Even just one proper bugfix build would be enough for me. Being able to configure individual games with their own settings within Retroarch + being able to load more than 1 game without retroarch crashing would be icing on the cake.

 

I agree with a lot you said. currently I have been setting up my retroarch mame 2003 plus cores provided by wiimpathy. His cores are A thru G and v0.4. and i have retroarch 1.7.7 nightly build. for the most part wiimpathy's cores work great as wiiflow plugins but there are a couple i had issues with.

core E - the konami core. Large games 1MB or greater wouldn't work (cowboys of moo mesa, TMNT, TMNT 2, bucky o'hare). Wiimpathy included the v0.3 cores as alternatives so i tried core E v0.3 and those large konami games worked but oddly enuff the games smaller than 1MB didn't. so I created a new core H and put v0.3 and the large games there.

core C - the williams core. v0.4 wouldn't work for joust and defender so I tried v0.3 and now core c works fine for all those games.

I downloaded his capcom core and made it core K. works great for bionic commando, black tiger, ghosts and goblins to name a few.

for some reason I'm having trouble with asteroids and asteroids deluxe. don't know if that's because they are vector games or i have to try a different core. I might use mame 2000 for those games.

As for retroarch cfg versions:
I'm using retroarch 1.7.7. wiimpathy's cores are 1.7.6 and the capcom core is 1.7.5.
Wiimpathy explains here - https://gbatemp.net/threads/wiiflow-lite.422685/page-87#post-8748088 how to hexedit each core to change the name of retroarch.cfg so that each core will use its own retroarch.cfg. I'm going to do this next even though i haven't had any major issues with them all using retroarch.cfg 1.7.7.

 

I think its a memory issue. v0.3 core E is smaller in size than v0.4. v0.3 leaves more free ram. wiiflow 5 does load the core dol a little higher in memory than retroarch does. i may have to try lowering it in wf5 some day.

 

Nobody in the main team right now develops primarily on Wii. So, again, we need coders in here who can help us. I don't know how to make this any more clear than I already tried to do in the prior post.

 

Yes, it would be very welcome a new bugfix build and optimiced for the Wii. It's a pity that nobody on the main team can do some tests for the Wii version