Well, and the devs said they wanted feedback, well, here it is, quoted from people on GBA Temp
From member X
"At this point I feel it is hopelessly.
I’ve been playing around with RA Wii for a couple of years now, testing several nightly builds every once in a while, and the experience is always frustrating.
First of all, I ONLY need RA to run FBA, CPS1/2 and (compatible) Neo Geo games on my Wii at 240p on a CRT TV.
True scanlines at 240p is the single,most useful advantage I get from running things on the Wii instead of my PC which is sitting next to the TV anyway.
I couldn’t care any less about other cores. There are plenty of much better options out there with better gui and rock steady stability for SNES, NES, Sega etc…
Also the few N64 games I’m interested in, I can play them trough VC or injected wads.
For GBA games I have a GBA, a DS Lite and a Gamecube player, with 99.9% compatibility and perfect performance, so why bother (in my case).
PSX will never be remotely acceptable on the Wii so why bother either.
THE GOOD
Once you manage to launch an arcade/neo geo game, it’s the closest thing ever to the original arcade experience.
I get 240p mode on my CRT TV ( the Wii is hooked with a SCART RGB cable ) and I can play it with my X-Arcade joystick via a GC adaptor.
That’s the biggest reason I’ve hoped for so long that development would come to acceptable levels, but…
THE BAD
Like I said, I’ve been testing it for a couple of years and I get nothing but anger.
I don’t mind the simplicity of the UI on the Wii, it goes straight to the point and leaves most of the available memory to actually run the games.
HOWEVER, it is and it’s always been broken, and I wonder why, since given time ( and they had plenty of ) should be relatively easy to program such a minimal, text only UI.
Once a game runs, it’s beautiful, sure. But changing the resolution it’s a mess, sometimes it works, sometimes it just corrupts the screen.
At least in the newer versions it’s possible to reset the resolution, but you have to blindly navigate trough the garbled menus and press Start on the resolution option. Furthermore, it doesn’t work all the time, today I wasn’t able to get it back to normal, but only to some random 508x480 setting, with red colors instead of blue on the screen, even after quitting to the homebrew channel !
Changing the controls… Oh man, it’s the dumbest thing ever. You scroll trough available controllers with left and right and you can easily lock yourself out of the emulator. Why don’t they change it just like the video resolution option, namely scroll trough the controls and hit a button to select, instead of changing it on the fly to some unavailable device ?
Compatibility…I went trough a lot of trouble to get a full FBA set with CPS1/2 and Neo Geo games with the exact right version number, which according to the latest FBA core, it should be v0.2.97.28.
However many games refuse to load, I get exemption (DSI) errors and get kicked out to the HB channel even if I try to load games that apparently work for other users or have been working for me in the past.
And I’m running them from the SD card. What’s up with that ?
Also the emulator should know which games it can handle ( memory wise ) or not, if they exceed a certain memory limit should be grayed out of the list, how difficult would that be to implement ?
In a nutshell, I’m not an ungrateful asshole constantly bitching about new features and seeking the impossible ( like a PSP emulator on my Wii ), and I know that there are very few developers working on this, but I’d just expect SIMPLE things to work, like being able to navigate trough the menu.
So far Retroarch Wii has been unusable and a huge disappointment. Sure when I’m lucky to get an arcade game to run on my Wii it’s like magic, but it’s such a frustrating experience getting there that sadly I lost my motivation to keep on trying.
By the way, I do not intend to register to the Retroarc forums, if you think my feedback could be helpful, feel free to copy and paste it to the official discussion thread."
From member X again:
" I was as enthusiastic as you back then, but after years of waiting for some basic functionality, I allow myself to say that this project is “hopeless” whether you agree or not.
I gave permission to use my earlier post as feedback on the official thread, I wasn’t asking anybody to do so.
I’m not lazy ( I wasted enough time writing this already ) or scared to register to another forum, I just know that it’s useless."
Well, take it or leave it, but this is how many others feel on what needs to change.
