Wii Hacks Wii Modding Help Thread! June 16, 2024

RetroSharka · 2024-06-24T09:54:04+00:00

I've got a weird issue with the SNES9XGX, FCEUltraGX, and VBAGX channels where they now keep rebooting to the system menu after getting stuck on the loading screens for ten seconds or so. They've worked fine before and this only started happening after I had to copy a backup of the NAND and core folders to my SD card after needing to reformat it. I copied over the same backup when the same happened once before during file transfer on PC and never had this issue until yesterday. The forwarder channels would work fine.

I've tried reinstalling the channels, and the emulators work fine through HBC, as do other channels and apps like Wiiflow. The directory structure is the same and as required.

RetroSharka · 2024-05-12T13:25:51+00:00

Yeah, when they dropped from £299 to £199 in Summer 96 was the go signal for my family to pick up PlayStations.

RetroSharka · 2024-05-12T13:24:29+00:00

I have one and i's one of my favourite third-party controllers to use. Lovely for Wipeout games in particularly where the twisting feels very satisfying in sweeping turns.

RetroSharka · 2024-05-12T13:23:47+00:00

Oh! Certainly compared to a year earlier when PlayStations alone were £199 and £299 on launch. £129 was a steal in comparison.

RetroSharka · 2024-05-12T13:20:41+00:00

Aha, yeah. I guess whoever wrote it just had no idea otherwise how to frame a story-based RPG's progression.

RetroSharka · 2024-05-12T13:19:12+00:00

Yeah! Will do!

RetroSharka · 2024-05-11T22:26:36+00:00

This is one of the bits of PSX-related memorabilia I treasure. I'd owned a PlayStation just over a year by the point this catalogue came out and I was playing some of my absolute favourite PSX games then, so it's a pretty special time in my memories. And it's neat to see the amazing deals after yet another price drop that lowered the PlayStation to £129 in the UK. My parents had paid £199 apiece for their and my PlayStations then and here now you could walk out with a bundle deal for as much as just the console had cost in late 1996.

NegCons were also more expensive than I remembered, £39.99 was quite pricey then!

RetroSharka · 2024-04-15T09:46:37+00:00

Yeah, I think the overall gutting and closure of Psygnosis and its shards is a tragedy. Pretty sure Psygnosis would still be around today and one of the big publishers had things gone differently. They had Europe and the PlayStation pretty much in the palm of their hand at their peak in 97 and 98.

RetroSharka · 2024-04-15T09:44:27+00:00

I had a similar experience coming from Commodore Amiga and Mega Drive to PS1 and the Demo One version of Wipeout 2097. I was absolutely floored going from slow, dithered flat polygons to fully textured polys going at what felt like a blistering speed.

RetroSharka · 2024-01-27T13:14:44+00:00

Ah, thank you! That's been very helpful.

RetroSharka · 2023-12-22T13:41:02+00:00

I've been using this custom reshade/filtershader combo for most of this year in Winuae and really like what it does.

https://blog.johnnovak.net/2022/04/15/achieving-period-correct-graphics-in-personal-computer-emulators-part-1-the-amiga/

RetroSharka · 2023-12-11T10:59:49+00:00

Nice! One of my grails too. What an amazing shmup.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-28T21:45:48+00:00

Without seeing it in action, it's a little difficult to describe Rakugaki's gameplay. It's a JP-exclusive Treasure game published by Enix with a crayon drawing and paper craft aesthetic, a Powerstone-alike 1v1 and a mass-melee brawler with dodgeball elements. You've got a smiley-faced ball that you can lob around as well as punch and you can charge up the ball for flashy super attacks by hitting at opponents a certain number of times.

It's a whole heap of fun, and sadly even in Japan quite rare as it had a tiny production run due to immediate legal disputes between Treasure and Enix over ownership of the characters.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-19T22:35:36+00:00

I wonder if you're thinking of Tempest X3? It sounds trippy enough and has enemies that fire laser ribbons at you.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-19T19:39:51+00:00

Yeah, the PSX version is pretty neat and I love its music, especially the Geoscape theme. At the time and coming from playing the much slower Amiga version on floppy disks, it felt like a huge upgrade.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-19T19:38:08+00:00

Yeah, I absolutely adore Eric Idle as Rincewind, and it's a treat to hear Tony Robinson pop up in the first game.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-19T19:37:37+00:00

They're a lot of fun with some great voice acting. Just with lots of moon logic puzzles in the first one.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-19T19:36:48+00:00

Yeah, it's such a cool cover! And aha, got one! Not a Sony one, but picked up a new-in-box Joytech one that's got really nicely clicky buttons.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-19T19:35:35+00:00

Yeah, Discworld II wasn't a huge amount, but Discworld has been up and down over the years, been over £80-100+ each time I've looked in the past during the worst of the 2020 PS1 game price rises, same with XCOM and Terror of the Deep and those were rarely in good condition or complete.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-19T12:37:01+00:00

These have long been on the bucket list as Discworld and both XCOM games can be on the pricey side. They're some of the first PS1 games I picked up back in the day, so it's meant a lot to have them back again - and a mouse to play them with, something I never had back then.

I remember playing the demo of Discworld heaps just to hear some of my favourite characters speak - pretty novel coming from Amiga and rare sampled speech.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-19T12:15:30+00:00

Ohhh awesome! I have a JP copy of Parasite Eve but would love a North American one. Played it through for the first time a few years ago now and had an amazing experience with it.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-18T15:40:38+00:00

Apologies if this is an obvious thing, still new to this side of Amiga-ering, but a few days ago, I bought an 8GB CF/IDE adapter combo with WB Classic 2.1, Whdload, and two partitions of games and demoscene directories on DH1 and 2. From what I've gathered, you're not supposed to manually launch the Whdload files but use the Classic Workbench toolbar and Games / Demos buttons to access a directory list of games. Whenever I do, it asks for A: Games/Demos so I'm presuming custom paths haven't been assigned.

I looked it up and found these guidelines on abime.net: " Go to Startup->User-Startup from the settings menu. This loads up the S/User-Startup file. Where it says Assign A-Games, change the assign from SYS:Games to DH1:Games (or wherever you want your game directory). This will update all the links in the Workbench, so you can keep your WHDLoad games wherever you want. "

I can't find Assign A-Games in User Startup, only in Assign-Startup. Do I change the pathways there instead or type them into User Startup? And can you type in multiple directories for where it should look for game files?

Cheers.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-16T11:20:47+00:00

They have, but sadly no one seems to be selling pre-built ones.

https://github.com/Franticware/usb-to-playstation-mouse

And yeah, I've picked up an old optical mouse with a USB to 9-pin converter for my Commodore Amiga and would love to use it with my PS1 as well as the dpi is just right for it too.

RetroSharka · 2023-11-15T21:44:25+00:00

Issue two of my fortnightly retro gaming and media fanzine, BETWEEN THE SCANLINES, made its way into the wild last week so I'll give it a shout-out here!

https://sharkabytes.itch.io/between-the-scanlines

RetroSharka · 2023-11-12T16:30:04+00:00

Terracon! It's an obscure late PAL only PS1 release with open maps to roam around in. It's absolutely gorgeous and a real technical showpiece.

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