Libretro - Wii test builds

General Development
#1

I was impatient to expect next release on Wii, then I decided to compile by myself -with help of hunterk and mackal- but it comes with a price: has issues on it and I don’t have enough skills to solve them.

Anyway you can try this out, find out by yourselves.

Known issues: -On aplication starts it’ doesn’t load last core config file

Something cool about next release, it’s that VBA-Next has nearly full speed in many games like Squarepusher and Maister have said and per core config file is also available, you can test it too

Remember: They’re Test builds and expect bugs.

http://depositfiles.com/folders/KAL1W4PQN
#2

This is good. Thanks for sharing your build. I know the Wii users are hungry for a new release and this will ensure that as many bugs are found prior to the official release as possible.

#3

Threaded video should not be used on the Wii. It’s unnecessary on the Wii and leads to video skipping.

I will look into the crash though.

#4

hi.

would it be possible for you do compile another version of the retroarch wii based on the latest changes. I believe there’s been a fix added for the gc controller issue.

thankyou in advance.

#5

Sure, no problem I’ve just cheked source code with new fix, give me some minutes to upload.

But I’ve found an issue … when trying so select in Path Options -> Config Dirs, it’s throws an error.

Anyway, expect other bugs, this builds are just for testing.

#6

Can you do debug builds and trace where the program crashes? That would help in fixing them.

I’m going to be busy for a little bit longer, but next week at latest I should be back to working on the Wii port.

#7

I think I can do that, where can I send the results? here or github?

#8

is it the same link from the 1st post for the new build?

#9

Updated to lastest commits

#10

Known issues: -A controller must be plugged, default controller: gamecube

This should be fixed now. It also has ‘Input autodetect’ enabled by default now. If you want the old behavior back, you can set it to ‘OFF’.

#11

Making an issue on Github would work the best.

#12

downloaded the that new build. sorted out the gc controller issue i was having :slight_smile:

im still unable to load games from a USB drive though. only off SD. i can read the the USB drive, and navigate to a rom, but once i select it just freezes and i have to hold the power for 5 seconds on the wii to restart it.

#13

Check your USB drive, I actually load my games from USB, I have no issue with any of them.

#14

it loads other things fine. wii games etc. I only just reformatted it.

the roms themselves are alright too as I can load the identical ones off the sd or on my pc.

maybe Im missing some ios or something? not sure if there are any specific required. although as I said wii games load fine.

#15

Are your roms unzipped? Only FBA roms can be zipped in Wii, I’m not totally sure, but to load a snes rom it needs to be unzipped, yougame.smc or something like that.

#16

yes unzipped. .smc extensions for snes.

#17

Great news, the Wii is still alive :slight_smile: What about psx emulation? Any news?

#18

The Wii is too weaksauce for good, proper PS1 emulation. WiiSX is based on PCSX last I checked, and it doesn’t have very good compatibility. They’d probably have to create a core based on current PCSX-Reloaded code to achieve nice compatibility, but I doubt it would run at more than half speed, even with a PPC dynarec. It just isn’t worth it.

#19

@mameshane, check your USB is fat32 format, I use a 8GB usb flash drive in 32KB clustersize, I don’t know if this matters.

Anyways, new test build to check.

Fixed: In Video Option -> Threaded option not needed on Wii In Path Settings -> Config Directory, selecting a directory no more crashes

#20

Does this mean there are per core directory configs?