Hacking Devolution - Public Release

[suloku]

http://hackmii.com/2012/12/hbc-release-for-a-new-wii-u/

The currently used IOS exploit is courtesy of tueidj.

Now you know what was tueidj doing. May this mean that he's trying to make devolution (alongside other hombrew) work in wii U?

 

[Excelsiior]

I'd say yes. He always planned adding WiiMote-Support + DEVO runs in (v)Wii-Mode.

 

[Bryon15]

http://hackmii.com/2012/12/hbc-release-for-a-new-wii-u/



Now you know what was tueidj doing. May this mean that he's trying to make devolution (alongside other hombrew) work in wii U?

Yes. There's already proof of this on the Wii U board.

http://gbatemp.net/threads/devolution.338544/

 

[suloku]

Nice, guess he's bussy with wiimote now. I wonder how will he mantain the AP approach in WiiU though, but I guess he'll just make the disc drive accept mini dvds? That'd be good news for all those with the wii family edition.

 

[McHaggis]

Nice, guess he's bussy with wiimote now. I wonder how will he mantain the AP approach in WiiU though, but I guess he'll just make the disc drive accept mini dvds? That'd be good news for all those with the wii family edition.

It's likely to be the drive's firmware that rejects mini DVD discs. That is, of course, if the Wii U doesn't eat them, I have seen no-one mention what happens when you put a GC disc in.

 

[Chaossaturn]

Let me get this right, you need the original disc to use this? wow just wow is all I can say if that is indeed true. You do realize that Nintendo no longer sales gamecube games so even if people do pirate them Nintendo is not losing any money and all your doing by having to use the original disc is punishing the people who really do want to play there legit backups. People may have sealed collection and don't want to open them, may have there collection in the attic, gamecube games store away and don't want to get them out just so there can spend ages making 1:1 backups and verify the game there all ready own. All I can say is I hope someone comes along and sorts out this BS (the person who does, deserves there hand shaken). What make this even more worse is I bet tueidj himself use's a version of Devolution that does not require you to have the original disc in the drive to verify the ISO (he even knows how BS it is).

 

[Etheboss]

Let me get this right, you need the original disc to use this? wow just wow is all I can say if that is indeed true. You do realize that Nintendo no longer sales gamecube games so even if people do pirate them Nintendo is not losing any money and all your doing by having to use the original disc is punishing the people who really do want to play there legit backups. People may have sealed collection and don't want to open them, may have there collection in the attic, gamecube games store away and don't want to get them out just so there can spend ages making 1:1 backups and verify the game there all ready own. All I can say is I hope someone comes along and sorts out this BS (the person who does, deserves there hand shaken). What make this even more worse is I bet tueidj himself use's a version of Devolution that does not require you to have the original disc in the drive to verify the ISO (he even knows how BS it is).

you won't get any reaction here, because this is the wrong topic.
If you want to discus it, go HERE.

 

[McHaggis]

Let me get this right, you need the original disc to use this? wow just wow is all I can say if that is indeed true. You do realize that Nintendo no longer sales gamecube games so even if people do pirate them Nintendo is not losing any money and all your doing by having to use the original disc is punishing the people who really do want to play there legit backups. People may have sealed collection and don't want to open them, may have there collection in the attic, gamecube games store away and don't want to get them out just so there can spend ages making 1:1 backups and verify the game there all ready own. All I can say is I hope someone comes along and sorts out this BS (the person who does, deserves there hand shaken). What make this even more worse is I bet tueidj himself use's a version of Devolution that does not require you to have the original disc in the drive to verify the ISO (he even knows how BS it is).

Classic, knee-jerk, obvious pirate reaction. I got all my games out of the loft just to rip them with CleanRip/WiiFlow and verify them with Devolution so that I could play them at any time. I have no complaints, even though my Wii broke down a few months later and I had to re-verify them all for a brand new Wii. If I can do that without having a big whinge about it I'm sure anyone else can. You'll find the only people complaining are pirates who don't own any games.

 

[Cyan]

Let's not discuss it in this thread.
He got a link to the other one, don't make him reply here. thanks.

 

[kupo3000]

Let me get this right, you need the original disc to use this? wow just wow is all I can say if that is indeed true. You do realize that Nintendo no longer sales gamecube games so even if people do pirate them Nintendo is not losing any money and all your doing by having to use the original disc is punishing the people who really do want to play there legit backups. People may have sealed collection and don't want to open them, may have there collection in the attic, gamecube games store away and don't want to get them out just so there can spend ages making 1:1 backups and verify the game there all ready own. All I can say is I hope someone comes along and sorts out this BS (the person who does, deserves there hand shaken). What make this even more worse is I bet tueidj himself use's a version of Devolution that does not require you to have the original disc in the drive to verify the ISO (he even knows how BS it is).

Have you tried with DIOS MIOS 2.6?
It's nearly perfect.
Anyway check out the other thread that Etheboss mentioned.

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

Purely theoretical idea:

Would it be possible to run Devolution at Wii CPU & GPU clockrates to run a game at 150%, similar to what I described here with the Dolphin emulator:
http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-f-zero-gx-90fps-150-holy?pid=252750

 

[papermanzero]

Well ... maybe devolution can improve the picture quality via forced 480p.
Most of the games displays extremely deinterlacer lines (like Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Prince of Persia Sands of Time, Warrior Within, Two Thrones, etc.)
If we can get rid of that it would be a major step forward.

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

The Wii U already forces 480p on Wii games that didn't support it, so Devolution working on the Wii U would automatically force 480p support.

 

[nakata6790]

Purely theoretical idea:

Would it be possible to run Devolution at Wii CPU & GPU clockrates to run a game at 150%, similar to what I described here with the Dolphin emulator:
http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-f-zero-gx-90fps-150-holy?pid=252750

IIRC crediar had done a proof of concept video for XGIII running at Wii speed:


On topic, great to see Devo being further improved, i can't wait for it to start supporting wii controller, specifically IR aiming for my Timesplitters 3, Nightfire and Die Hard Vendetta games.

 

[WiiUBricker]

So it seems that after the site hack tueidj lost trust in gbatemp and left indefinitely. Well at least the real crediar graces us unworthy people with his presence now.

 

[papermanzero]

The Wii U already forces 480p on Wii games that didn't support it, so Devolution working on the Wii U would automatically force 480p support.

Well all Wii Games supports 480p. But GameCube games especially PAL games don't have any progressive mode. Only certain games supports 480p.
Most of the games displays a lot of vertical or horizontal lines which makes the games nowadays unplayable (on HDTVs)
Therefore a forced progressive mode (in which the wii renders GameCube games in progressive) would be highly appreciated.

Example Prince of Persia PAL (which doesn't support neither Progressive nor 60Hz PAL)

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

IIRC crediar had done a proof of concept video for XGIII running at Wii speed:

But unlike Dolphin, that proof of concept has DSP audio issues. Dolphin however has absolutely no errors and glitches at all running at 150% speed.

 

[wiismodrome]

Would it be possible to run Devolution at Wii CPU & GPU clockrates to run a game at 150%, similar to what I described here with the Dolphin emulator:

AFAIK, Devolution already runs Gamecube games in Wii mode at the regular Wii clock rates (1.5 x GC clocks). From what I understand, given how the program was designed to run the game code, most games work normally in Wii mode, though a few games apparently run too fast according to the Devolution compatibility list. Some games which had inconsistent framerates in GC mode seem to run a little more smoothly with the increased CPU/GPU clocks IME.

 

[HomebrewEnthusiast109876]

I can't wait for this to get going on the vWii and I have a serious request for a feature for when that eventually works:

a forced 4:3 mode.

Not many GCN games are suited for 16:9 and the WiiU forces everything to be 16:9.

 

[papermanzero]

I can't wait for this to get going on the vWii and I have a serious request for a feature for when that eventually works:

a forced 4:3 mode.

Not many GCN games are suited for 16:9 and the WiiU forces everything to be 16:9.

Me too.
A 4:3 Mode to display the content correctly on 16:9 TVs would be great.
Beside the forced progressive mode (480p). ^^