Tantric brings Snes9x GX, FCE Ultra GX, VBA GX to Wii U via Aroma

Tantric brings Snes9x GX, FCE Ultra GX, VBA GX to Wii U via Aroma

@Tantric , the developer behind the long-running GX emulators for Wii and GameCube, has released native Wii U ports of Snes9x GX, FCE Ultra GX and Visual Boy Advance GX. Rather than running in vWii, the three emulators now run as Wii U homebrew through Aroma.

According to @Tantric, changes were required for libmocha, libdvm, libntfs and libsmb2 for this to work and much of the effort went into completely abstracting the console hardware interactions so that these ports and any future ones becomes much easier.

Native Wii U release! Snes9x GX now runs natively on the Wii U as its own app, with its own icon on the Wii U Menu. Requires Aroma - run the latest Aroma release and launch the .wuhb directly from it
  • Output up to 1080p, with a new GPU-powered ScaleFX upscaler shader and a Sharp Bilinear shader, plus a scanline shader
  • Crisp, upscaled menus with sharper text and HD artwork
  • Full Wii U GamePad support - touch screen, buttons, and rumble - alongside Wiimote, Nunchuk, Classic Controller, and Wii U Pro Controller
  • Correct 16:9 aspect ratio handling, with Wii U aspect ratio handling
  • SD card plus up to 3 USB drives at once, with hotplug. USB supports FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS (requires Mocha, an optional Aroma component)
  • Press the HOME button to open the Wii U menu overlay. In game, HOME still opens the app menu.
  • Sound plays on both the TV and the GamePad
  • Recommended: install Bloopair to pair Bluetooth controllers (Switch Pro, Joy-Con, DualShock/DualSense, Xbox, and more) as if they were a Wii U Pro Controller

Despite some early bug reports, developer Tantric has addressed several of these in pre-release builds, which also fix the tilt sensor in games such as WarioWare: Twisted!.

All three emulators are available from their GitHub release pages.

:arrow: Source
:arrow: Snes9x GX Releases
:arrow: FCE Ultra GX Releases
:arrow: Visual Boy Advance GX Releases
:arrow: libgui GitHub Repo
 
great to see the Wii U still getting attention. the improvements are much appreciated. not that its anything ground breaking but good to have the redundancy.
 

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