Getting Gamecube on retropie?

markyh444

@AngryScotsMan I can't say I'm up to speed with Moonlight in order to use a PC as the power and the Pi as the front-end. Sorry.

AngryScotsMan

@markyh444 said in Getting Gamecube on retropie?:

@AngryScotsMan I can't say I'm up to speed with Moonlight in order to use a PC as the power and the Pi as the front-end. Sorry.

No worries :)

@mrbwa1 said in Getting Gamecube on retropie?:

@AngryScotsMan No Raspberry Pi for the forseeable furute will be able to run the Dolphin (Gamecuber) emulator. While it is drue that the Raspberry Pi does have hardware accelerated 3D, the diver has long been closed source. Someone did manage to get hardware acceleration working in the X windows system, but Retropie doesn't run in X-windows.

As the Pis get faster, the GPU really hasn't changed much and it doesn't seem to be a high priority for anyone involved (Broadcom or the Pi Foundation).

Do you by chance know how to use the PC as the power and the Pi as the front-end as marhyh444 said using Moonlight or even if it's entirely possible?

mrbwa1

I think that @markyh444 is referring to this:

http://www.howtogeek.com/220969/turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-steam-machine-with-moonlight/

I've never done it, but I imagine its similar to Xbox One streaming to Windows 10 PCs. Only think close to that I have tried is connecting remotely to a desktop using something like VNC and the Xbox One game streaming. Neither worker that well unless I was running hardwired Gigabit Ethernet (I was streaming to a PC, not a Pi).

AngryScotsMan

@mrbwa1 I did something to that extent but a couple of lines of codes I didn't do which weren't mentioned so I might try this website to see if I can get it working that way and if it doesn't work as I imagined, I'll move onto some over projects I could do with my Pi instead. Thanks for the help though both of you :)

backstander

RetroPie has Limelight in the experimental builds section (which is actually an old version of Moonlight, they changed the name). I never got Limelight to work but I have gotten Moonlight to work (there's still some games that just don't work but others that work great!).

Basically Moonlight tricks your Windows PC with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (or higher) GPU into thinking your Raspberry Pi is actually an NVIDIA Shield plugged into your TV. So you have to have a pretty beefy Windows PC with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 or better (only works with NVIDIA GPUs...sorry AMD and Intel!). Also best practice is to have all your games in the Steam client. Not to say that you have to purchase all your games from Steam but you can manually add non-Steam games from inside of Steam.

If you have all the requirement listed above, maybe you can add the Gamecube emulator in Windows to Steam and use Moonlight to stream the emulated games to your Raspberry Pi?

There is a pull request for Moonlight in RetroPie here:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1082

PetroRie

Yeah man, the Retro Pie team is working on a PS4 emulator. It will be available soon for the Raspberry Pi :D. Just kidding.

The Pi isn't powerful enough to run Gamecube games. It's only for the x86 (PC) releases. Still, most computers struggle to run the games properly.

backstander

Yeah man, the Retro Pie team is working on a PS4 emulator. It will be available soon for the Raspberry Pi :D. Just kidding.

Just need to get my Blu-ray drive working on my Raspberry Pi first ;-)

The Pi isn't powerful enough to run Gamecube games. It's only for the x86 (PC) releases. Still, most computers struggle to run the games properly.

I've tried the Gamecube emulator on my wife's i7 laptop and it has some bad sound shuttering issues. I couldn't image a $35 computer handling it any better.

AngryScotsMan

@backstander Yh that's what the link I got sent above me said I could do, I didn't realise I had to do it like that so I'll attempt it tomorrow. I have a gtx 970 so I should be fine on graphics, just need to hopefully get the ethernet connection all ready as well to help with it streaming.

PetroRie

If you really want to play GC games, just get a modded Wii. There is a program named Nintendont for the Wii it simply unlocks Wii mode when in Gamecube mode. You can use any controller to play those games.

phisH67

@markyh444 sorry this is kind of an old thread, but on the raspberry pi 4, ive seen people running dolphin (the gamecube emulator) on linux based os's so wouldnt it be possibke to run it on retropie for the rpi4 or some 3rd party retropie.(and retropie was just realesed for the rpi4.)

markyh444

@phisH67 I've got no idea what has been developed regarding this mate. I'd suggest looking into Linux-distros for some guidance. I'm not a developer, I was just pointing out that it wouldn't run on the Pi at the time the last person asked.

You can run Retropie on a full PC Linux install as well, so that has always been available and what I was pointing out to the guy. The Pi3 just didn't have the power to run it, so it was omitted. I suspect the Pi4 may also lack the power as well though, despite the upgrades in spec.

Sabercyclone

I realise I'm necromancing, but I was thinking of building myself a homebred Gamecube Portable and either grabbing ROMS for the games I own, or simply ripping them as ISOs myself.

I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3B+ running a Multi-emu system on a GPIO rig, however from what I've heard, I wouldn't even attempt Gamecube emulation on it.

Have the GPU drivers for the Pi4 improved in the past few years, or is the bottleneck still there preventing a Pi from emulating Gamecube games properly?

Alternately, is there a better option than the Pi4 in terms of a PC on a board to run it?

And before anyone asks, I'm not interested in running the emulation on something as static as a PC; I still have a working Wii which is backwards compatible with Gamecube games for the home environment; I'm purely looking at this as a portable option.

windg

It's not possible to run GameCube games with Raspberry Pi3 and Pi4. Maybe, the new Raspberry Pi5 will can.