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RETROARCH GX - WII - 0.9.8.4
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RetroConsole Level: 1
Author: Themaister, Toad King, Squarepusher/Twin Aphex
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HOW TO INSTALL THIS
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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.

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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HOW TO USE THIS
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On first startup, RetroArch will select one of the dozen or so
emulator/game cores. The name of the core currently loaded will be
shown at the bottom side of the screen.

You can now select a ROM that this core supports and load it in the Filebrowser.

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.

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.
All input settings will be saved when RetroArch exits.

NOTE: When starting up a new core for the first time, you might have to first
initialize the input settings. Go to the Settings menu (see 'Ingame controls')
and go to 'Controller #number config'. Re-set the 'Device' by going back and
forth between a previous device. The controls will be automatically applied.

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:

Wii Classic Minus - Go to Settings
Wii Classic Controller Home + ZL + ZR - Quit RetroArch
Wii Classic Controller Home - Go back to 'Menu'

Wiimote Minus - Go to Settings
Wiimote Home - Go back to 'Menu'
Wiimote Home + B - Quit RetroArch

Gamecube pad Z - Go to Settings
Gamecube pad L + R + LStick Up + Rstick Up - Go back to 'Menu'
Gamecube pad L + R + LStick Down + Rstick Down - Quit RetroArch

Right Thumb Stick - Down - Fast-forwards the game
Right Thumb Stick - Up - Rewinds the game in real-time
('Rewind' has to be enabled in the
'Settings' menu - warning - comes at a
performance decrease but will be worth it
if you love this feature)
RStick Left + ZL - Decrease save state slot
Rtick Right + ZR - Increase save state slot
RStick Up + ZR - Load selected save state slot
RStick Down + ZR - Save selected save state slot

(NOTE: For Gamecube pads - you would press Z trigger + any of the Rstick
Down movements shown above instead of ZR/ZL)

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WHAT IS RETROARCH?
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RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to
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
and emulators to a single core backend, such as RetroArch.

For the user, this means - more ports to play with, more crossplatform
portability, less worrying about developers having to reinvent the wheel
writing boilerplate UI/port code - so that they can get busy with writing
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
multiple systems (such as Xbox 360, Xbox 1, PS3, PC, Wii, Android,
etc).

For each emulator 'core', RetroArch makes use of a library API that we
like to call 'libretro'.

Think of libretro as an interface for emulator and game ports. You can
make a libretro port once and expect the same code to run on all the
platforms that RetroArch supports. It's designed with simplicity and
ease of use in mind so that the porter can worry about the port at hand
instead of having to wrestle with an obfuscatory API.

The purpose of libretro is to help ease the work of the emulator/game
porter by giving him an API that allows him to target multiple platforms
at once without having to redo any code. He doesn't have to worry about
writing input/video/audio drivers - all of that is supplied to him by
RetroArch. All he has to do is to have the emulator port hook into the
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:

- Real-time rewinding
- Switching between emulator cores seamlessly, and ability to install
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
the Wii release of RetroArch.

For more information about them, see the included
'retroarch-libretro-README.txt' file.

- Final Burn Alpha [version 0.2.97.28]
- Final Burn Alpha Cores (CPS1 - CPS2 - NeoGeo) [version 0.2.97.28] (**)
- FCEUmm (Nintendo Entertainment System) [recent SVN version]
- NEStopia (Nintendo Entertainment System) [1.44]
- Gambatte (Game Boy | Super Game Boy | Game Boy Color) [version 0.5.0 WIP]
- Genesis Plus GX (Sega SG-1000 | Master System | Game Gear | Genesis/Mega Drive |
Sega CD) [version 1.7.3]
- SNES9x Next (Super Nintendo/Super Famicom) (v1.52.4)
- VBA Next (Game Boy Advance) (*)
- Prboom (for playing Doom 1/Doom 2/Ultimate Doom/Final Doom)
- Mednafen PCE Fast (PC Engine/PC Engine CD/Turbografx 16)
- Mednafen Wonderswan (WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color/WonderSwan Crystal)
- Mednafen NGP (Neo Geo Pocket Color)
- Mednafen VB (Virtual Boy)

All of the emulators listed above are the latest versions currently
available. Most of them have been specifically optimized so that
they will run better on Wii (some games would not reach fullspeed
without these optimizations).

* Some games don't run at fullspeed on Wii (VBA Next is a
RetroConsole Level 2 emulator port).
** The biggest Neo-Geo ROMs that can be loaded are around 23+MB in
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
- SNES9x Next smc|fig|sfc|gd3|gd7|dx2|bsx|swc|zip|SMC|FIG|SFC|BSX|GD3|
GD7|DX2|SWC
- Genesis Plus GX md|smd|bin|gen|zip|MD|SMD|bin|GEN|ZIP|sms|SMS|gg|GG|sg|SG|
cue|CUE
- VBA Next GBA|gba
- FCEUmm nes|NES|unif|UNIF
- NEStopia nes|NES|fds|FDS
- Gambatte gb|gbc|dmg|zip|GB|GBC|DMG|ZIP
- Final Burn Alpha zip|ZIP
- Mednafen PCE pce|PCE|cue|CUE
- Mednafen Wonderswan ws|WS|wsc|WSC
- Mednafen NGP ngp|NGP
- Mednafen VB vb|VB

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ZIP SUPPORT (IN GENERAL)
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Selecting a ZIP file will temporarily unzip that file to the harddrive. The
temporary file will be deleted as soon as the game gets unloaded and/or when
you quit RetroArch.

NOTE: For the FBA core (and other cores that have 'block_extract' set to
true) -...

Version 9

Virtual keyboard does not stop the emulation
Support for installation on usb device
Case insensitive file ordering
The path in file browsing is remembered
Changed layout in file selection menu
Support for Wiiflow
Option to disable Virtual keyboard rumble

Version 2.3

New logo
Removed non-working OpenStreetMap
Added '1' button functionality which switches the image source back
Compiled with latest libogc

Version 8

Screen snapshots visible on screen in file select menus
Option to activate the virtual keyboard with the wiimote IR pointer
Changed menu navigation rules (2 and B always come back to previuos menu)
FTP and SMP connect also after start up
Tape stops after machine selection change
Fixed contention in normal mode emulation
Fixed crackling in turbo auto mode
Other minor bug fixes

Version 7

Added auto turbo mode
Added graphical virtual keyboard using wii pointer
Added B button as escape
Fixed bug in file list management

A Funvision/Creativision emulator. It's a console of the 80's. The games are essentially clones of Atari 2600 with slight differences (different characters for ex.) : Crazy Chicky(Pac-Man), Police Jump(Donkey Kong) etc...
This is a quick port, you can only launch one game and the exit the emulator to launch another game.
You need the "bios" file FUNBOOT.ROM IN bios folder.

A Jaguar emulator port. The port is very limited : it's slow, sound is bad and causes freeze. Sound is disabled by default and the frameskip is 1. See vj.cfg file to change settings.
Consider this as a proof of concept, a quick'n dirty port or whatever you call it. That was made just out of curiosity. Its's based on 1.0.7 with some tricks from HCF(xbox port) and my shit. Don't expect miracle now and in the future(unless a pretty good coder optimize it), I don't think it can run at a descent speed with sound someday. Only some 2d games(Rayman for ex.) are almost playable without sound and frameskip 1.

An atari st emulator based on Hatari 1.4. This is a work in progress. The main menu has been simpilified. You can browse games on sd and usb. The options button is inactive but you can edit hatari.cfg. Use another tos.img for better compatibility.

Here is the long overdue Wii port of my PS3 game titled Cubicle Shooter City. It borrows the character models from Cubicle Shooter and the environment from the Hero City games to make a simple top down shooter. TBH I don’t think it’s a very good game and I highly recommend playing 1bit Invaders or They Do Not Die 2 instead.

This Wii port also features a new destruction mode that brings the camera down behind the player and lets you shoot square shaped holes into the walls of buildings. It’s more of a tech demo then a game mode but I’m still very proud of this part. It’s all procedural. The city’s geometry becomes more complex as you shoot it up and once it reaches a certain point it resets and sends you back to the main menu.

1.2 - December 2, 2012

Added wall kicks - see http://harddrop.com/wiki/Wall_kick
Updated to grrlib 4.3.2
Minor cosmetic tweaks
Added 'drop' function
Increased well height
Updated to build with Devkit

1.1 - August 2009 (unreleased)

Added 'ghost' option to see where pieces will land - see http://harddrop.com/wiki/Ghost_piece
Changed Randomizer to use TGM1 algorithm - see http://harddrop.com/wiki/TGM_randomizer
Classic controller support
Changed formula for speed of falling blocks

1.0 - February 2009 (unreleased)

Initial version

1.2 - December 2, 2012

Added wall kicks - see http://harddrop.com/wiki/Wall_kick
Updated to grrlib 4.3.2
Minor cosmetic tweaks
Added 'drop' function
Increased well height
Updated to build with Devkit

1.1 - August 2009 (unreleased)

Added 'ghost' option to see where pieces will land - see http://harddrop.com/wiki/Ghost_piece
Changed Randomizer to use TGM1 algorithm - see http://harddrop.com/wiki/TGM_randomizer
Classic controller support
Changed formula for speed of falling blocks