Homebrew What version of retroarch is stable and "fast" for WII U?

krueger96 · Dec 12, 2018

It works fine for me using the latest stable version, but i remember having to do a clean install or else it wouldn't work properly and freezed quite often. Once i set everything up it's pretty snappy, it takes a couple of seconds to load the cores, i think less than 10
It works really nicely too, it replaced all of my vwii emulators. Can you show us a screenshot of your folder structure? I backed up mine on my pc, so i can restore the correct files in case i screw something up in the future, if it isn't against the rules i can upload my backup (without bios and roms of course)

kisamesama · Dec 12, 2018

here's my folder structure

SG854 · Dec 12, 2018

kisamesama said:
here's my folder structure

What’s in your retroarch folder?

krueger96 · Dec 12, 2018

kisamesama said:
here's my folder structure

i meant the retroarch folder structure, here's mine:

SG854 · Dec 12, 2018

kisamesama said:
here's my folder structure

Have your tried deleting your retro core options cfg, content history ipl and retroarch cfg?

kisamesama · Dec 12, 2018

ah ok.. here's my retroarch folder:

SG854 said:
Have your tried deleting your retro core options cfg, content history ipl and retroarch cfg?

they were generated by retroarch on first launch if I am not mistaken

kisamesama · Dec 12, 2018

what sd card do you use?

I use a class 10 samsung evo 64gb .. does the size of the sd card makes a difference? It is actually a microsd card in a sd card adapter

krueger96 · Dec 12, 2018

kisamesama said:
ah ok.. here's my retroarch folder:

they were generated by retroarch on first launch if I am not mistaken

You're missing the assets folder, you should download it and place it into retroarch's folder
If that doesn't work you can try using my backup files. I'll upload them later. The sd card could make a difference i theory, but these old games don't require high read speed, so i don't think that's the problem. I had 2 sandisks, one had 40mb read speed, the other (which I'm using now) has 80, but retroarch it's not any faster with it.

kisamesama · Dec 12, 2018

where do I download the assets folder?

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I have downloaded retroarch-assets-master.zip from http://codeload.github.com/libretro/retroarch-assets/zip/master but instructions say to extract it to retroarch/media/

krueger96 · Dec 12, 2018

kisamesama said:
where do I download the assets folder?

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I have downloaded retroarch-assets-master.zip from http://codeload.github.com/libretro/retroarch-assets/zip/master but instructions say to extract it to retroarch/media/

Yeah i remember having the same problem, i think there may be some differences between the various RA ports, on wii u you have to put the assets folder into the retroarch one

vbarros22 · Dec 12, 2018

I read before in Wii U Guide: Your SD card cannot be named wiiu, or it will cause problems.

krueger96 · Dec 12, 2018

vbarros22 said:
I read before in Wii U Guide: Your SD card cannot be named wiiu, or it will cause problems.

Oh yeah i forgot about that. That might be it then.

Btw i uploaded my retroarch backup in case anyone needs it, removed the .cfg files and bioses, so i shouldn't break any rules:
https://mega.nz/#!T6IXHCJT!0nvWKJXGGR4ts6LJ7XwQW-Y4KSDu__sSMOjosOZjgdE
It has every essential file required for retroarch to work. Bare in mind there are no filters because i don't use any, i think you can download them from retroarch website. Also if anyone has problems with games requiring their console's bios, it has to be placed in retroarch>cores>system.

kisamesama · Dec 13, 2018

krueger96 said:
Oh yeah i forgot about that. That might be it then.

Btw i uploaded my retroarch backup in case anyone needs it, removed the .cfg files and bioses, so i shouldn't break any rules:
https://mega.nz/#!T6IXHCJT!0nvWKJXGGR4ts6LJ7XwQW-Y4KSDu__sSMOjosOZjgdE
It has every essential file required for retroarch to work. Bare in mind there are no filters because i don't use any, i think you can download them from retroarch website. Also if anyone has problems with games requiring their console's bios, it has to be placed in retroarch>cores>system.

ok thx very much!

retroarch is a bit faster now but not by very much. I mainly tried mame roms which may also affect load speed

I have also renamed my sdcard but that makes no difference.

krueger96 · Dec 13, 2018

kisamesama said:
ok thx very much!

retroarch is a bit faster now but not by very much. I mainly tried mame roms which may also affect load speed

I have also renamed my sdcard but that makes no difference.

You're welcome.
That could be it, mine is snappy but i haven't tested any mame roms, i tried nes, snes, mega drive, mega cd, turbografx, turbo cd, gameboy/color/advance and virtual boy. If it is that slow even with those, maybe you either have a fake sd card or it isn't formatted properly

SG854 · Dec 13, 2018

kisamesama said:
ok thx very much!

retroarch is a bit faster now but not by very much. I mainly tried mame roms which may also affect load speed

I have also renamed my sdcard but that makes no difference.

How much faster can you upload a video. I can tell you if it’s normal speed or not.

marcof · Dec 20, 2018

Hi, my Retroarch works great with xmb. The only thing I'm missing are the shaders.
@the_randomizer - Can u guve me some help with that?

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