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Emulation Homebrew tico — GameCube, Wii, PSP, and 3DS on Switch (HOS)

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dragonz said:
I asked ChatGPT for help - can you confirm is this is correct...

For Tico on Switch, the process is basically:

  1. Put the .wad somewhere Tico/Dolphin can access (SD card is fine).
  2. Open the Dolphin core in Tico.
  3. Go into the Dolphin/Wii tools or settings area and find the WAD installation option.
  4. Install the .wad.
  5. Exit Tico completely.
  6. Relaunch Dolphin/Tico.
  7. Start the Wii Menu inside Dolphin.
  8. The WiiWare game should appear as a channel.
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Here Tico worked like an normal iso.
Dolphin too
just put wad on same iso folder that core or dolphin reads, and it runs.
If you want, i test a game that you want
 
ISHOWMANI said:
Here Tico worked like an normal iso.
Dolphin too
just put wad on same iso folder that core or dolphin reads, and it runs.
If you want, i test a game that you want
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I placed the castlevania rebirth.WAD file inside the TIco /roms / folder and Tico says it cant find any games.
 
tmnr1992 said:
I couldn't get tico to play any wads, I haven't tested Castlevania specifically, but I got a couple wads working with Dolphin.
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Using Dophin which method did you use to play them if you don't mind me asking? Do they just work automatically by putting them inside a specific folder or is it more involved?
 
dragonz said:
I placed the castlevania rebirth.WAD file inside the TIco /roms / folder and Tico says it cant find any games.
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All my roms are in subfolders in this folder there, even because it's down most of them by tinfoil and run via retroarch and this folder is the default of retroarch. So I leave everything there and configure the tico to scan the subfolders.

After that, you need to go to the system and have it scanned again. I just did that, my friend.

In dolphin there are options to add several paths to the rom folders, in case I added the wii and gc folders separately, but they are inside the /roms folder.
 
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I tried launching Castlevania Rebirth and I get this message "Could not access Wii system memory. Refer to the wii operations Manual for details." This is with default settings.

I did try nagas Dolphin standalone emulator and it does run it. It tries to maintain a steady 60 fps but some areas it drops to 43 fps.
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Thanight705 said:
Not quite , you should still have horizon oc . You should stop using sys-clk.

Horizon OC is much safer and it has better oc compatibility
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Even For V1 switch users such as mine?
I'll be interested in trying it out.

BTW I thought Sys-CLK was considered safe eveb with max settings. Did that change recently?
 
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It would be great to be able to set up custom savestate hotkeys for each core. Doing savestates with the current ingame menu is slow and the button I press to savestate always ends up being registered ingame when I quit the menu, which can mess up a play session.
 
dragonz said:
I tried launching Castlevania Rebirth and I get this message "Could not access Wii system memory. Refer to the wii operations Manual for details." This is with default settings.

I did try nagas Dolphin standalone emulator and it does run it. It tries to maintain a steady 60 fps but some areas it drops to 43 fps.
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Even For V1 switch users such as mine?
I'll be interested in trying it out.

BTW I thought Sys-CLK was considered safe eveb with max settings. Did that change recently?
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Yes even for a V1 switch I have one and I use it
 
dragonz said:
I tried launching Castlevania Rebirth and I get this message "Could not access Wii system memory. Refer to the wii operations Manual for details." This is with default settings.

I did try nagas Dolphin standalone emulator and it does run it. It tries to maintain a steady 60 fps but some areas it drops to 43 fps.
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Even For V1 switch users such as mine?
I'll be interested in trying it out.

BTW I thought Sys-CLK was considered safe eveb with max settings. Did that change recently?
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Are your tico and core up to date?
I received this message before the last update.
 
Tested Mario Sunshine and it has significant slowdown when there's many elements on screen, it is on RVZ format so I dunno if that affects performance, has anyone else tested RVZ games?
 
Someone should start collecting finished game caches, or pre-cached files.
For Wii/Gamecube or Azahar which seem to be temperamental to caching on first boot and have better performance on second & third boots.
 
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Where do Tico-Azahar save files get saved to by default and what format?
Also whats the directory for PS1 game saves & PSP plz

I want to load up 100% save game files for Mario kart 7 and Mario 3D Land to generate Shader caches for first time users.

Additionally, if someone took a completed Android or PC cache or android-Nintendo Switch and dumped it into tico, is it compatible with Tico or not gonna work?
Like would it need to be Horizon switch to generate them.

I

Emulation Feedback Emulator  Thread 'Dolphin, Nethersx2 Azahar pre-Cache/Shader-Compiled archive?'

Given the usage of Tico-Dolphin and Nagas Dolphin port, Nagas Nethersx2 port, some Armsx2 ports And also Azahar ports from Tico and Dekopon or Raikopon and Cemu.

I think creating a forum page for Cache and Shader files would be good. It would make first boot experience way better for first time players or games with separated levels that require loading new content, compiling and caching shaders

At the moment i dont know if i want this to be main page, but if someone could create one for Tico, Nagas ports, azahar ports, Cemu and manage them that would be cool.

If not this...
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I'm trying to run Brawl and Project M in Tico. I had to use Wii Backup Manager to Split Brawl into WBFS files. Tico recognizes it but they crash when launching. How do I get them working? Tico doesn't support USB currently so it's not like I can have the full ISO on an External Drive
 
OldGnashburg said:
I'm trying to run Brawl and Project M in Tico. I had to use Wii Backup Manager to Split Brawl into WBFS files. Tico recognizes it but they crash when launching. How do I get them working? Tico doesn't support USB currently so it's not like I can have the full ISO on an External Drive
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I use dbi ftp and filezilla, copy isos or rvz
 

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