nullDC4Wii

[niuus]

After a recent effort made by Xale00, reaching out via email to the first developer that made an attempt on porting nullDC to the Wii console, the source code was published:

https://github.com/skmp/nullDCe

This was already forked in a few days, and a port of nullDC for the Wii was launched in Alpha state, the first released publicly, with 3 builds already out.

Remember, ALPHA STATE.

https://github.com/BenoitAdam94/nullDC4Wii

 

[Disorarara]

Finally! It's been more than a decade since news of NullDC on Wii was teased and I'm glad the source code wasn't lost.

 

[Xale007]

aha too soon, was waiting for version 0.04 tu publish here

New version : 0.04

Please help me improve compatibility guide, this will help me (and other) a lot even if it's an alpha state





EDIT : DONT ASK ME ABOUT WII U

 

[water_kooler]

Bravo!

 

[Satmonk]

Xale made progress with his project Version 0.05 is out!

 

[niuus]

Xale made progress with his project Version 0.05 is out!

Nice to know. I'll likely be testing this with a SD card solely for this, I just don't have much time lately.

 

[ploggy]

I made a WiiU Overclock forwarder and a Wii Channel for this if anyone wants to use them
I'm not the best at making Wii Channels but I made sure to get the Dreamcast boot sound in there at least.

 

[0arsoluto]

I made a WiiU Overclock forwarder and a Wii Channel for this if anyone wants to use them
I'm not the best at making Wii Channels but I made sure to get the Dreamcast boot sound in there at least.

The Dreamcast startup sound was composed by the great Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto

 

[FanNintendo]

That's CRAZY! I didn't think Dreamcast would start up on Wii!

 

[Xale007]

That's CRAZY! I didn't think Dreamcast would start up on Wii!

Actually the performance is quite impressive.

Bad mouth keep speaking but it can run between 8FPS and 50 FPS depending on the game

there is still gap for improving, I haven't touch much the Dynarec for now


Alpha 0.06 is out guys,

https://github.com/BenoitAdam94/nullDC4Wii/releases

please report compatiblity here :

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/NullDC4Wii/Compatibility

 

[Disorarara]

Actually the performance is quite impressive.

Bad mouth keep speaking but it can run between 8FPS and 50 FPS depending on the game

there is still gap for improving, I haven't touch much the Dynarec for now


Alpha 0.06 is out guys,

https://github.com/BenoitAdam94/nullDC4Wii/releases/tag/alpha0.06

please report compatiblity here :

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/NullDC4Wii/Compatibility

Amazing work friend!! I will test this out soon and report back results!

 

[P0intnCl1ckIt]

Great work, please keep it up! Spent a little time testing out various games today - see below for my results. All were tested on original hardware using the latest alpha 0.06 build unless stated otherwise. They were only tested to the point a little after the menu to see if they were playable and all were in GDI format. I'll try the more playable ones on vWii later. Hope this is helpful.

Also a couple of observations: I didn't have sound on any games for some reason when using OG Wii. It seemed any time I ran into a crash, the program refused to boot on the next attempt or three. Probably crashed about 50 times total today

Playable:
Rayman 2: The Great Escape - No Sound and some graphics/control issues. This one works a LOT better than the other games tested.
Zombie Revenge - No Sound, and lot of graphical issues. Very playable.

Runs but Generally Unplayable:

D2 - No sound, graphical issues. Only tried disc 1 and it crashed during the opening cutscene.
Daytona USA (Arcade colors hack) - Some garbled graphics and no sound. Accelerate button doesn't work
Bangai-o (Brightness Fix hack) - This was tested using the overclock vWii. Missing graphics and no sound. Only takes up the top quarter of the screen.
Blue Stinger - Graphical defects, no sound - crashed after opening cutscene.
Gunbird 2 - Missing graphics and also no sound. Only takes up the top quarter of the screen.
Puyo Puyo! DA (English patched) - The timing indicators don't appear on screen and you lose immediately. However, other than that the graphics and framerate are the best seen so far.

Doesn't Run or Crashes on Game Menu:

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare - Black screen / crash
Armada - Black screen / crash
Beserk - Black screen
Birdcage of Horror discs 1-6: crashes on startup screen (was able to advance to the movie player using the overclock forwarder on vWii but it still crashes there)
Cannon Spike - Crashes on menu
Cool Cool Town - black screen / crash
Dynamite Cop - Black screen
Evil Dead: Hail to the King - Black screen
Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles - Black screen
Heavy Metal: Geomatrix - Black screen
Kenju - Black screen
Kiss Psycho Circus - Black Screen / Crash
Mortal Kombat Gold - Black Screen
Nakoruru - The Gift She gave me (English Patched Bonus disc) - Crashes on menu
Napple Tale - Arsi in Daydream (English Patched) - Black screen
Phantasy Star Online - Black Screen
Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights - Green screen then crashes
Rent a Hero No 1 (english patched) - Black screen
Resident Evil 2 - Black screen
Resident Evil 3 - Black screen
Run-Dim as Black Soul - Black screen / Crash
Skies of Arcadia - Black screen
Sonic Shuffle - Black Screen
Elemental Gimmick Gear (EGG) - Crashes on opening cutscene
Illbleed - Black Screen
LOL: Lack of Love - Black screen
Macross M3: Black screen
Omikron: The Lost Soul - Black screen
Sakura Wars Columns 2 (english patched) - Black screen
The Typing of the Dead - Black screen
Virtua Cop 2 - Black screen
Spawn: In Demon's Hand - Can't progress past menu
Spider-Man - Black screen / Crash
The Lost Golumn (English patched) - Black screen
The Ring: Terror's Realm - Black screen
Virtua Fighter 3b - Black screen

 

[Xale007]

amazing !

If you can report compatiblity here, that's be wonderfull (you need to sign in)

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/NullDC4Wii/Compatibility


EDIT : sound isn't implented now. I have some interesting files but it still need work. I hope future version will have some stuff.

Also some game doesn't run because sound isn't fully implemented (probably all the one that have black screen at start)

 

[Jilou]

amazing !

If you can report compatiblity here, that's be wonderfull (you need to sign in)

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/NullDC4Wii/Compatibility


EDIT : sound isn't implented now. I have some interesting files but it still need work. I hope future version will have some stuff.

Also some game doesn't run because sound isn't fully implemented (probably all the one that have black screen at start)

Hello everyone ^^,

I think that sound is important for the Dreamcast... (Sega Saturn's audio chip used as a GPU but Sega surely did it for the Dreamcast...).

Source : YouTube https://share.google/MWbdRHXwE0c887zK6

Have a good day ^^.

 

[Xale007]

I'm working on lot of stuff, I think audio could be implemented but what i'm doing here is AI magic basically.

thus, I fear that low FPS may result in audio sutters for now.

I need to make a frame skipping stuff, this will help when fps suddenly drops


oh, and choosing 4/3 and fullscreen is coming to the emulator soon, at least that's done.

 

[Xale007]

New release : alpha0.09

This one finally got some graphism improvement ! some textures now display

Some still doesn't display correctly

https://github.com/BenoitAdam94/nullDC4Wii/releases

 

[Jilou]

New release : alpha0.09

This one finally got some graphism improvement ! some textures now display

Some still doesn't display correctly

https://github.com/BenoitAdam94/nullDC4Wii/releases

Hello !

Great! I'll try it tonight! ^^.

Edit : Graphism are really better in Sega Tetris

Have a good day ! ^^.

 

[Xale007]

new release : a0.10 and a0.11

https://github.com/BenoitAdam94/nullDC4Wii/releases

 

[kurkiepst]

aha too soon, was waiting for version 0.04 tu publish here

New version : 0.04

Please help me improve compatibility guide, this will help me (and other) a lot even if it's an alpha state





EDIT : DONT ASK ME ABOUT WII U


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This is incredible news for the Wii homebrew scene! Huge thanks to Xale00 and BenoitAdam94 for tracking down the source and getting this moving. Even in alpha, seeing Dreamcast emulation on the Wii is like a dream come true. I’ll definitely help out with the compatibility guide as I test a few titles let's see how far we can push this hardware!

 

[Xale007]

thank

BenoitAdam94 is me
Currently i'm the only dev on it (with claude AI)

Some people on discord (including original author) gives me some clues sometimes

Please test non-tested games before (in the compatibility wiki)

Broken games have probably the same source of problem for now : the non-implementation of AICA/ARM7. When Chuchu becomes runnable, it will be the signal to re-test broken games.