Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

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I know its only been a couple of days since they got XMB working on the Wii U port but is it now able to switch visualizations and not get stuck with the red theme?
 

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This is a reason more to include some possibility to turn off the gamepad screen in RetroArch ;) With screen turned off one could play these games on TV perfectly fine.
I know you don't take any requests but perhaps it would be possible to include PadCon option in RA for such games (or at least make RA not crashing when PadCon is installed on WiiU through Haxchi etc.)??

Thanks for your hard work!

You can also walk with the Gamepad away from the Wii U until it forcibly loses the connection, that's what I do, and then I turn off the game pad and it saves battery. I'm not sure why a feature like that hasn't been implemented. It can't be that hard to implement, right?
 
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You can also walk with the Gamepad away from the Wii U until it forcibly loses the connection, that's what I do, and then I turn off the game pad and it saves battery. I'm not sure why a feature like that hasn't been implemented.

True, walking away to turn it off would work, but I'd like to keep the GamePad as input device - which is only possible with PadCon or similar.
 

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This is driving me fucking nuts ToT
How can I load PWADs or Doom mods with PrBoom?
I really want to load up WolfenDoom into it but I cannot figure out how to do so.

plz halp me. xD
 

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I got the keyboard to emulate the gamepad buttons, but cannot get it to act like a keyboard.
For dos games if you build a bat file that points it to run, and run the bat it will load. the best way to do this is figure out what commands to use to get it to work on your pc with dosbox and copy and paste into a text document and name it the game name and .bat, include it in the folder for the game. Someone on the internet might have a bunch of these bat files somewhere for dosbox already done for you, look around, im sure they are there.

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This is driving me fucking nuts ToT
How can I load PWADs or Doom mods with PrBoom?
I really want to load up WolfenDoom into it but I cannot figure out how to do so.

plz halp me. xD
I'm not sure about wolfendoom, but all mine work, Doom1, Doom2, UltimateDoom, Plutonium and TNT
 
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Just a heads up for anyone wanting to play the gba game fzero maximum velocity.. DONT! I played it for about 10 mins and noticed the map on the bottom of the screen sort of burns-in the WiiU gamepad screen. The map has shimmer to it. AS seen hear:

Be careful the shimmer stays on the WiiU Gamepad screen for a good 10 mins after..

This happens on the 3DS too. That's why Nintendo darkened the GBA games and added ghosting/motion blur on there.
 
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I got the keyboard to emulate the gamepad buttons, but cannot get it to act like a keyboard.
For dos games if you build a bat file that points it to run, and run the bat it will load. the best way to do this is figure out what commands to use to get it to work on your pc with dosbox and copy and paste into a text document and name it the game name and .bat, include it in the folder for the game. Someone on the internet might have a bunch of these bat files somewhere for dosbox already done for you, look around, im sure they are there.
What's the format games should have? I'm trying to run Command & Conquer Red Alert but it always throw me the error I posted early :unsure:, but I'm confused about the many versions available on internet.
 

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You might have to see if you can find a pre-made .bat file for command and conquer Red Alert for dosbox. i have the disc copy of the game somewhere, but im a game hoarder, so it could be anywhere right now. I'll look around though, if you can find a book for the game though, it should give you the command line to run the game.
 
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This happens on the 3DS too. That's why Nintendo darkened the GBA games and added ghosting/motion blur on there.

Only way around it is forcibly shutting down the game pad (walking into another room), or playing the other F-zero game, at least, until RA gets an option to turn off the screen.
 

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I know on the 3DS, there's injects of the blurred/ghosted versions of those games floating around, I wonder if someone could extract them for use on the Wii U.
 

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I got the keyboard to emulate the gamepad buttons, but cannot get it to act like a keyboard.
For dos games if you build a bat file that points it to run, and run the bat it will load. the best way to do this is figure out what commands to use to get it to work on your pc with dosbox and copy and paste into a text document and name it the game name and .bat, include it in the folder for the game. Someone on the internet might have a bunch of these bat files somewhere for dosbox already done for you, look around, im sure they are there.

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I'm not sure about wolfendoom, but all mine work, Doom1, Doom2, UltimateDoom, Plutonium and TNT
Ultimate Doom?
But that's an official release of Doom from 1995.
Same for Plutonia and TNT, official releases as well.

So far I haven't heard anything about loading Doom or Doom II mods using console PrBoom, I only read about booting them in PC.
But if they work for PC they should for the console releases as well, it's just that there doesn't seem to be any documentation as to how to load Doom mods for consoles :/
 

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Ultimate Doom?
But that's an official release of Doom from 1995.
Same for Plutonia and TNT, official releases as well.

So far I haven't heard anything about loading Doom or Doom II mods using console PrBoom, I only read about booting them in PC.
But if they work for PC they should for the console releases as well, it's just that there doesn't seem to be any documentation as to how to load Doom mods for consoles :/
I'm not sure about mods, I'll have to download that mod and look at it, I thought someone the other day said prboom wasn't working. I'll look into the mod and see if anything can be done. Is there a hexen or heratic core for retroarch?
 

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I'm not sure about mods, I'll have to download that mod and look at it, I thought someone the other day said prboom wasn't working. I'll look into the mod and see if anything can be done. Is there a hexen or heratic core for retroarch?
PrBoom is working just fine with all of the usual Doom versions (Doom, Doom II, Plutonia, TNT).
For Hexen and Heretic, you can get .wad versions of those and PrBoom should run them as well.
 

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