Dolphin Core Crashes When Starting Any Wii Game

Libretro Cores
#1

Hi, I’m running Retroarch 1.6.7. Any time I try to start a Wii game, RetroArch crashes. I’ve tried at least 6 games and those same games start up fine using the Dolphin standalone emulator. I can also start all GameCube games with the Dolphin core just fine.

Here is a log file: https://pastebin.com/Dkwf5Dmu

I expect it has something to do with these lines:

SetupWiiMemory: Can't create setting.txt file
Unable to resolve read address 80004000 PC 0
Unable to resolve read address 80004004 PC 0
Unable to resolve read address 80004008 PC 0

I trimmed out a number of the “Unable to resolve read address” lines from the log file because there were hundreds of thousands of them. How can I resolve this?

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#2

A lot of Wii games straight-up won’t work. I’ve only tried a handful, but I know demon blade muramasa works, at least, so it’s not strictly an “all wii games are broken” situation, just an “almost all wii games are broken” one :stuck_out_tongue:

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#3

Hmm, I just tried Muramasa: The Demon Blade and I’m getting the same result with the same error in the log file.

I know our roms could be different, but I question that there isn’t something else going on for me.

What happens you try to launch a Wii game that doesn’t work? For me, the RetroArch UI minimizes like it’s going to switch to the game, but then after a few seconds I get the windows error pop up that says

RetroArch.exe has stopped working.

Windows is checking for a solution to the problem.
#4

I just tried New Super Mario Bros Wii and it fired right up, too. So, yeah, there may be something amiss with your specific setup. I’m using Linux 64-bit, for reference.

#5

Hi Hunterk,

When I try to load Muramasa, I have the message “Could not access to wii memory” What is the problem ?

Thanks

#6

Anyone able to help with this further?

If I do a completely clean install of retroarch without modifying any settings, download the Dolphin core, update the Dolphin core, and then try to load any Wii game, I still get this error in the log and retroarch crashes.

SetupWiiMemory: Can't create setting.txt file.

Dolphin_libretro Wii Rom not starting
#7

I was able to get it to work by manually updating NANDRootPath within the Dolphin.ini file in the …\RetroArch\saves\User\Config\ folder.

I set it to this directory:

NANDRootPath = C:\Users\Brucey\Documents\Dolphin Emulator\Wii

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#8

Thanks a lot Your trick is working !!!

#9

Hey. I’m having this exact same issue, but renaming manually adding the NANDRootPath to the .ini file still isn’t resolving the issue. Any ideas?

#10

I have the same issue. None of my Wii games work with the same exception in a debug window as mentioned in the first post. While all my games work just find in standalone Dolphin version.

#11

same for me (see my post. I tried it also with a completely new installation of retroarch with default configuration.

Is there anything else I can provide?

#12

I am confused, so did you just make an empty folder called Dolphin Emulator\Wii? Did you actually install Dolphin proper and then link to it’s directory? If neither of those, then what exactly?

#13

I’m not 100%, but I’m fairly sure that I actually installed the standalone dolphin emulator which created the Dolphin Emulator\Wii folder within my Documents folder and then I linked to its directory.