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Emulation Homebrew tico alpha 0.7.0 — GameCube and Wii now running on Switch (HOS), for the first time ever

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Break26 said:
It's interesting to see Pokemon Colosseum on here because I've been repeatedly unable to get that game to launch. Every time I try doing so, Tico crashes.
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It says to put cpu at 70%. I do agree that not everything there can be trusted as working though. Wind waker, unless something changed shouldn’t be on the list as working. If you have to go to the extreme in over clocking, I will not count it as working. I know there are people that don’t mind doing that but I feel like that eventually we’re going to hear about people burning their switch’s or something breaking. I’m waiting on an update that just makes things work with no over clocking or lowering it to a minimum.
 
mailer said:
yes sry, the game is Zelda Windwaker, i was responding to a message that was a response to someone having problems with it, on the list it says it runs perfectly
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Yeah that game was the game I just posted about probably for the third time, I can’t count that as working. To me the next update should not be about adding more emulators or games that need oc. It should be about seeing if GameCube and Wii can work with out all this over clocking.
 
fst312 said:
Yeah that game was the game I just posted about probably for the third time, I can’t count that as working. To me the next update should not be about adding more emulators or games that need oc. It should be about seeing if GameCube and Wii can work with out all this over clocking.
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Don't hold your breath for that drastic a performance improvement tbh, there's probably some small optimisations that can be done but the emulation involved really is stretching the capabilities of the hardware, you won't see the majority of games playable at stock clocks.
 
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Could anyone ELI5 me how to do the overclock thing here? Please.

tried sys-clk, it says it's overclocked, but game performance doesn't change at all...
 
Is there any way to use cheats with PPSSPP ? I see nothing about it in the core or ingame settings.
 
I'm having issues with Tico recognizing any of my roms. I use Lakka on my Switch and Lakka can't read from the root for whatever so I have all my ROM's stored in sdmc:/Lakka/storage/roms/ and then I have folders for each system. I set the folder to the aforementioned and enabled scan subfolders but nothing shows up. I checked if I needed to fix Archive Bit, that's not an issue so idk what is going on. Retroarch can read the folder just fine so idk why Tico can't.
 
OldGnashburg said:
I'm having issues with Tico recognizing any of my roms. I use Lakka on my Switch and Lakka can't read from the root for whatever so I have all my ROM's stored in sdmc:/Lakka/storage/roms/ and then I have folders for each system. I set the folder to the aforementioned and enabled scan subfolders but nothing shows up. I checked if I needed to fix Archive Bit, that's not an issue so idk what is going on. Retroarch can read the folder just fine so idk why Tico can't.
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weird, this way it works for me. make sure your folders are properly named, roms are not in iso and in proper format
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fst312 said:
It says to put cpu at 70%. I do agree that not everything there can be trusted as working though. Wind waker, unless something changed shouldn’t be on the list as working. If you have to go to the extreme in over clocking, I will not count it as working. I know there are people that don’t mind doing that but I feel like that eventually we’re going to hear about people burning their switch’s or something breaking. I’m waiting on an update that just makes things work with no over clocking or lowering it to a minimum.
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you wont burn your Switch unless you do something really stupid outside of what community recommends. nobody ever did. arbitrary rules of not counting something as working is your thing, overclocking Switch if it wants to do emulation this way is just inevitable, not even counting upscaling which tico cannot do properly atm. Linux has better performance and more options atm but you cannot play more intensive without overclocking or even high overclocking. most likely Hagi emulator decompilation or specific game decompilations will help a lot and could be way to play games in stock oc. or official release from Nintendo but they usually dont do the obvious thing unless they do and it sucks balls.
 
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weird, this way it works for me. make sure your folders are properly named, roms are not in iso and in proper format
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Well what are the name limitations? They shouldn't be any different then Retroarch or any other emulator.

EDIT: Nevermind, the ROM folders have to be specifically "psx" or "gb" I have all my ROM's stored in sdmc:/lakka/storage/roms/[System Name] eg. "Nintendo GameCube" "Nintendo 3DS" "Sony PlayStation Portable"

Every emulator I have installed reads ROM's from these folders, I don't want to change anything because then I have to update every single path for every other emulator, and lakka cannot read the root of my SD from what I can understand, only what's in sdmc:/lakka/storage/

If there's a workaround great, my workaround for having to have ROM's in multiple locations without conflicts and without having duplicates on Desktop was symlinked folders, obviously HOS doesn't support symlinked folders. Yeah I have a 2TB microSD but I can't just drop multiple GC ISO's in different spots.

So whatever, I guess I'll wait to test this until we can choose paths per system or until the stupid hardcoded naming scheme is gone.
 
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OldGnashburg said:
I'm having issues with Tico recognizing any of my roms. I use Lakka on my Switch and Lakka can't read from the root for whatever so I have all my ROM's stored in sdmc:/Lakka/storage/roms/ and then I have folders for each system. I set the folder to the aforementioned and enabled scan subfolders but nothing shows up. I checked if I needed to fix Archive Bit, that's not an issue so idk what is going on. Retroarch can read the folder just fine so idk why Tico can't.
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Have you tried the default directory?

tico > roms > [system folder here]
 
purple_bandit said:
Have you tried the default directory?

tico > roms > [system folder here]
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I do not want to use the default directory because Lakka won't be able to access it, HOS can access everything, but for whatever reason Lakka is restricted to reading from sdmc:/lakka/storage. Why give an option to set your roms directory if it doesn't work? And the issue isn't the roms not being in the default folder, the issue is that if the system folder names are not exactly how tico wants them, it won't read them. I have proper names for my systems and everything from Retroarch on HOS, Lakka, Linux, Android all read from the same directory and I don't want to change everything for one app
 
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I do not want to use the default directory because Lakka won't be able to access it, HOS can access everything, but for whatever reason Lakka is restricted to reading from sdmc:/lakka/storage. Why give an option to set your roms directory if it doesn't work? And the issue isn't the roms not being in the default folder, the issue is that if the system folder names are not exactly how tico wants them, it won't read them. I have proper names for my systems and everything from Retroarch on HOS, Lakka, Linux, Android all read from the same directory and I don't want to change everything for one app
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Same I’m just waiting on the next update or so just for the dolphin emulator for better compatibility, since that doesn’t work for the retroarch setup I have for switch and maybe sega saturn. All other emulators I’ll stick to retroarch, especially because of netplay and more users to play online.
 
so again, sorry to ask. About the overclocking: is it done automatically by tico if I have sys-clk or i have to manually set it from sys-clk to work on tico? never used overclocking btw so some tips would be helpfull. Other thing, what are the safe limits of docked overclocking ? I just want to play windwaker lol.
 
OldGnashburg said:
Well what are the name limitations? They shouldn't be any different then Retroarch or any other emulator.

EDIT: Nevermind, the ROM folders have to be specifically "psx" or "gb" I have all my ROM's stored in sdmc:/lakka/storage/roms/[System Name] eg. "Nintendo GameCube" "Nintendo 3DS" "Sony PlayStation Portable"

Every emulator I have installed reads ROM's from these folders, I don't want to change anything because then I have to update every single path for every other emulator, and lakka cannot read the root of my SD from what I can understand, only what's in sdmc:/lakka/storage/

If there's a workaround great, my workaround for having to have ROM's in multiple locations without conflicts and without having duplicates on Desktop was symlinked folders, obviously HOS doesn't support symlinked folders. Yeah I have a 2TB microSD but I can't just drop multiple GC ISO's in different spots.

So whatever, I guess I'll wait to test this until we can choose paths per system or until the stupid hardcoded naming scheme is gone.
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I use one folder for all OSes on Switch. sdmc:/lakka/storage/roms/ gc; gbc; and so on. No need for multiple roms in multiple locations. No problems there regarding any emulator unless its specifically weird like Aethersx2 on Linux.
 
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so again, sorry to ask. About the overclocking: is it done automatically by tico if I have sys-clk or i have to manually set it from sys-clk to work on tico? never used overclocking btw so some tips would be helpfull. Other thing, what are the safe limits of docked overclocking ? I just want to play windwaker lol.
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The OC is done automatically for the dolphin core, just be aware that the values might decrease if you go to the home menu while playing or your console goes to sleep mode, that's where sysclk/horizon oc comes in handy so you can set the values back on the fly for decent performance.
 
Taffer said:
I use one folder for all OSes on Switch. sdmc:/lakka/storage/roms/ gc; gbc; and so on. No need for multiple roms in multiple locations. No problems there regarding any emulator unless its specifically weird like Aethersx2 on Linux.
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I do that as well, but I don't have them named gc, gba, tico works for you because it's named that, tico is not working for me because I've named the Nintendo GameCube; Nintendo GameBoy Advance, etc. So what do I do here? I like my naming scheme, I don't want to have to fix all my other settings on every OS and emulator to make Tico work. Is my only option wait and hope this gets update to support different folder names sometime soon?
 

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