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Hacking The Great Quest for Wiiflow Plugins™ - A call for adventurers!

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RunningSnakes said:
Are you familiar with Fatmatch app (attached below) for renaming?

I personally would just match the Japan Mega Drive .png art to your rom names.

Then I always use Advanced Renamer (Freeware) to add .zip extension to the cover art .png files. If you have never used Advanced Renamer, there is a slight learning curve but not difficult, once you use it a few times, you will never use anything else. :)
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Looked at Fatmatch, this one seems handle probs very well.
For renaming or replacing I have scripts on my file manager (linux), I use a very nice directory comparator called meld on linux too.
How to set boxcovers layouts per system ? When I change one others are impacted.

EDIT : ok it's "locking sourceflow" in the settings option. I had a différent understanding of that option.
 
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RunningSnakes said:
Update for WiiFlow Plugins Pack 2026 Lite is available. This is only an update to keep updated emulator releases current including...

FCEU-GX
Snes9xGX
VBAGX
Genesis Plus GX
Not64
Emgba

I have not thoroughly tested these so the backup (tested working) emulator dols are linked to download if there are issues. :)
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Hope that fixes the non working Not64 for me
 
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Shoutout to @Wiimpathy, for porting the little but working very well, HATARI on Wii. That Atari 520STE was my only childhood system. Awsome to find again the feeling of everything : cracktro, nice 16bits colors, this nice buzing, and windy sound, played in good condition (crt, and couch).
I had tried the retroarch core some times ago on wiiu, but was not very optimal...
Special mention to the wiimote controls emulate mouse, aside for reactivity, those makes the best feeling so far for titles like arkanoid2 or shuffle puck café, if not ever.
All this years m'y only solution playing my souvenirs on console, was the Amiga emulation.. yeark 😁
Maybe there is some tweaks to make motion controls less clunky, especially on games and GEM ?
Maybe 240p/288p support on my concerns ?
Have nice day enjoy yourself you and all the wii lovers !
 
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Glad you like this Hatari port. That was my only computer for a long time too. Lot of good memories with lucas adventure games, some silmarils games etc.
If you mean wiimote pointer as atari st mouse, it's not ideal you're right. But if I'm not mistaken it relies on SDL lib and most ports aren't so good with mouse emulation. I don't think it can be improved that much. Using classic pad/GC stick is also possible but not optimal either.
Regarding 240p mode, that could be done. One problem though would be dealing with menus and virtual keyboard positions. I'm pretty sure I've hardcoded a lot of values (some hacky code cause of lack of experience at the time :D).
 
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Wiimpathy said:
Glad you like this Hatari port. That was my only computer for a long time too. Lot of good memories with lucas adventure games, some silmarils games etc.
If you mean wiimote pointer as atari st mouse, it's not ideal you're right. But if I'm not mistaken it relies on SDL lib and most ports aren't so good with mouse emulation. I don't think it can be improved that much. Using classic pad/GC stick is also possible but not optimal either.
Regarding 240p mode, that could be done. One problem though would be dealing with menus and virtual keyboard positions. I'm pretty sure I've hardcoded a lot of values (some hacky code cause of lack of experience at the time :D).
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Ho yes ST Lucas arts are the ports I did and some french point and click too.
Wiimote control are good enough as it is. Think there isn't counter part for games that need accélération like the ones I mentionned. Likewise scummvm those fit very well in m'y opinion. On the other hand analog sticks, are far from idéal, so linear...
 
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hi, how come wiimc-ss is included in the plugins lite folder under media but there are no buttons in wiiflow to use it?
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If you are using the default theme or RhapsodiiShima theme, yes Wii-MC button is not included...however, all of my releases include Wii-MC and much more. My Source themes have dedicated buttons for Everything...:)
 
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Hi Running Snakes, First thank you for all you do for us. I appreciate all your hard work. I have two questions: 1) Which Mame for Wii is in the Plugin Pack is it the Toad King one or the Soul Fabre one? 2) Do you know if the 2003+ cores and the MAME Wii in the plugins pack support light gun games?
Thanks!
 
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1. MAME Wii included in the plugins pack is @SaulFabre release.

2. Good question. :) I don't believe any of the arcade cores support light gun games but I could be wrong. So much testing with MAME and Final Burn I don't recall ever playing a light gun game.
 
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2) Do you know if the 2003+ cores and the MAME Wii in the plugins pack support light gun games?
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I don't know, but MAME Hexaeco do. Indications from the thread below are that it requires first-play configuration changes. I expect the resulting configuration files are game (file) specific, so we probably can't include the required light gun configs to the plugins pack.

water_kooler

Thread 'Retroarch - No lightgun arcade support on Mame?'

Is it possible to setup the wiimote as a lightgun on Mame2003+ or FBA2012?

Some games I'm interested in:
Terminator 2 Arcade
Steel Gunner 2
Lethal Enforcers

I've checked the input settings on Retroarch and I'm not sure where to look.
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RunningSnakes said:
1. MAME Wii included in the plugins pack is @SaulFabre release.

2. Good question. :) I don't believe any of the arcade cores support light gun games but I could be wrong. So much testing with MAME and Final Burn I don't recall ever playing a light gun game.
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A long long time ago there was a thread called "Retroarch: Lightgun Support", it only worked in the FBA2012 core... you could switch the controller to "lightgun", I just played Sega's Zombie Raid that way. Then Wiimpathy when the split up MAME2003 cores came out made some "lightgun" versions. The Toad King Mame Wii, never had pointer support, so no Lightgun games there. The original SDL MAME that was before him did....but no one really seems to use that one anymore. I just found out about Soul Fabre and using the plugin pack I was going to try and add some of the games I once used the MAME 2003 + lightgun cores with and I hoped Soul Fabre had added pointer support. (So that is the history).
 
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