Homebrew Official Retroarch WiiU (wip.)

[infidelity]

So if someone could still help me out with a copy of those early nightly builds, you would be a lifesaver to me! I need it before tomorrow afternoon.

 

[september796]

So if someone could still help me out with a copy of those early nightly builds, you would be a lifesaver to me! I need it before tomorrow afternoon.

why don't you just grab the stable rpx version in the meantime?

 

[ShadowOne333]

I'll give it a shot! :-)

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Hmm, strange. I got the same crash as before with all my other tests of the builds from 2-13-18 to 2-16-18?

I used the "snes9x_libretro.rpx" which is roughly 6mb's. I placed that inside the wiiu/apps/retroarch folder, and renamed it to "retroarch.rpx"

I put the sd card back in my WiiU, I select RetroArch from the main menu of my WiiU, and after about 10 seconds I get the DSI error screen.

https://imgur.com/a/wV6CD

Mmmm perhaps someone with a pre-Feb 10th core could lend you an RPX for testing?
Any core should do.
Give me a while, if no one uploads a core in an hour or so I'll upload one of mine, hopefully that does it.

 

[infidelity]

The stable build is from Christmas though. Id like to be as close to 02-10-18 as possible.

I tried doing a test of just using the retroarch.rpx from the 1.7.0 stable build, but with all my other cores from the 02-16-18 nightly. I kept getting a DSI error. But when I backed up all of my retroarch files ad eradicated them from my SD card, and just installed the 1.7.0 stable build, I got a very, very plain looking retroarch. I then saved and quit, and tried using the 02-13-18 build over what was created on my sd card from the 02-13-18 build, and again I got a DSI error. I just cant believe this happens literally the night before I host a gaming party, and this emulator was the main attraction. I hope I can get this situated before tomorrow afternoon.

 

[M7L7NK7]

If you can't get it working by then just get individual emulators from the homebrew app store

 

[worm28]

So if someone could still help me out with a copy of those early nightly builds, you would be a lifesaver to me! I need it before tomorrow afternoon.

https://filetrip.net/dl?GBEaeKDYKI

 

[ShadowOne333]

The stable build is from Christmas though. Id like to be as close to 02-10-18 as possible.

I tried doing a test of just using the retroarch.rpx from the 1.7.0 stable build, but with all my other cores from the 02-16-18 nightly. I kept getting a DSI error. But when I backed up all of my retroarch files ad eradicated them from my SD card, and just installed the 1.7.0 stable build, I got a very, very plain looking retroarch. I then saved and quit, and tried using the 02-13-18 build over what was created on my sd card from the 02-13-18 build, and again I got a DSI error. I just cant believe this happens literally the night before I host a gaming party, and this emulator was the main attraction. I hope I can get this situated before tomorrow afternoon.

Oh well looks like @worm28 beat me to the punch, but still here you have three of my core from around last weekend I believe (when Twinaphex shared a vid about Snes9x Overclocking).
You could always try these out in case something else goes apeshit.

 

[Radius4]

Has any of you reported the new crashes?
FWIW, retroarch.rpx is just some loader / stub. Every core contains retroarch on consoles. This means, every time you update a core you're in-fact updating the core and retroarch.

If you are having crashes, can you try opening the config in a text editor and setting this

auto_shaders_enable = "true"

To

auto_shaders_enable = "false"

Let me know if this cures the problems.

 

[the_randomizer]

Why aren't people reporting these crashes to GitHub?

 

[Radius4]

Pushed a potential fix to the crash shown in last page
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/6312

 

[infidelity]

Has any of you reported the new crashes?
FWIW, retroarch.rpx is just some loader / stub. Every core contains retroarch on consoles. This means, every time you update a core you're in-fact updating the core and retroarch.

If you are having crashes, can you try opening the config in a text editor and setting this

auto_shaders_enable = "true"

To

auto_shaders_enable = "false"

Let me know if this cures the problems.

I just did as you instructed, using the 2-16-18 nightly build.

auto_shaders_enable = "false"

I still get the same crash after loading RetroArch from the WiiU menu.

 

[infidelity]

https://filetrip.net/dl?GBEaeKDYKI

THANK YOU! :-)

 

[cagerhager]

For those that still have the crash and can't get the program to run, I had the same problem. I had to install the forwarder and then the program worked great. Here's the forwarder. Download the RPX build and install that like normal and it should work. If you get the white screen, download the assets and then on the SD card, extract them to the media folder.

 

[Radius4]

THANK YOU! :-)

It shouldn't be necessary, just updating to latest should be enough, if you still get a crash do get a pic for me please.

 

[ShadowOne333]

THANK YOU! :-)

Another commit was made today for Wii U:
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/commit/89cd494ab7a124871c76a36c3ec4891bd11fc7b5

Perhaps this one fixes the crashing (just back up the Filetrip package just in case )

 

[Radius4]

No that one fixes build errors only, not crashes, basically, fixes my fix

 

[ShadowOne333]

No that one fixes build errors only, not crashes, basically, fixes my fix

Oh okay, thanks for the headsup

 

[infidelity]

I'm having issues when switching from different cores with the 2-10-18 build. If I'm on mame2003, and load up a 2600 title, I'll get a crash. If I'm in Nestopia and want to load a Genesis game, I'll just get a black screen where I have to power off my WiiU.

I'm not sure what to make of the new developments I've been seeing the last few minutes, does this mean there is a 2-17-18 build now that is stable?

 

[Radius4]

There isn't any real testing done to particular builds outside PC/android unless users commit to the testing on a platform.

It's sad but then again, imagine if you had to test all these builds yourself.

Thats why we ask for issues to be opened on our issue tracker so there is only one place we have to check.

If there's a crash, please do show a picture of such crash.

 

[the_randomizer]

There isn't any real testing done to particular builds outside PC/android unless users commit to the testing on a platform.

It's sad but then again, imagine if you had to test all these builds yourself.

Thats why we ask for issues to be opened on our issue tracker so there is only one place we have to check.

If there's a crash, please do show a picture of such crash.

I confess that I need to be more diligent about reporting such issues. My apologies -_-