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vWii OVERCLOCKED, we are talking about WII U here, not Wii.
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Even if the sound emulation is scratchy and uses a pretty outdated plugin, but yes, keep playing with outdated plugins
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WiiSXR development dropped ages ago, and its compatibility is sub-par of current Retroarch cores. It'll be great if we get native DynaRec PS & N64 cores for Wii U.
I've had this happen many times and it usually boils down to one of these two things:
1. RetroArch is trying to load a core that doesn't exist. This usually happens if you have an invalid playlist entry. If you try to load a core that doesn't exist, it will be set as the default core anyway and then promptly fail to load it on startup, which is why it just exits to the Wii U menu. You can easily fix this by editing the "libretro_path" line in retroarch.cfg by pointing it to an actually existing core. This way you don't have to delete the whole configuration file and you won't lose your other settings. You might also need to delete content_history.lpl.
2. The SD card is set to the "lock" or read-only position. For whatever reason it's really easy for the latch to get pushed into the wrong position when pushing it into the Wii U SD slot. Most SD card readers won't detect this and will let you write to it from PC anyway, but the Wii U will detect it and make it read-only, which means it can't write to the configuration file and will just exit.
One other thing to try is download the assets archive (linked in the OP under the "white screen" section) and drop the xmb folder into sd:\retroarch\media\
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Thanks for the lengthy response.
libretro_path = "sd:/retroarch/cores/81_libretro.elf"
I think this may be my issue as you pointed out.
The SD card isn't on lock as i've checked several times.
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mame2003_midway_libretro I changed it to this core and i verified it was there. The 81_libretro.elf was also there. It's always pointing to that core, even after i delete the .cfg and it recreates itself, when i try to boot it unsuccessfully.
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There is a dynarec in progress. Be patient
Also 3ds is arm, it's a way better architecture to work with than Wii U's PowerPC
I always restart the RA when you change the core and game sometime it crashes on me if i dont restart the RA maybe it what is the problem?
That was the problem, changing the game directly without closing the previous one generates the error
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But once you know you can achieve bigger things than other architectures like x86 and stuff...
You would think they will know how to use it by now ... We have had this same PPC since GameCube.
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Thanks for the lengthy response.
libretro_path = "sd:/retroarch/cores/81_libretro.elf"
I think this may be my issue as you pointed out.
The SD card isn't on lock as i've checked several times.
Are you on discord? if so, can you join my server? https://discord.gg/HKX4PdQ
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mame2003_midway_libretro I changed it to this core and i verified it was there. The 81_libretro.elf was also there. It's always pointing to that core, even after i delete the .cfg and it recreates itself, when i try to boot it unsuccessfully.
Anyone?
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And yet it's taken them this long for someone to finally have the motivation to port over PPC, you know, instead of jumping ship and diverting all the attention to the Switch. Yeah, I'm cynical, so what?
Sure. This is the basic folder structure for the RPX version, which you might want to try again. This is all you need if you're launching from the RetroArch Channel linked in the OP (nothing is needed in the wiiu/apps folder).
sd:/retroarch/config/
sd:/retroarch/cores/
sd:/retroarch/cores/info/
sd:/retroarch/cores/logs/
sd:/retroarch/cores/playlists/
sd:/retroarch/cores/savefiles/
sd:/retroarch/cores/savestates/
sd:/retroarch/cores/system/
sd:/retroarch/database/
sd:/retroarch/database/cursors
sd:/retroarch/database/rdb/
sd:/retroarch/downloads/
sd:/retroarch/filters/
sd:/retroarch/media/
sd:/retroarch/media/xmb/
sd:/retroarch/retroarch.cfg
sd:/retroarch/retroarch-core-options.cfg
If you're launching it from the Homebrew Launcher, just add these:
sd:/wiiu/apps/retroarch/icon.png
sd:/wiiu/apps/retroarch/meta.xml
sd:/wiiu/apps/retroarch/retroarch.rpx
Also I'd highly recommend using only the latest stable version (1.7.8) instead of the latest nightly build as those can be unstable.
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