RetroArch Wii/Gamecube Releases (v1.0.0.2)

[system]

Very good news! Hopefully MAME core will run Irem games and some other favorites like Xain Sleena that have eluded FBA so far.

I’m getting the feeling a lot of the drivers in FBA (aside from the crowd pullers like Cave/CPS/NeoGeo) are semi-broken. Either that, or there is some very high overhead associated with getting them to run inside FBA. Perhaps synchronization in FBA of the various emulated CPUs takes a heavy hit.

It’s very simple - something like Darius 2 and Ninja Warriors (the Taito games with 3 screens) runs at maybe 20 fps or even lower with FBA on - say - an iPad 2/Mini. With MAME 0.78, it is well above 60fps (I haven’t looked at what it is unthrottled). That is quite the massive difference there.

With CPS1/2 it seems to be that FBA is quite a bit faster though.

Let’s just hope there are not a lot of endian issues inside MAME 0.78 like FBA.

[system]

Great news on MAME, not a big MK fan so those games not working is no real loss to me (I can play them on Snes9x NEXT anyway). Looking forward to seeing a definitive list of working ROMS when work is finished. Keep up the good work lads!

[system]

If you want to play MK serials, why not try Gamecube version of Midway Arcade Treasures 2? http://www.gamefaqs.com/gamecube/920474-midway-arcade-treasures-2/data

well my MAIN reason for this is because i already have it, and i really wanna play NBA JAM on my wii. (Arcade ver.)

[system]

I refuse to get my hopes up

I wouldn’t say no to a 2 player game of Joe and Mac: Caveman Ninja though!

[system]

Where can we find a list of working roms in mame .078? I’m wondering if games like Bonks Adventure(arcade), robodangar, cowboys of moo mesa, etc. are working. It’d be nice to have a list to check out to get an idea of what smaller games might be supported. I looked around on google and couldn’t really find a straight forward listing of the .078 set. If anyone knows of such a list or site that shows when which games were added to which revs, plz post a link! thanks!

[system]

Remember that a list of MAME 0.78 ROMS won’t necessarily give you an accurate idea of the games that will run on Wii though. We’ll have to wait for the RetroArch 0.9.9.2 release on Wii to see which games work.

[system]

Remember that a list of MAME 0.78 ROMS won’t necessarily give you an accurate idea of the games that will run on Wii though. We’ll have to wait for the RetroArch 0.9.9.2 release on Wii to see which games work.

well yea, thats true. Thats why i said id like to get an idea of what small games MIGHT be supported… for example im not sure when robodangar or bonks adventure were even added to mame as working. might have been much later than .078, i have no idea. not a big deal, I can just wait till its released i guess.

[cospefogo]

Wow! Imagine ~ Moon Patrol, Raiden, Bad Dudes, Robocop. Oh my oh.

C.

[system]

Neo-Geo core was very functional in the previous version of FBA and the memory leaks were fixed too. It might be worth looking into regressing to that version of FBA for the Neo-Geo core in later versions.

[system]

Neo-Geo core was very functional in the previous version of FBA and the memory leaks were fixed too. It might be worth looking into regressing to that version of FBA for the Neo-Geo core in later versions.

There are no memory leaks of any kind. It is just EEPROM saving not succeeding on the Neo Geo core that for some reason causes the Wii to crash on ROM re-entrancy.

I’ll probably just disable it again for Neo-Geo. Really, SRAM saving and save state saving has been broken in FBA libretro since day one and despite my requests for help from the FBA team, I have never been offered help on it.

[Troy_McClure]

I simply cannot understand this obsession with these Wii-fied GUIs and why there are these silly ‘requirements’ on sites like ‘Wiibrew’ that an app they feature MUST have some kind of fancypants GUI - therefore precluding RetroArch. We are on a RAM-starved system and really - a bare-bones totally simple GUI that eats up as little RAM as possible is the only way - anything else is foolhardy.

I find this baffling as well. If I remember right, the porter of the E-UAE and Frodo emulators was stating that most people were requesting something like “better, prettier gui” as their most wanted feature after the inital releases, which I think where pretty much functional as they were. But instead of improving compatibility, vanquishing bugs or adding features from the original projects this is what people demand first? Bah.

Also thought EkeEke’s new gui he introduced at some point was unecessary, old one did the job for me. But of course up to him, and probably demanded.

It’s great to hear about the MAME core, was mainly looking forward for stuff that FBA doesn’t offer drivers for at all (the smaller stuff, not much interest in MK, but understand it pulls people in).

[system]

I’m really excited for the new MAME core!

Also, I know this has been mentioned before, but I’d really like for overscan option to be reintroduced. Custom Aspect Ratio for me does not work, it results in the screen either being too large or not filling the screen correctly and does not deal with the issue of overscan. I am aware it introduced scaling artifacts but those were dealt with by bilinear filtering.

[4k_future]

Also, I know this has been mentioned before, but I’d really like for overscan option to be reintroduced. Custom Aspect Ratio for me does not work, it results in the screen either being too large or not filling the screen correctly and does not deal with the issue of overscan. I am aware it introduced scaling artifacts but those were dealt with by bilinear filtering.

What games are giving you problems and what is your display type.

I used to think the custom aspect ratio should be reintroduced but I have seen the light with the custom sizing option.

[system]

[quote=“4k_future”]

Also, I know this has been mentioned before, but I’d really like for overscan option to be reintroduced. Custom Aspect Ratio for me does not work, it results in the screen either being too large or not filling the screen correctly and does not deal with the issue of overscan. I am aware it introduced scaling artifacts but those were dealt with by bilinear filtering.

What games are giving you problems and what is your display type.

I used to think the custom aspect ratio should be reintroduced but I have seen the light with the custom sizing option.[/quote]

It’s not that I’m having problems with specific games, it’s just that the very top and bottom of the screen is cut off with nearly all aspect ratios. what custom sizing option are you talking about?

[system]

How do you get to the service menu on CPS2 games?

[system]

How do you get to the service menu on CPS2 games?

Diagnostics = on

Remember to turn it off when you’re done, because starting a game with it on will cause a crash.

[4k_future]

[quote=4k_future][quote=Disorarara] Also, I know this has been mentioned before, but I’d really like for overscan option to be reintroduced. Custom Aspect Ratio for me does not work, it results in the screen either being too large or not filling the screen correctly and does not deal with the issue of overscan. I am aware it introduced scaling artifacts but those were dealt with by bilinear filtering.

What games are giving you problems and what is your display type.

I used to think the custom aspect ratio should be reintroduced but I have seen the light with the custom sizing option.[/quote]

It’s not that I’m having problems with specific games, it’s just that the very top and bottom of the screen is cut off with nearly all aspect ratios. what custom sizing option are you talking about?[/quote]

Video options > Custom Ratio when used with appropiate screen resolution and Aspect Ratio setting all the image should be displayed.

Which is why I asked for your examples and your display device type.

[system]

Works fine for me, only issue is it doesn’t save the settings. If you play a game on another core and change the aspect ratio etc., everything resets.

[system]

[quote=Disorarara][quote=“4k_future”:3af36uo2]

What games are giving you problems and what is your display type.

I used to think the custom aspect ratio should be reintroduced but I have seen the light with the custom sizing option.

It’s not that I’m having problems with specific games, it’s just that the very top and bottom of the screen is cut off with nearly all aspect ratios. what custom sizing option are you talking about?[/quote]

Video options > Custom Ratio when used with appropiate screen resolution and Aspect Ratio setting all the image should be displayed.

Which is why I asked for your examples and your display device type.[/quote:3af36uo2]

Ah, I understand now. Integer Scale to set how much is cropped off

Nevermind then, thanks for the help!

[rex]

Will there be cheat support in the future?