So I decided after lurking forever to join in and ask a question. Anyway, on to the issue.
Ive been following a lot of Wii Homebrew and Retroarch tutorials and videos, but I'm still missing a piece to this whole puzzle. The reason I know that is because I've seen videos where certain games are played and forum posts where games are "claimed" to be played and they don't work on mine.
Here is the setup with all the little details:
1.) Wii 4.3U
2.) Homebrew Channel 1.1.2
3.) Retroarch 1.3.0 (I chose 1.3.0 because no recent tutorials or videos out for recent versions)
4.) Several major cores loaded into sd:/apps/retroarch-wii/<core_file.dol> (version information pulled from retroarch core page):
6.) Roms specific to each core above downloaded and put onto SD card under sd:/retroarch/roms/<core_name_here>/
So looks good right? Well, here's the problem. I'm getting the old roll the dice effect when I load a core, then load the content (game file). Some work, some don't (some error dump, some run with choppy audio and the game with a blue hue everywhere, and some gimme the black screen then kick me back to Home brew channel).
I know about the 23MB or so limitation, so these games are under that. But out of 20-30 games, only about 6-7 are working. I've also read up on this post, but didn't get any further even after using the same MAME core for the roms listed: here
So a few questions. Where should I start looking? Is this is a BIOS thing? (not sure how to get the version / info of BIOS files). Should I upgrade the MAME cores? Should I upgrade the Retroarch?
Sorry for the long post, I just really appreciate people who show that they've put in some homework and tried certain things before just asking for help.
Let me know if ya'll need more information to help me out, thanks!
OleSchool
Ive been following a lot of Wii Homebrew and Retroarch tutorials and videos, but I'm still missing a piece to this whole puzzle. The reason I know that is because I've seen videos where certain games are played and forum posts where games are "claimed" to be played and they don't work on mine.
Here is the setup with all the little details:
1.) Wii 4.3U
2.) Homebrew Channel 1.1.2
3.) Retroarch 1.3.0 (I chose 1.3.0 because no recent tutorials or videos out for recent versions)
4.) Several major cores loaded into sd:/apps/retroarch-wii/<core_file.dol> (version information pulled from retroarch core page):
- 1.2.2 - MAME 2003 0.78
- 1.0.0.2 - MAME 2000 0.37 BETA 5
- 1.3.0 - FB Alpha v0.2.97.30
- 1.3.0 - FBA Cores CPS1 v0.2.97.28
- 1.3.0 - FBA Cores CPS2 v.0.2.97.28
- 1.3.0 - FBA Cores Neo v0.2.97.30
6.) Roms specific to each core above downloaded and put onto SD card under sd:/retroarch/roms/<core_name_here>/
So looks good right? Well, here's the problem. I'm getting the old roll the dice effect when I load a core, then load the content (game file). Some work, some don't (some error dump, some run with choppy audio and the game with a blue hue everywhere, and some gimme the black screen then kick me back to Home brew channel).
I know about the 23MB or so limitation, so these games are under that. But out of 20-30 games, only about 6-7 are working. I've also read up on this post, but didn't get any further even after using the same MAME core for the roms listed: here
So a few questions. Where should I start looking? Is this is a BIOS thing? (not sure how to get the version / info of BIOS files). Should I upgrade the MAME cores? Should I upgrade the Retroarch?
Sorry for the long post, I just really appreciate people who show that they've put in some homework and tried certain things before just asking for help.
Let me know if ya'll need more information to help me out, thanks!
OleSchool
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