Mednafen' Saturn emulation on Wii

FM_Wii · Oct 6, 2022

I think we already know that Yabuse Wii, as a whole, is a concept that just barely worked, but never got seriously tweaked on (not only because it seems almost everyone hates Yabuse), mainly because of the lack of interest, and also the pain that it would be developing a Saturn emulator on a Wii.

But even so, Mednafen has proven to have a very acceptable Saturn emulation, even being considered as the best way to play it on PC. So i could ask, if there has been a possibility, or rather, IS THERE a possibility to make a playable port of Mednafen' Saturn emulator, to the Wii? And i know we have the RetroArch thingy, but i don't think this program is recommended on a system like the Wii is.

r1vver · Oct 6, 2022

Why not? Just make it already finally, lol!

FM_Wii · Oct 6, 2022

r1vver said:
Why not? Just make it already finally, lol!

I don't think you understood the topic of conversation here...

Robru1 · Oct 6, 2022

r1vver · Oct 6, 2022

FM_Wii said:
I don't think you understood the topic of conversation here...

Sure.
So you're not going to do anything for it either? Well, no luck for you then.

SaulFabre · Oct 6, 2022

Technically yes, but it will run slow, like Yabause Wii have done.

If PC-FX emulation on Wii (from latest WiiMednafen 0.3-SNAPSHOT) is still somewhat slow, now imagine how will be Saturn emulation on Wii with a standalone port of Mednafen Saturn... also still being somewhat slow

r1vver · Oct 7, 2022

And so it will continue. It gets "better" not because more talented developers are working on it, but because modern hardware is powerful enough to deal with most problems by brute force.

FM_Wii · Oct 8, 2022

SaulFabre said:
Technically yes, but it will run slow, like Yabause Wii have done.

If PC-FX emulation on Wii (from latest WiiMednafen 0.3-SNAPSHOT) is still somewhat slow, now imagine how will be Saturn emulation on Wii with a standalone port of Mednafen Saturn... also still being somewhat slow

Thanks, this is all i wanted to know

PacBunnyXV07 · Oct 8, 2022

FM_Wii said:
I think we already know that Yabuse Wii, as a whole, is a concept that just barely worked, but never got seriously tweaked on (not only because it seems almost everyone hates Yabuse), mainly because of the lack of interest, and also the pain that it would be developing a Saturn emulator on a Wii.

But even so, Mednafen has proven to have a very acceptable Saturn emulation, even being considered as the best way to play it on PC. So i could ask, if there has been a possibility, or rather, IS THERE a possibility to make a playable port of Mednafen' Saturn emulator, to the Wii? And i know we have the RetroArch thingy, but i don't think this program is recommended on a system like the Wii is.

Stop wasting people's time. Thats like saying "Nobody is working on a PS2 emulator on the Vita because of no interest". There is a reason why Sega Saturn emulation is slow on the Wii!

Jilou · Oct 10, 2022

@PacBunny With a Dynarec maybe there is a possibility to make something well like WiiSXRX (Wii station).

FM_Wii · Oct 30, 2022

Jilou said:
@PacBunny With a Dynarec maybe there is a possibility to make something well like WiiSXRX (Wii station).

It's already being done in recent forks of WiiSXRX

niuus · Oct 30, 2022

FM_Wii said:
I think we already know that Yabuse Wii, as a whole, is a concept that just barely worked, but never got seriously tweaked on (not only because it seems almost everyone hates Yabuse), mainly because of the lack of interest, and also the pain that it would be developing a Saturn emulator on a Wii.

But even so, Mednafen has proven to have a very acceptable Saturn emulation, even being considered as the best way to play it on PC. So i could ask, if there has been a possibility, or rather, IS THERE a possibility to make a playable port of Mednafen' Saturn emulator, to the Wii? And i know we have the RetroArch thingy, but i don't think this program is recommended on a system like the Wii is.

SaulFabre said:
Technically yes, but it will run slow, like Yabause Wii have done.

Jilou said:
@PacBunny With a Dynarec maybe there is a possibility to make something well like WiiSXRX (Wii station).

Well, that won't happen in your lifetimes. Also, porting Mednafen Saturn? Next up would be asking for a BSNES and PCSX2 ports. Single digit framerate emulators are not exactly popular.

The only thing that could happen is improving on whatever was already achieved with Yabause, like a dynarec, GPU acceleration, the works.

But even Virtual Jaguar Wii never got out of the PoC stage. Unless you create a bountysource like the one for the PCSX core, and people pitches real money in, it's never gonna happen.

Jilou · Oct 31, 2022

@niuus Does it exist something like that for Yabause or Mednafen or... For emulate Sega Saturn on Wii or Wii U ?

niuus · Oct 31, 2022

Jilou said:
@niuus Does it exist something like that for Yabause or Mednafen or... For emulate Sega Saturn on Wii or Wii U ?

Bing or google Yabause Wii.

Satmonk · Nov 9, 2022

If 32x emulation is already done on Wii, why not Saturn? 32x is technically similar to the Saturn.

Jilou · Nov 13, 2022

Or maybe a good programmer can make compatible this code with Wii or Wii U : https://github.com/devmiyax/yabause
Is it possible to make something like Yaba Sanshiro 2 on Android but on Wii or Wii U ?

Zeox-gamer · Dec 11, 2022

FM_Wii said:
I think we already know that Yabuse Wii, as a whole, is a concept that just barely worked, but never got seriously tweaked on (not only because it seems almost everyone hates Yabuse), mainly because of the lack of interest, and also the pain that it would be developing a Saturn emulator on a Wii.

But even so, Mednafen has proven to have a very acceptable Saturn emulation, even being considered as the best way to play it on PC. So i could ask, if there has been a possibility, or rather, IS THERE a possibility to make a playable port of Mednafen' Saturn emulator, to the Wii? And i know we have the RetroArch thingy, but i don't think this program is recommended on a system like the Wii is.

It would be great, but yabause on the Nintendo Wii can be saved if someone who knows how to program. take it and modify and remove that automatic frame skip and put it to choose the skip frames to 1,2 and 3, and change the software plugin,
however, it would also be good to create a retroarch port of madnanfen saturn for the wii u and a console capable of emulating saturn would also be a dream.

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