Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

[arianadark]

used the game and watch emulator played donkey kong, so many memories flooded back from when i had a little arcade unit like that

 

[lordelan]

Two questions:

1. Where's a list of the cores/systems which are supported right now by the Wii U port?
2. Is it possible to launch RetroArch with parameters?

Like here:

retro_arch.elf -core snes -rom mario_world.sfc

Reason I'm asking is simple.
In (v)Wii we have disc games dumped to wbfs files on USB. It's not possible to install them to any NAND like it is with WiiWare. So the "center of fun" are the USB Loaders (like USBLGX and WiiFlow).
Ever since it was widely demanded to have a way to "access everything from one point" so the emulator plugins for WiiFlow (and later on for USBLGX) became famous:


In Wii U mode all roads are leading to the routine to install games to (emu/red/sys)NAND to have them on the homescreen because it raises the compatibility to 100 % (compared to Loadiine) and allows online play.
So we would want to access e.g. SNES games from there as well.
We either inject and install them (which sucks because it needs to do some work on every game we want there) or - and that's what my question is about - place forwarders to roms on the homescreen which - once clicked - launch RetroArch with a specific rom.

Is that possible or are there any other ideas on how to make everything accessible from one point?

 

[AmandaRose]

Just extract the Windows version of BlueMSX in your computer and copy the folder "machines" to sd:/retroarch/system/. That´s what i did and worked.

just did all that and still nothing loads the ROMs run fine on bluemsx on Windows so that's not the issue.

 

[Antonio Soler]

just did all that and still nothing loads the ROMs run fine on bluemsx on Windows so that's not the issue.

Enter Settings->Directories and check if the system/bios files directory is set to retroarch/system. I believe retroarch WiiU defaults to retroarch/cores/system, so i had to change the path to retroarch/system to match the retroarch folder strucuture in my SD.

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Enter Settings->Directories and check if the system/bios files directory is set to retroarch/system. I believe retroarch WiiU defaults to retroarch/cores/system, so i had to change the path to retroarch/system to match the retroarch folder strucuture in my SD.

Nevermind, this is the files structure in my card:

So just check in Settings->Directories that your system/bios directory is set to retroarch/cores/system

 

[ShadowOne333]

just did all that and still nothing loads the ROMs run fine on bluemsx on Windows so that's not the issue.

Be sure you have the correct bios files and that they are inside SD:/retroarch/cores/system/

 

[AmandaRose]

Be sure you have the correct bios files and that they are inside SD:/retroarch/cores/system/

what are the correct bios files lol (I know you can't link to them but pretty sure you can give me the right names) . I know everyone is super excited about getting a ps1 emu soon I would rather have msx working lol

 

[the_randomizer]

what are the correct bios files lol. I know everyone is super excited about getting a ps1 emu soon I would rather have msx working lol

What system are you trying to run? For PSX, it's SCPH5002 for PAL, SCPH5001 for NTSC, etc. PCE needs a System3 or something like that for the BIOS, as far as other cores, I'm not sure. Mega CD needs one too.

 

[AmandaRose]

What system are you trying to run? For PSX, it's SCPH5002 for PAL, SCPH5001 for NTSC, etc. PCE needs a System3 or something like that for the BIOS, as far as other cores, I'm not sure. Mega CD needs one too.

did you read my previous posts they are about msx so I need the names of the correct msx bios files lol.

 

[the_randomizer]

did you read my previous posts they are about msx so I need the names of the correct msx bios files lol.

My bad, just woke up >.< It should be the first two results in Google search, I won't say much more than that

 

[ShadowOne333]

what are the correct bios files lol (I know you can't link to them but pretty sure you can give me the right names) . I know everyone is super excited about getting a ps1 emu soon I would rather have msx working lol

These ones are for fMSX, but they might work for BlueMSX too:
https://wiki.libretro.com/index.php?title=FMSX#BIOS

Just do a quick search and you will find a package with a whole bunch of .rom files.

There's also the official BlueMSX website:
http://bluemsx.msxblue.com/resource.html

Maybe you can try the ones listed there.

 

[AmandaRose]

These ones are for fMSX, but they might work for BlueMSX too:
https://wiki.libretro.com/index.php?title=FMSX#BIOS

Just do a quick search and you will find a package with a whole bunch of .rom files.

There's also the official BlueMSX website:
http://bluemsx.msxblue.com/resource.html

Maybe you can try the ones listed there.

OK done that then tried to load some ROMs and still no luck every rom I select just takes me back to the menu.

 

[ShadowOne333]

OK done that then tried to load some ROMs and still no luck every rom I select just takes me back to the menu.

If it takes you back to the menu it is because there's something setup wrong.
Either the ROm is not compatible or the bios is missing.
That's why the return to menu usually happens.

Try with Metal Gear and try with the bios package from a certain paradisaical website.

 

[AmandaRose]

If it takes you back to the menu it is because there's something setup wrong.
Either the ROm is not compatible or the bios is missing.
That's why the return to menu usually happens.

Try with Metal Gear and try with the bios package from a certain paradisaical website.

OK got it running thanks everyone for the help it was just a case of deleting my config files from the SD card why does something so simple always screw everything up lol

 

[ShadowOne333]

OK got it running thanks everyone for the help it was just a case of deleting my cfw files from the SD card why does something so simple always screw everything up lol

Wait what?
Which files did you delete specifically?

 

[AmandaRose]

Wait what?
Which files did you delete specifically?

stupid phone it should have said config files not cfw files.

 

[the_randomizer]

Wait what?
Which files did you delete specifically?

CFW? Why would that prevent, unless he meant CFG files?

Edit: Ninjad

 

[ShadowOne333]

stupid phone it should have said config files not cfw files.

Oh that haha, yeah for some reason the CFG files tend to screw up things way more than I'd like

 

[Antonio Soler]

OK done that then tried to load some ROMs and still no luck every rom I select just takes me back to the menu.

For BlueMSX you have to copy the entire "machines" folder from the windows version to SD:/retroarch/cores/system/. Be sure that SD:/retroarch/cores/system/ is set up as your system/bios path in settings->directories. If you haven't changed, it should default to SD:/retroarch/cores/system/.

 

[ShadowOne333]

For BlueMSX you have to copy the entire "machines" folder from the windows version to SD:/retroarch/cores/system/. Be sure that SD:/retroarch/cores/system/ is set up as your system/bios path in settings->directories. If you haven't changed, it should default to SD:/retroarch/cores/system/.

He already got it working, it was the retroarch.cfg files which were screwing with the rom loading.

 

[Louis Miles]

Does someone know, that there is the option for the gamepad to emulate the SNES mouse?