Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

[MrKatanaObiWan]

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[Osakasan]

It is ridiculously slow, to the point that if I try and download assets, it times out and stops the two times I tried it on the wiiu. Had to copy over to SD card from PC.

I've been able to download the assets from the WiiU just fine so there's an issue in your end

 

[depaul]

I mean, downloading assets on my PC takes less than one minute (a 140 MB file):
https://codeload.github.com/libretro/retroarch-assets/zip/master

Using Wii U, it takes almost 30 min.
Thank you.

 

[CORE]

Im guessing it the Write Rate on SD Card making it slow? Mine too is Painfully Slow

 

[depaul]

Yes that's an interesting theory, I've seen somewhere that there is a huge difference between WiiU/Switch SD card Slot specifications.
So SD card slot could be the culprit.

Edit : Hello again. There was a benchmark already done on SD card speed on Wii U.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/wip-wii-u-sd-benchmark-utility.426647/
Wii U reading speed from SD can reach 9 MB/s. So SD card slot may not be the culprit!

 

[ShadowOne333]

Yes that's an interesting theory, I've seen somewhere that there is a huge difference between WiiU/Switch SD card Slot specifications.
So SD card slot could be the culprit.

Edit : Hello again. There was a benchmark already done on SD card speed on Wii U.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/wip-wii-u-sd-benchmark-utility.426647/
Wii U reading speed from SD can reach 9 MB/s. So SD card slot may not be the culprit!

Still though, if the SD card slot from the Wii U reached 9MB/s, it should take tops 40 seconds to download it, not 30 mins.
There's is something weird going on with the download/read speeds from the Wii U.

One thing...
Has anyone tried running some CFW like Mocha, and running the download again?
I know this helps some cores and games to run better (MSU-1 games do run smoothly with Mocha, but not on OFW).
So perhaps it's worth the try

 

[Radius4]

It's not just RA though...
FTP WiiU is painfully slow too without IOSUHAX (or something)

 

[ShadowOne333]

It's not just RA though...
FTP WiiU is painfully slow too without IOSUHAX (or something)

Yeah I did notice that when I used to transfer files from my PC to the Wii U through FTPii.

 

[the_randomizer]

It's not just RA though...
FTP WiiU is painfully slow too without IOSUHAX (or something)

IIRC isn't it capped at 500 KB/s?

 

[depaul]

Don't know, according to @QuarkTheAwesome's analysis average Wii U network speed : 10Mb/s:
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/7279#issuecomment-429699966

 

[CORE]

General FTP to my WiiU I get 1MB to 1.5MB with and without Mocha that seems pretty accurate to that post something must be off regarding Net Code surely?

 

[Osakasan]

IIRC isn't it capped at 500 KB/s?

1 MB in my experience.

Yeah, using FTP with it is a chore unless transfering small files (A godsend for the N64 dark overlay thing)

 

[upsteady]

Hello guys. I will install retroarch 1.7.5 stable on my wii u. Should I use FBA 0.2.97.43 romset?

 

[depaul]

They are compatible yes.

 

[CORE]

Best SNES Core for FX Games?

 

[robinpup]

How do i add some shaders or filters for the Wii U version? i just want nes and snes games look better!

 

[the_randomizer]

Best SNES Core for FX Games?

Snes9x mainline, the other older cores are less accurate and have a number of emulation issues. Super FX games run full speed on Snes9x 1.55 or whatever it is that's on it.

 

[CORE]

When RetroArch loads a new Core does the GUI get dumped out of RAM and the Core loaded have it's own Mini GUI then when you close the Core revert back to the Main GUI.

In other words how much of an impact does RetroArchs GUI have on resources CPU,GPU,RAM. I guess it still lingers in background or is it like I said above?

MainLauncher/RAMClear>Core/RAMClear>MainLauncher.

 

[Malefic_weegee]

I'm loading into a black screen after it confirms the gamepad for port #0. I'm using the forwarder from the Wii U menu.

 

[depaul]

Hello. Can we transfer Retroarch cores to USB storage via FTP?
2) Can we transfer Retroarch Rom files to USB storage via FTP?
3) Can we access/load Retroarch cores from USB storage?

Because a lot of users have noticed somehow slow access via SD card while loading cores and roms (Wii U SD interface is old).. so using USB instead would be faster.

@Malefic_weegee maybe your best bet is to delete Retroarch settings and launch it again with default settings.

 

[Malefic_weegee]

It now just boots to the menu again. The same thing happened with the Nintendon't forwarder: they both loaded once or twice, now nothing at all.

 

[Gunstorm]

is i got 2 questions
1st my retroarch on 1.7.5 is auto booting on a new menu style but it just show the icons and no text... i cant use that menu then i need to manually adjust the menu on retroarch.cfg back to the xmb ... how to use that new menu?

2nd anyone had sucess to play pc engine games on wiiu? i tryed but without sucess, im trying running this with the genesisgx core