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| RETROARCH WII - 0.9.7.1
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| RetroConsole Level: 1
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| Author: Themaister, Toad King, Squarepusher/Twin Aphex
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| | ==Overview== |
| HOW TO INSTALL THIS
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| Copy the entire directory (retroarch-wii) to your SD card in your 'apps'
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| directory. Start up the Homebrew Channel and start up RetroArch Wii from
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| On first startup, RetroArch will create a folder in the root of your storage
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| device called 'retroarch'. All RetroArch configuration files are stored here.
| | * Mega Drive/Genesis/SEGA CD |
| | * Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) |
| | * Neo Geo Pocket |
| | * PC Engine (CD)/TurboGrafx 16 (CD)/SuperGrafx (Fast version) |
| | * PC-FX |
| | * Sega Master System |
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| | ===Handhelds=== |
| HOW TO USE THIS
| | * GameBoy/GameBoy Color |
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| On first startup, RetroArch will select one of the dozen or so | | * Game Gear |
| emulator/game cores. The name of the core currently loaded will be
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| shown at the bottom side of the screen.
| | * WonderSwan |
| | * Lynx |
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| | ==Install== |
| | Copy the entire directory (retroarch-wii) to your SD card in your 'apps' directory. Start up the Homebrew Channel and start up RetroArch Wii from there. |
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| | On first startup, RetroArch will create a folder in the root of your storage device called 'retroarch'. All RetroArch configuration files are stored here. |
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| You can now select a ROM that this core supports and load it in the Filebrowser. | | You can now select a ROM that this core supports and load it in the Filebrowser. |
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| To select a different core - go to the Settings menu (see 'Ingame controls'). | | ==Selecting Cores== |
| Select the option 'Core' and hit the A button. A filebrowser will appear | | RetroArch will select one of the dozen or so emulator/game cores on start-up. The name of the core currently loaded will be shown at the bottom side of the screen. To select a different core - go to the Settings menu (see 'Ingame controls'). Select the option 'Core' and hit the A button. A filebrowser will appear where you can select a different core. Press A to switch to the emulator/game core. |
| where you can select a different core. Press A to switch to the | |
| emulator/game core. | |
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| After doing so, select 'Restart RetroArch' to load the newly selected core. | | After doing so, select 'Restart RetroArch' to load the newly selected core. |
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| CONTROLS
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| RetroArch Wii will create a new input config file for each core you load.
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| All input settings will be saved when RetroArch exits.
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| NOTE: When starting up a new core for the first time, you might have to first
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| initialize the input settings. Go to the Settings menu (see 'Ingame controls')
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| and go to 'Controller #number config'. Re-set the 'Device' by going back and
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| forth between a previous device. The controls will be automatically applied.
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| This only has to be done once per core.
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| INGAME CONTROLS
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| During ingame operation you can do some extra actions:
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| Wii Classic Minus - Go to Settings
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| Wii Classic Controller Home + ZL + ZR - Quit RetroArch
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| Wii Classic Controller Home - Go back to 'Menu'
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| Wiimote Minus - Go to Settings
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| Wiimote Home - Go back to 'Menu'
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| Wiimote Home + B - Quit RetroArch
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| Gamecube pad Z - Go to Settings
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| Gamecube pad L + R + LStick Up + Rstick Up - Go back to 'Menu'
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| Gamecube pad L + R + LStick Down + Rstick Down - Quit RetroArch
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| WHAT IS RETROARCH?
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| RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to
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| be fast, lightweight and portable.
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| WHAT IS LIBRETRO?
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| Libretro is the API that RetroArch uses. It makes it easy to port games
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| and emulators to a single core backend, such as RetroArch.
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| For the user, this means - more ports to play with, more crossplatform
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| portability, less worrying about developers having to reinvent the wheel
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| writing boilerplate UI/port code - so that they can get busy with writing
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| the emulator/porting the emulator/game.
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| WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?
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| Right now it's unique in that it runs the same emulator cores on
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| multiple systems (such as Xbox 360, Xbox 1, PS3, PC, Wii, etc).
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| For each emulator 'core', RetroArch makes use of a library API that we
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| like to call 'libretro'.
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| Think of libretro as an interface for emulator and game ports. You can
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| make a libretro port once and expect the same code to run on all the
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| platforms that RetroArch supports. It's designed with simplicity and
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| ease of use in mind so that the porter can worry about the port at hand
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| instead of having to wrestle with an obfuscatory API.
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| The purpose of libretro is to help ease the work of the emulator/game
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| porter by giving him an API that allows him to target multiple platforms
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| at once without having to redo any code. He doesn't have to worry about
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| writing input/video/audio drivers - all of that is supplied to him by
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| RetroArch. All he has to do is to have the emulator port hook into the
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| libretro API and that's it - we take care of the rest.
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| WII PORT
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| The Wii port of RetroArch has the following features:
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| - Switching between emulator cores seamlessly, and ability to install
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| new libretro cores
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| EMULATOR/GAME CORES BUNDLED WITH WII PORT
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| The following emulators/games have been ported to RetroArch and are included in
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| the Wii release of RetroArch.
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| For more information about them, see the included
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| 'retroarch-libretro-README.txt' file.
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| - Final Burn Alpha Cores (CPS1 - CPS2 - NeoGeo) [version 0.2.97.26] (**)
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| - FCEUmm (Nintendo Entertainment System) [recent SVN version]
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| - Gambatte (Game Boy | Super Game Boy | Game Boy Color) [version 0.5.0 WIP]
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| - Genesis Plus GX (Sega SG-1000 | Master System | Game Gear | Genesis/Mega Drive |
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| Sega CD) [version 1.7.0]
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| - SNES9x Next (Super Nintendo/Super Famicom)
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| - VBA Next (Game Boy Advance) (*)
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| - Prboom (for playing Doom 1/Doom 2/Ultimate Doom/Final Doom)
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| - Mednafen PCE Fast (PC Engine/PC Engine CD/Turbografx 16)
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| - Mednafen Wonderswan (WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color/WonderSwan Crystal)
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| All of the emulators listed above are the latest versions currently
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| available. Most of them have been specifically optimized so that
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| they will run better on Wii (some games would not reach fullspeed
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| without these optimizations).
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| * Some games don't run at fullspeed on Wii (VBA Next is a
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| RetroConsole Level 2 emulator port). It will be replaced by a
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| port of gpSP in the near future.
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| ** The biggest Neo-Geo ROMs that can be loaded are around 23+MB in
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| size, such as Real Bout Fatal Fury 1 and King of Fighters '96.
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| WHAT EXTENSIONS ARE SUPPORTED BY EACH CORE
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| - Prboom WAD|wad
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| - SNES9x Next smc|fig|sfc|gd3|gd7|dx2|bsx|swc|zip|SMC|FIG|SFC|BSX|GD3|
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| GD7|DX2|SWC
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| - Genesis Plus GX md|smd|bin|gen|zip|MD|SMD|bin|GEN|ZIP|sms|SMS|gg|GG|sg|SG|
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| cue|CUE
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| - VBA Next GBA|gba
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| - FCEUmm nes|NES|unif|UNIF
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| - Gambatte gb|gbc|dmg|zip|GB|GBC|DMG|ZIP
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| - Final Burn Alpha zip|ZIP
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| - Mednafen PCE pce|PCE|cue|CUE
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| - Mednafen Wonderswan ws|WS|wsc|WSC
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| ZIP SUPPORT
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| FOR EACH CORE (except for Final Burn Alpha)
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| There are three modes -
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| EXTRACT ZIP TO CURRENT DIR: When you press 'X' on a ZIP file in the File Browser,
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| its contents will be extracted to the current directory. From there, you can
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| load the RMO and play.
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| EXTRACT ZIP TO CURRENT DIR AND LOAD FIRST FILE: When you press 'X' on a ZIP file
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| in the File Browser, its contents will be extracted to the current directory.
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| The first ROM that was extracted from the ZIP file that is a ROM will be loaded
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| automatically.
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| EXTRACT ZIP TO CACHE DIR: When you press 'X' on a ZIP file in the File Browser,
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| its contents will be extracted to the /dev_hdd1/ partition. From there,
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| you can load the ROM and play.
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| WARNING: Savestates and SRAM files that have been created by loading ROMs
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| from the cache dir this way will be removed after RetroArch has been closed.
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| FOR FINAL BURN ALPHA
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| Selecting a ZIP file from the Filebrowser will load that game directly.
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| Troubleshooting
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| If you find that RetroArch no longer works for whatever reason, there is
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| a way to get it back to work -
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| - Remove retroarch.cfg from the 'retroarch' folder on your storage device,
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| then start up again. The Libretro management service in RetroArch should
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| automatically pick a random libretro core and write this to the config file.
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| What can you expect in the future?
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| - An official Android port of RetroArch (no, no App Store 'fee' - 'free'
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| as in beer AND as in libre - will be the focal point of RetroArch 0.9.8)
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| - Port of NxEngine to libretro - runs Cave Story (PC version is already done,
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| runs on big-endian consoles but has too many bugs to be playable)
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| - Port of MAME 0.72 to libretro
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| - Port of VICE to libretro
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| - Port of ScummVM to libretro
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| - More emulators, more games that will run on RetroArch
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| - Lots of other crazy ideas that might or might not pan out
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| Credits
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| - Mudlord for his Waterpaint/Noise shaders.
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| - Hyllian for the xBR shader.
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| - Opium2k for the nice manual shaders (bundled with PS3 release).
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| - Deank for assistance with RetroArch Salamander on CFW PS3s and
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| Multiman interoperability.
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| - FBA devs for adopting the libretro port.
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| - Ekeeke for help with the Genesis Plus GX port.
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| - ToadKing for having done a lot of work on RetroArch Wii.
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| - Freakdave for helping out with the Xbox 1 port.
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| Websites
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| Twitter: http://twitter.com/libretro
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| Source: http://github.com/libretro
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| Homepage: http://www.libretro.org
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| IRC: #retroarch (freenode)
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| CHANGELOG
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| RETROARCH CONSOLE
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| v0.9.7.2 (SNES9X-NEXT ONLY)
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| - Fixed Tales of Phantasia not running
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| - Fixed Robocop 3 not progressing past the title screen (backported echo buffer patch)
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| - Fixed broken color addition (odd non-transparent tile patches in Zelda 3 and others)
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| - Freed up some more RAM for Gamecube port
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| - Some miscellanous speed hacks added
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| v0.9.7.1 (WII ONLY)
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| - (FBAcores CPS1) Sound crackling/popping fixed
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| - (FBACores CPS2) Sound crackling/popping fixed
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| - (FBACores NeoGeo) Sound crackling/popping fixed
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| - Fixed left/right audio channels being in reverse issue
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| - Filebrowser now filters by core supported extensions
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| - Fixed filebrowser performance issues in v0.9.7
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| - (XBOX 1/Wii) Made an Xbox 1/Wii port.
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| - (LIBRETRO) Added Mednafen PCE FAST, and Mednafen Wonderswan cores
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| - (360) Added Genesis Plus GX to official 360 release
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| - (Genesis Plus GX) Updated to v1.7.0
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| - (PS3) Improved GUI
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| - (360) Improved UI
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| - (ALL) Improved stability / error trapping
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| - (ALL) ZIP extract modes expanded - it can extract the contents of a ZIP file to
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| the current directory, and/or extract to current dir and immediately load the
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| first ROM/game file.
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| - Too many things to mention
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| - (PS3/360) Initial release of RetroArch PS3/360.
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| Download Link (0.9.7.1): https://anonfiles.co...00c37a65bbdaf05
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| Download Link (0.9.7.2 SNES9x-next, just extract over 0.9.7.1 installation): http://www.multiupload.nl/3VIAI0V035
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| This release has been a long time in the making, and is the first time that I know of a lot of CPS2 games can be played on the Wii.
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| Just some caveats to know going in:
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| * READ THE README SO YOU KNOW THE CONTROLS! We had put some unconventional controls in for menu navigation, specifically for the GameCube controller where we were lacking a Home button.
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| * There might be some delay between loading RetroArch and displaying the menu due to the core loader. This wait might be amplified on slower SD cards/USB sticks and on first boot when files and directories are being generated.
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| * Some cores can act up if you load multiple games in them without restarting. Specifically PrBoom will crash to HBC if you try to load a second WAD.
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| * RetroArch does not do any frameskipping. While a lot of work has been done to make games run fullspeed all the time, there are some games that will lag a bit. (Specifically select FBA games and possibly some SNES games with features like pseudo-hires mode/SA-1 chips/etc.)
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| * While we did a lot of work to make audio perfect, some testers still reported some popping. If you get these, try fiddling with the Audio Control Rate in options.
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| * Most CPS2 games can load fine. Please report if you find any that crash on load.
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| * Not all NeoGeo games can be loaded. If the ROM filesize is over 23 MB or so, it might crash on load.
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| * The full FBA core was not released with the Wii version due to it being so large it cannot load some larger ROMs. If you want to give it a try though, you can download it here: https://anonfiles.co...1e15056451c9182 (Extract it to apps/retroarch-wii, keeping the name CORE.dol. On load, it will rename it correctly.) Please note that ROMs will crash the emulator if they run out of memory. I've found most ROMs around 5-7 MB load fine, and 10 MB is probably the limit.
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| * If for some reason your SNES games don't work, you can try a more recent SNES9x core. It's slower than the current one though. https://anonfiles.co...b02a3b3047844d9
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