wii when I get home, because I have several and can't remember which ones, it might be prior to 3.3.

SaulFabre · Mar 16, 2023

niuus said:
Actual new things are: Tekken 2 doesn't need Core Interpreter exclusively now to run without 3D exploding vertices, and Vib-Ribbon doesn't have scratchy music during gameplay. Rise 2 is still a big no, for now.

Sad of Rise 2, but i'm happy that Tekken 2 can be run with the Lightrec implementation on WiiSX and the game Vib-Ribbon can be played with its music instead of the earraping sound also on Lightrec on WiiSX.
Gonna try these games in a few hours.

niuus · Mar 16, 2023

SaulFabre said:
Sad of Rise 2, but i'm happy that Tekken 2 can be run with the Lightrec implementation on WiiSX and the game Vib-Ribbon can be played with its music instead of the earraping sound also on Lightrec on WiiSX.
Gonna try these games in a few hours.

Neh, you're not missing anything with the mediocre fighter Rise 2, it's just a particular game to see it working, since you can't play it in any other shape or form on the Wii, and the PC/Saturn ports can't be emulated. LOL on the ear-raping Vib-Ribbon. What I didn't test was the alternate music function by changing disk and using an Audio CD.

Speed is still the strong point and I am excited to think that we may eventually see Ghost in the Shell finally running on the Wii, maybe even with the best speed.

godreborn · Mar 16, 2023

niuus said:
Neh, you're not missing anything with the mediocre fighter Rise 2, it's just a particular game to see it working, since you can't play it in any other shape or form on the Wii, and the PC/Saturn ports can't be emulated. LOL on the ear-raping Vib-Ribbon. What I didn't test was the alternate music function by changing disk and using an Audio CD.

Speed is still the strong point and I am excited to think that we may eventually see Ghost in the Shell finally running on the Wii, maybe even with the best speed.

lol, Rise 2. the sequel to rise of the robots, which my friend destroyed his copy due to it being a true piece of shit.

SaulFabre · Mar 16, 2023

godreborn said:
lol, Rise 2. the sequel to rise of the robots, which my friend destroyed his copy due to it being a true piece of shit.

your friend became the next JonTron or the next Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) xD

godreborn · Mar 16, 2023

SaulFabre said:
your friend became the next JonTron or the next Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) xD

when I showed a separate friend, who knew of the incident, that rise of the robots 2 had a sequel on the playstation 1, his eyes bulged. we played for a bit, then he said, "get that off the screen." lmao

GustavoReis · Mar 16, 2023

New updates

godreborn · Mar 16, 2023

@SaulFabre , libogc2--is that the same one we both have? I could add it to environmental settings. I'm just not sure on this new pc.

SaulFabre · Mar 16, 2023

godreborn said:
@SaulFabre , libogc2--is that the same one we both have? I could add it to environmental settings. I'm just not sure on this new pc.

Yeah, it was the same libOGC2 what we used for compile latest Wii64, but now emu_kidid added this libOGC2 to WiiSX too.
Just download the latest artifact from https://github.com/extremscorner/libogc2/actions and extract its contents into /devkitPro/libogc2/

sombrerosonic · Mar 17, 2023

Sure ill test it a bit

niuus · Mar 17, 2023

niuus said:
Both Oddworld games were already working in WiiSXRX 3.3. Same as Area 51 and Tony Hawk games, for example.

Actual new things are: Tekken 2 doesn't need Core Interpreter exclusively now to run without 3D exploding vertices, and Vib-Ribbon doesn't have scratchy music during gameplay. Rise 2 is still a big no, for now.

A mini update to this. I've just built the 3D accelerated build of WiiSX, ran Tekken 2, and besides looking slick like early ePSXe times with OpenGL, holy foking smokes. Full speed is there already, on the humble Wii.

SaulFabre · Mar 17, 2023

Latest builds of WiiSX and CubeSX with Lightrec until git 88c4464
https://github.com/emukidid/pcsxgc/commit/88c4464af949e669a12706220c7ae9782f9abb8f

Latest change is optimizing the pixel blit for RGB555 mode (at RGB5A3), also adding -fipa-pta on compiling.
(pinging once again to @GustavoReis)

Please test these builds, thanks

niuus said:
A mini update to this. I've just built the 3D accelerated build of WiiSX, ran Tekken 2, and besides looking slick like early ePSXe times with OpenGL, holy foking smokes. Full speed is there already, on the humble Wii.

@niuus
I have compiled the GX build. Impressed that even if still in development this OpenGL plugin on Wii, it actually technically works. Tested also Tekken 2 and also very close to full speed.

Malik23 · Mar 19, 2023

I have GCSX for swiss 0.6 on an Sd gecko. I replaced the old appllication by yours but when i select anything (isos or bios...) and try to open it from the sd card, i can see folders written in red but can't open it to acces the files.

PS: Now it works with the version posted on friday 17th march.

ploggy · Mar 19, 2023

Malik23 said:
I have GCSX for swiss 0.6 on an Sd gecko. I replaced the old appllication by yours but when i select anything (isos or bios...) and try to open it from the sd card, i can see folders written in red but can't open it to acces the files.

PS: Now it works with the version posted on friday 17th march.

Oh, sd gecko now works with gcsx? that's great!
When you say it works with the version posted on friday 17th march do you mean the swiss version or the gcsx version?

emu_kidid · Mar 20, 2023

New commit today, should boost all games by 10% or so.

Note: There's a regression in lightrec, use e78ab28 of lightrec for any builds @SaulFabre

SaulFabre · Mar 21, 2023

Latest builds of WiiSX and CubeSX with Lightrec until git 7261a1e
https://github.com/emukidid/pcsxgc/commit/7261a1e512000a75c394a72a24fa42c878c28565

Latest change is optimizing once again the pixel conversion and enable L2Enhance on Wii, which @emu_kidid said, this would give to all games a small speed benefit of 10%, also some fixes to DFSound and Lightrec implementation on WiiSX from the creator of Lightrec, pcercuei.

Compiled with Lightrec library until git e78ab28

Please test these builds, thanks

mrmagicm · Mar 21, 2023

Hi SaulFabre, I've tested with R-TYPE Delta, I would say the Gain in Speed is much more, maybe around 20% to 25%!! it is even quicker with overclock program, so quick that's it's Haaard for me again in this game!! Your work in awesome!! Speed it not a problem anymore in Wiistation with Lightrec!!
A nice addition to wiistation would be to be able to play with the analog stick and directionnal D-pad Cross at the same time like in some other emulators....Also I think a "play game" button is not really needed, It should launch the game selected when you select a game like in genplus-gx, what do you think?

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Thunderforce5 game crashes with WIISTATION Lightrec during trying to pass level 1 Boss, it gives black screen with error messages or reboots, i've checked multiple time, same thing with WIISX Lightrec, but it doesn't do that with the Dynarec version. So the Lightrec has much more performance but less compatibility for Games. At the moment I am checking quite a few games.

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