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Final Burn Alpha 2012. Port of Final Burn Alpha to Libretro (0.2.97.24). Standalone core for Neo Geo.
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Wii: Add Virtual Memory. #26

Closed Wiimpathy closed 6 years ago

Wiimpathy commented 6 years ago

The Wii has very limited RAM. This allows loading the biggest games.

It uses the Wii NAND flash as virtual memory. The games also have to be converted/decrypted first to cache files with a PC program called romcnv. This program is a modified version of romcnv used for MVS2PSP. Romcnv binaries: http://www.mediafire.com/file/xb783jd9mxhgbos/romcnv_R2.zip Romcnv Source: http://www.mediafire.com/file/14a55bohl5u1suo/romcnv_src.zip

Note that a few roms(svcpcb for example) are still too large with this method. With the latest Retroarch(the first tests was 1.3.6), translation support must be removed(HAVE_LANGEXTRA) in order to load kof2003 and other games.

inactive123 commented 6 years ago

Awesome, thanks for contributing this!

inactive123 commented 6 years ago

Yeah, we could probably exclude HAVE_LANGEXTRA for the Wii build, I sincerely doubt that the people on the Wii need all the extra translations, and this is a platform where there is a lack of RAM, so it would be justifiable to exclude this.

Wiimpathy commented 6 years ago

@twinaphex Maybe just for this core? In fact, translations are broken for Wii now. Accents and special characters aren't displayed correctly. It happened after this commit : https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/commit/ebc9ee192b20a4f118ac771498f3c2871dea0141 Non latin(chinese etc) aren't displayed at all. But I don't know exactly when it started.

inactive123 commented 6 years ago

I don't think it would be wise to selectively disable it for one core alone, and that would get messy pretty quickly.

I will ask @bparker06 if there is any truth to what you pointed out or whether this is a misunderstanding. As far as I am aware, RGUI has never shown special accented characters, or non-western characters, so there cannot have been a regression in this regard.

Wiimpathy commented 6 years ago

Ok, you may be right.

Regarding the accents(in french, spanish etc.), I can assure you it was working before, at least for the Wii. I tried to revert the above commit and the accents are there. But not special characters like 'œ' for example. I don't remember about non western languages though.