Snes9xGx.wii 0.01b Released - Snes Emulation on the Wii

[vicious1988]

Hey, I was up all night working on a frontloading menu for this latest version. Its done and uploaded. Just place your roms in the root directory. Game names should be kept under 50 characters (w/ extension). Just notify me if you have any problems.

[tehnoir]

I just want to be clear...
This version of SNES9X will search the root of the front SD card for ROMs?

[thedarkcookie]

Yes it does load the rom straight from the root folder of the sd card


Edit: Can anyone tell me how i save gamesaves onto my gc memory card or on my sd card located in the front of the wii

[Unicron2k]

Very nice indeed, tested it on my PAL Wii, worked (almost)flawless, with full speed :thumbup: . One issue i encountered, is that it goes into grayscale mode when using 60Hz with standard Audio/Video cables, works in 50Hz tough...

A few things you should fix, is when you load ROMs. if you have to many in the root folder, it locks up, and you have to press the power button for four seconds to turn it off. Also, the roms should be in their own folder, maybe "root/snesgx/roms/" and saving/loading to/from front SD-slot should be suported, and saved in for example
"root/snesgx/savestate/%GAMETITLE%/%SAVEDATE&SAVETIME%.%FILEENDING%"

Please note that this is how i would have done it if i could(know enough about programming to tell the function of a simple console program(read:simple) ).

It's great to see the progress that has been done in such a short ammount of time(since homebrew was possible) and i can't wait to see something really impressing

Keep up all the good work folks!!

[vicious1988]

Truth is I just downloaded the source last night and decided to try it. And I figured something would mess up with too many roms. I can have that fixed by later (just gotta add offsets to the menu).

I don't know anything about the grayscale (most likely was already a bug before I touched the source). As for rom folder, my original attempt was to have that but it didn't work since I was making it too complicated (K.I.S.S. ).

[tehnoir]

Very nice work, vicious. I'll give this a try in a few.

[vicious1988]

Here's build 2 of frontSD menu. It loads from the root/roms directory of your SDcard and has pages (no more trying to render 999 short filenames at a time). Filenames are still limited to 50 characters (including extension).

I did have it crash one time but I think thats because I had a few files longer than 50 characters and my menu length was too long.

Left and right on d-pad move through pages.

Notify me of any bugs and I will fix them as I work on implementing savegames (What have I gotten myself into ).

[Sir_Voe]

Thanks Vicious, your changes are working great here. Good luck on getting saving to function.

[ringo20000]

Vicious great work. I was playing around with the emulator and thought I would share some bugs I found. I had the menu lockup on me a couple times when I tried to start the game and the only way I could get out was to power off the wii. Also I can't get it to load a new game once a rom is loaded. I have to restart the elf to load a new game. Finally I was trying to play star fox and it was running way too fast...After doing some research it looks like this is a problem with the super fx chip games.

I also forgot to mention I am using the sd elf loader as well to load the file. Not sure if this would make a difference.

The longest file name for my roms is 24 including the extension, although I noticed I had exclamation points in SuperPunchOut so I'll take them out and see if that helps.

Another thing I noticed is going to the second page of roms is flakey. Sometimes it shows up and other times I have to do a restart to get it to showup.

[Agent D]

hmm, ive got the emu up and running but when i go to load new game and load from front, nothing happens, i press A and i get the error "f_stat failed, error 1 press A to continue" my roms are in the rom directory on the root of my sdcard, did i miss something?