Homebrew Retroarch setup

[MassiR77]

Hello again peeps. I tried setting up retroarch the other day but was continuously running into issues. I couldn't even get it to appear in the homebrew channel. I want it for a lot of simple games like arkanoid, r-type, etc and not too many fighting games really, they aren't my thing. I tried it out on sdlMAME and only a few ROMs showed up overall. I was wondering if it would be better to get a dedicated neo geo emulator or something, or another emulator for arcade if one exists, if my problems persist. I just want to use a neo geo core and mame core on retroarch if that's my only choice, not sure what ROMs finalburn alpha is for, but I could try some of them. Thanks in advance.

 

[JuanMena]

Retroarch in Wii is very complete. But have in mind that NOT ALL THE ROMS ARE PLAYABLE.

For NeoGeo you want to convert your ROMS with a Romconverter that converts NAND into cache in order to load big NeoGeo roms.
For MAME you want to use MAMEWii and RetroArch's MAME Core alongside FinalBurn Alpha core.
There's a compatibility list out there that you can look for.

Why are you unable to load Retroarch?
Do you have everything set up correctly?

 

[Tetsuo Shima]

What retroarch version did you download?
In the libretro site, avoid the stable releases and go with some nightly build.
Last night I tried the 26 december nightly build and it's working perfectly.
Use that for everything except for mame.
For mame use the mame 2003 plus cores from wiimpathy
https://gbatemp.net/threads/mame2003-compatibility-list.551556/
I seriously think that thread should be stickied.

 

[MassiR77]

Retroarch in Wii is very complete. But have in mind that NOT ALL THE ROMS ARE PLAYABLE.

For NeoGeo you want to convert your ROMS with a Romconverter that converts NAND into cache in order to load big NeoGeo roms.
For MAME you want to use MAMEWii and RetroArch's MAME Core alongside FinalBurn Alpha core.
There's a compatibility list out there that you can look for.

Why are you unable to load Retroarch?
Do you have everything set up correctly?

I am unsure, but it just doesn't appear in the homebrew menu. I downloaded the most recent build from the official site.

 

[MassiR77]

On second thought I am just not going to bother with Retroarch, I had too much trouble with it and I have managed to install the games I want but on other emulators. Thanks for the help anyways guys!