Nintendo Wii (or Wii U) support

[jpzm]

Hi.

I'm would like to know if it's viable to build a compatible version of this core to work with Retroarch for Nintendo Wii or Wii U.

I already tried to build an Nintendo Wii port of [0] but the system does not loaded any rom. However, the menu and other functions worked well. The main problem was the default resolution of px68k. Which is not supported by Nintendo Wii. I solved it scaling the screen to the max supported. Although the menu works correctly, for some reason the system did not start any rom I tested.

[0] https://github.com/hissorii/px68k

[r-type]

No it cant be done without many works.
As it not endian safe. This emulator is design for little endian. And convert to big endian will be a nightmare

[Edu789]

No it cant be done without many works.
As it not endian safe. This emulator is design for little endian. And convert to big endian will be a nightmare

You already have this core on the Nintendo Switch, is it still difficult to convert it to the Wii?

[gingerbeardman]

@Edu789 yes, still difficult.

Intel (IBM PC) is little-endian
ARM (Switch) is little-endian
PPC (Wii/U) is big-endian

So you can see Switch requires no changes because it is same endianness as Intel. Wii and Wii U (and GC, Xbox 360 amongst others) use PPC architecture which is opposite endianness which means many changes, on almost every section of code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

[hotker79]

Hi.

I'm would like to know if it's viable to build a compatible version of this core to work with Retroarch for Nintendo Wii or Wii U.

I already tried to build an Nintendo Wii port of [0] but the system does not loaded any rom. However, the menu and other functions worked well. The main problem was the default resolution of px68k. Which is not supported by Nintendo Wii. I solved it scaling the screen to the max supported. Although the menu works correctly, for some reason the system did not start any rom I tested.

[0] https://github.com/hissorii/px68k

Greetings, can you share the compiled core for Wii? Thank you. I have tried to compile it, but it gives me an error.

[gingerbeardman]

@hotker79 there is no working version of this core for Wii.

[hotker79]

@hotker79 there is no working version of this core for Wii.

thanks sir