Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

[ploggy]

It's always great to see new updates when it comes to WiiU stuffs warms the heart
Also an improved WUT toolchain would mean an Improved Retroarch no?
Never lose the faith!!

 

[Billy Acuña]

It's always great to see new updates when it comes to WiiU stuffs warms the heart
Also an improved WUT toolchain would mean an Improved Retroarch no?
Never lose the faith!!

May result on a more stable RA + proper pixel shader support

 

[robinpup]

We ever see shaders implemented on a future release?

 

[ShadowOne333]

I'm hoping for some faster core loading on RA. Because damn those loading times are long between games and cores xD

 

[ploggy]

May result on a more stable RA + proper pixel shader support

+ HW accelerated Rendering maybe?

 

[Billy Acuña]

+ HW accelerated Rendering maybe?

That is still a big "we will see", but yeah, hw acceleration is planned and it may be a port of mesa/nouveau.

 

[ploggy]

That is still a big "we will see", but yeah, hw acceleration is planned and it may be a port of mesa/nouveau.

Ohh, nice. opens more doors but I can live with "we will see"

 

[Radius4]

RA does have PROPER PIXEL SHADER SUPPORT.
If you want the precompiled pack google for filthy pants blog.

That said the GPU is quite weak but yeah it can do some basic shaders just fine.
I don't think any recent changes are prone to be WiiU breaking anyway.

The biggest issues I see on WiiU are:
- Slow I/O, asset downloads is terrible, and so is the core updater, also scanning, not sure this is something RA can fix directly.
- Stutter while starting with retroachievements because of the issue mentioned above (downloading achievement badges is not properly threaded I think)
- No resolution changing support (I'd like to be able to switch to 480p when using the gamepad, and to my TV res when using the TV so scanlines look better)
- Netplay doesn't work properly with relay enabled

I think that's it?
(dynarec bounty doesn't count, cores are a different thing)

The reason Wii port is in such a sorry state (if that's even true, I no longer have a Wii so I haven't tried) is because someone made some improvements and never really bothered with bringing them back upstream (which is the reason the improvements are not really there in the first place). Recently Wiimpathy has added quite a few fixes and RGUI has gotten a lot better so it should be fine.

Just for those who haven't seen this:

 

[depaul]

Are shaders files copyrighted? What's copyrighted about applying a CRT video filter?

 

[Radius4]

No the shaders aren't copyrighted.
The tools required to compile them are

 

[ShadowOne333]

No the shaders aren't copyrighted.
The tools required to compile them are

Have you tried contacting @QuarkTheAwesome, @Maschell or @rw-r-r_0644 ?
They are the ones that are working on Wii U stuff at the moment, maybe they have some sort of insight or perhaps a method to compile the RetroArch shaders without relying on the SDK.

 

[Radius4]

Not really, I don't do much on RA anymore, just correcting some thoughts

 

[pwsincd]

https://discord.gg/F2PKpEj << here would be the best place to find them..

 

[Billy Acuña]

RA does have PROPER PIXEL SHADER SUPPORT.
If you want the precompiled pack google for filthy pants blog.

I wouldn't say it is proper if it requires to be recompiled from official SDK tools.
That said quarky has plans to move RA WiiU to WUT toolchain as soon as WUT is ready for WiiU homebrew developement, which will result on proper pixel shader support w/o copyright'ed SDK.

 

[the_randomizer]

No the shaders aren't copyrighted.
The tools required to compile them are

So we can thank Nintendo for making what should be legal, a royal pain in the ass to do to compile shaders. It's not like they even care about Wii U anymore.

Edit: I'm mostly hoping the WUT toolchain will allow for RA to not crash so much on Wii U.

 

[Quadrotix]

@CORE
THANK YOU

 

[rw-r-r_0644]

Shaders can be compiled without any kind of copyrighted tool (it's what we did for SDL and other tests), although it's quite a complex solution right now.
First the gl shaders have to be compiled into amd r6xx/r7xx assembly, which can be done using AMD's ShaderAnalyzer, then they can be assembled to gsh shaders using latte-assembler from decaf-emu. Unfortunately the output of ShaderAnalyzer is not perfect (needs some opcode changes), and lacks many informations about the shader (position of uniform variables, attributes, other shader settings) which have to be added in manually.

 

[ShadowOne333]

@Radius4 maybe this can give an insight on how to compile them without the SDK:

Shaders can be compiled without any kind of copyrighted tool (it's what we did for SDL and other tests), although it's quite a complex solution right now.
First the gl shaders have to be compiled into amd r6xx/r7xx assembly, which can be done using AMD's ShaderAnalyzer, then they can be assembled to gsh shaders using latte-assembler from decaf-emu. Unfortunately the output of ShaderAnalyzer is not perfect (needs some opcode changes), and lacks many informations about the shader (position of uniform variables, attributes, other shader settings) which have to be added in manually.

 

[the_randomizer]

@Radius4 maybe this can give an insight on how to compile them without the SDK:

That's not a PITA at all. Ugh. Thanks Nintendo.

 

[Radius4]

@ShadowOne333 but I already told you were to find the shaders