Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

[RCJayce]

Yeah, it happens to the best of us, I make backups of the cores I use the most, do you think we should report this on GitHub or let it be?

Upload the cores that are working for you please.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Yes please, someone please the latest Gambattle which was released like December 3rd I believe, which was the last date any Wii U changes were made to the audio.

 

[ploggy]

Here you go http://www118.zippyshare.com/v/ElNo8yeU/file.html
These are the latest ones I have

 

[the_randomizer]

I don't see any harm in reporting the issue I'm sure they would prefer to know than not know lol I wonder if they broke something trying to fix the slow load times of the rom list if you have loads of roms. Had to trim my snes roms down to about 40 games as any more were taking about 15 seconds to load the list

Done, filed a report, hopefully it's not a serious issue. But that, that's a libfat issue, not an emulator issue; they've yet to implement a proper libfat library. Other non-Snes cores don't have that issue.

Upload the cores that are working for you please.

I seemed to have kept most, if not all of the zip files from the emulators' inception on 11/7/16, but, I won't be backlogging those,
I'll start from December 1st to present day.

Yes please, someone please the latest Gambattle which was released like December 3rd I believe, which was the last date any Wii U changes were made to the audio.

Way ahead of ya, mass-uploaded them to DropBox.

Here you go http://www118.zippyshare.com/v/ElNo8yeU/file.html
These are the latest ones I have

I'll upload some as well
Download link to the folder with December 1st and beyond builds

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z4448hefoz23kje/AAC-BtMZPvViuSjMPKdMB2bna?dl=0

Edit: RetroArch team has labeled the GitHub report as a major bug, now they know what's going on and how to fix it.

 

[SlimPortable]

Yep, on their Patreon page. It will come with the 1.40 stable version

What does a stable version launch usually mean? Can we expect stuff from the to-do features list like multiple controllers support? Or does it mean all cores running at a stable frame rate?

 

[Billy Acuña]

What does a stable version launch usually mean? Can we expect stuff from the to-do features list like multiple controllers support? Or does it mean all cores running at a stable frame rate?

2nd question: Maybe.
3th question: Yeah, that is the point of a stable version.

 

[the_randomizer]

Has anyone tested 12-16 builds to see if they're still broken with the "No core found" error?

 

[ploggy]

Has anyone tested 12-16 builds to see if they're still broken with the "No core found" error?

Only tried Mgba and Snes9X (Both RPX) Mgba works but Snes9X black screens.

 

[the_randomizer]

Only tried Mgba and Snes9X (Both RPX) Mgba works but Snes9X black screens.

Ugh, well at least the cores are starting to work again, hopefully this won't be an issue when 1.4.0 is out.

 

[ploggy]

Ugh, well at least the cores are starting to work again, hopefully this won't be an issue when 1.4.0 is out.

Tested a few more:
(All RPX)
Mgba works
Snes9X black screen. (hard reset)
Fceumm black screen. (hard reset)
Fuse doesnt work (loading a rom returns to menu)
GensPlus GX works
Mame 2003 works
Mednafen Lynx DSI Error (hard reset)
Quicknes works
Snes9X2010 works

 

[the_randomizer]

Tested a few more:
(All RPX)
Mgba works
Snes9X black screen. (hard reset)
Fceumm black screen. (hard reset)
Fuse doesnt work (loading a rom returns to menu)
GensPlus GX works
Mame 2003 works
Mednafen Lynx DSI Error (hard reset)
Quicknes works
Snes9X2010 works

Well, the build from 12-14 had the "No Core Detected" error, which I reported on GitHub and I guess they're almost done taking care of the bug. Have you tried the ELF versions of those cores? That's what I use for all but a couple (PSX and MAME).

 

[ploggy]

Well, the build from 12-14 had the "No Core Detected" error, which I reported on GitHub and I guess they're almost done taking care of the bug. Have you tried the ELF versions of those cores? That's what I use for all but a couple (PSX and MAME).

Havent tried the elf versions. Dont use them.

 

[the_randomizer]

Havent tried the elf versions. Dont use them.

Why is that, may I ask? Snes9x from December 2nd works perfectly FYI. The only reason RPX is preferred is for larger apps like MAME, PSX and maybe a couple of others. I haven't updated them in a while because well, I had bad luck lol. A few people like Niuus suggested I only use RPX for a select few, so I go by what he advised.

 

[ploggy]

Why is that, may I ask? Snes9x from December 2nd works perfectly FYI. The only reason RPX is preferred is for larger apps like MAME, PSX and maybe a couple of others. I haven't updated them in a while because well, I had bad luck lol. A few people like Niuus suggested I only use RPX for a select few, so I go by what he advised.

No real reason really, just never personally had any problems with them. Everything I tried with RPX worked
Also. Just tested the Elf version of Snes9X and when I try to boot it it resets instantly back to homebrew launcher.. at least it's something different..

 

[the_randomizer]

No real reason really, just never personally had any problems with them. Everything I tried with RPX worked
Also. Just tested the Elf version of Snes9X and when I try to boot it it resets instantly back to homebrew launcher.. at least it's something different..

Yeah, the cores are definitely slowly getting back to working order, that, and I don't see any real reason to test newer builds, mostly because nothing Wii U related has been submitted or changed in GitHub since the last week of November, so I don't see the need RPX is really only useful for bigger apps.

 

[fatsquirrel]

Offtopic but Id really like to know something.....
why does homebrew in general on WiiU result in so many damn hard freezes.
I mean, I resetted my wiiu several hundred if not thousand times since I bought it just because of these freezes.
Loadiine hardfreezing, Retroarch cores hardfreeze, kernel exploit back in the day - oh god hardfreeze galore
My Ps3 or Wii for example..I doubt I resetted it more than 10 times even though I used it a lot for homebrew.

 

[pedro702]

Srs why is finding info on mame so god damn complicated? i cant find the compatible games list for mame 2003 or its base version mame 78, anyone knows if mame 2003 is compatible with sega system 32 games?

 

[ploggy]

Srs why is finding info on mame so god damn complicated? i cant find the compatible games list for mame 2003 or its base version mame 78, anyone knows if mame 2003 is compatible with sega system 32 games?

I know they don't work on the WiiU version. Just tried loading a couple but I get the message saying video emulation isnt 100% accurate, press left/right on the controller, then I get a black screen.

 

[Hielkenator]

I know they don't work on the WiiU version. Just tried loading a couple but I get the message saying video emulation isnt 100% accurate, press left/right on the controller, then I get a black screen.

This message is'nt bound to wiiu. this is because the rom is flagged this way in the mame database. the black screen however is bound to wiiu or could be bacause the rom is not proper with mame in general. Most of the time loading one of the child roms works along having the mother rom in your mame folder.

 

[the_randomizer]

I know they don't work on the WiiU version. Just tried loading a couple but I get the message saying video emulation isnt 100% accurate, press left/right on the controller, then I get a black screen.

I just saw their response to the library read speed on Wii U, I didn't find it particularly encouraging for some reason, what the deuce do we do now? Are we forever stuck with the super slow folder read speed on Snes9x? What's weird is Genesis Plus, MAME, Nestopia, etc folders load almost instantly; Snes9x takes 30 seconds irrespective of the no. of ROMs in a folder. There hasn't been a Wii U GitHub change in a long while.