Homebrew 32x emulation is now on Wii

_47iscool · Apr 25, 2021

https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/issues/66#issuecomment-826193318
via picodrive/retroarch (not by eke, hopefully I didn't confuse anyone, just a link to a screenshot)

Download: https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/nintendo/wii/

CORE · Apr 25, 2021

32X Saturn Dreamcast...ahhhh

_47iscool · Apr 25, 2021

Agreed. I don't think that they have even officially announced it yet. You can get it from the libretro buildbot.
https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/nintendo/wii/

CORE · Apr 25, 2021

I think a lot more is capable especially via Wii U but like ur post only Time Will Tell.

_47iscool · Apr 25, 2021

Hopefully they will soon find the issue with Dynamic recompilers and 32x on the Wii and fix it so full speed (or close to it) is hopefully possible.

SuperrSonic · Apr 25, 2021

I've added it to my builds, it takes a while to load and compressed roms are extracted to your sd/usb. The overscan setting only works vertically so tiled rendering is useless but I've included it anyway.

Maeson · Apr 25, 2021

This is very interesting!

I tried booting Knuckles Chaotix with SuperSonic's version of RA, and once you turn of Dynamic Recompilers it actually plays, but very slowly. Pretty great news in any case, I hope they manage to fix it.

The game did not take long to load in my case though.

niuus · Apr 25, 2021

Super cool news, this was the only Sega console missing on the Wii. Tested a bunch of games, only Mortal Kombat II was missing sprites.

SuperrSonic said:
I've added it to my builds, it takes a while to load and compressed roms are extracted to your sd/usb. The overscan setting only works vertically so tiled rendering is useless but I've included it anyway.

Working normal here, great to have it on the SS builds already. BTW, any chance to see Reminiscence core and GenesisPlus GX Wide in your builds?

_47iscool · Apr 25, 2021

@SuperrSonic Can I request a link to your custom build?

niuus · Apr 25, 2021

_47iscool said:
@SuperrSonic Can I request a link to your custom build?

It's right there on his signature.

SuperrSonic · Apr 25, 2021

_47iscool said:
@SuperrSonic Can I request a link to your custom build?

Here. Source here.

niuus said:
Working normal here, great to have it on the SS builds already. BTW, any chance to see Reminiscence core and GenesisPlus GX Wide in your builds?

I accidentally left in a build that is based on Sonic 2 CX (filename is sonic2.dol) but without a modified rom it's unplayable. I'll add it next time. I'll try adding Reminiscence too.

niuus · Apr 25, 2021

SuperrSonic said:
Here. Source here.

I accidentally left in a build that is based on Sonic 2 CX (filename is sonic2.dol) but without a modified rom it's unplayable. I'll add it next time. I'll try adding Reminiscence too.

Super cool as always, thanks for your work!

Jacobeian · Apr 25, 2021

So cool to see Picodrive has finally been updated to work on big-endian CPUs and got ported on Wii after all these years (it even looks like the 32x emulation got a PowerPC dynamic recompiler!), time to dust my old hacked Wii I guess :-)

SuperrSonic said:
The overscan setting only works vertically so tiled rendering is useless but I've included it anyway.

I've been out of Wii homebrew for so many years, barely looking at hot topics title in this forum from time to time so I am wondering what is this 'tiled rendering' thing you are talking about ? Also, what is the relation to overscan setting in Wii emulators ?

Bagel Le Stinky · Apr 25, 2021

I didn't realize it didn't exist before

SuperrSonic · Apr 25, 2021

Jacobeian said:
I've been out of Wii homebrew for so many years, barely looking at hot topics title in this forum from time to time so I am wondering what is this 'tiled rendering' thing you are talking about ? Also, what is the relation to overscan setting in Wii emulators ?

It's this really cool thing that Extrems added to mplayer-ce a long time ago, it lets you render more pixels, in this case more than 640 horizontally so Genesis games that use a color border can display without any blurry scaling. A few Virtual Console games do it too. I added it to RA as a setting only for a few cores a while back but it's a bit glitchy (no overlays/menu transparency.)

_47iscool · Apr 25, 2021

niuus said:
It's right there on his signature.

Thanks.

SuperrSonic said:
Here. Source here.

I accidentally left in a build that is based on Sonic 2 CX (filename is sonic2.dol) but without a modified rom it's unplayable. I'll add it next time. I'll try adding Reminiscence too.

Thanks a lot. I must say though I do miss the cheat/ cheat search options. When I
saw the frame blending option I almost thought it would be motion interpolation/smoothing but I know that this
technique is much too CPU/GPU intensive for the Wii to handle.

Jacobeian said:
So cool to see Picodrive has finally been updated to work on big-endian CPUs and got ported on Wii after all these years (it even looks like the 32x emulation got a PowerPC dynamic recompiler!), time to dust my old hacked Wii I guess :-)

I've been out of Wii homebrew for so many years, barely looking at hot topics title in this forum from time to time so I am wondering what is this 'tiled rendering' thing you are talking about ? Also, what is the relation to overscan setting in Wii emulators ?

I didn't originally know that endianess was the reason it wasn't on the Wii. Would also be nice to
use this on my Rebug CFW PS3.

Tanooki16 · Apr 26, 2021

Like what there can be good news in this rotten period ^^
Soon Kolibri in 240p on my Trinitron TV? The best 32X game, too bad it costs so much :/

baco81 · Apr 26, 2021

There seems to be a test version with improved performance:

https://github.com/libretro/picodrive/files/6351669/retroarch_wii.dol.gz

Hopefully it will be merged soon :-)

More info here: https://github.com/libretro/picodrive/issues/149#issuecomment-824121476

_47iscool · Apr 27, 2021

baco81 said:
There seems to be a test version with improved performance:

https://github.com/libretro/picodrive/files/6351669/retroarch_wii.dol.gz

Hopefully it will be merged soon :-)

More info here: https://github.com/libretro/picodrive/issues/149#issuecomment-824121476

Thanks for this!
It now runs at full speed but, the ui is randomly crashing. Overall it is progressing forward nicely.

cheloruiz79 · Apr 27, 2021

baco81 said:
There seems to be a test version with improved performance:

https://github.com/libretro/picodrive/files/6351669/retroarch_wii.dol.gz

Hopefully it will be merged soon :-)

More info here: https://github.com/libretro/picodrive/issues/149#issuecomment-824121476

where i put this file? thanks

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