Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

[ploggy]

When you say channel, do you mean installing it to system menu?

Yes you install it with Wup installer y mod. Do you use CFW. ?

 

[DarthDub]

Yes you install it with Wup installer y mod. Do you use CFW. ?

Yep.

 

[ploggy]

Yep.

What kind? CBHC?

 

[DarthDub]

What kind? CBHC?

Yessire

 

[ploggy]

Yessire

Then all that's left is to download this and install it on your WiiU

http://www96.zippyshare.com/v/QX5fheii/file.html

 

[DarthDub]

Then all that's left is to download this and install it on your WiiU

http://www96.zippyshare.com/v/QX5fheii/file.html

You the real mvp.

 

[ploggy]

You the real mvp.

I try

 

[cucholix]

Close Retroarch, Back to System Home menu Working ?

yup

 

[ploggy]

@rioray I've tested various Amiga games and everything's perfect, Sound, speed. Everything But I'm having issues with the on screen keyboard on C16 and C64? For example say I load a game and it gets to a point where I need to press Y or N to enable/disable a trainer or press f1 to start a game 9 times out out of 10 the button presses don't register?
The on screen keyboard must work though because keys like Shift, GUI and KBD all work?

 

[ploggy]

A new Stable release is out 1.6.4.


A little snippet from Retroarch's latest blog post.. @the_randomizer ... Deep breaths

Spoiler

New big bounty for Beetle PSX upcoming in next few days – dynarec!
For quite some months now, a bounty has existed for Beetle PSX which has steadily increased in value. Up to $250 now, the pledgers are asking a developer to create a dynamic recompiler for the Wii U system in hopes of being able to run PlayStation games at fullspeed.

Unfortunately, we think that in order for this bounty to first get traction, some groundwork needs to be laid out first. Right now, Beetle PSX has no dynarec system in place at all, only a CPU interpreter. Therefore, it would be very hard for a developer to start right out of the gates with a PowerPC-based dynarec since no framework is in place yet that would allow him/her to slot in a dynarec backend like this.

So, what we are going to do is we want to sweeten the pot a bit and create a new bounty dedicated solely to building a dynarec. We believe that once the groundwork is laid out, this WiiU dynarec bounty has more chance of being successfully completed.

The conditions will be:
* A dynarec system for Beetle PSX, preferably written in C or else C++98.
* A working backend for x86 32bit and x64 (64-bit).
* Should be engineered in such a way that new backend implementations for other architectures (like ARM and PowerPC) can be easily implemented.
* Should be signifcantly faster than the interpreter CPU core, and should lower Mednafen/Beetle PSX’s CPU system requirements considerably.

We will start out this new bounty at $100. Other users can feel free to chip in on this endeavor. You will see this bounty being announced over the next few days

Soon my Brothers... Soon...

 

[Deleted member 424658]

I hope this results in getting a Mupen64 port to Wii U eventually.

 

[ShadowOne333]

A new Stable release is out 1.6.4.


A little snippet from Retroarch's latest blog post.. @the_randomizer ... Deep breaths

Spoiler

New big bounty for Beetle PSX upcoming in next few days – dynarec!
For quite some months now, a bounty has existed for Beetle PSX which has steadily increased in value. Up to $250 now, the pledgers are asking a developer to create a dynamic recompiler for the Wii U system in hopes of being able to run PlayStation games at fullspeed.

Unfortunately, we think that in order for this bounty to first get traction, some groundwork needs to be laid out first. Right now, Beetle PSX has no dynarec system in place at all, only a CPU interpreter. Therefore, it would be very hard for a developer to start right out of the gates with a PowerPC-based dynarec since no framework is in place yet that would allow him/her to slot in a dynarec backend like this.

So, what we are going to do is we want to sweeten the pot a bit and create a new bounty dedicated solely to building a dynarec. We believe that once the groundwork is laid out, this WiiU dynarec bounty has more chance of being successfully completed.

The conditions will be:
* A dynarec system for Beetle PSX, preferably written in C or else C++98.
* A working backend for x86 32bit and x64 (64-bit).
* Should be engineered in such a way that new backend implementations for other architectures (like ARM and PowerPC) can be easily implemented.
* Should be signifcantly faster than the interpreter CPU core, and should lower Mednafen/Beetle PSX’s CPU system requirements considerably.

We will start out this new bounty at $100. Other users can feel free to chip in on this endeavor. You will see this bounty being announced over the next few days

Soon my Brothers... Soon...

Oh wow.
They are acknowledging it in a big way now, that's really neat.
Hopefully this will help out to reach to more people

 

[AmandaRose]

So I have zero experience with the Amiga and Amiga emulators and I have been having all sorts of issues getting the Amiga core to load games lol best I can get so far is a black screen crash so after trying for the last 3 hours to get something to run I come asking for help lol

First of all what kick.start rom should I be using so far i have found six different versions online which are 1.2/1.3/2.0/3.0/3.1/4.0

This is my UAE file I have been using to try and load SWOS what have I got wrong here lol


kickstart_rom_file=sd:/roms/Amiga/kick.rom
chipmem_size=1
bogomem_size=2
use_gui=no
nr_floppies=2
cpu_type=68000
cpu_speed=real
cpu_compatible=true
ntsc=false
chipset=ocs
immediate_blits=false
gfx_linemode=double
gfx_framerate=1
sound_output=normal
sound_frequency=44100
sound_channels=mixed
sound_interpol=none
show_leds=true
floppy_speed=100
gfx_center_vertical=smart
gfx_center_horizontal=smart
gfx_color_mode=16
floppy0=sd:/roms/Amiga/Sensible World of Soccer_Disk1.adf
floppy1=sd:/roms/Amiga/Sensible World of Soccer_Disk2.adf

Thanks all for any help you may have for me.

 

[the_randomizer]

A new Stable release is out 1.6.4.


A little snippet from Retroarch's latest blog post.. @the_randomizer ... Deep breaths

Spoiler

New big bounty for Beetle PSX upcoming in next few days – dynarec!
For quite some months now, a bounty has existed for Beetle PSX which has steadily increased in value. Up to $250 now, the pledgers are asking a developer to create a dynamic recompiler for the Wii U system in hopes of being able to run PlayStation games at fullspeed.

Unfortunately, we think that in order for this bounty to first get traction, some groundwork needs to be laid out first. Right now, Beetle PSX has no dynarec system in place at all, only a CPU interpreter. Therefore, it would be very hard for a developer to start right out of the gates with a PowerPC-based dynarec since no framework is in place yet that would allow him/her to slot in a dynarec backend like this.

So, what we are going to do is we want to sweeten the pot a bit and create a new bounty dedicated solely to building a dynarec. We believe that once the groundwork is laid out, this WiiU dynarec bounty has more chance of being successfully completed.

The conditions will be:
* A dynarec system for Beetle PSX, preferably written in C or else C++98.
* A working backend for x86 32bit and x64 (64-bit).
* Should be engineered in such a way that new backend implementations for other architectures (like ARM and PowerPC) can be easily implemented.
* Should be signifcantly faster than the interpreter CPU core, and should lower Mednafen/Beetle PSX’s CPU system requirements considerably.

We will start out this new bounty at $100. Other users can feel free to chip in on this endeavor. You will see this bounty being announced over the next few days

Soon my Brothers... Soon...

Um, what?? Wait, w...hold on *puts on glasses* HUH!?? Well, there ya have it, the official announcement on how things stand, also, are you talking about the RetroArch channel or the Retro Launcher? I can't find a download for the former

Also I noticed WIIU: Exception handler rewritten. Does this time out and reset back to the menu?

 

[ShadowOne333]

Um, what?? Wait, w...hold on *puts on glasses* HUH!?? Well, there ya have it, the official announcement on how things stand, also, are you talking about the RetroArch channel or the Retro Launcher? I can't find a download for the former

See, dude?
Patience is a virtue

So what they meant with framework in the Bounty page was actually a Dynarec.
I didn't know Beetle PSX didn't have a Dynarec and it was running purely on Interpreter.
Explains a lot of things actually.

So first they are going to try to tackle the framework/dynarec creation, and then porting it to Wii U (PPC).
Pretty neat if you ask me.

 

[the_randomizer]

See, dude?
Patience is a virtue

So what they meant with framework in the Bounty page was actually a Dynarec.
I didn't know Beetle PSX didn't have a Dynarec and it was running purely on Interpreter.
Explains a lot of things actually.

So first they are going to try to tackle the framework/dynarec creation, and then porting it to Wii U (PPC).
Pretty neat if you ask me.

I...I.... I'm gonna need a minute to take this all in. Also I noticed there are two channels for RetroArch, the Retro Launcher and RetroArch channel, has anyone been able to compile that for a download?

 

[ShadowOne333]

I...I.... I'm gonna need a minute to take this all in. Also I noticed there are two channels for RetroArch, the Retro Launcher and RetroArch channel, has anyone been able to compile that for a download?

Retro Launcher is third party made.
RetroArch's channel is the official one I believe.

 

[the_randomizer]

Retro Launcher is third party made.
RetroArch's channel is the official one I believe.

Hmm, can't seem to find a download for the second one, only the Retro Launcher.

@ploggy Do you have a link to the RetroArch channel by chance?

I hope this results in getting a Mupen64 port to Wii U eventually.

It will, we just need the framework done first. The Wii U is certainly more than capable to run N64 emulation.


Edit: Derp, sorry about that @ploggy, I didn't sleep well, and saw the link ><

 

[wicksand420]

Hey @ploggy, is that the same launcher i've been using or a revised launcher?

 

[Ponyboy]

This is a dsi error I got while trying to load a rom I recently played on the Genesis Plus GX core. Putting it here for anyone who might know what this means. Hopefully the Wii U version of Retroarch gets more stable. The progress that has been made the past couple of weeks is impressive!