Issue running Demo and Game samples

h3xstream commented 2 years ago

This is a follow up to an interrogation I had in this other issue... https://github.com/rrath/Wire3D/issues/3#issuecomment-1107798185

Compilation of both Demo and Game succeed but contrary to the other sample. They don't run in Dolphin or actual Wii.

Abrupt exit

This is the log in Dolphin:

14:13:846 Core\ConfigManager.cpp:178 N[CORE]: Active title: 
14:13:848 Core\Core.cpp:1060 N[COMMON]: Want determinism <- false
14:13:876 Core\ConfigLoaders\BaseConfigLoader.cpp:81 N[CORE]: Disabling WC24 'standby' (shutdown to idle) to avoid hanging on shutdown
14:13:964 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1332 N[Audio]: default device period: 100000
14:13:964 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1340 N[Audio]: Minimum latency in frames: 480
14:13:964 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1679 N[Audio]: (0000015D7CB5D670) Setup render: device=0000000000000000
14:13:968 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1587 N[Audio]: Setup requested=[f=0 r=48000 c=2 l=stereo] mix=[f=0 r=48000 c=2 l=stereo]
14:13:986 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1730 N[Audio]: Target sample rate: 48000
14:13:986 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:151 N[Audio]: COM was already initialized in MTA
14:14:306 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1190 N[Audio]: Stop and join render thread.
14:14:306 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1233 N[Audio]: Closing thread.
14:14:306 Core\Boot\Boot.cpp:527 N[BOOT]: Booting from executable: C:/Code/Wire3D/Samples/Demo/Demo.dol
14:14:489 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1190 N[Audio]: Stop and join render thread.
14:14:489 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1233 N[Audio]: Closing thread.
18:01:148 Core\ConfigLoaders\BaseConfigLoader.cpp:81 N[CORE]: Disabling WC24 'standby' (shutdown to idle) to avoid hanging on shutdown
18:01:194 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1190 N[Audio]: Stop and join render thread.
18:01:194 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1192 N[Audio]: No thread present.
18:01:194 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1190 N[Audio]: Stop and join render thread.
18:01:194 beb\src\cubeb_wasapi.cpp:1192 N[Audio]: No thread present.

Paths

It was mentionned that if the resources can not be loaded it will exit. These seems like a very probable code path. So, I verified that the different resources fonts and textures were using the correct path.

https://github.com/rrath/Wire3D/blob/69e1f13b46689fd5019eab639846d2d3a874d970/Samples/Demo/src/Demo.cpp#L21-L26

Here is the directory structure where i can see that all resources are presented in Data/

If you have any ideas, let me know. And btw I am new to both devkitpro, Dolphin and PowerPC... It is likely something very basic.

h3xstream commented 2 years ago

Ok. I realise it works on actual Wii with the Data folder place correctly. This is just a Dolphin question after all.

h3xstream commented 2 years ago

The easiest workaround I found to load Wired3d applications/games on Dolphin is to use the homebrew channel and the virtual SD card.

Some details

I followed this guide : https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Virtual_SD_Card_Guide

Tools

For reference, I used :

This version of the HBC https://github.com/FIX94/hbc/releases/tag/1.1.4-1
ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver to mount the empty sd.raw created by Dolphin.
Dolphin latest

File structure

The file structure is using the typical homebrew apps path. (/apps/[YOUR_GAME]/)

Homebrew configuration

The meta.xml is needed to have an entry in the Homebrew Channel.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
<app version="1">
    <name>Wire3dDemo</name>
    <coder>rrath</coder>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <release_date>20140216000000</release_date>
    <short_description>Wire3d Demo</short_description>
    <long_description></long_description>
    <ahb_access/>
</app>

I am closing the issue because I found a way to run Wire3d applications.. But if you have alternative solution feel free to comment.

h3xstream commented 2 years ago

Dolphin release last month a change that allow to sync the SD card to a folder directly. Once enable the sync. You can update your application directly : C:\Users\USER\Documents\Dolphin Emulator\Load\WiiSDSync (Default path) September release include this commit : https://dolphin-emu.org/download/dev/master/5.0-16891/

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