1) I don't know why. Bio Menace controls are working for me, both with Wiimote or Classic Controller.
2) Not sure, the first Bios files that I tried years ago worked out of the box.
3) Apart from the cover location, that you are free to change, you are forced to use the apps/eduke32 folder to store the game data. The app is hardcoded to work this way. I'm using the Atomic edition too, and everything is working (main game and all the expansions). The only issue is that savegames are shared, not an issue if you play the games one by one, otherwise you'll risk to overwrite some game saves and lose them. The elf files have to be separated for the expansion, I couldn't find no other way to make them work.
To alter the title names you can add the following lines to your custom_titles.ini file located in wiiflow/settings/. Remember that there must be a blank line at the top of the file before the [TITLES] section.
[44554B45]
DUKE3D=Duke Nukem 3D
[444E4356]
vacation=Duke Nukem 3D - Duke Caribbean: Life's a Beach
[444E4443]
dukedc=Duke Nukem 3D - Duke it out in D.C.
[444E4E57]
nwinter=Duke Nukem 3D - Duke Nuclear Winter
4)That's great. I'm positive that it will work with regular RA too
I guess an update's due here...
1) Bio menace now works fine here as well. Could be a PEBKAC issue from my end (e.g. the wiimote simply not being on or something). Now trying inserting some older DOS games I had lying around, combined with the pack of plugins & covers by...also by a certain
@Tetsuo Shima (my respect for you grows
). I might get back at this, but then it'll be in the dosbox-thread.
2) I'e since installed a mame emulator on my pc, which pointed out that I missed even more files (uni_bios_3_3.rom being the more prevalent one). Compatibility has increased even more since I tracked all that down and put it into neogeo.zip.
I was a bit unsure on how to get the larger games to work (garou, king of fighters, 1945 and a couple others), but though I had to piece a bit of information together, it wasn't that hard.
@ others: a quick rundown:
a) obtain the rom(s) and the neogeo.zip file containing all the stuff (hint: make sure it works on PC first) through...erm...a legal means for your arcade cabinet you've purchased legally
b) use the cache converter (it's in the pack under /COPY TO SD OR USB/wiiflow/plugins/Arcade/FBA-VM/romcnv_R2.zip) and point it to the folder containing these large roms. It'll generate a bunch of folders with stuff in it (eg. if you've got garou.zip, it'll generate a garou_cache folder for it).
c) put the roms and the neogeo.zip file in the /neogeo folder, and the cache folders in one of two folders:
sd:/private/other/system/cache/ when you plan to use the hexaeco core
OR sd:/retroarch/system/cache/ when you plan to use the libretro core.
(so sd:/private/other/system/cache/garou_cache or sd:/retroarch/system/cache/shocktro_cache, basically)
d) start wiiflow, select the neogeo hexaeco or neogeo libretro plugin, reload cache, start the game...and wait a bit (it can take about a minute to load...but then it works without notable slowdowns)
I'd grumble a bit on the strange location of the cache files in point c), but I better shut up because
3) ...I was wrong on this all along. Once I put everything back in the original folders and used .grp as game files, everything went fine. Still have to rename things a bit in the custom_titles.ini file, though (which I'll probably use to rename all my mame games because these abbreviated names aren't exactly great
).
4) kind of unrelated, but I was sort of wondering why nobody ever mentioned it (a RL friend advised it to me once). Then I got to search for the cover, and...I sort of understood.