RetroArch Wii CRT Journey & a Request for Help

RetroArch Nintendo consoles
#1

I’ve been experimenting with RetroArch on my Wii, connected to a CRT TV, and I think I’ve finally found the sweet spot. I’ve managed to balance the screen size, performance, and all the different settings. A big tip for anyone with a SNES Mini gamepad : it connects perfectly to a Wii Remote, and everything just works.

Emulation for consoles like the PC Engine, Mega Drive, NES, and SNES seems to be fantastic. Perhaps the only one that doesn’t sound perfect is SNES9x , which seems to have some audio issues.

Unfortunately, I ran into a serious problem when trying to play a Commodore 64 game using the VICE core. I was trying a game in the .CRT format (cartridge), and it completely broke RetroArch. I had to reinstall the entire application on my SD card. I can’t understand how a single game file could corrupt RetroArch to that extent. I even tried manually deleting retroarch.cfg , but it didn’t solve the issue.

I also haven’t had much luck with MAME . I tried the MAME 2003 Plus core because it was a popular suggestion online, but there are so many cores inside, and it’s not at all clear how to get a game to launch. I’m really interested in getting this to work on the Wii because I think it’s worth it.

The Wii truly seems like the perfect console for anyone who wants to use an old CRT TV for retro gaming. I’d love to keep this conversation going. What do you all think?

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#2

From what I’ve read this is to be expected. I haven’t updated the regular Wii port for ages. The console ports in general tend to be hit or miss in my experience. There are unofficial compiled versions of RA cores around, you can try you luck with those, but no VICE. Frodo might be working.

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#3

IIRC it loads the latest core that was loaded when you start RA on Wii. So if Vice is broken it will always crash. You’ll have to delete the core or the history or something. It’s not a game fault but a broken core.

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#4

Strange that a secondary file would corrupt the emulator structure …And Mame ?

#5

It didn’t corrupt the emulator, it just tries to load the core but Vice is broken on Wii and system hangs.

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#6

Technically, even if it doesn’t corrupt the emulator, it actually gets stuck and has to be reinstalled every time. I’d like to understand which file is corrupted; it’s definitely not retroarch.cfg.