Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

[cucholix]

It is by using the Wii U Plugin system (find the thread here) with the padcon plugin.

you can't load Wii U Plugin System then load another homebrew app, not sure about stand alone padcon tho.

 

[LeNoobio]

you can't load Wii U Plugin System then load another homebrew app, not sure about stand alone padcon tho.

Thanks for the input. I read into what this does, it should work but is not exactly what I was going for.

I was more thinking of a way to be able to more conveniently switch between Gamepad usage and TV usage (more for rarely happening retro multiplayer sessions ).
So I would have loved to set some auto-configs like in playlists within retroarch, which when selected disable the gamepad, change controller order to Pro Controllers (Player 1 and Player 2).

Guess sth. like that is simply not doable.

thx anyways !

 

[Deleted member 42501]

Go to input and change the device?

Note to self: turn on wiimote before loading fba

 

[Maxbeta]

Hey guys I haven’t updated since 1.71.

Do we have a Mesen(NES) core yet on the WiiU port? Particularly running HDnes packs?

 

[Radius4]

Mesen is far too demanding for WiiU, and I don't think devkitpro has C++14 support (IIRC that's what's required to build it)

 

[Maxbeta]

Wow. Even more demanding than a SNES core with MSU-1??!!
I had no idea. Thanks for the input.

 

[ploggy]

Mesen is far too demanding for WiiU, and I don't think devkitpro has C++14 support (IIRC that's what's required to build it)

Do you if this Core would work for WiiU? https://github.com/libretro/libretro-mpv
WiiU has no Media Player to speak of.. This would be really good for WiiU.

 

[Radius4]

No idea, building ffmpeg is difficult

 

[MaK11-12]

Do you if this Core would work for WiiU? https://github.com/libretro/libretro-mpv
WiiU has no Media Player to speak of.. This would be really good for WiiU.

libretro-mpv dev here. libmpv requires at least OpenGL 2.1 or OpenGL ES 2 support to work. I don't know much about the Wii U, but if it has OpenGL support, then it is possible to use libretro-mpv with it.

No idea, building ffmpeg is difficult

I think building ffmpeg is very easy. There are builds for the 3DS even. Why do you think building ffmpeg is difficult?

 

[ploggy]

libretro-mpv dev here. libmpv requires at least OpenGL 2.1 or OpenGL ES 2 support to work. I don't know much about the Wii U, but if it has OpenGL support, then it is possible to use libretro-mpv with it.



I think building ffmpeg is very easy. There are builds for the 3DS even. Why do you think building ffmpeg is difficult?

Hi there, and welcome I'm not sure if WiiU uses OpenGL? IIRC the WiiU uses GX2 with apparently shares similarities to OpenGL.. I would be great to have any type of MediaPlayer on WiiU.

 

[MaK11-12]

Hi there, and welcome I'm not sure if WiiU uses OpenGL? IIRC the WiiU uses GX2 with apparently shares similarities to OpenGL.. I would be great to have any type of MediaPlayer on WiiU.

If it's similar enough, then either a GX2/OpenGL wrapper could be made, or someone could implement GX2 support to the libmpv Render API. I have little knowledge of either, and also don't have a Wii U to test, so someone else will have to do it unfortunately.

Maybe the internal video player that Retroarch currently has will work? I think it uses a software renderer which may work, but it's pretty slow.

 

[ploggy]

If it's similar enough, then either a GX2/OpenGL wrapper could be made, or someone could implement GX2 support to the libmpv Render API. I have little knowledge of either, and also don't have a Wii U to test, so someone else will have to do it unfortunately.

Maybe the internal video player that Retroarch currently has will work? I think it uses a software renderer which may work, but it's pretty slow.

I dunno, hopefully. I know nothing when it comes to Mediaplayers except using them As it stands our only option to use a Mediaplayer on WiiU is to load the OG Wii Mediaplayer WIIMC

 

[CoinKillerL]

I do not have a lot of games and wii u retroarch won't generate playlists,pls help!!!

 

[mightymuffy]

I do not have a lot of games and wii u retroarch won't generate playlists,pls help!!!

The OP tells you how to create playlists (see 'making lists'), it'll take you a few minutes but it's quite easy

 

[CoinKillerL]

The OP tells you how to create playlists (see 'making lists'), it'll take you a few minutes but it's quite easy

But it's annoying,i don't want to regenerate my playlist manually every time i add a single game!
I really hope this bug gets fixed,it's SOOOO annoying.

 

[Billy Acuña]

Looks like the PPSSPP core has been ported to the WiiU!!! It is not up on buildbot but you can compile it yourself

 

[pedro702]

Looks like the PPSSPP core has been ported to the WiiU!!! It is not up on buildbot but you can compile it yourself

can anyone compile it and test how is the performance?

 

[katedering]

So I managed to get RetroArch running on my WiiU after noobing it up a bit, but it doesn't want to save states/screenshots/save files... they save to the SD card and the system "says" it's loading (will save and load fine during same session) but whenever I turn off the console and start it up again, it won't load the savestate anymore.

Any reason why? I looked it up and couldn't find anything.

 

[Osakasan]

Looks like the PPSSPP core has been ported to the WiiU!!! It is not up on buildbot but you can compile it yourself

WAT

 

[the_randomizer]

WAT

Does the Wii U even have the raw power to emulate PSP?

Looks like the PPSSPP core has been ported to the WiiU!!! It is not up on buildbot but you can compile it yourself

Does the Wii U even have enough juice to run it decently? Granted, it's less demanding than DeSmuME, but still.

@ShadowOne333 @ploggy It seems PPSSPP is in the works of being ported?